Native Arts of North America

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Analyze the breadth of Indigenous North American cultures, and the cross-cultural contact histories that shape their socio-political experiences and attendant artistic practices, past and present.

• Analyze the relationship between art objects and contexts of making, use, collection, and presentation to evaluate the way that epistemological frameworks—from Indigenous knowledges to colonial institutions—shape cultural meaning and value.

• Apply close looking and visual/material analysis skills to analyze artworks as primary historical sources that can embody, shape, and contest social realities.

• Apply close reading skills to primary sources and secondary literature to examine how historical narratives are constructed and synthesize these sources through writing and basic research.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Participation	15%
Attendance	5%
Reading Responses	10%
Quizzes	10%
Community Arts Response Paper	15%
Midterm Exam	20%
Final Exam	25%

Attendance/Participation:

Daily attendance comprises 5% of the overall final grade. Participation counts for 15% of the final grade. Participation grades will be calculated based on in-class individual and group activities (5%) and thoughtful additions to discussion boards regarding weekly material (10%).

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

Janet Catherine Berlo and Ruth B. Phillips, Native American Art, 2nd edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. **Please be sure to acquire the 2nd edition. (ISBN 978-0199947546)