Week One

Jan. 16  T 

Introduction to class

 Jan. 18  R   

Karla Jay, "Charity Bracelets" (click on title or here if you have problems); Jay discussion questions handout
Thomas Ehrlich, "Civic Engagement" (click on title); Ehrlich discussion questions handout

Gap's Red campaign--look through the ad campaign website

Week Two    

Jan. 23  T    

Leslie Hill, "Power and Citizenship in a Democratic Society" (ereserves)
Leslie Hill, "Reflections on Citizenship" (click on title)

job candidate class visit

Jan. 25  R

Terry Tempest Williams, Open Space, pp. i-iii, 1-24
Questions to consider while reading Williams through to the end (print out and bring to class until we finish reading her first book)

Questions to consider for class readings based on Hill articles (print out and consider questions as you read; be prepared to discuss when you come to class--do this with each reading for the rest of the semester)

Week Three

Terry Tempest Williams, Open Space, pp. 28-62, 85-89

job candidate class visit

ASUNM CE guest speaker, Nico Condon

Week Four --Open Space of Democracy handout with themes to think about for Refuge

Leigh Johnson, guest speaker

NO CLASS

Week Five

Dr. Tiffany Lee, guest speaker

Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge, 179-238
Discussion Leader 3--Lacy Anderson
Team Presentation 1--Candice Villegas & Kyce Bello

Betsy Erbaugh, guest speaker

Week Six

Issues in Introduction and questions to consider from Chapter One (handout)

Week Eight        

Week Ten

Week Eleven

Week Twelve

Reading guide for Ceremony based on Borrows and Silko 4/3 readings:
1.  Indigenous laws are still visible
2.  Living traditions are still present
3.  Stories/landscape are reminders of what colonial/patriarchal institutions have covered up, ignored
4.  Another kind of power is reproduced in the land
5.  What Indigenous legal structures does novel reveal?
6.  How does the novel compare/contrast with Borrows' presentation of Indian control of United States affairs? with his presentations of power/place/politics?

Silko, "Fences Against Freedom" (e-reserves)
Borrows, "Introduction" and "An Indigenous Declaration of Interdependence" (e-reserves)
Team Presentation 6--Missy Begay & David Barber

UNM Undergraduate Research & Creativity Symposium

Week Thirteen

WEEK Fifteen

Final Project Presentations 1-6 (approx. 12 min. per person)

WEEK Sixteen

Final Project Presentations 7-12

Final Project Presentations 13-17
Final projects due