Students will be able to use a computer. Computer use is urged for ease of writing and modifying the text of papers but is not required. Students are willing to receive information and respond to it. Improve ability to articulate knowledge. Ten percent of the grade is based on attendance and participation but we do not eject the lazy nor embarrass the shy.
Many students find discussion classes a great waste of their time.
Many come here lacking in the most basic knowledge of history necessary to be a responsible citizen or succeed in college. Students develop values, organize them into systems, and apply those systems to their private and public lives. We seek to instill a sense of historical perspective, and the realization that a sense of history involves more than memorizing dates. This is not a course of indoctrination, individual adjustment, or political and social activism. The course looks at changing social and political values from those of the Native American Cultures in from the first period of European-Native American contact to the present day.