[Sehefac] Fwd: ETST 153 -- Native American Language Revitalization, Fall 2024

[Dana Simmons]

Dear SEHE affiliates,
Please see the course announcement below, which is relevant to
environmental studies and health, wellness and sustainability. Many thanks
to Wesley Leonard for sharing it with us.
Dana

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From: <wesley.leonard at ucr.edu>
Date: Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Subject: ETST 153 -- Native American Language Revitalization, Fall 2024
To: Dana Simmons <dana.simmons at ucr.edu>


*please share with those who may be interested*

*Announcing Fall 2024's Ethnic Studies 153 "Native American Language
Revitalization", which engages Native American Studies themes, social
justice, education, linguistics, gender studies, environmental studies, and
many other areas. Background in Native American Studies and language issues
is helpful, but not necessary. *

*Details:*

   - Instructor: Wesley Y. Leonard
   <https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/wesleyl> (
   wesley.leonard at ucr.edu)
   - Time and place: Tuesday/Thursday 11:00 AM-12:20 PM in CHASS INTS 1121
   - Course registration number: 37466
   - 4 credit hours
   - Prerequisites: upper-division standing or instructor permission; this
   course is also open to graduate students


*Course description/purpose for gathering: *


*Language shift and revitalization do not occur in a sociopolitical vacuum,
so they thus must be investigated, evaluated, and theorized accordingly**.*



ETST 153 takes the statement provided above as a working guide and has as
its basic goal to identify and analyze the major themes of contemporary
Native American language endangerment and revitalization through a critical
approach. We will do this using a series of interrelated questions on
recent patterns of Native American language shift: *What is at stake?* (e.g.,
science, culture, identity, sovereignty), *How and why do various
communities respond? *(e.g., using various technologies, arguments,
rhetorics, and programs), and finally, *How do language efforts reflect,
promote, create, or complicate ethnic identity**?* To investigate these
issues, we will examine several case studies of language endangerment and
revitalization along with the changing social contexts in which they are
occurring. Themes of the course include language and wellness,
sustainability, and how Indigenous *R* concepts like *respect*,
*reciprocity*, and *responsibility* can guide language work.


-- 
Dana Simmons
Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Society, Environment and
Health Equity
Cooperating Faculty, Department of History
University of California, Riverside
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