<div dir="ltr">Dear SEHE affiliates,<div>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.</div><div>Dana<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:wesley.leonard@ucr.edu">wesley.leonard@ucr.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 4:04 PM<br>Subject: ETST 153 -- Native American Language Revitalization, Fall 2024<br>To: Dana Simmons <<a href="mailto:dana.simmons@ucr.edu">dana.simmons@ucr.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center">*please share with those who may be interested*</div><div><br></div><font size="4"><i>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. </i></font><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><div><font size="4"><b>Details:</b></font></div><div><ul><li><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4">Instructor: <a href="https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/wesleyl" target="_blank">Wesley Y. Leonard</a> (<a href="mailto:wesley.leonard@ucr.edu" target="_blank">wesley.leonard@ucr.edu</a>)<br></font></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4">Time and place: <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center">Tuesday/Thursday 11:00 AM-12:20 PM in CHASS INTS 1121</span><br></font></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4">Course registration number: 37466</font></span></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center">4 credit hours</span><br></font></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4">Prerequisites: upper-division standing or instructor permission; this course is also open to graduate students</font></span></li></ul></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><font size="4"><br></font></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#000000" size="4" face="arial, sans-serif"><span><b>Course description/purpose for gathering: </b></span></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span><b> </b></span></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Palatino;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Language shift and revitalization do not occur in a sociopolitical vacuum, so they thus must be investigated, evaluated, and theorized accordingly</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">.</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Palatino;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:start"><span style="font-size:3pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Palatino;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:start"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">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.<span> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">We will do this using a series of interrelated questions on recent patterns of Native American language shift:<span> </span><i>What is at stake?</i><span> </span>(e.g., science, culture, identity, sovereignty),<span> </span><i>How and why do various communities respond?<span> </span></i>(e.g., using various technologies, arguments, rhetorics, and programs), and finally,<span> </span><i>How do language efforts reflect, promote, create, or complicate ethnic identity</i></span><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">?</span></i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><span> </span>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<span> </span><i>R</i><span> </span>concepts like<span> </span><i>respect</i>,<span> </span><i>reciprocity</i>, and<span> </span><i>responsibility</i><span> </span>can guide language work.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p></div></div></div>
</div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Dana Simmons</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Society, Environment and Health Equity</span></div><div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Cooperating Faculty, Department of History</span></div></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">University of California, Riverside</span></div></div></div></div></div></div>