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What you'll study
This program requires a minimum of 27credits to graduate, including 15 credits of compulsory courses and 12 credits of electives. Here's a list of the program structure:
Code: IS__D0010
Credit: 3.0
Exploring Taiwan Indigenous Peoples’ contemporary issues through social, economic, political, educational, and social welfare perspectives. Understanding global indigenous issues through Taiwan's contemporary indigenous cultures and social conditions.
Code: IS__D1040
Credit: 3.0
The course provides diverse skills, values and knowledge from policy evaluation, social impact assessment, social research, to communication, and cross-cultural awareness. Students are also guided in developing a strong ethical compass to understand and respond to critical social issues. This course will empower you with practical and transferrable skills to address social issues.
Code: IS__D1070
Credit: 3.0
This advanced level course in Indigenous Studies offers a Regional Focus based in Native North America (American Indian Nations), given the Instructor’s longstanding field of research and teaching expertise, but will also extend transnationally to enable comparative analytics of indigeneity and settler colonialism. The course will be anchored in these two keywords as concepts to be rigorously investigated as theoretical framings, but equally rigorously investigated and tested in empirical, grounded contexts. It will offer a special emphasis on the intersection of indigeneity and Indigenous Peoples with questions of environmental justice, climate change, and eco-governance (also the Instructor’s area of research expertise).
Code: IS__D1100
Credit: 3.0
Code: IS__@0020
Credit: 3.0
Code: IS__D1010
Credit: 3.0
This course aims to provide students with some basic and main topics on indigenous languages in general. We will focus on some aspects of indigenous language endangerment, language vitality, language documentation and language revitalization especially the three aspects of language planning including status planning, corpus planning and acquisition planning. By the end of the class, students are expected not only to know the specific topics covered in this course, but also to be able to apply what you have learned to specific endangered languages you care in mind.
Code: IS__@0040
Credit: 3.0
Code: IS__@0050
Credit: 3.0
Code: IS__@0060
Credit: 3.0
Code: IS__D1020
Credit: 3.0
Code: IS__@0070
Credit: 3.0
Code: IS__D1090
Credit: 3.0
Code: IS__@0090
Credit: 3.0
Code: IS__@0100
Credit: 3.0
Code: IS__D1050
Credit: 3.0
This course focuses on the indigenous peoples and cultures of Native North America. It addresses two basic questions: first, what does it mean to be Native American?, and who gets to decide? We will investigate the primary markers of Indian identity (biology, culture, and self-identification) as they apply to a sampling of three tribal groups: the Cherokees, the Lumbees, and the Pequots. Students will assess the roles that stereotypes, biological and cultural interaction with non-Indians, and urbanization have had on Indian identity, and appreciate the richness and complexity of Native American life as it was and continues to be lived in diverse ways and in different places in North America.
Code: IS__@0110
Credit: 3.0
Code: IS__D1060
Credit: 3.0
Depictions of Indigenous peoples have become increasingly common in Taiwanese popular films, tv shows, and other media. This course seeks to explore the story behind these on screen representations through history, ethnography, critical theory, and by watching and analyzing these works of popular culture directly. In doing so, the students will be introduced to the Indigenous Taiwanese history and culture, while also being taught how to interpret and understand each of these varied kinds of visual and textual materials. Most importantly, the class will tackle the question of historical memory and what such cultural texts say about the present moment.
Code: IS__D1030
Credit: 3.0
This course provides the opportunity for students to explore the impacts of tourism on indigenous peoples and the economic, social, cultural, environmental, and political motivations that encourage indigenous peoples to engage in tourism. It provides alternative insights into tourism as a social and cultural phenomenon by examining tourism from a different worldview. Themes of the tourist gaze, authenticity, identity, consumption, and pilgrimage will be considered throughout the semester. Students will be provided with opportunities to take a field trip and explore Taiwanese aboriginal arts, culture, events, and foods.