ES 307 - God is Red: American Indian Worldview

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-3; Sustainability
Investigation of American Indian worldview and spirituality, the philosophical tenets behind these different forms of knowledge production and their influences on American Indian societies. The study of how cultures construct and classify their universe and reality based on cultural criteria.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-3 - Upper Division Arts or Humanities, Overlay - Sustainability
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area 3 requirements (lower division Area C requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Students will be able to identify the various ways that cultures rely on domains of place-based knowledge for building mental spaces related to worldview, spirituality, and sustainability paradigms that will help students recognize how to act responsibly and sustainably at local, national, and global levels
Students will be able to characterize the intricacies and complexities of American Indian worldview throughout North America
Students will be able to synthesize the history of Ethnoscientific and Ethnocosmological research

GE-UD-3. Upper-division Arts or Humanities Learning Outcomes

Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply principles, methodologies, values systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities.
Analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human.
Demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts or humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.

Sustainability Overlay Learning Outcomes

Discuss multiple dimensions of sustainability, including the scientific, social, cultural, and/or economic.
Analyze interactions between human activities and natural systems.
Describe strategies taken by individuals, communities, organizations, or governments for mitigating and/or adapting to key threats to environmental sustainability.