TIMETABLE: (this timetable is tentative as opportunities may arise that will change the schedule).
Week 1:
Introductions/ assignment of small groups
Handout: Cultural Self Assessment
Review of syllabus and class expectations
What is social policy? American Indians and social policy: Historical overview
Handouts:
Week 2:
Historical overview
Handout: Historical Overview
Choose group topics/group assignment
Readings: Wilkenson, Part 1; Popple & Leigninger, pp. 1-34.
Week 3:
Legal status/sovereignty and rights of tribes.
Handout: Treaty Rights
Social Welfare Policy Anaysis-Work in small groups
Readings: Devons, pp. 157-171; Harvey & Harjo, pp. 259-267 & 280-285.
Week 4:
Sharing Circle
Handout: Culture as a process
Readings: Popple & Leigninger, pp. 86-138; Simmons & Trope, pp. 6-12 & 24; Pevar, pp. 296-308.
Week 5:
Policy Analysis-Case Study
Handout: Case Study
Readings: Cornell & Kalt-read and be prepared to work on in class
Week 6:
American Indian Policies-Religious Freedom, Repatriation, Land Rights:
Video; “In the Light of Reverence”
Readings: Harvey and Harjo, pp. 159-164, 172-175, 225-231, & 243-251.
Week 7:
No class, attend St. Louis County Child Welfare Conference
Students required to submit one page report (format to be handed out)
Readings: Wilkenson, Parts 2 & 3 and keep reading While the Locust Slept.
Cultural Event One due.
Week 8:
**Mid-term quiz on all readings and course content up to this point.
Time to work on presentations after quiz.
Student reports on Cultural Event Two
Readings: Weaver, pp. 1-13, 83-109, & 288-295; Wilkenson, Part 4.
One-two page paper on St. Louis County Conference due.
Week 9:
Sharing Circle
Cultural Event Two due.
Policy Journal due.
Week 10:
Student Presentation
Student reports on Cultural Event Three
Book Review due.
Week 11:
Student Presentation
Readings: While the Locust Slept
Cultural Event Three due.
Week 12:
Speaker: Contemporary American Indian social policy issues-John Day, MSW, Director of American Indian Projects, UMD, Department of Social Work; course evaluation
Week 13:
Student Presentation
Week 14:
Student Presentation
Student evaluation of course
Week 15:
Sharing Circle
Cultural Self Assessment
Paper due.