Spring 2021 - INDG 403 D100
Indigenous Knowledge in the Modern World (3)
Class Number: 4591
Delivery Method: Remote
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Jan 11 – Apr 16, 2021: Wed, 9:30 a.m.–12:20 p.m.
Burnaby
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Instructor:
Joyce Schneider
jschneid@sfu.ca
Office Hours: By appointment over Zoom
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Prerequisites:
INDG (or FNST) 101 or INDG (or FNST) 201W.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
This course explores the subject of traditional Indigenous knowledge and its contemporary implications for Indigenous programs in such areas as economic development, ecotourism, spiritualism, language retention, biodiversity, ethnoscience, environmentalism, and heritage conservation. Indigenous perspectives on patents, copyrights, and other creative products from traditional culture will also be examined through lecture, guest speakers and seminar presentation. Students with credit for FNST 403 may not take this course for further credit.
COURSE DETAILS:
Students will experientially learn from Indigenous practices and protocols while coming to understand the tensions that arise with learning from ways of knowing that are inseparable from Indigenous communities, wholistic in nature, connected to place and dependent on lived experiences gained over lifetimes. Students will research and become familiar with a diversity of protocols and practices toward having and maintaining political integrity by activating wise approaches to economic development, ecotourism, environmentalism and a diversity of practices as covered in the course readings, lectures, and video presentations. To honor the central tenets of Indigenous Knowledges (IKs), students will design and submit individual research projects that demonstrate how they can/will mobilize IKs in their current programs of study, work or personal lives in meaningful and respectful ways. Students are expected to attend synchronous live lectures in Zoom sessions (with cameras on) and to participate in class discussions and activities on a weekly basis. A central feature of Indigenous Knowledge Systems is Tákem Nsnuknukwa7, all my relations, so students are also expected to work together and support each other’s success.
COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:
- learn from First Peoples' protocols and practices on a diversity of subject areas
- develop an understanding of how/when/which protocols and practices are appropriate to take up
- attain experiential understandings of respectful mobilization of protocols, practices (wise approaches) in student's learning and/or everday life on Indigenous lands
- experience the benefits of participating in collaborative learning and supporting the success of the collective
Grading
- Small group project- Metaphor Making 10%
- 4 Quizzes x 15% 60%
- IK Mobilization Project Submission 30%
- No final exam
REQUIREMENTS:
By enrolling in this course, you are confirming that you have the technology, space, and access to stable internet required to participate and you are committing to being present for our scheduled Zoom class times (Wednesdays 9:30 am-12:20pm). Because this is NOT an online course-but a remote delivered course- this currently necessary form of face-to-face delivery REQUIRES all cameras ON.
Materials
MATERIALS + SUPPLIES:
Technology - computer/laptop with a microphone and camera, stable internet, gmail email account for group assignments
REQUIRED READING:
All assigned readings are available online through CANVAS- and/or provided/presented in class.
Registrar Notes:
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS
SFU’s Academic Integrity web site http://www.sfu.ca/students/academicintegrity.html is filled with information on what is meant by academic dishonesty, where you can find resources to help with your studies and the consequences of cheating. Check out the site for more information and videos that help explain the issues in plain English.
Each student is responsible for his or her conduct as it affects the University community. Academic dishonesty, in whatever form, is ultimately destructive of the values of the University. Furthermore, it is unfair and discouraging to the majority of students who pursue their studies honestly. Scholarly integrity is required of all members of the University. http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/student/s10-01.html
TEACHING AT SFU IN SPRING 2021
Teaching at SFU in spring 2021 will be conducted primarily through remote methods. There will be in-person course components in a few exceptional cases where this is fundamental to the educational goals of the course. Such course components will be clearly identified at registration, as will course components that will be “live” (synchronous) vs. at your own pace (asynchronous). Enrollment acknowledges that remote study may entail different modes of learning, interaction with your instructor, and ways of getting feedback on your work than may be the case for in-person classes. To ensure you can access all course materials, we recommend you have access to a computer with a microphone and camera, and the internet. In some cases your instructor may use Zoom or other means requiring a camera and microphone to invigilate exams. If proctoring software will be used, this will be confirmed in the first week of class.
Students with hidden or visible disabilities who believe they may need class or exam accommodations, including in the current context of remote learning, are encouraged to register with the SFU Centre for Accessible Learning (caladmin@sfu.ca or 778-782-3112).