Navajo & Hopi Nations
Description
Hybrid format: You must take all four courses to travel. Sign up for each individually.
- spring term course;
- travel May term through June 12
- online course June 16 to July 3
This SST unit provides a broad understanding of the history, life ways and spirituality of the Navajo in the Southwest. Students will gain a fresh perspective on their own country and wrestle with some of its structural injustices. The six-week immersion in Arizona includes home stays, interviews, service assignments, hikes and visits to cultural sites.
Program Overview
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Study
The Navajo semester begins with a Foundations course on campus during spring term (GLST 241). Students will survey the diversity and shared patterns of indigenous societies and their development from the first settlements of North America until the present day.
Students deepen their appreciation for indigenous contributions to world history in the Global Issues course (GLST 300) which is online and runs from June 16 to July 3. They’ll study with a Native American scholar-activist and connect to indigenous people’s movements for social change globally.
You can take the first and last courses without the cultural and service immersion in Arizona, but not vice versa.
Immersion and Service
April 30 through June 12
The immersion courses, GLST 251 and 271, take place in Arizona and focus on developing relationships with Navajo people. Part of the time, students live at Diné College in Tsaile, AZ, the first tribally controlled and accredited collegiate institution in the U.S. They also have a home stay with a Navajo family, meet with Navajo students, elders, artists and other holders of the culture; visit the Hopi Nation and explore the rugged landscape that is central to Southwest indigenous cultures.
