FS 012 PZ -Unsettling Settlers and Making Space

Institution: Pitzer

Description: This course: 1) introduces a settler colonial analysis of Indigenous-non-Indigenous relations in the United States, and advances decolonization as a framework through which to understand American Indian socio-political agency ; 2) disrupts, questions, and critiques selected knowledge assumptions, perspectives, and claims of settler education and socialization; 3) introduces students to Indian Nations neighboring the Claremont Colleges, 4) engages students in collaborations with Indian Nations and community members; and 5) asks students to research their own personal, family and cultural relationships to processes of settlement, displacement, and intergroup relations regarding their own home town or territory.

Prerequisite(s): First-Year Seminars are required for all incoming freshman and do not have prerequisites.

First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.