This course introduces critical viewing practices relating to media depictions of Indigenous peoples, using popular culture as a point of entry. Students will analyze a range of media texts within their historic contexts, from contact to the present day, and be asked to consider the ways these texts construct and/or reflect particular representations of Indigenous cultures, colonial narratives, and contemporary discourses. They will also examine Indigenous creators’ critical responses to, and uses of, these forms of media, both in theoretical writing and creative practice. The course will provide students with a background in the origins and development of persistent colonial narratives, the means to recognize these narratives, and the analytical skills to interrogate them. Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hoursPrerequisite(s): 3 credit Note: Students with credit for INDG 370.6 cannot take INDG 275 for credit. The skills learned in this course will prepare students to examine more complex media topics such as those presented in INDG 375.3: Media Constructions and Discourses of Indigenous-Settler Histories. Themes and topics from this course have been included in INDG 370.6: Images of Indigenous North America in past years.
This course introduces critical viewing practices relating to media depictions of Indigenous peoples, using popular culture as a point of entry. Students will analyze a range of media texts within their historic contexts, from contact to the present day, and be asked to consider the ways these texts construct and/or reflect particular representations of Indigenous cultures, colonial narratives, and contemporary discourses. They will also examine Indigenous creators’ critical responses to, and uses of, these forms of media, both in theoretical writing and creative practice. The course will provide students with a background in the origins and development of persistent colonial narratives, the means to recognize these narratives, and the analytical skills to interrogate them. Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hoursPrerequisite(s): 3 credit Note: Students with credit for INDG 370.6 cannot take INDG 275 for credit. The skills learned in this course will prepare students to examine more complex media topics such as those presented in INDG 375.3: Media Constructions and Discourses of Indigenous-Settler Histories. Themes and topics from this course have been included in INDG 370.6: Images of Indigenous North America in past years.
