MMA 650 - Indigenous Health Issues
Rev. Raymond A. Bucko, S.J., Ph.D.
Creighton University
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Course Description
This on-line course will explore issues involved in indigenous health including identity and the definition of indigenous, the history of anthropologicl thought relevant to this category as well as focusing on indigenous people in three indigenous areas, Africa, Australia and Native North America.
Native American cultures are rich in value-centered beliefs and traditions about life and health. Students should gain personally, professionally and spiritually from hearing the experiences of those who work intimately with Native peoples, and exchanging ideas with them.This syllabus is a guide to the actual course located ________________. Instructions to find the course....then to the course workspace tour....
Course Goals and Objectives:
Theories, Concepts, and Perspectives : identify and examine the holistic, comparative, and ethnographic perspectives of medical anthropology.
- The student can analyze social behavior and cultural beliefs within specific groups and their conceptions of and practices associated with illness, health, and healing.
- The student can apply the perspectives and approaches of medical anthropology to analyze issues of health and illness.
Ethical Standards : identify and examine ethical issues in medical anthropology research and practice. Reflexive Scholarship : make informed and reflexive contributions to scholarly, professional, and general communities. Objective 4a: critically identify, examine, and interpret personal, and professional values.
- The student can identify and analyze ethical issues commonly faced by medical anthropologists in their research, writing, and the interpretation of their findings.
- The student can practice effective, clear, and empathic communication across diverse social and cultural perspectives.
Instructional Methods
Web based learning, guided readings, graduate level prsearch paper, asyncronos discussions..Course Etiquette
Saint Ignatius told his followers to put the best interpretation on all that people say and do. I ask the same of the students in this class. The student handbook provides guidance, Things to pay particulara attention to:
1. At all times participants are expected to act courteously and civally.
2. Communications are to be in full standard Englass except when participants agree on acceptable abbriviations.
3. Correct spelling and grammer are expected in all asynchronous communications and assignments but are relaxed in synchronous contexts.
4. The course instructor is disabled and has visual and manual challenges. Accomodations for all course participants are essentian to this course.Active Learning Requirements
Discussion with seminar speakers and fellow students, on-site service activities, reflections on service and/or class
Course Requirements
* Students are required to observe all work deadlines
*Students are required to electronically submit and confirm successful submission of all assignments.
* Undergraduate students will occasionally skype Fr. Bucko to discuss progress in the course andyour paper research..
* Undergraduate students will submit a 20 -25 page graduate level scholarly research paper on some aspect of Indigenous Health.Special Needs
If there are any needs for the course portion of this class Please contact me within the first week of class and also contact Denise Le Clair, Assistant Director of the Office of Disability Accommodations (280-2166). All other needs can be addressed directly with Denisse Le Clair.Medical Emergencies
In the event of disruption of normal classroom activities due to an H1N1 flu outbreak, the format for this course may be modified to enable completion of the course. In that event, you will be provided an addendum to this syllabus that will supersede this version.
Grading
This course will be graded utilizing the standard University grading scale. Satisfactory completion of course requires that students attend all class sessions unless excused by instructors, complete all course requirements (journaling, class discussion, Macy/Winnebago/Fred LeRoy Health and Wellness Center service experience, quizzes over readings, research project and paper), and complete the on-site service experience. Students who fail to complete all journal assignments or the required service experience, have more than one excused absence or who do not participate regularly in class discussion will have their final grade lowered by one letter grade. Engaging in any unprofessional behavior such as breaking the rules of the organization that hosts your service component, cheating, or disrespectful behavior in class or in your placement, or more than two absences will result in assignment of a F grade. Your final paper must be handing in on time. You will lose a half letter grade for each 12 hour period that your paper is late.
Grading Scale:
Course Assignments: 30% of course grade
Class Participation: 20% of course grade
Seminar Paper 50% of course grade Letter Grades are assigned as follows:
A 100 – 90
B+ 89.9 – 85
B 84.9 – 80
C+ 79.9 – 75
C 74.9 – 70
D 69.9 – 65
F Below 65
Texts
Academic Honesty
Students are required to adhere to the requirements of integrity as outlined in the Creighton University Creighton College of Arts & Sciences Committee on Academic Policy, Discipline, and Appeals. Students are expected to interact with each other in a way which will enhance the learning experience of all and which is never destructive of other persons. Because of the importance of acknowledged collaboration, students are required to cite all assistance, including that gained from peers. Students must never plagiarize work or cheat on quizzes or exams. The professor maintains an audit policy for papers submitted in this course to both reward extraordinary performance and to guard against misuse of sources. Infringements of academic integrity will result in penalties up to and including your failing the class and the incident being reported to the academic dean. Creighton College of Arts and Sciences provides a guide to the culture of scholarship which includes information on what constitutes plagiarizing.
Phone:
Office: 402 280 3587
Home: 402 280 3115 (please do not call after 9:00 PM central time)
Cell: 402 301 8605 E-mail Address:
bucko@creighton.edu
Skype Rabucko
Facetime bucko@creighton.edu
Lecture Outlines and Reading Assignments:Office Hours
Because of our differing schedules I will ask the first day for participants' preferences. Note that I also will conduct appointments by arrangement.Week One: Paradigms and Permutations
Day 1 Introduction
Enter the virtual classroom
listen to professor welcome
listen to prelecture on week 1
Make an email appointment to connect with professor by skype
Send the professor an email with an attachment
Connect to Refworks and open a folder - send the connecting link to your professor
Read the Wikipedia article on Health Issues - write a short response to the article offering a critique and if necessary short suggestion (2 page maximum)Message board blog for questions
Day 2 - concept of indigenous
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. "The Epistemological Status of the Concept of Ethnicity.” December 1993, 1996. Print.
Weaver, Hillary. "Indigenous Identity." American Indian Quarterly 25.2 (2001): 240-56. Print.
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Day 3 - 3 perspectives on one term
Watson, Marshall R. "A Journey of Indigenous Identity." Medical Journal of Australia 185.3 (2006): 150. Print.
Patterson, Thomas Carl, and Peter R. Schmidt. "Archaeology, History, Indigenismo , and the State in Peru and Mexico." Making Alternative Histories: The Practice of Archaeology and History in non-Western settings (1995): 69-85. Print.
Castellano, Marlene Brant. "Updating Aboriginal Traditions of Knowledge." Indigenous Knowledges in Global Contexts: Multiple Readings of our World. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. 21-36. Print.
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Day 4 - identity and research
Linda Smith
Prior, Deborah. "Decolonizing Research: A Shift Toward Reconciliation." Nursing Inquiry 14.2 (2007): 162-8. Print.
Wilson, Denise. “Should Non-Maori Research and Write About Non- Maori?” Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand 14.5 (2008): 20-21. Print.
Vocabulary Posting
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Discussion: Is the term indigenous political or cultural? Make one statement of about two paragraphs and two significant replies to other participants'comments that add new insight or perspective n to the discussion, imitial poster makes only a comment and second poster responds to only the first poster.
Day 5
United Nations General Assembly. " Implementation of Decolonization Resolutions Adopted since the Declaration of the First and Second International Decades for the Eradication of Colonialism ".3/23/2009, New York, New York. 1-5. Print.
---. " Universal Realization of the Right of Peoples to Self-Determination ".9/12/2006, New York, New York. 1-5. Print.
---. "United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.” 11/13/2007, New York, New York. 1-9. Print.
Short Essay Exam (20 Points)
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Week Two Seminar Paper
Monday
Summary lecture on week 1, responses to questions or concerns from week 1 amd a prelecture on week 2
identifying a reasonable topic and electronic sources
Tuesday
checking sufficiency of resources and building an annotated bibliography
Wednesday
writing an outline
Thursday
adding an annotated bibliography
Friday
proposal critiques
Week Three - Theory
Monday
Summary lecture on week 2, responses to questions or concerns from week 2 amd a prelecture on week 3Rousseau, Jean Jacques 1754,. “A Dissertation On the Origin and Foundation of The Inequality of Mankind and is it Authorised by Natural Law?”
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/rousseau/inequality/ch02.htmMorgan, Lewis H. "Ethnical Periods." Ancient Societies; Or, Researches in the Line of Human Progress from Savagery. Print.
Tuesday
Schoolcraft, Henry R. PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF A RESIDENCE OF THIRTY YEARS WITH THE INDIAN TRIBES ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIERS: WITH BRIEF NOTICES OF PASSING EVENTS, FACTS, AND OPINIONS, A.D. 1812 TO A.D. 1842 TO 1851. Print.
Ackerknecht, E. H. "Primitive Medicine and Culture Patterns." Bulletin of the history of medicine 12 (1942): 545-74. Print.
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Kleinman, Arthur, and Lilias H. Sung. "Why do Indigenous Practioners Successfully Heal?" Science and Medicine 13: 17-26. Print.
Waldram, James B. "The Efficacy of Traditional Medicine: Current Theoretical and Methodological Issues." Medical Anthropology Quarterly 14.4 (2000): 603-25. Print.
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Thursday
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Week 4 - Australia 1
Monday
Summary lecture on week 3, responses to questions or concerns from week 3 amd a prelecture on week 4Tuesday
Indigenous Cultural Training
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Week 5 - Australia II
Monday
Summary lecture on week 4, responses to questions or concerns from week 4 amd a prelecture on week 5Tuesday
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Week 6 - Afrrica
Monday
Summary lecture on week 2, responses to questions or concerns from week 2 amd a prelecture on week 3Tuesday
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Week 7 - The Americas I
Monday
Summary lecture on week 2, responses to questions or concerns from week 2 amd a prelecture on week 3Tuesday
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Week 8 - The Anericas II
Monday
Summary lecture on week 2, responses to questions or concerns from week 2 amd a prelecture on week 3Tuesday
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Thursday
Final Exam?
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Friday
Submit Final Seminar Paper?
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Rev. Raymond A. Bucko, S.J. of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Creighton University. E-Mail: bucko@creighton.edu
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