Native American Cultures and Health
Letter Grades are assigned as follows:
ANT/NAS 340 - PHA 341
Rev. Raymond A. Bucko, S.J., Ph.D., Victoria F. Roche, Ph.D., Rhonda M. Jones, Pharm.D.
Wednesday 1:00 – 2:50 PM
104 Hixon-Lied Science Building
Undergraduate Course Schedule
Course Description
This course allows students to learn first hand about the cultures and health care practices of Native Americans by participating in seminars offered by Native tribal and spiritual leaders, healers, and others who work with Native populations in promoting wellness and pride in culture, and through professional and community-related service and research activities. Students will engage with SPAHP students enrolled in the Pharmacy version of this course, “Learning through Reflective Service: Native American Experience” (PHA 341). Enrolled undergraduate students will engage in service with Omaha based health agencies and attend group reflection sessions.
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.
Course Objectives
1. Describe the demographics, history and culture of common Native Americans tribes.
2. Analyze Native American beliefs about disease and wellness and healing, traditions, health disparities and needs through interaction with Native health care professionals, teachers, and healers, those who work with Native populations, and others with interest/expertise in Native Americans
3. Document reflecting thinking about issues related to course content and experiences through journaling
4. Evaluate the current cultural, economic and health-related quality of life of Native Americans
5. Stimulate the desire to advocate for underserved populations through the recognition of current health care and economic disparities.
6. Stimulate decision to select additional opportunities for service to Native Americans or other medically underserved and/or disadvantaged populations
7. Explore the concept of vocation in directing one’s life’s work
Instructional Methods
Lectures, guest speakers, reading assignments, service experiences, reflective writing.
Active Learning Requirements:
Discussion with seminar speakers and fellow students, reflection and journaling, on-site service activities
Course Requirements:
* Undergraduate students are required to attend all class sessions
* Undergraduate students will engage in a service experience for 3 hours a week at one of two Omaha Clinics:
The Fred LeRoy Health and Wellness Center, 2602 J Street, Omaha, NE 68107 - Phone 402 733-3612 - Contact Person - Candy Shott;
The Nebraska Urban Indian Health Coalition, 2240 Landon Court, Omaha, NE 68102 - Phone: (402)346-0902 (X 112)- Contact Person - Darrell Wells .
Students are required to arrange their own time scheduels with the center and arrange their own transportation to and from the center. The Urban Indian Health Coalition is walking distance from Creighton. The Fred LeRoy Center requires bus or car transportation. You are required to attend every session and my not work more than your allotted three hours in a week.
* Undergraduate students write weekly reflections on their field and lecture experience. These are due no more than 48 hours after your service engagement.
* Undergraduate students will occasionally meet with Fr. Bucko to discuss progress in the course, your paper research and your field placement.
* Undergraduate students will submit a 10 – 15 page scholarly research paper on some aspect of Native American Health and Healing.
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.
Daily Attendance: Required
Journal reflections: 20% of course grade
Service experience: 20% of course grade
Research paper 60% of course grade
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
Students in this course are not required to purchases texts. All materials will be provided for you.Aberdeen Area IHS Office of Health Program Staff. Looking Forward. 2003. n.d.: Aberdeen Area Indian Health Service.
Aberdeen Area HIS Office of Health Program Staff. Understanding Cultural Diversity in the Aberdeen Area Indian Health Service. DVD Produced by KAT Productions. n.d.: Aberdeen Area Indian Health Service.
Alvord, Lori Arviso, and Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt 1999 The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing. New York: Bantam Books.
Brown, Joseph E, ed. 1989 The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Siouix. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
Eastman, Charles A 1911. The Soul of the Indian: An Interpretation. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Galloway, James M., Bruce W. Goldberg, and Joseph S. Alpert 1999 Primary care of Native American patients: diagnosis, therapy, and epidemiology. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann.
Red Shirt, Delphine 1998 Bead on an Anthill: A Lakota Childhood. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Sturdevent, William, ed. 1978 – 2004 Handbook of North American Indians. 17 Vols. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office: Smithsonian Institution.
Sulmasy, Daniel P. 1997 The healer's calling: a spirituality for physicians and other health care professionals. New York: Paulist Press.
U. S. Department of Health and Human Services: Regional Differences in Indian Health, 2000 - 2001. 2003. n.d.: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
United States Public Health Service Website http://www.hhs.gov/pharmacy/pp/DHHSpresent/
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.
Note that the class will meet for 30 minutes each week to reflect on your field experience and to discuss the progress of your research paper. We will arrange a time that is mutually convenient.Contact Information:
Office Location:
Administration Building 433
Office Hours:
Tuesday 11:00 - 11:50 AM
Wednesday 9:00 - 11:00 AM
Thursday 8:00 - 9:20 AM
and by appointmentPhone:
Office: 3587
Home: 3115 (please do not call after 9:00 PM)E-mail Address:
bucko@creighton.edu
Lecture Outlines and Reading Assignments:
Please refer to the course schedule for all reading and other assignments
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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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