Posted: November 6, 2025
As climate change, polarization, and cultural loss shape our world, we need new perspectives. CED 400N: Exploring Indigenous Ways of Knowing in the Great Lakes Region introduces students to Indigenous worldviews that have guided sustainable relationships with land and community for thousands of years.
In this Interdomain (GH/GS) General Education and U.S. Cultures course, you will explore:
- Ecology and land stewardship grounded in reciprocity and responsibility
- Stories, music, and ceremonies as living systems of knowledge and cultural resilience
- Indigenous science and ways of knowing that challenge and expand Western assumptions
Through readings, discussion, and participant observation, students learn to approach today’s pressing issues — from environmental sustainability to cultural revitalization — with deeper awareness and connection.
**Students who complete this course will have the opportunity to apply for a two-week field experience on Ojibwe Reservations in Northern Minnesota, where learning moves from the classroom to lived relationship with community and land.
CED 400N: Exploring Indigenous Ways of Knowing
It transforms the way you understand the world — and your role in it
Course Number 4211
Meets Mondays from 6-9
Substitutes for prerequisites course accepted.
