REQUEST TO ADD AN UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM AND/OR REQUEST FOR RECOGNITION ON THE UNIVERSITY TRANSCRIPTS

If the administrative unit requesting to recognize the certificate on the University transcript, please see the Minimum Criteria for Certificate Recognition on the Transcript section. The criteria in that section must be incorporated into the catalog language and included in the proposal.

1. Type of Proposal X New Program Change to an existing program Deletion of a program

2. Official Certificate Name: Indigenous Studies Certificate

3. Proposed Implementation date:1 Fall 2010

4. Administrative Unit Awarding the Certificate: Department of Anthropology a. CIP Code (office use only):

5. Statement of Objective (Include pages in Undergraduate Catalog where changes will be made): The main goal of the Indigenous Studies Certificate program is to encourage active intellectual and community engagement with Indigenous peoples and cultures. American Indian, Native American, and Indigenous Studies programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels have prominent roles at many of the University of Texas at Austin’s peer institutions, and the number of employment opportunities in this field has risen dramatically since the first programs began in the late 1960s and early 1970s. There is not, however, any substantial American Indian, Native American, and/or Indigenous Studies program in Texas. Our second main objective is to fill this void and make the University of Texas the place to go in the state and region for Indigenous Studies.

The certificate description will be added to page 302 of the of Liberal Arts section of the Undergraduate Catalog, under a new section to be titled CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS.

6. Number of students expected to receive the certificate each semester: 25-30

7. Number of hours required for completion (Please note if there is a minimum or maximum number of hours): 18 credit hours

8. List faculty who are on the certificate program faculty committee2. Note with an asterisk those faculty who are tenured or tenure track. Please also note the program chair, who will be responsible for authorizing the students’ certificates. Specify changes to the committee membership by noting those no longer on the committee and those added to the committee. (Add and delete rows as needed.)

Name of Faculty College/Department Title at UT Austin Highest Degree and Member Awarding Institution *Shannon Speed, LA/Anthropology Associate Ph.D./U of California, Program Chair Davis *Arturo Arias LA/Spanish and Professor Ph.D./L'Ecole des Portuguese Hautes Etudes *James Cox LA/English Assistant Professor Ph.D./Nebraska *Steven LA/American Associate Professor Ph.D./Wisconsin Hoelscher Studies *Pauline T. LA/Anthropology Associate Professor Ph.D./U of Chicago Strong

1 Certificates will not appear on the University transcripts until Fall 2010. 2 For inclusion on transcripts, the faculty committee must have a minimum of five members and at least 2/3 of the committee must be tenured or tenure-track. 9. Academic course requirements: Use this table to identify the courses that qualify for this certificate program.3 Note with an asterisk (*) courses that would be added if the certificate program is approved. Specify changes to the qualifying courses by noting those no longer qualifying and those now qualifying. (Add and delete rows as needed.)

Course Abbreviation and Course Title School Number ANTHROPOLOGY Liberal Arts Wade ANT 324L/AMS 321 Topic: Native Americans in Texas ANT 324L/AMS 321 Topic: Native Americans in the Plains ANT 324L Topic: Plains Prehistory and History

Stross ANT 322M Topic: Indians of Mexico and Guatemala

Speed ANT 324L/LAS 324L Topic: Indigenous Rights/Autonomy in Mexico

*ANT 324L Speed or Sturm Topic: Comparative Indigenous Cultures and Politics

Strong or Sturm ANT 322M Topic: Native American Cultures of the Greater Southwest ANT 336L Native American Cultures North of Mexico

Menchaca ANT 322M Topic: Mexican American Indigenous Heritage

AMERICAN STUDIES Steven Hoelscher AMS 310/HIS 306N Introduction to American Studies

ART AND ART HISTORY Fine Arts Guernsey ARH 347L Mesoamerican Art & Architecture ARH 347M Maya Art & Architecture ARH 370 Topics & Issues in Mesoamerican Art

ENGLISH Liberal Arts Various Instructors E314V Topic: Native American Literature and Culture

Cox E379S Topic: Contemporary American Indian Novelists E379S Topic: Twentieth-Century American Indian Literature E379N Topic: Twentieth-Century American Indian Literature

HISTORY

3 If the course numbers and titles change on a regular basis, please indicate the types of courses and number of hours for required for each. Bsumek HIS 317L Topic: Intro to Native American History HIS 350L Topic: Seminar in 20th Century Native American History HIS 356G History of the United States West

Deans-Smith HIS 363K/LAS 366 Topic: Conquest and Colonialism in Mexico and Peru HIS 350L/LAS 366 Topic: Memory, Identity and Nation: Forging the History(ies) of Mexico TC 357 Topic: Rethinking the Conquest of Mexico (Plan II only)

Martinez HIS 350L Topic: Race and Citizenship in U.S. History

GEOGRAPHY Knapp GRG 319/LAS 319 Geography of Latin America GRG 331K/ANT 324L Cultural Ecology

LINGUISTICS England LIN 350 Topic: Indigenous Languages of the Americas

MUSIC Fine Arts Tucker MUSIC 342/LAS Music of Indigenous Peoples of the Americas 326/AMS325 MUSIC 334 Music of the Andean Countries

SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE Liberal Arts * Arias and Carcamo-Huechante American Genesis: Indigenous Texts and Their Resonance

Carcamo-Huechante SPN 350 Topic: Indigenous Voices: From Nezahualcoyotl to Radio

10. Other certificate requirements: At least three courses should be taken outside the student’s major or home department, and at least half of the required course work in the certificate program must be completed in residence at the University of Texas at Austin. Courses already completed at the time of application to the program can be counted toward the certificate.

Students will be required to take a total of 18 credit hours. They will complete one lower division course that has been identified as introductory or foundational on the approved list. They will then take twelve hours of courses in two of the eight strands listed in the program description. The final three credit hours will come from an upper division course that has been identified as a capstone on the approved list. Students will also write upon completion of the course requirements a three to four page essay that describes their intellectual work in the program and how this experience contributed to their academic career at the University of Texas at Austin.

11. Give a detailed rationale for change(s): The University of Texas at Austin is uniquely situated to have the strongest undergraduate Indigenous Studies program in the state and region. Currently UT Austin has more than forty who work with indigenous communities and who teach indigenous studies classes in nine departments and two professional schools. The Indigenous Studies certificate program will allow undergraduate students to work with these faculty members in order to develop expertise in the interdisciplinary methodologies associated with Indigenous Studies and to develop broad-based knowledge that will allow comparative approaches with their own primary field of interest. The program will give the University of Texas at Austin a much greater opportunity to improve the recruitment of Indigenous students and faculty and to serve Indigenous communities in Texas, including those on the three reservations in the state (Alabama-Coushatta, Tigua at Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, and Kickapoo) and the large communities in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Austin, for example. We expect that students will make field experience and service learning important parts of their involvement in the program. The program will, therefore, also bridge the campus community with local communities by making campus intellectual work an active part of indigenous life in Austin and the state more broadly.

COLLEGE/SCHOOL APPROVAL PROCESS: Approver: Richard R. Flores Date: May 14, 2009 Title: Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Approver: Richard R. Flores Date: May 14, 2009 Title: Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Minimum Criteria for Certificate Recognition on the Transcript 1. The transcript-recognized undergraduate academic certificate program must be completed in conjunction with or within on year of completion of an at The University of Texas at Austin; students pursuing an integrated undergraduate/graduate program must complete the requirements for the certificate within one year after completing the undergraduate requirements of their program. A maximum of nine credit hours in the certificate program may be taken after completion of the undergraduate degree. 2. Transcript-recognized undergraduate academic certificate programs must require a minimum of 18 hours of certificate course work but not more than 24 hours. 3. At least half of the required course work in the certificate program must be completed in residence at The University of Texas at Austin. 4. A student may not earn a certificate in the same field of study as his or her major, and at least one course required in the certificate program must be outside the requirements of the major. However, courses in the certificate program outside the major may fulfill other degree requirements such as general requirements or required elective hours. 5. Students apply for transcript recognized undergraduate academic certificates at the time they complete their undergraduate degree or the certificate program, whichever comes later. Transcript recognition is awarded at that time.

Please include a draft of the catalog copy on an attached page. If this is an update of existing copy, the draft should be based on the text of the current catalog available at: http://www.utexas.edu/faculty/council/pages/catalog_chgs/catcopy.html

ADDITION OF AN UNDERGRADUATE ACADEMIC CERTIFICATE PROGRAM IN INDIGENOUS STUDIES IN THE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS CHAPTER OF THE UNDERGRADUATE CATALOG, 2010-2012, AND REQUEST FOR RECOGNITION ON THE UNIVERSITY TRANSCRIPTS

On page 302, under the heading CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS (to be added before the section titled CONCENTRATIONS), in the College of Liberal Arts chapter of the Undergraduate Catalog, 2008-2010, add the following text:

INDIGENOUS STUDIES

The main goal of the Indigenous Studies Certificate program is to encourage active intellectual and community engagement with indigenous people and cultures. The program will allow undergraduate students to develop interdisciplinary expertise in Indigenous Studies and comparative approaches to their own primary field of interest based in Indigenous Studies. Students will develop a specialization within the program that will be tailored to her or his academic and professional development. They will have the opportunity to concentrate their studies in two of the following eight strands: Mayan; Mesoamerica; Indigenous Arts; Indigenous Peoples of Latin America; Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Canada; Indigenous Peoples of the Americas; Indigenous Politics and Human Rights; and Indigenous Writing and Language.

Courses already completed at the time of application to the program can be counted toward the certificate. Upon completion of the course requirements, students will be required to write a three to four page essay that describes their intellectual work in the program and how this experience contributed to their academic career at the University of Texas at Austin.

The student must complete 18 hours of Indigenous Studies coursework, including at least nine hours in residence, and fulfill the following requirements:

1. Completion of the requirements of a major offered through any undergraduate college of the University. 2. Three hours in an approved lower‐division introductory or foundational course with Indigenous Studies content, chosen from: English 314V, topic Native American Literature and Culture; HIS 317L, topic Intro to Native American History; and other introductory courses identified on the approved list. 3. Twelve hours chosen from two of the following eight strands: Mayan; Mesoamerica; Indigenous Arts; Indigenous Peoples of Latin America; Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Canada; Indigenous Peoples of the Americas; Indigenous Politics and Human Rights; and Indigenous Writing and Language. 4. An approved upper‐division capstone in Indigenous Studies chosen from courses on the approved list. 5. At least three courses should be taken in a field of study outside of the student’s major or home department.

Each semester a list of approved courses that meet each of the Indigenous Studies requirement areas and strands will be available in the Department of Anthropology undergraduate advising office.

The Indigenous Studies certificate program must be completed in conjunction with or within on year of completion of an undergraduate degree at The University of Texas at Austin; students pursuing an integrated undergraduate/graduate program must complete the requirements for the certificate within one year after completing the undergraduate requirements of their program. A maximum of nine credit hours in the certificate program may be taken after completion of the undergraduate degree.