2024-2025 Undergraduate General Catalog


SOCI 320 Native American Social Systems (PW)

This course presents an "institutional" approach to Native American (specifically Lakota) society from pre-European contact to the present. It explores Lakota social institutions (political, economic, family, religious, and educational systems) prior to European contact, and examines the impact of non-Indian structures on the historical development of Lakota social institutions. This course fulfills the State of South Dakota's teacher certification requirement.

Credits

3

Cross Listed Courses

NAST 320

Core Requirements

Perspectives: Non-Western Societies, Cultures and Traditions

Offered

Every Fall and Spring in person, online every Summer