Course and Curriculum Design of Environmental Science Baccalaureate Degree Program Incorporating Native American Wisdom, Traditional Knowledge and Scientific Technology

哈斯克尔印第安民族大学（HINU）将开发和实施一个全面的，跨学科的课程，在美国原住民环境科学学士学位课程。 这一新方案将有三个主要目标：（a）帮助美洲土著人掌握环境科学领域，（B）为主修其他学科的学生提供获得自然科学基本知识的机会，（c）通过将历史和传统知识纳入课程内容，帮助保护美洲土著人的文化。 学生参与设计课程内容和教学法，通过暑期学生教师团队将是新的环境科学课程的发展的重要组成部分。 该计划的这一方面将促进指导和发展一个强大的同伴教学核心。 参与的学生将包括环境科学以及基础教育。 该课程将是独特的，因为它将传统的本土价值观和知识融入西方科学方法。 在未来两年内开发的课程将包括数学应用科学家和工程师I/II，地理信息系统，地理信息系统应用，流域和景观开发，水质和水化学，美洲土著地理和民族植物学。 未来的课程将包括介绍生态化学，环境政策和法律，印度环境法，民族昆虫学，美洲原住民生态系统管理，文化和考古资源，资源经济学和环境政策，恢复和保护生态学。

Haskell Indian Nations University (HINU) will develop and implement a comprehensive, interdisciplinary courses for a BS degree program in the Environmental Sciences for Native Americans. This new program will have three primary goals: (a) to help Native Americans attain mastery of the field of environmental sciences, (b) to provide an opportunity for students majoring in other disciplines to acquire basic knowledge of the natural sciences, and (c) to help preserve Native American culture by incorporating historical and traditional knowledge into course content. Student participation in designing course content and pedagogy through summer student-faculty teams will be a major part of the development of the new Environmental Science Curriculum. This facet of the program will foster mentoring and the development of a strong peer teaching nucleus. Participating students will include Environmental Science as well as Elementary Education. This curriculum will be unique because it will integrate traditional Native values and knowledge into the western scientific method. Courses to be developed within the next two years will include Applications of Mathematics for Scientists and Engineers I/II, Geographic Information Systems, Geographic Information Systems Applications, Watershed and Landscape Development, Water Quality and Water Chemistry, Native American Geography, and Ethnobotany. Future courses will include Introduction to Ecological Chemistry, Environmental Policy and Law, Indian Environmental Law, Ethnoentomology, Native American Ecosystem Management, Cultural and Archeological Resources, Resource Economics and Environmental Policy, and Restoration and Conservation Ecology.