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Spring 2024 Columbus Campus

The Ohio State University classes highlighted below represent classes which exemplify or contain potential for research within the mission of the Newark Earthworks Center. This includes classes taught by our Faculty Oversight Committee members and our Director.

Undergraduate Research

  • American Indian Studies 4998
  • 1-4 credit hours.

Undergraduate research in variable topics related to American Indian Studies. Student-initiated projects. Not eligible for College Credit Plus program.

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 credit hours or 3 completions. This course is graded S/U.

Research in American Indian Studies Honors

  • American Indian Studies 4998H
  • 1-4 credit hours.

Undergraduate honors student research or creative project in variable topics related to American Indian Studies.

Prerequisites: Honors standing, and permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 credit hours or 3 completions. This course is graded S/U.

Undergraduate Research: Thesis

  • American Indian Studies 4999
  • 1-4 credit hours.

A program of reading arranged for each student, with individual conferences, reports, paper and/or thesis.

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 12 credit hours or 4 completions. This course is graded S/U.

Honors Thesis Research

  • American Indian Studies 4999H
  • 1-4 credit hours.

A program of reading, research, writing, and/or creative work arranged for each student, with individual conferences, progress reports, and honors thesis.

Prerequisites: Honors standing, and permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 12 credit hours or 4 completions. This course is graded S/U.

Internship

  • American Indian Studies 5191
  • 1-3 credit hours.

Workplace experience requiring writing and/or research.

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 credit hours or 3 completions. This course is graded S/U.

Individual Studies

  • American Indian Studies 5193
  • 1-3 credit hours.

Individual directed study for work not typically offered in courses. Not eligible for College Credit Plus program.

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 credit hours or 3 completions. This course is graded S/U.

Group Studies

  • American Indian Studies 5194
  • 1-3 credit hours.

Directed group study for a topic not offered in regular courses.

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 credit hours or 3 completions.

American Indian Studies Workshop

  • Ethnic Studies 5700
  • 1-3 credit hours.
  • Structured participation in seminar or event organized for that semester.

Not eligible for the College Credit Plus program. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 credit hours or 3 completions. This course is graded S/U.

Anthropological Perspectives on Indigenous Citizenship: Native North Americans

  • Anthropology 3306
  • R. Yerkes
  • M/W/F 9:10 - 10:05 a.m.
  • 3 credit hours.
  • Course number 35079
  • Smith Laboratory Room 1009

An introduction to complex questions about the citizenship and sovereignty of Indigenous Native Americans, including what constitutes indigenous citizenship and how it is attained, ideas about justice amid difference in Native American societies, and some of the ways that changing power relations shaped racial, ethnic, and gender identities of American Indians.

GE theme citizenship for diversity and just world course.

Advanced Creative Nonfiction Writing

  • English 4568
  • E. Washuta
  • W 12:40 - 3:40 p.m.
  • 3 credit hours.
  • Course number 27815
  • Denney Hall Room 368

Advanced workshop in the writing of creative nonfiction. This is a class for serious students of creative writing. Admission is by portfolio submission to the instructor.

Prerequisites: English 2268 and permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 credit hours.

Special Topics in U.S. Ethnic Literatures

  • English 4581
  • T/Th 9:35 - 10:55 a.m.
  • 3 credit hours.
  • Course number 34737
  • Denney Hall Room 265

Study of selected issues or forms in U.S. ethnic literatures and cultures. Topic varies. Examples: Native American autobiography, Asian American poetry; Latino/a novel.

Prerequisites: 10 quarter credit hours or 6 credit hours of English at 2000-3000 level, or permission of instructor. 5 quarter credit hours in 367 or 3 credit hours in 2367 in any subject is acceptable towards the 6 credit hours. Not open to students with 10 quarter credit hours for 581 or 6 semester credit hours for 4581. Repeatable to a maximum of 6 credit hours.

Seminar in the Forms of Literature

  • English 7871.01 (Graduate)
  • E. Washuta
  • M 12:40 - 3:40 p.m.
  • 3 credit hours.
  • Course number 35315

A graduate seminar in the forms of poetry, fiction, and/or creative nonfiction.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with 20 quarter credit hours for 781, or equivalent. Repeatable to a maximum of 12 credit hours.

Native American Identity

  • Comparative Studies 4822
  • T/Th 2:20 - 3:40 p.m.
  • 3 credit hours.
  • Course number 35582
  • Smith Laboratory Room 1138

Explores the legal, cultural, historic, and political foundations, experiences, and perspectives and futures of American Indians in the U.S.

Prerequisites: English 1110.XX or equivalent; or GE foundation writing and info literacy course; or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for Ethnic Studies 2323.

GE cultures and ideas and diversity social diversity in the United States course. GE foundation historical and cultural studies course. Cross-listed with Ethnic Studies.

The American Revolution and the New Nation

  • History 3011
  • Dr. Margaret Newell
  • T/Th 12:45 - 2:05 p.m.
  • 3 credit hours.
  • Course number 34586
  • Journalism Building Room 371

The American Revolution and the New Nation: Analysis of the political, cultural, social, military, and economic changes that led to revolution and creation of the republic.

Prerequisite or concurrent: English 1110.xx, or GE foundation writing and informational literacy course, or permission of instructor.

GE historical study course.

History of Ohio

  • History 3030
  • Online
  • 3 credit hours.
  • Course number 27366

Survey of economic, social, political development of the geographic area that became Ohio from Native Americans to present.

Prerequisite or concurrent: English 1110.xx, GE foundation writing and informational literacy course, or permission of instructor.

GE historical study course.

Native American History from European Contact to Removal, 1560-1820

  • History 3070
  • M.  Newell
  • T/Th 3:55 - 5:15 p.m.
  • 3 credit hours.
  • Course number 34589
  • Caldwell Laboratory Room 133

Major issues and events in Native American history from before the European invasion and colonization through the early 1820s.

Prerequisite or concurrent: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor.

GE historical study course. GE theme migration, mobility, and immobility course.

Native American History from Removal to the Present

  • History 3071
  • D. Rivers
  • T/Th 12:45 - 2:05 p.m.
  • 3 credit hours.
  • Course number 28941
  • University Hall Room 038

Covers major events in American Indian history from 1820s to present, including removal, reservations, cultural adaptation, federal policies, self-determination, activism, and contemporary issues.

Prerequisites or concurrent: English 1110.xx, GE foundation writing and informational literacy course, or permission of instructor.

GE historical study and diversity, social diversity in the United States course.

Introduction to American Indian Studies

  • Comparative Studies 2323, Ethnic Studies 2323
  • T/Th 11:10 - 12:30 p.m.
  • Course number 35344
  • Mendenhall Laboratory Room 125

Explores the legal, cultural, historic, and political foundations, experiences, and perspectives and futures of American Indians in the U.S.

Prerequisites: English 1110.XX or equivalent; or GE foundation writing and info literacy course; or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for Ethnic Studies 2323.

GE cultures and ideas and diversity social diversity in the United States course. GE foundation historical and cultural studies course. Cross-listed with Ethnic Studies.

Race, Colonialism and Data

  • Ethnic Studies 5194
  • T/Th 12:45 - 2:05 p.m.
  • 3 credit hours.
  • Class number: 37200 (UG) or 37199 (G)
  • Location: 180 Cunz Hall

This interdisciplinary course envisions the possibility of a responsible data science by studying the colonial and capitalist legacies of data analytics and its methodologies. What makes data science global? How is data pervasive?

Explore the how and the why of the injustices enabled by data and AI and the infrastructures and human relations that sustain data science. Drawing on science and technology studies, geography, political science, anthropology and the history of science, we’ll study how data is used in education, land, geology, finance and health. It opens up narratives, histories, contexts and possibilities of a different kind of data.  

Students of diverse backgrounds will read, engage with the readings and be in dialogue with their peers, and work on hands-on activities that will help them think critically about data practices. Regardless of our aspirations, we live in a world that is increasingly mediated by algorithmic, big data and associated technologies. “Race, Colonialism, and Data” offers students the opportunity to think critically about this complex reality and reflect on how to dismantle unjust data practices to imagine and organize better and livable futures.

The course will be taught by Dr. Harshavardhan Bhat, postdoctoral fellow at the Translational Data Analytics Institute and affiliate for the Center for Ethnic Studies. 

For more information on this course, contact Dr. Bhat at bhat.115@osu.edu.

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