Aboriginal Healing Ways (3) NATV 3100 G80 (CRN:21192)
Instructor:Moneca Sinclaire
Telephone:E:788-8446H:417-1980
E-mail:
Class Dates:Start date:January 08, 2011(Saturday)
End date: April 02, 2011(Saturday)
Class Time:Start: 9:30 a.m.End: 12:30 p.m.
Location:A106 ChownBuilding, U of M Bannatyne Campus, 753 McDermot Avenue
COURSE VW DATES/REFUNDS:
Last date to pay Winter Term 2011 without late fee is Jan. 06, 2011
Last day for VW is March 18, 2011(Friday) with no academic penalty, no refund.
Course Description
This course allows students to work with Aboriginal Elders or traditional teachers on concepts of healing and wellness. Emphasis on Annishinabe or Cree healing practices, through other First Nations’ approaches may be offered. This course may include a field trip component.
PRE-REQUISITES
Students may not holdcredit for both NATV 3100 (Formally 032.310-Aborignal Healing Ways) and NATV 3000 (Formally 032.300-Selected Topics) when NATV 3000 is titled “Exploring Aboriginal Healing”. Pre-requisite: a grade of “C” or better in NATV 2100 (Formally 032.210-Aboriginal Spirituality) or written consent of the departmenthead.
Course Objectives
Upon the successful completion of this course, you should be able to:
- Utilize reflective thinking processes to evaluate factors that impact North American Native peoples health and wellness
- Understand how personal and societal recovery from the lasting effects of oppression and systemic racism experienced over generations affect North American Native peoples’ healing ways
- Explore North American Native traditional knowledge, current trends, and issues with regard to North American Native community healing ways
Core Abilities Developed in this course
- Critical and analytical thinking
- Consideration of content
- Consideration of the interplay between theoretical ideas and practical issues related to course themes
- Analyze issues and organize reports using appropriate research
- Personal planning skills and project management
Course Work
Delivery:
This 3 credit hour course occurson Saturdays with the first Saturday being January 07, 2011 to the last Saturday of April 02, 2011. This course will involve a variety of instructional styles including: lectures, discussions, guest speakers, generative curriculum and interpretive inquiry. Students will be expected to take an active role in their own learning and therefore adequate time will be allowed for student participation.
Resources: Guest speakers (possibly), readings, videos
Evaluation and Assessment:
1. Reflection Journal(Two@10% each)20%
2.Critical review 20%
3.Group Presentation30%
4.Final paper20%
5.Attendance/Participation10%.
Final100%
Detailed description of Evaluation:
1. Reflection Journal
Logistics:
These will be word processed papers approximately 2 (minimum) pages to 4 (maximum) or 250/page = 500 words to 1,000 words in length.No cover page required but if you want to make one you're welcome to do so (the example below is a sample of the first and a second page of the reflection journal assignment) Reflection Journals also should have one inch margins on both sides and top and bottom with page numbers either on top or bottom. Unjustified margins, indented paragraphs, absolutely no headings in the text of your paper, font 10 or 12 acceptable. Double space or 1 1/2 space for the line spacing in the text portion of your paper.
Required must use articles in your reflection journal. In the reflection journal examine what it is you have learned in class, was it what you expected. Not only can you incorporate the articles as sources you can also incorporate guest lectures (see non-recoverable data in APA or Personal communications in MLA) for correct sourcing.
Due Date Journal One: January 22, 2011 (Saturday)
Due Date Journal Two: March 05, 2011 (Saturday)
2. CRITICAL Review of an article
The article assigned to critically review is:
McCabe, Glen. (2008). Mind, body, emotion and spirit: reaching to the ancestors for healing. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 21 (2): 143-152.
Logistics:
These will be word processed papers approximately 3 pages (minimum) pages to 5 pages (maximum) or 250/page = 750 words to 1,000 words in length . No cover page required but if you want to make one you're welcome to do so. Again this is for the first page only).
One inch margins on both sides and top and bottom with page numbers either on top or bottom. Unjustified margins, indented paragraphs, Note: ***absolutely no headings in the text of your paper***, font 10 or 12 acceptable. Double space or 1 1/2 space for the line spacing of the text.
Note: For this critical review it is not necessary to cite other authors but if you decide you need to you must have a separate reference page at the end of your review.And if you use only the article provided, then the citation in the text requires only the page number at the end of a quote or use the author’s name in the text with page number after quote. For example: McCabe suggests that "---" (p. x). or The author believes that, "---" (p. x).
What is a critical review?A critical review of a journal article is an evaluation of an article's strengths, weaknesses and validity. Although there needs to be an overview of the article, which ought to take about one paragraph, the paper ought not to be a review of what the article is explaining or discussing. A critical review is used to inform readers of an article's value through explanation, interpretation and analysis.
Due: February 19, 2011(Saturday)
3. Group Presentations:
Working in partnership with 3 or 4 colleagues, each group is required to be participating in a group presentation on a topic that has been discussed with the instructor. Members of the group should consider themselves seminar leaders, there to provide leadership, elicit comments and questions, and encourage contributions from the class derived from their previous experience and background reading. Presentations should be as interesting and informative as possible, using media and working examples as appropriate. Plan for a maximum of a one-hour presentation and minimum is 45 minutes.
Other class members are expected to have read about the topic and to participate actively in the seminar.
Documentation of Group Presentation
Prior to a presentation the group should distribute to the class a one page synopsis of your presentation that includes at least three reference citations. Note: The references can include some new references that do not already appear on the course handout. This synopsis can be e-mailed or faxed to your class members and the instructor at least one week before your presentation.
Evaluation of Group Presentation
The presentation represents 30 percent of course requirements. Evaluation will be based on class presentations, including the content, the coordination of efforts among group members, presentation style, degree of audience participation, the pertinence of the selected bibliography, the clarity, organization and analytical aspects of the written outline, and time management. The grade assigned will be a combination of a group mark and individual content. [25% will be divided up as 20% group mark and 5% individual contributions).
DATES for presentations: March 19 and March 26, 2011 and possibly April 02, 2011
5. Final Paper
Logistics:
The final paper ought to have one inch margins on both sides and top and bottom with page numbers either on top or bottom. Unjustified margins, indented paragraphs.Note: ***Absolutely no headings in the text of your paper***, font 10 or 12 acceptable. Cover page and separate reference page (references ought to only have one website--an academic legitimate website-in other words I do not want to see your whole paper referenced from popular web-sites). Paragraphs indented with no large spaces between paragraphs. Paper length is 7 (minimum) to 10 (maximum) or 250/page=1,750 words to 2,500 words. Note: Tables or graphs do not count toward page numbers as they are not written text.
Due Date: March 26, 2011 (Saturday) Absolute Deadline.
READINGSare available at the bookstore.
GRADING
The final mark is based on a one-hundred-point numerical scale converted into the following letter grades:
LetterNumericalGrade Point Name Scale Value
A+ 90-100 4.5exceptional
A 80-89 4.0excellent
B+ 75-79 3.5very good
B 70-74 3.0good
C+ 65-69 2.5satisfactory
C 60-64 2.0adequate
D 50-59 1.0marginal
F 49 and below0failure
Note: If the number is a fraction that reaches .5, for example 79.5 it will rounded off to the next higher number which in this case would be 80 or an A.
Academic dishonesty
Students should acquaint themselves with the University’s policy on plagiarism, cheating, and examination impersonation (see the University of Manitoba General Calendar, 2010-2011 Under Section 7). The common penalty in Arts for plagiarism in a written assignment, test, or examination is F on the paper and F for the course. For the most serious acts of plagiarism, such as the purchase of an essay or cheating on a test or examination, the penalty can also include suspension for a period of up to five years from registration in courses taught in a particular department in Arts or from all courses taught in this Faculty. The Faculty also reserves the right to submit student work that is suspected of being plagiarized to Internet sites designed to detect plagiarism.
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