Requirements:
Completion of the certificate requires a total of 15 semester hours of approved graduate level courses. Students are advised to take ASI 634 in their first semester of enrollment.  Students must maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.0 in all CSIGC coursework.

Courses and Focus Areas:
The interdisciplinary certificate is flexible enough to allow students to have a truly interdisciplinary experience or focus in particular areas such as History, Public Policy, Anthropology/Archaeology, and Native American Health.

Concentration for Health Care Professionals:
We are working toward the creation of online courses that would constitute a culturally based health curriculum for professionals in the areas of Indian Health Care Administration; Culture and History; Behavioral Health; and Clinical Care.  This is a need that has been identified by the EBCI (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians) and USET (United Southern and Eastern Tribes).  Currently we have one online course, Issues in Indian Health (first offered summer 2005).  An online course on Native American Tobacco & Substance Use will be offered fall 2006.  Other online courses will continue to be phased in and we hope to have the concentration in place by 2007.

Current Permanent courses

• ASI 594 Topics in Cherokee Studies
• *ASI 634  Methods, Theories, and Critiques in Cherokee Studies
• *ASI 697  Cherokee Studies Research Seminar
• ANTH 531  North American Prehistory
• ANTH 540 Archaeological Field Techniques
• ANTH 541 Archaeological Problems and Analyses
• ANTH 561 Indians of North America
• ANTH 573 Contemporary Cherokee Culture and Society
• ENGL  564 Native American Literature
• HIST  545 Cherokee History

Other topics and relevant courses are offered on a regular basis and can apply to the certificate with the approval of the Director of Cherokee Studies. 

Courses which have been offered for graduate credit in the last two years that might apply towards the certificate include:

• ANTH 517 Southern Appalachian Culture
• ANTH  514 Minority Groups
• ANTH  566 Folklore
• ANTH  593
  Topics:  Cherokee Arts and Crafts
  Topics:  Issues in Indian Health
  Topics:  Archaeology of the Southeast
  Topics:  Native American War and Peacemaking
  Topics:  Cherokee History and Culture Institute
  Topics:   Cherokee Ethnobotany
  Topics:  Wild Foods--Non-Cultigens--World Theory, Local Application
  Topics:  Early Art of the Southeastern Indians (online)
• BIOL   525   Flora of the Southern Appalachians
• PAR   593   
  Topics: Native American Religions
  Topics: Southeastern Native American Religions
• SPED   620 Education in a Diverse Society

For more information please contact:

Jane Eastman
Director of Cherokee Studies
828-227-3841
McKee G14A
Western Carolina University
Cullowhee, NC  28723
jeastman@email.wcu.edu

Carrie McLachlan
Cherokee Studies Coordinator
828-227-2303 
McKee 105 C 
Western Carolina University
Cullowhee, NC  28723
mclachlan@email.wcu.edu