Spring 2027

Literatures of Native America

Introduction to oral and written literatures of native North America, examining forms like oratory, autobiography, and contemporary poetry across historical periods and tribal groups.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

Summary

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Past student reviews · Susan Dominguez

Assignments, including full essays, were worth only 3-4 points, meaning small errors like citation mistakes resulted in significant point deductions.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Engage in thoughtful and respectful group discussions revolving not only around course texts, but controversial subjects that lie within.

  • Familiarize and display understanding of community in Indigenous culture(s).

  • Identify and make skillful use of relevant, reliable, and high-quality research sources appropriate to the study of Native and Indigenous literatures.

  • Develop a fledgling idea into a formal paper presenting stages of the process to peers, including brainstorming, drafting, incorporating feedback, and revising.

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2

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Prerequisites

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AMERIND/ENGL 172

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Professors

Spring 2027

No instructors recorded for this selection.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

SUSAN DOMINGUEZ is recorded teaching in Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 420
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 400

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Susan Dominguez

Students found the course material interesting, though experiences with the instructor varied significantly, ranging from supportive to highly critical of her teaching style.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.64 GPA, 82.8% A/AB (n=29 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.77 GPA, 87.2% A/AB (n=39 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.63 GPA, 74.3% A/AB (n=35 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Susan Dominguez

Assignments, including full essays, were worth only 3-4 points, meaning small errors like citation mistakes resulted in significant point deductions.

Past student reviews · Susan Dominguez

Several students found assignment directions unclear and noted that the instructor did not always explain how to improve work that missed her standards.

Topics

  • Oral and written literatures of native North America
  • Literary forms including oratory, sermon, testimony, autobiography, poetry, and novels
  • Community in Indigenous cultures

Skills

  • Using relevant and reliable research sources for Native and Indigenous literatures
  • Developing ideas into formal papers through brainstorming, drafting, and revision
  • Engaging in respectful group discussions on course texts and controversial subjects

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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Selected offering source records
AMERIND/ENGL 172 · Spring 2027

Literatures of Native America

Recorded 2026-10-29
AMERIND/ENGL 172 · Spring 2027

Literatures of Native America

Recorded 2026-10-29
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-29

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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