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The San Francisco Study Group is sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Asian studies program. It focuses on Asian America and the Pacific Rim and has two main objectives.
The first is to enhance students’ knowledge and understanding of the Asian American experience, with a special emphasis on the unique role that California has played in the exchange of communities and culture from points throughout the Pacific Rim.
The second, more general objective is to enrich students’ understanding of the social processes, such as immigration and globalization, that have historically shaped American society and will continue to transform it in the new millennium.
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Fall Term -- Every other year Santa Fe, New Mexico, and its broad environs offer unparalleled opportunities in the United States for the study of American Indian cultures. The Native Americans of the Southwest have been less absorbed into mainstream culture, more tenacious of their traditions, and more successful in maintaining integrated tribal identity than virtually all other tribes in the country.
At the same time there is a larger proportion of the non-Indian population who cares about Native American culture in the Southwest than in most parts of the United States. Because of its location, its museums and other institutions, its art and literary communities, and its proximity to several Pueblos, Santa Fe is nearly ideal as a locus for Native American Studies.
The Colgate Native American study program in Santa Fe is unique. To the best of our knowledge, there is not another liberal arts college or university in the United States that offers a semester off-campus study program, with a full component of courses, in Native American life and culture. The program has been offered in alternate years since 1991.
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Acknowledgement: Santa Fe photograph courtesy of Philip Greenspun