# Native American Studies (NATAM) courses

Merritt College · 2026-2027 Catalog · 2 courses

Source: https://mc.curriqunet.com/catalog/iq/48441/48769/49120/49121/49717

"Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Fall 2026.

### NATAM 19 — Racism in the United States

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **C-ID:** SJS 110
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Peralta GE Areas 4, 6; Cal-GETC Area 4, 6;

Also offered as AFRAM 19, ASAME 19, and M/LAT 6. Not open for credit to students who have completed or are currently enrolled in AFRAM 19, ASAME 19, or M/LAT 6. Exploration of the development of modern racism in the United States: Economic, socio-cultural, and psychological implications; and resistances to its effects from African-American, Asian-American, Mexican and Latin-American and Native American perspectives.

### NATAM 76E — California Indian Ecology on the Central Coast

- **Units:** 1.5
- **Hours:** 1.5 hours lecture
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Peralta GE Areas 4, 6;

Native American relationships to the California Central Coast: Pre-Indian environment; abundance; Human-environment interactions; adaptations; challenges; environmentally situated lives; ethnoecology of specific tribal groups; beliefs and worldviews; norms and practices; ecological knowledge bases; resource management.