Séliš and Ql̓ispe Culture and Language Studies Bachelor of Science
Program Description
The overall goal of the CALS Program, is to encourage and support the development and implementation of an academic program(s) that use Sqelixʷ educational practices to vitalize, perpetuate, and pervasively integrate our Séliš and Ql̓ispe cultural arts, worldviews, and languages; and, grow the number of highly skilled cultural artists, knowledge keepers, and/or language speakers. We aim to provide this program to as many students and/or community members as possible, but especially to support and graduate cohorts of three to five focused apprentices beginning the fourth year of program implementation.
Career Opportunities
Successful completers of the Certificate of Completion in Intensive Salish Language may choose to continue their education to earn an Associate of Science in Culture and Language Studies while graduates of the A.S. may continue on to earn a Bachelor of Science in Culture and Language Studies. Graduates will be prepared to work as highly skilled cultural artists, knowledge keepers, and/or language speakers.
Student Learning Outcomes
Throughout each level of the Culture and Language Studies program (C.C., A.S., & B.S.) candidates will demonstrate the following skills, dispositions and knowledge in relation to the principles:
● Establish and apply understandings of Sqelixʷ worldview (appropriate ways of being), values, and spirituality within culture and language settings.
● Strengthen Sqelixʷ identity, as well as personal and community health, through the participatory re-centering of language and culture.
● Demonstrate proficiency in the Sqelixʷ language through listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
● Demonstrate proficiency in the processes of making and usage of material cultural items to ensure cultural perpetuation.
● Infuse Sqelixʷ worldview, values, and research methodologies to meet responsibilities to community through scnqeʔelsts.
● Explore, think critically about, describe, plan and apply culturally sustaining and revitalizing Sqelixʷ education strategies including storytelling, seasonally-appropriate, experiential, place-based, and intergenerational knowledge transfer.
● Identify and think critically about the relationship between Sqelixʷ history, sovereignty, sustainability, and stewardship in relation to Séliš and Ql̓ispe homelands and contemporary places.
● Upon completion of the fourth year of the CALS B.S. program, apprentices will transition from culture and language learners to knowledge keepers who contribute to the community in appropriate, accurate and authentic ways.
Requirements
Students must receive a “C” or better in all required courses while maintaining an overall grade point average of 2.5 to graduate from each degree program.
Curriculum
Second Year - Sč̓ʔey (Fall)
| CALS230 | Integrated Séliš u Ql̓ispe Culture & Language Lab - Sč̓ʔeý I | 4 |
| MATH103 | Contemporary Math | 5 |
| OR | |
| MATH132 | Mathematics for K-8 Teachers I | 5 |
| ENGL202 | English Composition II | 3 |
| NASL334 | Advanced Salish Language - Sč̓ʔeý I | 3 |
| NASL335 | Advanced Salish Immersion Lab - Sč̓ʔeý I | 1 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 16 |
Second Year Winter
| CALS250 | Integrated Séliš u Ql̓ispe Culture & Language Lab - Sʔistč I | 4 |
| NASD149 | Sally Bag Weaving | 3 |
| NASD225 | American Indian Education and Federal Policy | 3 |
| OR | |
| NASD252 | History of Tribal Government on the Flathead Reservation | 3 |
| NASL354 | Advanced Salish Language - Sʔistč I | 3 |
| NASL355 | Advanced Salish Immersion Lab - Sʔistč I | 1 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 14 |
Second Year - Sqepc (Spring)
| CALS270 | Integrated Séliš u Ql̓ispe Culture & Language Lab - Sqepc I | 4 |
| SPCH100 | Basic Communications | 3 |
| NASD176 | Introduction to Traditional Tool Making | 3 |
| NASL374 | Advanced Salish Language - Sqepc I | 3 |
| NASL375 | Advanced Salish Immersion Lab - Sqepc I | 1 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 14 |
Second Year - Sʔanłq (Summer)
| CALS290 | Integrated Séliš u Ql̓ispe Culture & Language Lab - Sʔanłq I | 4 |
| NASL394 | Advanced Salish Language - Sʔanłq I | 3 |
| NASL395 | Advanced Salish Immersion Lab - Sʔanłq I | 1 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 8 |
Third Year - Sč̓ʔey (Fall)
| CALS330 | Integrated Séliš u Ql̓ispe Culture & Language Lab - Sč̓ʔey II | 4 |
| NASD150 | Hide Tanning | 3 |
| NASL338 | Advanced Salish Language - Sč̓ʔeý II | 3 |
| NASL339 | Advanced Salish Immersion Lab - Sč̓ʔeý II | 1 |
| ENGL306 | Writing Research Papers | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 14 |
Third Year - Sʔistč (Winter)
| CALS350 | Integrated Séliš u Ql̓ispe Culture & Language Lab - Sʔistč II | 4 |
| NASD250 | History of Federal Indian Policy | 5 |
| NASD156 | Beading | 3 |
| NASL358 | Advanced Salish Language - Sʔistč II | 3 |
| NASL359 | Advanced Salish Immersion Lab - Sʔistč II | 1 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 16 |
Third Year -Sqepc (Spring)
| CALS370 | Integrated Séliš u Ql̓ispe Culture & Language Lab - Sqepc II | 4 |
| OR | |
| EDUC311 | Cultures, Diversity and Educational Ethics | 3 |
| OR | |
| NLTE339 | Professional Issues and Ethics in Native Language Education Settings | 4 |
| NASD159 | Corn Husk Bag Weaving | 3 |
| NASL378 | Advanced Salish Language - Sqepc II | 3 |
| NASL379 | Advanced Salish Immersion Lab - Sqepc II | 1 |
| SPCH360 | Professional Presentation Skills | 3 |
| OR | |
| GNSD350 | Introduction to Grant Writing | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 17 |
Third Year - Sʔanłq (Summer)
| CALS390 | Integrated Séliš u Ql̓ispe Culture & Language Lab - Sʔanłq II | 4 |
| NASL 398 | Advanced Salish Language - Sʔanłq II | 3 |
| NASL399 | Advanced Salish Immersion Lab - Sʔanłq II | 1 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 8 |
Fourth Year - Sč̓ ʔey (Fall)
| CALS430 | Advanced Applied & Integrated Séliš u Ql̓ispe Culture & Language - Sč̓ʔeý Practicum | 5 |
| CALS439 | Advanced Integrated Séliš u Ql̓ispe Culture & Language - Capstone I | 5 |
| NASD140 | Flathead Reservation Indian Arts | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 13 |
Fourth Year - Sʔistč (Winter)
| CALS450 | Advanced Applied & Integrated Séliš u Ql̓ispe Culture & Language - Sʔistč Practicum | 5 |
| CALS459 | Advanced Integrated Séliš u Ql̓ispe Culture & Language - Capstone II | 5 |
| NASD Cultural Arts Elective | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 13 |
Fourth Year - Sqepc (Spring)
| CALS470 | Advanced Applied & Integrated Séliš u Ql̓ispe Culture & Language - Sqepc Practicum | 5 |
| CALS479 | Advanced Integrated Séliš u Ql̓ispe Culture & Language - Capstone III | 5 |
| NASD Cultural Arts Elective | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 13 |
133 + 102/103 = 235/236 credits - Completion of B.S. in Culture and Language Studies (CALS)