CANYONS OFFERS COURSE ON SOUTHWEST.Byline: Daily News VALENCIA - College of the Canyons College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. According to the National Junior College Research Association, College of the Canyons consistently ranks in the top 50 community colleges in the nation. is offering a spring semester anthropology class that looks at the first settlers of the Southwest in a class called ``Indians of the Southwestern United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. .'' The course will focus on the culture and history of the Southwest and the environmental adaptations, archaeology, history and ethnography of the American Indian American Indian or Native American or Amerindian or indigenous American Any member of the various aboriginal peoples of the Western Hemisphere, with the exception of the Eskimos (Inuit) and the Aleuts. people. Anthropology 215, offered from 7 to 9:50 p.m. Wednesdays beginning Feb. 8 on the Valencia campus, will be taught by Michael Mauer Michael Mauer is an automobile designer. He has worked with Mercedes SLK, SL, A class and Smart. He became head of the design department at Saab in April 2000. He came in too late to have any major impact on the design of the Saab 9-3, but he worked with the concept cars Saab 9-X , whose work with the Gene Autry and Southwest museums makes him an expert on the Southwest. ``My mother's family were Arizona `pioneers,' arriving in the territory in 1868, pretty early for Anglos. I spent a lot of time in the desert when I was a kid, and have always loved that country, its history and its people,'' Mauer said. ``I find that the more I learn about the Southwest, the less I know, and the more interesting it becomes.'' Mauer remains involved with the Southwest Museum in its docent-training program, giving lectures and other presentations on American Indians American Indians: see Americas, antiquity and prehistory of the; Natives, Middle American; Natives, North American; Natives, South American. of the Southwest. Topics discussed in the class will include the archaeological background of the Phoenix and Tucson areas and their elaborate irrigation irrigation, in agriculture, artificial watering of the land. Although used chiefly in regions with annual rainfall of less than 20 in. (51 cm), it is also used in wetter areas to grow certain crops, e.g., rice. systems, the prehistoric cities of Chaco Canyon, N.M., and the Pueblo, Navajo and Apache cultures. The class also covers the historical relations of American Indians to the Spanish, Mexican and Anglo cultures and explores the impacts they had on one another. ``What is so great about this class is that it allows students to have an intimate and hands-on experience with Southwestern Indian art and technology - culture and history become tangible,'' Mauer said. The three-unit course is transferable to both the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). and the California State University systems, and meets the diversity requirement for an associate degree at College of the Canyons. For information about this class and how to register, visit the college's Web site at www.canyons.edu or call (661) 259-7800. |
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