M & W 3:00- 4:15 BusAd - Department of Political Science

Books may be purchased from Prof. Emeritus Oliver Lee in Saunders 634
M-Th 1-5:00 pm. Books are all available from online booksellers and at Nā Mea
Hawai‘i/Native Books at the Ward Warehouse. Three of the books are on
reserve at Sinclair Library in the Wong AV Center. They can be checked out for
2 hours at a time. If you use this service please page the books by the call
numbers above. No excuses will be accepted for not having books or
failing to do the reading.
Other readings, journal articles and book chapters, will be supplied on
laulima.
Course work
This course combines lectures, small group discussions, whole group
discussions, films, and supplementary field trips. Students are expected to
attend every class session and attendance will be taken. Students are expected
to do the reading for every session in order to participate in discussions.
Field Trips
Several times in the semester, we will have a field trip on a Saturday or Sunday.
If I can secure funding, one of these will be the decolonial tour of O‘ahu, a bus
tour of militarized sites. Others may be to Punchbowl Memorial Cemetery, a kalo
lo‘i, ‘Iolani Palace and one of the sites of the O‘ahu Army Natural Resource
Center, a program to replant native plants on Army-controlled lands.
Weekly quizzes
To encourage students to keep up with the reading, a quiz will be given each
Monday on that weekʼs reading. Unexcused absences on Mondays will thus be
doubly penalized as the grade for the quiz will be F.
Homework
NOTE: This syllabus is subject to change. It is studentsʼ responsibility to
attend class to keep current.