2025 Cross Regional Course List


ALASKA NATIVE LANGUAGES
ANL F256 CRN:75207 3 credits
Instructor:TBA
Delivery Method: Hybrid Distance & In Person (Chukchi Campus)
Dates: Aug 25, 2025 - Dec 13, 2025 Times: MW 5:30pm-7pm
Overview of languages native to Alaska. Focus on a specific language or language area
(relevant to a regional student body). History, status and factors affecting the future
maintenance of Alaska's languages. Topics include educational policies, lexical development,
language status (including language maintenance and revival issues).
ALASKA NATIVE STUDIES
ANS F202X CRN:75245 3 credits
Instructor: Margie Hastings
Delivery Method: Distance
Dates: Aug 25, 2025 - Dec 13, 2025 Times: TR 5:30pm-7pm
Understanding and application of the cultural principles of 黑料社appNative oral narrative
performances. Topics are arranged by the five broad 黑料社appNative regions and include
lectures on culture, principles of visual arts analysis of oral narratives, musical
expression, and hands-on involvement in 黑料社appNative theatrical arts.
ARCTIC SKILLS
ARSK F147A CRN:75571 2 credits
Instructor:Clay Beck
Delivery Method: In-Person (Chukchi Campus)
Dates: Aug 18, 2025 - Dec 19, 2025 Times: MTWRF 2:35pm-3:30pm
Use of principles, procedures, techniques and equipment to survive extreme Arctic
conditions and assist in safe recovery. Lab required.
CULINARY ARTS & HOSPITALITY
CAH F140 CRN:75913 4 credits
Instructor: Alejandro Vargas
Delivery Method: In-Person (Chukchi Campus)
Dates: Aug 18, 2025 - Dec 19, 2025 Times: MTWRF 9am-10:55am
Students learn concepts of sanitation and safety as related to the food service industry.
Areas addressed include: tools, equipment, knife skills, kitchen safety, food and
plate presentation, food evaluation, basic cooking principles to include moist and
dry heat methods, seasonings, flavorings and aromatics, fats, emulsions, dairy products,
eggs and palate development.
COMPUTER INFO & OFFICE SYSTEMS
CIOS F150 CRN:75572 3 credits
Instructor: Marc Tumaneng
Delivery Method: In-Person (Chukchi Campus)
Dates: Aug 18, 2025 - Dec 19, 2025 Times: MTWRF 12:35pm-1:30pm
Designed to develop computer literacy in the use and understanding of computer systems,
office productivity applications and the Internet. Topics include operating system
fundamentals, file management, word processing and spreadsheet fundamentals and safe,
secure and effective use of Internet technologies.
COMMUNICATION
COM F131X CRN:75154 3 credits
Instructor: Larry Richesin
Delivery Method: Distance
Dates: Aug 26, 2025 - Dec 4, 2025 Times: TR 5:10pm-6:40pm
Presentational speaking skills: individual and group. Includes verbal/nonverbal skills,
critical thinking in selecting and organizing materials, audience analysis and speaking
presentation. Group skills include task and relational interaction, required interdependence,
working across cultural differences, group decision-making and shared logistics of
presentation. Student evaluations are based on nationally normed speaking competencies.
COM F141X CRN:75155 3 credits
Instructor: Larry Richesin
Delivery Method: Distance
Dates: Aug 25, 2025 - Dec 3, 2025 Times: MW 5:10pm-6:40pm
Speaking skills for individual presentation. Includes verbal and nonverbal skills,
critical thinking in selecting and organizing materials, audience analysis, informative
and persuasive speaking, and actual presentations. Student evaluations are based on
nationally normed speaking competencies.
ETHNOBOTANY
EBOT F210 CRN:75262 1 credit
Instructor: Lisa Strecker
Delivery Method: Distance
Dates: Aug 25, 2025 - Dec 13, 2025 Times: W 6pm-7pm
Students will gain the knowledge and skills necessary to make informed and responsible
decisions about the ethical harvesting of plants in 黑料社appand beyond. Based on an
interdisciplinary approach inclusive of Indigenous Knowledge, students will learn
about the cultural and spiritual aspects, and the ecological, economic, and legal
dimensions of wildcrafting.
EBOT F220 CRN:75263 2 credits
Instructor: Lisa Strecker
Delivery Method: Distance
Dates: Aug 25, 2025 - Dec 13, 2025 Times: R 5:30pm-7:30pm
Provides skills and knowledge for conducting research about human鈥損lant relationships;
focuses on interviewing Elders about plant use and introduces to qualitative and quantitative
research methods in ethnobotanical research and documentation of knowledge and practices,
e.g., plant collection, participant observation and data analysis; addresses decolonizing
methodology and Indigenous knowledge revitalization. Cross-listed with ANTH F220.
EBOT F250 CRN:75265 2 credits
Instructor: Lisa Strecker
Delivery Method: Distance
Dates: Aug 25, 2025 - Dec 13, 2025 Times: S 9am-12pm
This is the fall section of a year-round course cycle consisting of two non-sequential
courses that explore the seasonally appropriate cultural uses of plants. Students
will deepen their understanding of human-plant relationships through individual hands-on
projects, which will guide them into further studies in ethnobotany and related disciplines.
Cross-listed with ANTH F254.
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
ENVI F220 CRN:75175 3 credits
Instructor: Chandler Kemp
Delivery Method: Distance
Dates: Sep 23, 2025 - Dec 13, 2025 Times: T 7pm-8pm
Introduction to societal problems and solutions related to its energy use and production.
Problems discussed are mainly related to the extent of sustainability of current energy
practices. Solutions discussed cover both energy efficiency and renewable energy.
HEALTH
HLTH F100 CRN:75573 3 credits
Instructor: Jay Harold Panlilio
Delivery Method: In-Person (Chukchi Campus)
Dates: Aug 18, 2025 - Dec 19, 2025 Times: MTWRF 9am-10:55am
Study of medical terminology, including analysis and origin of word roots, prefixes
and suffixes. Understanding the word components, students will be able to build, spell
and define medical words. Content will be presented by body systems focusing on terms
for anatomy, diagnostic, laboratory and medical specialties. Cross-listed with MA
F100.
HLTH F105 CRN:75574 2 credits
Instructor: Jay Harold Panlilio
Delivery Method: In-Person (Chukchi Campus)
Dates: Aug 18, 2025 - Dec 19, 2025 Times: MTWRF 11am-11:55am
Introduction to health careers and the psychology of patient care. Roles and responsibilities
of different members/functional units of the health care team; information on related
job and educational opportunities; needs and roles of health providers in rural and
urban 黑料社appsettings.
HLTH F107 CRN:75910 9 credits
Instructor: Jay Harold Panlilio
Delivery Method: In-Person (Chukchi Campus)
Dates: Aug 18, 2025 - Dec 19, 2025 Times: MTWRF 12:35pm-3:30pm
Teaches basic nursing skills necessary to assist the nurse as an efficient health
care team member. Includes positive communication skills, along with a strong emphasis
on personal care of residents' physical and emotional needs in a variety of health
care settings. Students are prepared for the National Nurse Aide Examination.
PSYCHOLOGY
PSY F111X CRN:75161 3 credits
Instructor: Larry Richesin
Delivery Method: Distance
Dates: Aug 25, 2025 - Dec 3, 2025 Times: MW 3:30pm-5pm
An introduction to the fundamentals of human behavior and mental processes and how
they are impacted by social, cultural, and biological factors. Covers topics such
as social science research methods, personality, sensation, perception, psychological
disorders, lifespan development, memory, learning, thinking, language, motivation,
emotion, social behavior, and consciousness.
MATHEMATICS
MATH F068 CRN: 75374 4 credits
Instructor: Kelechukwu Alu
Delivery Method: Hybrid Distance & In Person (Kuskokwim Campus)
Dates: Aug 25, 2025 - Dec 13, 2025 Times: MTW 4:30pm-6pm
Arithmetic and introductory algebra. Solve problems related to operations and properties
of real numbers; proportion; percent; evaluation of algebraic expressions; solution
and graphs of linear equations and inequalities; solving systems of linear equations;
exponent rules; operations on polynomials; factoring; fundamental operations with
rational expressions; solutions and applications of quadratic equations.
MATH PLACEMENT
Unless you have previously completed a mathematics or statistics course at UA or another college or university, you must take the ALEKS test to be placed into the correct course in mathematics, statistics, and other quantitative subjects.
Take test here:
alaska.edu/aleks/
RURAL DEVELOPMENT
RD F492P CRN: 75190 1 credit
Instructor: Laura Zimin
Delivery Method: In Person (Bristol Bay Campus)
Dates: Sep 19, 2025 - Sep 21, 2025 Times: FS 1pm-5pm; U 10:30am-1pm
TRIBAL GOVERNANCE
TG F101 CRN:75057 3 credits
Instructor: Kevin Illingworth
Delivery Method: Distance
Dates: Sep 25, 2025 - Dec 6, 2025 Times: TR 11am-1pm
An introduction to the study of tribal government and politics in Alaska, including
tribal legislative and judicial, and administrative responsibilities. Presents key
concepts of federal Indian law, self-determination and self-governance for building
and enhancing tribal governments.
TG F105 CRN:75058 3 credits
Instructor: Laura Zimin
Delivery Method: Distance
Dates: Sep 25, 2025 - Dec 4, 2025 Times: TR 1:30-3:30
Tools and methods for the management and oversight of tribal government programs and
organizations. Student evaluation includes how well the student affects changes in
tribal operations and tribal management.
TG F112 CRN:75064 1 credit
Instructor: Kevin Illingworth
Delivery Method: Distance
Dates: Sep 15, 2025 - Sep 19, 2025 Times: MTWRF 11am-1pm
Introduction to federal Indian law, focusing on the impacts to modern Alaskan tribal
governments. Particular attention will be given to the relationship between federal
Indian law and tribal justice systems in Alaska.
TG F115 CRN:75059 1 credit
Instructor: Michelle Demmert
Delivery Method: Distance
Dates: Oct 8, 2025 - Oct 29, 2025 Times: WF 11am-1pm
Focuses on the administration of tribal courts in 黑料社appand the role of the tribal
court clerk. Key concepts and strategies related to the effective administration and
operation of tribal justice systems in 黑料社appwill be discussed.
TG F120 CRN:75060 3 credits
Instructor: Carrie Stevens
Delivery Method: Distance
Dates: Aug 25, 2025 - Dec 13, 2025 Times: MW 1:30pm-3:30pm
Examination of foundations, principles and goals of tribal natural resources stewardship.
Including the history of tribal stewardship in Alaska, covering state and federal
natural resources laws and management systems. The course will also introduce concepts
and tools in developing tribal natural resources stewardship programs, including successful
contemporary models.
TG F199 CRN:75061 3 credits
Instructor: Kevin Illingworth
Delivery Method: Distance
Dates: Aug 25, 2025 - Dec 13, 2025 Times: Asynchronous
Professional and personal development while working in a rural service organization.
Emphasis on developing the understanding and skills necessary for delivery of rural
services. Course is guided by an academic advisor. Student must be willing and able
to work independently outside the classroom and in the community.
TG F222 CRN:75062 3 credits
Instructor: Carrie Stevens
Delivery Method: Distance
Dates: Sep 24, 2025 - Dec 3, 2025 Times: MW 11am-1pm
Introduction to Tribal Government/Citizen participation in State of 黑料社appfish and
game management as it pertains to promoting traditional ways of life. Review of administration/structure/operations
of fish and game management, including Local Advisory Committees, and/or Board of
Fish/Game. Experiential learning includes development of testimony and/or participation
in state meetings. Offered As Demand Warrants.
TG F299 CRN:75063 3 credits
Instructor: Kevin Illingworth
Delivery Method: Distance
Dates: Aug 25, 2025 - Dec 13, 2025 Times: Asynchronous
Professional and personal development while working in a rural service organization.
Emphasis on developing the understanding and skills necessary for delivery of rural
services. Course is guided by an academic advisor. Student must be willing and able
to work independently outside the classroom and in the community.
TG F425 CRN:75256 3 credits
Instructor: Michelle Demmert
Delivery Method: Distance
Dates: Aug 25, 2025 - Dec 13, 2025 Times: MW 5:10pm-6:40pm
The special relationship between the federal government and Native Americans based
on land transactions and recognition of tribal sovereignty. Federal Indian law and
policy evolving from this relationship. Legal rights and status of 黑料社appNatives.
TG F450 CRN:75261 3 credits
Instructor: Michelle Demmert
Delivery Method: Distance
Dates: Aug 25, 2025 - Dec 13, 2025 Times: TR 5:10pm-6:40pm
Comparative approach to analyzing Indigenous rights and policies in different nation-state
systems. Multiple countries and specific policy developments examined for factors
promoting or limiting self-determination.
WELDING & MATERIALS TECH
WMT F103 CRN:75914 3 credits
Instructor: Charles Keeter
Delivery Method: In-Person (Chukchi Campus)
Dates: Aug 18, 2025 - Dec 19, 2025 Times: MTWRF 1:35pm-3:30pm
Entry-level course that focuses on shop orientation, safety and thermal cutting processes.
This class covers Module 2 and 8 of the AWS SENSE standards. Attendance on the first
two days of class are mandatory.
WRITING
WRTG F111X CRN:75269 3 credits
Instructor: Katherine Kysar
Delivery Method: Distance
Dates: Aug 25, 2025 - Dec 13, 2025 Times: S 10am-12pm
An introduction to writing strategies and processes for reading and responding to
rhetorical situations across a variety of public and academic contexts.
WRTG F211X CRN:75271 3 credits
Instructor: Katherine Kysar
Delivery Method: Distance
Dates: Aug 25, 2025 - Dec 13, 2025 Times: S 8am-10am
An introduction to what writing is and does and how people learn to do it in the humanities,
with a focus on the disciplinary questions, methods and reasoning that shape the genres
and writing practices in the field.
WRITING PLACEMENT
Placement test may be necessary for students to enroll in writing courses.
Take test here:
uaf.edready.org
驰鲍笔鈥橧碍
YUP F101X CRN:75104 5 credits
Instructor: Sally Samson
Delivery Method: Distance
Dates: Aug 25, 2025 - Dec 13, 2025 Times: MTWR 4:15pm-5:30pm
Introduction to Central Yup'ik, the language of the Yukon and Kuskokwim deltas and
Bristol Bay. Open to both speakers and nonspeakers. For speakers the course provides
literacy and grammatical analysis. For others, it provides a framework for learning
to speak, read and write the language. Consideration given to dialect differences.
YUP F130 CRN:75105 3 credits
Instructor: Sally Samson
Delivery Method: Distance
Dates: Aug 25, 2025 - Dec 13, 2025 Times: MW 5:45pm-7:15pm
Literacy and grammatical analysis of Central Yup'ik language for language learners.
Students will learn basic grammatical concepts and literacy skills, with consideration
given to dialect differences.
YUP F240 CRN:75106 3 credits
Instructor: Sally Samson
Delivery Method: Distance
Dates: Aug 25, 2025 - Dec 13, 2025 Times: TR 5:45pm-7:15pm
Emphasis on reading and writing Yup'ik for practical purposes (posters, brochures,
pamphlets, newsletters, signs) and continued language learning (short stories, descriptions
and narratives).