American Indian and Indigenous Studies (AIIS)Agriculture and Life Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2023-2024. Courses of Study 2023-2024 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

AIIS 1100

This course provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the diverse cultures, histories and contemporary situations of the Indigenous peoples of North America. Students will also be introduced to important ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 1600ANTHR 1700

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1008 AIIS 1100   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1009 AIIS 1100   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1010 AIIS 1100   DIS 202

    • W Kennedy Hall 101
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Nadasdy, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  2071 AIIS 1100   DIS 203

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  2522 AIIS 1100   DIS 204

    • W Kennedy Hall 213
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Nadasdy, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AIIS 2240

This course explores the wide variety of languages indigenous to the Americas. There were thousands of languages spoken in the Americas before the arrival of Europeans and hundreds of these languages are ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 6240LING 2248LING 6248

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18263 AIIS 2240   LEC 001

    • MW White Hall 106
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Murray, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AIIS 2350

This introductory course surveys archaeology's contributions to the study of American Indian cultural diversity and change in North America north of Mexico. Lectures and readings will examine topics ranging ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2350ANTHR 2235ARKEO 2235

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17829 AIIS 2350   LEC 001

    • MW Morrill Hall 106
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Jordan, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AIIS 2420

One of the most pressing questions of our time is how we should understand the relationship between nature, or the environment, and culture, or society, and whether these should be viewed as separate domains ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ANTHR 2420BSOC 2420

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17868 AIIS 2420   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17869 AIIS 2420   DIS 201

    • R McGraw Hall B65
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17870 AIIS 2420   DIS 202

    • R McGraw Hall B65
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17871 AIIS 2420   DIS 203

    • R McGraw Hall B65
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17872 AIIS 2420   DIS 204

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 20399 AIIS 2420   DIS 205

    • R McGraw Hall 215
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 20400 AIIS 2420   DIS 206

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AIIS 2600

The production of North American Indigenous literatures began long before European colonization, and persists in a variety of printed, sung, carved, painted, written, spoken, and digital media. From oral ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2600ENGL 2600

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10272 AIIS 2600   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AIIS 3324

An introduction to the language and culture of the Cayuga (Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ) people. Basic language instruction provided in an immersive learning environment, focusing on the relationship of language and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LING 3324LING 6324

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2346 AIIS 3324   SEM 101

    • M Online Meeting
    • Oct 24 - Dec 3, 2023
    • Martin, J

    • M Online Meeting
    • Aug 29 - Oct 22, 2023
    • Martin, J

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid-Online and In Person

AIIS 3330

Based on indigenous and place-based "ways of knowing," this course (1) presents a theoretical and humanistic framework from which to understand generation of ecological knowledge; (2) examines processes ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3330NTRES 3330NTRES 6330

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  9841 AIIS 3330   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    If you are interested in this course but unable to enroll, please complete the wait list request form: https://forms.gle/XbKS8oZS93UP13K69

AIIS 3560

The Western nation-state has failed to solve the two most pressing, indeed catastrophic, global problems: poverty and climate change. This failure is due to the inability of national policy to imagine ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3562ENGL 3560

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10758 AIIS 3560   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AIIS 4300

Indigenous Peoples and De-Colonial Philosophies explores the formulations of de-colonization from multiple intellectual trajectories - namely the Fanonian, Latin American and Settler Colonial ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 6300

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 19194 AIIS 4300   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Enrollment is limited to: advanced undergraduates or graduate students. Course requirements differ at 4000 and 6000 levels.

AIIS 4625

If you haven't read contemporary U.S. American Indian fiction, then it might be fair to ask how much you know about the United States, its origins and its current condition. Since the 1960s, American Indians ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 4627ENGL 4625

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10761 AIIS 4625   SEM 101

    • TR Caldwell Hall 400
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Cheyfitz, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AIIS 4720

This seminar uses archaeology to examine engagements between settlers and indigenous peoples throughout world history. Archaeology provides a perspective on settler-indigenous encounters that both supplements ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17837 AIIS 4720   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AIIS 4970

Topic and credit hours TBA between faculty member and student. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

AIIS 6240

This course explores the wide variety of languages indigenous to the Americas. There were thousands of languages spoken in the Americas before the arrival of Europeans and hundreds of these languages are ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 2240LING 2248LING 6248

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18265 AIIS 6240   LEC 001

    • MW White Hall 106
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Murray, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AIIS 6300

Indigenous Peoples and De-Colonial Philosophies explores the formulations of de-colonization from multiple intellectual trajectories - namely the Fanonian, Latin American and Settler Colonial ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 4300

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 19195 AIIS 6300   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Enrollment is limited to: advanced undergraduates or graduate students. Course requirements differ at 4000 and 6000 levels.

AIIS 6451

The course will focus on the basics of Federal Indian Law, the ever-changing body of case and statutory law and treaties that define the limits and extent of Indian tribal sovereignty in the United States ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LAW 6451

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 12171 AIIS 6451   LEC 001

    • F
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Porter, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AIIS 6970

A student may, with approval of a faculty advisor, study a problem or topic not covered in a regular course or may undertake tutorial study of an independent nature in an area of interest in American Indian ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1185 AIIS 6970   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
    • Nadasdy, P

      Richardson, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
    Sign into your faculty section. If your faculty member is not listed, please contact 140 Roberts Hall or the graduate school to add the faculty member.

AIIS 7720

This seminar uses archaeology to examine engagements between settlers and indigenous peoples throughout world history. Archaeology provides a perspective on settler-indigenous encounters that both supplements ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17842 AIIS 7720   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person