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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

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AIS 1110
Introduction to American Indian Studies II: Indigenous Issues in Global Perspectives

This course attends to the contemporary issues, contexts and experiences of Indigenous peoples. Students will develop a substantive understanding of colonialism and engage in the parallels and differences ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 1601

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1052 AIS 1110   LEC 001

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  •  1053 AIS 1110   DIS 201

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  •  1054 AIS 1110   DIS 202

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  •  4058 AIS 1110   DIS 203

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AIS 2100
Indigenous Ingenuities as Living Networks

This course explores Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) knowledge and its application across the disciplines and through time. In particular, it offers a glimpse into Cornell's local indigenous culture ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2108, ARTH 2101

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 15400 AIS 2100   LEC 001

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AIS 2240
Native American Languages

This course explores the wide variety of languages indigenous to the Americas, in terms of linguistic structure as well as social, historical, and political perspectives. Materials will be approached within ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIS 6240, LING 2248, LING 6248

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15447 AIS 2240   LEC 001

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AIS 2400
Indigenous Women's Experiences

This course examines the multiple histories of colonization and resistance on contemporary indigenous women's lives in the United States. Topics to be discussed include sexual and gendered violence against ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  4802 AIS 2400   LEC 001

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AIS 2600
Introduction to American Indian Literature

Both oral and written, Native literatures of the U.S. comprise a critical commentary on a range of ongoing issues facing the international community: the environment, sustainability, gender, capitalism, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2600, ENGL 2600

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4703 AIS 2600   SEM 101

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AIS 2660
Everything You Know About Indians is Wrong: Unlearning Native American History

One thing many Americans think they know is their Indians: Pocahontas, the First Thanksgiving, fighting cowboys, reservation poverty, and casino riches. Under our very noses, however, Native American history ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2660, HIST 2660

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  3906 AIS 2660   LEC 001

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AIS 3400
Contested Terrain: Hawaii

This course, offered through Earth and Atmospheric Sciences' program in Hawaii, draws from the fields of history, political science, and sociology to present an historical understanding of contemporary ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: SOC 3420

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  4550 AIS 3400   LEC 065

  • Enrollment limited to: students in Hawaii. Taught in Hawaii.

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

AIS 3422
Culture, Politics, and Environment in the Circumpolar North

This course examines the cultures and histories of the circumpolar North. The primary emphasis is on the North American Arctic and Subarctic with some attention to northern Eurasia for comparative purposes. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 15871 AIS 3422   LEC 001

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AIS 4970
Independent Study

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18017 AIS 4970   IND 604

    • TBA

    • Nadasdy, P

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1304 AIS 4970   IND 601

    • TBA

    • Staff

  • Students from all colleges must submit an Independent Study Form (Available online: http://cals.cornell.edu/academics/registrar/policies/#independent-study). Do not sign into section 601. You will be put in the course after submitting form online.

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AIS 6240
Native American Languages

This course explores the wide variety of languages indigenous to the Americas, in terms of linguistic structure as well as social, historical, and political perspectives. Materials will be approached within ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIS 2240, LING 2248, LING 6248

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15451 AIS 6240   LEC 001

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AIS 6422
Culture, Politics, and Environment in the Circumpolar North

This course examines the cultures and histories of the circumpolar North. The primary emphasis is on the North American Arctic and Subarctic with some attention to northern Eurasia for comparative purposes. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 16231 AIS 6422   LEC 001

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AIS 6970
Independent Study in American Indian Studies

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

  •  1305 AIS 6970   IND 601

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    • TBA

    • Richardson, T

  • Sign up under faculty member's section with prior faculty approval. If you do not see your faculty member listed, contact 140 Roberts Hall.