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AIIS 1110
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

  •  1017 AIIS 1110   LEC 001

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  •  1018 AIIS 1110   DIS 201

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  •  1019 AIIS 1110   DIS 202

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  • 16831 AIIS 1110   DIS 203

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AIIS 4000
Critical Approaches to American Indian and Indigenous Studies: Intellectual History

An interdisciplinary survey of the literature in Native American Studies. Readings engage themes of indigeneity, coloniality, power, and "resistance." The syllabus is formed from some "classic" and canonical ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 6000

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5097 AIIS 4000   LEC 001

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

AIIS 4200
Locke and the Philosophies of Dispossession: Indigenous America's Interruptions and Resistances

This course looks at the philosopher John Locke as a philosopher of dispossession. There is a uniquely Lockean mode of missionization, conception of mind and re-formulations of the 'soul' applied to dispossess ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17799 AIIS 4200   SEM 101

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AIIS 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

  •  1262 AIIS 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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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4114 AIIS 4970   IND 604

    • TBA

    • Nadasdy, P

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AIIS 6000
Critical Approaches to American Indian and Indigenous Studies: Intellectual History

An interdisciplinary survey of the literature in Native American Studies. Readings engage themes of indigeneity, coloniality, power, and "resistance." The syllabus is formed from some "classic" and canonical ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 4000

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5098 AIIS 6000   LEC 001

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

AIIS 6200
Locke and the Philosophies of Dispossession: Indigenous America's Interruptions and Resistances

This course looks at the philosopher John Locke as a philosopher of dispossession. There is a uniquely Lockean mode of missionization, conception of mind and re-formulations of the 'soul' applied to dispossess ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17800 AIIS 6200   SEM 101

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AIIS 6970
Independent Study in American Indian and Indigenous 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

  •  1263 AIIS 6970   IND 601

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    • TBA

    • Richardson, T

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