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Course descriptions provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.
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- Schedule of Classes - June 21, 2024 12:50PM EDT
- Course Catalog - June 6, 2024 12:59PM EDT
Classes
AIIS 1110
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 1601
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Kassam, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Kassam, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Kassam, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
AIIS 2660
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2660, HIST 2660
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Parmenter, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
AIIS 3248
Course Description
This course provides a long-term overview of the indigenous peoples of Cornell's home region and their neighbors from an archaeological perspective. Cornell students live and work in the traditional territory ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AIIS 6248, AMST 3248, AMST 6248, ANTHR 3248, ANTHR 6248, ARKEO 3248, ARKEO 6248
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
AIIS 3325
Course Description
A continuation of LING 3324, with further exploration of Cayuga (Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ) language and culture. Language instruction continues in an immersive learning environment with a focus on plants and growing ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LING 3325
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Online Meeting
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Martin, J
- M
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Martin, J
- M Online Meeting
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Martin, J
- M
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Martin, J
- M Online Meeting
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Martin, J
- M
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Martin, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Hybrid-Online and In Person
AIIS 3422
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AIIS 6422, ANTHR 3422, ANTHR 6422
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
AIIS 4000
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AIIS 6000
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
AIIS 4670
Course Description
In this course, we will read poems of resistance from Indigenous people in Turtle Island (North America), Palestine, and Guåhan (Guam). Our purpose will be to understand how this poetry is both a description ... view course details
AIIS 4970
Course Description
Topic and credit hours TBA between faculty member and student. view course details
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Cheyfitz, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
Students from all Colleges must submit a CALS Special Studies Form (https://cals.cornell.edu/undergraduate-students/student-services/academic-resources/special-studies-academic-policies-and-petitions-and-forms/undergraduate-special-studies-enrollment-non-structured-credit). Upon approval, students are responsible for enrolling themselves with a permission number.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Richardson, T
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
Students from all Colleges must submit a CALS Special Studies Form (https://cals.cornell.edu/undergraduate-students/student-services/academic-resources/special-studies-academic-policies-and-petitions-and-forms/undergraduate-special-studies-enrollment-non-structured-credit). Upon approval, students are responsible for enrolling themselves with a permission number.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Jordan, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
Students from all Colleges must submit a CALS Special Studies Form (https://cals.cornell.edu/undergraduate-students/student-services/academic-resources/special-studies-academic-policies-and-petitions-and-forms/undergraduate-special-studies-enrollment-non-structured-credit). Upon approval, students are responsible for enrolling themselves with a permission number.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
Students from all Colleges must submit a CALS Special Studies Form (https://cals.cornell.edu/undergraduate-students/student-services/academic-resources/special-studies-academic-policies-and-petitions-and-forms/undergraduate-special-studies-enrollment-non-structured-credit). Upon approval, students are responsible for enrolling themselves with a permission number.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
AIIS 6000
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AIIS 4000
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
AIIS 6248
Course Description
This course provides a long-term overview of the indigenous peoples of Cornell's home region and their neighbors from an archaeological perspective. Cornell students live and work in the traditional territory ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AIIS 3248, AMST 3248, AMST 6248, ANTHR 3248, ANTHR 6248, ARKEO 3248, ARKEO 6248
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
AIIS 6422
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AIIS 3422, ANTHR 3422, ANTHR 6422
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
AIIS 6970
Course Description
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
