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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025. The Catalog/Courses of Study 2025-2026 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

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AIIS 1100
Indigenous North America

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 1600, ANTHR 1700

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1002 AIIS 1100   LEC 001

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    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Jordan, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1004 AIIS 1100   DIS 201

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    • W
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Jordan, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1376 AIIS 1100   DIS 202

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    • R
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Jordan, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AIIS 2420
Nature-Culture: Ethnographic Approaches to Human Environment Relations

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 2420, BSOC 2420

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6767 AIIS 2420   LEC 001

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    • MW
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Nadasdy, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  6768 AIIS 2420   DIS 201

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    • R
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  6769 AIIS 2420   DIS 202

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    • R
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  6770 AIIS 2420   DIS 203

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    • R
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  6771 AIIS 2420   DIS 204

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    • R
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  7527 AIIS 2420   DIS 205

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    • R
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  7528 AIIS 2420   DIS 206

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    • R
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AIIS 3324
Cayuga Language and Culture

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 3324, LING 6324

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1492 AIIS 3324   SEM 101

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    • F
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid-Online and In Person

AIIS 3330
Ways of Knowing: Indigenous and Place-Based Ecological Knowledge

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 3330, NTRES 3330, NTRES 6330

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  5822 AIIS 3330   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Kassam, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
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AIIS 3560
Thinking from a Different Place: Indigenous Philosophies

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 3562, ENGL 3560

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19992 AIIS 3560   SEM 101

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    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Cheyfitz, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AIIS 4625
Contemporary Native American Fiction

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 4627, ENGL 4625

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19996 AIIS 4625   SEM 101

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    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Cheyfitz, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AIIS 4970
Independent Study

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

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

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 11123 AIIS 6970   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Nadasdy, P

      Richardson, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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