American Indian Studies (AIS)Agriculture and Life Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.

AIS 1110

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

  •  1020 AIS 1110   LEC 001

  •  1021 AIS 1110   DIS 201

  •  1022 AIS 1110   DIS 202

AIS 2100

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 2108ARTH 2101

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  4109 AIS 2100   LEC 001

AIS 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: AIS 6240LING 2248LING 6248

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4111 AIS 2240   LEC 001

  • If you are unable to enroll because this class is full, please add yourself to the waitlist and attend the first day of class to see if space becomes available.

AIS 2400

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

  •  3980 AIS 2400   LEC 001

AIS 2660

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 2660HIST 2660

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  3345 AIS 2660   LEC 001

AIS 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

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16082 AIS 3560   SEM 101

AIS 4000

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: AIS 6000

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18384 AIS 4000   LEC 001

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

AIS 4970

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

  •  1267 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.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4331 AIS 4970   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Nadasdy, P

AIS 6000

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: AIS 4000

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18385 AIS 6000   LEC 001

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

AIS 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: AIS 2240LING 2248LING 6248

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4112 AIS 6240   LEC 001

AIS 6670

This course analyzes the historical development of U.S. federal Indian law and its relation to American Indian literatures as a critical commentary on that law. As such, the course is generative for an ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 6670ENGL 6670

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16062 AIS 6670   SEM 101

AIS 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

  •  1268 AIS 6970   IND 601

    • 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.