American Indian Studies (AIS)Agriculture and Life Sciences
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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.
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- Schedule of Classes - June 15, 2016 6:14PM EDT
- Course Catalog - June 9, 2016 6:15PM EDT
Classes
AIS 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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- MW Fernow Hall G24
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Kassam, K
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- T Warren Hall B02
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Kassam, K
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- W Kennedy Hall 105
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Kassam, K
AIS 2100
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 2108, ARTH 2101
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR Warren Hall B02
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Rickard, J
AIS 2240
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AIS 6240, LING 2248, LING 6248
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Morrill Hall 107
Instructors
Hamilton, M
Murray, S
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Additional Information
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
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- M Caldwell Hall 400
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Hall, L
AIS 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. Combined with: AMST 2660, HIST 2660
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- MWF Mcgraw Hall 165
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Parmenter, J
AIS 3560
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3562, ENGL 3560
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 189
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Cheyfitz, E
AIS 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: AIS 6000
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- W Caldwell Hall 400
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Richardson, T
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Additional Information
Enrollment is limited to: advanced undergraduates or graduate students. Course requirements differ at 4000 and 6000 levels.
AIS 4970
Course Description
Topic and credit hours TBA between faculty member and student. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TBA
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
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 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: AIS 4000
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- W Caldwell Hall 400
Instructors
Richardson, T
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Additional Information
Enrollment is limited to: advanced undergraduates or graduate students. Course requirements differ at 4000 and 6000 levels.
AIS 6240
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AIS 2240, LING 2248, LING 6248
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Morrill Hall 107
Instructors
Hamilton, M
Murray, S
AIS 6670
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 6670, ENGL 6670
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- T Stimson Hall 105
Instructors
Cheyfitz, E
AIS 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
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)