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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2017-2018.
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- Schedule of Classes - June 18, 2018 7:14PM EDT
- Course Catalog - June 14, 2018 7:15PM 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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- MW Caldwell Hall 100
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Richardson, T
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- T Warren Hall 173
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Staff
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- W Bradfield Hall 105
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Staff
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- M Plant Science Building G37
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Staff
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. 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
Instructors
Parmenter, J
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
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Morrill Hall 111
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Jordan, K
AIIS 3330
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3330, NTRES 3330, NTRES 6330
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR Fernow Hall G24
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Kassam, K
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
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR Morrill Hall 107
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Nadasdy, P
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
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- W Caldwell Hall 400
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Uran, C
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Additional Information
Enrollment is limited to: advanced undergraduates or graduate students. Course requirements differ at 4000 and 6000 levels.
AIIS 4200
Course Description
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
AIIS 4670
Course Description
What techniques, tools, and contexts are needed to perform reasonably well-informed readings and interpretations of Native American poetry? If a poem illuminates an injustice, what historical context do ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4670, ENGL 4670
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G19
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Warrior, C
AIIS 4900
Course Description
The discovery of the Americas, wrote Francisco Lopez de Gomara in 1552, was "the greatest event since the creation of the world, excepting the Incarnation and Death of Him who created." Five centuries ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4900, HIST 4900, HIST 6900
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- M Goldwin Smith Hall G20
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Parmenter, J
AIIS 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
Cheyfitz, E
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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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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
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- W Caldwell Hall 400
Instructors
Uran, C
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Additional Information
Enrollment is limited to: advanced undergraduates or graduate students. Course requirements differ at 4000 and 6000 levels.
AIIS 6200
Course Description
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
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
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Morrill Hall 111
Instructors
Jordan, K
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
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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- TR Morrill Hall 107
Instructors
Nadasdy, P
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
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)