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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2018-2019.
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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 Fernow Hall G24
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Kassam, K
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- T Warren Hall 137
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Staff
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- W Plant Science Building 141
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Staff
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- M Warren Hall 138
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Staff
AIIS 1123
Course Description
The 20th century Haudenosaunee delegations to international fora in Geneva, Switzerland accompanied by the sovereign acts of travelling on the Haudenosaunee-issued passports paved way for the ratification ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR Caldwell Hall 400
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Piasta-Mansfield, U
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
AIIS 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 Caldwell Hall 100
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Rickard, J
AIIS 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: AIIS 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 106
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Murray, S
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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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Uris Hall 202
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Parmenter, J
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- F McGraw Hall 366
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Parmenter, J
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- F McGraw Hall 145
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Parmenter, J
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Parmenter, J
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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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Richardson, T
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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 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
Jordan, K
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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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- 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.
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 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: AIIS 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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Meeting Pattern
- TR Morrill Hall 106
Instructors
Murray, S
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)