American Indian and Indigenous Studies (AIIS)Agriculture and Life Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2019-2020.

AIIS 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:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 1601

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1013 AIIS 1110   LEC 001

    • MW Fernow Hall G24
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Kassam, K

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  1014 AIIS 1110   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  1015 AIIS 1110   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  3790 AIIS 1110   DIS 203

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AIIS 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:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2660HIST 2660

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3958 AIIS 2660   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  4124 AIIS 2660   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  •  4125 AIIS 2660   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AIIS 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:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3562ENGL 3560

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18512 AIIS 3560   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AIIS 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:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 6000

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3677 AIIS 4000   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    Enrollment is limited to: advanced undergraduates or graduate students. Course requirements differ at 4000 and 6000 levels.

AIIS 4600

This course provides a hands-on introduction to analytical methods in archaeology, focusing on the circa 1688-1715 Onöndowa'ga:' (Seneca) White Springs site, located near Geneva, New York. White Springs ... view course details

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Syllabi:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one laboratory. Combined with: ANTHR 4260ARKEO 4260

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17171 AIIS 4600   SEM 101

    • TR McGraw Hall B65
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Jordan, K

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 17173 AIIS 4600   LAB 401

    • T McGraw Hall B65
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Jordan, K

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

  • 17174 AIIS 4600   LAB 402

    • R McGraw Hall B65
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Jordan, K

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AIIS 4625

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:
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 4627ENGL 4625

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18576 AIIS 4625   SEM 101

    • TR Caldwell Hall 400
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Cheyfitz, E

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AIIS 4720

This seminar uses archaeology to examine engagements between settlers and indigenous peoples throughout world history. Archaeology provides a perspective on settler-indigenous encounters that both supplements ... view course details

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  • 17943 AIIS 4720   SEM 101

    • MW McGraw Hall 215
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Dedrick, M

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person

AIIS 4970

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

  •  1018 AIIS 4970   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Cheyfitz, E

      Jordan, K

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    Students must register using the special study form available online: https://dust.cals.cornell.edu/IndStudyPolicy.aspx.Do not sign into section 601.

AIIS 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: AIIS 4000

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3678 AIIS 6000   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    Enrollment is limited to: advanced undergraduates or graduate students. Course requirements differ at 4000 and 6000 levels.

AIIS 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

  •  1019 AIIS 6970   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Rickard, J

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person
    Sign up under faculty member's section with prior faculty approval. If you do not see your faculty member listed, contact 140 Roberts Hall.

AIIS 7720

This seminar uses archaeology to examine engagements between settlers and indigenous peoples throughout world history. Archaeology provides a perspective on settler-indigenous encounters that both supplements ... view course details

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Syllabi:
  • 17947 AIIS 7720   SEM 101

    • MW McGraw Hall 215
    • Jan 21 - May 5, 2020
    • Dedrick, M

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid - Online & In Person