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

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025.

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: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 1601

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1011 AIIS 1110   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Richardson, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1012 AIIS 1110   DIS 201

    • M
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Richardson, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1013 AIIS 1110   DIS 202

    • T
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Richardson, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1860 AIIS 1110   DIS 203

    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Richardson, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AIIS 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: AIIS 6240LING 2248LING 6248

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18600 AIIS 2240   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Murray, S

  • Instruction Mode: 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: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2660HIST 2660

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9514 AIIS 2660   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Parmenter, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9515 AIIS 2660   DIS 201

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9516 AIIS 2660   DIS 202

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AIIS 2720

Who lived in the Ithaca area before American settlers and Cornell arrived? Where do these indigenous peoples reside today? This class explores the history and culture of the Gayogoho:no (Cayuga), which ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2729ANTHR 2720ARKEO 2720

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17839 AIIS 2720   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Jordan, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

AIIS 3325

A continuation of LING 3324, with further exploration of Cayuga (Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ) language and culture. Language instruction continues in an immersive learning environment with a focus on plants and growing ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LING 3325LING 6325

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2064 AIIS 3325   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 21 - Feb 2, 2025
    • Martin, J

    • M
    • Feb 3, 2025
    • Martin, J

    • M
    • Feb 4 - Mar 9, 2025
    • Martin, J

    • M
    • Mar 10, 2025
    • Martin, J

    • M
    • Mar 11 - May 4, 2025
    • Martin, J

    • M
    • May 5, 2025
    • Martin, J

  • Instruction Mode: Hybrid-Online and In Person

AIIS 3500

The first half of the course will be devoted to situating Indigenous peoples, of which there are 476,000,000 globally, in an international context, where we will examine the proposition that Indigenous ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 20058 AIIS 3500   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Cheyfitz, E

  • Instruction Mode: 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: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 6000

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1834 AIIS 4000   LEC 001

    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Rickard, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Enrollment limited to: advanced undergraduates or graduate students.

AIIS 4670

In this course, we will read poems of resistance from Indigenous people in Turtle Island (North America), Palestine, and Guåhan (Guam). Our purpose will be to understand how this poetry is both a description ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2344 AIIS 4670   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Cheyfitz, E

  • Instruction Mode: 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

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

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

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1835 AIIS 6000   LEC 001

    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Rickard, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Enrollment limited to: advanced undergraduates or graduate students.

AIIS 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: AIIS 2240LING 2248LING 6248

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18602 AIIS 6240   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Murray, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1014 AIIS 6970   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Rickard, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies