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If you need on-line assistance with registration, please click here. To learn more about the new undergraduate minor in American Indian Studies, click here or contact American Indian Studies. AIS 101: Intro to American Indian Studies This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for a Hist&Philosoph Perspect, and US Minority Culture(s) course. AIS 101: Intro to American Indian Studies Description: This course utilizes literature and history texts, legal documents, and films, both drama and comedy to examine American Indian tribes and indigenous communities throughout the United States. During the semester students will be reading and writing on novels and poems by American Indian authors as well as history and legal texts as a way of understanding and interrogating the politics of race, gender, and cultural genocide as it applies to American Indians. Major themes are land, borders and captivity, identity chosen versus identity imposed, ethnic cleansing 101, and reservations and tribal sovereignty. This course is writing and reading intensive, highly interactive -- meaning it is driven by student inquiry. This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for a Hist&Philosoph Perspect, and US Minority Culture(s) course. AIS 277: US Native Americans to 1850 Description: Survey of the Native American experience in North America from the arrival of Europeans to 1850. Explores the impact of European expansion on Native American communities, the ways in which Native American people adapted to the growing European presence, and the continuities and innovations that distinguished the indigenous world in this era. Focuses primarily on those parts of North America that became part of the United States. This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for a Hist&Philosoph Perspect, and US Minority Culture(s) course. Same as HIST 277. See HIST 277. AIS 291: Independent Study Description: Supervised reading and research in American Indian Studies chosen by the student with instructor approval. May be repeated in the same or subsequent semesters to a maximum of 6 hours. Prerequisite: One course in American Indian Studies and consent of instructor. Department Approval Required AIS 301: Theories and Methods in American Indian Studies Description: This course examines interdisciplinary scholarship used in American Indian and indigenous studies that engage the legacies of colonialism, and offers theories and methodologies that undergraduates can use in their field of study. Through readings, lectures, guest presentations and film, students will develop a working knowledge in American Indian and indigenous theories. AIS 430: Indigenous Governance Description: Indigenous peoples have long and rich traditions of governance and political philosophies that have shaped institutions and informed diplomacies amongst each other and with European nations. This course examines the indigenous governance historically and within contemporary contexts with emphasis on the importance of sovereignty within institutions, education, language revitalization, and cultural resurgence. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite: Any 100 or 200-level American Indian Studies course or consent of instructor. AIS 451: Politics of Children’s Literature Description: Is Little House on the Prairie among your favorite children's books, or perhaps Indian in the Cupboard? What do you recall about the way that American Indians are presented in those or other favorite books from your childhood?
AIS 481: History of American Indian Education Professor: Gilbert Time and Location: 3:00 - 3:50 PM, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, Location TBA Undergraduate CRN: 51850 Graduate CRN: 52150
Description: Students will study various efforts to "civilize" American Indians through US government initiatives and religious churches, as well as educational models developed by tribal entities following passage of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975. Same as EPS 481. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours.
AIS 491: Readings in American Indian Studies Time and Location: Arranged CRN: 48248
Description: Individual guidance in intensive readings in the theories and practices of the field of American Indian Studies. May be repeated in the same or subsequent terms to a maximum of 6 undergraduate hours or 8 graduate hours. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or one course in AIS and consent of instructor.
Department Approval Required
AIS 590: Am Indian Studies Grad Seminar AIS 591: Problems in Indigenous Studies Time and Location: Arranged CRN: 50053
Description: Offers flexible, rigorous, and wide-ranging opportunities for interdisciplinary graduate-level work in Indigenous (including American Indians) Studies; thus, depending on student needs and instructor interests, the course may be negotiated as a directed reading, directed research, supervised fieldwork, supervised teaching, project, or thesis supervision. May be repeated in the same or subsequent semesters to a maximum of 8 hours. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Department Approval Required
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