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American Indian Studies -- MinorAmerican Indian Studies (AIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is an interdisciplinary program with four subject areas: (1) Culture, Identity, Ethics, and Community; (2) Sovereignty, Governance, and Politics; (3) Literature, Language, and Performance; and (4) Colonialism, Decolonization, and Indigeneity. The thinking and intellectual work of Indigenous Peoples is at the center of AIS. Thus, AIS emphasizes tribal peoples' centuries-long fight for sovereignty, including self-government, economic self-determination, and cultural self-representation. The Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will certify that a student has completed the program for the Minor upon recommendation by the Director of AIS. An advisor will approve a student's course program and monitor the student's progress in meeting course requirements. A student’s plan of courses for the minor must be approved by AIS. The minor requires 21 hours of courses selected from each of the following categories. No course may be used to satisfy more that one requirement. Only three courses at the 100-level may be counted toward the minor and 6 hours of 300- or 400-level courses are required. For a checklist (in pdf format) of the AIS minor, please click here. Hours Requirements Foundation Courses: Students must complete all three foundation courses. AIS 101- Intro to Amer Indian Studies Subject Area Courses: Students must complete 12 hours selected from 3 of the 4 subject areas. 1. Culture, Identity, Ethics, and Community Courses in this category examine the philosophical and cultural traditions that form the basis for Indigeneity, with emphasis on the role that kinship and family, identity, and the sacred play in Indigenous survivance. In general, courses in this category will draw on interdisciplinary scholarship from disciplines such as anthropology and critical ethnography, religious studies, critical race theory, philosophy, and sexuality and gender studies. Among the courses that will fulfill requirements for this category are those that focus on spiritual traditions, native religious histories, Indigenous feminisms, race and ethnicity, and philosophical inquiry. AIS 140 - Native Religious Traditions 2. Sovereignty, Governance, and Politics Courses in this category will address Indigenous systems of governance (both before and after contact with colonial powers), the concept of sovereignty in Native communities, and the political struggles that take place both within those communities and in their relations with other groups. Typically these courses will draw on scholarship in anthropology, history, law, and sociology, as well as American Indian Studies. Among the courses that will fulfill requirements in this category are those that focus on federal Indian policy, Indian law, Indigenous politics, and the governance systems and political cultures of groups, regions, and major cultural traditions. HIST 277 - U.S. Native Americans to 1850 3. Literature, Language, and Performance Courses in this category will examine the question of Indigenous aesthetic expressions and the question of American Indian representations. Through a variety of texts (including languages and literatures, visual arts and design, dance and music, exhibitions, and commemorations), Native peoples continue to affirm their right of self-expression -- and reinvent Western traditions -- to assert, in part, their political and human rights over mind, body, and community. These sites of cultural production re-imagine what it means to be "Indian," as they pronounce intellectual sovereignty over cultural practices and traditional territories. Among the courses that will fulfill requirements in this category are those that focus on literatures, films, museums, public space, theatre, dance, and music, and languages and the communities, groups, and regions that use them. AIS 265 - Intro to American Indian Lit 4. Colonialism, Decolonization, and Indigeneity Courses in this category address the trauma and burdens of colonial relations and consider everyday practices and systems of representation that inform anti-colonial principles and praxis. In general, courses in this field discerningly draw from and critically engage with interdisciplinary scholarship in critical race theory and legal studies, cultural studies, gender and women's studies, Indigenous studies, and postcolonial and colonial discourse analysis, emphasizing the ways in which a decolonized interdisciplinarity grounded in relational ways of understanding the world promises to reframe and redirect research throughout the academy. Among the courses that will fulfill requirements for this field are those concerned with activism and social movements, the commodification of identities and social relations, communications and media, economic self-sufficiency and self-determination, ethnicity, peoplehood models and fourth world theory, health and wellbeing, political geography and landscape architecture, popular culture, race relations, and science and ecology. AIS 285 - Indigenous Thinkers Contact American Indian Studies to learn about the minor and other opportunities. |
