(Revised August 11, 2011)
The American Indian Program offers a Minor in American Indian Studies to undergraduate students in any college at Cornell. The Minor is earned upon the completion of five courses, to equal a minimum of fifteen credit hours:
1. AIS 1100: Introduction to American Indian Studies I: Indigenous North America to 1890
2. AIS 1110: Introduction to American Indian Studies II: Contemporary Issues in Indigenous North America
3. Group A: Arts and Humanities
4. Group B: Social and Natural Sciences
5. Elective from the AIS curriculum
- One elective must be at the 3000 or 4000 level
- Only one, 3-credit Independent Study (AIS 4970) may be counted
- Student must earn a letter grade of a "C" or better to qualify
- Courses taken for S/U and First-Year Writing Seminars do not count toward the Minor
Students seeking to Minor in American Indian Studies should contact the AIP Associate Director for Academic Development by emailing Dr. Troy Richardson at tar37@cornell.edu.
Required Courses
AIS 1100 Introduction to American Indian Studies I: Indigenous North America to 1890
AIS 1110 Introduction to American Indian Studies II: Contemporary Issues in Indigenous North America
Electives
Group A: Arts and Humanities
AIS 2360 Native Peoples of the Northeast
AIS 2390 Seminar in Iroquois History
AIS 2600 Introduction to Native American Literature
AIS 2660 Everything you know about Indians is wrong: Unlearning Native American History
AIS 3860 Contemporary American Indian Fiction of the United States
AIS 4305 Native American Philosophies
AIS 4860 American Indian Women's Literature
AIS 4900 New World Encounters, 1500-1800
ARTH 2755 Art of the Americas
ARTH 4771 Indigenous Art, Film, and New Media
ARTH 4772 Indigenous Art & Globalization
ARTH 4750 The Museum & the Other
HIST 1950 Colonial Latin America
Group B: Social and Natural Sciences
AIS 2220 Field Course in Iroquois Archaeology
AIS 2350 Archaeology of North American Indians
AIS 2440 Indigenous Womens' Experiences
AIS 3110 Social Movements
AIS 3330 Ways of Knowing: Indigenous and Local Ecological Knowledge
AIS 3400 Contested Terrain: Hawaii (via EAS Hawaii Program)
AIS 3422 Culture, Politics, and Environment in the Circumpolar North
AIS 3480 Iroquois Archaeology
AIS 4000 Critical Approaches to American Indian Studies
AIS 4600 Field and Analytical Methods in American Indian Archaeology
AIS 4720 Historical Archaeology of Indigenous Peoples
ASRC 3604 U.S. Education, Oppression, Resistance
A number of older courses no longer offered by AIP DO count towards the minor, as do courses with the same title that were numbered using the old three-digit system. Please contact the Associate Director for Academic Development to see if a course you have taken applies.