UNDERGRADUATE MINOR IN AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES
CORNELL UNIVERSITY AMERICAN INDIAN PROGRAM
Revised June 2008
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 (5) courses: AIS 1100 and AIS 1110, plus at least three (3) other courses from the AIS curriculum, for a minimum total of fifteen (15) credit hours. The three additional courses must include one (1) course from Group A (Arts and Humanities) and one (1) course from Group B (Social and Natural Sciences) as listed below. One (1) of the courses offered toward the Minor must be at the 3000 or 4000 level. Only one, three- (3) credit Independent Study (AIS 4970) may be counted toward the Minor. Only Program-listed courses for which the student has earned a letter grade of "C" or better will be counted toward the Minor. Courses taken for S/U credit 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 (for contact information, see the AIP website or call the AIP office at 255-6587).
UNDERGRADUATE MINOR COURSE REQUIREMENTS
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 Introduction to 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
(Group B, Social and Natural Sciences)
AIS 2220 Field Course in Iroquois Archaeology
AIS 2350 Archaeology of North American Indians
AIS 3110 Social Movements
AIS 3330 Ways of Knowing: Indigenous and Local Ecological Knowledge
AIS 3400 Contested Terrain: Hawaii
AIS 3480 Iroquois Archaeology
AIS 4000 Critical Approaches to American Indian Studies
AIS 4350 Indigenous Peoples and Globalization
AIS 4600 Field and Analytical Methods in American Indian Archaeology
AIS 4720 Historical Archaeology of Indigenous Peoples
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.
Click here to view the AIS Minor application.