AIIS is excited to share our expanded Spring 2024 course list. Any course below will be counted toward the AIIS graduate certificate requirement. Open enrollment begins April 1.
UNDERGRADUATE MINOR
- AIIS 201: Introduction to American Indian and Indigenous Studies (3)
- Instructor: TBA
- Format: In-person
- Meeting times: Tu Thu 1:00PM-2:20PM
- Location: Berkey Hall 211A
- Description: Introduction to the study of American Indian and other Indigenous peoples, including issues related to culture, knowledge, language, governance, colonization, sovereignty, and ongoing revitalization efforts.
- AIIS 490: Independent Study (1-6)
- Description: Special project, directed reading and research arranged by an undergraduate student and a faculty member in areas supplementing regular course offerings. o Restrictions: Contact arola@msu.edu
- AIIS 491: Topics in American Indian and Indigenous Studies: Indigenous Geographies: Navigations of Environmental Ethics, Infrastructural Transformations, and Interspecies Relationalities (3)
- Instructor: Elan Pochedley
- Format: In-person
- Meeting times: Mon Wed 12:40PM-2:00PM
- Location: Berkey Hall 112B
- Description: This course surveys how Indigenous nations and peoples conceptualize their belonging to place and their roles/responsibilities within respective ecosystems. We will address how citizens, knowledge keepers, treaty rights practitioners, and governments of certain Indigenous nations experience(d) environmental changes and ecological transformations. This course provides an introduction to how these peoples and governing bodies have navigated settler colonial governance, imposed alterations to landscapes, changes to their food systems and sustainable economies, and threats to their communities’ health emerging from industrial/infrastructural development and contamination. This course seeks to present the efforts of sovereign Indigenous nations and their citizens as they assert their political and environmental authority throughout their traditional homewaters and homelands, as well as within their contemporary homes.
- AIIS 493: Internship in American Indian and Indigenous Studies (1-3)
- Description: Supervised pre-professional field experience in the arts and humanities working with an American Indian or Indigenous elder, community, government, organization, agency, or business. o Restrictions: Contact arola@msu.edu
- ANP 411: North American Indian Ethnography (3)
- Instructor: Caroline Doenmez
- Format: In-person
- Meeting times: Mon Wed 8:30AM-9:50AM
- Location: Baker Hall 455
- Description: Social and cultural patterns of North American Indian societies. History, economy, politics, social organization, religion, and social change.
- Restrictions: ANP 201 prerequisite
- ANP 432: American Indian Women (3)
- Instructor: Heather Howard
- Format: In-person
- Meeting times: Mon Wed 12:40PM-2:00PM
- Location: Berkey Hall 211A
- Description: Role of women in a variety of North American Indian cultures, both traditional and contemporary, using autobiography, life history, historical biography, ethnography, and fiction. Interaction of Indian women and their cultures with Western European and American cultures.
- Restrictions: ANP 201 prerequisite
- FLM 450: Studies in Ethnic Film (3)
- Instructor: Joshua Yumibe
- Format: In-person
- Meeting times: Tue 12:40PM-3:30PM and Thu 12:40PM-2:30PM
- Location: Bessey Hall 307
- Description: Film traditions and/or film makers studied from the perspective of a particular ethnic group, such as Native American, Chicano/a, Latina/o, Jewish, or other American ethnic groups.
- HA 254: Latin American Art (3)
- Instructor: Laura Smith
- Format: In-person
- Meeting times: Mon Wed 10:20AM-11:40AM
- Location: Kresge Art Center 108
- Description: Latin America’s cultural pluralism and art production beginning in pre-Columbian times and following through to the present. Various functions of art as well as the relationship between objects, artists, and the cultures from which they come.
- IAH 203: Latin America and the World (I) (4)
- Instructor: Lee Penyak
- Format: In-person
- Meeting times: Several sections; see MSU SIS
- Location: Several sections; see MSU SIS
- Description: Major issues in the development of Latin American societies and cultures, presented in global perspective. Influences from indigenous peoples, Europeans, Africans, and others. Organized thematically and historically, through study of written texts, literature, and the arts. Focus on how conquest, subjugation, colonialism, and empire have impacted national development and forms of inequity in Latin America and how reformers have tried to promote human dignity and greater political and economic equality.
GRADUATE CERTIFICATE
- AIIS 890: Independent Study in American Indian and Indigenous Studies (1-6)
- Description: Independent study in American Indian and Indigenous Studies. o Contact arola@msu.edu
- LAW 635G: Global Perspectives on Indigenous Peoples (2)
- Instructor:
- Format: In-person
- Meeting times:
- Location:
- Restrictions: non-law degree students must contact law school in advance
If you find a course not listed that you believe may count toward the minor or certificate, please email arola@msu.edu to discuss options. We wish all of our students a great rest of their semester!
