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Undergraduate Courses

Core Courses

AIS Majors complete all four courses. AIS Minors complete three of the four courses.

AIS 220 - Contemporary American Indian Issues
AIS 248 - Indigenous Knowledge & Worldviews
AIS 323 - American Indian Policy & History
AIS 496T - Indigenous Intellectual Traditions

AIS Department Courses

AIS Majors complete 15 units; AIS Minors complete 3 units from the following:

AIS 160A1 - Many Nations of Native America
AIS 200 - Introduction to American Indian Studies
AIS 220 - Contemporary American Indian Issues
AIS 225 - Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
AIS 248 - Indigenous Knowledge & Worldviews
AIS 295A - American Indian Studies Special Topics
AIS 323 - American Indian Policy & History
AIS 336 - History and Philosophy of the Dine People
AIS 344 - Native Americans in Film
AIS 348A - Educating Native Americans: Historic and Contemporary Perspectives
AIS 395A - American Indian Studies Special Topics
AIS 403 - Globalization and Indigenous People
AIS 415 - American Indians and the Urban Experience
AIS 420A - Indigenous Children's Literature
AIS 426A - Principles of Indigenous Economics
AIS 431A - Traditional Ecological Knowledge
AIS 434 - Tribal Government
AIS 437A - Nation-Building: Issues of Leadership, Institution-Building, Governance, and Culture
AIS 441A - Natural Resource Management in Native Communities
AIS 448 - Producing and Assessing Social Research with Indian Communities
AIS 450 - American Indian Women
AIS 452A - Mixed Media Stories: Stories in Text and Film
AIS 465 - Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs)
AIS 477 - Studies of Native American Literature
AIS 480 - Native American Warfare
AIS 485 - American Indian Gaming
AIS 490 - Indian Religions and Spirituality
AIS 495A - American Indian Studies
AIS 496T - Indigenous Intellectual Traditions
AIS 498H - Honors Tesis

AIS Cross Listed Courses

AIS Majors complete 12 units; AIS Minors complete 6 units from the following:

AIS 344 - Native Americans in Film
AIS 420A - Indigenous Children's Literature
AIS/ANTH 220 - Contemporary American Indian issues
AIS/ANTH 415 - American Indians and the Urban Experience
AIS/ANTH 431A - Traditional Ecological Knowledge
AIS/ANTH 441A - Natural Resource Management in Native Communities
AIS/ENGL/FTVL 452A - Mixed Media Stories: Stories in Text and Film
ANTH/AIS 346 - Migrations and Landscapes of the Ancient Southwest/Clovis to Coronado: Archaeology of the Southwest
ANTH/AIS 347 - Native Peoples of the Southwest
ANTH/AIS 413 - Ethnology of the Southwest
ANTH/AIS 418 - Southwest Land and Society
ANTH/AIS 423 - Anthropology of Rural Mexico
ANTH/AIS 469 - Ethnobotany
EHS/AIS 428 - Indigenous Research and Ethics
ENGL/AIS 248A - Introduction to Folklore
ENGL/AIS 278 - American Indian Literature
ENGL/AIS 279 - Oral Tradition
ENGL/AIS 477 - Studies of Native American Literature
GEOG/AIS 312 - Native American Geography
GEOG/AIS/HED 397C - Native SOAR
LAS/POL/AIS 356 - Indigenous Resistance in Latin America
LAW/AIS 450A - Native American Law & Policy
LING/AIS 204A - Intermediate Diné Language
LING/AIS 204B - Intermediate Diné Language
LING/AIS 210 - American Indian Languages
LING/AIS 399- Intermediate Tohono O'odham Language
LING/AIS 427 - Linguistics for Native American Communities
LING/AIS 499 - Intermediate Tohono O'odham Language
MAS/AIS 405 - Traditional Indian Medicine
MAS/AIS 435 - Mexican Traditional Medicine: An Overview of Indigenous Curing Cultures
RELI/AIS 212 - American Indian Religious Traditions
RELI/AIS 407 - Religion, Spirituality, and the Sacred in Native North America