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Certificate courses

Certificate courses

In the coming weeks, classes that count towards the certificate requirements will be tagged in courses.yale.edu (as NAIS certificate: <area>). For now, however, please see the list of courses below. If you are interested in counting a course that is not in the list, because send the course description (and syllabus, if available) to Profs. Blackhawk and Bowern.

language and culture 

ANTH 2275                          The Green Hell and the Mother Serpent: Amazonian Archaeology, Ethnography, and Politics (Richard Burger)

CHER 1100                           Cherokee I (or any Cherokee class but not more than 1; there are Cherokee courses to L5)

HIST 340J                              Indigenous Oral Expression in the Americas (Polly Lauer)

HSAR 252                              The Mexican Codices: Art and Knowledge

HSAR 843 01                        Evoking Ancestral Memory: Reinterpreting Native American and Indigenous Collections

LING 1070                             Language Endangerment and Revitalization (Edwin Ko)

ER&M 379                             Indigenous Cultures in a Global Context

LING 3500                                  Technology and Indigenous languages (Claire Bowern)

(Linguistics Majors may count LING 3410 Field Methods if the focus language is Indigenous)

literature and arts 

AMST 038 01                        The Native American Renaissance (Lloyd Kevin Sy)

AMST 4481                           The Native American Novel (Lloyd Kevin Sy)

ARCH 325 01/URBN 417   Fugitive Practice: Introducing, Recentering, and Exploring Black and Indigenous Design Methods

ART 596 01                           Alternative Nation (Matthew Keegan)

ART 598 01                           Alternative Cloth Processes (Sarah Zapata)

BRST 316 00                         Indigenous London: Native American Literature in Place

ENGL 038 01                         The Native American Renaissance (Lloyd Kevin Sy)

ER&M 3046 / ENGL 2846   Critical Reading Methods in Indigenous Literatures (Tarren Andrews)

ER&M 4020                          Indigenous Thought and Anticolonial Theory (Tarren Andrews)

ER&M 4021                                Indigenous Women and the Law in the Anglophone Empire (Tarren Andrews)

ENGL 396/AMST 416          Region, Indigeneity, and American Literary Realism (Lloyd Kevin Sy)

ER&M 265                             Performing Indigenous Creativities (Ameera NimjeeIan MacMillen)

HIST 197J                              Museums: Power and Politics (Elaine Ayers)

HSAR 392                              Indigenous Feather Art (Allison Caplan)

LAST 3230/HSAR 3230      Illustrating Andean History: The Work of Guaman Poma

environment and politics 

ARCH 3075                           A Land Reparations Network (Keller Easterling)

CSBK 330 01                         Northern Power: Resource Extraction vs. Indigenous Sovereignty (Stephen Longmire)

ENGL 1014                            Writing Seminars: Black and Indigenous Ecologies (Rasheed Tazudeen)

LAST 349                               Indigenous Movements and Resistance in Mexico (Lorena Ojeda-Davila)

AFST 389                               Comparative settler geographies

AMST 2258                           Wilderness in the North American Imagination: What Was the Wild?

HSAR 447                              The American West: Art, Land, Politics

AMST 335                             Indigenous Geographies (Laura Barraclough)

ER&M 304                             Indigenous Politics Today (Hiʻilei Hobart)

ER&M 3016                          Indigenous Food Sovereignty (Hiʻilei Hobart)

ER&M 373                             Race and Indigeneity in the Pacific (Hiʻilei Hobart)

history, society, and law

AMST 7741                           Indians and Empires (Ned Blackhawk)

CSTS 2300                            Indigenous refusal and the limits of colonial politics (Ian MacMillen) 

ENV 772                                Indigenous Self-Government in the U.S. Constitutional Order (Gerald Torres)

REL 730 01                            Native Americans and Christianity (Tisa Wenger)

HIST 107                               Introduction to American Indian History (Ned Blackhawk)

HIST 158                               American Indian Law and Policy (Ned Blackhawk)

HIST 151J                             Writing Tribal Histories (Ned Blackhawk)

HIST 3130/ER&M3570      Indians and the Spanish Borderlands (Ned Blackhawk)

HIST 754                                     Indigenous Activism in North America (Ned Blackhawk)

science and education 

AMST 447 01                        Contemporary Native American K-12 and Postsecondary Educational Policy (Matthew Makomenaw)

ANTH 4590               Health of Indigenous Peoples (Claudia Valeggia)

PSYC 3712 / ER&M 3013    Native American Mental Health (Mark Beitel/ Christopher Cutter)

HIST 017                                     American Indians in Higher Education: Introduction to the Indigenous History of American Education (Ned Blackhawk)