American Studies

Approved Courses for Native American Studies Correlate

*Please note that the list is subject to change and under the discretion of the AMST Director

See the descriptions in the Vassar College Catalogue.

Introductory Courses for Native American Studies (NAS) Correlate Sequence

  • AMST 105—Introduction to Native American Studies
  • ENGL 101—The Art of Reading and Writing (For the following topic only: Sending Smoke Signals: Representations and Realities of Native America) (Same as AMST 101)

Intermediate Courses for Native American Studies (NAS) Correlate

  • AMST 208—Demilitarizing the Pacific (Same as ASIA 208)
  • AMST 222—The Politics of Borders (Same as HIST 222 and LALS 222)
  • AMST 262—Native American Women (Same as WFQS 262)
  • AMST 265—Decolonizing the Exhibition: Critical Approaches to Contemporary Indigenous Art
  • ANTH 213—Indigenous Environmental Activism (Same as ENST 213)
  • ANTH 215—Global Indigenous Film (Same as AMST 215 and MEDS 215)
  • ANTH 216—Language Revitalization (Same as AMST 216 and LALS 216)
  • ANTH 233—Museums, Collections, Ethics (Same as AMST 233)
  • ANTH 236—Native North America (Same as AMST 236)
  • ANTH 240—Cultural Localities (For the following topic only: Atlantic Worlds)
  • ANTH 243—Mesoamerican Worlds (Same as LALS 243)
  • ANTH 250—Language, Culture, and Society For the following topic only: Language, Empire and Nations)
  • ANTH 285—Subaltern Scapes: Goddesses, Mobilities, and Climate Change (Same as ENST 285)
  • ENGL 231—Native American Literature (Same as AMST 231)
  • HISP 229—Postcolonial Latin America (Semester topic needs to be approved by the Director)
  • HIST 274—Early America, 1500-1750
  • LALS 235—Picturing Transnational Indigenous Sovereignty in the Americas (Same as AMST 235)
  • POLI 231—Anishinabemowin: The Politics and Practice of a Native Language
  • POLI 267—Transits of US Empire Transits through US Empire
  • POLI 274—Indigenous Political Thought

Advanced Courses for Native American Studies (NAS) Correlate Sequence

  • AMST 383—Indigenous New York (Same as URBS 383)
  • ANTH 332—Ruins and Haunting Heritage
  • ART 317—Museums in a Time of Change (Same as AMST 317)
  • ENGL 355—Twenty- and Twenty-First Century Poetry (For the following topic only: Contemporary Native American Poets)
  • ENGL 370—Transnational Literature
  • HISP 387—Latin American Seminar (For the following topic only: Caring for the Land: Poetics and Politics of Crisis and Life in Latin America)
  • HIST 366—Transatlantic Encounters: Indigenous Histories of the Gulf South and the Greater Caribbean
  • LALS 352—Indigenous Literatures of the Americas (Same as AMST 352 and ANTH 352)
  • POLI 363—Decolonizing International Relations (Same as ASIA 363)
  • POLI 377—Everyday Indigenous Sovereignty
  • SOCI 321—Feminism, Knowledge, Practice (Same as WFQS 321)

Future Approved Courses

*ENGL/AMST/WFQS 2xx: Indigenous Women’s Decolonial Narratives. M. McGlennen plans to teach this in 2024–2025. It was originally course #286, but will need a new number.

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