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

  • ANAS 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)
  • HIST 170—Introduction to Native American History (Same as ANAS 170)

Intermediate Courses for Native American Studies (NAS) Correlate

  • ANAS 208—Demilitarizing the Pacific (Same as ASIA 208)
  • ANAS 222—The Politics of Borders (Same as HIST 222 and LALS 222)
  • ANAS 250—A Sense of Place
  • ANAS 262—Native American Women (Same as WFQS 262)
  • ANAS 265—Decolonizing the Exhibition: Critical Approaches to Contemporary Indigenous Art
  • ANAS 268—Indigenous Legal Traditions and Governance (Same as GEOG 268)
  • ANTH 213—Indigenous Environmental Activism (Same as ENST 213)
  • ANTH 215—Global Indigenous Film (Same as ANAS 215 and MEDS 215)
  • ANTH 216—Language Revitalization (Same as ANAS 216 and LALS 216)
  • ANTH 233—Museums, Collections, Ethics (Same as ANAS 233)
  • ANTH 236—Native North America (Same as ANAS 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)
  • ENGL 231—Native American Literature (Same as ANAS 231)
  • HISP 229—Postcolonial Latin America (Semester topic needs to be approved by the Director)
  • HIST 212—Indigeneity, Race, and Gender in the Native American South
  • HIST 274—Early America, 1500-1750
  • LALS 235—Picturing Transnational Indigenous Sovereignty in the Americas (Same as ANAS 235)
  • LALS 254—Memory and Justice in Latin America and North America (Same as ANAS 254)
  • POLI 231—Anishinabemowin: The Politics and Practice of a Native Language
  • POLI 267—Transits of US Empire Transits through US Empire
  • POLI 271—Native American Visual Sovereignty (Same as ANAS 271)
  • POLI 274—Indigenous Political Thought

Advanced Courses for Native American Studies (NAS) Correlate Sequence

  • ANAS 337—Eels as Teachers: Learning with Earth’s Ancient Residents (Same as ENST 337)
  • ANAS 383—Indigenous New York (Same as URBS 383)
  • ANTH 332—Ruins and Haunting Heritage
  • ART 317—Museums in a Time of Change (Same as ANAS 317)
  • ENGL 355—Contemporary Native American 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—The Indigenous Caribbean
  • LALS 352—Indigenous Literatures of the Americas (Same as ANAS 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)
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