Native American Studies Minor

This information is part of the Colgate University catalog, 2022-23.

Minor Requirements

The minor in Native American Studies consists of five courses and includes the following requirements:

One of the Following

ANTH 358 - Native American Cultures (L,N)
HIST 356/NAST 356 - Global Indigenous History (L,N)
HIST 358 - Conquest and Colony: Cultural Encounters in the Americas (TR) (L,N)

Electives

Four electives from the following list for Native American Studies. At least one course must be taken in each of the following areas:

North American (N) and Latin American (L) courses

ALST 204 - Performing Bolivian Music
ALST 365/ANTH 365 - Andean Lives (L)
ANTH 228 - Women and Gender in Prehistory (L,N)
ANTH 244 - Who Owns Culture? (L,N)
ANTH 253 - Field Methods and Interpretation in Archaeology (RI) (N)
ANTH 300 - Museum Studies in Native American Cultures (N)
ANTH 355 - Ancient Aztec Civilization (L)
ANTH 356 - Ethical Issues in Native American Archaeology (N)
ANTH 358 - Native American Cultures (N)
ANTH 359 - Archaeology and Ethnology of Southwestern Indians (Study Group) (N)
CORE 150C - Native Peoples of the Great Plains (N)
CORE 159C - Maya (L)
CORE 176C - North American Indians (N)
CORE C188/188C - Haudenosaunee (N)
CORE 192C - Native Americans in the Southwest (N)
ENGL 204 - Native American Writers (N)
ENGL 336 - Native American Literature (N)
HIST 223 - The American West (US) (N)
HIST 224 - Introduction to Environmental History (TR) (L,N)
HIST 243/NAST 243 - Native American History (N)
HIST 356/NAST 356 - Global Indigenous History (L,N)
HIST 358 - Conquest and Colony: Cultural Encounters in the Americas (TR) (L,N)
HIST 360/NAST 360 - Borderlands of North America (N)
NAST 291 - Independent Study
NAST 300 - Continuity in Pueblo Communities (N)
NAST 301 - Native American Women (N)
NAST 302 - Contemporary Issues in the Native American Southwest (Study Group) and NAST 302L (N)
NAST 303 - Service Learning in the Native American Southwest (Study Group) (N)
NAST 304 - Contemporary Issues in Native American Studies (N)
NAST 391 - Independent Study
NAST 491 - Independent Study
RELG 288 - American Indian Religions (N)

Additional Electives (with permission)

With prior permission of the director of Native American Studies, the following courses may also be counted among the North and Latin American electives when they have appropriate course content or a research paper is undertaken in one of these areas:

ANTH 102 - Culture, Diversity, and Inequality (L,N)
ANTH 103 - Introduction to Archaeology (L)
ANTH 205 - Archaeology of Warfare (L)
ANTH 341 - Archaeology of Death & Burial (L,N)
ANTH 361 - Ancient Environments and Human Legacies (L)
CORE 171C - Mexico (L)
CORE 177C - Peru (L)
CORE C193/193C - Brazil (L)
CORE 199C - Bolivia (L)
HIST 209 - The Atlantic World, 1492 - 1800 (LAC) (L,N)
HIST 231 - Resistance and Revolt in Latin America (LAC) (L)
SPAN 468 - Visions and Re-visions of the Spanish Conquest: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (L)

Native American Studies Program

For more information about the department, including Faculty, transfer credit, awards, etc., please visit the Native American Studies program catalogue page.