2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Nov 08, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

American Indian and Indigenous Studies Minor

Location(s): Brookings Main Campus


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Program Coordinator/Contact

Jamie Folsom, Assistant Professor of American Indian and Indigenous Studies
School of American and Global Studies
Lincoln Hall 227, Box 2212
605-688-4087

Program Information

The American Indian and Indigenous Studies program prepares critical thinkers for living in an interrelated world with the rigorous engagement of Indigenous intellectual traditions, interdisciplinary theories, methods, and community engagement. The AIIS Minor provides a useful complement to any major by developing a deeper understanding of cultural competency and working across difference. Coursework provides an understanding of American Indian and Indigenous worldviews as lenses to comprehend traditional knowledge and culture.

Course Delivery Format

Program courses are taught on campus, online, and in field-based settings.

Student Learning Outcomes


  • Identify and analyze the trajectory of colonization and decolonization among Indigenous peoples in the North American context.
  • Apply a theory of Indigenous worldview to effectively demonstrate cultural difference among Indigenous peoples and between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.
  • Critically analyze and evaluate contemporary Indigenous issues working across academic disciplines to further the process of decolonization and Indigenization.

Requirements for American Indian and Indigenous Studies Minor: 17-19 Credits


Total Required Credits: 17-19