Need a course? Spring 2026 Indigenous Studies CoursesList
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2026 11:57 am
IDS 301: Introduction to Contemporary & Critical Indigenous Studies – Mondays/Wednesdays/Fridays from 2:00-2:50pm (#22696)
This course is designed to introduce you to the field of contemporary and critical Indigenous Studies and its associated concepts, themes and methods. It will foreground current challenges facing Indigenous peoples and nations by examining their connections to settler colonialism while emphasizing the continuity and contributions of Indigenous knowledge and action.
IDS 314: Indigenous Sustainability – Tuesdays/Thursdays from 11:00am-12:20pm (#23873)
This course focuses on the topics of Indigenous conservation, food sovereignty, and economics while looking in-depth at water and land management, planning, renewable energy development, green building, wellness/healing, and education.
IDS 354/SOC 392: Indigenous & Black Carcerality and Abolition – Tuesdays/Thursdays from 12:30-1:50pm (#22745/#23687)
This course examines the US as a carceral state and necropolitical apparatus marking particular bodies for death and dismemberment (of bodies, of families, of communities). Through the lens of contemporary and historical accounts of policing, it will trace histories of enslavement and land dispossession across time and space to explore mass incarceration, policing, and other forms of state violence.
IDS 436/536: Not Recognized: Struggle for Indigenous Rights, Land, and Acknowledgement – Wednesdays from 4:10-6:50pm (#22701/#23822)
This course examines the situation of those Indigenous communities that live within lands claimed by United States that do not have recognition as tribes from the colonial state. It explores the complicated relationship between race, tribal identity and federal relationship for non-federally recognized tribes, state-recognized tribes, Genízaro, Métis, Louisiana Creoles and other communities, with a focus on racial and tribal identities.
This course is designed to introduce you to the field of contemporary and critical Indigenous Studies and its associated concepts, themes and methods. It will foreground current challenges facing Indigenous peoples and nations by examining their connections to settler colonialism while emphasizing the continuity and contributions of Indigenous knowledge and action.
IDS 314: Indigenous Sustainability – Tuesdays/Thursdays from 11:00am-12:20pm (#23873)
This course focuses on the topics of Indigenous conservation, food sovereignty, and economics while looking in-depth at water and land management, planning, renewable energy development, green building, wellness/healing, and education.
IDS 354/SOC 392: Indigenous & Black Carcerality and Abolition – Tuesdays/Thursdays from 12:30-1:50pm (#22745/#23687)
This course examines the US as a carceral state and necropolitical apparatus marking particular bodies for death and dismemberment (of bodies, of families, of communities). Through the lens of contemporary and historical accounts of policing, it will trace histories of enslavement and land dispossession across time and space to explore mass incarceration, policing, and other forms of state violence.
IDS 436/536: Not Recognized: Struggle for Indigenous Rights, Land, and Acknowledgement – Wednesdays from 4:10-6:50pm (#22701/#23822)
This course examines the situation of those Indigenous communities that live within lands claimed by United States that do not have recognition as tribes from the colonial state. It explores the complicated relationship between race, tribal identity and federal relationship for non-federally recognized tribes, state-recognized tribes, Genízaro, Métis, Louisiana Creoles and other communities, with a focus on racial and tribal identities.