American Indian Studies Minor at Newark!

The interdisciplinary undergraduate minor 

in American Indian Studies 

is now available at Ohio State-Newark.

"American Indian Studies is an interdisciplinary field of study that focuses on the histories, experiences, languages, arts, and cultures of peoples indigenous to the lands that now comprise the United States of America.  It seeks to broaden students’ understandings of the diversity and complexity of American Indian identities, communities, and nations; to make connections between Native peoples and cultures in the U.S. and Indigenous peoples and cultures across the Americas and around the globe; to provide comparative and intersectional approaches to issues of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and citizenship; and to encourage linking educational and research initiatives to community and political concerns.

Program requirements for the American Indian Studies minor are fully detailed in the College of Arts and Science's official AIS Minor Description sheet.  The program requires 12 credit hours of coursework. Students must choose a minimum of four courses, from at least two different academic units.  Three courses (9 credit hours) must be taken in American Indian Studies.  The remaining elective course (3 credit hours) should be taken in either global Indigenous studies or comparative U.S. race/ethnicity studies. The elective course in global Indigenous or comparative U.S. race/ethnicity studies will be approved by the coordinating adviser in consultation with the student on a case-by-case basis.

Students may include up to three credit hours of variable credit courses in independent research/fieldwork or internship experience in either AIS or global Indigenous or comparative US race/ethnicity with the approval of the AIS coordinating adviser."

For more information about the American Indian Studies Minor, visit their webpage here.

The American Indian Studies Minor Form can be accessed here.

For more information about Newark's American Indian Studies Minor, contact Professor Lucy Murphy (murphy.500@osu.edu), History Department. She serves as the official adviser for students minoring in AIS on the Newark campus.