Courses
We offer graduate-level courses each fall and spring semester. Students work with their faculty adviser(s) to identify courses that meet curricular requirements and support the desired course of study for each student.
Current and upcoming course offerings can be reviewed in Schedule Builder. To see a full list of all courses offered by the department, including those that may not be offered in an upcoming semester, visit the University of Minnesota Twin Cities Catalog. Browse our graduate courses, which are offered at the 5000 and 8000 levels, using the subject code “AMIN.”
Recent and anticipated topics courses, taught under the AMIN 5960 and AMIN 8910 numbers, include:
- American Colonialism and Indigenous Histories
- Comparative Indigenous Feminisms
- Comparative Indigeneities of the Americas
- Comparative Indigenous Education Research and Learning
- Decolonizing Archives
- Displacement and Diaspora in the Americas
- Embodied Indigenous Practice and Critique
- Federal Indian Policy
- Indigenous Economies, Sustainability, and Environmental Protection
- Indigenous Feminisms and Queer Theory
- Indigenous Nations and Sustainable Communities
- Indigenous Oral History
- Indigenous Thought and Ethics
- Law, Sovereignty, and Treaty Rights
- The Politics of Care
- Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Western Natural Resource Management
- Tribal and Indigenous Natural Resource Management
Our department also offers four years of Dakota and Ojibwe language training and supporting coursework. Most of these courses are offered at the 4xxx (undergraduate) level. UMN graduate students should check their degree program requirements about use of 4xxx level courses toward degree requirements.