# Courses

**Source**: https://americanstudies.cornell.edu/courses/WI26
**Parent**: https://americanstudies.cornell.edu/courses

## Courses

### Courses for Winter 2026

Complete Cornell University course descriptions and section times are in the
[Class Roster](https://classes.cornell.edu/browse/roster/WI26/subject/AMST).

#### Courses by semester

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| Course ID | Title |
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| AMST 1600 | Indigenous North America   Details  This course provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the diverse cultures, histories and contemporary situations of the Indigenous peoples of North America. Students will also be introduced to important themes in the post-1492 engagement between Indigenous and settler populations in North America and will consider the various and complex ways in which that history affected - and continues to affect - American Indian peoples and societies. Course materials draw on the humanities, social sciences, and expressive arts.  [Full details for AMST 1600 - Indigenous North America](https://classes.cornell.edu/browse/roster/WI26/class/AMST/1600) |

| AMST 2000 | Introduction to Visual Studies   Details  This course provides an introduction to modes of vision and the historical impact of visual images, visual structures, and visual space on culture, communication, and politics. It examines all aspects of culture that communicate through visual means, including 20th-century visual technologies-photography, cinema, video, etc., and their historical corollaries. The production and consumption of images, objects, and events is studied in diverse cultures. Students develop the critical skills necessary to appreciate how the approaches that define visual studies complicate traditional models of defining and analyzing art objects.  [Full details for AMST 2000 - Introduction to Visual Studies](https://classes.cornell.edu/browse/roster/WI26/class/AMST/2000) |