美洲印第安人研究文学学士学位（AIS）旨在挑战学生批判性地思考过去和现在的美洲印第安人生活与他们自己之间的异同。课程的重点放在双重性上，将部落社区的关注与严谨的学术联系起来，使我们的教师可以利用他们的专业知识和对教学的热情，从而提高学生的文化能力，并为他们达到较高的期望做好准备。美洲印第安人研究部的教育使命和目标对加利福尼亚和美国的原住民负有特殊责任。加州是大学和系所赖以生存的土地，科罗拉多州立大学是美国教育系统中的公共机构。因此，该计划和课程的重要方面集中于加利福尼亚州的原住民，美国本土政治和北美印第安
The Bachelor of Arts in American Indian Studies (AIS) is designed to challenge students to think critically about the differences and similarities between American Indians' lives of the past and present and their own. The emphasis in the curriculum placed on duality links the concerns of tribal communities with academic rigor, enabling our faculty to harness their expertise and passion for teaching in ways that lead to greater student cultural competence and prepares them to meet high expectations. The Department of American Indian Studies educational mission and objectives have a special responsibility to Native peoples of California and the United States. California is the land on which the University and department rest, CSU is a public institution in the United States education system. Therefore, significant aspects of the program and curriculum focus on Natives of California, US-Native politics, and North American Indian cultures with the aim of preparing students to work with Native groups and urban communities in California and the United States. The program also includes an international, comparative perspective and coalitional politics with Native peoples of U.S. occupied territories and more broadly within the Americas and the Pacific. It balances classroom education with an active community participatory learning component. Therefore, it best prepares students for going on to do graduate work or a number of different careers with Native peoples in not only California but internationally.