Minor in Indigenous Studies

This minor is available to students registered in a 120 credit hour Bachelor of Applied Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Community Design, Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Informatics, Bachelor of Management, Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Science (Medical Sciences) program.

Students are required to complete six credit hours of core courses:

• INDG 2050.03/CANA 2050.03/HIST 2205.03: Historical Issues in Indigenous Studies
• INDG 2052.03/CANA 2052.03/SOSA 2052.03: Contemporary Issues in Indigenous Studies

and an additional 12 credit hours of INDG cross-listed or approved coursework:

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

• INDG 2901.03: Mi’kmaw Language for Non-Speakers 1
• INDG 2902.03: Mi’kmaw Language for Non-Speakers 2
• INDG 3001.03: Indigenous Cultures & Urban Space
• INDG 3002.03/CANA 3002.03: Topics in Indigenous Studies
• INDG 3050.03/CANA 3050.03: Indigenous Research Methods
• INDG 3052.03/SOSA 3052.03/CANA 3052.03: Indigenous Social, Health, and Environmental Issues
• INDG 3215.03/HIST 3215.03: Indigenous Textiles in Canada Tourism, Industry, Identity
• INDG 3400.03/CANA 3400.03: Contemporary Indigenous Art
• INDG 3401.03/CANA 3401.03: Indigenous Representation in Film
• INDG 4000.03: Seminar in Indigenous Studies
• INDG 4001.03: Treaty in Contemporary Society
• INDG 4002.03: Land, Territory, & Community
• INDG 4210.03: Museums, Archives & Material Culture
• INDG 4400.03: Indigenous Women & the State
• INDG 4890.03/ENGL 4890.03: Indigenous Graphic Novels
  
  

Faculty of Health

• IPHE 2201.03: Introduction to Aboriginal Peoples’ Health and Healing
• HPRO 3360.03: Multicultural Health Promotion Research and Strategy
• NURS 4330.03: Community-based Participatory Research with Indigenous Populations

Faculty of Management

• MGMT 2805: Indigenous Governance

         Faculty of Science

• BIOL 4003.03: Indigenous Perspectives in Conservation
• BIOL 4004.03: Principles of Indigenous Medicine 

Other Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Courses To Be Included at the Discretion of the Coordinator and Instructor *

• PHIL 2450.03: Democracy, Difference and Citizenship
• SOSA 3190.03: Social Movements
• SOSA 3183.03: Special Topics
• SOSA 3206.03: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Race
• SOSA 4012.03: Issues in Sociology and Social Anthropology
• SOSA 4005.03: Issues in Social Justice and Inequality
• SOSA 4006.03: Issues in Critical Health Studies

[*These courses are offered regularly, but depending on the instructor in any given year, may or may not have sufficient amounts of content relevant to Indigenous Studies to be counted toward the minor.]

Courses at NSCAD, MSVU and SMU can be taken on a letter of permission and counted toward the minor, at the discretion of the coordinator. Such courses may include:  

NSCAD

• AHIS 2505.03: Survey of Indigenous Art               
• AHIS 3460.03: Contemporary Indigenous Art
• AHIS 3463.03: Exhibiting Indigenous Art
• AHIS 4119.03: Indigenous Self/Representation

MSVU

• HIST 3304.03: Gender and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada

SMU

• HIST/SOCI 4570: Indigenous Politics and Settler Colonialism
• SMU ACS 2345: First Nations of the Atlantic Region
• ACST 2849: Introduction to the Mi'kmaq Language

Contact Indigenous Studies for more information.