Indigenous Studies Minor Concentration (B.A. & Sc.)

Program Description

The Minor Concentration in Indigenous Studies provides students with a broad, interdisciplinary view of key issues in the historical, social and cultural dimensions of Indigenous life in Canada. Core courses offered within the program will provide interdisciplinary treatments of Indigenous life. The Program will focus on the history of indigenous populations in Canada, Aboriginal art and culture, the experience of indigeneity and gender, and legacies of Indigenous resistance to the Canadian state.

Required Courses (6 credits)

• INDG 200 Introduction to Indigenous Studies (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
• INDG 401 Interdisciplinary Seminar in Indigenous Studies (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

Complementary Courses (12 credits)

A maximum of 3 complementary course credits at the 200-level. A maximum of 6 credits from any given discipline with the exception of Indigenous Studies (INDG) courses.

Anthropology

• ANTH 338 Indigenous Studies of Anthropology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
• ANTH 436 North American Native Peoples (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

Canadian Studies

• CANS 306 Topics in Indigenous Public Affairs (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
• CANS 315 Indigenous Art and Culture (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

English

• ENGL 297 Special Topics of Literary Study (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
• ENGL 440 First Nations and Inuit Literature and Media (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies

• GSFS 307 Indigenous Feminisms (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

Geography

• GEOG 301 Geography of Nunavut (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

History

• HIST 202 Survey: Canada to 1867 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
• HIST 223 Indigenous Peoples and Empires (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
• HIST 303 History of Quebec (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
• HIST 333 Indigenous Peoples and French (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
• HIST 361 Topics in Canadian Regional History (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
• HIST 363 Canada 1870-1914 (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
• HIST 408 Selected Topics in Indigenous History (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

Indigenous Studies

• INDG 202 Topics in Indigenous Studies 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
• INDG 300 Topics in Indigenous Studies 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
• INDG 301 Indigenous Contemporary Resistance (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
• INDG 302 Introduction to Kanien’kéha 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
• INDG 303 Introduction to Kanien’kéha 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
• INDG 400 Seminar: Indigenous Studies (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
• INDG 420 Indigenous Food Sovereignty (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
• INDG 450 Rotinonhsón:ni Land-Based Pedagogy (3 credits) · Offered: Summer

Indigenous Languages

• INLG 421 Indigenous Knowledge Organization Systems (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
• INLG 501 Indigenous Language Revitalization (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Interdisciplinary Field Course

• IDFC 500 Indigenous Field Studies (3 credits) · Offered: Summer

Law

• CMPL 500 Indigenous Peoples and the State (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

Linguistics

• LING 211 Introduction to Indigenous Languages (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
• LING 411 Structure of an Indigenous Language (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

Political Science

• POLI 368 Political Theory and Indigeneity (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
• POLI 372 Indigenous Peoples and the Canadian State (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
• POLI 436 Aboriginal Rights in the Canadian Constitution (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

Related programs

• Indigenous Studies Minor Concentration (B.A.)