Indigenous Studies Program

Chair: Keri-Lynn Cheechoo, PhD, kcheechoo@wlu.ca.

Undergraduate Officer: Brenda Murphy, PhD, bmurphy@wlu.ca.

The Indigenous Studies combined major is available at the Brantford Campus.
The minor is available at the Brantford and Waterloo Campuses.

All students in the Indigenous Studies Combined Honours BA program will develop an increased awareness of their own culture and the cultures of Indigenous peoples, both in Canada and globally; they will learn to identify and articulate research questions and approaches that respect and utilize indigenous research paradigms and the common theoretical assumptions of indigenous cultures; and they will develop facility in communicating with and between indigenous and non-native Canadian populations and groups in the execution of their academic or professional duties.

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Course Offerings
Course #TitleCredits
ID100 Indigenous Peoples and Media 0.5
ID120 Introduction to Indigenous Studies 0.5
ID201 Indigenous Perspectives on Globalization 0.5
ID202 The Métis in Canada - Syncretic Worldviews 0.5
ID205 Indigenous Peoples and the Academy 0.5
ID207 Gender and Indigenous Communities 0.5
ID208 Indigenous Play and Games 0.5
ID227 The People of the Longhouse 0.5
ID230 Indigenous Languages of Turtle Island: Worldviews, Knowledges and Oral Traditions 0.5
ID301 Traditional Ecological Knowledge 0.5
ID302 Indigenous Children and Families 0.5
ID303 Indigenous Pedagogy 0.5
ID309 Indigenous Forms of Justice 0.5
ID330 Cultural Teaching through Language: Introduction to Spoken Language 0.5
ID350 Special Topics 0.5
ID360 Indigenous-Settler Relations 0.5
ID375 Indigenous Community Organizing 0.5
ID386 Indigenous Psychology 0.5
ID400 Indigenous Research Methodologies 0.5
ID401 Indigenous Allyship and Kinship 0.5
ID402 Directed Studies – Readings in Indigenous Studies 0.5
ID405 Indigenous Issues and Anthropology 0.5
ID410 Medicine Garden 0.5
ID430 Cultural Teachings Through Language: Intermediate Spoken Language 0.5