Indigenous Studies   (INDG)

Faculty of Arts and Science

Indigenous Studies 5505

North American Indigenous Intellectual Perspectives and Methods

Credit hours: 3.00

Contact hours per week: 3-0-0

Examination of contemporary critical Indigenous intellectual and theoretical approaches across North America. Topics may include land rights; gender; social, cultural, and political resurgence; linguistics; social justice; processes of decolonization and self-determination as they apply to identity, race, and Indigeneity.

Prerequisite(s):Admission to the M.A. program

Indigenous Studies 5510

Contemporary Global Indigenous Intellectual Perspectives

Credit hours: 3.00

Contact hours per week: 3-0-0

Examination of global Indigenous perspectives and intellectual frameworks. Incorporating texts from international Indigenous scholars. Topics may include the resurgence of Indigenous knowledge (systems) across the world, the complexities of Indigenous epistemologies in a global context, and global Indigenous rights movements.

Prerequisite(s):Admission to the M.A. program