Academic Calendar 2024-2025

Indigenous Knowledges and Perspectives – Minor (Arts)

INDG-Y

Subject: Administered by the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures.
Plan: Consists of 30.00 units as described below.
Program: The Plan, in combination with a Major Plan in another subject, and with sufficient electives, will lead to an Honours Bachelors Degree.

Note: Requirements for this program have been modified. Please consult the 2023-2024 Calendar for the previous requirements.

1. Core
A. Complete 3.00 units from the following:3.00
Introduction to Indigenous Studies
Indigenous Knowledges and Perspectives
B. Complete the following:
DEVS 221Indigenous Studies II - Resistance and Resurgence3.00
2. Option
A. Complete 12.00 units from the following:12.00
INDG at the 200-level or above
INDG_Options at the 200-level or above
B. Complete 12.00 from the following course list:12.00
INDG_Options
Total Units30.00

3. Notes

A. Courses with significant Indigenous content may be approved for inclusion in this degree program with permission of the Indigenous Knowledges and Perspectives Program, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures.

B. Students pursuing a Major in Global Developmental Studies and a Minor in Indigenous Knowledges and Perspectives, please contact the department to discuss course substitutions. 

C. A maximum of 6.00 units from courses offered by other Faculties and Schools may be counted toward the program and/or Plan requirements. This includes courses in BMED, COMM, GLPH, HSCI, LAW, NURS, and courses offered by Smith Engineering.

Indigenous Knowledges and Perspectives Course List

The following list contains courses offered through several Departments. Students are encouraged to consult course outlines and course descriptions for more information. In accordance with Academic Regulation 2.6 (Access to Classes), students do not have enrolment priority in all of these courses. Access to courses at the 300 and 400 level may only be available to students who are completing a Major Plan in the corresponding discipline.

INDG_Options

Options in Indigenous Knowledges and Perspectives
ANSH 101Beginning Anishinaabe Language and Culture I3.00
ANSH 102Beginning Anishinaabe Language and Culture II3.00
ARTH 248Introduction to Indigenous Arts of North America3.00
ARTH 272Latin American Art3.00
ARTH 348Arts of the Artic3.00
ARTH 372Art of Colonial Latin America3.00
ARTH 434Non-Western Art in Western Collections3.00
ARTH 438Studies in Indigenous Arts and Visual Culture of North America3.00
COMM 354Relationships & Reconciliation in Business and Beyond3.00
DEVS 357Global Conflict and Local Peacebuilding3.00
DRAM 303Indigenous Playwrights3.00
ECON 244Economics of Indigenous Communities3.00
ENGL 218Introduction to Indigenous Literatures in Canada3.00
ENGL 287Unsettling Kingston/Ka'tarokwi3.00
ENGL 389Context North America6.00
ENGL 481Topics in Indigenous Literatures I3.00
ENGL 482Topics in Indigenous Literature II3.00
FILM 388Indigenous Film and Media3.00
FREN 350Littérature autochtones comparées en Amérique du Nord3.00
GNDS 212Racism, Colonialism, and Resistance3.00
GNDS 325Indigenous Meanings of Reproduction and Health3.00
GNDS 340Indigenous Women, Feminism, and Resistance3.00
GNDS 432Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Politics3.00
GPHY 351Geographies of Indigenous and Settler Relations3.00
HIST 207Global Indigenous Histories3.00
HIST 217Indigenous Peoples and New France, 1534-18003.00
HIST 442New World Societies3.00
HIST 455The Spanish Inquisition, 1450-1800: Sexuality, Sin, and Spiritual Beliefs6.00
HIST 461Race and Ethnicity in Latin America3.00
HIST 467First Nations of North America3.00
INDG 111Introduction to an Indigenous Language and Culture I3.00
INDG 112Introduction to an Indigenous Language and Culture II3.00
INUK 101Beginning Inuktitut Language and Culture l3.00
INUK 102Beginning Inuktitut Language and Culture ll3.00
LAW 202Aboriginal Law3.00
LING 370Living Language: Resilience and Revitalization in Practice3.00
LLCU 270Contemporary Events and Indigenous Cultural Politics3.00
LLCU 302Unsettling: Indigenous Peoples and Canadian Settler Colonialism3.00
LLCU 370Indigenous Women and Power3.00
LLCU 373Indigenous Stories and Environmental Ethics3.00
MOHK 101Beginning Mohawk Language and Culture l3.00
MOHK 102Beginning Mohawk Language and Culture ll3.00
MOHK 103Oral Mohawk Language - Beginning I (TMT)3.00
MOHK 104Beginning Mohawk Language and Culture II Tyendinaga3.00
MOHK 201Intermediate Mohawk Language and Culture3.00
MOHK 202Oral Mohawk Language3.00
POLS 320Indigenous Politics3.00
RELS 227Indigenous Religious Traditions3.00
RELS 242Objects in Global Indigenous Spirituality3.00
RELS 257Indigenous Sages and Wisdoms3.00
RELS 342Indigeneity and Nature3.00