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ABS Aboriginal Studies Program


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Introduction

Sponsored by University College

The Aboriginal Studies Program focuses on the language, culture, and history of First Nations' people, contributing to our understanding of the interaction between First Nations and Euro-Canadian Society. It is an inter-disciplinary program which is sponsored by University College. Students are encouraged to seek counselling and information about this program from Professor K.D. Rice, Linguistics (416-978-1763).

ABORIGINAL STUDIES PROGRAMS

Major program (B.A.):
(7 full courses or their equivalent, including at least two 300+level courses)
1. ABS 201Y
2. ABS 210Y/220Y
3. ABS 300Y, 301Y
4. Two additional full-course equivalents from Group A below (students are encouraged to include ABS 496H/497H as one of these courses if possible) (note: some of these courses have prerequisites)
5. One additional full-course equivalent from Group A or one full-course equivalent from Group B below (note: some of these courses have prerequisites)

Minor program (B.A.):
(4 full courses or their equivalent)
1. ABS 201Y
2. ABS 300Y/301Y
3. One additional full-course equivalent from Group A below, except for ABS 496H/497H (note: some of these courses have prerequisites)
4. One additional full-course equivalent from Group A (except for ABS 496H/497H) or Group B below (note: some of these courses have prerequisites)

Group A:
ABS210Y Introduction to the Ojibwa Language
ABS220Y Introduction to an Iroquoian Language
ABS310Y Ojibwa Language II
ABS312H Ojibwa Dialects
ABS320Y Aboriginal Craft: Technical and Theoretical Aspects
ABS330Y Aboriginal Music: Technical and Theoretical Aspects
ABS331H Aboriginal Music
ABS402H Traditional Indigenous Ecological Knowledge
ABS496H/497H Independent Research (for Major Program students only)
ANT315H Arctic Archaeology
ANT365Y Aboriginal Societies of North America
ANT453H Sub-Arctic Issues
ENG254Y Contemporary Native North American Literature
FRE434H Native Authors in Quebec
HIS369Y The Aboriginal Peoples of the Great Lakes
HIS417Y Native and Other Americans
HIS472H Topics in Canadian Aboriginal/Non-Aboriginal Relations
JFP450H First Nations Issues in Health and Healing (offered by the Faculty of Pharmacy)
RLG201Y Aboriginal Religion
UNI302H The Canadian North
UNI315Y First Nations' Perspective on Canada
UNI317Y Politics of Aboriginal Self-Government
UNI430H Senior Seminar: Rights in the Canadian Context

Group B:
ANT200Y Introduction to Prehistoric Archaeology
ANT204Y Social and Cultural Anthropology
ANT310Y Archaeology of North America
ANT311Y Archaeological Fieldwork
ANT367Y Indigenous Spirituality
ANT410H Hunter-Gatherers Past and Present
ENV221Y Approaches to Environmental Issues I
ENV236Y Human Interactions with the Environment
GGR240Y Historical Geography of the Americas
HIS384H Colonial Canada: The East
INI327Y Race and Representation
JAL253H Language and Society
JAL254H Sociolinguistics
POL304Y Ethnicity and Politics in Canada
SOC220Y Social Inequality in Canada


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