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Introduction

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 Keren Rice, Linguistics (416-978-1763).

Aboriginal Studies Programs

Aboriginal Studies (Arts program)

Specialist program

(10 full courses or their equivalents, including at least one 400-series course)

1. ABS201Y1
2. ABS210Y1/ABS220Y1/ABS230H1 and 232H1
3. ABS300Y1 and ABS301Y1
4. ABS460Y1
5. Three additional full-course equivalents from Group A below (note: some of these courses have prerequisites)
6. Two additional full-course equivalents from Group A or one full-course equivalent from Group B below (note: some of these courses have prerequisites)

Major program

(7 full courses or their equivalent, including at least two 300+level courses)

1. ABS201Y1
2. ABS210Y1/ABS220Y1
3. ABS300Y1 and ABS301Y1
4. Two additional full-course equivalents from Group A below (students are encouraged to include ABS495Y1/496H/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

(4 full courses or their equivalent, including at least one full-course equivalent at the 300+-level)

1. ABS201Y1
2. ABS300Y1/ABS301Y1
3. One additional full-course equivalent from Group A below, except for ABS495Y1/496H/497H (note: some of these courses have prerequisites)
4. One additional full-course equivalent from Group A (except for ABS495Y1/496H/497H) or Group B below (note: some of these courses have prerequisites)

Group A:
ABS210Y1 Introduction to the Ojibwa Language
ABS220Y1 Introduction to an Iroquoian Language
ABS230H1 Introduction to Inuktitut
ABS231H1 Elementary Inuktitut
ABS250H1 Indigenous Environmental Knowledge
ABS302H1 Aboriginal People in the Mass Media
ABS310Y1 Ojibwa Language II
ABS320Y1/ABS321H1 Aboriginal Craft: Technical and Theoretical Aspects
ABS330Y1 Aboriginal Music: Technical and Theoretical Aspects
ABS331H1 Aboriginal Music
ABS341H1 Indigenous Theatre
ABS350Y1 Aboriginal Health Systems
ABS351H1 Aboriginal Legends and Teaching
ABS352H1 The Indian Act
ABS402H1 Traditional Indigenous Ecological Knowledge
ABS403H1 Aboriginal People in Urban Areas
ABS404H1 Politics of Aboriginal Nursing
ABS405Y1 Indigenous Thought and Expression: Creative Non-fiction
ABS460Y1 Methodology in Aboriginal Studies
ABS495Y1/496H1/497H1 Independent Research
ANT315H1 Arctic Archaeology
ANT365Y1 Native America and the State
ANT453H1 Sub-Arctic Issues
ENG254Y1 Contemporary Native North American Literature
FRE434H1 Native Authors in Quebec
HIS369Y1 The Aboriginal Peoples of the Great Lakes
HIS472H1 Topics in Canadian Aboriginal/Non-Aboriginal Relations
HIS493H1 Cultural Encounters in Early Canada
JAG321H1 Aboriginal People and Environmental Issues in Canada
JFP450H1 First Nations Issues in Health and Healing (offered by the Faculty of Pharmacy)
RLG201Y1 Aboriginal Religion
UNI317Y1/317H1 Politics of Aboriginal Self-Government

Group B:
ANT200Y1 Introduction to Prehistoric Archaeology
ANT204Y1 Social and Cultural Anthropology
ANT319Y1 Archaeology of North America
ANT311Y1 Archaeological Fieldwork
ANT348Y1 Anthropology of Health
ANT367Y1 Indigenous Spirituality
ANT410H1 Hunter-Gatherers Past and Present
ANT454H1 The Anthropology of Music
DRM268H1 Canadian Theatre History
ENV236Y1 Human Interactions with the Environment
FOR200H1 Conservation of Canada's Forests
GGR240Y1 Historical Geography of the Americas
HIS106Y1 Natives, Settlers, and Conquistadors: Colonizing the Americas, 1492-1776
HIS294Y1 Caribbean History and Culture
HIS358H1 How the West was Colonized
HIS384H1 Colonial Canada: The East
HIS402Y Indigenous Colonial Cultures in the Spanish and Portuguese Americas
HIS468H1 Atlantic Canada
INI327Y1 Race and Representation
INI333H1 Ecological Worldviews
JAL253H1 Language and Society
JAL254H1 Sociolinguistics
JIE222Y1 The Study of Environment
NEW224Y1 Caribbean Thought I
NEW240Y1 Introduction to Equity Studies
NEW324Y1 Caribbean Thought II
NEW369Y1 Studies in Post-Colonialism
POL304Y1 Ethnicity and Politics in Canada
POL340Y1 Ethnicity and Politics in Canada
SOC220Y1 Social Inequality in Canada


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