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Calendar Description

For students outside the Faculty of Native Studies, Indigenous Engagement and Partnership Development is an online course designed to equip learners to engage in successful and respectful collaborations with Indigenous communities, nations, and organizations. It provides comprehensive instruction in approaches to relationship building, Indigenous research methodologies, Indigenous governance, and historical relationships. The goal of the course is not only to impart fundamental background knowledge but also to foster the development of core competencies and practical skills for effective engagement within Indigenous community contexts. It emphasizes Indigenous research methodologies, treaty-based approaches, and decolonial perspectives. This course cannot be used for credit towards a Native Studies Major.

This course will be delivered online and asynchronously. Not open to students with credit in NS 390, NS 490 or NS 590/690.

About Indigenous Engagement + Partnership Development

NS 202: Indigenous Engagement and Partnership Development’s course objective is for students to cultivate the skills necessary to build relationships with Indigenous communities based on shared interests and the pursuit of justice.

This course equips undergraduate students to:

  1. Better develop their understanding of partnership-building in Indigenous communities.
  2. Learn collaborative research skills.
  3. Develop a toolkit for establishing ethical relationships in community contexts.

While the course is focused on research practice, research is defined as broadly as possible to include many outreach activities and approaches to dialogue in Indigenous community settings. Students have the unique opportunity to learn from Indigenous and non-Indigenous interdisciplinary scholars from numerous backgrounds, knowledge keepers, and Elders.

Skills Built:

  • Relationship building
  • Community-based participatory research
  • Ethical standards and conduct
  • Intercultural competence
  • Collaborative design
  • Critical thinking
  • Advocacy

Course Format

Indigenous Engagement and Partnership Development consists of twelve modules with a series of video lectures, a set of course notes, required and recommended readings, engagement activities and assessments.

This course is delivered online.

Not open to students with credit in NS 390, NS 490 or NS 590/690.

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