Core Courses
All students in the collaborative program will take ONE of the following core course(s):
| Course Number | Course Name |
| CHL 5421H | Aboriginal Health |
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Synopsis: |
The objective of this course is for the students to obtain a broader, critical understanding of the pressing health challenges faced by Aboriginal people in Canada, including historical perspectives, the current burden of infectious and non-infectious disease, and the need for culturally appropriate research and intervention strategies for addressing these challenges. The long-term goal is the development of skills to design projects which are conscious of community perspectives as well as being scientifically unique and innovative. Lecture topics include: Social, Political and Historical Context; Epidemiologic Transition; Historical Demography and Epidemiology; Health Care; Aboriginal Health Systems/Health Governance; Environmental Contaminants; Women's and Children’s Mental Health; Indigenous Knowledge; Urban Aboriginal Health (3 hours/week) |
| NUR 1014H | Politics of Aboriginal Health (Not offered in 2011-2012) |
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Synopsis: |
Examine the impact of policies and practices on the health of Aboriginal People in Canada. Film, videos and guests from the Faculty of Medicine Visiting Lectureship on aboriginal health perspectives encourage sharing experience and critical analysis. Readings and seminars contribute to a research and culture based approach. A social determinants approach avoids blaming victims or reducing problems to psychological or behavioural causes, and instead looks at policies and social practices as resourceful and determinative. Reflect on how realities might be reconstructed, beginning with our own perceptions and strategies. The group assignment will begin to socialize students into collectivist ways of relating and organizing, valued in Aboriginal cultures. (3 hours/week) |
| SES 1930H | Race, Indigenous Citizenship and Self- Determination: Decolonizing Perspectives |
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Synopsis: |
This course explores histories of racism, displacement and legal disenfranchisement that create citizenship injustices for Indigenous peoples in Canada. It aims to highlight a set of decolonizing perspectives on belonging and identity, to contest existing case law and policy, and to deconstruct the normative discourses of law, liberalism and cultural representation that govern and shape current nation-to-nation relationships between Ongwehoweh (real people) and colonial-settler governments. The course is centered on exploring the possibilities, challenges and contradictions raised by resurgence strategies and reparation involving citizenship injustice from an anti-racist, anti-colonial and indigenous-centered perspective. |
| AEC 1290 | Indigenous Healing in Counselling and Psychotherapy |