Major in Aboriginal Studies - in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts, Simon Fraser University (SCES/SFU Program, Kamloops)

The Program is designed to provide students with in-depth academic training comprised of 56 or more credit hours in the study of traditional and contemporary issues involving Aboriginal peoples of Canada, as well as Aboriginal and indigenous peoples in other parts of the world. This Major is aimed at Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students who wish to gain knowledge about Aboriginal peoples issues, and focuses on the following:

• traditional Aboriginal knowledge and practices
• Aboriginal languages
• the history of Aboriginal-European relations from an Aboriginal perspective
• Aboriginal rights and title questions, and resource management issues
• Aboriginal economic and resource development, and self-governance
• the comparative study of indigenous and Aboriginal peoples world-wide