Browse through the database below to explore courses that will fulfill certain degree requirements in the Indigenous Studies program.
When registering for classes on the Course Timetable website, be sure to carefully read through the “Notes/Additional Fees” section of each course you select.
Not all of the courses below will necessarily be offered in any given year. For more information, please consult the relevant supplemental calendars. Subject to course exclusion and Faculty regulations, you may also complete courses offered outside of the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies for credit in INDG.
Note: We urge you to ensure you have complete all prerequisites for each course you wish to take. Prerequisites will not be waived for INDG.
AP/INDG 1025 6.00 Ancient North America From the Last Ice Age to European Contact
This course studies the history of Indigenous people in North America from time immemorial to the regular settlement of Europeans in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. Using a wide variety of sources it ranges …
AP/INDG 1050 6.00 Introduction to Indigenous Studies
Students are introduced to Indigenous perspectives and issues in Canada, and critical thinking about settler colonialism at home and abroad. Topics include colonization histories, identity legislation, residential schooling, child welfare, criminal justice, cultural resistance and …
AP/INDG 2050 6.00 Indigenous Spiritualities in the Contemporary World
Indigenous spiritualities in this course are grounded in the contemporary worlds of the Indigenous peoples whose traditional territories lie in Ontario—the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Cree, and Metis peoples, although some texts will address diverse peoples’ spiritual …
AP/INDG 2060 6.00 Treaties and the Indian Act
This course explores the nature of treaties, beginning with those negotiated between Indigenous nations, those between Indigenous peoples and European powers, and those between Indigenous peoples and the Canadian state. This offering addresses the imposition …
AP/INDG 2070 6.00 Introduction to Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe)
The Ojibwe language is based on a worldview that everything is alive; it is a descriptive language which describes things in terms of their relationship with the universe. For that reason, the cultural matrix in …
AP/INDG 2080 6.00 Introduction to Kanien'keha (Mohawk) Language and Culture
The Mohawk language, Kanien’keha, is introduced in culturally specific ways, based on the histories and knowledges of Mohawk people. Through the use of exercises and other interactive processes, supplemented by tests, texts, and online resources, …
AP/INDG 2780 3.00 Indigenous Peoples and Education
This course examines educational policies and practices for Indigenous Peoples in Canada, including residential schooling, the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and decolonizing/Indigenizing educational initiatives.
AP/INDG 2900 6.00 Global Indigenous Histories
This online course compares the histories of Indigenous peoples around the world. It explores Indigenous rights, lands and resource conflicts, Indigenous-state relations, language and cultural revitalization, and political activism. Case studies may include Australia, New …
AP/INDG 3050 6.00 Indigenous Protocols and Methodologies
This course addresses issues that arise when conducting research with Indigenous peoples. Students explore topics such as decolonizing theory, story as method, research as ceremony, and situating self and culture. This course also helps students …
AP/INDG 3060 3.00 Indigenous Cultural Experience
This course enables students to engage in a three-credit independent study, involving cultural activity, such as ceremonies, Elders’ teachings or language classes. All of the cultural activities involve readings, reflection journals on how these activities …
AP/CLTR 3255 3.00 Imagining Indigeneity
Indigenous Cinema Studies: This online course introduces students to Indigenous cinema and the literature of cinema studies produced in North America, although films from Mexico, the Andes (Quechua) and Brazil may be screened when available. …
AP/INDG 3310 6.00 Métis Issues in North America
Students learn about the history and literature of the Métis in their homelands and communities in North America. Topics include Métis identities, family histories, communities, resistance movements, and land rights.
AP/INDG 3380 6.00 Indigenous Women: Stories, Community and Ritual
Explores the power and authority that Indigenous women traditionally held within their communities and their contemporary struggles to re-empower themselves and strengthen their communities. Explores the roles of cultural traditions, nationalism, and feminism in relation …
AP/INDG 3470 6.00 Black Indians and Native Black Relations
This course examines conceptual issues shaping racial formation for Black and Native peoples, histories of genocide and slavery, and the histories of Native-Black relations in different regions of Latin America, the Caribbean, the U.S. and …
AP/INDG 3535 3.00 Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment
This course addresses Indigenous peoples’ knowledges and perspectives on nature, land, and ecosystems.
AP/INDG 3536 3.00 Indigenous People, Legend and Memory
This course explores the relationship between history, legend, and memory among Indigenous peoples in North America and internationally.
AP/INDG 3538 6.00 Comparative Issues in Canadian and American Native Literature
This course examines similarities and contrasts in contemporary Native writers in Canada and the United States, exploring the many varied interpretations of Native historical experience, definitions of culture and self-determination, and the meaning and implications …
AP/GWST 3571 3.00 Race, Detention and Internment
The course analyses processes of colonialism, racialization and racism in historical and contemporary examples of the internment and detention of racialized individuals and groups by Canada and other western countries. The internment of Japanese Canadians …
AP/INDG 3650 3.00 Urban Native Communities
With a focus on Toronto, this course challenges assumptions about Indigeneity and urbanity, explores emergent urban Native identity in the contexts of displacement, identity legislation and intermarriage, and examines cultural renewal and sovereignty in urban …
AP/INDG 3839 3.00 Canadian Native Autobiography
This course explores how Canadian Native writers have defined themselves and their world through unique representations of their own life stories. Students examine the contexts and interpretations of “identity”, “history”, “literature”, “tradition”, and the integration …
AP/INDG 3990 3.00 Directed Reading Course
Students may do supervised special study in one or two selected areas. Prerequisites: 48 credits, including at least 12 credits in Indigenous Studies; or, for students with equivalent preparation, permission of the Undergraduate Program Director. …
AP/INDG 3990 6.00 Directed Reading Course
Students may do supervised special study in one or two selected areas. Prerequisites: 48 credits, including at least 12 credits in Indigenous Studies; or, for students with equivalent preparation, permission of the Undergraduate Program Director. …
AP/INDG 4060 6.00 Indigenous Experience: Community-Based Knowledge
This course enables students to explore community-based Indigenous knowledge, through experiential education. Students work with Indigenous knowledge keepers with a focus on language acquisition, relationship to land, and community empowerment. The course is only offered …
AP/INDG 4070 6.00 Special Topics in Indigenous Studies
This course enables visiting scholars and experts in Indigenous Studies to offer a one-time course on a special topic relating to Indigenous Studies.
AP/INDG 4070 3.00 Special Topics in Indigenous Studies
This course enables visiting scholars and experts in Indigenous Studies to offer a one-time course on a special topic relating to Indigenous Studies.
This online course engages with horror and crime fiction, films, plays, and the graphic novel, as well as the latter’s adaptations to multiplayer online gaming. While detective fiction and the mystery novel have a growing …
This online course examines African, African Diasporic and Indigenous North American speculative and science fiction as works of art, first and foremost, but also as art that interrogates the sociopolitical, economic, literary, and ecological arrangements …
AP/GWST 4526 6.00 Contesting Racial and Colonial Violence
The course critically analyzes representations of racial and colonial violence in scholarly and creative literature and media. It also examines how survivors and witnesses contest the effects of racism and colonialism through representation.
AP/INDG 4600 6.00 Research Seminar
This course provides an opportunity for the development and completion of a substantial project in research and writing at a more advanced level. It is restricted to students in the Specialized Honours BA program. Papers …
AP/INDG 4705 6.00 Indigenous Theory
Provides a solid knowledge of the theoretical foundations of Indigenous studies, and a range of contemporary theoretical work by Indigenous scholars, addressing, among other subjects, questions of gender, racism, culture, identity, the politics of recognition, …
AP/INDG 4750 3.00 Approaching Indigenous Media
This course focuses on forms of indigenous storytelling which underlie indigenous media. It explores indigeneity in popular culture, the history of indigenous broadcasting and broadcast policy in Canada. This course and its complement together trace …
AP/INDG 4765 3.00 Indigenous Literature, Survival and Sovereignty
This course explores the connections between Indigenous literature, community survival, and sovereignty through Indigenous novels, short stories, literary criticism, poetry, and drama.
AP/INDG 4765 6.00 Indigenous Literature, Survival and Sovereignty
This course explores the connections between Indigenous literature, community survival, and sovereignty through Indigenous novels, short stories, literary criticism, poetry, and drama.
AP/INDG 4770 6.00 First Nations Music and Cultural Regeneration
This is a music appreciation course—no prior knowledge of music is required. The course examines various forms of Indigenous music in Canada and the United States, from traditional to contemporary, including protest music, blues, rock …
AP/INDG 4770 3.00 First Nations Music and Cultural Regeneration
This is a music appreciation course—no prior knowledge of music is required. The course examines various forms of Indigenous music in Canada and the United States, from traditional to contemporary, including protest music, blues, rock …
AP/INDG 4800 6.00 Honours Thesis
Students will design and write a thesis in consultation with a faculty supervisor. Students must be accepted by a faculty supervisor before they can register in AP/INDG 4800 6.00 Honours Thesis. Prerequisites: AP/INDG 3050 6.00. …
AP/INDG 4990 6.00 Directed Reading Course
Students may do supervised special study in one or two selected areas. Prerequisites: 48 credits, including at least 12 credits in Indigenous Studies; or, for students with equivalent preparation, permission of the Undergraduate Program Director. …
AP/INDG 4990 3.00 Directed Reading Course
Students may do supervised special study in one or two selected areas. Prerequisites: 48 credits, including at least 12 credits in Indigenous Studies; or, for students with equivalent preparation, permission of the Undergraduate Program Director. …