Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies
(Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences)
Indigenous Studies (INDG) Courses
INDG 1000 [1.0 credit]
Introduction to Indigenous Studies
Survey of historical and contemporary issues relating to Indigenous peoples in Canada. Cultural traditions and the social interactions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous societies are approached from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Introduction to Indigenous Studies
Survey of historical and contemporary issues relating to Indigenous peoples in Canada. Cultural traditions and the social interactions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous societies are approached from an interdisciplinary perspective.
INDG 1010 [0.5 credit]
Indigenous Ways of Knowing
This course centers Indigenous Creation Stories in relation to systems of power. Discussing Indigenous worldviews, knowledge making, ways of living, ecological relationships, and inter-Indigenous relations and diplomacy. Course materials are rooted in self-situated and collective understandings of Indigenous peoples.
Indigenous Ways of Knowing
This course centers Indigenous Creation Stories in relation to systems of power. Discussing Indigenous worldviews, knowledge making, ways of living, ecological relationships, and inter-Indigenous relations and diplomacy. Course materials are rooted in self-situated and collective understandings of Indigenous peoples.
INDG 1011 [0.5 credit]
Introduction to Indigenous-Settler Encounters
Interdisciplinary and critical engagement with the term “encounter” between various Indigenous communities and settler populations. Topic areas vary by year: introduction to Indigeneity across multiple geographies, cultural and literary practices, gender and the state, race, racialization, racism, place and space, food sovereignty, and education.
Introduction to Indigenous-Settler Encounters
Interdisciplinary and critical engagement with the term “encounter” between various Indigenous communities and settler populations. Topic areas vary by year: introduction to Indigeneity across multiple geographies, cultural and literary practices, gender and the state, race, racialization, racism, place and space, food sovereignty, and education.
INDG 2011 [0.5 credit]
Critical Indigenous Studies
This survey course introduces students to core concepts and analytics in Critical Indigenous Studies. Topics include land, pedagogies, relationalities, resurgence, decolonization, Indigenous feminisms and Indigiqueer Studies.
Critical Indigenous Studies
This survey course introduces students to core concepts and analytics in Critical Indigenous Studies. Topics include land, pedagogies, relationalities, resurgence, decolonization, Indigenous feminisms and Indigiqueer Studies.
Precludes additional credit for CDNS 2100 and CDNS 2011.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the Indigenous Studies program.
Lectures/groups three hours a week.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the Indigenous Studies program.
Lectures/groups three hours a week.
INDG 2012 [0.5 credit]
Anishinaabe Ontologies
Grounded in the ontologies and place-making practices of the Anishinaabe peoples, topics may include Creation stories, migration and displacement, the clan system, worldviews, oral, written, and recorded history, treaties, knowledges, cultural production, self-governance, and diplomatic relations.
Anishinaabe Ontologies
Grounded in the ontologies and place-making practices of the Anishinaabe peoples, topics may include Creation stories, migration and displacement, the clan system, worldviews, oral, written, and recorded history, treaties, knowledges, cultural production, self-governance, and diplomatic relations.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the Indigenous Studies program.
Lecture/groups three hours a week.
Lecture/groups three hours a week.
INDG 2013 [0.5 credit]
Haudenosaunee Ontologies
Grounded in the Kaienerekowa (Way of Peace), this course focuses on Haudenosaunee ontologies from the founding of the Confederacy to present. Discussion of the cultures, languages, written and recorded histories, and socio-political structures of Haudenosaunee.
Haudenosaunee Ontologies
Grounded in the Kaienerekowa (Way of Peace), this course focuses on Haudenosaunee ontologies from the founding of the Confederacy to present. Discussion of the cultures, languages, written and recorded histories, and socio-political structures of Haudenosaunee.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the Indigenous Studies program.
Lecture/groups, three hours a week.
Lecture/groups, three hours a week.
INDG 2014 [0.5 credit]
Inuit Ontologies
Grounded in the ontologies and place-making practices of the Inuit, topics may include: Creation stories, migration and displacement, kinship, worldviews; oral, written, and recorded histories; lands and waters; land claims agreements, knowledges, cultural production, self-governance, diplomatic relations.
Inuit Ontologies
Grounded in the ontologies and place-making practices of the Inuit, topics may include: Creation stories, migration and displacement, kinship, worldviews; oral, written, and recorded histories; lands and waters; land claims agreements, knowledges, cultural production, self-governance, diplomatic relations.
Lectures/groups three hours a week.
INDG 2015 [0.5 credit]
Indigenous Relationalities, Kinships, and Knowledges
Overview of Indigenous peoples’ temporal, spatial, and social relationalities, kinship networks, and knowledge systems. Topics may include Indigenous cosmologies, knowledges, languages, water, land, and re-framing human and non-human relationships.
Indigenous Relationalities, Kinships, and Knowledges
Overview of Indigenous peoples’ temporal, spatial, and social relationalities, kinship networks, and knowledge systems. Topics may include Indigenous cosmologies, knowledges, languages, water, land, and re-framing human and non-human relationships.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the Indigenous Studies program.
Lecture/groups, three hours a week.
Lecture/groups, three hours a week.
INDG 2016 [0.5 credit]
Indigenous Resistance in Canada
Indigenous approaches to self-determination and nationhood. Topics include direct action; political organizing; land claims; rights, courts, and legal action; everyday acts of resistance such as petitioning, social media, arts-based movements, and community initiatives.
Indigenous Resistance in Canada
Indigenous approaches to self-determination and nationhood. Topics include direct action; political organizing; land claims; rights, courts, and legal action; everyday acts of resistance such as petitioning, social media, arts-based movements, and community initiatives.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the Indigenous Studies program.
Lectures/groups three hours a week.
Lectures/groups three hours a week.
INDG 2017 [0.5 credit]
Global Indigenous Studies
Introduction to Global Indigenous struggles, communities, resistances, and cross-border alliances. Topics may include: Canada’s implication in global imperialism and environmental exploitation, specificity of race and racialization in various contexts, cisheteropatriarchy, global resistance movements, displacement, migration, and diaspora.
Global Indigenous Studies
Introduction to Global Indigenous struggles, communities, resistances, and cross-border alliances. Topics may include: Canada’s implication in global imperialism and environmental exploitation, specificity of race and racialization in various contexts, cisheteropatriarchy, global resistance movements, displacement, migration, and diaspora.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the Indigenous Studies program.
Lectures/groups three hours a week
Lectures/groups three hours a week
INDG 2020 [0.5 credit]
Indigenous Feminisms: Perspectives on Gender, Sex, and Sexualities
Indigenous articulations of gender, sex, and sexualities. This may include a focus on specific embodied roles and responsibilities within Indigenous communities, individual and collective identities, gender-based violence and resistances, and complex relationships between external and lateral systems of power and privilege.
Indigenous Feminisms: Perspectives on Gender, Sex, and Sexualities
Indigenous articulations of gender, sex, and sexualities. This may include a focus on specific embodied roles and responsibilities within Indigenous communities, individual and collective identities, gender-based violence and resistances, and complex relationships between external and lateral systems of power and privilege.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the Indigenous Studies program.
Lecture/groups, three hours a week.
Lecture/groups, three hours a week.
INDG 2302 [0.5 credit]
Land, Water, Capitalism
Examination of politics and economics of land, waters and power. Topics may include: the study of labour, migrant workers, capitalist extraction; environmental racism and health; and Indigenous dispossession and resistance.
Land, Water, Capitalism
Examination of politics and economics of land, waters and power. Topics may include: the study of labour, migrant workers, capitalist extraction; environmental racism and health; and Indigenous dispossession and resistance.
Also listed as CDNS 2302.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the Indigenous Studies program.
Lectures/groups three hours a week.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the Indigenous Studies program.
Lectures/groups three hours a week.
INDG 2709 [0.5 credit]
Indigenous Drama
A study of dramatic literatures and theatre practice from Indigenous theatre makers, including playwrights, directors and other practitioners.
Indigenous Drama
A study of dramatic literatures and theatre practice from Indigenous theatre makers, including playwrights, directors and other practitioners.
Also listed as ENGL 2709.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the Indigenous Studies program.
Lecture three hours per week
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the Indigenous Studies program.
Lecture three hours per week
INDG 3001 [0.5 credit]
Indigenous Sovereignties
A gendered examination and discussion of Indigenous sovereignties. Topics will vary by year and may include: Indigenous ways of knowing, governance systems, embodied legal orders, community leadership, diplomatic relations, and struggles for self-determination.
Indigenous Sovereignties
A gendered examination and discussion of Indigenous sovereignties. Topics will vary by year and may include: Indigenous ways of knowing, governance systems, embodied legal orders, community leadership, diplomatic relations, and struggles for self-determination.
Precludes additional credit for INDG 3000 (no longer offered).
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the Indigenous Studies program.
Seminar three hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the Indigenous Studies program.
Seminar three hours per week.
INDG 3012 [0.5 credit]
Indigenous Futurity Praxis
Challenging notions of past, present, future, this course engages with media, cultural objects, and practices that imagine and enact alternate futures. Students will produce community-oriented research drawing on Indigenous knowledge making. Topics include: speculative fiction, bead work, visual art practices, and social media.
Indigenous Futurity Praxis
Challenging notions of past, present, future, this course engages with media, cultural objects, and practices that imagine and enact alternate futures. Students will produce community-oriented research drawing on Indigenous knowledge making. Topics include: speculative fiction, bead work, visual art practices, and social media.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the Indigenous Studies program.
Seminar three hours per week.
Seminar three hours per week.
INDG 3015 [0.5 credit]
Indigenous Cosmologies
This course will provide an overview of diverse Indigenous cosmologies and perspectives on land, water, atmospheres, and more-than-human beings and ethical ways of working with these knowledges. We will draw on Indigenous knowledge from nations/societies/communities around the globe.
Indigenous Cosmologies
This course will provide an overview of diverse Indigenous cosmologies and perspectives on land, water, atmospheres, and more-than-human beings and ethical ways of working with these knowledges. We will draw on Indigenous knowledge from nations/societies/communities around the globe.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the Indigenous Studies program.
Seminar three hours per week.
Seminar three hours per week.
INDG 3018 [0.5 credit]
Metis Ontologies
An exploration of the development of Metis culture and communities in the late 18th century. Metis identity will be examined within a socio-cultural context and students will learn about the significance of kinship and stories as ways of maintaining Metis culture, Nationhood and Sovereignty.
Metis Ontologies
An exploration of the development of Metis culture and communities in the late 18th century. Metis identity will be examined within a socio-cultural context and students will learn about the significance of kinship and stories as ways of maintaining Metis culture, Nationhood and Sovereignty.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the Indigenous Studies program.
Lecture/groups, three hours a week.
Lecture/groups, three hours a week.
INDG 3901 [0.5 credit]
Selected Topics in Indigenous Studies
Topics vary from year to year.
Selected Topics in Indigenous Studies
Topics vary from year to year.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing, or permission of the Indigenous Studies program.
Seminar three hours per week.
Seminar three hours per week.
INDG 4001 [0.5 credit]
Indigenous Urbanisms
This course discusses urban spaces as Indigenous places and foregrounds theories and practices of Indigenous city making. Topics may include unsettling the urban, Indigenous place-making, the built environment and infrastructures, and decolonial articulations of towns and cities.
Indigenous Urbanisms
This course discusses urban spaces as Indigenous places and foregrounds theories and practices of Indigenous city making. Topics may include unsettling the urban, Indigenous place-making, the built environment and infrastructures, and decolonial articulations of towns and cities.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the Indigenous Studies program.
Seminar three hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the Indigenous Studies program.
Seminar three hours per week.
INDG 4005 [0.5 credit]
Visual Storytelling in Indigenous Art
This course discusses urban spaces as Indigenous places and foregrounds theories and practices of Indigenous city making. Topics may include unsettling the urban, Indigenous place-making, the built environment, and infrastructures, and decolonial articulations of towns and cities.
Visual Storytelling in Indigenous Art
This course discusses urban spaces as Indigenous places and foregrounds theories and practices of Indigenous city making. Topics may include unsettling the urban, Indigenous place-making, the built environment, and infrastructures, and decolonial articulations of towns and cities.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the Indigenous Studies program.
Seminar three hours per week.
Seminar three hours per week.
INDG 4011 [0.5 credit]
Indigenous Representations
Students will study how Indigenous peoples have used cultural production in various forms (such as literature, film, television, visual arts, music, performance) to put forth their own visions of their peoples, worldviews, and lives.
Indigenous Representations
Students will study how Indigenous peoples have used cultural production in various forms (such as literature, film, television, visual arts, music, performance) to put forth their own visions of their peoples, worldviews, and lives.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the Indigenous Studies program.
Seminar three hours a week.
Seminar three hours a week.
INDG 4012 [0.5 credit]
Resistance and Healing in Contemporary Indigenous Art
This seminar offers an examination of how Indigenous artists have formulated a politicized discourse of resistance through their artistic expressions to prompt transformative and decolonizing healing within communities. This course includes readings, analysis of diverse forms of art, and critical analysis of art exhibitions.
Resistance and Healing in Contemporary Indigenous Art
This seminar offers an examination of how Indigenous artists have formulated a politicized discourse of resistance through their artistic expressions to prompt transformative and decolonizing healing within communities. This course includes readings, analysis of diverse forms of art, and critical analysis of art exhibitions.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the Indigenous Studies program.
Seminar three hours a week.
Seminar three hours a week.
INDG 4015 [0.5 credit]
Land as a Relation
This course is offered in partnership with Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg and reflects critical kinships enacted between Algonquin Anishinabeg, the land and non-human relatives. We spend one week in the community in an immersive environment learning about language, sovereignty, land caretaking, berry picking, and other topics.
Land as a Relation
This course is offered in partnership with Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg and reflects critical kinships enacted between Algonquin Anishinabeg, the land and non-human relatives. We spend one week in the community in an immersive environment learning about language, sovereignty, land caretaking, berry picking, and other topics.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the Indigenous Studies program.
Fourteen-day field course.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the Indigenous Studies program.
Fourteen-day field course.
INDG 4020 [0.5 credit]
Practicum
Students will apply their knowledge with a local organization whose mandate involves working with and/or for Indigenous peoples. Restricted to students in the INDG major. To be arranged in consultation with the Undergraduate Supervisor.
Practicum
Students will apply their knowledge with a local organization whose mandate involves working with and/or for Indigenous peoples. Restricted to students in the INDG major. To be arranged in consultation with the Undergraduate Supervisor.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing or permission of the Indigenous Studies program.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing or permission of the Indigenous Studies program.
INDG 4901 [0.5 credit]
Selected Topics in Indigenous Studies
Topics vary from year to year.
Selected Topics in Indigenous Studies
Topics vary from year to year.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the Indigenous Studies program.
Seminar three hours per week.
Seminar three hours per week.
INDG 4905 [0.5 credit]
Directed Studies I
An optional course normally restricted to fourth-year Honours students in Canadian Studies or Indigenous Studies and to Qualifying-year Graduate students. Includes supervised reading and written work in an Indigenous Studies area.
Directed Studies I
An optional course normally restricted to fourth-year Honours students in Canadian Studies or Indigenous Studies and to Qualifying-year Graduate students. Includes supervised reading and written work in an Indigenous Studies area.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing or permission of the Indigenous Studies program.
Note: Not all courses listed are offered in a given year. For an up-to-date statement of course offerings for the current session and to determine the term of offering, consult the class schedule at central.carleton.ca.
Summer session: some of the courses listed in this Calendar are offered during the summer. Hours and scheduling for summer session courses will differ significantly from those reported in the fall/winter Calendar. To determine the scheduling and hours for summer session classes, consult the class schedule at central.carleton.ca