Course Descriptions

This course brings together students, educators, and community organizations to collaborate on generating solutions to regional problems. Students will learn in a region-integrated setting, drawing on scholarship from the Arts and Sciences, while incorporating Indigenous ways of knowing, to address problems in areas such as the social-ecological impacts of climate change, sustainable resources management, and social justice. Students will develop as researchers, consultants, innovators and leaders, furthering their capabilities as change-makers within the communities located on the traditional First Nations territories of our region.

This team-taught course introduces students to the benefits and challenges of interdisciplinary studies. Applying methods and insights from fields across the arts, sciences, and related fields of study, students will work creatively and collaboratively to address complex contemporary problems that require thinking from two or more academic disciplines. The course will include a Work-Integrated Learning component.

This team-taught course introduces students to the various stages of the research process and provides them with an understanding of the different methods used to conduct research commonly used in the humanities, social sciences, and related fields of study. Students will be exposed to different methods - computational, ethnographic, archival and others - and will begin to apply methods in a practical, ethical manner.

Interdisciplinary teams of researchers are working together to solve the twenty-first century’s grand challenges. Whether tackling declining biodiversity or building sustainable cities, the solutions require cooperation between universities and the wider community. This project-based course will integrate local community partners to explore and propose solutions to regional issues, such as affordable housing, green transportation, and resource development. In the process students will learn about workplace opportunities where their skills and perspective will be valued.

This course invites students to engage in the process of advancing reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada. Engaging with the work and teachings of Elders, Indigenous scholars, cultural experts, and Indigenous communities, students will examine the process of reconciliation within the context of past and ongoing processes of settler colonialism, including residential schools and genocide committed against Indigenous people.

Students will work with an instructor to guide them in a topic-based analytical study, creative project, or work-integrated learning experience approved by the student's tutorial advisor. Specific course details will be arranged between individual students and faculty members. Registration is by permission of the instructor and the Interdisciplinary Studies degree coordinator.

Students will work with an instructor to guide them in a topic-based analytical study, creative project, or work-integrated learning experience approved by the student's tutorial advisor. Specific course details will be arranged between individual students and faculty members. Registration is by permission of the instructor and the Interdisciplinary Studies degree coordinator.

Students will work with an instructor to guide them in a topic-based analytical study, creative project, or work-integrated learning experience approved by the student's tutorial advisor. Specific course details will be arranged between individual students and faculty members. Registration is by permission of the instructor and the Interdisciplinary Studies degree coordinator.

Students will work with an instructor to guide them in a topic-based analytical or creative Capstone approved by the student's advisor. Specific course details will be arranged between individual students and faculty members. Registration is by permission of the instructor and the Interdisciplinary Studies degree coordinator.

Students will work with an instructor to guide them through an extended topic-based analytical or creative Capstone project approved by the student's advisor. Specific course details will be arranged between individual students and faculty members. Registration is by permission of the instructor and the Interdisciplinary Studies degree coordinator.

Students will work with an instructor to guide them through the second part of an extended topic-based analytical or creative Capstone project approved by the student's advisor. Specific course details will be arranged between individual students and faculty members. Registration is by permission of the instructor and the Interdisciplinary Studies degree coordinator.