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Indigenous Knowledge Certificate

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The Indigenous Knowledge Certificate program is a unique program that provides learners with an opportunity to develop a foundational knowledge-base for awareness and understanding of Aboriginal people and culture as it is known and understood from an Indigenous perspective.

Offered in conjunction with Humber's Aboriginal Student Services, the Indigenous Knowledge Certificate Program provides learners with the cultural competency necessary to establish and maintain meaningful relationships when working with Aboriginal people or in Aboriginal communities. 

For Aboriginal students, indigenous cultural competency will prepare you to work in indigenous communities, organizations and programs. Cultural competency for aboriginal students means the development of a significant cultural knowledge base complemented by the enhancement of the ability to "translate" Indigenous knowledge into meaningful and effective applications in the contemporary Indigenous environment.
 
Cultural competency for professionals working with, or preparing to work with, Aboriginal people, communities, organizations and programs in the contemporary Aboriginal environments means the development of a significant cultural/historical knowledge-base for the building of cultural awareness and sensitivity for effectively working with indigenous people in the contemporary environment.
 

Each of the courses below qualify as a General Education credit.

Please click on the course code for registration details.

 

Compulsory Courses - 4 Required

Code Course       
IKN.100 Original People: Culture, Knowledge and Worldview
IKN.101 Indigenous Cultural Values, Behaviour and Identity  
IKN.200 Indigenous Family and Community    
IKN.201 Encounter, Change, Resistance and Renewal    

Elective Courses - Choose 2 from the following: 
 

 

Code Course
PSYC 001 Psychology: Introduction
SOCI 002 Sociology: An Introduction
POLS 104 Introduction to Politics  

For further information, contact 416.675.6622 ext 4086 or liberalartsce@humber.ca.