Truth and Reconciliation: YukonU Credit Courses

This course introduces students to the four central sub-disciplines of anthropology: physical anthropology, linguistic anthropology, cultural anthropology, and archaeology.

This course will provide students with the opportunity to examine their own social location and how it has shaped their beliefs and values for practice in the field of early learning and child care.

A simple definition of governance is the ways that groups organize themselves and make decisions in pursuit of a particular outcome. This course introduces how Indigenous Peoples live in, create, or transform governance systems, rooted in their cultural practices, languages, laws, values, and their relationship with the non-human world (land, water, seasons, animals, etc).

This course introduces students to the evolution of Indigenous governance and modern treaty making from pan-Canadian perspectives, and with a particular focus on Yukon First Nations’ experiences.

This course examines Yukon First Nations history, culture and governance.

HIST 220 examines the history of the Canadian North from its aboriginal past through to the present. Emphasis, however, is on political and social developments from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

This course examines Yukon First Nations history, culture and governance. Topics covered include pre-contact cultures of Yukon, subsistence economies, social and political organizations, cultural expressions, and cultural protocols.

Using a wide range of sociological theories, students will explore factors that lead to the occurrence and continuation of social problems.