Undergraduate studies

Indigenous education programs

The Department of Indigenous Education at UVic offers undergraduate programming to support language revitalization, teacher education programming, and to further Indigenization, Indigenous perspectives, decolonization and Indigenous education. Courses and programming are offered both on-campus, and off-campus, and are driven by Indigenous community need and request.

On-campus undergraduate Indigenous education programming

The following on-campus Indigenous Education undergraduate programs and courses are available throughout the year:

Programs

• Indigenous Education Post-Degree Professional Program
• IED Summer Institute
• Teaching and Learning Indigenous Perspectives TQS course-set

Courses

• IED 371 – The History of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Education in Canada
• IED 372 – Indigenous Epistemologies
• IED 373 – EL TELNIWT and Indigenous Education*reserved for teacher education students
• IED 473 – CENENITEL TW TOLNEW: Helping each other to learn
• IED 499/591 – Learning and Teaching in an Indigenous World 
• IED 159: Introduction to SENĆOŦEN

Undergraduate Indigenous language revitalization programming (community-based)

The Department of Indigenous Education at UVic offers the following community-based programsthat seek to support communities to retain their language, through education programming.:

• Certificate in Indigenous Language Proficiency
• Diploma in Indigenous Language Revitalization
• Bachelor of Education in Indigenous Language Revitalization

To honour and support the language revitalization goals and work being undertaken In Indigenous communities across BC and Canada, the delivery of most of these programs is held within the territory of the partnered community.