Day/Time TBA How is our world shaped? Why do people believe? What is our relationship with our environments? This introduction to interdisciplinary studies invites students to explore such questions by developing their capacity for interdisciplinary thinking and knowing. Students will become familiar with the core concepts, theories, and methods of some social science and humanities disciplines, and how to bring these perspectives together to analyze questions and develop a comprehensive understanding of complex topics and issues. Students will also learn to engage critically with different perspectives and to access, translate, and apply a variety of knowledges to a range of questions and topics.

This course critically examines sociological constructions and lived experiences of race and ethnicity within the Canadian context, in relation to Canada’s official policy of multiculturalism. Here, students will explore how race and ethnicity intersect with structures of power, colonialism, migration, gender, and identity using key sociological theoretical frames, historical developments, and contemporary issues. 

The course investigates the promises and limitations of multiculturalism in Canada, paying close attention to Indigenous-settler relations, systemic racism, immigration policy, and the reproduction of racial inequality in institutions such as education, health, labour market, and the criminal justice system. Emphasis will be placed on critical thinking and analysis, and the application of theory to empirical realities. SOCI 100 or other social science is strongly recommended.

This is a course in counselling psychology that is being developed to introduce key elements of the practice in Western and Yukon First Nations contexts. 

Counselling Psychology in a Northern Context is a practice that draws on Western psychological methods to treat individual symptoms of mental unwellness. This course looks at the history of the clinical counselling field, theoretical foundations for counselling methods, ethical and legal issues in counselling and contexts for practice. An intentional focus is on the Northern context, and various Indigenous counsellors will offer lectures on areas of their practice. Indigenous counselling is a holistic practice that aims to balance the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of a person. It is based on the belief that these aspects are interconnected and can be impacted by the individual, their family, community, and environment.

Prerequisites: PSYC 100 or PSYC 101 is required and PSYC 204, Abnormal Psychology, is strongly recommended. Program advisor approval will be needed. Contact agraham@yukonu.ca.