This dynamic specialization unites Indigenous Knowledge and ideologies with contemporary business practices, developing your ability to work with mindfulness and agility in the 21st century business environment.
Courses
Students who have fulfilled the requirements for a Bachelor of Business Administration or a joint-major Honours degree in Business Administration may graduate with a Specialization in Niigaaniiwin—The Art of Leading, if they have successfully completed the following 3.5 credits with a minimum grade of 65% in each:
- 1.0 INDG credit consisting of:
- INDG 1001H: The Foundation for Reconciliation
- INDG 1002H: Foundations of Modern Indigenous Life
- 2.5 credits from:
- IESS 1001H: Foundations in Indigenous Environmental Studies and Science
- INDG-ADMN 1500H: Foundations of Indigenous Community Development
- INDG-ADMN 1510H: Foundations of Indigenous Community Economic Development
- INDG-CAST-POST 2001H: Indigenous Peoples and State Relationships
- INDG-CAST-POST 2002H: Indigenous Peoples and Resurgence
- INDG 2100Y: Introduction to Indigenous Knowledge
- INDG-ERST-IESS 2601Y: Indigenous Knowledge Systems and the Natural Environment
- INDG 2800Y: Introduction to Nishinaabemowin
- INDG-ADMN 3040H: The Meaning of Work in the Contemporary World
- INDG-GDST 3050H: Indigenous and International Community Development
- INDG-GEOG 3202H: Indigenous Peoples in Urban Centres—Selected Issues and Cities
- INDG-FRSC 3402H: Law and Indigenous Peoples: Litigating Aboriginal Rights
- INDG-CAST-GESO-SOCI 3508H: Indigenous Genders, Sexualities, and Relationships
- INDG-ERST-IESS 3631H: Issues in Indigenous Environmental Studies
- INDG-ERST-IESS 3632H: Global Issues in Indigenous Environmental Studies
- INDG-ADMN 4500H: Indigenous Perspectives on Twenty-First-Century Business and Organizational Issues
Study in a specialization that brings together two knowledge systems– Western business practices and Indigenous ways of knowing and working – with a view to developing students’ ability to work skillfully in the 21st-century business environment.