Indigenous Engagement and Collaboration Concordia University of Edmonton

Overview

As part of a small working group, you will work first-hand with Alberta-based Indigenous partners on ethical challenges related to such topics as consultation, intellectual property, or economic development.

By the end of the Indigenous Engagement and Collaboration course offered by Concordia University of Edmonton , you will understand how to include and champion Indigenous knowledge and voices into your work and present outcomes important for Indigenous partnerships.

Outcomes

At the end of the course, students will be able to:

• Implement Indigenous worldviews from the theoretical to the practical within Indigenous engagement initiatives that are relevant to the Indigenous partner.

• Create innovative approaches to integrating Indigenous worldviews into industry and government projects through a means of collaboration, decolonization, and Indigenization.

• Prepare design thinking approaches to their research projects while establishing meaningful relations between community partners and stakeholders.

• Employ critical thinking, communication, and leadership skills to meet project objectives and effectively present outcomes important for Indigenous partnerships.

• Manage an ethical research project that integrates Indigenous knowledge focused on the betterment of Canadian settlers to Indigenous society.