Fall Term 2026 (1970)
NS 476 - Perspectives on Indigenous Peoples Health and Wellbeing
3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)
A critical overview of the literature and contemporary health issues affecting Indigenous peoples in Canada. Special focus is on the meanings of health, socio-economic and environmental determinants of health and the socio- political landscape of Indigenous health research and healthcare policy. Prerequisites: NS 376 or consent of the Faculty.
LECTURE A01 (58725)
2026-09-01 - 2026-12-08
R 11:00 - 13:50
Winter Term 2027 (1980)
NS 376 - Indigenous Demography and Disease
3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)
This course focuses on the historic epidemic diseases that devastated Indigenous communities following the arrival of Europeans in this hemisphere. Students will study evidence for health and disease and for the size of the Indigenous population before contact, the epidemiology and impacts of infectious diseases that accompanied Europeans to the Americas, and the transition to a different disease profile in the 20th century. Indigenous and European approaches to well-being and disease will be considered. Prerequisites: NS 110, NS 111 and NS 240 or NS 290 or consent of the Faculty. For students outside of the Faculty of Native Studies, 6 units from NS 110, NS 111, NS 200, NS 201, or NS 240.
LECTURE B01 (83727)
2027-01-04 - 2027-04-09
R 14:00 - 16:50