Delivered in partnership between Ahousaht First Nation and North Island College, this program is grounded in Nuu-chah-nulth values, including respect, protocol, accountability, and community.
The Indigenous Language Fluency Certificate integrates language, culture, and community-based learning, with guidance from Elders and knowledge keepers. Instruction is delivered using a strengths-based, student-centred approach that supports learners at varying levels of language proficiency.
Instructors are expected to foster inclusive and culturally responsive learning environments that support student success and contribute to language revitalization efforts within community.
This course will be delivered in Digitally scheduled.
ILF 111 – Pathways to Reconciliation and Social Action
| This course will help you envision how Indigenous histories, perspectives, worldviews, and approaches to learning must be considered in the work we do in our classrooms, organizations and communities to advance Reconciliation and the Calls to Action. The course will include an examination of pre-colonial Indigenous ways of knowing and historical relationships, colonial contexts and political influences that have impacted Indigenous peoples and communities. The ramifications of colonization will be explored in conjunction with Indigenous response, resistance and renewal. The course will include an examination of the Truth and Reconciliation process, the 94 Calls to Action and the United Nations Declaration of Rights for Indigenous People, coupled with an examination of how Indigenization processes, the Social Determinants of Health and Unesco’s Sustainable Development Goals pertain to Indigenous sovereignty, language revitalization, social equity and the restoration of wellness and healing for Indigenous people.
The teaching faculty of North Island College are responsible for implementing the College’s vision, goals, and objectives as they relate to teaching and learning. To carry out their teaching assignments, faculty use organizational skills, inter-personal skills, and their knowledge of subject matter, pedagogy, and curricular design. In addition, they have a responsibility to serve as role models for students and colleagues.
The responsibilities and typical duties listed below constitute a generic job description for teaching faculty whose responsibility may be for the delivery of scheduled classes, the support of self-paced, on-line, and distance courses, and/or instruction and supervision in laboratories, practicums, shops, etc.
