Outline
Unit 1: Identity, Social Location, and Establishing Ethics for Engagement
Unit 2: Foundational Indigenous Knowledges
Unit 3: Health and Wellness as Social Constructs
Unit 4: Determinants Impacting Health and Wellness: Colonization and Gendered Violence
Unit 5: Determinants Impacting Health and Wellness: Social, Political, Economic, Environmental
Unit 6: Resistance: Implications for Indigenous Women’s Health and Wellness
Unit 7: Reclaim: Implications for Indigenous Women’s Health and Wellness
Unit 8: Construct: Implications for Indigenous Women’s Health and Wellness
Unit 9: Act: Implications for Indigenous Women’s Health and Wellness
Unit 10: Self-Determination and Human Rights
Unit 11: Looking Back, Looking Forward: Actioning the TRC Calls to Action and MMIWG Calls for Justice
Learning outcomes
After completing WGST 204, you will be able to
- distinguish between health and wellness as cultural constructs;
- identify determinants as an outcome of colonization that have harmfully impacted Canadian Indigenous women, including historical, contemporary, social, political, economic, and environmental factors;
- apply Indigenous knowledges of wholism, interconnectedness, and relationships to your understanding of health and wellness of Indigenous women;
- provide an analysis of an Indigenous framework that addresses the healing nature of reconstructing Indigenous women’s identity in contemporary times;
- demonstrate a self-reflexive and ethical understanding of ancestral, cultural, and land-based identity in relation to Indigenous women;
- recognize the ways that other intersections of Indigenous identity are adversely impacted by colonization, such as those who are men, Two-Spirit, multiracial, urban, and rural; and
- practice social advocacy through relevant actions for change such as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Calls to Justice.
Evaluation
To receive for WGST 204, you must complete and submit all the assignments and the quiz. You must achieve a minimum overall grade of at least for the course. The weighting of the composite grade is as follows:
| Activity | Weight |
| Assignment 1: Identity and Social Location | 2.5% |
| Assignment 2: Ethics of Engagement | 2.5% |
| Assignment 3: Quiz | 15% |
| Assignment 4: Tree Metaphor of Determinants | 20% |
| Assignment 5: Essay: Reconstructing Indigenous Womanhood in Relation to Health and Wellness | 30% |
| Assignment 6: Call to Action: Practice Application | 30% |
| Total | 100% |
Materials
Physical course materials
The following course materials are included in a course package that will be shipped to your home prior to your course鈥檚 start date:
Anderson, K. (2016). A recognition of being: Reconstructing Native womanhood. Women’s Press.
Knott, H. (2023). Becoming a matriarch: A memoir. Penguin Random House.
All other materials are available online.
Challenge for credit
Overview
The challenge for credit process allows you to demonstrate that you have acquired a command of the general subject matter, knowledge, intellectual and/or other skills that would normally be found in a university-level course.
Full information about challenge for credit can be found in the Undergraduate Calendar.
Evaluation
The WGST 204 challenge for credit option has three components: a short essay on the ethical space in relationships, a longer essay on healing through reconstructing Indigenous identity, and a recorded and narrated presentation of a call to action.
To
receive credit for the WGST 204 challenge registration, students must achieve a minimum grade of on the following components:
| Activity | Weight |
| Part A: Short Essay: Ethical Space in Relationships | 25% |
| Part B: Essay: Healing Through Reconstructing Identity | 40% |
| Part C: Call to Action: Practice Application | 35% |
| Total | 100% |
Challenge for credit course registration form