EXNS 2809 - Indigenous Peoples as Scientists
1077257
Language of Delivery
English
Delivery Options
Online - Asynchronous
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Course Description
This course brings learners into deeper awareness of how Indigenous scientists are undertaking work in the field, including their goals, practices, mentorship approaches and decolonizing methods. Learners will be exposed to relational frameworks and nation-specific concepts that are guiding principles for producing, applying and governing knowledge. Case studies that are introduced include the Indigenous STS research and teaching hub at the University of Alberta, Indigenous astronomy, and contextual factors, such as Indigenous citizenship policies, epidemics and immunizations, in the field of medicine. Prerequisite: EXNS 2801.
Who Should Take This Course?
Beginner level
Learning Objectives
- Describe the goals and activities of Indigenous science and society by learning from SING Canada as a case study and considering how situatedness and mentorship are present in the research.
- Learn principles for decolonizing STEM, attracting Indigenous people to STEM fields, and how capacities are built in non-Indigenous institutions to support Indigenous expertise and sovereignty.
- Explain how Indigenous ways of knowing respectfully accommodate non-human entities and how relational frameworks and relationship-building are decolonial methods.
- Delve into Indigenous concepts, such as mana, wahkohtowin and wak?á? to understand principles that can be applied to artificial intelligence.
- Gain introductory exposure to Indigenous astronomy, looking at knowledge about the stars and the universe.
- Explain community and living individual memories that Indigenous people have related to epidemics/pandemics, immunizations, and experimentation.
- Identify some of the political elements of Indigenous medical care delivery, deconstruct narratives of benevolence, and explain the connection to nation-state building through settler colonial control.
Course / Module Outline
- Becoming Scientists
- Indigenous AI - Making Relations Between Humans, Nonhumans, and Multiple Knowledges
- Towards Indigenous Science, Technology and Society
- Indigenous Peoples and Pandemics
Recommendations
Textbooks
All material is available online and no textbooks are required.
Record of Completion
Printable certificate; non-credit transcript; digital badge
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Applies Towards the Following Programs
- Indigenous Peoples and Technoscience Series : Courses in the Series
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