Minimum Admission Requirements

• Applicants who wish to enrol in a collaborative specialization must apply to and be admitted to both the collaborative specialization and a graduate degree program in one of the collaborating graduate units.

• Applicants must submit a completed Collaborative Specialization in Indigenous Health (CSIH) application form (Word) to the CSIH committee.

Completion Requirements

• All doctoral students in the collaborative specialization will take the core course CHL5520H Indigenous Health that runs in August annually.

• Students who have previously taken the core course CHL5520H Indigenous Health during their master's program are required to take a different course, approved by the collaborative specialization director, during their doctoral program.

• Students must participate in at least 80% of the Research Seminar Series, held monthly, as well as participate in at least one Indigenous land-based activity

• Students must complete the requirements of the collaborative specialization in addition to those requirements for the degree program in their home graduate unit.