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.

Specialization Requirements

• All master's students in the collaborative specialization will take the core course CHL5520H Indigenous Health (0.5 full-course equivalent [FCE]) that runs in August annually.

• In home graduate units where a thesis or major research paper is required, it must deal with an Indigenous health topic. At least one member of the student's thesis committee must be a core faculty member of the collaborative specialization.

• In home graduate units where students undertake a practicum or equivalent, it must focus on an Indigenous health topic and be supervised by a core faculty member of the collaborative specialization.

• Students in coursework-only programs must complete additional coursework in approved Indigenous health electives. For the MEd in Adult Education and Community Development and the MEd in Social Justice Education (Coursework Only Option), 1.0 FCE in additional courses in Indigenous Health are required.

• 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.