11.2 Land-Based Courses
All courses in the BASIS program are completed in six-week modules. Students should consult Program of Studies for the Bachelor in Arctic and Subarctic Interdisciplinary Studies to determine whether the course is normally completed in the first six weeks or the final six weeks of the semester.
Due to the immersive, location-based nature of the learning experience, attendance is required for each of the following courses.
SASS 1500 Fall Camp I
initiates students to the land, people, and waters of coastal Labrador. Participants will spend 48 hours on the land and waters of coastal Labrador with a host community, organization, or family. In this time students will work together to set up tents, procure food, water, and wood, prepare meals, and participate in coastal-based cultural activities and learning.
Attendance is required
Module 1 of the BASIS program
Enrolment in the BASIS program
SASS 1501 Fall Camp II
initiates students to the land, people, and waters of interior Labrador. Participants will spend 48 hours on the land and waters in the Labrador interior with a host community, organization, or family. In this time students will work together to set up tents, procure food, water, and wood, prepare meals, and participate in interior-based cultural activities and learning.
Attendance is required
Module 1 of the BASIS program
Enrolment in the BASIS program
SASS 1502 Lands and Waters of the Circumpolar North
introduces students to the past and present climatic and environmental conditions, and future predictions in the Circumpolar North. Students will learn about the long-term climatic and environmental history, current conditions and future predictions of Northern lands and waters through Indigenous, settler and western art, history, and science.
Attendance is required
Modules 1 and 2 of the BASIS program
SASS 2500 Land Stories
is a land-based course in which students explore the Land as the wellspring of Northern narratives and examine the ways in which stories inform human understanding and consciousness of place.
Attendance is required
Modules 1 and 2 of the BASIS program
SASS 2501 Northern and Indigenous Health and Healing II
provides students with opportunities to learn with and from Labrador and Northern lands, waters, and Peoples through a 72-hour land-based intensive experience. They will learn how lands and waters are points of health, healing, and wellness, and engage in holistic ways of understanding connections between Northern and Indigenous cultures, knowledges, and wellbeing. Experiential learning opportunities will connect land-based and cultural skills with multiple dimensions of health and wellness specific to Northern ways of living and learning.
Attendance is required
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Modules 1 and 2 of the BASIS program
SASS 2502 Learning through Relationship
is an experiential, place-based course that will introduce students to traditional knowledge holders/Elders from Indigenous communities in Labrador. Engaged learning, either on the land or in other traditional settings, will facilitate opportunities for knowledge sharing and storytelling, which are important forms of teaching and learning and support critical reflection and growth on matters of reconciliation and relationships.
Attendance is required
Modules 1 and 2 of the BASIS program
SASS 3500 Land and Learning
is a land-based camp in which students will explore learning on the Land. They will investigate the skills, shared over generations, that are needed to live in the Arctic and Subarctic. Students will also have an opportunity to experience travel by dogsled.
Attendance is required
Modules 1 and 2 of the BASIS program
SASS 3501 Indigenous-Led Conservation & Stewardship in the North
introduces students to a variety of issues, challenges, and opportunities for Indigenous-led natural resource management and conservation in the North. Through hands-on learning experiences on the land, students will connect with a variety of Indigenous leaders and knowledge holders and conservation and stewardship practitioners, while spending time on the land working with fish, wildlife, and plants.
Attendance is required
Modules 1 and 2 of the BASIS program
AN = Additional notes. AR = Attendance requirement as noted. CH = Credit hours: unless otherwise noted, a course normally has a credit value of 3 credit hours. CO = Co-requisite(s): course(s) listed must be taken concurrently with or successfully completed prior to the course being described. CR = Credit restricted: The course being described and the course(s) listed are closely related but not equivalent. Credit is limited to one of these courses. Normally, these courses cannot be substituted, one for the other, to satisfy program requirements. EQ = Equivalent: the course being described and the course(s) listed are equal for credit determination. Credit is limited to one of these courses. These courses can be substituted, one for the other, to satisfy program requirements. |
LC = Lecture hours per week: lecture hours are 3 per week unless otherwise noted. LH = Laboratory hours per week. OR = Other requirements of the course such as tutorials, practical sessions, or seminars. PR = Prerequisite(s): course(s) listed must be successfully completed prior to commencing the course being described. UL = Usage limitation(s) as noted. |
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