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Striving and Thriving in Colonized Education Courses

Course offerings vary from year to year. Check Generate a Timetable for available course offerings.

STCE 110 (3) Striving and Thriving in Colonized Education

This university-transition course embraces First Peoples' ways of knowing and being to develop strategies for overcoming the personal, cultural, and societal challenges concerning Western academia. Students will expand their academic skillset and mindset through holistic approaches to learning while creating community and sense of place in a university setting. (3:0:4)

Prerequisite: English 12 or permission of instructor.