Course description
This course provides opportunities for students across disciplines to learn about creation stories from Indigenous cultures on Turtle Island (North America). Students will have the opportunity to explore the importance of Indigenous creation stories, how they are communicated, along with the teachings and worldviews they contain. Creation stories tell us not only about how humans came to be but how we are to behave and how we govern our relationships. Students will have the opportunity to explore their own creation stories in relation to Indigenous creation stories as well as examine counter origin stories put forward in Western science.
Course details
Credit transfer
Have you taken this course or an equivalent course? Contact the Credit Transfer Office.
Registration dates
Not all courses are offered each term.
Spring 2026 registration opens March 2, 2026.Fall 2026 registration opens June 29, 2026.
Delivery options
In person: classes held in person on a campus/site in a classroom/lab/shop/studio for the course duration
Online - Asynchronous: 100% online delivery, no scheduled day or time course requirements with the instructor, assigned due dates
Online - Synchronous: 100% online delivery, scheduled day and time course requirements with the instructor, assigned due dates
Hybrid: any combination of in person, timetabled, on campus, online, and hyflex delivery