Graduate academic calendar 2012 - 2013 - Trent University

GRADUATE PROGRAMS Canadian Studies & Indigenous Studies
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Adjunct Faculty and Research Areas
M. L. Adams, B.A. (Trent), M.A. (Kent), Ph.D. (Toronto), Associate Professor, School of Kinesiology
and Health Studies, and Department of Sociology, Queen’s University
R. Bringhurst, B.A. (Indiana), M.F.A. (British Columbia), private scholar.
M. Buddle, B.A. (Guelph), M.A. (UNBC), Ph.D. (Victoria), relationship between advertising and
consumption, the history of gender, women and families in Canada.
R. B. Gibson, B.A., (York), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto), Professor of Environment and Resource Studies,
University of Waterloo.
D. Gill, B.F.A. (Victoria), M.F.A. (Santa Clarita, California), Photographer and Professor, Department
of Art, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lethbridge.
L. Heininen, M.A. (Tampere), Ph.D. (Lapland), University Lecturer and Adjunct Professor, Faculty of
Social Sciences, University of Lapland; Adjunct Professor, Department of Geography, University of
Oulu; Chairman, Steering Committee, Northern Research Forum.
K. Niergarth B.A. (Queens), M.A. (Memorial), B.Ed. (Ottawa), Ph.D. (UNB). the relationship
between Canadian culture and politics in the 1930s and 1940s, Professor of History, Trent
L. Peers, B.A. (Trent), M.A. (Winnipeg and Manitoba), Ph.D. (McMaster), Curator, Americas,
Pitt Rivers Museum; Reader in Material Anthropology, School of Anthropology and Museum
Ethnography; Fellow, Linacre College, University of Oxford.
M. Shell, B.A. (McGill/Stanford), M.A. (Cambridge), Ph.D. (Yale), MacArthur Fellow and Irving
Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English and American Language and
Literature at Harvard University.
L. Simpson, B.Sc. (Guelph), M.Sc. (Mount Allison), Ph.D. (Manitoba), Aboriginal perspectives
on traditional ecological knowledge, Indigenous rights, resistance and colonization, Aboriginal
perspectives on health and well-being.
REGULATIONS
The general regulations and requirements of Trent University for the M.A. degree apply to the
Canadian Studies & Indigenous Studies program. Students are admitted to the program once a year
for studies beginning the following September. Applicants must have achieved an average of at
least an upper second-class standing (B+/77%) in the work of the last 10 full academic credits or
the last two undergraduate years (full-time equivalent). Students are also expected to have taken
undergraduate courses relating to Canada, or be willing to take such courses as their make-up,
usually before admission. As well, students must have a clear interest in an interdisciplinary graduate
experience. Course selection must be discussed with the Frost Centre Director.
Masters candidates can choose one of the following two options:
1. Thesis-based M.A.
– Four half-courses (2.0 credits) including CSID 5000H, “Core Colloquium”, one course from
List A (below), one course from List B (below), as well as one other graduate course from CSID
offerings.
– A written and defended thesis on an approved topic. Theses will be supervised by a committee
consisting of a primary supervisor, who must be a tenured or tenure-track faculty member
of the Frost Centre, and two other committee members from the Frost Centre. Students are
required to pass an oral defence of the thesis conducted by the committee and an external
examiner.
2. Course-based M.A.
– Six half-courses (3.0 credits) including CSID 5000H, “Core Colloquium”, one course from List
A (below), one course from List B (below), as well as three other graduate half-credit courses
from CSID offerings.
– A written major research paper, to be examined by a supervisor and one other Frost faculty
member, from a different academic unit or program from the supervisor. Policies relating to the
research paper are laid out at www.trentu.ca/canadianstudiesma/policies.php