This interdisciplinary certificate is available to all Yale College students who wish to strengthen their knowledge of Indigenous languages, cultures, sovereignty, history, literatures, and lifeways across the curriculum. This certificate provides a range of courses across Departments and Programs in Yale College which center Indigenous content and offers a community of student, faculty, and researchers engaged in common intellectual and academic development.
Certificate students will engage in making connections across the curriculum: across Departments in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences. The certificate encourages students to think about relationships between past and contemporary issues and how themes of Indigeneity (such as sovereignty and environment) emerge across disciplines. Students are encouraged to engage in independent research and to participate in local and wider community events.