“Help yourself and help one another.”
CONVOCATION
SPRING 2022
Congratulations
Indigenous Languages
Fall 2021 and Spring 2022
Graduating Class!
Credentials awarded:
Certificate in Indigenous Language Proficiency (58 Graduands & 11 Graduates)
Bachelor of Arts: Minor in Indigenous Languages and Minor in Sociology (1 Graduands)
Haíɫzaqvḷa
Hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓
Hul'q'umi'num'
Kaska
Western Secwepemcstin
The above credentials will be conferred in
Ceremony A
Tuesday, JUNE 7, 2022, 09:45 Hrs.
Watch Ceremony A Live (Link TBA)
(excerpt pages with INLP credentials: TBA)
Elder, Ruby Peter, 2019 Honorary Doctorate
(SFU Convocation Photo Depository 2019)
Summer 2022
Graduating?
Applications now accepted for students who will be eligible to graduate in the SUMMER 2022 Academic Term.
Visit our Graduation webpage for details and application form: www.sfu.ca/inlp/graduation
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CONVOCATION FALL 2021
Congratulations to
Indigenous Languages
Summer 2021
Graduating Cohort!
Credentials awarded:
Certificate in Indigenous Language Proficiency
Diploma in Indigenous Language Proficiency
Bachelor of Arts: Minor in Indigenous Languages (with Extended Minor in Linguistics)
Eastern Secwepemcstin
Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Snichim
Southern Tutchone
Watch Ceremony A
Fall 2021 Convocation Program
(excerpt pages with INLP credentials)
Spring Term/Summer 2021 Convocation Stories
New Generation of Yukon First Nations Language Speakers Honoured along side Elders
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Donna M. Modeste is the first recipient of the new Minor in Indigenous Languages in her BA degree.
Click [ Profile Story ] to ready more.
See also (from 2020):
First cohort of Hul’q’umi’num’ speakers graduate with Indigenous Languages diplom ____________
Visit also SFU Convocation website for other information and celebration tools
www.sfu.ca/convocation
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to view list of Indigenous Languages credentials conferred in Spring 2021 (June) Convocation.
Congratulations Graduates!
Master of Arts
Linguistics in a First Nations Language
Special Arrangement Cohorts
Spring 2021 / June Convocation
- MA - Marston, Luke (Spring 2021)
- MA - Guerin, Evangeline (Fall 2021)
- MA - Morris (Thorne), Tara (Fall 2021)
- MA - Tommy, Marlene (Fall 2021)
Undergraduate Credentials on First Nations Languages Academic Programs to be conferred:
- BA - Modeste, Donna M.
Double Minor in Indigenous Languages and Extended Minor in Linguistics (Spring 2021) - Diploma in First Nations Language Proficiency (2 graduands)
- Certificate in First Natoins Language Proficiency (10 graduands)
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Graduate Certificate in Indigenous Language and Linguistics
NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
for HUL'Q'UMI'NUM'
Language Cohort
Program begins FALL 2022.
Graduate Certificate Application Deadline:
June 1, 2022
Contact INLP Office1
Interested applicants:
If you are new to SFU, Graduate Admission Applications may be submitted via at the SIS (a.k.a. GoSFU.ca):
Go to GoSFU.ca and click on the link named "Graduate applicants sign in" and follow instructions. (Video)
Remember to order any official transcripts (from those academic institutions you have attended/are attending) before and by the same day you submit your graduate admission application to SFU. (For graduate admission, please send official transcripts to Graduate and Post-doctoral Studies, G&PS, at SFU.)
Have questions:
Contact inlp@sfu.ca with subject:
2021-22 Graduate Certificate INL/LING - [ Your name ].
1 Application deadline June 1, 2022.
Indigenous Languages Program
FNLP is now INLP
As of its meeting of September 24th, the SFU Board of Governors confirmed approval of the new "Indigenous Languages Program" business name.
In addition, the two Proficiency credentials titles for CFNLP & DFNLP, are approved to be respectively renamed in 2021 with the term 'Indigenous' in the title (CINLP & DINLP).
September 24, 2020
Elder Ruby Peter and Hul'q'umi'num' Language and Culture Society featured in CBC News
CBC News published an article highlighting the work Elder Ruby Peter and the Hul'q'umi'num' Language and Culture Society has done to preserve the Hul'q'umi'num' language. This past spring, four generations of Elder Peter's family received university honours from SFU.
NEWS AND EVENTS
To view latest news and events, visit: www.sfu.ca/inlp/news.html
Convocation 2020
Master of Arts
Linguistics in a First Nations Language
(Special Arrangement Cohorts)
Summer 2020:
- MA Project - Victor Guerin (August 26, 2020)
"xu’athun stl’q’een’: hwulmuhw perspectives on art and language"
- MA Thesis Defence - Rae Anne Baker Claxton (August 20, 2020)
"lhwet ’a’lu kw’u xwi’em’? hwi’ ’een’thu tse’!: How I learned to tell and perform a Hul’q’umi’num’ story" - MA Thesis Defence - Zack Gilkison "How What Was Said Was Said: Quotation in Hul’q’umi’num’ Narrative Performance"
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Bachelor of Arts
Donna M. Modeste
Spring 2021: BA Double Minor
Minor in Indigenous Languages and
Extended Minor in Linguistics
Julienne Ignace
Fall 2019: Major in Linguistics; & DFNLP (Secwepemctsin Language Cohort)
Master of Arts
Linguistics in a First Nations Language
(Special arrangement cohorts)
Spring 2020:
Gina Salazar's MA project
is titled "Angry Raven and friends: Three new stories for Hul'q'umi'num' language learners."
Fall 2019:
Ivy Seward's MA project is titled "Wind from the North: Hul’q’umi’num’ speakers in Saanich."
Summer 2019:
Regena Seward-Wilson's MA project is titled "ni’ q’ushintul’ ’u tunu shhw’alukw’a’ | Traveling with my family: Growing and learning in the Hul’q’umi’num’ language".
INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES PROGRAM
The SFU Indigenous Languages Program (INLP), formerly, First Nations Languages, is inspired by and a continuation of the award-winning SFU Kamloops Program from which Indigenous Studies programs, Indigenous language proficiency programs and language courses were originally developed and offered. Between 1988 and 2011, more than 400 students graduated from SFU Kamloops Program with SFU credentials, including Certificates, Diplomas, BA, BGS and BEd degrees. Through Community Academic Outreach Programming (FNEP), students completed Major and Minor programs in concentrations such as Anthropology and Sociology, Linguistics, Indigenous Studies, and Archaeology.
The mission of INLP and its Community Academic Outreach programs since our inception has been the collective and individual empowerment of Indigenous peoples through education, taking into account First Nations' own knowledge systems, histories, ways of being and learning. Aware of the powerful role that Indigenous languages and language revitalization play for the present and future identity, well-being and wholeness of Indigenous peoples and communities, the Indigenous Languages Program works with speech communities and organizations to enable Indigenous language learning off campus in First Nations communities. Since 1993 and in partnership with Indigenous organizations, we have offered courses in some 18 languages in British Columbia and Yukon.
Our Program motto is “Help yourself and help one another."
For further information or consultation about the following, please visit www.sfu.ca/inlp
Last updated February 19, 2021
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