Apply to our Winter 2025 Semester!

Apply now for Dechinta’s next accredited courses! This winter we will be offering four courses in Chief Drygeese Territory (Yellowknife). The deadline to apply is October 11th, 2024.

If you have any questions about applying for a semester at Dechinta, please email: studentsupport@dechinta.ca

Winter 2025 Course Info

Chief Drygeese Territory 

This year we will be offering three courses for our upcoming winter semester on Chief Drygeese Territory (Yellowknife) – INLB 240/250, INLB 201/301 and INLB 210/310. We invite both alumni and new students to join us for our land-based academic programming this fall.

  • Climate Resilience and the Dene Laws (INLB 250/450) | February 17-21st, 2025: Using Dene Laws as a foundation, we will investigate ways of meeting the needs of our people in this present moment and building beyond. We will discuss the Dene Laws as a form of mutual aid, and ways to strengthen Indigenous self-determination, our connections to land and each other in the face of climate disaster. Lectures will explore the colonial roots of climate catastrophe in the north, Indigenous Knowledge and climate change, and organizing for climate resilience.

  • Political Economies of the North (INLB 201H/301H) | February 24-28th, 2025

  • Land and Indigenous Self Determination in Theory and Practice (INLB 210 AND INLB 220) | March 23-April 1st, 2025: INLB 210 explores what Dene land based practices teach us about self determination from the individual to the nation. Using Indigenous knowledge, storytelling, and various land-based activities led by Elders, participants will deepen their understandings of self-determination from withinside Indigenous cultures, and together we will begin to imagine worlds beyond colonialism, capitalism and heteropatriarchy. INLB 220 is a 100% land-based course, and requires that students have taken a previous Dechinta course in order to attend. Although these courses can be attended separately, priority will be given to students who intend to take both courses together. Students will receive credits for both courses.

Scholarships to cover tuition are available, and childcare and onsite accommodations are provided! These winter courses can also work towards the Dechinta’s Certificate in Land and Community Based Research.

How to Apply

1.

Download and complete the UBC application form below. Fill it out, save it, and attach it to the Dechinta application form in step three.

2.

Get a copy of your post-secondary transcripts (if applicable) and attach them to the Dechinta application form in step three

*Note: If you are currently enrolled in a post-secondary institution you will also need a letter of permission from your current post-secondary institution to apply.

3.

Complete the Dechinta application form below, attaching your UBC application form and transcripts to the application