An examination of the challenges and opportunities of developing and diversifying resilient resource dependent cross-cultural, rural communities using Haida Gwaii's comprehensive community planning as a case study.

Examination of global vegetation, incorporating distribution, abundance, interactions between plants and other organisms, and the role of plants in different environments. Concepts will be addressed the ecosystems of the coastal temperate rainforest in general, and of Haida Gwaii in particular. Prerequisite: Third-year Standing.

Conceptual tools of systems thinking, complexity and trans-systemics to aid understanding the dynamics of socialecological transformation and social innovation. These tools will be presented and complemented by experiences on Haida Gwaii that will foster an understanding of social change and system transformation for reconciliation. Complex problems. Prerequisite: Third-year Standing.

Gender and indigeneity in the documented histories and narrated lives of Indigenous people in Canada.
Recommended pre-requisites: all of GRSJ 101, GRSJ 102, or third-year standing.

The complex relationships between mechanisms of power, gender, and representation in Asia in different spaces examined through an interdisciplinary lens.