At Red Crow Community College in Cardston, Canada, Indigenous Language and Culture Diploma is offered as a diploma in Indigenous Focus programme. The programme runs for 2 years, delivered on campus.
At a glance
Degree:Diploma
Field:Indigenous Focus
Duration: 2 years
Delivery: On Campus
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The Indigenous Language and Culture Diploma is a two-year, full-time program centred on the reclamation, revitalization, and strengthening of Indigenous languages, with a focus on Blackfoot. Delivered at the main campus on the Blood Reserve in southern Alberta, the roughly 24-course curriculum covers spoken Blackfoot, grammar, vocabulary, sentence construction, and pronunciation alongside cultural competency topics such as Blackfoot values, sign language, storytelling, and ceremonial practice. Applied coursework addresses using the language in workplace and healthcare settings and building teaching methodology and instructional design skills, and students take part in project-based community engagement with cultural liaisons. Classroom instruction is combined with ceremonial mentorship from Blackfoot elders and knowledge keepers, and courses are taught by Alberta Education certified instructors together with Blackfoot scholars. Admission requires a minimum grade in English 30-1, an overall minimum grade point average, demonstrated college-level reading and writing, evidence of prior engagement with language learning, and reference letters including one from a Blackfoot-speaking scholar. The program suits adult learners aiming to become language educators, cultural liaisons, or community leaders in Blackfoot language revitalization.
Requirements
Minimum GPA:65.00 / %
Admission Requirements: Admission requires English 30-1 completed at a minimum of 65%, or an equivalent overall minimum grade of 65%, plus the college's Accuplacer assessment demonstrating college-level reading and writing. Applicants must show demonstrated initiative in learning language, through prior coursework or self-identified interest; some familiarity with Blackfoot (Siksikaitsitapi) knowledge is noted as beneficial though not mandatory. Two confidential letters of reference are required, along with a letter of support from an Eminent Scholar who is a member of the Blackfoot-speaking people. No IELTS, TOEFL or other standardized English-proficiency score is published on this page or on Red Crow Community College's general admission page, which likewise states no institution-wide language-test requirement and directs applicants to each programme's own listed prerequisites. No criminal-record check, immunisation or work-experience condition is stated.
Application Details
Start Date:Fall
Application Deadline:Red Crow Community College's admissions page states applications are assessed on "a first-qualified, first-accepted basis" processed by the date transcripts and other requirements are received, with no fixed opening or closing date published for domestic applicants and no separate international timeline stated. The college separately publishes band-funding deadlines tied to the Fall (September-January, funding deadline June 15) and Winter (January-June, funding deadline November 30) semesters, but these govern sponsorship funding rather than the admissions decision. Admission itself is rolling for both domestic and international applicants, with no equal-consideration or firm date published. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
