“In Centennial College’s three-year Journalism program, you’ll develop the skills and confidence to succeed in an evolving industry. Your path will take you from the classroom to the newsroom as you develop expertise in telling and sharing the stories that people need and want to know.”

In this advanced diploma program, you will:

• Hone the critical skills you need to build a foundation for your career as a journalist or wherever communications and media skills are in demand
• Develop multimedia expertise in storytelling with words, data, pictures and video
• Expand your toolkit with advanced mobile journalism, social media, podcasting and video techniques
• Apply your skills in a collaborative newsroom, publishing your content to an award-winning community news website, www.torontoobserver.ca

As a journalist, you’ll be responsible for reporting events, interviewing newsmakers and examining the important and interesting issues of our times.

Ontario College Advanced Diploma: 3 years, 6 semesters

The School’s Commitment to Truth and Reconciliation

The School of Communications, Media, Arts and Design makes no explicit commitment to Truth and Reconciliation

Centennial College’s Commitment to Truth and Reconciliation

Innovation, Inclusion, Reconciliation and Healing Portfolio (IIRH)

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In consultation with Indigenous community members across the College and our Aboriginal Education Council (AEC), and in recognition of our commitment to reconciliation as captured in our Indigenous Strategic Framework, Centennial has dedicated September 30 as a day of reflection, engagement and learning for all of our students and employees, and will, as a result, be cancelling classes and suspending campus operations.

“We as a College are deeply committed to providing our community members with transformative education on “the history of Aboriginal peoples, including the history and legacy of residential schools, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Treaties and Aboriginal rights, Indigenous law, and Aboriginal-Crown relations” (Call to Action #57). We take this responsibility seriously to honour our commitment to the Mississaugas of the Credit and to the members of all other Indigenous Nations that have called this area home and “accept our responsibility to honour all our relations” as treaty people, because it is on their lands that we exist.”(link)

Indigenous Strategic Foundation

Pillar 3

Commitments

Support faculty as they integrate Indigenous knowledge and teaching methods into the learning environment which includes technologically enhanced learning

Calls to Action

• Integrate Indigenous components into the THLE program.
• Offer an Indigenous course for all faculty which will include history and legacy of residential schools, the Indian Act, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Treaties and Aboriginal rights, and Indigenous teachings and practices. This will require skills-based training in intercultural competency, conflict resolution, human rights and anti-racism.
• Provide ongoing just in time Indigenous academic supports and resources to faculty utilizing Elders and Traditionalists.

Call to Action # 86

We call upon Canadian journalism programs and media schools to require education for all students on the history of Aboriginal peoples, including the history and legacy of residential schools, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Treaties and Aboriginal rights, Indigenous law, and Aboriginal–Crown relations. 

Mandatory Course: No

Optional: Students enrolled in the Journalism program, can obtain a Specialized Academic Certificate

Indigenous Knowledges: First Peoples in Canada

The First Peoples program provides an opportunity for students to earn an additional credential concurrent with their diploma program. This new four course certificate program will allow students to explore First Peoples’ current issues, community, relationships, self-governance, and sovereignty within Canada.

Throughout the program students explore themes of diversity, treaties, symbolisms, rites of passage, ceremony, and the Canadian Government’s Statement of Apology to the First Peoples in Canada. Material will be presented through oral traditions, stories, art, music, dance, and symbolism. This additional credential will diversify students’ education, building on their program specific practices and employability as well as earn a Centennial College Certificate.

Students are required to take GNED 410, GNED 411, GNED 412, and GNED 500 in order to complete the credential. Two of these courses will be taken as the GNED electives. The GNED 500 remains a requirement as specified in the student diploma program. The outstanding course must be taken in addition to your model route and an additional tuition fee will be applied. 

GNED-410 – First Peoples Stories: Current Issues

GNED-411 – First Peoples Stories: Communities

GNED-412 – First Peoples Stories: Self-governance and Sovereignty

GNED-500 – Global Citizenship: From Social Analysis to Social Action

Faculty of Journalism Commitment to Call to Action # 86: 0 out of 5 = 0%

1	The history of Aboriginal peoples, including the history and legacy of residential schools
No. No explicit reference
2	The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
No. No explicit reference
3	Treaties and Aboriginal rights
No. No explicit reference
4	Indigenous law
No. No explicit reference
5	Aboriginal–Crown Relations
No. No explicit reference

Land Acknowledgement

Located inside Centennial College’s Indigenous Strategic Framework:

Centennial College is proud to be a part of a rich history of education in this province and in Toronto. We acknowledge that we are on the treaty lands and territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and  pay tribute to their legacy and the legacy of all First Peoples of Canada, as we strengthen ties with the communities we serve and build the future through learning and through our graduates. We honour and pay tribute to their citizens and ancestors for the spirit and energy that allows for Centennial College to provide the educational opportunity for all their relations. The Mississauga Nation has a strong story about their heritage and history. Like them, we are a nation of stories, and these stories are our legacy. 

Today the traditional meeting place of Toronto is still home to many Indigenous People from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work in the communities that have grown in the treaty lands of the Mississaugas. We acknowledge that we are all treaty people and accept our responsibility to honour all our relations.

NOTE: All content has been submitted to the respective faculty for validation to ensure accuracy and currency as of the time of posting. The Centennial College – School of Communications, Media, Arts and Design DID NOT RESPOND to any of the multiple Indigenous Watchdog inquiries. Managing Editor: Douglas Sinclair: Publisher, Indigenous Watchdog Lead Researcher, Timothy Maton, Ph.D