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Undergraduate Course> Athabasca University

Indigenous Studies (INST) 377
Topics in Aboriginal Governments (Revision 1)

Delivery mode: Individualized study or grouped study.

Credits: 3 - Social Science

Prerequisite: None.

Centre: Centre for World Indigenous Knowledge and Research

INST 377 is not available for challenge.

Overview

This is a three-credit senior-level course that explores topics that relate to Aboriginal governments in Canada. This course is divided into three sections. Part 1 looks at traditional Aboriginal governance systems before the arrival of Europeans. Part 2 looks at the impact of colonialism on Aboriginal governments, and Part 3 describes some of the contemporary Aboriginal government structures that are emerging today.

Most of the topics in this course are explained through a general survey format, supplemented by specific examples, and explored in greater depth through detailed case studies. Like most Indigenous Studies courses, the sources for INST 377 are interdisciplinary. They include academic articles and books by Indigenous and non Indigenous authors, Aboriginal oral histories, legal decisions, policy papers, and other sources. The approach of this course is to assume that emerging Aboriginal governments will be most successful where they are based on the traditional governments of the past, and incorporate traditional philosophies and laws in a modern context.
Outline

Unit 1: Traditional Aboriginal Governments
Part 1: Traditional Laws and the Natural Environment
Part 2: Political Traditions and Philosophies of Aboriginal Governance
Part 3: Treaty Making Traditions

Unit 2: Impact of Colonialism on Aboriginal Governments
Part 1: Colonialism and the Canadian Judiciary
Part 2: Conflicts Between Indigenous and Canadian Law
Part 3: Colonialism, Power and Leadership

Unit 3: Emerging Indigenous Government Structures
Part 1: The Constitution Question
Part 2: Indigenous Governance and Modern Treaties
Part 3: Towards Implementing Aboriginal Governance

Undergraduate Course> Athabasca University

History (HIST) 368
History of Canada’s First Nations
to 1830 (Revision 4)

Revision 4 opened in Moodle March 12, 2008.

Delivery mode: Individualized study or grouped study.

Credits: 3 - Humanities

Prerequisite: Three credits in either Canadian history or Native/Indigenous studies are strongly recommended.

Precluded course: HIST 368 is a cross-listed course—a course available under two different disciplines—with INST 368. HIST 368 may not be taken for credit if credit has already been obtained for INST 368 or NTST 368.

Centre: Centre for State and Legal Studies

HIST 368 has a Challenge for Credit option.
Overview

The course begins by tracing developments in the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans. Issues explored here include the diversity among and the elements common to First Nations societies; the religious beliefs of the first peoples; gender roles; relations among First Nations; and the causes of change in the organization of these societies over time. The course then traces the patterns of European-First Nations relations during the first three hundred years of continuous European involvement in the Americas. It also examines the impact of dealings with the Europeans on the social structure of various First Nations.
Outline

Unit 1: Canada in the First Nations Period

Unit 2: Enter Europeans

Unit 3: First Nations in a “British North America”

6. English Requirement

6.1 REQUIREMENTS FOR ENROLMENT
i) Placement Test. All degree program students (including CAS) must take the Academic Writing Placement (AWP) Test upon arrival on campus. Students will only be allowed to enroll for courses after they have taken the AWP.

ii) Academic and Technical Writing Courses.

All degree program students (including CAS) who have a score of less than 6.0 but at least 5.5 on the AWP are required to attend EL00.19 Academic and Technical Writing course. Those with AWP scores lower than 5.5 must take the following prerequisite courses:
EL00.13 English Composition I [for students whose AWP is less than 5.0]
EL00.15 English Composition II [for students whose AWP is between 5.0 - 5.4]
Those with AWP scores of 6.0 or higher are exempted from taking English courses.
Students are automatically registered in a particular semester for the appropriate English course based on the AWP score.
Students are to obtain a grade of ‘C’ on the required English course in order to progress to the succeeding English course.

iii) Exception. Those who have passed AIT EIT and have attained a score of 6.0 or above are exempted from taking the AWP and the English courses. The AITEIT score will automatically be considered as the AWP.

6.2 REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION. Students are to obtain a grade of ‘C’ or higher on all required English courses to graduate.

Telecomminications course for School of Engineering and Technology

AT77.9003 : Selected Topic: Advanced Wireless Communication Systems 3(3-0) [Elective course]

Rationale:

Part 1 Intelligent Transport Systems and Mobile Communications Course description: This course is focusing on the ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) technologies and new mobile communications technologies, including Inter-Vehicle communications, Road-to-Vehicle communications, mobile CATV and street cell communications. Furthermore, Radio over Fiber (RoF) technologies and Software Defined Radio (SDR) technologies are also discussed. Communications Research Laboratory (CRL) studies and developing a couple of RoF wireless communication systems. In this lecture, their system concepts and experimental system configurations are especially explained. Furthermore, a possibility of the application of RoF technology for new mobile communications systems beyond IMT-2000 is also mentioned. Part 2 Adaptive Array and New Communications Infrastructure There is a growing interest in using wireless access systems to extend broadband network service to wireless terminals. There have been proposed several new techniques and schemes to realize such kinds of systems. This lecture mainly deals with techniques of array antenna system and a succinct description of the stratospheric platform system as a new communications infrastructure. The use of an array antenna is an attractive solution to mitigate the impairment of a wireless system such as fading and co-channel interference. On the other hand, the stratospheric platform system is expected to be a new communications infrastructure that can function as both a broadband access system and an economical network system. First of all, we discuss the basic theory of array antenna, then introduce the key techniques of array signal processing such as array beamforming schemes and methods of estimating direction of arrival (DOA). We also show several demonstrations of the above methods by using Matlab simulator. Next, we treat descriptions of the stratospheric platform system. After describing the platform system, we introduce newly developed communication equipment for the stratospheric platform system and several experiments which were conducted both in Hawaii using a NASAs solar powered plane and in Japan using a helicopter and a jet plane.

Catalog Description:

Introduction to array antenna system and techniques in wireless communications: Stratospheric platform system.

Pre-requisite(s):

None.

Course Outline:

I Array antenna theory
Array antenna in wireless communications
Mechanism of array antenna
Vector-Matrix theory in array signal processing
Relationship between array antenna and FIR filter
Array signal model
Matlab programming for array signal

II Array beamforming
Array beam pattern synthesis
Array beamforming methods
Matlab programming for array beamforming
Cyclostationary beamforming

III Direction-of-Arrival estimation in array antenna
Problem formulation
Conventional methods
Parametric methods
Spectral-based methods
Spatial smoothing methods
Cyclic MUSIC
Matlab programming for direction-of-arrival methods

IV Estimation of number of signals
AIC and MDL methods

V Stratospheric platform system
What is the Stratospheric platform system
Characteristics of the Stratospheric platform system
Development of communication systems for the Stratospheric platform system
Equipment for the system
Experiments in Japan and Hawaii

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