Variant of the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2021 Version 1.0 for Alternative primary groupings

Variant of the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2021 Version 1.0 for Alternative primary groupings
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03 - Humanities

16. - Indigenous and foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics

This series comprises instructional programs that focus on Indigenous and foreign languages and literatures, the humanistic and scientific study of linguistics, and the provision of professional interpretation and translation services.

16.10 - Indigenous languages, literatures, and linguistics of the Americas

This subseries comprises instructional program class 16.1001.

16.1001 - Indigenous languages, literatures, and linguistics of the Americas

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the languages native to the Western Hemisphere. These programs include courses in philology; oral and written literatures; Inuit and Aleut languages; North American language families, including, but not limited to, Algonkian, Athabascan, Siouan, Muskogean, Iroquoian, Kumeyaay, Yuman, Mayan, Zapotecan, and Uto-Aztecan; South American language families, including, but not limited to, Andean-Equatorial, Ge-Pano-Carib, and Macro-Chibchan, and other minor languages.

  • Illustrative example(s)

    • Cree language studies
    • Dakota language studies
    • First Nations language
    • Indigenous languages and literature
    • Inuktitut
    • Iroquoian languages
    • Mi'kmaw language
    • Mohawk language
    • Ojibwe language
    • Saulteaux language studies

    All examples

  • Exclusion(s)

    • Australian aboriginal languages(16.1401)
    • Hawaiian language and literature(16.1409)
    • Indigenous language teacher education(13.1306)
    • Indigenous studies(05.0202)
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