Studying Aboriginal language a new option at York (fwd)

[William J Poser]

The title and lead of this article are misleading. York is not
introducing courses in aboriginal languages. Rather, graduate
students now have the option of writing papers, master's theses,
and doctoral dissertations in an aboriginal language, whereas
previously such work had to be submitted in English or French.

This may be innovative in making explicit provision for the use
of aboriginal languages, but York is not really the first university
to allow for work to be written in aboriginal languages. The
University of British Columbia, for example, allows theses and
dissertations to be written in languages other than English and
French with the approval of the student's department and the
Dean of Graduate Studies. My impression is that policies like
this are actually pretty common.

Bill