Offered through First Nations University of Canada, the Diploma of Administration offers an in depth focus on Indigenous knowledge and worldviews. You’ll build a strong foundation in core business concepts while exploring business practices, capitalism, and value systems through an Indigenous lens. This unique approach blends current realities with new possibilities, encouraging new ways of thinking about business systems for the future.
You’ll gain knowledge in all key areas of business, including marketing, finance, accounting, and human resources, while also increasing your awareness of Indigenous governance and administration processes.
The Regina Campus is the home of this programs, with classes offered at the Saskatoon and Northern Campus via in-person, hybrid, and online. Off campus classes may also be offered through community-based programs. This program can be taken full or part-time to fit your schedule.
If you choose to further your studies after graduation, you can transfer all your hard-earned credits into a bachelor’s degree business program, opening the door to even more opportunities for personal and professional growth.
This diploma is ideal for both those looking to develop their business expertise as well as for those currently in the workforce looking to upgrade their educational background. You’ll gain an understanding of the business environment while expanding your career prospects.
What is Administration?
Administration is the study and practice of managing all key areas of business, including marketing, finance, accounting, and human resources. It involves learning how organizations operate and how to effectively oversee their processes to achieve goals.
The First Nations University of Canada’s Diploma of Administration goes beyond traditional business studies by incorporating Indigenous knowledge and worldviews. This means you’ll explore business, capitalism, and value systems through an Indigenous lens, gaining a unique understanding of governance and administration. This approach encourages you to think critically about current business realities and imagine new possibilities for the future.
Courses you may take as part of this program include:
ADMN 225 - First Nations Economic Development
This course is designed to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches to band entrepreneurial development undertaken by government agencies, research and planning groups, band organizations, band councils and individual band entrepreneurs. Problem areas and alternative approaches will be investigated in relation to the physical and social environments, external factors, and the socio-cultural environment.
ADMN 261 Introduction to Hospitality, Tourism, and Gaming Entertainment Management
This course is an introduction to management in the hospitality, tourism and gaming entertainment industries with an emphasis on concepts, issues and best practices in lodging, restaurant, tourism, and gaming entertainment organizations. The course provides a comprehensive overview and uses cases, readings and guest lectures from the industries to help students develop and expand their decision-making skills. The course offers both First Nations and non-First Nation perspective.
ADMN 305 - Philosophical Foundations of Business Management
This course introduces students to the principles and processes of how the philosophical foundations we use to construct our daily living impacts the way we manage businesses. The course is designed to give students a conceptual and practical knowledge of philosophy and its influence into the domain of problem identification, problem solving, and decision making. Students will learn to construct a paradigm of their leadership style and delve into using philosophy in their value systems, critical thinking, and use of authority.
ADMN 328 - Nation Building for Indigenous Communities
The objective of the course is to present the fundamentals behind nation building, and rebuilding, for Indigenous communities. This course is designed to increase understanding of important nation building ideas in the cultural, administrative, political and economic realms. The course will explore the major Indigenous topics of governance, cultural match and legitimacy, colonial effects, constitutions, judicial systems, administration, economic development, funding dynamics, entrepreneurship, leadership, and inter-governmental relationships.
The above requirements are subject to change. For official program requirements, please refer to the Undergraduate Calendar.