Display title: StrongerBC Future Skills Grant – Indigenous Language Documentation

The Indigenous Language Documentation micro-certificate provides training for those looking to engage in language documentation and reclamation initiatives. Learners will gain skills in documentation and recording, learn proper protocols for working with knowledge keepers and archival documents, create new materials for Indigenous language revitalization, and gain a better understanding of intellectual ownership of Indigenous intangible cultural property. Participants in this credit program will gain essential skills for employment. This includes activities such as audio/video recording and editing, creating resources and best practices for record collection, and language revitalization projects at the community and government level.

Program outcomes

Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to:

• make and edit new audio recordings
• effectively engage Elders and other individuals in the recording process
• digitize and preserve audio and video recordings created on old media
• edit and engage with recordings done by other people
• manage and store data in a way that respects data sovereignty and intellectual property rights
• create new resources using audio and video
• make an authentic and relevant contribution to Indigenous language revitalization efforts in your own
  community

Please view the program page for detailed program information.

Please note the following important information about the StrongerBC future skills grant program:

• Funds for approved StrongerBC future skills grant programs will be charged against your StrongerBC future skills grant accounts for all program expenses, which may include program application, tuition, and/or materials.
• All program expenses are non-refundable against your StrongerBC future skills account at the withdrawal deadline for the first course in your program of study.
• Learners are responsible for registering in all required program courses. Program staff are not responsible for providing registration reminders to learners with outstanding courses.
• Learners who do not register or complete courses required for their micro-credential completion through the duration of the 2024/25 funding period will be required to pay for any outstanding program and course expenses if they choose to complete their program at a later date. Learners who do not receive a passing mark for their required program courses will not receive a micro-certificate, nor will they be eligible to receive additional StrongerBC fees to re-register in the course they did not successfully complete.
• We are unable to reimburse expenses toward textbooks or materials if purchased individually.