The First Nations Studies Program at UNBC focuses on various issues:

• contemporary issues
• research methods (including oral history)
• First Nations languages and cultures
• land and resource use and environmental philosophy
• art and material culture
• religion and spirituality
• the state, gender and legal issues

The UNBC region includes the territories of 16 Tribal Councils and 77 bands, four Metis organizations, and 10 Friendship Centres. UNBC is developing a prominent presence in First Nations Studies to work in partnership with these groups.

Graduate Degree (30 Credit Hours)
- First Nations Studies, MA

Bachelor's Degree (120 Credit Hours)
- First Nations Studies, BA

Diploma
- Aboriginal Health Sciences
- First Nations Language

Certificates (30 Credit Hours)
- Aboriginal Health Sciences
- Aboriginal Community Resource Planning
- First Nations Studies
- First Nations Language
- First Nations Public Administration
- Metis Studies
- Nisga'a Studies
- Traditional Environmental Knowledge

Weekend University
- Cariboo Chilcotin Weekend University