The Canadian Studies Center is privileged to have two exceptional teachers of Inuktitut: Mick Mallon, expert linguist and foremost scholar of Inuktitut, and his wife, Alexina Kublu, a native Inuktitut speaker, teacher, and government official. In Winter Quarter 2021, Ms. Kublu offered ARCTIC 302: Advanced Inuktitut.

Inuktitut is an Indigenous language in North America spoken in the Canadian Arctic. It is part of a larger Inuit language continuum stretching from Alaska to Greenland, and is a polysynthetic language, which means that words tend to be longer and structurally more complex than their English or French counterparts.

Read about the Arctic Initiative at the JSIS International Policy Institute, or learn more about the JSIS / Canadian Studies Center Arctic Studies minor.