requirements will include at least some course work through the Native Ministries Summer School and/or Iona Pacific programming in the VST Summer School. Admission Admission requires a baccalaureate degree from an accredited institution or the educational equivalent. For indigenous students, Yuuhaadax will be part of the assessment consultation. For others seeking recognition of equivalent experience or work, an assessment tool will be used. Distinctive Resources In addition to its own core and adjunct faculty, VST has available a range of resources for the program. The Iona Pacific Inter-religious Center offers expertise in the Abrahamic traditions and will bring Visiting Scholars, postdoctoral Fellows and other specialists to the degree courses. VST’s partnership with the Center for Indian Scholars, the Native Ministries Consortium and Wilp Wilxo’oskwhl Nisga’a makes available a number of traditional and academic educators in the field of indigenous knowledge. Proximity to Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia and other Vancouver-area post-secondary institutions affords other research interactions, and appropriate course credits may be accepted from some of these institutions for transfer into the MA IIS, as determined by VST.
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