Courses in Langford

Looking to connect with local employers and explore your next career opportunity?

Career Services at Royal Roads University and the University of Victoria invite you to an employer panel event at our shared John Horgan Campus. Join us for a relaxed, café-style networking event featuring 5-6 employers from local organizations who are actively recruiting students for part-time roles, summer positions, and early career opportunities. 

It is an exciting moment for speculative fiction—whether fantasy, climate fiction, science fiction, or horror—maybe because our moment is weird, and we need weird stories to make sense of it.

This course will explore what's happening in current speculative fiction and help you work up your own ideas for short stories. We will talk about what speculative fiction does, and develop some strategies for capturing what's weird, scary, and wonderful in prose.

Celebrate spring with on-location drawing. You will learn some basic drawing techniques and ways to approach drawing on location.

Each week, the class will meet at a different location. Please note: All locations will be discussed in class the week prior, to finalize each location. In case of inclement weather, alternate locations will be arranged.

Perfect for beginners and those seeking to improve their drawing skills. A supply list will be attached to your receipt.

This is a course for novice watercolour painters.

You will learn about watercolour paper, brush techniques and care, colour mixing and some surprisingly easy colour theory. We will do a variety of wash techniques using mixed and pure colours, dry brush and wet-on-wet. Expect to have fun and learn through still life and abstract painting exercises.

A supply list will be attached to your receipt.

Write deeply into relationship with the lands and waters you love in this place-based poetry workshop.

Build a weekly contemplative poetry practice, develop skills in several different poetic forms, and connect in meaningful ways with the locations that matter most to you.

This course welcomes both emerging and established writers.

Trust is built not in comfort, but in how we handle discomfort.

This workshop helps you build skills and competencies in dialogue to transform difficult conversations into opportunities for connection, collaboration, and cultural growth.

This hands-on workshop provides practical frameworks for initiating and sustaining uncomfortable conversations.

You will learn to balance empathy and accountability using structured approaches that promote psychological safety, inclusion, clarity and trust.

This course will look at the impact that individuals, groups and structures have on human behaviour within any modern organization, from nonprofit to public sector to private sector.

Organizations are made up of people who behave and act within certain constructs, and learning about these processes is important to understanding how to make organizations effective and productive.

In a world that often feels tense and unpredictable, how can we stay calm and balanced? How do we make sense of our life within the confusion of societal conflict?  

Buddhist wisdom teachings offer a perspective based on a profound understanding of the inner causes of suffering and happiness.  

Each class will explore practical methods for cultivating positive intentions and attitudes to navigate life’s challenges with greater peace and clarity.  

Was Nicholas II a doomed autocrat, a weak reformer, or a martyr of faith?

His reign forces us to confront the nature of power at the end of an empire. This course examines the life and rule of Nicholas II, the last tsar of the Romanov dynasty, and the dramatic collapse of Imperial Russia in the early 20th century.

Moving beyond a simple biography, we will investigate the political, social and cultural forces that shaped his reign, the structural and personal factors that led to the fall of the Romanovs, and the enduring legacy that continues to fascinate historians, writers and the public alike.

Can democracy recognize both the group and the individual? In 1762, few governments were democratic.

When Rousseau’s The Social Contract exploded on the scene, it became one of the most influential books ever written. While his ideas were foundational to modern democracy, his proposal that governments stifle individual voices for the sake of the collective remains deeply controversial.

From the height of European success, Rousseau fell from grace—his books burned, and his mind turned to paranoia. Through Rousseau’s life and works, we can better understand today’s identity and group politics.

This introductory level course is intended for complete beginners and is normally only taken once.

In this class, you will become familiar with the sounds of French and gain confidence in pronunciation. You'll also acquire basic “survival” skills in French, such as greetings and thanks.

This course is for beginners to practice oral French. It can be taken multiple times, as themes will vary each term.

This course will not prepare you for the next level. Students who wish to progress to an advanced level should register in Comprehensive French.

Register for this course if you have taken Level 1 or if you know how to: count up 20, spell your name, give your address and phone number, identify basic shapes and colours, ask/answer basic yes or no questions and speak about; yourself; your family; your work; the weather; time and date.

If you have completed German - Level 1 or have equivalent grammar and conversation skills, this course will build on that foundation.

Through role-playing, simulations and other exercises, you’ll continue to build your essential vocabulary and your knowledge of structures, idioms and cultural etiquette.

This introductory level course is designed for those who have no previous knowledge of Japanese and are eager to take up a new challenge.

In addition to learning “survival” words and phrases, you’ll be introduced to the “hiragana” and “katakana” characters, as well as the basics of Japanese grammar.

You’ll also focus on developing practical conversation skills and will be introduced to cultural aspects of life in Japan.

This beginner-level course is designed for those who have completed Japanese - Level 1 or have some prior knowledge of the language.

You will continue to improve your ability to understand, speak, read and write Japanese in practical, everyday situations. The course further develops your knowledge of Japanese culture and society while building on your hiragana skills, introducing katakana and beginning the study of basic kanji.

You will also practice expressing yourself more clearly when talking about your daily routines, past experiences, preferences, and social interactions.

This introduction to Spanish is designed for those who have no previous knowledge of the language.

Here, you will acquire basic pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar, as well as conversation skills through practice in pairs and small groups. Videos and audiovisual materials will enrich the content of your classes and teach important aspects of culture.

This course is for those who have completed Spanish - Level 1, or have a basic knowledge of the language and wish to improve their written and speaking skills.

This course gives you the opportunity to participate in class and strengthen your oral skills in a friendly atmosphere. Essential grammar points will also be covered.

Just in time for Earth Day and Mother's Day. Imagine a container that celebrates the beauty of flowering plants.

Flowers welcome pollinators of all kinds. Hummingbirds and bees will be thrilled with the possibilities this class will inspire you to create. Jeff will show you how to create container plantings that are beautiful and look amazing all through the year.

This is truly a celebration of all things beautiful.