Looking to refresh your skills or to develop new ones for our changing world? We are working on a number of exciting new programs exploring the latest in a wide range of topics, taught in small-class and online learning environments. Join our email lists below and we'll let you know once details become available.
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Skill Building for Public Relations
MICRO-CERTIFICATE
This micro-credential is designed for new practitioners who want to boost their confidence, credibility and skills in the field of public relations. Over 12 weeks, learners will explore the fundamentals of public relations, such as writing, social media, communications planning, media relations, leadership and more, through hands-on activities, practical tools and templates, and real-world examples. Upon completion, learners will possess job-ready skills and a deeper understanding of their career path within the public relations profession.
Indigenous Led Climate Action
MICRO-CERTIFICATE
This program explores Indigenous understandings of climate change, and its responses, with a particular emphasis on developing skills for respectful and effective collaboration in support of Indigenous priorities.
Public Policy and Climate Action
MICRO-CERTIFICATE
This program provides insights into the policy and political contexts that shape climate action across scales from local to global, including relevant institutional and governance innovations. You will gain skills and strategies for engaging and overcoming stagnation and polarization—and develop strategies that are responsive to climate science—as well as the social and ecological impacts of climate change.
Mobilizing Climate Action
MICRO-CERTIFICATE
This program provides skills and knowledge to build practices for organizing transformational change including strategic landscape analysis, effective communication and alliance-building strategies, as well as navigating cultural and institutional impediments to change.
Community Energy Transition Strategies
MICRO-CERTIFICATE
A federal government-mandated push towards net-zero by 2050 has highlighted the issue of how to transform community energy plans from a reliance on fossil fuels, high emission energy sources and waste, to clean energy systems that are viable, resilient and renewable. This program equips you with practical tools and strategies to undertake the transition to clean energy.
Project and Change Management for AI Integration
MICRO-CERTIFICATE
Discover how AI impacts project management by exploring the role of AI in project selection, execution and monitoring. Change management principles, including expectations and challenges from relevant parties, will be addressed through an AI lens—facilitating a smooth transition to AI-enhanced project practices.
Applied Data Science for Climate Change Adaptation
MICRO-CERTIFICATE
Learn how data science is being used to make decisions and mitigate climate change issues. This program will prepare you with the advanced data science skills necessary to understand and address the complex challenges of climate change adaptation.
Fire Ecology for Environmental Restoration
MICRO-CERTIFICATE
Wildfire management is among the most challenging and pressing issues in British Columbia today. As annual wildfires continue to escalate, this program equips learners with the practical skills and knowledge to understand and treat the effects of fire on natural ecosystems; prepare communities to respond to wildfire threats; and create ecosystem resilience. A broad range of ecosystems and conditions will be studied through intensive in-class and on-site learning, along with practical online applications.
Tourism Sustainability
MICRO-CERTIFICATE
With extreme weather events occurring more and more frequently, and ambitious new targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, there is a growing need worldwide for climate change adaptation. Through flexible online learning, the Micro-certificate in Tourism Sustainability is designed to foster an understanding of sustainability and enhance the skills of individuals currently employed or seeking a career in the tourism sector. You will learn fundamentals of greenhouse gas emissions reduction, climate change mitigation and adaptation within a tourism context, and have a chance to apply global frameworks within your own workplace context. Help strengthen the resiliency of the tourism sector, conserve our natural environment, and empower the industry to take the necessary steps for climate adaptation.
Global Communication Skills for Academia
MICRO-CERTIFICATE
The Global Communication Skills for Academia program is ideal for graduate students and scholars who speak English as a second or additional language. This micro-certificate program will develop and improve your overall language proficiency—with a focus on effective oral and written communication skills—and presentation skills for academic purposes. You will also learn relevant soft skills for in-person or virtual networking and enhanced communications.
Shxun’utun Sul’hween - Footprints of the Ancestors: Pathways to Reconciliation
CERTIFICATE OF PARTICIPATION
Shxun’utun Sul’hween/Footprints of the Ancestors: Pathways to Reconciliation is an elders and youth gathering for everyone involved in education, health care and public service. Participants will engage in cultural activities offered by Elders from the Snaw-Naw-As First Nation in cooperation with respected Elders and Knowledge Keepers from neighbouring Coast Salish nations.
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