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Programs coming soon

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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Indigenous Language Documentation

MICRO-CREDENTIAL: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATE

Documentation plays a key role in language reclamation. This new micro-credential in Indigenous Language Documentation will give you skills in audio/video recording and editing, working with archival materials, creating resources, and best practices for collecting and safeguarding Elders’ voices and cultural knowledge.

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Wound Care for Clients Experiencing Inequities

MICRO-CREDENTIAL: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATE

Learn best practices in wound management and goal-setting for clients experiencing health and social inequities. These clients include unhoused individuals, those who use substances, or those living at home with higher risk who may have limited access to care or resources for self-management. Apply the latest clinical knowledge in a context of client-centred, culturally safe and trauma-informed care. Develop collaborative strategies for optimizing care and increasing your own peace of mind. Designed for nurses, community paramedics, physicians, allied health professionals, social workers, harm-reduction workers, and others caring for clients experiencing inequities.

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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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Designing Learning for a Changing Workplace

MICRO-CREDENTIAL: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATE

In this short micro-credential, performance and learning professionals will build on their existing skills and experience to meet the changing industry needs. They will learn to design and develop programs that align with the necessities of a hybrid workforce and support employees to improve their job performance.

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Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

MICRO-CREDENTIAL: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATE

An understanding of cultural difference and ability to communicate effectively with diverse communities is critical for professionals in both local and international settings. Through a series of practice-informed and engaging learning opportunities, students will develop the critical awareness, skills and strategies needed to advance equitable and inclusive workplaces.

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Business Finance

MICRO-CREDENTIAL: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATE

The PDC in Business Finance will provide learners with a solid foundation in accounting principles and practices, forecasting, finance and investing principles for use in small and medium-sized businesses.

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Advanced Business Intelligence and Data Analytics

MICRO-CREDENTIAL: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATE

The Advanced Business Intelligence and Data Analytics micro-credential will build on the foundational learning in BIDA 301: Business Intelligence and Data Analytics Fundamentals and BIDA 302: Data Analytics Coding Fundamentals (or equivalent, for learners coming in to the program with prior analytics and coding experience), and will allow students to progress to higher-level in-demand data analysis, visualization and modelling skills.

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Marketing Communication Essentials

MICRO-CREDENTIAL: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATE

The PDC in Marketing Communication Essentials will introduce learners to marketing theory and practices, communication planning and social media communications.

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Climate Action Planning

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATE

The Climate Action Planning micro-credential (CAP) is a great opportunity to learn the foundations of planning for climate action. You will develop the skills needed for you as a professional to put into action at all government levels.

 

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Indigenous Cultural Stewardship

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATE

Weaving together a more respectful and inclusive cultural sector. This micro-credential provides the knowledge and skills to recognize, revitalize, protect and celebrate Indigenous cultural heritage. Make positive and sustainable change in the museum and heritage sector.

 

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Mapping with Drones

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATE

Do you want to take your connection to our planet to new heights? Capture detailed images from the sky for mapping landscapes and monitoring environmental change. Develop your analytical skills to identify real world features and structures in ways that allow you to provide detailed assessments of our planet. Soar to new perspectives with Mapping with Drones.

 

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Amateur Landscape and Garden Design

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATE

This micro-credential program will help you master landscape and garden design skills in just 16 weeks. You’ll gain the hands-on knowledge and practice you need to create the yard and garden of your dreams.

 

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Teaching English Language Learning

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATE

Simplify your journey as an English language learning teacher. As a K-12 teacher, you can now earn a Professional Development Certificate by completing two online courses offered through Continuing Studies at UVic.

 

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Organizational Preparedness and Adaptability

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATE

A six-week online program to help you become more proactive, rather than reactive, and to prepare your organization to withstand any crisis. Put the right plans in place to keep your organization moving forward.

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Designing Learning in a Hybrid Workplace

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATE

The workplace is changing, and many businesses are realizing the future of work is hybrid. Training employees in this new environment requires a new set of skills. You will gain the necessary skills to effectively design and deliver training for a hybrid workplace through a series of three short, online, self-paced and stackable courses.

 

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We want to continue to develop programs that are relevant to our students. Please list any topics, not currently offered by Continuing Studies at UVic, that would be beneficial to your professional development.