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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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Continence Care Skills for Health and Helping Professionals

MICRO-CERTIFICATE

Continence care aims to improve continence management for patients and maintain quality of life. It focuses on assessment and management, patient dignity, education, treatment options, and resources. This online micro-certificate is 12 weeks long and addresses the importance of pelvic floor health, nutrition and diet, as well as lifestyle management. The program is intended for professionals such as registered nurses, health care assistants, physiotherapists, caregivers and others who care for those managing continence issues. Participants who complete the course will learn to define and assess the types of incontinence, explore treatment options, understand the underlying medical issues involved, and provide patients with education and resources.

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Communicating Data Through Maps

MICRO-CERTIFICATE

Mapping is a powerful tool that can drive change and play critical roles in decision and policy-making applications across many fields. This micro-credential will equip you with the skills and knowledge you need to utilize maps and web-mapping applications for telling your story. Through a combination of theoretical learning and practical applications, you will learn how to collect geospatial data from a variety of sources, and integrate data and knowledge through accessible platforms to tell impactful stories through maps and other digital media. This program will boost your marketable skills and is ideal for you if you want to enhance your capability to collect, transform and effectively communicate complex geospatial data through clear and compelling narratives. 

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Geospatial Analytics for Climate Action

MICRO-CERTIFICATE

This program equips learners with cutting-edge skills in geospatial technologies to address climate change challenges. Through three specialized courses—LiDAR for Climate Change Mitigation, Mapping for Climate Action and Spatial Data for Climate Change Risk Assessment—you will gain hands-on experience in utilizing geospatial data and tools to develop actionable insights for climate resilience and sustainability. 

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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Spatial Data for Climate Change Risk Assessment

MICRO-CERTIFICATE

This micro-credential program is designed to provide participants with the expertise needed to utilize spatial data for assessing climate change risks. Through a blend of theoretical knowledge and practical exercises, you will learn how to harness geographic information systems (GIS) and other spatial data tools to evaluate and manage the risks associated with climate change. This program is ideal for professionals in environmental science, urban planning, disaster management and related fields who aim to enhance their technical skills and contribute to climate resilience and risk mitigation efforts.  

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Climate Activism

MICRO-CERTIFICATE

The Climate Activism program provides climate activists with the skills and knowledge to build practices for organizing transformational change.

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Politics, 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.

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Indigenous Governance in Canada

MICRO-CERTIFICATE

This micro-certificate provides foundational knowledge on concepts, themes and topics needed to understand and appreciate Indigenous governance. This includes historical and contemporary challenges facing Indigenous Peoples, including the Indian Act and its impact on Indigenous governance.

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Skill Building for Public Relations

MICRO-CERTIFICATE

This program will give you job-ready skills for a public relations profession. You will explore the fundamentals including public relations writing, social media, communications planning, media relations, leadership and more.

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Tourism Sustainabiliy

MICRO-CERTIFICATE

This micro-certificate addresses the response to extreme weather events and the global need for climate change mitigation and adaption. The program aims to prepare learners with the tools and knowledge to navigate environmental challenges in the tourism sector.

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Fire Ecology for Environmental Restoration

MICRO-CERTIFICATE

The Fire Ecology for Environmental Restoration program equips learners with practical knowledge to understand and treat the effects of fire on natural ecosystems.

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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.