Graduate
Education 5553 COIN3 - Topics in Counselling: Queer-Affirmative Counselling
Queer-Affirmative Counselling is designed to introduce new and established helping professionals to queer-affirming counselling perspectives and practices. It provides a starting place for counsellors to "do the work" to provide more intersectional, anti-oppressive, and affirmative care to 2SLGBTQIA+ clients. Part of this work includes ongoing self-reflexivity on implicit biases and assumptions around gender and sexuality so that counsellors can better identify and challenge cisheteronormative discourses in counselling and beyond.
Graduate
Education 5553 COIN4 - Topics in Counselling: Spirituality and Learning
This course will examine the relationship between counselling and spirituality. A framework for the spiritually oriented counsellor will be offered to explore topics such as forgiveness, guilt, suffering, death, various concepts of a higher power, transcendence, and mystical experience. Through reading, reflecting, and research, students will explore meaning and transcendence, the difference between religion and spirituality, and the impact openness to spirituality has on the therapeutic alliance.
Graduate
Education 5553 COIN5 - Topics in Counselling: Clinical Mental Health for School Counsellors
This asynchronous course will provide students with an overview of the various components of clinical mental health counselling as it relates to the school counsellor. This includes identifying specific mental health diagnoses associated with childhood and adolescence to enable quicker referral; preparing case conceptualizations; choosing empirically supported interventions; developing and implementing effective treatment plans in the school context; and understanding consultation models utilized in schools.
Graduate
Education 5563 - Career Development Process and Practice
This course is for students who wish to expand their career counselling competencies. It includes a major practical component and will cover such topics as career education and exploration, planning and decision making, and incorporation of computer-based programs. Students are introduced to selected interest and other preference assessment tools. Equity and diversity are taken up as central concerns in career counselling.
Undergraduate
English 1213 - Composition 1
In this course, students will read a variety of essays and articles to help them learn to write a unified and coherent academic essay. Emphasis is on formulating a clear thesis, demonstrating an awareness of purpose and audience, and developing a personal writing voice in expository essays.
Undergraduate
English 1413 - Writing & Reading Critically 1
This course introduces students to novels, plays, and poems from the twentieth century and earlier. This course will develop creative and analytical skills and will provide students with strategies for writing clearly and persuasively.
Undergraduate
English 1423 - Writing & Reading Critically 2
This course introduces students to novels, plays, and poems from the twentieth century and earlier. This course will develop creative and analytical skills and will provide students with strategies for writing clearly and persuasively.
Undergraduate
English 2013 - Exploring Creative Writing: An Introduction
An introduction to the fundamentals of creative writing including technique and process through writing, reading, lecture, discussion, and workshop participation.
Undergraduate
English 2183 - Shakespeare 1
This course will involve the intensive study of selected plays by Shakespeare. Its main goal is to help students develop both a critical and a theatrical eye. Careful attention will be paid to the complexity of Shakespeare's language, as well as to the plays' roles as cultural artefacts both today and in the past.