Graduate
Education 5113 - Qualitative Research in Education
This course examines the traditions and paradigms of interpretive research in educational contexts. Practical, ethical, and theoretical issues are shared through class readings, discussion, and practical application. Opportunities are provided for students to learn and practise a variety of interpretive research methods and strategies. Students actively engage in analysing data from a variety of interpretive perspectives. The intended outcome of the course is to provide students with skills and understandings in a wide range of interpretive research approaches that can be put into practice in classrooms and other research settings.
Graduate
Education 5513 - Research Design in Education
This course is designed to provide an introduction to multiple paradigms and approaches to research design. Emphasis is placed on participants reading, understanding, and critically engaging with research literature and developing a grounding in ethical best-practices for research with human subjects. Moreover, a focus of the course is on applying the methodologies used to design, analyze and interpret educational research.
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 5553 COIN7 - Topics in Counselling: Neurodiversity and Self-Care
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.