Explore how organizations design compensation, benefits, and rewards that truly motivate people. In this course, you’ll connect strategy to pay, evaluate jobs, and examine real compensation practices and legislation in Canada and Alberta.
Business
Learn how to design and deliver training that truly engages employees and supports growth. This course blends adult learning principles with hands-on program design and facilitation skills to help create impactful learning experiences.
Business
Discover how HR professionals guide organizations through change from start to finish. This course explores real-world change management strategies, current trends, and how to support successful, lasting transformation.
Business
Step into the veterinary field and learn how clinics operate from the inside out. This course explores veterinary team roles, ethics, safety, animal welfare, and how clinics build trust and reputation in their communities.
Business
Build a strong foundation in personal financial planning and learn how financial decisions shape long-term well-being. This course also supports the CFP Core Curriculum pathway and pairs well with Financial Markets and Products.
Business
Explore how money, banking, and Canada’s financial system work together in real-world practice. This course builds the foundation for financial planning and supports the CFP Core Curriculum pathway.
Business
Learn how data shapes better business decisions. This course introduces analytics tools like Excel, SQL, and Power BI while building skills in data visualization and real-world analysis.
Business
Strengthen your drawing skills by learning how to see and build form with confidence. This course explores line, light, perspective, and composition to help you bring ideas to life visually.
Entertainment Arts
Build a deeper understanding of Autism Spectrum Disorder and its impact across the lifespan. This course develops practical knowledge to help you support individuals and families with care and confidence.
Community Studies
Learn how case managers bring people and services together to support effective care. This course explores collaboration, coordination, and advocacy across health and human services settings.
Community Studies
Explore how policy shapes health and human services and the systems behind it. This course looks at how policies are created, influenced, and changed—and the role managers play in that process.
Community Studies
Discover how technology is reshaping health and human services. This course explores real-world opportunities, challenges, and ethical considerations while building strategies for leading technology-driven change.
Community Studies
Learn how impactful health and human service programs are built from the ground up. This course develops skills in needs analysis, program design, evaluation, and data-informed decision-making.
Community Studies
Explore how inclusive employment support helps people build meaningful roles at work and in the community. This course focuses on practical approaches that support individuals with disabilities in reaching their potential.
Community Studies
Learn how websites are built from the ground up. This course introduces HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to help you create responsive, interactive web pages.
Technology
Build the core thinking skills behind software development. This course teaches you how to solve problems with structured programming, logical design, and clean, effective code.
Technology
Understand how children and adolescents grow and change across key stages of development. This course explores development theories, behaviour patterns, and the influences that shape growth from childhood into adolescence.
Explore how multiculturalism shapes Canada’s criminal justice system. This course examines diversity, Indigenous histories, and practical approaches to working effectively with communities across policing and corrections.
Community Studies
Follow how an individual moves through Canada’s criminal justice system from arrest to corrections. This course explores how police, courts, and corrections work together, and the decisions that shape each step.
Community Studies
Build understanding of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and its lifelong impacts. This course explores diagnosis, behaviour, ethics, and the supports available for individuals and families.
Community Studies
Explore how play shapes learning and development in early childhood. This course brings together Indigenous perspectives, creativity, and hands-on design of play spaces that encourage curiosity and growth.
Community Studies
Discover how early childhood education in Canada has evolved and what shapes today’s practice. This course explores policy, ethics, and inclusive approaches that support meaningful early learning experiences for young children.
Community Studies
Learn how behaviour communicates needs and how to respond with supportive strategies. This course explores practical approaches to help individuals thrive across home, school, work, and community settings.
Community Studies
Explore how society shapes the way we understand death, dying, and grief. This course examines cultural, medical, and social perspectives while encouraging thoughtful reflection on one of life’s most universal experiences.
Discover how social forces shape the way we think, feel, and act. This course explores identity, influence, prejudice, and relationships through real-world examples and interactive learning.
Explore the physics behind electricity, magnetism, and heat. This course covers circuits, fields, gases, and the fundamental laws that govern energy and matter.
Explore the big questions behind right and wrong. This course introduces ethical theories and helps you think through how we judge actions, outcomes, and moral responsibility.
Build the mathematical tools behind modern computing, engineering, and data science. This course explores matrices, vectors, and linear systems, along with key concepts like eigenvalues and transformations.
Take calculus further and into multiple dimensions. This course covers advanced integration, series, and the foundations of multivariable calculus, including partial derivatives and multiple integrals.
Take calculus further and into multiple dimensions. This course covers advanced integration, series, and the foundations of multivariable calculus, including partial derivatives and multiple integrals.
Learn how to make sense of data and turn it into insight. This course covers statistics, probability, and real-world applications across fields like health, business, and science.
Explore how films reflect and shape culture, identity, and society. This course introduces film analysis through powerful North American cinema focused on themes like race, gender, and history.
Discover how children’s literature shapes identity, empathy, and understanding. This course explores stories across genres and supports meaningful book selection through lenses of social justice and personal growth.
Explore how literature reflects culture, identity, and lived experience. This course engages with diverse voices, including Indigenous perspectives, through close reading and critical analysis.
Build a strong foundation in university chemistry by exploring how reactions behave and interact. This course connects core concepts like kinetics, equilibrium, thermodynamics, and redox chemistry through real chemical systems.
Understand how atoms come together to form the world around you. This course explores electronic structure, chemical bonding, and molecular interactions through real inorganic and organic examples.
Explore how DNA shapes life and drives evolution. This course examines inheritance, gene expression, natural selection, and the processes that create biodiversity.
Explore how living systems capture, use, and transfer energy across molecules, organisms, and ecosystems. This course connects metabolism, molecular structure, and ecological interactions to explain how life is powered.
Explore how gender shapes lived experience and social systems. This course introduces feminist theories, the history of women’s movements, and intersectional analysis of identity and inequality.
Aging, while an individual experience, is also an experience that is heavily influenced by social structures and social processes. Using the sociological perspective, this course explores contemporary aging by examining choices and experiences that transcend the individual and incorporate larger social groups and processes. In doing so, learners build a foundation in sociological concepts and theories to apply this knowledge to age-related issues. Learners consider demographic factors leading to population aging; the role of social structures and processes in shaping experiences of physical aging; as well as aging in relation to health systems, retirement, social engagement, and family in Canadian society.
In this course, learners explore how families are integrated within larger social systems; how patterns of social power and inequality shape Canadian families; as well as how and why the family is critical to the socialization process. The course culminates in the critical assessment of issues affecting families in Canada.
This course provides an introductory overview of the discipline of Sociology. Learners explore human behaviour, stratification, social institutions, and sociological theory and methods. Learners examine how social positions shape lives, and how people adjust to social and cultural environments.
This introductory course provides learners with a basic understanding and overview of the field of psychology. Attention is given to major psychological perspectives and the fundamentals of scientific thinking, biological factors, cognitive processes, social and cultural influences, personality, psychological disorders, and human motivation. Learners are encouraged to apply what they learn to their own lives and the world around them.
This course provides a comprehensive overview of human growth and development and typical behavioural responses throughout the life span. You will analyze human development across four domains: physical, cognitive, social, and emotional. Emphasis is placed upon the stages of development and their linkage to common events occurring during these stages.
This course provides an introduction to the diverse Indigenous Nations of Canada, while looking at the effects of colonialism in both historical and contemporary times, and from multiple perspectives. This course will orient learners to the current goals and challenges of Indigenous communities in Canada today. Learners are encouraged to situate themselves in Truth and Reconciliation and the Calls to Action, especially as they relate to their chosen field of work.
This first-year composition course introduces learners to academic writing and critical thinking. They read and analyze sociopolitical, cultural, and gender issues in texts with an emphasis on the experiences of people whose voices were historically silenced, particularly those of Indigenous communities in Canada. Learners develop strategies to communicate their own ideas and integrate them with those of others by quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing source material. Learners present their written assignments professionally according to APA formatting guidelines.
This course examines parametric and simulation-based hypothesis testing and associated errors. Students use confidence intervals and hypothesis testing for differences between two parameters, both parametric and simulation-based. The course also incorporates tests of association and goodness-of-fit, along with statistical modeling and parametric testing of both the simple and multiple models. Students perform diagnostic checking and analysis of variance.
Students will learn the basic principles of statistics, acquire the skills to solve elementary statistical and probability problems, and gain hands-on experience with well-known statistical software, as well as basic methods for collecting data. Students will also learn the main tools of descriptive statistics to visualize collected data, analyze data distributions, and establish correlations and regressions between random variables. The course will also cover the main tools of inferential statistics for estimating mean values and proportions by confidence intervals, hypotheses testing, and one-way ANOVA. Applications are taken from wide range of subject areas such as biology and environmental science, business and economics, health sciences, education, crime and law, politics, social studies, and sports and entertainment.
This course introduces learners to a mindful approach to developing deeper interpersonal relationships. Through a combination of theory and practice, learners strengthen their communication skills by fostering meaningful connections with others based on empathy and critical awareness of relationship dynamics. Learners examine key elements in relationships, such as self-awareness, verbal and nonverbal communication, cultural and environmental factors in communication, active listening, and conflict resolution. By integrating mindfulness practices, learners approach communication with intention in both their personal and professional relationships.
This course introduces the basic concepts of transportation and warehousing operations. Learners explore the dynamic flow and storage of materials, services, and related information from suppliers to the final customers. In this course, learners examine the theories and best practices in logistics that lead companies to achieve efficient and effective operations to serve their customers and overcome their competitors.
Business
Negotiation skills are an essential competency for any manager, especially for those in supply chain management. This course provides learners with a roadmap for leading or participating in successful negotiations. Students will focus on the negotiation process, and learn the activities and techniques to be used from the preparation stage to the actual face-to-face negotiations. The course covers understanding the other negotiator, responding to power imbalances, as well as looking beyond the deal to build longer-term relationships. Interactive activities, including negotiation simulations and role-playing exercises, feature prominently and allow for opportunities to fine-tune the student's negotiation skills.
Business
The design and management of products, processes, services, and supply chains is accomplished by an organization�s operations management function. This course examines the integration of critical business processes from planning to short-term scheduling. Topics include operations planning and productivity, capacity and strategy design, process and product design using industry standards, facility layout and location models, job and staff scheduling, and queuing theory.
Business
Supply chain management (SCM) is the movement of material and information through integrated processes in a supply chain to provide the highest degree of customer satisfaction at the lowest possible cost to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. The key building blocks of a supply chain, logistics, procurement, and operations execution, will be covered. Learners will explore the scope of SCM and its impact on organizations.
Business
Learners are introduced to concepts aimed at providing a solid foundation of marketing principles and the role marketing plays in business. Emphasizing a holistic approach, learners have the opportunity to analyze and apply the marketing mix. Key concepts include product, price, placement, and promotion (4Ps), the Integrated Marketing Communications Mix (IMC), market research, and consumer behaviour.
Business
This course introduces statistics for business disciplines. The course begins with an introduction to descriptive statistics and probability theory, then builds to a thorough understanding of theories and methods used in model building, estimation, and interpretation. Emphasis is placed on applying real data, technology, and statistical data analysis techniques to business problems to promote critical and informed business decisions and conclusions.
Business
Learners critically evaluate day-to-day economic subjects in a personal and business context. Throughout the course the economy is examined at the aggregate level with an emphasis on the determination and measurement of national income in the short and long run. The role of households, businesses, government, financial intermediaries and the international sector in influencing national income is examined. Learners analyze business cycles, money and banking, inflation, unemployment, exchange rates, and fiscal and monetary policies.
Business
This course provides hands-on learning with Microsoft Excel and its applications in today�s business environment. Learners develop skills to navigate, consolidate, and analyze data across multiple worksheets. Learners also create macros for efficient analysis, manage complex nested formulas for scenario planning, and design effective corporate dashboards.
Business
A basic understanding of key elements of the law is an essential factor in successful business management. Learners apply legal fundamentals useful in today�s fast- paced, rapidly changing business environment.
Business
This course will cover business uses of math and algebra with specific topics including: percentages; ratios, proportions and currency exchange; merchandise mathematics; break-even and cost-volume-profit analysis; simple interest; compound interest including present and future value, annuities, loans and mortgages.
Business
Both microeconomics and macroeconomics are crucial for shaping business decisions and strategies across various organizational levels. Accountants and supply chain management professionals must possess a foundational understanding of economics, as it profoundly impacts business operations. This course introduces microeconomics and macroeconomics, providing essential knowledge for informed decision-making in consumer choices, entrepreneurship, investments, and informed citizens evaluating government policies. Microeconomics examines cost-benefit analysis in decision-making, covering topics like trade advantages, price coordination, competition, efficiency-equity trade-offs, government interventions, environmental policies, and income distribution. In contrast, macroeconomics assesses the overall performance of market economies, including GDP, economic growth, business cycles, unemployment, inflation, monetary policies, exchange rates, government deficits, globalization, and trade policies.
Business
This course is aimed at providing a hands-on learning experience with a Windows operating system and computer applications (Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint) used in a business environment. Learners will develop skills and gain experience to create business documents, navigate, consolidate, and analyze data across multiple worksheets, manage professional communications, and create electronic presentations.
Business
This course enhances a learner�s confidence in business communication skills, preparing them for a professional career. Learners use strategies and techniques to develop effective communication while using digital tools. Through practical exercises focused on real-world dynamics, learners also develop interpersonal skills essential for today�s workforce. Learners are required to participate in groups for developing collaborative competence.
Business
Introduction to organizations and sustainability articulates a management approach to integrating economic, ethical, and environmental responsibilities into all aspects of organizations working to benefit society. Learners examine ethics of business and constructs of morally appropriate behavior concerning decision-making and businesses' relationship with the community. Concepts and practical approaches are used to discuss and integrate sustainability criteria with business requirements, including performance management and evolving strategies as business needs change.
Business
With today's dynamic business climate and diverse workforce, the demands of managers to engage employees, be innovative, and be adaptive have become paramount to organizational effectiveness. As a result, managers are required to demonstrate a diverse range of skills which include, but are not limited to: planning and strategic management; effective decision-making and critical thinking; organizing human capital to facilitate efficient and effective work-practices; fostering positive influence to engage a diverse workforce with a focus on employee wellbeing, satisfaction, and performance; and implementing controls to establish and measure performance. This course provides the opportunity for students to explore key management concepts and the multi-faceted role of a manager within an organization.
Business
Litigation is the process by which private disputes are resolved within the Alberta court system. This course examines the court structure and how to reference the Alberta Rules of Court. Learners explore how plaintiffs bring claims to court and how defendants can defend against those claims. Introductory steps in a civil litigation dispute are covered up to a process called �Questioning.� Knowledge is applied by preparing key documents used in the civil litigation process.
Business
This course provides a summary of the fundamental aspects of the Canadian legal system, and the role of legal assistants in that system. Principles of tort, contract, and employment law are also introduced.
Business
In this course learners are introduced to Canadian health care system structure, legislation, and information systems. Learners explore how the principles of safety, confidentiality, privacy, and security apply to the health care setting.
Business
Learners examine interdisciplinary roles and responsibilities needed to be successful in an administrative support role within healthcare. Through an exploration of wellness, resilience, communication, teamwork, diversity, and reconciliation, learners apply strategies to enhance self-awareness and workplace relationships.
Business
Learners apply their knowledge of human resource functions through multiple stakeholder lenses while aligning functions to an organization�s vision and strategy. Utilizing business scenarios, learners transition through the employment cycle adhering to legal requirements, ensuring health and safety in the workplace, and building positive work culture initiatives.
Business
The central theme of the course focuses on the relationship between thinking, human behaviour, and organizational effectiveness. Opportunity is provided for learners to experience incidental learning as they evaluate their own behaviour. Learners explore how concepts and ideas pertaining to human behaviour can transform self, relationships, and the workplace.
Business
Risk financing is a critical component for business survivability and sustainability. This course deeply explores how to finance an organization�s identified risks within the existing financial marketplace. Various finance strategies will be examined, such as self-insurance, insurance, reinsurance, captive insurers, and capital markets. Learners are introduced to contractual risk transfer strategies and how to allocate costs associated with hazard risks as well.
Business
Risk management is critical for an organization�s operation. The ability to identify, assess, manage, and monitor risks benefits a business�s sustainability and continuity in today�s evolving society. This course introduces the fundamental principles and concepts of risk management. Learners practice and apply the risk management standards, framework, process, and strategies through the course.
Business
Risk impacts our daily lives. Through the examination of insurance and risk management, learners explore risk control techniques, laws, concepts, and practices commonly encountered in the insurance industry.
Business
In this course, students will have their first look at esports from an entry-level perspective. This course will introduce topics such as the history of esports, the difference between gaming and esports, esports culture, and touch on some topics that will be taught throughout the rest of the esports business management diploma program.
Business
This course explores the concepts and key fundamentals of managerial accounting used for planning, controlling, and measuring operations. Focus is on short-term management decision-making and the techniques, methods, and systems of performance reporting and evaluation used to assist management. Learners explore a variety of costing systems, cost-volume-profit relationships, budgeting, and variance analysis, which are essential to understanding business operations.
Business
Websites and website design are important in the field of digital marketing. This course introduces the principles of website design and focuses on usability and design aesthetics. Learners explore trends in web publication and incorporate design considerations like iconography, work-flow, graphics, menus, and layout into the production of websites that address business needs.
Business
Effective keyboarding is an integral part of being successful in an office environment. Focus is placed on ergonomic touch-typing technique to master the alphabetic and numeric keyboard. Learners with keyboarding experience have the opportunity to improve their technique to achieve higher level of speed and accuracy.
Business
The �image� in interactive design, interface building, and web publishing is central to digital production. This course covers key tools, filters, and layers in the creation and manipulation of images, building foundational skills in the use of creative production software. A combination of photography, typography, drawing, computer graphics, brainstorming techniques, and production methods are addressed, as well as interactive design. Learners explore techniques combining photographic and illustrative material using imaging software to produce digital based visuals, collages, and conceptual mock-ups with both bitmap and vector elements.
Business
Overview of Canada’s health care system with emphasis on safety, confidentiality, privacy, and security.
Business
