Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Community Development
Program start dates
Online
| April 23, 2012 | schedule, costs & curriculum |
Designed and delivered in collaboration with faculty and experts–such as Dr. Ann Dale, Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Community Development and Trudeau Foundation Research Fellow – this six-month, interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Community Development program will enhance your leadership skills, and impart the essential economic, social, environmental, and cultural knowledge and skills needed to develop sustainable communities. The program’s flexible schedule allows you to further your education while maintaining professional and personal responsibilities.
This program is focused around three leverage points. These leverage points create the gateway for students to apply their learning directly into a Community of Interest which will become the focus of each of their courses in this program and culminate in delivering a capstone project. The Community of Interest will be introduced in the residency and continue to be a focus of applied learning in two distance learning courses – the first focused on Community Engagement and the second on Exploring Structural Foundations of community.
Who it’s for
If you are a professional who wants to play a vital role in building tomorrow’s resilient communities, the Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Community Development program builds your foundation of best practices for sustainability and community engagement.
If you are a professional who wants to play a vital role in building tomorrow’s resilient communities, the Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Community Development program builds your foundation of best practices for sustainability and community engagement.
Applicants who do not have the formal academic education to qualify for admission may be assessed on the basis of both their formal education and their informal learning, in accordance with the Flexible Admission Policy.
Outcomes
- Understand community in the context of its environment, eco-region and evolution-to-date
- Design capacity-building systems to the highest standards for people, organizations, communities and cities
- Develop strategies for evaluating, decision-making and civic engagement.
Additional information
Read about Dr. Ann Dale’s current research related to sustainable community development.
