General Studies Courses
General Studies courses may be an option for students interested in taking one or two credit-based courses but who are not currently interested in seeking a credential. Students who successfully complete General Studies courses may be eligible to transfer credit toward a certificate, diploma or degree upon formal admission to a program.
Permission to register in General Studies courses requires approval by the Dean or designate. Supporting documentation and/or prerequisites may be required.
For information about non-credit courses, visit Continuing Studies.
Upcoming Start Dates
DEMN502: Foundations in Disaster and Emergency Management
Course Description: Examines the socially constructed relationship between hazards and disasters. Introduces the key stakeholders involved with emergency management, and explores the historic and contemporary principles, policies, and legal frameworks guiding the field of practice. Analyzes different paradigms for conceptualizing the practice of disaster and emergency management in Canadian and international contexts. Credits: 3.00
| Start Date | End Date | Tuition (Domestic) | Delivery |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 10, 2022 | March 13, 2022 | TBD | Online |
HUMS641: Foundations of Policy and Practice in Humanitarian Action
Course Description: Analyzes the moral, ethical and legal basis for humanitarian action. Examines the history of humanitarian policy and practice, and considers its future trajectory in domestic and international contexts. Analyzes humanitarian actors and associated funding, coordination and accountability mechanisms and their influence on humanitarian practice. Examines principles of humanitarian action and efforts to professionalize humanitarian practice. Investigates the fundamentals of effective humanitarian action, including the modalities and the inter-relationship of assistance and protection. Pre-requisites: One of DEMN502, CAMN502, HSPB500, JUST502. Credits: 3.00
| Start Date | End Date | Tuition (Domestic) | Delivery |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 2021 | July 4, 2021 | 2248.83 | Online |
| January 4, 2022 | March 6, 2022 | TBD | Online |
| May 9, 2022 | July 10, 2022 | TBD | Online |
HUMS642: Psychosocial Interventions: Managing Stress, Trauma, and Loss
Course Description: Examines the psychology and behaviour of survivors, responders and leaders in situations of conflict, crisis, and disaster. Analyzes theory and evidence-informed practices that promote individual and collective resilience and recovery. Explores stress, trauma, grief and coping. Analyzes interventions that address the psychosocial needs of individuals and communities. Pre-requisites: One of CAMN502, DEMN502, HSPB500, JUST502. Credits: 3.00
| Start Date | End Date | Tuition (Domestic) | Delivery |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 4, 2021 | December 5, 2021 | TBD | Online |
| October 11, 2022 | December 11, 2022 | TBD | Online |
HUMS643: Ethno-political Conflicts in the Canadian Context
Course Description: Addresses the nature of and approaches to response to, community conflicts in the Canadian context, with a specific focus on ethno-political forms of conflict. Compares the manifestation of ethno-political conflict in international and domestic contexts. Pre-requisites: One of DEMN502, CAMN502, HSPB500, JUST502. Credits: 3.00
| Start Date | End Date | Tuition (Domestic) | Delivery |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 2021 | July 4, 2021 | 2248.83 | Online |
| May 9, 2022 | July 10, 2022 | TBD | Online |
HUMS651: Case Studies in Humanitarian Action: Advanced Policy and Practice
Course Description: Examines special topics in humanitarian policy and practice through comparative case study and discussion with experts in the field. Topics may vary from year to year, and will draw from current and anticipated issues of concern in a range of humanitarian contexts. Focuses on the connections between humanitarian principles and operations and their longer term development and sustainability consequences, placing particular emphasis on extracting lessons learned from recent cases. Examples may include protracted conflicts, political dimensions of humanitarian funding and action, population movements, homelessness, transition from the humanitarian stage to the development phase, and the efficacy of cross-cutting programming initiatives (e.g., gender, vulnerability). Pre-requisites: One of CAMN502, DEMN502, HSPB500, JUST502. Credits: 3.00
| Start Date | End Date | Tuition (Domestic) | Delivery |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 19, 2021 | September 19, 2021 | 2248.83 | Online |
| July 25, 2022 | September 25, 2022 | TBD | Online |
HUMS652: Adaptive Management for Complex Humanitarian Problems in the 21st Century
Course Description: Examines leadership theory, research, and practices that support resilience and adaptive planning, addressing concerns related to ill-structured, complex, and inter-related problems, and working in a range of threat environments and contexts. Prerequisites: CAMN502, DEMN502, HSBP500, JUST502. Credits: 3.00
| Start Date | End Date | Tuition (Domestic) | Delivery |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 19, 2021 | September 19, 2021 | 2248.83 | Online |
| July 25, 2022 | September 25, 2022 | TBD | Online |
HUMS653: Environmental and Resource-Based Conflict Management
Course Description: Explores the nature and impacts of conflicts related to environmental and resource management issues in domestic and international contexts. Examines diversity of perspectives and mandates of stakeholders associated with these types of conflicts, and explores strategies for engaging with these issues to support sustainable development and protect basic human rights. Pre-requisites: One of DEMN502, CAMN502, HSPB500, JUST502. Credits: 3.00
| Start Date | End Date | Tuition (Domestic) | Delivery |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 4, 2021 | December 5, 2021 | TBD | Online |
| October 11, 2022 | December 11, 2022 | TBD | Online |
HUMS661: Risk and Crisis Communication
Course Description: Examines communication needs associated with contexts of heightened concern (e.g., crisis, conflict, disasters). Analyzes theories about perception of risk. Explores theories, principles and practices of risk and crisis communication that support individuals, organizations and communities making effective risk/benefit decisions, managing fear and uncertainty, and responding to crisis. Pre-requisites: One of DEMN502, CAMN502, HSPB500, JUST502. Credits: 3.00
| Start Date | End Date | Tuition (Domestic) | Delivery |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 2021 | July 4, 2021 | 2248.83 | Online |
| January 4, 2022 | March 6, 2022 | TBD | Online |
| May 9, 2022 | July 10, 2022 | TBD | Online |
HUMS662: Professional Practice in Conflict and Change Management
Course Description: Develops core skills for professionals working in conflict and change management contexts: reflective practice, use of self, skills, process, and context of application. Examines design and implementation of sustainable and integrative changes at organisational and community levels, as well as in complex multi-stakeholder environments. Builds professional competencies for dealing with resistance and generating buy-in and ownership in change processes. (Blended course with a one week residency.) Pre-requisites: One of DEMN502, CAMN502, HSPB500, JUST502. Credits: 3.00
| Start Date | End Date | Tuition (Domestic) | Delivery |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 4, 2021 | December 5, 2021 | TBD | Blended |
| October 11, 2022 | December 11, 2022 | TBD | Blended |
HUMS671: Transdisciplinarity in Practice
Course Description: Provides students opportunities to locate settings, situations and phenomena suitable for deconstructing concepts of justice and humanitarianism. Students can work with theoretical and practical paradigms to generate strategies focused on complex justice-related problem solving that may otherwise go unaddressed. Includes the identification of suitable research methods and policy development. Pre-requisite: One of CAMN502, DEMN502, HSPB500, JUST502. Credits: 3.00
| Start Date | End Date | Tuition (Domestic) | Delivery |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 2022 | July 10, 2022 | TBD | Online |
HUMS672: Public Images of Justice and Fairness
Course Description: Evaluates a variety of evocative static and moving images of justice (broadly defined) throughout our social history in photos, videos, literature and other media. Draws on concepts of justice that transect theology, philosophy, sociology, criminal justice, the humanities and even popular culture to deconstruct various societal concepts of justice, fairness, culture, and communication. Pre-requisites: one of CAMN502, DEMN502, HSPB500, JUST502. Credits: 3.00
| Start Date | End Date | Tuition (Domestic) | Delivery |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 19, 2021 | September 19, 2021 | 2248.83 | Online |
| July 25, 2022 | September 25, 2022 | TBD | Online |
HUMS673: Indigenous Perspectives on Humanitarianism
Course Description: Provides students with opportunities to explore trends in humanitarian theory and action from indigenous perspectives. Working with members of an indigenous community or referring to existing cases, students are required to work towards the development and application of indigenous approaches to humanitarian issues. Topics will vary according to student interest and instructor expertise. Pre-requisite: One of CAMN502, DEMN502, HSPB500, JUST502. Credits: 3.00
| Start Date | End Date | Tuition (Domestic) | Delivery |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 4, 2021 | December 5, 2021 | TBD | Online |
| October 11, 2022 | December 11, 2022 | TBD | Online |
PJMN501: Managing Complex Projects
Course Description: Project managers use specific proven techniques and strategies for achieving outstanding results. Several models have evolved to provide contextual frameworks for integrating projects within an organization’s strategic goals. This course includes and examines the benefits realization approach and the SMART (strategically managed, aligned, regenerative and transitional) model. Credits: 3.00
| Start Date | End Date | Tuition (Domestic) | Delivery |
|---|---|---|---|
| March 22, 2021 | May 23, 2021 | 2320.33 | Online |
| October 4, 2021 | December 5, 2021 | TBD | Online |
| October 18, 2021 | December 19, 2021 | TBD | Online |
| October 11, 2022 | December 11, 2022 | TBD | Online |