All Courses

Homeward Bound: A History of the House


Trace the evolution of the house in the western world from the palaces of ancient Europe to the middle-class homes of the Victorian era where our modern concept of 'home' was established. Through digital images, explore the great and influential houses that set the 'ideal' standards of their times, including the Golden House of Nero, Haddon Hall, Villa Rotunda and Strawberry Hill. We will discover the political, cultural and social reasons that dictated the development and use of the house during each period. We will explore the often-overlooked furniture, decorative arts and landscape gardens that enhanced them and made them true homes for their occupants.

Winter Intensive: Songwriting Workshop


Learn songwriting forms, how to avoid cliches, and how to marry your music with your lyrics in this intense week-long workshop. Dliscover how great songwriters created the templates for today's popular songs. Short exercises will help you break through writer's block and find your unique voice.

Business Practices in Life Sciences


This course includes an overview of business basics in the life science sector, with a focus on employment strategies, industry growth and innovation. It also includes an overview of economic indicators and key issues related to industry change and how these drive employment. Learners will be provided with insight into employment specific strategies for the life science sector and acquire the skills required to enhance your network within this field.

Topics will include:


  • Understanding the scope of the science industry including; knowledge of this sector at the international, national and regional levels
  • Networking and employment outreach in the life science sector
  • Basic business economics and business models
  • Trends in the industry and areas of expected growth for employment

Tamil for Beginners


Tamil is a language of the Indian subcontinent spoken in parts of India and Sri Lanka. It is also an official language of Singapore. Tamil is one of the longest surviving classical languages in the world, with a literature over 2000 years old. The modern colloquial language differs considerably from classical forms, and from formal, written Tamil.

Toronto is an important centre for Tamil emigrants with a lively community of restaurants and businesses, art, community services and mass media.

Project Management Office (PMO)


Organizations in all sectors of the economy are embarking on chartering project offices (PMOs) as they become mature, and see value in, providing support to the Project and Program Managers in their pursuit of effective portfolio planning and management. A PMO allows an organization to ensure projects are consistently delivered on-time, within budget, with high quality and meet customer requirements, and stakeholder's expectations.

This course takes a holistic approach to the topic and covers both the foundational and advanced concepts of projects and program management. The participants are taken through a learning journey where key concepts are reviewed while providing an opportunity to work on the development of a plan for setting up their own PMOs; a plan that can be executed upon successful completion of the course. The participants will also learn how to manage and grow an existing PMO.

This course is designed for PM practitioners, department heads, PMO staff, managers of PMs, New and experienced project managers and others who want to know what a good PMO is and how to build and maintain one.

The course materials will be reinforced with


  • Industry case studies
  • Hands-on exercises
  • Shared Project Management Office and Project Leadership experience through open class discussion