Online and Remote Learning

Learn where and when you want.

SCS is committed to making learning as accessible as possible both locally and across the globe. We are continuously expanding our list of over 540 online learning opportunities. From languages to accounting, we offer flexible learning opportunities.

Our online courses are instructor-led and delivered through the University of Toronto’s Learning Management Engine – Quercus. Quercus uses weekly, real time modules and has tools for engagement and community building. Course preparation has built in flexibility so you can read, study, and complete assignments on your own time.

You will communicate with your instructors via discussion boards and/or email. Some online courses include live, interactive webinars. If you’re unable to attend the live webinar, you will be able to view a recording of the webinar on your own schedule.

You may also want to investigate funding opportunities available to you on our Financial Assistance page. Your path to lifelong learning is more attainable than you think!

This course is for you if you're ready to take on more difficult Japanese grammar, idioms and complexities and to immerse yourself in a language with underlying principles very different to those of English. You'll have opportunities to communicate in Japanese at a more subtle level in real-life situations such as shopping, the workplace and daily life. You'll appreciate more about Japanese culture and business practices, history and art. To determine your Japanese language level, please take a moment to complete our Japanese Placement Exercise before registering. Expand your vocabulary for everyday topics and activities. Understand specific information such as that on menus and signs.
  • Spring/Summer - 26
  • Winter - 26
  • IN-CLASS
  • ON-LINE
  • St. George Campus
The better your French, the greater your opportunities in Canada's civil services and other fields, including law, politics, hospitality and translation. If you've successfully completed 1563 - French: Level IV or have the equivalent skills, this course will help make your speech more precise and complex. You'll be able to discuss social issues with greater confidence and express your point of view. You'll be comfortable writing on topics like art, media and the environment and describing your experiences and impressions. Reinforce overall proficiency in everyday and job-related language. Understand the main points of radio or TV programs on current affairs or topics of personal interest. Gain a more thorough command of grammar, syntax and vocabulary.
  • Spring/Summer - 26
  • Winter - 26
  • IN-CLASS
  • ON-LINE
  • St. George Campus
The better your French, the greater your opportunities in Canada's civil services and other fields including law, politics and hospitality. If you've successfully completed 0652 - French: Level V or have the equivalent skills, this course will help you speak more fluently and spontaneously. By the course's end, you should be able to enter into conversation, without preparation, on topics that are familiar or pertinent to everyday life and work. Reinforce overall proficiency to express experiences and events, hopes and ambitions. Connect phrases so you can explain ideas and plans and express opinions. Narrate a story or relate the plot of a book and describe your reactions.
  • Winter - 26
  • ON-LINE
Refresh your French grammar while developing more fluency in everyday communications in spoken and written French. We’ll focus on practising grammar, both oral and written. We’ll cover more advanced grammar structures in the past, present, and future to allow you to handle more complex everyday situations as well as express nuanced thought with the subjunctive and the conditional. Use COD and COI pronouns effectively. Structure complex sentences using subjunctive thereby nuancing expression. Refine your understanding of past tenses. Understand greater range of negative structures (adjectives, pronouns, adverbs and conjunctions…). Express obligation, intention, capacity, permission, advice or regret with subjunctive.
  • Winter - 26
  • ON-LINE
This self-study course builds your skills in translation, always in demand in the Canadian civil services, law, business, literature and media. It's for those who have completed 0662 - Translation: French Level II and are ready to produce more complex translations, preserving the essence and integrity of the original. All materials are provided in PDF format and you communicate with your instructor by email and webinar.  Translate more complex material. Use precise French phrases and elegant sentence structure. Avoid anglicisms and awkward syntax. Increase the subtlety and nuance of your translations.
  • Winter - 26
  • ON-LINE
If you have completed 0663 - Translation: French Level II and are already producing more nuanced and complex translations, this self-study course will build your skills in translation, always in demand in the Canadian civil services, law, business, literature and media. All materials are provided in PDF format and you communicate with your instructor by email and webinar.  Handle challenging translations with confidence. Use elegant sentence structure, syntax and phrasing. Avoid anglicisms and awkward syntax. Write subtle and nuanced translations.
  • Spring/Summer - 26
  • Winter - 26
  • ON-LINE
You've had success in SCS 0669 French Level II, or already possess the equivalent basic grammar and conversation skills. Now, you can expand your vocabulary and learn more structure, idioms and cultural etiquette with this course. By exploring some of the complexities of conversational French, this course builds on the language skills you already possess. Students who take this course are already comfortable giving directions, such as how to go from your home to your workplace, comparing objects and using with adequate adjectives and adverbs, and expressing what they can and cannot do. Classroom role-playing and other interactive exercises reinforce the skills you need to exchange advice and points of view. In this course, you will learn to talk about the past using different past tenses, discuss historical events and processes, compare the past and present situations and habits, and describe situations using more complex syntax like relative clauses. On a personal level, students will be able to talk about their biography, past experiences, and career choices. The School teaches standard international French and standard Quebec French in cases where differences occur. To determine if French Level III is the right fit for you, please take a moment to complete our French Entry Level Self-Assessment. Correct grammar usage, syntax and vocabulary. Correct using of different negation forms. Learning how to describe historical events using the right tenses. Talking about events that occurred in the past, mostly within your own experience. Use relative and indirect personal pronouns. Utilizing more complex grammatical structures to expand conversational ability.
  • Spring/Summer - 26
  • Winter - 26
  • IN-CLASS
  • ON-LINE
  • St. George Campus
This course is an introduction to the structures of spoken and written French. You'll learn both standard international French and standard Québécois French when they are different. By the course's end you'll learn to greet people, express likes and dislikes, ask and answer simple questions, write a simple postcard or email and fill in simple forms. Weekly written homework reinforces and advances your grasp of grammar, syntax and vocabulary.   To determine if French Level I is the right fit for you, please take a moment to complete our French Entry Level Self-Assessment.   Speak and understand full sentences about simple everyday situations using correct grammar, syntax and vocabulary. Begin to imitate French pronunciation. Begin to understand the logic of French sentences and tenses.
  • Spring/Summer - 26
  • Winter - 26
  • IN-CLASS
  • ON-LINE
  • St. George Campus
Build on the basic skills you developed in 0667 - French: Level I or already possess. Weekly assignments will expand your vocabulary and grammar skills so you can take part more fully in conversations. You'll gain a greater grasp of idioms and cultural etiquette. You'll be able to participate in social events at a basic level, give simple instructions and directions, and describe people and places in a simple way. You'll learn standard international French and standard Québécois French where there are differences. To determine if French Level II is the right fit for you, please take a moment to complete our French Entry Level Self-Assessment. Form and understand simple but complete sentences. Use appropriate grammar, syntax and vocabulary in some everyday situations.
  • Spring/Summer - 26
  • Winter - 26
  • IN-CLASS
  • ON-LINE
  • St. George Campus
If you already have some background in finance, accounting or auditing, this course will take you deeper inside complex business entities. You'll learn how partnerships, corporations and foreign currency transactions work and how to analyze consolidated financial statements. You'll learn more about six principal areas of advanced financial accounting: standard-setting in Canada and internationally, financial instruments and income tax allocation, long-term inter-corporate investments, consolidation, foreign currency translation and the translation and consolidation of foreign subsidiaries, and not-for-profit and public-sector accounting. Understand accounting for long-term investments. Be more familiar with business combinations and structures. Appreciate the importance of consolidation. Be more aware of accounting standards and global currency forces.
  • Spring/Summer - 26
  • Winter - 26
  • ON-LINE

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