Online and Remote Learning

If you want hands-on experience in digital mapping and basic spatial analysis using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), this online course is for you. You’ll start with foundation concepts such as digital data, scale and map projections, then learn to input and store data, create maps and analyze geographic problems. Blending theory and practical skills development, you’ll explore a real case study that applies high-resolution aerial photography and the latest GIS techniques to determine whether brownlands in Toronto are suitable for reclamation and residential development. Acquire and input data from a range of sources. Create and edit data using different file formats. Store spatial data in geodatabse and run queries from tabular or spatial data. Perform basic types of vector spatial analysis such as map overlay. Design a quantitative map to communicate analysis results. Approach a GIS-related problem with confidence, knowledge and skill.  

Build on your knowledge of GIS-based spatial analysis and data modelling for environmental management in this advanced course. You’ll delve into techniques and functions that yield better analysis of spatial data. You’ll learn patterns and processes that underpin features in spatial databases. You’ll analyze indicators of environmental risk, create and analyze three-dimensional surfaces, visualize geospatial data clearly, and understand point patterns and spatial autocorrelation. You’ll emerge better prepared to implement GIS-based analysis and modelling, and manage projects that use them. Make informed decisions about solving any GIS-related problem Use the right geoprocessing tools for each situation, in the right order. Visualize surfaces using 3D terrain analysis, and explore relationships between land cover, elevation, slope and aspect. Understand advanced GIS concepts and theory, such as spatial autocorrelation. Apply spatial-analysis and data-modelling skills to environmental management.

Broaden your knowledge of Remote Sensing (RS) concepts and environmental applications in this advanced course. You’ll process and analyze remote sensing images and learn advanced techniques now used in environmental research and applications. You’ll use hyperspectral, LiDAR and RADAR datasets to study land, ocean and atmospheric processes. You’ll get more hands-on experience processing digital images and applying various image analysis packages. You’ll learn how RS sensors detect, extract and evaluate quantitative information about different objects on earth, and how to use this information to map environmental changes.

Learn to apply remote sensing (RS) data and techniques to environmental studies. In this course, you’ll discover how to acquire, enhance and analyze satellite images. You’ll work with various image analysis techniques related to environmental applications. You’ll learn how to map and monitor Earth's natural resources by measuring and interpreting images collected in different spectral zones and time periods. You’ll  analyze multispectral images using image proccessing software to learn more about diverse objects on the Earth's surface. Understand fundamental principles of electromagnetic radiation and how it’s measured. Know how different satellite and airborne RS systems work. Enhance, evaluate and correctly interpret RS data. Use image processing software to run basic operations with RS images. Apply RS observations, techniques and analysis to real-world environmental issues.

International business transactions are complex and require a fundamental understanding of public and private international trade law. Through this course you’ll gain the foundational knowledge you need to understand international trade organizations (WTO) and agreements (NAFTA, EU and Regional), Canadian trade regulations pertaining to importing and exporting goods and service,; and the negotiation of international contracts for the sale of goods. You’ll also learn about intellectual property, market strategies, and international business dispute resolution. 1. Develop awareness of the importance of international law for international business 2. Explain the role and importance of international trade organizations and agreements 3. Describe Canadian regulations for importing and exporting of goods 4. Identify basic principles of contract negotiations 5. Gain a basic understanding of intellectual property law and resolving international business conflicts

England during the reign of Elizabeth I was the locus of one of the greatest flowerings in Western literature, philosophy, music and art. It rivalled 5th-century Greece and 15th-century Italy. We’ll read a selection from the verse and prose of Spenser, Sidney, Raleigh, Marlowe, Hooker, Bacon and others. Of course, we’ll read Shakespeare too, arguably the centre of the Western canon.   Peruse the works of England’s golden age. Interpret them in the light of the main theological and philosophical ideas of the period. Understand the ideals of English Renaissance humanism and their relevance today. Trace the development of literary genres such as drama, the pastoral and the sonnet. See how they still affect our sense of what literature is.

This course is for you If you've successfully completed the SCS Korean Level IV or have the equivalent language skills, this course will help make your speech more precise and complex. This course is designed for early-intermediate level learners (between A2 and B1 on the CEFR grid). You'll be able to discuss everyday life issues with greater confidence and express your point of view. You'll improve the precision of your speech, learn how to make subtle statements, and gain confidence discussing and analyzing issues.   Reinforce overall proficiency in everyday language. Increase your knowledge of Korean language etiquette. Gain a more thorough command of grammar, syntax and vocabulary.

The Gothic architectural style reached its height at Chartres.  Join us as we learn to read the allegory of Chartres Cathedral—its architecture, painting, and sculpture.  It embodies in stone and glass the high mysteries of Christianity and Neo-Platonism.  The cathedral school was the centre of an important revival of classical humanism three centuries before the Renaissance, and one the greatest flowerings in literature, art, philosophy, and science in the history of the West.  We’ll read a selection of such influential Chartres-centred poets, theologians, and cosmologists as John of Salisbury, William of Conches, Alain of Lille and Bernard Silvester. We’ll assess their brilliant re-imagining of the Christian religion in terms of ancient pagan, and especially, Platonic symbols and ideas.  Learn about Gothic architecture and iconography. Discover medieval theology and philosophy, especially the poets, philosophers and theologians of Chartres. Consider the influence of Platonism on Christian doctrine Learn about the allegorical interpretation of the classics in the Middle Ages.

Creative non-fiction tells factual stories in a literary style. This intensive, craft-oriented workshop gives you a deeper understanding of creative non-fiction so you can refine your work-in-progress and develop new material. With an emphasis on workshopping students’ work, the course will also allow time for writing exercises, discussion, and analysis of assigned readings. Whether you're writing a memoir, personal essay, travel story or biography, you'll benefit from constructive criticism and evaluation. The course will also introduce you to a community of writers working in your genre. Summer Writing School courses are applicable to the Certificate in Creative Writing. Improve your understanding of Creative Non-Fiction Improve craft and develop writing techniques Workshop your own work-in-progress

This course, which follows PTI and CTI training, includes developing concepts presented in the course in more depth. In this course you will learn: (1) practicing preambles and delivery of formal practices; (2) deeper scrutiny and discussion of trauma-informed facilitation strategies; (3) pain and neuroplasticity; (4) starting up courses; (5) administration of courses; (6) validated outcome-measuring instruments for application to a chronic pain population; (7) use of distance delivery methods; (8) immunity and pain; and (9) further opportunities to practice and deepen skills of enquiry. There will also be discussions regarding assessment criteria for class-based teaching, as well as further certification levels. Recognize overt and subtle strategies developed in the course in facilitating in a trauma-informed way. Organize strategic approaches to introducing the concepts of Neuroplasticity into pain management. Demonstrate increasing expertise in delivering formal practices Apply increasing competence in use of preambles before delivering formal practice guidance. Identify appropriate tools to evaluate outcomes in a chronic pain population Identify qualities for facilitators in embodying and role-modeling Mindfulness attitudes and practice. Recall the role of the immune system in exacerbating pain when under chronic stress. Identify strategies and challenges in enrolling and administration of the MBCPM courses.