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Learn how to write for the booming world of content marketing! These days, most organizations are producing a steady stream of content to help promote their brand and offerings, which is why writing for these projects is such an in-demand skill. This course teaches you the insights and techniques you need to write effective website pages, blogs, social media posts, articles, videos, ebooks, white papers and more. Learn to brainstorm, outline, summarize, and edit using generative AI tools, while applying critical thinking skills to fact-check, customize, and improve the AI writing outputs. This is a hands-on course with plenty of real-world examples and assignments that reflect today's content marketing world. It's taught by an experienced expert and you'll receive practical feedback on your work. Learn the basics of content marketing Master writing that engages an online audience. Know how to write effectively for websites, blogs, social media, online articles and videos. Understand how to research and integrate SEO keywords into your web copy. Boost your ability to write clear and engaging web copy that consistently gets good results. While using AI tools (like ChatGPT, Jasper and others) in your writing, continue to develop your own unique voice.

This online self-study course is your starting point for the Certificate in Translation in order to work as a full or part-time translator. Using modern translation theory, you'll acquire essential tools and develop a strong awareness of the issues that French to English translators face. You'll learn how to preserve the meaning, style, syntax and tone of the original text, without being literal, and become proficient in analyzing, understanding and correctly translating complex real-world documents. Learn translation in the fields of law, commerce and literature. All course materials are available electronically. You communicate with your instructor electronically and share at least three webinars with the whole class.  Acquire introductory tools for translation. Understand the principles and goals of a high-quality translation. Prepare for upper-level translation courses.

Learn to translate French into English, a skill always in demand in the Canadian civil services, law, business, literature and media. This self-study course will help you analyze and accurately translate documents, 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.  Become more proficient in translating complex material. Use precise English phrases and clear sentence structure. Avoid Gallicisms and awkward syntax. Develop subtlety and nuance in your translations.

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 Translation: French to English Level I 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 English phrases and elegant sentence structure. Avoid Gallicisms and awkward syntax. Increase the subtlety and nuance of your translations.

If you have completed Translation: French to English 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 Gallicisms and awkward syntax. Write subtle and nuanced translations.

Harnessing data helps any enterprise come to the right decisions and communicate them clearly. If Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, and Finance departments work best when maximizing analytics, why not Human Resources? In this HR analytics course, you’ll learn to apply analytics to identify human capital issues and develop data-driven solutions. You’ll examine how to align HR objectives with your overall business strategy, while using your new skills to develop stakeholder support, avoid fraudulent use of data, and ensure ethical guidelines are met. Identify data related to human capital problems and business objectives. Assess and maximize the value from technology, partners, and datasets to driving analytics. Ensure HR and workforce data analytics are handled with care and high ethics.  Create narratives that stakeholders clearly understand – and support. Avoid and detect false interpretations and fraud.

This training is experiential, applying Mindfulness concepts to chronic pain management, and exploring trauma-informed and trauma-sensitive best practices, including ethical, privacy and safety issues in group facilitation. Participants can be “lived experience” learners, and/or professionals wishing to explore the application of mindfulness to chronic pain suffering. The weekly format allows for a gradual unfolding of the benefits of Mindfulness practice over the time period of the training. This group work provides the template on which to base observations that could be made with a therapeutic chronic pain patient group, and includes some participant learners who will be managing their own chronic pain conditions. In addition to exploring formal practices applied to pain management, there is exposure to other components of the course, including trauma-sensitive preambles prior to formal practices, the skilful use of inquiry, and the exploration of relevant key topics through small group and large group discussions. Use of dyads and small groups as a trauma-sensitive strategy provides insight and support for the diversity of interactions encountered in Mindfulness practice, while keeping participants within their “Window of Tolerance”. Concepts in secondary pain, context, neuroplasticity and immunity will be explored. The training provides insights into the lens through which chronic pain sufferers view their world, and showcases trauma-informed and trauma-sensitive Mindful facilitation in a group setting.  This training also managed chronic stress conditions: a separate workbook is available for the stress course with parallel content.   Know how to facilitate integration of Mindfulness practice into the daily life of a chronic pain sufferer List non-physical triggers which can result in chronic pain exacerbations Develop trauma-informed and trauma-sensitive strategies to support a safe space to explore difficult feelings, keeping participants close to their “Window of Tolerance”. Identify practices in other mindfulness interventions that require modification for chronic pain sufferers. Recognize the power of the group in changing behaviours.

This introductory 12 weeks course provides the skills you need to begin front-end development in today’s ever changing IT landscape. React and JSX are now considered one of the most popular JavaScript framework for front-end development. Skills in React and Restful Web Services are regarded essential for full-stack developer in today’s competitive IT world. Learn the fundamental concepts of front-end web development using HTML, CSS, JSX and React. The course covers basic concepts in the React framework such as Communicating with Props, Class-Based Components, State in React Components, Lifecycle Methods, Handling User Input with Forms and Events, Making API Requests with React, and Single Page Application Development. In addition, you will learn how to create Restful Web Services using the SpringBoot (Spring framework) and calling Restful web services through React client.  Design and produce a simple web application using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and React. Learn fundamental React concepts such as Communicating with Props, Class-Based Components, State in React Components and Lifecycle Methods Handle User Input with Forms and Events, Making API Requests with React, and Single Page Application Development. Code and debug React using Microsoft Visual Code and Google Chrome

Friedrich Nietzsche revolutionized Western philosophy and helped create many of our current habits of thought. He rejected all systems and doctrines, and believed philosophy could teach us to be “free spirits” who live with “the whole marvelous uncertainty and rich ambiguity of existence.” Join us to read selections from his works. We’ll cover topics like his theories of Nihilism; the eternal return; the will to power; master/slave morality; the death of God; and the free spirit. We’ll contextualize his ideas by reference to Sue Prideaux’s award-winning intellectual biography, I Am Dynamite! A Life of Nietzsche (2018).      Understand some of the nuances of Nietzsche’s philosophy Apply Nietzsche’s ideas to the contemporary world  Assess Nietzsche’s philosophy in respect to the ethical and political challenges of your personal life

Discover Kafka, one of the best known but least understood authors of our time. We'll dismantle the clichés associated with his life and work, and explore the profoundly humorous world of his writing. We’ll read his texts in the literary, historical, and philosophical context of fin-de-siècle Prague and central Europe. We’ll explore the influence of Jewish mysticism on his work. We’ll also see how Kafka’s depictions of nightmarish power structures critique how power works even in today's society, upheld by the entanglements of bureaucratic processes. Understand Kafka’s complex narratives and his place in the literary and cultural history of his place and time Recognize Kafka’s unique humour Appreciate the influence of Jewish mysticism on Kafka’s writing Explore the major role that he played in the literary canon of the 20th century