University of Alberta - Alberta School of Business - Executive Education
3-23 Business Building
AB T6G 2R6
Edmonton
Canada
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Incident Investigation
Get a step-by-step overview of the investigation of "unplanned events" and learn the critical components of an incident investigation, including the initial response, legal reporting requirements, securing the scene, evidence-gathering, interviewing techniques, documentation collection, the role of various stakeholders, and reporting formats.
Jul 02, 2025 - Aug 05, 2025
General Management
English
Completed
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Academic and Intercultural Communications
Academic and Intercultural Communications is designed to support international undergraduate students to transition and succeed in a research intensive Canadian university.
Jun 30, 2025 - Aug 14, 2025
Communication/ General Management
English
Completed
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Language Readiness
This course in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) focuses on general and specialized English language development and grammar.
Jun 30, 2025 - Aug 08, 2025
Communication/ General Management
English
Completed
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Django API
Building upon your knowledge of Python and Django, you will explore web applications through the development of a web API capable of receiving requests and sending responses using Django API.
Jun 02, 2025 - Jun 29, 2025
General Management/ Information Technology (IT)
English
Completed
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Effective Safety Training
This course will introduce you to a training development process in which you will learn designing successful workshops, delivering presentations, and evaluating training effectiveness. This course builds upon the topics covered in the core course: Organizational Behaviour.
Jun 02, 2025 - Jun 08, 2025
General Management
English
Completed
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Wetland Delineation, Classification, and Assessment
Through lecture, classroom and field exercises, students can expect to learn methods to identify wetlands and delineate their boundaries based on indicators of vegetation, soils, and hydrology, in addition to conducting desktop delineations through aerial photo interpretation.
May 26, 2025 - Jun 15, 2025
General Management
English
Completed
11
Applied Geostatistics
The Citation in Applied Geostatistics fits an important niche between the conventional on-week short course and the 2 year Masters degree program. It is ideally suited to those from industry who seek a more indepth understanding of modern geostatistical tools. Restricted to Applied Geostatistics program students.
May 20, 2025 - Jun 30, 2025
Energy & Natural Resources
English
Completed
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Human Rights: Workplace Health and Safety
This seminar will discuss the major areas of conflict including: pre-employment medical testing and medical information, duty to accommodate disabilities, provision of programs in different languages, drug and alcohol testing, and PPE and religious practices.
May 05, 2025 - May 25, 2025
Human Resources
English
Completed
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Transmission, Distribution, and Smart City Fundamentals
Get a comprehensive overview of the major processes behind electricity distribution and transmission. Learn about the challenges that renewable energy systems pose to electricity grids and how they can be overcome.
Apr 28, 2025 - May 12, 2025
General Management/ Supply Chain
English
Completed
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Universal Design
Learn the principles of Universal Design or "inclusive design." You will come to think of design in new ways by becoming aware of the impact universal design has had on the past, present, and future of residential housing design.
Apr 24, 2025 - Jun 26, 2025
Design Thinking/ General Management
English
Completed
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Financial Management
Introduces the financial, organizational, and political implications of public financial management practices. One of the major focuses is the budget process and understanding the elements of a budget in a public sector context.
Apr 22, 2025 - Jun 27, 2025
Finance
English
Completed
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Health Information Access & Privacy
Laws governing health information privacy, access, and management have an impact on health care providers, public bodies with a role in the health care sector, employers, professional regulatory bodies, fundraisers, insurers, and researchers.
Apr 22, 2025 - Jun 27, 2025
General Management/ Healthcare
English
Completed
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React Router and Redux
Build upon your existing knowledge of React as you learn about the idea of "global state" in a React application via the Redux JavaScript library. Learn to implement a dynamic navigation system using React Router.
Apr 14, 2025 - May 11, 2025
General Management/ Information Technology (IT)
English
Completed
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Operations Management
This course will cover capacity planning, resources scheduling, equipment operation, inventory control, purchasing, quality assurance, human resources management, project management, and production standards and control.
Apr 09, 2025 - Jun 25, 2025
Operations
English
Completed
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Recruitment and Selection
The broad coverage of topics may include: internal and external factors that influence recruitment and selection practices, legislative framework, job analysis and competency models, recruitment sources and attracting job applicants, screening, testing, and interviewing and decision making.
Apr 04, 2025 - Jun 24, 2025
General Management
English
Completed
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Introduction to Electricity and Power Generation
Understand key concepts related to electricity and major forms of power generation. Learn about the importance and different applications of direct and alternating current.
Mar 31, 2025 - Apr 14, 2025
Energy & Natural Resources/ General Management
English
Completed
32
Applied Soil Physics
Examine basic physical composition and processes of both the solid and liquid phases of soil. This includes how water is held by soil, how water moves through soil and the linkage between soil water regime and processes within the hydrologic cycle, with emphasis on water infiltration and redistribution.
Mar 17, 2025 - Apr 07, 2025
General Management
English
Completed
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Leadership Communications
Leadership at all levels depends upon communication. Topics may include: persuasive communication; generating buy-in; internal and external communications strategies; influence and influencing others; and communicating through conflict.
Mar 12, 2025 - Apr 02, 2025
Communication/ Leadership
English
Completed
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Stakeholder Relationships
Critical to the success of an organization is its ability to manage the interests of multiple stakeholders. Topics may include: theories and practices of stakeholder identification; stakeholder analysis; stakeholder engagement; and specific leadership strategies that help an organization reach its goals.
Mar 06, 2025 - Mar 27, 2025
General Management/ Negotiation
English
Completed
35
Sustainable Leadership Summit
This course is the final piece within the ECML; focused on helping leaders understand how the context and culture in which they apply their leadership impacts results.
Mar 06, 2025 - Mar 07, 2025
Leadership/ Sustainability / Corporate Responsibility
English
Completed
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Intellectual Property and Copyright
Explore the etiquette, ethics, and various legal and policy issues that affect how we sue social media. Discuss topics like copyright, privacy, intellectual property, fair dealing, creative commons, and the public domain.
Mar 03, 2025 - Apr 22, 2025
General Management/ Law
English
Completed
39
User Experience/User Interface Capstone Project
Stretch your generative and creative abilities as you integrate the knowledge you acquired in the previous core courses and apply theory and method to research, plan, execute, present, and review a real-world project.
Mar 03, 2025 - Apr 22, 2025
Customer Service/ General Management/ Project Management
English
Completed
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Managing People Through Change
By the end of this course you should be able to: Recognize the concepts of people change management. Identify how situations require different people change leadership styles. Create strategies to adapt leadership style to situations.
Feb 24, 2025 - Mar 17, 2025
Change/ General Management
English
Completed
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Policy Planning and Program Evaluation
Covers the central role of planning in municipal decision-making, as well as the implementation of programs and evaluations of both policies and programs.
Feb 22, 2025 - Jun 27, 2025
General Management/ Problem Solving / Decisionmaking
English
Completed
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Social Media Foundations
By the end of this course, you should be able to: Identify the characteristics of and relationship between traditional and social media marketing. Investigate appropriate tools for your purpose, audience, and content requirements.
Feb 13, 2025 - Mar 02, 2025
Media
English
Completed
48
Leading Teams
Leading people and teams acknowledges the vital role of others in the leadership relationship. Topics may include: performance management; introductory coaching and mentoring; developing talent; and building trust and resiliency.
Feb 12, 2025 - Mar 05, 2025
Leadership
English
Completed
49
Requirements Elicitation and Management
This course focuses on techniques for eliciting requirements, as well as exploring methods for clearly documenting requirements so that they can be verified and validated. Students learn how to develop a requirements elicitation plan and prepare requirements documentation.
Feb 08, 2025 - Feb 09, 2025
General Management
English
Completed
50
SMT Negotiation Skills
Negotiation skills are an essential competency for any manager, and especially those responsible for supply chain management. This Workshop provides you with a roadmap for leading or participating in successful negotiations.
Feb 08, 2025 - Feb 23, 2025
Negotiation
English
Completed
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Electricity and the Environment
Explore the material relationship between electricity generation and the natural environment. Learn about the role of carbon dioxide in relation to the greenhouse effect and the impacts of different electricity generation forms on emissions.
Feb 03, 2025 - Feb 18, 2025
Energy & Natural Resources/ General Management
English
Completed
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Health and Safety Law
This course, which is based on current legislation, will guide students through the key elements of the regulatory environment governing workplace safety including: the framework of occupational health and safety in Alberta, organizational obligations, jurisdictional considerations, and an overview of ethical and legal responsibilities as a safety professional.
Jan 20, 2025 - Feb 28, 2025
Healthcare/ Law
English
Completed
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Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification™ Professional Training
Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification™ (RHFAC) Professional Training gives built environment professionals an understanding of the needs of people with disabilities and the skills to rate spaces for meaningful accessibility and a human-centered perspective.
Jan 18, 2025 - Mar 06, 2025
General Management
English
Completed
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Organizational Behaviour
Explores the theory and practice of the organization in three major parts: the organizational environment, the organizational structure, and the behaviour of groups and individuals within the organization.
Jan 16, 2025 - Apr 03, 2025
Organizational Management
English
Completed
63
SMT Procurement
This course covers a variety of procurement scenarios: repetitive purchases of production materials, procuring one-time low-cost items, large capital goods acquisition and securing commodities under long-term supply contracts.
Jan 16, 2025 - Apr 03, 2025
General Management
English
Completed
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Financial Management and Budgeting
By the end of this course, you should be able to: Understand the accounting cycle. Compile financial statements from various asset, liability, equity, revenue, and expense accounts. Use various financial ratios to determine the financial wellness of an entity.
Jan 15, 2025 - Apr 02, 2025
Finance/ General Management
English
Completed
67
Leadership Fundamentals
Leadership is all about building relationships and connecting with people. Reflect on current leadership practices and explore fundamental leadership theories as you discuss different leadership styles and strengths.
Jan 15, 2025 - Feb 05, 2025
Leadership
English
Completed
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Design for Developers
Strong visual design is key for success in the online world. In this course you will learn how to use key design principles such as layout, colour theory, typography, images, and form to enhance usability and improve user experience.
Jan 13, 2025 - Feb 09, 2025
Design Thinking
English
Completed
74
Digital Marketing Foundations
Explore key concepts used by marketing professionals to help integrate digital marketing into an overall marketing strategy. Be introduced to digital engagement as a means to define and develop a target audience, create and increase brand awareness, generate leads, and ultimately drive sales and other business objectives.
Jan 13, 2025 - Mar 02, 2025
General Management/ Leadership
English
Completed
75
Foundations of Stereotypes: Systems Thinking
This microcredential introduces anti-Indigenous stereotypes in North America, outlines how the brain develops and perpetuates stereotypes within North America's settler colonial context, and covers how to interrupt stereotypes when they arise.
Jan 13, 2025 - Apr 14, 2025
Design Thinking/ General Management
English
Completed
76
Information Access and Protection of Privacy Foundations
Courses in the IAPP program equip students with the knowledge and practical skills necessary to help them become effective information rights administrators, including access and privacy administration, best practices, and exercising sound judgement.
Jan 13, 2025 - Apr 04, 2025
General Management/ Information Technology (IT)
English
Completed
77
Information Access in a Liberal Democracy
Define and explain in detail the concept of information access in a liberal democracy. Access concepts and principles are explored and discussed through the examination of the Federal Access to Information Act.
Jan 13, 2025 - Apr 04, 2025
General Management/ Law
English
Completed
78
Introduction to Web Development
Learn about and practice how to navigate and use your computer effectively. Explore some software common to developers in this low-code course that introduces the basics of web development, including version control and the analysis of both data and logic.
Jan 13, 2025 - Feb 09, 2025
General Management/ Information Technology (IT)
English
Completed
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Organizational Behaviour and Leadership
In particular, the focus will be on management in the public sector, theories of leadership, council/staff roles and relationships, the structures and culture of local government organizations, notions of motivation in the public sector, the empowerment of staff, and organizational change.
Jan 13, 2025 - Apr 04, 2025
Leadership
English
Completed
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Public Administration Professionalism
Provides an introduction to the profession of public administration with the emphasis on the local level. The relationships among principal actors involved in local governance will be examined, and students will explore the self-knowledge required for administrative practice in local administration.
Jan 13, 2025 - Apr 14, 2025
Government / Public Administration
English
Completed
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Risk Management and Crisis Response
By the end of this course, you should be able to: Understand and articulate the social media-related risks to an organization. Analyse an organization’s preparedness for the issues it might face.
Jan 13, 2025 - Mar 02, 2025
General Management/ Risk Management
English
Completed
86
Sustainable Communities
Provides a brief introduction to land use planning theory, law, and processes. Environmental, economic and social dimensions of sustainability will be discussed using an integrated framework of various forms of community capital.
Jan 13, 2025 - Apr 04, 2025
Communication
English
Completed
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Contract Law and Construction Documents
Examine the principles of contract law as they relate to the construction industry. In particular, the course will deal with the creation and interpretation of contracts and the remedies available for breaches of contracts.
Jan 09, 2025 - Jan 28, 2025
General Management/ Law
English
Completed
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Generative User Experience Research
This course will also teach students how to summarize their research using Experience Mapping, Journey Mapping, Personas and Service Design Blueprint. This course will also touch upon legal and ethical concerns.
Jan 06, 2025 - Feb 23, 2025
General Management
English
Completed
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96
Strategic Management in the Public Sector
Strategic management in the public sector comprises defining public value, building consensus and support, making decisions, deploying organizational capacity to implement, and managing performance to achieve the desired mission and goals.
Jan 06, 2025 - Apr 07, 2025
Government / Public Administration/ Strategy
English
Completed
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Municipal Planning II
Building on core material covered in Municipal Planning I, students will learn about contemporary topics in planning through a combination of online modules, readings, and activities.
Jan 15, 2024 - Mar 23, 2024
Government / Public Administration
English
Completed
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Project Management: From Communication to Closure
This seminar has been designed to give new and experienced project managers and project team members the essential tools they need to deliver successful projects.
Nov 25, 2023 - Nov 26, 2023
Communication/ Project Management
English
Completed
114
Employee Relations
A core skill set for supervisors includes being able to understand the Canadian workplace, trends around labour and management, rights of employer/employee and the responsibilities of the supervisors as they relate to their staff.
Nov 23, 2023 - Nov 24, 2023
Human Resources
English
Completed
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Construction Estimating
In this course you will learn the fundamentals of estimating construction projects costs from concept to completion, including types of cost estimates, the tendering process, costing site overheads, and final assembly of tender.
Nov 06, 2023 - Dec 11, 2023
General Management
English
Completed
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121
Analytics and Reporting for Digital Media
Learn the language of analytics and its many acronyms as a means to measure where your web traffic is coming from, how much web traffic you are receiving, which messages are most effective and how to report on these measures.
Oct 30, 2023 - Dec 17, 2023
Business Analytics & Big Data
English
Completed
122
Analyzing Processes, Information and People
This course will explore various analysis and modelling techniques to better understand the requirements associated with people, processes, and information elements in a business context.
Oct 28, 2023 - Nov 04, 2023
General Management
English
Completed
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Artificial Intelligence in Logistics
There are many ways – some evolutionary, others revolutionary – the transportation and logistics sector could develop to meet the challenges posed by new market entrants, technology, and business models.
Oct 21, 2023 - Oct 22, 2023
General Management/ Information Technology (IT)
English
Completed
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Business and Strategy Analysis
This course explores the various ways to apply business analysis within organizations and how to strategically identify, assess and select which potential changes should be pursued.
Sep 16, 2023 - Sep 23, 2023
Business Analytics & Big Data/ Strategy
English
Completed
133
Financial Management and Budgeting
Students will learn the basics of financial practices within organizations including how to read financial statements, how to make and understand financial decisions, and how to create a budget.
Sep 13, 2023 - Nov 29, 2023
Finance/ General Management
English
Completed
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Local Government Accounting
Provides basic knowledge of local government accounting practices, budget preparation, and importance of records for accounting, control and auditing of public records.
Sep 11, 2023 - Dec 08, 2023
Accounting/ Government / Public Administration
English
Completed
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144
Organizational Behaviour
Explores the theory and practice of the organization in three major parts: the organizational environment, the organizational structure, and the behaviour of groups and individuals within the organization.
Sep 11, 2023 - Nov 19, 2023
Organizational Management
English
Completed
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Digital Storytelling
Learn about how social media has provided new ways to create and experience media-rich narrative, as well as how the creative use of digital tools can offer exciting new possibilities for collaboration and sharing.
Mar 06, 2023 - Apr 23, 2023
Communication
English
Completed
158
Analyzing Processes, Information and People
This course will explore various analysis and modelling techniques to better understand the requirements associated with people, processes, and information elements in a business context.
Mar 04, 2023 - Mar 11, 2023
Business Analytics & Big Data
English
Completed
159
160
161
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Pharmacotherapy III
Learners will expand their knowledge and skills in order to provide care to various patient populations. Learners will engage in active learning and focus on using evidence, applying the biopsychosocial model, making decisions, monitoring outcomes, and adjusting drug therapy for complex patients.
Apr 30, 2025 - Jun 18, 2025
Biotech / Pharma
English
Completed
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3-23 Business Building
AB T6G 2R6
Edmonton
Canada
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