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Counselling and Human Development Post Baccalaureate Diploma Program

Faculty of Education
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This program offers individuals, who are employed or seeking employment in a human services or health care profession, a focused introduction to the core knowledge bases involved in counselling. Course work is designed to enhance the effectiveness of students in their current job or better prepare them for a future career in a helping profession.

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In addition to the following admission requirements, students must also meet the Post Baccalaureate Diploma (General) program requirements as listed in the Program Requirements below.

Applications will be reviewed by cognate faculty, the graduate faculty associate, or their designates. Typically, candidates will have the following prerequisites prior to admission to this program.

  • a bachelor’s degree with at least an introductory psychology course, a course in human development, and one more upper division psychology or sociology course
  • a minimum 50 hours of relevant voluntary or paid experience
  • a written statement of career interest
  • an admission grade point average of 2.5 or equivalent

Program Requirements

Students complete a total of 30 units, including all of

  • EDUC 323-3 Introduction to Counselling Theories
  • EDUC 324-3 Foundations of Multicultural Counselling
  • EDUC 328-3 Theories of Career Development and Education
  • EDUC 423-4 Helping Relationships
  • EDUC 437-4 Ethical Issues in Education

and a minimum of 13 units chosen from

  • CRIM 314-3 Mental Disorcer, Criminality and the Law
  • CRIM 315-4 Restorative Justice
  • EDUC 322-3 The Social Lives of School Children
  • EDUC 326-3 Classroom Management and Discipline
  • EDUC 327-3 Self, Psychology and Education
  • EDUC 370-4 International and Intercultural Education
  • EDUC 464-4 Early Childhood Education
  • FNST 327-4 Aboriginal Women in Canada (or WS 327)
  • GERO 302-3 Health Promotion and Aging
  • GERO 406-3 Death and Dying
  • GERO 409-3 Mental Health and Aging
  • GDST 301-4 Queer Genders
  • PSYC 354-3 Development of Children's Thinking
  • PSYC 355-3 Adolescent Development
  • PSYC 357-3 Adulthood and Aging
  • PSYC 362-3 Close Relationships
  • PSYC 363-3 Intergroup Relations
  • PSYC 365-3 Health Psychology
  • PSYC 371-3 Intervention: Process and Outcome
  • SA 319-4 Culture, Ethnicity and Aging (A)
  • SA 332-4 The Anthropology of Childhood (A)
  • SA 335-4 Gender Relations and Social Issues (S)
  • SA 337-4 Sexuality and Society (S)
  • WS 314-4 Race, Class and Gender
  • WS 398W-4 Feminist Currents


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