Ethics + Academic Citizenship Requirement

University of Alberta graduate students are expected to uphold the highest degree of ethical practice in their education, research and professional activities.

To ensure that you understand your rights, responsibilities and obligations, all graduate students complete the Ethics and Academic Citizenship Requirement.

The requirement provides a foundational ethics education and covers principles of Academic Citizenship including:

• Academic integrity
• Research and workplace ethics
• Indigenizing and decolonizing the academy
• Equity, diversity and inclusivity
• Health and scholarly productivity
• Ethical principles in university teaching

Depending on your program of study, this may need to be supplemented by other, more specialized training. For more information, visit the Research Ethics Office and consult with your department.

Meeting your Ethics Requirement

The University of Alberta offers INT D 710 (for master's and doctoral students) and INT D 720 (for doctoral students) to fulfill ethics requirements. These courses are available each year on August 1 for current and incoming students and are offered each term.

See INT D 710 details below »
See INT D 720 details below »

Students who have already have an Academic Integrity and Ethics notation on their transcript program have met their requirement for their current program and do not need to take further steps.

INT D 710: Ethics and Academic Citizenship

6 hours | Asynchronous, Online | For Master's and Doctoral Students

Master’s students who have completed INTD 710 or have an Ethics and Integrity notation on their transcript are considered to have met this requirement

Course Description

INT D 710: Ethics and Academic Citizenship provides foundational knowledge of ethical principles and relevant university policies, including academic integrity, plagiarism, research ethics, conflict of interest, workplace ethics and health.

The course will appear on your official transcript record.

Course Objectives

1. Equip graduate students with a basic understanding of university policy, including their rights and responsibilities
2. Provide foundational knowledge of the behavioural expectations that support academic integrity, ethical research and an atmosphere of safety and dignity for all U of A community members

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify ethical concerns related to academic citizenship, including Indigenous perspectives on relationship with the land, academic integrity and research ethics, information and data binding, workplace ethics and health
2. Define, recognize and analyze ethical matters related to academic citizenship

Registration

New students are automatically registered in their respective courses at the start of their program.

You will need to self-register in Bear Tracks if:

• You are starting in the fall and want to begin ethics courses in August
• You began your graduate program before fall 2022 and have not completed your ethics requirement
• You received an NC (not complete) grade in the course

INT D 720: Advanced Ethics and Academic Citizenship

2 hours | Asynchronous, Online | For Doctoral Students

Doctoral students who have completed INTD 710 are required to take INTD 720 to fulfill their ethics requirement. Doctoral students who have an Ethics and Integrity notation on their transcript have met this requirement.

Course Description

Advanced Ethics and Academic Citizenship provides advanced treatment of ethical principles that doctoral students need to be successful in their programs. Topics addressed in the course include research and scholarship, intellectual property, academic citizenship and ethical principles in university teaching.

The course will appear on your official transcript record.

Course Objectives

1. Equip graduate students with an understanding of university policy, including their rights and responsibilities
2. Provide doctoral students with a deeper understanding of academic citizenship, including duties, responsibilities and values related to their personal conduct, research and scholarly activities and role as educators

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify ethical concerns related to Indigenizing and decolonizing the academy, academic citizenship, research and scholarship integrity and ethical principles in university teaching
2. Define, recognize and analyze ethical matters related to Indigenization, research and scholarship integrity, academic citizenship and teaching and learning

Registration

New students are automatically registered in their respective courses at the start of their program.

You will need to self-register in Bear Tracks if:

• You are starting in the fall and want to begin ethics courses in August
• You began your graduate program before fall 2022 and have not completed your ethics requirement
• You received an NC (not complete) grade in the course

Register in INT D 720 | View INT D 720 Course Outline 

Graduate Ethics Training (GET) Course — Additional Requirements

Current students who started their academic programs before September 2022 and finished the Graduate Ethics Training (GET) online course can complete the remaining three hours of the six-hour requirement through a combination of workshops and online courses.

Review your options for completing your ethics requirement:

• Ethics Training Online Suite (see below)
  • Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism (Ethics Credit: 2 hours)
  • Academic and Research Integrity (Ethics Credit: 1 hour)
  • Intellectual Property: An Entrepreneur's Guide (Ethics Credit: 1 hour)
• Graduate Teaching + Learning Program: Level 1 — Foundations Workshops
  • Ethical Principles in University Teaching (Ethics Credit: 1.75 hours)
  • Applying the Code of Student Behaviour in the Classroom (Ethics Credit: 2 hours)
  • Copyright in the Classroom (Ethics Credit: 1 hour)
• TCPS 2 Tutorial Course on Research Ethics (CORE) [Human Research Ethics] (Ethics Credit: 3 hours)
• Part 1: Ethics of Animal Use (Ethics Credit: 3 hours)
• John Dossetor Health Ethics Seminars (typically 1 hour)
• Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) Program
  • Contact: citisupport@med.miami.edu
  • Register through U of A Affiliation:
    • Responsible Conduct of Research (Ethics Credit: 2.5 hours)
    • Good Clinical Practice: Social and Behavioral Research Best Practices for Clinical Research (Ethics Credit: 2.5 hours)
    • Good Laboratory Practice (Ethics Credit: 2.5 hours)
    • Biomedical Basic (Ethics Credit: 2.5 hours)
• Department/ Faculty training (e.g.: ENGG 600)

Ethics Online Training Suite

The Ethics Online Training Suite is for students who started their academic programs before September 2022 and require complementary sessions to the Graduate Ethics Training (GET) course to meet the Ethics and Academic Integrity requirement.

These sessions are not required for students who have completed INT D 710 and INT D 720 (doctoral students).

The course will appear on your official transcript record.

You will receive a certificate after completing a course.

Contact Us

For questions about the Academic Integrity and Ethics Training Requirement, email gradpd@ualberta.ca.