Graduate Certificate in Educational Studies
The Graduate Certificate in Educational Studies (GCES) provides you with opportunities to enhance your knowledge and skills in a disciplinary focus of your choice.
The GCES is a flexible, part-time, varied-delivery program that facilitates studying without taking a leave from your career. You will be engaged in authentic tasks and experiences directly linked to your focus area. Courses have both synchronous and asynchronous components, including online (Zoom) class sessions.
Join us for an online information session. Registration links are available on each cohort's home page.
Starting in Spring or Summer
Starting in Summer
Starting in Fall
Coming in Fall 2025!
Each disciplinary focus is a four-course (12 credits) experience designed to help you stay current in the field and address emergent needs of each area. Courses are provided in face-to-face, online, and blended formats. The program is offered using a cohort model to facilitate the development of a professional learning community. Certificate goals include:
- Deepen and extend knowledge and skills of specialized and evolving areas within the field of education and to appreciate the ambiguity and limits of knowledge
- Apply educational research to improve professional practice and to school improvement
Integrate relevant local, provincial, national and international contexts and issues with educational research to address complex issues systematically and creatively - Collaborate with other educational professionals, including teachers, policy makers, curriculum developers, and paraeducational specialists to build personal and collective professional capacities and expertise
- Communicate information, ideas, problem and solutions to non-specialist audiences
Other cohorts may be developed based on need. Download our general information flyer, or contact us at pluadmin@ualberta.ca.
Ladder in to a Master's Degree
The GCES can also ladder in to the M.Ed. in Curriculum and Pedagogy. For more information, contact elemgrad@ualberta.ca.