Contact Page - Online Public Administration Certificate Program

Canadian Virtual University:
Canadian Virtual University (CVU) is a consortium of accredited Canadian universities offering complete degrees and individual courses online and through distance education. CVU offers over 350 distance or online undergraduate and graduate programs from Canada's leading universities, and over 2500 individual courses.

Certificate in Public Administration:
The University Certificate in Public Administration is designed for students who want to learn about administration at the municipal, provincial, and federal levels of government, as well as non profit and quasi governmental organizations.

Students will take courses in such areas as communications, public finance, budgeting, economics, public policy, legal studies, human resources management, industrial relations, and indigenous studies.

Students may find this certificate useful to enter or re-enter the job market, to change careers, for promotion in the public sector and/or non profit sector, or to provide a foundation for further studies.

Admission:
Students must be 16 years or older. No other prerequisites.

Required Courses:
*Administrative Principles
*Writing in Organizations or Introductory Composition or other junior-level English course
*Microeconomics or *Macroeconomics
*Public Governance, the Public Sector and Corporate Power
*Introduction to Political Science I: Concepts, Structures, and Institutions

Elective Courses (Select four courses from the following)

*Interpersonal Communications in Management
*Corporate Communications or Group Communication
*Microeconomics (If not taken as a required course) or *Macroeconomics (If not taken as a required course)
*Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Governance
*Public Policy and Administrative Governance
*Organization of the Canadian Health Care System
*Introduction to Human Resource Management
*Public Sector Labour Relations
*Conflict and Accommodation
*Topics in Aboriginal Governments
*Indigenous Governance or Aboriginal Government and Law
*Organization Theory or Organizational Behaviour
*Professional Ethics
*Introduction to Political Science II
*Canadian Government and Politics
*Canadian Federalism