Courses of Interest
Program and Registration Information
Below are programs for teachers/new graduates and courses for students. Students please remember to check courses against your Program Sheet, which outlines the requirements of your degree by listing each course/requirement you must complete in order to graduate.
Are you interested in joining the GOTV Initiative? For more information, you can visit their page below.
UASU Municipal Election Get Out The Vote Volunteer Signup
Join Lauren LeBlanc from Aurelia Education on campus to learn about full-time teaching opportunities for 2026. She is a Canadian-trained teacher who has lived and taught in England for 10 years.
Sept. 23, 2025
8:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
2-100, Career Centre (SUB)
Register online: uab.ca/bridge
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to reach out to hiretalent@ualberta.ca
The Climate Action Coalition--University of Alberta (CAUA) will hold its first membership meeting of 2025-26 on September 25th from 19:00-20:30, on Zoom.
To participate, one needs to be a signed-up member, which is easily done by completing the form on the CAUA's website. Membership is open to students, post-docs, instructors, staff, alumni, and professors emeriti affiliated with the UAlberta. Prospective members should also read the objectives and aims of the CAUA, outlined in its constitution.
CAUA is participating in the September 20th pan-Canadian day of action to "draw the line for people, planet, and peace." In Edmonton, we will be gathering on Saturday at City Hall at 3 PM, then marching to the legislature for a rally at 4 PM.
More detailed information about the CAUA's activities in 2024-25 may be found below.
2024-2025 recap
In 2024, the CAUA finalized its climate action plan for the University of Alberta, a document that identifies seven action areas:
· acknowledgement of the climate emergency;
· phasing out research that serves to prolong fossil fuel extraction;
· prioritizing instead research that supports just, zero-emission transitions of economies and societies, climate change adaptation, and planetary life systems;
· the development of holistic curricula to support a new generation of climate leaders;
· divestment from fossil fuels;
· minimizing our academic environmental footprints
· taking a partnership and climate justice approach to the management of university properties.
We argued that all these commitments will require a reform of university governance so that decision-making becomes democratic, inclusive, accountable, and transparent. The CAUA is part of a global movement to create “climate justice universities”—a goal that is all the more challenging in jurisdictions where public institutions have been significantly molded by petro-states.
The CAUA also joined a coalition of local and national organizations working to secure ecologically sound, Indigenous-led solutions to the oil sands tailings lakes. We participated in a media briefing that took place during the Oil Sands Tailings Conference held at the UofA in December 2024. This followed upon our earlier statement, in April 2023, of solidarity with the Indigenous communities subjected to the environmental racism of oil sands mining.
In January 2025, we submitted our brief to the university’s board of directors on its investments in entities that are worsening the climate crisis and violating principles of climate justice.
Alberta Tomorrow - an educational resource for your classes
Our Foundation has a vision of an informed society actively fostering sustainable futures. We achieve our vision through our mission of delivering a platform that empowers Albertans to design and sustain a future for our shared ecosystem.
That platform is the Alberta Tomorrow Simulator. www.albertatomorrow.ca
The simulator, based on the professional version ALCES Online, used in both government and industry, uses cutting edge GIS mapping technology and the latest research by leading scientist to enable users to jump back to an earlier Alberta to see how the landscape has changed, and then travel ahead to where we may be going based on current land-use trends and activities. The unique planning tool lets users design a plan for the future, then test it to see what the results may be.
The software allows students to:
Explore land use impacts on the economy and environment in Alberta,
Create a sustainable land-use plan for our future,
Explore the impacts of Climate Change,
Incorporate Indigenous Knowledge into land use planning,
Experience Alberta's Ecoregions and resource use through our 360 Virtual Field Trips
Participate in Citizen Science by recording and saving land use and water quality data.
The simulation tool was originally designed for younger students but in recent years we have seen an uptake in usage by post secondary institutions. Students in SAIT’s Water Resources course and Old’s College Land Use courses have been using it for years. Every first year Engineering students and the University of Saskatchewan uses it in their introductory Biology class. Therefore, being at an Alberta institution, I wanted to let you know about it.
Please go to the site, register for a teacher account, view our videos, learning materials, 360 tours, Indigenous map overlays and more, and then play with the simulator. If you would like more information, a detailed demonstration, or if you would like me to introduce your students to it, please do not hesitate to reach out.
To see a quick video that explains what we do, view this youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHDH_m0agFM
Certificate of Sustainability
This certificate is a great way to set your degree apart from others! For more information, visit the link below or watch the linked video about it.
Professional Development of Pre-Service Teachers
A superb online program for new elementary teacher graduates (and for any teacher who needs to set up a new classroom) called the “R.E.A.D.Y. for School Academy.” The Academy is designed to be a practical bridge between theory and practice for new teachers.
Through this platform, provides vital, real-world guidance to beginning educators navigating the challenges of today’s classrooms, directly addressing the growing teacher attrition challenges in Canada and beyond. Here is a link to her work that would be of interest to Faculties of Education: https://www.drlorifriesen.com/academy-for-universities
Here is a link to the podcast (with 650,000+ downloads in 13 countries worldwide), and which was just nominated as one of the Top 3 Podcasts Worth Listening to in 2025 for Elementary Teachers: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beginning-teacher-talk/id1456137677
EDU 563: Supporting the Health and Wellbeing of Indigenous Students
EDU 595: Special Topics in Educational Theory - Indigenous & Relational Approaches to Assessment
Click here for more information on the courses!
CSL 370/WGS 498: Walls to Bridges
Identity of self in relationships with others
In this course we will discuss and make art about how we build communities and social change. Each student will consider how their own gifts strengthen their communities, where their gifts are best put to use for change, and how our gifts complement each other. We will examine Euro-centric community institutions, and consider where they fall short of what we can imagine for ourselves. Kokum Bonny Spencer will share teachings on decolonizing our ideas of social change and reciprocity. Join us as we navigate the possibilities and limits of the idea of "community," and the roles we can play in creating the worlds where we can all thrive.
This course is offered inside a penitentiary involving equal numbers of incarcerated and non-incarcerated students and requires an application process.
Please email lprins@ualberta.ca or hbzhang@ualberta.ca for application details.
EDFX 490: Beyond Four Walls
EDEL 495: Musical Creativity Across the Curriculum
EDSE 401: Outdoor Education and Children
This course can help any education student in numerous ways and be counted as either an education elective course or an open option course.