Humber College
EN-12: Continuing Education

Humber’s Continuous Professional Learning (CPL) is a department that offers continuing education courses to the community. A reviewer analyzed all the courses offered by CPL within the academic year of 2021/22 and categorized the courses as “sustainability-focused” or sustainability-inclusive" based on the course description.

Humber's Continuous Professional Learning (CPL) offers these sustainability-focused certificate programs:
Global Citizenship Certificate: The Global Citizenship Certificate is a cross-college, multi-disciplinary program designed to accommodate currently enrolled students from any academic program at Humber. Envisioned as a "global backpack" or a set of courses and experiences that learners can fit into their current studies, the program requires students to examine the theme of global citizenship, including relevant knowledge, skills, values and civic actions. It allows them to deepen their understanding of sustainability, systems, human diversity, interconnectedness, cultural complexity, EDI, and enhance their sense of personal and community responsibility. As part of the program learners must complete 40 hours of local community development, with a focus on sustainable action. Learners produce an e-portfolio to intentionally map out and document their learning experiences and outcomes in the Certificate. The program leads to a Certificate of Completion which is noted on learners’ academic transcripts. This is a multi-semester long certificate program where students can partake along with their current studies.

GCC Program offers a variety of courses that teach students about Sustainable Development Goals such as Introduction to Global Citizenship, Citizen at Humber, Citizen of the World and Global Studies Courses. The Citizen of the World course, for example, introduces the topics of culture and identity, guided by the Iceberg Concept of Culture, Hofstede’s theory of Cultural Dimensions and Bennett’s Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity. Learners will explore topics relevant to understanding the spectrum of identity, uncovering implicit bias, awareness of issues related to equity and inclusion, and community engagement in a culturally diverse and interdependent world. More information can be found here: https://humber.ca/global-opportunities/global-citizenship.html

Transformative Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Leadership Certificate: Increasingly the public, private and non-profit sectors are required to build environments that are equitable, inclusive and anti-racist in order to foster a sense of belonging for all their constituents. We know that a diverse workforce increases innovation, creativity, market share and profitability. Designed by leading equity, inclusion, anti-racist thought leaders and practitioners, this certificate program will aid you in advancing an equity, inclusion and belonging mindset and actions.

Participants will embark on a journey to increase their capacity and competency in relation to Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (EIB) and anti-racism education and application, strengthen their EIB and anti-racism competencies and develop tools to embark on self and organizational transformation and accountability. This program is intensive and will be beneficial to persons working to advance EIB and anti-racism organizational change in their environments. More information available: https://business.humber.ca/programs/transformative-equity-inclusion-and-belonging-leadership-certificate.html

Continuing Education at Humber is traditionally offered in the evenings and weekends. They are general/special interest and continuous professional development courses.