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Learn the most useful carpentry and finishing skills for daily home projects. From woodworking basics to installing trim and flooring, this course helps you transform your spaces with clean lines and durable finishes. If you love hands-on work, this course is ideal. Learn how to handle tools, work with wood, install trim, and lay flooring to upgrade your home with style.

Learn how to maintain windows, replace locks, and solve common plumbing issues with confidence and care. From fixing leaks to installing locks and maintaining windows, this course focuses on essential repairs every homeowner benefits from knowing. Practical, clear, and empowering.

This introductory course provides homeowners and renters with basic knowledge and hands-on skills needed to improve energy efficiency, reduce utility costs, and enhance indoor comfort. Participants will learn how homes use energy, common sources of energy loss, and practical strategies to make Ontario homes more efficient.

In this course students will be introduced to the study of sociology which looks at people and how they interact with each other and various social groups. This course will look at people's lives, their relationship to society as a whole, and how people are affected by the society in which they live. The concepts, theories and methods of the discipline will be introduced and discussed with...

This course will focus on conformity issues surrounding religious fundamentalism, sects, cults and terrorist groups. The reasons why people join and why they may have a difficult time leaving, will be examined. Society's contributions to supporting cultic groups will be explored. Strategies for protecting individuals and vulnerable populations from cultic and terrorist activity will be developed.

Workplace dynamics have a significant impact on employee satisfaction, health and productivity. In this course, students explore how positive and negative workplace dynamics contribute to healthy and unhealthy workplaces. Topics include organizational culture, organization of work, working in teams, and employee engagement. Students reflect on their own experiences with workplace dynamics and...

Explore the Relationship between the individual and the family and the meaning of family within a socially diverse context. Examine the dynamics, changes and challenges within families, and enhance self-awareness regarding personal experiences, beliefs and values.

Diversity is a broad word used to describe many things that people represent and that represent people. Students will be asked to reflect upon and have the opportunity to question their own beliefs and assumptions. In doing so they will be able to recognize the subtle but potentially harmful responses they may give to people they are trying to support in their practice. There are a number of terms...

This course surveys the major methods currently in use by organizations for resolving disputes by situating alternative dispute resolution in its historical, social and legal context. Various ADR techniques will be examined and compared, and participants will be provided with an overview of ADR mechanisms, their advantages and disadvantages, and recognize the appropriate situations in which to...

This course will explore introductory topics across the broad field of human sexuality. Sexuality is often an important part of a full life but what this means varies from person to person and can be influenced by several biopsychosocial factors. This evidence-based course will explore the diversity of human sexual functioning across the lifespan and will look at topics including sexual behaviour...