Certificate in Community Service

Program Requirements

6	credits from Phase I: Certificate in Community Service
9	credits from Phase II: Certificate in Community Service
15	credits from Phase III: Certificate in Community Service

6	credits: • AHSC 260 Program Planning, Design and Evaluation (3.00) • AHSC 370 Organizational Development and Change: Models and Methods (3.00)

9	credits: • AHSC 315 Interviewing (3.00) • AHSC 330 Leadership and Facilitation in Small Groups (6.00)

credits chosen from one of the following options:

credits of elective courses chosen from:

• AHSC 220 Lifespan Growth and Development for Practitioners (3.00)

• AHSC 225 Principles of Experiential and Action Learning and the Reflective Practitioner (3.00)

• AHSC 311 Respecting Diversity in Human Relations (3.00)

• AHSC 314 Adolescence: Issues and Intervention (3.00)

• AHSC 316 Adulthood: Patterns and Transitions (3.00)

• AHSC 319 Older Adulthood: Issues and Intervention (3.00)

• AHSC 335 Power and Conflict Resolution in Human Systems (3.00)

6	credits: • AHSC 332 Organization Development I (3.00) • AHSC 425 Organization Development II (3.00)

6	credits: • AHSC 343 Community Development I (3.00) • AHSC 445 Community Development II (3.00)

6	credits: • AHSC 460 Health Promotion (6.00)

The Department of Applied Human Sciences offers a 30-credit program leading to the Concordia University Certificate in Community Service. Students may transfer into the certificate program credits earned in an incomplete degree or certificate program or as an Independent student, as approved by a departmental undergraduate advisor, provided they are students in good standing. The credits that may be so transferred are determined by the University at the point of entry into the program.
Admission Requirements: Students are required to complete the 0.00G entrance profile to enter the certificate. Mature Entry students require the prerequisite: ENGL 212.
AHSC 230, AHSC 232, and AHSC 270 are prerequisites for courses included in this certificate.
In the event that a student is awarded an exemption from a required course, it will be necessary for the student to replace that course with another relevant to the program, chosen in consultation with the coordinator of undergraduate programs.