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Board Undergraduate Certificate in Resilience, Ethics and Adaptation
Certificate overview
By completing this Board Undergraduate Certificate, you'll learn to integrate major principles of cognitive, emotional and relational theory toward applications in life and work so you're ready to adapt and thrive in an ever-changing world.
As a Sheridan degree student, you can earn this specialized credential alongside your degree without taking any additional courses.
How does it work?
All Sheridan degree programs include Breadth Electives outside of the degree’s main discipline of study. Sheridan offers a variety of electives for you to pick from to satisfy this portion of your degree. (View Sheridan's Degree Breadth Policy for details.)
To earn a Board Undergraduate Certificate in Resilience, Ethics and Adaptation, you simply need to complete a specific collection of electives that focus on questions of self, identity and relationality. The courses that you need to take are listed on this page.
No separate application is required to earn this specialized credential alongside your degree — once you've completed the required electives and met all other requirements to graduate from your degree program, you'll automatically be granted this certificate.
What electives do I need to take?
You must complete six electives as part of your degree program to earn this certificate, including:
- Composition and Rhetoric (ENG 17889GD); and
- Five courses from the list below, including at least one course from each of Streams A, B and C.
Stream A
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Principles of Psychology – PSYC 16571GD
This is a survey course in psychology, exploring psychology's orientation and subfields, its guiding principles and research strategies. Through learning about the scope of psychology's subfields and the interrelationships among them, students are encouraged to appreciate the diversity and richness of human behaviour. Major topics in the following areas are covered: biology underlying behaviour, consciousness, sensation, and perception, learning and memory, language and cognition, personality, psychological disorders and therapy, motivation, emotion and stress. Students acquire knowledge about the key concepts that constitute the core of the introductory psychology curriculum.
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Psychology of Emotion – PSYC 24328GD
Emotions influence many aspects of our lives — our motivation, thinking, behaviour, social relationships, and physical and mental health. This introductory course in the psychology of emotion describes the nature of emotion according to major psychological perspectives in order to increase understanding of emotional experiences and appreciation for the complexity of emotions. In examining some important theories and research studies, the emphasis will be on their relevance to everyday experiences.
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Mental Health and Wellness in Practice – SOCS 28658GD
Students explore culturally diverse frameworks for fostering empowerment, compassion, connection and wellbeing in the face of ongoing social discord and injustice. These include spiritual wisdom, conflict transformation practices, academic research and anti-oppressive pedagogies. Through introspection, multisensory discovery assignments and face-to-face play/experimentation, students forge their own paths towards greater wellbeing.
Stream B
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Life Writing – LITT 27733GD
With the proliferation of contemporary memoirs and digital Life Writing platforms, people are expressing personal narratives in new ways. In this fully online course, students examine various forms of traditional and contemporary Life Writing.
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Living our Digital Lives – PHIL 10734GD
Students explore many philosophical problems arising from modern technology, including: the dangers of trolling and groupthink; disagreement and toleration; political extremism and YouTube profiteering; the nature of and our ethical obligations to video game characters; posthumanism and artificial intelligence, and, whether you should share your Netflix password.
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The Philosophical Life – PHIL 16311GD
Students examine classical and contemporary philosophical views on living a philosophical life in the face of life’s dilemmas. They examine their own lives to determine what contributes to a philosophically good life for them. Main foci include philosophical perspectives on friendship, pleasure, happiness, morality, personal identity, freedom and responsibility.
Stream C
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Introduction to Studies in Creativity – CULT 17545GD
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Leadership and Creative Problem-Solving – CULT 26529GD
Students examine the complex and dynamic relationship between leadership, facilitation and creativity. Through the study of cross-disciplinary theory, they assess conceptions of leadership within a global context and explore processes, methodologies, structures, styles and skills associated with creative leadership and problem solving.
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Collective Memory – CULT 20859GD
Students examine the grassroots production and reproduction of collective memories from an interdisciplinary, Cultural Studies perspective, exploring the cultural politics of memory in a range of ways that are hands-on and critically engaged. Through examining contemporary case studies, students synthesize key concepts in memory studies such as narrative, power, erasure, invention, identity, representation, nostalgia and counter-memory with personal experiences and current events.
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Power of Voice – CULT 25288GD
Through the synthesis of a range of theoretical perspectives at the intersection of the disciplines of Linguistics and Cultural Studies, students draw connections between notions of voice: its physical and mechanical nature, its cultural conceptualizations and its social impact.
What will I learn?
By completing this collection of breadth electives, you'll demonstrate the ability to:
- Integrate theories of relational knowledge with respect to processes of community building.
- Investigate concepts of self, identity, ethics and their social construction.
- Cultivate critical perspective-taking in the context of evolving systemic socio-cultural conditions.
- Develop holistic strategies to support personal regulation and well-being through critical self-reflection.
- Reflect on how personal biases and assumptions impact resilience and adaptability.
- Synthesize theoretical approaches to emotional intelligence and creativity to respond productively to complex social situations.
This formal credential looks great on your resumé, and will give you an advantage if you wish to pursue graduate or post-graduate studies in cognitive, emotional or relational theory.