AECD - Courses & Thematic Areas

Adult Education & Community Development program students are encouraged, but not required, to concentrate elective coursework in one of four thematic areas:

Work, Organizations and Lifelong Learning for Social Change (W)

Community Engagement and Sustainability (C)

Learning and Engagement in Global Contexts (G)

Indigenous Perspectives and Imagining Alternatives (I)

Below is a complete list of all courses offered in the Adult Education and Community Development program. To see course offerings for the current term, please visit OISE’s Course Enrolment website.

Course Code and TitleFacultyTypeWCGI
LHA1100H – Introduction to Adult Education Core Course    
LHA1101H – Program Planning in Adult Education      
LHA1102H – Introduction to Community Development Core Course    
LHA1103H – Introduction to Research Methods in Adult Education  Methods Course    
LHA1105H – Introduction to Qualitative Research: Part 1 (RM) Methods Course    
LHA1106H – Introduction to Qualitative Research: Part 2 (RM) Methods Course    
LHA1107H – Developing and Leading High Performing Teams: Theory and Practice  x   
LHA1108H – Adult Learning      
LHA1109H – Challenging Systems of Power and Oppression through Creative Approaches  x xx
LHA1110H – Approaches to Teaching Adults      
LHA1111H – Working with Survivors of Trauma   x x
LHA1113H – Gender and Race at Work  xx  
LHA1114H – Commons, Community and Social Justice   x  
LHA1115H – Learning for the Global Economy    x 
LHA1119H – Creating a Learning Organization  x   
LHA1120H – Professions, Learning, and Work  x   
LHA1122H – Practicum in Adult Education and Community Development      
LHA1142 – Young Adulthood in Crisis: Learning, Transitions and Activism   x  
LHA1143H – Introduction to Feminist Perspectives on Society and Education   x  
LHA1144H – Queer Interventions: Tools for Community Organizing   x  
LHA1145 – Participatory Research in the Community and the Workplace Methods Coursexx  
LHA1146H – Women, War, and Learning   xx 
LHA1147H – Migration, Resettlement, and Learning   xx 
LHA1148H – Introduction to Workplace, Organizational, and Economic Democracy  xx  
LHA1149H – Precarity and Dispossession: Urban Poverty and Rebel Cities   x  
LHA1150H – Critical Perspectives on Organizational ChangeHye-Su Kuk xx  
LHA1152H – Individual Reading and Research in Adult Education: Master’s Level      
LHA1180H – Indigenous Worldviews: Implications for Education     x
LHA1181H – Embodied Learning and Alternative Approaches to Community Wellness   x x
LHA1182H – Nonprofits, Co-operatives, and the Social Economy: An Overview  xx  
LHA1183H – Master’s Research Seminar      
LHA1184H – Indigenous Knowledge: Implications for Education     x
LHA1190H – Community Healing and Peacebuilding   x x
LHA1193H – Adult Education for Sustainability   x  
LHA1194H – Cyberliteracy and Adult Education      
LHA1195H – Technology @Work: The Internet in Workplace Learning and Change  x   
LHA1196H – Walking Together, Talking Together: The Praxis of Reconciliation   x x
LHA1197H – The Pedagogy of Food   x  
LHA3102H – Doctoral Thesis Seminar      
LHA3152H – Individual Reading and Research in Adult Education: Doctoral Level      
LHA3182H – Participatory Democracy, Activism, and Citizenship LearningHye-Su Kuk xx  
LHA3183H – Introduction to Institutional Ethnography Methods Course    
LHA3184H – Indigenous Research Methodologies Methods Course   x
LHA5100H to LHA5120H – Special Topics in Adult Education and Community Development: Master’s Level      
LHA6100H to LHA6110H – Special Topics in Adult Education and Community Development: Doctoral Level      
CIE1001H – Introduction to Comparative, International, and Development Education    x 
CIE1102H – Practicum in Comparative, International and Development Education    x 
CIE1106H - Transnational Perspectives on Democracy, Human Rights, and Democratic Education in an Era of Globalization   xx 
CIE6000H - Special Topics in Comparative, International, and Development Education    x 
WPL1131H – Introduction to Workplace Learning and Social ChangeHye-Su Kuk x   
WPL3930H – Practitioner Communities in Workplace Learning  xx  
WPl3931H – Advanced Studies in Workplace Learning and Social Change  x   
SJE1925H – Indigenous Knowledge and Decolonization: Pedagogical Implications     x