The Career Development Practitioner Program (C.D.P.P.) is offered jointly by the University of Guelph and Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning. The intent of the program is to provide excellent preparation for career development practitioners for their role as career counsellors in developing a nation of individuals who are best able to compete in the global marketplace.

The program allows participants to complete concurrently both a B.A. from the University of Guelph as well as the Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning Career Development Practitioner Certificate. The Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning Certificate consists of 11 courses, all offered via the distance format. The University of Guelph will accept into the Bachelor of Arts degree, the articulated transfer of 2.50 credits from the Conestoga College Certificate. The remaining university level requirements consist of 5.00 credits, delivered through classroom format, distance format, or through a combination of both delivery methods. Please contact the program advisor, Prof. H. Marmurek, Psychology, for further details.

College Level Required Courses

All of the following Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning Career Development Practitioner Certificate courses are available via the distance education format:

Career Counselling and Development

Introduction to Counselling

Career Counselling Techniques I: Principles and Practices

Trends and Issues in the New Work Dynamic

Group Training and Facilitation: Principles and Practices

Assessment in Career Counselling: Formal Instruments

Career Development with Special Needs Groups

Consulting in Career Development: Entrepreneurial and Intrapreneurial Roles

Career Consulting Techniques II: Principles and Practices

Career Development With Communities

Career Development: Developing the Professional Self - Practicum Project

University Level Required Courses

ISS*2500 [0.50] Management in Organizations

PSYC*1200 [0.50] Dynamics of Behaviour

PSYC*2010 [0.50] Quantification in Psychology

PSYC*3250 [0.50] Psychological Measurement

SOAN*2040 [0.50] Globalization of Work and Organizations

SOC*1100 [0.50] Sociology

XCST*2000 [0.50] Career Counselling and Development

1 of the following:

PSYC*3070 [0.50] Psychology in Human Resource Management

PSYC*3080 [0.50] Organizational Psychology

1 of the following:

ECON*1050 [0.50] Introductory Microeconomics

ECON*1100 [0.50] Introductory Macroeconomics

1 of the following:

PSYC*2360 [0.50] Introductory Research Methods

SOAN*2120 [0.50] Introductory Methods