Continuing & Professional Education

Business and Leadership

Enrolling in the pro­gram is a require­ment if you want to earn the cer­tifi­cate. You may apply for admis­sion as you start your stud­ies or, if you pre­fer, after you have tak­en one or more courses.

To enrol, you must have a high school diplo­ma or equiv­a­lent, four years of work expe­ri­ence, or a post-sec­ondary credential.

You are still invit­ed to apply if you do not meet the admis­sion require­ments. Your qual­i­fi­ca­tions will be reviewed, and con­di­tion­al entrance may be grant­ed. For details, please con­tact the pro­gram office at 780−492−5052.

This program is comprised of four core courses and one elective, all of them offered online through eClass, the University of Alberta’s eLearning management tool. Each course is equivalent to 40 hours, for a total of 200 instructional hours.

Information Access and Protection of Privacy Foundations is a prerequisite to all other courses in the program. There is no specific order recommended for the remaining courses: as long as the prerequisite is met, students may choose the core courses or electives that best fit their schedule in any given term.

A cumulative grade point average of at least 2.0 is required to obtain the certificate.

CIAPP Cer­ti­fied designation

Stu­dents who com­plete the Infor­ma­tion Access and Pro­tec­tion of Pri­va­cy Cer­tifi­cate will be grant­ed the CIAPP Cer­ti­fied des­ig­na­tion upon appli­ca­tion to the Cana­di­an Insti­tute of Access and Pri­va­cy Pro­fes­sion­als (CIAPP).

The CIAPP Cer­ti­fied des­ig­na­tion is the lead­ing cer­ti­fi­ca­tion pro­gram for pub­lic and pri­vate sec­tor access and pri­va­cy pro­fes­sion­als in Cana­da, and result­ed from a part­ner­ship between CIAPP and the Cana­di­an Access and Pri­va­cy Asso­ci­a­tion (CAPA), the old­est and largest orga­ni­za­tion of access to infor­ma­tion and pri­va­cy pro­fes­sion­als in Canada.