XI. Special Study Opportunities
Distance Education
The Distance Education program, administered by the Office of Open Learning, supports academic departments in offering degree credit courses to students who choose to study outside the traditional classroom environment. Courses may come with a variety of learning resources, including: manuals, videotapes, audio CDs, DVDs, CD-ROMs, etc., depending on the nature of the course. As well, most courses incorporate computer conferencing, email, computer-based quizzes, and the use of the Internet. Distance education provides a contemporary means through which the University of Guelph continues its tradition of outreach and open learning opportunities.
Students may take distance education courses for a variety of reasons, including: to have flexibility in designing their own study schedules; to avoid timetable conflicts; to acquire credits while away on summer break or on a co-op job placement; to take courses unavailable in class in a given semester; to learn in an interactive online environment.
The University of Guelph recognizes the importance of distance learning and is committed to providing opportunities for the off-campus learner. A wide range of subject areas and course levels is available.
The following is a list of the courses that are offered in the distance format. When selecting these courses, section DE must be specified to indicate the distance education offering. Please consult Section XII--Course Descriptions. Because additional courses are constantly being developed, please consult the Office of Open Learning, 160 Johnston Hall, 519-767-5000, email: info@open.uoguelph.ca for an updated listing of courses available by distance education and when they are scheduled to be offered. Course listings are also available at www.open.uoguelph.ca.
AGEC*3400*DE | [0.50] | Agribusiness Financial Management |
AGR*4050*DE | [0.50] | Professionalism and Agrology |
ANSC*2340*DE | [0.50] | Structure of Farm Animals |
ANSC*3210*DE | [0.50] | Principles of Animal Care and Welfare |
ANTH*1150*DE | [0.50] | Introduction to Anthropology |
BIOL*2060*DE | [0.50] | Ecology |
BIOL*2210*DE | [0.50] | Introductory Cell Biology |
BIOL*3450*DE | [0.50] | Introduction to Aquatic Environments |
BIOM*2000*DE | [0.50] | Concepts in Human Physiology |
BIOM*3100*DE | [0.50] | Mammalian Physiology I |
BOT*1200*DE | [0.50] | Plants and Human Use |
BOT*2000*DE | [0.50] | Plants, Biology and People |
BUS*2220*DE | [0.50] | Financial Accounting |
BUS*2230*DE | [0.50] | Management Accounting |
BUS*3010*DE | [0.50] | Compensation Systems |
BUS*3030*DE | [0.50] | Occupational Health and Safety |
BUS*3070*DE | [0.50] | Recruitment and Selection |
BUS*3090*DE | [0.50] | Training and Development |
CHEM*1060*DE | [0.50] | Introductory Chemistry |
CHEM*1100*DE | [0.50] | Chemistry Today |
CIS*1000*DE | [0.50] | Introduction to Computer Applications |
CIS*1200*DE | [0.50] | Introduction to Computing |
CIS*1500*DE | [0.50] | Introduction to Programming |
CIS*2100*DE | [0.50] | Scientific Computing and Applications Development |
ECON*1050*DE | [0.50] | Introductory Microeconomics |
ECON*1100*DE | [0.50] | Introductory Macroeconomics |
ECON*2100*DE | [0.50] | Economic Growth and Environmental Quality |
ECON*2310*DE | [0.50] | Intermediate Microeconomics |
ECON*2410*DE | [0.50] | Intermediate Macroeconomics |
ECON*2770*DE | [0.50] | Introductory Mathematical Economics |
ECON*3560*DE | [0.50] | Theory of Finance |
ECON*3660*DE | [0.50] | Economics of Equity Markets |
ECON*4400*DE | [0.50] | Economics of Organizations and Corporate Governance |
EDRD*2020*DE | [0.50] | Interpersonal Communication |
EDRD*2600*DE | [0.50] | Planning Theory |
EDRD*2650*DE | [0.50] | Introduction to Planning and Environmental Law |
EDRD*3120*DE | [0.50] | Educational Communication |
EDRD*3140*DE | [0.50] | Organizational Communication |
EDRD*3160*DE | [0.50] | International Communication |
EDRD*3180*DE | [0.50] | Social Processes in Mediated Communication |
EDRD*3450*DE | [0.50] | Watershed Planning Practice |
EDRD*3500*DE | [0.50] | Recreation and Tourism Planning |
EDRD*3550*DE | [0.50] | Economic Development for Rural and Smaller Communities |
EDRD*4010*DE | [0.50] | Tourism Planning in the Less Developed World |
EDRD*4120*DE | [0.50] | Leadership Development in Small Organizations |
EDRD*4500*DE | [0.50] | Planning Industrial Ecology |
ENGL*1200*DE | [0.50] | Reading the Contemporary World |
ENGL*1410*DE | [0.50] | Major Writers |
ENGL*2640*DE | [0.50] | Culture, Location, Identity: Minoritized Literatures in Canada and Beyond |
ENGL*3360*DE | [0.50] | Scottish Literary Cultures |
ENVB*2210*DE | [0.50] | Introductory Apiculture |
ENVB*3000*DE | [0.50] | Nature Interpretation |
ENVB*3030*DE | [0.50] | Pesticides and the Environment |
ENVB*3040*DE | [0.50] | Natural Chemicals in the Environment |
ENVB*4780*DE | [0.50] | Forest Ecology |
EURO*1050*DE | [0.50] | The Emergence of a United Europe |
EURO*2070*DE | [0.50] | European Integration, 1957-1992 |
FOOD*2010*DE | [0.50] | Principles of Food Science |
FOOD*2400*DE | [0.50] | Introduction to Food Chemistry |
FOOD*2410*DE | [0.50] | Introduction to Food Processing |
FOOD*2420*DE | [0.50] | Introduction to Food Microbiology |
FOOD*3430*DE | [0.50] | Introduction to Food Analysis |
FOOD*4010*DE | [0.50] | Food Plant Sanitation and Quality Control |
FOOD*4070*DE | [0.50] | Food Packaging |
FREN*1090*DE | [0.50] | Basic French: Reading |
FREN*1100*DE | [0.50] | Basic French: Listening |
FREN*1120*DE | [0.50] | Basic French: Writing |
FREN*2020*DE | [0.50] | France: Literature and Society |
FREN*2500*DE | [0.50] | French Translation I |
FRHD*1010*DE | [0.50] | Human Development |
FRHD*1020*DE | [0.50] | Couple and Family Relationships |
FRHD*2060*DE | [0.50] | Adult Development and Aging |
FRHD*2100*DE | [0.50] | Development of Human Sexuality |
FRHD*2110*DE | [0.50] | Exceptional Children and Youth |
FRHD*2260*DE | [0.50] | Infant Development |
FRHD*2270*DE | [0.50] | Development in Early and Middle Childhood |
FRHD*2280*DE | [0.50] | Adolescent Development |
FRHD*3190*DE | [0.50] | Administration of Programs for Children and Youth |
GEOG*1200*DE | [0.50] | Society and Space |
GEOG*1220*DE | [0.50] | Human Impact on the Environment |
GEOG*1300*DE | [0.50] | Introduction to the Biophysical Environment |
GEOG*2210*DE | [0.50] | Environment and Resources |
GEOG*2510*DE | [0.50] | Canada: A Regional Synthesis |
GEOG*3020*DE | [0.50] | Global Environmental Change |
GEOG*3210*DE | [0.50] | Management of the Biophysical Environment |
GEOG*3490*DE | [0.50] | Tourism and Environment |
GEOL*1100*DE | [0.50] | Principles of Geology |
GEOL*2250*DE | [0.50] | Geology of Natural Disasters |
HIST*1150*DE | [0.50] | 20th-Century Global History |
HIST*2000*DE | [0.50] | The British Isles, 1066-1603 |
HIST*2040*DE | [0.50] | War and Society |
HIST*2070*DE | [0.50] | World Religions in Historical Perspective |
HIST*2250*DE | [0.50] | Environment and History |
HIST*2260*DE | [0.50] | Religion and Society |
HIST*2450*DE | [0.50] | The Practising Historian |
HIST*2610*DE | [0.50] | Contemporary Canadian Issues |
HIST*2830*DE | [0.50] | The Emergence of Modern Germany 1871-1990 |
HIST*3020*DE | [0.50] | Sexuality and Gender in History |
HIST*3030*DE | [0.50] | Celtic Britain and Ireland to 1066 |
HIST*3140*DE | [0.50] | Witch-hunts and Popular Culture |
HIST*3530*DE | [0.50] | Celtic Britain and Ireland Since 1603 |
HIST*3540*DE | [0.50] | World War Two |
HIST*4050*DE | [0.50] | Topics in Scottish History |
HORT*1060*DE | [0.50] | Plant Identification: Woody Plants |
HORT*1120*DE | [0.50] | Grape and Wine Science |
HORT*3430*DE | [0.50] | Wine-Grape Culture |
HTM*2030*DE | [0.50] | Control Systems in the Hospitality Industry |
HTM*2150*DE | [0.50] | Introduction to Canadian Business Management |
HTM*2200*DE | [0.50] | Organizational Behaviour I |
HTM*3000*DE | [0.50] | Human Resources Management |
HTM*3070*DE | [0.50] | Hospitality and Tourism Management Accounting |
HTM*3180*DE | [0.50] | Casino Operations Management |
HTM*3780*DE | [0.50] | Economics of Food Usage |
HTM*4160*DE | [0.50] | Human Resources Planning |
LARC*1950*DE | [0.50] | History of Cultural Form I |
LARC*4610*DE | [0.50] | Professional Practice |
MATH*1000*DE | [0.50] | Introductory Calculus |
MATH*2150*DE | [0.50] | Applied Matrix Algebra |
MBG*3060*DE | [0.50] | Quantitative Genetics |
MBG*3090*DE | [0.50] | Applied Animal Genetics |
MBG*3600*DE | [0.25] | Introduction to Genomics |
MCS*1000*DE | [0.50] | Introductory Marketing |
MCS*2020*DE | [0.50] | Information Management |
MCS*2100*DE | [0.50] | Personal Financial Management |
MCS*3010*DE | [0.50] | Quality Management |
MCS*3030*DE | [0.50] | Research Methods |
MCS*3040*DE | [0.50] | Business and Consumer Law |
MET*1000*DE | [0.50] | The Atmospheric Environment |
MUSC*1060*DE | [0.50] | Introduction to Music |
MUSC*1130*DE | [0.50] | Introduction to Musicianship |
MUSC*2140*DE | [0.50] | History of Jazz |
MUSC*2280*DE | [0.50] | Masterworks of Music |
NRS*2050*DE | [0.50] | The Landscape of Scotland |
NRS*2120*DE | [0.50] | Introduction to Environmental Stewardship |
NRS*3300*DE | [0.50] | Land Resource Stewardship |
NUTR*1010*DE | [0.50] | Nutrition and Society |
NUTR*2050*DE | [0.50] | Family and Community Nutrition |
OAGR*2300*DE | [0.50] | Organic Marketing |
PATH*3610*DE | [0.50] | Principles of Disease |
PHIL*2070*DE | [0.50] | Philosophy of the Environment |
PHIL*2100*DE | [0.50] | Critical Thinking |
PHIL*2120*DE | [0.50] | Ethics |
PHIL*2130*DE | [0.50] | Philosophy of Religion |
PHYS*1020*DE | [0.50] | Introductory Physics |
PHYS*1600*DE | [0.50] | Contemporary Astronomy |
POLS*1400*DE | [0.50] | Issues in Canadian Politics |
POLS*1500*DE | [0.50] | World Politics |
POLS*2250*DE | [0.50] | Public Administration and Governance |
POLS*2300*DE | [0.50] | Canadian Government |
POLS*3370*DE | [0.50] | Environmental Politics and Governance |
POLS*3440*DE | [0.50] | Corruption, Scandal and Political Ethics |
POLS*3940*DE | [0.50] | Accountability and Canadian Government |
PSYC*1100*DE | [0.50] | Principles of Behaviour |
PSYC*1200*DE | [0.50] | Dynamics of Behaviour |
PSYC*2010*DE | [0.50] | Quantification in Psychology |
PSYC*2310*DE | [0.50] | Introduction to Social Psychology |
PSYC*2360*DE | [0.50] | Introductory Research Methods |
PSYC*2390*DE | [0.50] | Principles of Sensation and Perception |
PSYC*2410*DE | [0.50] | Behavioural Neuroscience I |
PSYC*2450*DE | [0.50] | Introduction to Developmental Psychology |
PSYC*2650*DE | [0.50] | Cognitive Psychology |
PSYC*2740*DE | [0.50] | Personality |
PSYC*3010*DE | [0.50] | Compensation Systems |
PSYC*3020*DE | [0.50] | Psychology of Law |
PSYC*3060*DE | [0.50] | Occupational Health Psychology |
PSYC*3070*DE | [0.50] | Psychology in Human Resource Management |
PSYC*3080*DE | [0.50] | Organizational Psychology |
PSYC*3090*DE | [0.50] | Training and Development |
PSYC*3220*DE | [0.50] | Ergonomics: the Scientific Study of People-System Relationships |
PSYC*3250*DE | [0.50] | Psychological Measurement |
PSYC*3340*DE | [0.50] | Psycholinguistics |
PSYC*3390*DE | [0.50] | Abnormal Psychology |
PSYC*3480*DE | [0.50] | Psychology of Sport |
PSYC*3570*DE | [0.50] | The Psychology of Death and Dying |
PSYC*3710*DE | [0.50] | Psychology of Learning Difficulties and Disabilities I |
PSYC*3800*DE | [0.50] | Psychology and Education |
PSYC*3850*DE | [0.50] | Intellectual Disabilities |
SOAN*2400*DE | [0.50] | Introduction to Gender Systems |
SOC*1100*DE | [0.50] | Sociology |
SOC*1500*DE | [0.50] | Crime and Criminal Justice |
SOC*2070*DE | [0.50] | Social Deviance |
SOC*2750*DE | [0.50] | Serial Murder |
SOC*3490*DE | [0.50] | Law and Society |
SOIL*2010*DE | [0.50] | Soil Science |
SOIL*3080*DE | [0.50] | Soil and Water Conservation |
SPAN*1100*DE | [0.50] | Introductory Spanish |
SPAN*1110*DE | [0.50] | Intermediate Spanish |
STAT*2060*DE | [0.50] | Statistics for Business Decisions |
THST*2500*DE | [0.50] | Contemporary Cinema |
UNIV*2000*DE | [0.50] | Foundations of Leadership |
UNIV*2050*DE | [0.50] | Environmental Perspectives and Human Choices I |
UNIV*3250*DE | [0.50] | Environmental Perspectives and Human Choices II |
UNIV*4000*DE | [0.50] | Leadership Capstone |
WMST*1000*DE | [0.50] | Introduction to Women's Studies |
ZOO*1500*DE | [0.50] | Humans in the Natural World - a Zoological Perspective |
ZOO*2050*DE | [0.50] | Natural History of Ontario |
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Getting ready for Calculus, a non-degree credit preparatory course, is also offered via distance.
Note: Please check with the Office of Open Learning regarding the technology and resource requirements (e.g. computer, internet, DVD player, etc.) for the specific course(s) in which you are interested.
The courses have been designed and written by experts to meet rigorous standards. Clusters of courses are offered from selected areas of specialization within the University.
The Diploma in Applied Statistics, the Diploma in Public Policy and Administration, the Certificate in Communication Process, the Certificate in Food Science, the Certificate in Hospitality Studies, the Certificate in Environmental Citizenship, the Certificate in Environmental Conservation and the Certificate in Leadership are also offered in the distance education mode in whole or in part (see Certificates and Diplomas in this section for further information).