Certificate in Adapted Physical Activity

The focus of the Adapted Physical Activity (APA) Graduate Certificate is using a disability-affirming approach to enhance skilled practice and reflexive learning. Focused on understanding disability within a larger context of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), students in this graduate certificate program will advance critical thinking skills, reflect on taken for granted practices and assumptions, and explore practice oriented tools and knowledge.

By fostering attitudes that are welcoming, affirming, and supporting, this APA Certificate is about reducing barriers, inhibitors, and constraints, and advocating access to active lifestyles and sport, by supporting facilitators and affordances that will promote innovative and cooperative service delivery, provide supports as needed, and empower individuals.

This certificate is a graduate certificate and may be applied to a course-based master degree in the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation. Courses are delivered online, there is no in-class component.

In order to graduate students are required to complete a minimum 4 courses, each worth 3 credits, for a total of 12 credits. There are 6 courses to choose from.

* Courses are offered online only and students will have up to 4 years to complete the certificate. The nature and number of courses offered in a calendar year will vary. All 6 courses will not be offered each year. *

KSR 717 - Critical survey of key topics in Adapted Physical Activity

KSR 718 - Program Evaluation and Assessment

KSR 719 - Being a Reflexive Practitioner

KSR 720 - Accessible Design for APA

KSR 721 - Instructional Approaches & Programming Models

KSR 722 - Coaching Athletes Experiencing Disability

KSR 723 - Integrating Disability Perspectives into APA Practices

KSR 724 - Trauma-informed practice