With the motto of preparing for the future without putting life on hold, Yorkville University began accepting students in the fall of 2004. Rick Davey as the president, the Yorkville University is located in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. It was established in 2003 under the New Brunswick Degree Granting Act. The Yorkville University, Canada specializes in online university degree programs and in practice oriented graduate level academic programs. Yorkville.....Continuing reading University’s academic year is organized on a trimester basis, with three terms of fifteen weeks each plus intersession breaks in each calendar year. Terms begin September, January, and May. Online three-credit courses are generally completed in five-week sessions. Full-time students enroll for between nine and eighteen academic credit hours per term, depending upon the program. Online courses are taken sequentially. Students take courses one at a time, in a sequence that is defined for the program in which they are enrolled.
The Academics at Yorkville University - Fredericton include Faculty of Behavioral Sciences and Faculty of Education. It offers Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology and Master of Education in Adult Education with a number of online courses like Foundations of Adult Education, Introduction to Educational Research, Adult Learning and many others. Electives like History of Adult Education, Community-based education, teaching at the Adult level and a few others are the choices students can make according to their interests. These electives are also carried out online. Additional program component includes the Major Academic Report which is intended to fulfill the requirement for independent scholarly work and for participants to summarize critique and apply knowledge in a selected area of their specialized field of study.
Yorkville University - Fredericton, one of the first universities in Canada to focus on online/blended degree programs, has created one of Canada’s most dynamic and practical Masters programs in the field of counselling. The university is diverged from the typical graduate school focus on basic research to a focus on the acquisition and synthesis of knowledge and skills relevant to the practitioner. The programs are oriented towards graduating practitioners who are able to quickly put their learning to work in the real world.
Yorkville University’s online courses of study are every bit as tough and rigorous as that which can be experienced in any Canadian classroom and the university allows students the flexibility to complete courses online without residency requirements. The faculty comprises experienced teachers at the top of their fields. In Counseling Psychology, all the teachers have doctoral degrees. Many are practitioners. Yorkville University provides a convenient means of participation. Yorkville University provides an online library, bookstore, and administrative resources which are available at whatever time works for you. Online courses allow flexibility to complete assignments and study according to your daily and weekly schedule. In Canada there is no formal accreditation process, approval to operate as a University and individual approval of degree programs is granted by provincial governments. After a rigorous assessment process, Yorkville University was granted University status, and approved for its Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology. It’s a private and non-denominational university that offers its students to undertake most rewarding challenges ever.....Reading in short