The EDGE Graduate Professional Skills Certificate program is designed to acknowledge the professional skills and competencies you have developed as a graduate student. There is no cost to participate, and you can complete the certificate requirements at your own pace, either through synchronous or asynchronous components.

Requirements

To earn the EDGE Graduate Professional Skills Certificate, one must complete the following requirements within one semester:

• An Individual Development Plan (IDP): Graduate students will have completed this IDP form describing your unique professional goals and action plan to achieve these goals (approximately 1 hour).

• Three EDGE workshops: Graduate students will have participated in or viewed at least three EDGE workshops, including at least one from each of the skills and competencies areas of learning and research, management and responsibility, and communication and teamwork (approximately 3 hours).

Skills and Competencies

The EDGE Professional Skills Certificate program is designed to foster broad skills and competencies that are both meaningful to you and understood to be critical for success in the knowledge economy (COU, 2011). They are qualities Memorial expects of all graduates under our University’s Teaching and Learning Framework (MUN, 2014) and aligned with the employability skills identified by the Conference Board of Canada (2016) as being vital in today’s world of work. Adapting Travis’ (1972) wellness continuum model, EDGE’s resources and workshops are intended to build awareness of, enable practice in, and foster expertise with these collaborative skills and competencies.

Time Expectations

A total of 4 hours will normally be required to complete the Certificate program, including approximately 1 hour to complete the IDP form and approximately 3 hours to participate in three EDGE workshops.

Certificate

The certificate will be awarded to you through the MUN Graduate Commons shell in Brightspace after you have fulfilled all certificate requirements and submitted the formal completion form.