Equity Diversity Inclusion Accessibility - EDIA: Foundations (EDIA 0100)

Learning outcomes

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

• critically assess your own knowledge, skills, and lived experiences given your social location and positionality within intersecting systems of power and oppression
• identify strengths and areas for further learning in content areas relating to equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility
• better appreciate, understand, and empathize with perspectives and experiences different from your own, and articulate where your and others’ perspectives come from
• recognize and employ your own developing abilities to take action to build a more inclusive and equitable environment at the University of Manitoba

Schedule information

May 12 to August 25, 2025

This course is for the UM Community including UM students, staff, and faculty. It was designed for everyone, no matter their educational background or prior experience.

The hybrid format includes a mix of learning modules for self-study, and required facilitated sessions offered either in person or online. Prospective learners will be able to choose from a selection of dates for these required sessions when offers of admission are made. Learners will have up to four months to complete the course in the format that works best for them.

With a limit of 120 participants across two sections, applications will be open from March 10 to March 24, 2025. Applicants will be advised if they are eligible for the course, and then, contacted again if they are selected to participate. To select participants, a lottery-based system is used to avoid first-come, first-served admission practices that privilege those with access to time and technology. Those who are not selected will be added to a waitlist for a future session.

Mandatory facilitated sessions for Summer 2025

If you are selected, you will be required to attend one offering of Session 1 and one offering of Session 2. Please check that you are available for at least one date for each session in one of the course sections (E01 or E02).

• Complete your application online by clicking the Apply now button.
• You must identify if you are a UM student, staff, or faculty and provide either your student or employee ID number.
• You will be notified if you are eligible, and then, if you are selected to participate or not.
• If you are selected, we will provide you with additional registration information. 

Applications are open from March 10 to March 24, 2025.

We are working to remove as many barriers as possible so that this learning opportunity is available to all at UM. We welcome feedback and ideas for continuous improvement in this ongoing process. Email eeprograms@umanitoba.ca.