IngridBrand

Dr. Ingrid Brand has worked as a senior administrator, in higher education, in Egypt, Jordan, and Kuwait. Her seven years of international experience has afforded a view into higher education management through different cultural lenses and these have fortified her commitment to building bridges between cultures by fostering cultural and intercultural awareness, understanding, and intercultural empathy. Toward this end, she earned a doctorate in organizational leadership, policy, and development, with a specialization in comparative international development education, from the University of Minnesota. Her doctoral program focused on internationalization and Intercultural Effectiveness Programming. Her dissertation is entitled: Toward Global Leadership: Factors Influencing the Development of Intercultural Competence Among Business Students at a Canadian University.
Ingrid is a sessional lecturer at the University of Guelph-Humber where she teaches a course she developed, entitled: Intercultural Communication and Understanding. She is also an adjunct professor at Yorkville University where she teaches a course at the graduate level. She is truly passionate about her work and finds it immensely rewarding to work with learners to raise cultural and intercultural awareness, and assist them in developing the knowledge, skills, and abilities they require to communicate effectively in culturally diverse settings.
Ingrid has recently started her own consulting business, Brand Consulting, to foster the development of intercultural competence at the individual, group, or organizational levels.

New Cohort and Coursework Scheduling

 

Ubiquity University requires a SHEN coursework certificate worth 16 credits for their MASc degree, 24 credits for a combined MASc/PhD, and 13 credits beyond MASc for a PhD degree, a credit being one hour of engagement for a 15-week semester. 

To understand how SHEN plans for you to qualify for various SHEN Coursework certificates, you need to understand the following:

  1. SHEN divides a calendar year into three 10-week academic terms, 
  2. The academic terms begin on the third Monday of January, April, and September, 
  3. An academic term is followed by a free period,
  4. New students are admitted three times a year in the three academic terms, 
  5. Participating students take a minimum of one 3-hour/week course in each term (2 credits), 
  6. A course is scheduled for three hours per week, usually in one continuous session,
  7. MASc level certificate requires 8 30-hour  courses,
  8. Combined MASc/PhD level certificate requires 12 30-hour  courses,
  9. PhD level certificate requires 5 30-hour courses and 1 45-hour course after their MASc.
  10. The maximum number of participating terms required to qualify for a MASc level certificate is 8, for a combined MASc/PhD level certificate is 12, and for a PhD level certificate is six after obtaining a MASc level certificate. 

Here is a pictorial view of the above coursework scheduling description.

 

New Cohort and Course Scheduling