Fast Tracks, Intensives, and Accelerated Programs

Spend your spring or summer at The Chang School immersed in these popular and in-demand career areas. Intensive, fast-track, and accelerated programs are offered on campus in downtown Toronto or in an online format – or a combination of both – and typically run for 3–4 months. Led by expert instructors with real-world experience, they will help you gain the knowledge and skills of a full certificate program in a condensed period of time.

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Communication and Design Intensives

Publishing Intensive

Our Publishing Intensive option offers six of the eight courses required to earn the Certificate in Publishing through an intensive three-month (12-week) program. This unique fast-track program covers both print and digital publishing, includes overviews of both the trade and educational industry sectors, and focuses on skills-based training in copy editing, production, sales and marketing, and design skills for publishing.

Summer Film School

Our intensive Summer Film School option offers the unique opportunity to learn the basics of filmmaking and earn a Certificate in Film Studies in just 12 weeks. The focus of the program is on production, and you will have the opportunity to create a number of short films, discover your creative potential, and demonstrate your acquired skills and knowledge.

STEM Fast Track

Data Analytics Fast Track

This intensive program offers a fast track to completion of the Certificate in Data Analytics, Big Data, and Predictive Analytics. You will complete five of the courses required to earn the certificate. The sixth course can be completed in a subsequent academic term of your choosing.

Community Services Accelerated Options

Certificate in Local Economic Development (LED)

Starting in Spring/Summer 2023, complete your entire LED certificate in just four months – all four courses will be available during the Spring/Summer term. (You can also choose to take the selected courses that suit your spring/summer schedule and complete the remainder during another term.)

• Accelerated versions of the first and second courses – Local Economic Development Fundamentals and Economic Development and Business Improvement – allow you to attend Friday evening classes online and be on campus on Saturday and Sunday. Each course can be completed over two weekends in May.
• The third and fourth courses – LED Applied Research Project and Capstone Project in LED* – are fully online, self-paced, project-based courses that take place during the months of June, July, and August.

* The Capstone Project in LED course will run July 17–September 1, 2023, and is part of Fall 2023 enrolment (which opens on June 5, 2023).

Certificate in Indigenous Knowledges and Experiences (IKE)

Starting in Spring/Summer 2023, complete your entire IKE certificate in just four months – all four courses will be available during the Spring/Summer term. (You can also choose to take the selected courses that suit your spring/summer schedule and complete the remainder during another term.)

• Accelerated versions of the first and second courses – Introduction to Indigenous Worldviews and Canada's Story: An Indigenous Perspective – are offered in an online, condensed format. Each course can be completed in one week in May.
• If you choose to take the elective Indigenous Peoples, Politics and Reconciliation as your third course, this one-week course is also offered in an online, condensed format during the last week of May.
• Complete your certificate by taking your fourth fully online, self-paced, project based course – Indigenous Knowledges in Practice – in June and July.

Spring Ahead in Your Studies

We also offer degree-credit courses in the spring and summer to help you get a head start on electives or lighten your course load in future terms.