1. Algonquin College Ottawa
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Graduate Certificate Victimology

1 Year On Campus Certificate Program

Algonquin College Ottawa

Program Overview

This one-year Ontario College Graduate Certificate program provides professionals with specialized knowledge and skills in victimology and in the provision of victim services.Students develop an understanding of victims` rights, sudden and traumatic loss, victim populations and crime and its effects on victims in the criminal justice system. History and theories of victimization are explored, with an applied victim-centred focus.

Program Key Stats

$13700 (Annual cost)



88 %

Eligibility Criteria


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6.5
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Additional Information & Requirements

A university degree in one of the following fields of study: social work, criminology, law, psychology, counselling, nursing, sociology or other related degree, 1-3 years of volunteer or paid experience or equivalent in the vulnerable sector, Letter of Intent, Interview, IELTS-6.5, TOEFL-IBT: 88 (with the minimum of 22 in each component: Reading 22; Listening: 22; Speaking: 22; Writing: 22)

Career Options

  • Graduates may find employment in a variety of occupational fields providing services to victims of crime
  • including social services
  • child protection
  • crisis response
  • the criminal justice system and in policy areas related to victimization

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