The summer of course! :) Most of our summer courses are 3 credit hours and run for the twelve weeks from May 17 to August 8. But one course (Dr. Jersak's, 'Simone Weil: From the Cave to the Cross') is 1.5 credit hours and runs for the six weeks from June 28 to August 8.

Students must register for their summer course(s) before May 1st. However, SSU offers an early bird discount of 20% off the cost of tuition for students who register before April 1st.

To register, complete and submit our short and simple Registration From here.

The tuition for courses in the SSU Summer School is the same as our regular tuition rate: $1,185 CAD (which is about $870 USD at the current exchange rate) for our 3 credit hour courses and $600 CAD (which is about $440 USD at the current exchange rate) for our 1.5 credit hour course.

Student fees are $50 per course up to a maximum of $200.

An early bird discount of 20% off the regular cost of tuition is automatically applied to the invoice of all students who register for their course(s) before April 1st.

Current SSU students and alumni can audit a summer course for the reduced rate of $200 CAD.

Note: A limited number of bursaries are available for students who face financial obstacles.

Yes, SSU has a small bursary fund for the Summer School to help students who have financial challenges, but these are in limited supply and are available on a first come, first served basis.

As the SSU Summer School is an extra initiative that's meant to spark the imagination of our students and invite in new students, these courses are auxiliary courses and can't be included in a current student's degree or certificate program or replace any of their required courses.

Instead, these are one-off courses that are meant for personal enrichment and professional development during months when students might have a little extra time to dig into these subjects.

However, if an SSU student takes these courses for credit, they will receive a Certificate of Completion for each course, which they can then include on their CV.

That said, any new students can apply up to two summer courses to a master's program or one summer course to a certificate program if they decide to continue in their studies at SSU (some restrictions apply).

The SSU Summer School courses are housed on Canvas LMS, which is a robust, intuitive, and feature-rich online course platform. These courses can be taken synchronously or asynchronously depending on the student's needs. They include a mix of recorded video lectures and live Zoom sessions for discussion, but all live video conferences will be recorded exclusively for students who didn't attend to view on their own time later.

In addition to video lectures and live sessions, our courses also include readings, video clips, discussion forums, and assignments (e.g., book reviews or reports, reading responses, reflection papers, research papers, creative projects, etc.). All courses have thorough instructions and resources to help you navigate the course and orientate yourself within your learning environment.

While we encourage our students to attend any live Zoom sessions that they can, we also recognize that our students lead busy lives and have unique priorities, so students are permitted to view the recordings of our live sessions on their own time if needed.

If you take a course for credit, you are responsible for all assignments and will receive a Certificate of Completion at the end as well as a transcript. SSU also has a special offer for all new students to use the summer course towards a certificate or master's degree at SSU if you choose to continue in your studies in the future.

Students who simply audit a course are not responsible for completing and submitting assignments, and professors will not mark or offer feedback on any assignments that an audit student chooses to complete. But audit students have access to all other content and experiences that are part of each course.

Don't worry — You are welcome here! The SSU Summer School is a more informal educational experience and is here to spark your prophetic imagination, upscale your education, and promote critical and creative consciousness in a world of conflict and violence. These curated courses are open to anyone regardless of whether or not you’re already a current SSU student or feel academically adept. Take one or take them all, and gain credit and a Certificate of Completion, or just audit one or more courses for your own personal enrichment.

Prospective students just need to register for their course(s) and do not need to actually apply or be accepted. However, a question on the Registration Form does ask you for additional information with respect to why you would like to take a summer course with us.

Registration is easy. There is no need to officially apply, so all you need to do is visit our summer course registration from here — ssu.ca/course-registration-form-summer — fill it out, select the course(s) that you'd like to take, and submit it. An SSU staff member will be in touch with you very soon thereafter with a welcome email and further instructions about next steps.

Yes, when you start your courses, you will be given access to SSU's digital library, the Digital Theological Library (DTL2), for the duration of the summer. The DTL2 is a co-owned, born-digital library of religious and theological studies, with excellent collections in other disciplines that make up SSU's programs, including peace and justice and reconciliation studies. It is a world-class research library that includes the following:

• 1.4+ million ebooks

• 61,000+ journals

• 104 million indexed articles

• 119+ databases

• 30+ subject guides

With an annual acquisitions budget of over 1 million dollars, the collections of DTL2 are constantly growing as are our databases and subject guides. Highlights of the DTL2 collection include the following:

• Every Bible Commentary that is available digitally;

• All of JSTOR, Project Muse, and ProQuest;

• PsychBOOKS, PyschArticles, PyschInfo, PsychoTherapy.net;

• Loeb Classical Library, Naxos Music, Patrologia Latina, Philosophy Document Center;

• All ebook titles in recent religious studies from Duke, Harvard, de Gruyter, Cambridge University Press, Bloomsbury, and Taylor & Francis;

• Major collections from Brill, Fortress, Zondervan, Eerdmans, Baker, University of Chicago, Yale, & Peeters among others;

• Non-English databases in Chinese, Korean, German, Spanish, and French;

• Acquisition contracts with Gale, Wiley, Rittenhouse, Ebsco, ProQuest, Sage, Springer and others.

For more information, visit the Elizabeth V. Kilbourne Library page on SSU's website.

If you have any questions, please reach out to our Registrar, Rosie Sperling Funk, who can either answer your questions or point you to the person who can — registrar@ssu.ca

Alternatively, you can use our Contact Form.