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Courses - May 2025
Level 1
Course details
Career Discovery
CDEV1840
Description:
This course focuses on career exploration and decision making. Students will evaluate their interests, values, skills and abilities through assessment tools and explore the labour market to identify employment trends aligned to their strengths. Effective communication strategies to aid success in the workplace will be covered. By the end of this course, students will have created a personalized development plan to support their future career goals.
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
- Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: ​No cost.
College Reading & Writing Skills
COMM1085
Description:
This course introduces students to the reading, writing, and critical thinking skills needed for academic and workplace success. Students will analyse a variety of texts and apply the steps of planning, writing, and revising to produce writing that meets the expectations of selected audiences and purposes. The course prepares students for college-level writing tasks, research, and documentation by asking them to produce clear, informed, and purposeful documents relevant to both academic and professional contexts.
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
- Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: ​No cost.
Computer Use in the Modern World
COMP1618
Description:
Students will use Microsoft Office to create reports, electronic presentations, brochures, flyers, posters and create budgets. In addition, they will be using computer applications in the contexts of online platforms, online collaboration tools and social media. As students use their research skills in online environments, they will learn how to conduct searches in order to decipher accurate from inaccurate information.
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
- Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: ​No cost.
¾ÅÖÝÓéÀÖapp 101
CON0101
Description:
This self-directed course focuses on introducing new students to the supports, services, and opportunities available at ¾ÅÖÝÓéÀÖapp. By the end of this course, students will understand the academic expectations of the ¾ÅÖÝÓéÀÖapp learning environment, as well as the supports available to ensure their academic success. Students will also be able to identify on-campus services that support their health and wellness, and explore ways to get actively involved in the ¾ÅÖÝÓéÀÖapp community through co-curricular learning opportunities.
- Hours: 1
- Credits: 0
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
- Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: ​No cost.
Student Success for Higher Learning
LIBS1540
Description:
This course enables students to employ strategies and take advantage of resources and opportunities that will support their success in post-secondary environments. Students will identify their unique learning styles and develop strategies for achieving their academic, career and personal goals for reaching personal satisfaction. It provides a structured and supportive learning environment to help students define and develop the academic habits and skills for a successful transition to a Canadian post-secondary culture. The course will address the diverse issues facing students who are beginning their academic path in post-secondary studies.
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
- Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: ​No cost.
Critical Thinking
PHIL1000
Description:
This course examines the essential elements of both critical and design thinking, through problem solving. Students will explore the nature of evidence, sound arguments and valid conclusions, faulty reasoning, convergent and divergent thinking, and the creative process. The concepts of critical and creative thinking are then applied to problem solving frameworks where students will engage in the discussion of ideas and the presentation of information to an audience.
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
- Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: ​No cost.
Level 2
Course details
Research and Writing
COMM2210
Description:
This course examines both the essentials of academic research and the general principles for effective writing of a research paper, along with the further development of communication and presentation skills. In practice-oriented activities, students will be guided through the incremental process of design and accomplishment of a research project. This includes selecting a research topic from the area of student’s academic and professional interests, drafting a literature review, formulating research questions and hypotheses, collecting data from diverse primary and secondary sources, basically analyzing and creatively interpreting data, and considering ethical issues. The rule of equal thirds, which are thinking, writing, and revising, will be implemented as an effective time management strategy. The course will culminate into the presentation of the research paper.
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
- Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: $24.50
Information, Data and Current Events
MDIA1070
Description:
In this modern era, we are bombarded with fake news, post and alternative facts, and complex influences impacting the way we locate, consume and understand data and current events. In this course, students will explore the tools needed to be able to successfully sort through a myriad of complex information, data and sources to make sense of the information. As they explore tools, strategies and resources, students will be able to situate themselves in the mix of the information, how it applies to their home communities as well as the ever evolving global environment.
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
- Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: ​No cost.
Canada in the Future
SOC1140
Description:
We live in an ever-changing and highly uncertain world that is showing no signs of slowing down. This course takes students on a journey of past, present and future megatrends and poses the question: What’s next? Students will begin to imagine what the future of Canada will look like by exploring current issues and trends that impact Canada and the world today. Students will explore demographic change and population trends, climate change, technology, globalization and social issues to make predictions of Canada in the future.
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
- Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: ​No cost.
Electives: Program Option
Student must pass one course, selected in the from available course options.
Student must pass one course, selected in the from available course options.
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Foundations in Presentation Skills
COMM1665
Description:
This course will provide students an opportunity to develop and hone their presentation skills through a variety of practical scenarios. Students will begin to produce materials that will contribute to their personal portfolios. Both individual and group work will be utilized in the development of visual and verbal presentations
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
- Estimated resource cost: No resources required
General Arts & Science Program Exemption
GASPO1001
Description:
Program Exemption for GAS program 0791 & 0090
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
- Estimated resource cost: No resources required
General Arts & Science Program Exemption
GASPO1002
Description:
Program Exemption for GAS program 0791 & 0090
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
- Estimated resource cost: No resources required
General Arts & Science Program Exemption
GASPO1006
Description:
Program Exemption for GAS program 0791 & 0090
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
- Estimated resource cost: No resources required
General Arts & Science Program Exemption
GASPO1007
Description:
Program Exemption for GAS program 0791 & 0090
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
- Estimated resource cost: No resources required
Foundations in Math
MATH1095
Description:
Students will learn and apply strategies, skills, concepts, procedures, and representational methods to solve problems in pre-algebra, algebra, and geometry/trigonometry relevant to a broad range of careers.
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
- Estimated resource cost: No resources required
Electives: Program Discipline Option
Student must pass one course, selected in the from available course options.
Student must pass one course, selected in the from available course options.
Please note:
Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs are based on the most recent available data through the ¾ÅÖÝÓéÀÖapp Campus Store.
Program outcomes
- Question cultural norms in order to develop a personal world view in relation to others, including in the workplace.
- Describe the development of western thought in a global context to categorize behaviours and relationships in the modern world.
- Develop flexibility and clarity of both thought and expression in order to communicate required by business and industry.
- Utilize critical thinking processes and problem solving techniques through logical experiences, mathematical practices, and laboratory applications.
- Develop personal and professional abilities, drawing from the subject areas of Health, Business, Engineering or Information Technology, in order to contribute to success in the workplace
- Develop interpersonal skills and implement strategies to enhance self-satisfaction and employability