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calendar 2011 - 2012 learning philosophy Our commitment to learners and learning is at the heart of Red Deer College and this is refl ected in our values of accountability, inclusiveness, exploration, excellence, integrity and community.
We believe in fostering intellectually rigorous, professionally relevant, and dynamic learning environments of inquiry, exploration, application and creativity. We ensure accessibility to multiple pathways of formal and informal learning through active engagement, facilitated learning processes, and scholarly excellence. We value learning because it empowers our learners to be highly productive in the work force and within our communities. We honour the intrinsic value of learning in supporting self development, growth and fulfi llment in the individual learner. We promote positive lifelong learning habits and attitudes that embrace local, national, and global www.rdc.ab.ca experiences, issues and perspectives. www.rdc.ab.ca 1 Contents
Table of Contents ...... 2 -B.Sc. in Chemistry ...... 56 -Networking Certificate ...... 107 President’s Message ...... 3 -B.Sc. in Computing Science ...... 57 -Network Systems Technology ...... 108 Academic Schedule 2011-2013 ...... 4 -B.Sc. in Engineering ...... 58 -Office Technology Certificate ...... 110 Admission ...... 8 -B.Sc. in Environmental & -Open Studies (formerly General ...... Fees ...... 11 Conservation Sciences ...... 59 Studies) ...... 111 Prior Learning Assessment ...... 12 -B.Sc. Environmental Science or ...... -Pharmacy Technician ...... 112 Environmental Management .... 60 -Practical Nurse Diploma ...... 114 Degree Completion Programs: ...... -B.Sc. in Forestry ...... 61 -Professional Driver Certificate ...... 115 -Red Deer College Applied Degree in .. -B.Sc. in Forest Business -Social Work ...... 116 Motion Picture Arts ...... 15 Management ...... 62 -Software Developer Certificate ..... 118 -University of Calgary Bachelor -B.Sc. in Human Ecology ...... 63 -Theatre & Entertainment Production .. of Arts ...... 16 -B.Sc. in Mathematics or Statistics ...... 120 -University of Alberta Bachelor ...... or Math and Economics ...... 64 -Theatre Performance & Creation ... 121 of Education ...... 20 -B.Sc. in Nutrition and Food Science 65 -Transitional/Vocational Program ... 123 -Athabasca University Bachelor -B.Sc. in Physics or Geophysics ...... 66 -Unit Clerk Program ...... 124 of General Studies ...... 20 -B.Sc. in Physiology ...... 67 -Virtual Assistant Certificate ...... 125 -Athabasca University Bachelor of ...... -B.Sc. in Psychology ...... 68 -Visual Art ...... 126 Management ...... 20 -Pre-Professional - Chiropractic ..... 69 -University of Alberta Bachelor -Pre Professional - Dentistry ...... 70 Career Development Programs ...... of Science in Nursing ...... 21 -Pre Professional - Medicine ...... 70 -Multimedia Web Developer ...... 127 -University of Calgary Bachelor of -Pre Professional - Optometry ...... 71 -Professional Bookkeeping Certificate Social Work ...... 16 -Pre-Professional - Pharmacy ...... 71 Program ...... 127 -Pre-Professional - Veterinary -Alberta Senior Citizens Housing ...... University Transfer Programs: ...... Medicine ...... 72 Association ...... 128 -Bachelor of Arts ...... 24 -Occupational Health & Safety ...... 129 -Anthropology ...... 27 Apprenticeship and Trades ...... 73 -English as a Second Language ...... 129 -Communications Studies ...... 28 -Economics ...... 29 Certificate & Diploma Programs: ...... 77 Other Training Opportunities ...... -English ...... 30 -Automotive Service ...... 78 -Aviation ...... 130 -French or Spanish ...... 31 -Business Administration ...... 79 -Continuing Education ...... 131 -History ...... 32 -Career & Academic Preparation ...... 82 -Professional Accountant Designation .... -Philosophy ...... 33 -Carpentry & Construction ...... 83 ...... 132 -Political Science ...... 34 - Computer Information Systems ...... 84 -Psychology ...... 35 - Early Learning & Child Care ...... Course Descriptions: ...... 133 -Sociology ...... 36 (formerly Early Childhood ...... College and University ...... 134 -Bachelor of Commerce ...... 37 Development ...... 86 Career & Academic Preparation ..... 198 -Bachelor of Education ...... 39 - Educational Assistant ...... 88 Adult Basic Education ...... 201 -Bachelor of Science & Bachelor of ...... -Financial Services ...... 89 Series Visual Arts Summer School .. 202 Education Combined Degree ... 41 -General Studies (see Open International Learning ...... -Bachelor of Fine Art ...... 42 Studies) ...... 109 Opportunities ...... 205 -Bachelor of Kinesiology & -Health Related Programs ...... 91 Sport Studies ...... 44 -Health Care Aide Program ...... 91 Index ...... 209 -Bachelor of Science & -Nursing Guided Practice Course .. 92 Pre-Professional Programs ...... 48 -Nursing Refresher Program ...... 92 -B.Sc. General ...... 49 -Hospitality and Tourism ...... -B.Sc. in Agriculture ...... 51 Management ...... 93 -B.Sc. in Agriculture/Food Business .... -Kinesiology & Sport Studies ...... 95 Management ...... 52 -Legal Assistant Diploma ...... 99 -B.Sc. in Atmospheric Sciences/ ...... -Management Certificate ...... 81 Environmental Earth Sciences .. 53 -Medical Lab Assistant ...... 100 -B.Sc. in Biochemistry ...... 54 -Motion Picture Arts ...... 102 -B.Sc. in Biological Sciences ...... 55 -Music ...... 103
2011-2012 CALENDAR The Web version is now the official Academic Calendar of Red Deer College. The Calendar and timetable set forth the intention of the College, at the time of publication, with respect to all matters contained therein. The College reserves the right, at any time, to make whatever changes are necessary, including the cancellation of particular courses, in order to serve the best interests of the College, or because of circumstances or occurrences beyond the College’s control. The College expressly denies responsibility or liability to any person or persons who may suffer loss or who may be otherwise adversely affected by such.
2 www.rdc.ab.ca welcome to RDC Everyone, from staff to faculty to We work hard to provide spaces that our wonderful maintenance team, students are comfortable in both is committed to off ering students academically and personally. In not only a wide variety of choice in addition to boasting one of Canada’s programs – but also the best possible fi nest performance venues, in 2009 we experience imaginable. You can choose opened four new Centres of excellence: anything from certifi cates to diplomas, Trades & Technology, Innovation in apprenticeships to degrees*. RDC Manufacturing, Corporate Training and off ers more than 75 diff erent programs Visual Art. These new facilities added for you to choose from. Whether 200,000 ft2 to our campus and are fi lled your passion is in Painting, Plumbing with leading edge equipment and or Pharmacy Tech, we’ve got you materials to ensure our students get the covered. Our degree choices include: fi nest quality education possible. We’re Motion Picture Arts, General Studies, not done yet! We’re in the planning Management, Education, Nursing, Arts stages for two additional Centres: Joel Ward and Social Work. As demands in the Health Education and Sport and President marketplace are constantly shifting, we Wellness that will provide an additional 2 Welcome! I am thrilled that you’re are always looking for ways that we can 377,000 ft of learning space, fi tness considering Red Deer College as a part enhance our programming and ensure facilities and sporting event venues! of your future. I may be biased but I you have access to the courses you We have vision, and hope that you are think RDC is a great place. It’s College want. We have a wide range of options a part of it. as you always imagined it would be – in Continuing Education programming great campus’ with excellent programs that will allow you to connect to the Speaking of sports … student life at and instructors – all in the heart of College while pursuing a variety of RDC is some of the best around. Our central Alberta. interests. RDC Kings and Queens athletic teams have over 102 titles under their belts! ‘Expansion’ seems to be a theme at Making a commitment to come to If sports isn’t your thing, we have RDC these days. We’re expanding our college is an undertaking. One of the over 20 student clubs, a friendly bar & program choices, pool of scholarship most obvious ways we can help you grill (featuring my favourite, karaoke funding, our physical facilities on succeed is through fi nancial support. nights!), great concerts and shows campus and the breadth of student That’s why we’ve put in place a and all kinds of BBQs and festivals services we off er to make your life guaranteed scholarship program that throughout the year. We know you’re here a fantastic experience. We’re provides some fi nancial support to here for a great education, but we also also expanding to a downtown students coming to RDC directly from know that life balance is important. location as our Donald School of high school with a grade point average We’ve got you covered. Business opens in September 2011. of 85% or higher! It doesn’t stop there. The School will off er a dynamic Check out our website at www.rdc.ab.ca There are so many great things about learning environment, innovative for a comprehensive list of awards and college life at RDC, talking about it programming and relationships with scholarships we have available. Trust almost makes me want to go back to local businesses while embracing the us, it will be worth your time! Last year school! I could go on for pages, but the true spirit of entrepreneurship. Practical we gave away more than $500,000 in easiest way for you to experience it is a education means students will connect awards and scholarships! You don’t visit. Why not drop by the campus for with leaders in a variety of sectors want to miss out. We know you’ve a tour or visit us at www.rdc.ab.ca? We throughout the region to engage in worked really hard to get this far … this want RDC to be your post-secondary applied projects, work experience and is our way of saying ‘great job and we choice. can’t wait to see you here’! community. I hope to get to see you in the halls!
www.rdc.ab.ca www.rdc.ab.ca *RDC off ers collaborative, transfer and applied degrees. 3 3 ACADEMIC SCHEDULE - 2011 - 2012 Academic Schedule - 2011-2012
Some programs may have courses which September, 2011 December, 2011 begin earlier or later than the dates indicated below. Please refer to specific SM TW T F S SM TW T F S programs or course descriptions for 123 123 further information. 4 5678910 4567 8910 Note: Apprenticeship programs do not 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 follow the academic schedule other than 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 stat holidays. 25 26 27 28 29 30 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
July, 2011 5 - Labour Day. College Closed 7 - Last day of classes for Fall Term 6 - New Student Orientation courses. SM TW T F S 7 - First day of classes for Fall Term. 12 - First day of final exams for Fall Term 1 2 14 - Last day to register or add/drop Fall courses. 3 4 56789 or Full year courses. 17 - Last day of final exams for Fall Term 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 - Last day to have tuition courses. 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 refunded for Fall or Full year 20 - Deferred exams written. 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 courses. 22 - Last day for submission of 31 final grades for Fall Term courses. 23 - Final grades available. 1 - Canada Day. Forty-eighth College October, 2011 25-31 College closed. year begins. - Statutory Holiday. College closed. SM TW T F S January, 2012 4 - Last day to apply for supplemental 1 exams for Spring. 2 345678 SM TW T F S 11 - Supplemental exams for Spring 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 12345 67 written. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 August, 2011 30 31 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 SM TW T F S 3 - First day to apply for Fall Term 2012 123456 4 - Emergency Response Day 1 - New Year’s Day. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 10 - Thanksgiving Day. College closed. 2 - College closed. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 28 - Mid term feedback date. 5 - First day of classes for Winter Term. Instructors give students formal 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 - Mid term feedback date. feedback on their academic 28 29 30 31 Instructors give students formal standing in Fall Term courses. feedback on their academic 1 - Civic Holiday. College Closed. standing in Full year courses. 2 - First day to apply for Spring Term November, 2011 - Last day to pay fees for Winter. 2011. Registration will be cancelled if 15 - Fees for Fall Term and Full year SM TW T F S fees are not paid. courses are due. 12345 12 - Last day to register or add/drop Registration will be cancelled 6789101112 Winter Term courses. if fees are not paid. 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 - Last day to withdraw from Full Year 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 courses and receive a WD 27 28 29 30 - Last day to have tuition refunded for Winter Term 9 - Final exam schedule posted courses. 10 - College open. No classes. - Last day to apply for supplemental 11 - Remembrance Day. College closed. exam. 16 - Last day to withdraw from Fall Term courses and receive a WD. 21 - Supplemental exams written.
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20 - Family Day. College closed 2 - First day to apply for Winter 2013. 1 - Convocation. 21-24 Mid-Term Break 6 - Good Friday. College closed. 6 - Last day to withdraw from Spring 27 - Classes resume after mid-term 10 - Last day of classes for Full Year Term courses and receive a WD. break and Winter Term courses. 15 - Last day of classes for Spring Term 14 - First day of final exams for Full Year courses. and Winter Term courses. 19 - First day of final exams for Spring 20 - Last day of final exams for Full Year Term courses. and Winter Term courses. 22 - Last day of final exams for Spring 24 - Deferred exams written. Term courses. 26 - Last day for submission of final 25 - Deferred exams written. grades for Winter Term courses. 27 - Last day for submission of final 30 - Final grades available. grades for Spring Term courses. 29 - Final grades available 30 - College Year ends. March, 2012 May, 2012 July, 2012 SM TW T F S SM TW T F S 1 2 3 1 234 5 SM TW T F S 456 78910 678 9101112 1234567 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 8910 11 12 13 14 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 27 28 29 30 31 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 2 - Mid term feedback date 1 - First day of classes for Spring Term. Instructors give students formal - Last day to apply for Supplemental 1 - Canada Day. Forty-ninth College feedback on their academic Examinations for Winter. year begins. standingin Winter Term courses. - Last day to pay fees for Spring 2 - College open. 6 - Emergency Response Day. Term. 3 - Last day to apply for supplemental 14- Final exam schedule posted. Registration will be cancelled if exams for Spring 15- Continuing student registration fees are not paid. 10 - Supplemental exams for Spring begins. 4 - Last day to register or add/drop written 20- Last day to withdraw from Winter courses for Spring Term. Term courses and receive a WD. - Last day to have tuition August, 2012 refunded for Spring Term courses. SM TW T F S 5 - Supplemental exams for Winter 1 2 34 Term written 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 21 - Victoria Day. College closed. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 25 - Final exam schedule posted. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 - Mid term feedback date. 26 27 28 29 30 31 Instructors give students formal feedback on their academic 2 - First day to apply for Spring Term standing in Spring Term courses. 2013. 6 - Civic Holiday. College closed.
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Some programs may have courses which September, 2012 December, 2012 begin earlier or later than the dates indicated below. Please refer to specific SM TW T F S SM TW T F S programs or course descriptions for 1 1 further information. 2 345678 2345 678 Note: Apprenticeship programs do not 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 follow the academic schedule other than 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 stat holidays. 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 30 31 July, 2012 3 - Labour Day. College Closed 5 - Last day of classes for Fall Term SM TW T F S 4 - New Student Orientation courses. 1234567 5 - First day of classes for Fall Term. 10 - First day of final exams for Fall Term 8910 11 12 13 14 10 - Last day to apply for Fall 2012 courses. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 12 - Last day to register or add/drop Fall 17 - Last day of final exams for Fall Term 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 or Full year courses. courses. 29 30 31 - Last day to have tuition 19 - Deferred exams written. refunded for Fall or Full year 21 - Last day for submission of 1 - Canada Day. Forty-ninth College courses. final grades for Fall Term courses. year begins. 22 - Final grades available. 2 - College Open. October, 2012 25-31 College closed. 3 - Last day to apply for supplemental exams for Spring. SM TW T F S January, 2013 10 - Supplemental exams for Spring 123456 written. 7 8 910111213 SM TW T F S 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 12345 August, 2012 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 67891011 12 28 29 30 31 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 SM TW T F S 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 1 2 34 1 - First day to apply for Fall Term 2013 27 28 29 30 31 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 2 - Emergency Response Day 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 8 - Thanksgiving Day. College closed. 1 - New Year’s Day. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 - Mid term feedback date. 2 - College opens. 26 27 28 29 30 31 Instructors give students formal - Last day to apply for Winter Term feedback on their academic 2013 standing in Fall Term courses. 2 - First day to apply for Spring Term 3 - First day of classes for Winter Term. 2013. - Mid term feedback date. 6 - Civic Holiday. College Closed. November, 2012 Instructors give students formal 15 - Fees for Fall Term and Full year feedback on their academic courses are due. SM TW T F S standing in Full year courses. Registration will be cancelled 123 - Last day to pay fees for Winter. if fees are not paid. 45678910 Registration will be cancelled if 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 fees are not paid. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 8 - Last day to register or add/drop 25 26 27 28 29 30 Winter Term courses. - Last day to have tuition 8 - Final exam schedule posted refunded for Winter Term 12 - College Open. No classes courses. 13- Classes resume 9 - Last day to apply for supplemental 14 - Last day to withdraw from Fall Term exam. courses and receive a WD. 10 - Last day to withdraw from Full Year courses and receive a WD 19 - Supplemental exams written.
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SM TW T F S SM TW T F S SM TW T F S 12 1 2 3456 1 3456789 789 10 11 12 13 2345678 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 9101112131415 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 24 25 26 27 28 28 29 30 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 18 - Family Day. College closed 2 - First day to apply for Winter 2014. 19-22 Mid-Term Break 9 - Last day of classes for Full Year 6 - Last day to withdraw from Spring 25 - Classes resume after mid-term and Winter Term courses. Term courses and receive a WD. break 15 - First day of final exams for Full Year 7 - Convocation. and Winter Term courses. 17 - Last day of classes for Spring Term 20 - Last day of final exams for Full Year courses. and Winter Term courses. 20 - First day of final exams for Spring 24 - Deferred exams written. Term courses. 26 - Last day for submission of final 24 - Last day of final exams for Spring grades for Winter Term courses. Term courses. 27 - Final grades available. 26 - Deferred exams written. 29 - Last day to appy for Spring Term 28 - Last day for submission of final 2013 grades for Spring Term courses. 29 - Final grades available March, 2013 30 - College Year ends. May, 2013 SM TW T F S July, 2013 1 2 SM TW T F S 345 6789 1 234 SM TW T F S 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 5 6 789 10 11 1 234 56 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 789 10 11 12 13 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 31 26 27 28 29 30 31 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 - Mid term feedback date 1 - First day of classes for Spring Term. Instructors give students formal - Last day to pay fees for Spring 1 - Canada Day. Fiftieth College feedback on their academic Term. year begins. standingin Winter Term courses. Registration will be cancelled if - Statutory Holiday. College closed. 5 - Emergency Response Day. fees are not paid. 4 - Last day to apply for supplemental 14- Final exam schedule posted. 6 - Last day to register or add/drop exams for Spring 18- Continuing student registration courses for Spring Term. 9 - Supplemental exams for Spring begins. - Last day to have tuition written 19- Last day to withdraw from Winter refunded for Spring Term Term courses and receive a WD. courses. August, 2013 29 - Good Friday. College Closed - Last day to apply for Supplemental Examinations for Winter. SM TW T F S 11 - Supplemental exams for Winter 1 23 Term written 4 5 678910 20 - Victoria Day. College closed. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 24 - Final exam schedule posted. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 - Mid term feedback date. 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Instructors give students formal feedback on their academic 1 - First day to apply for Spring Term standing in Spring Term courses. 2014. 5 - Civic Holiday. College Closed.
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Information and Advice The Registrar will evaluate courses taken Alberta Grade 12 Course Groups Contact the Registrar’s Office at 403-342- in other educational institutions for Admission requirements for specific 3400 for information or an appointment. equivalence. programs will often refer to Alberta Grade 12 course groups. These groups Policy on Admission to Unclassified Student are: Credit Programs You may take a maximum of two courses Each program has specific admission per term without presenting documents. Group A (Humanities) requirements. These are approved by Prerequisites for courses must be 1. ELA 30-1 Academic Council. presented. 2. Social Studies 30 (Etudes Social) 3. Language (other than English) at the 30 You should apply and complete your Visiting Student level admission file at the earliest possible You must present approval from another 4. Additional Language (other than date. It is to your advantage to apply as accredited institution to take a course(s) English) at the 30 level early as possible since most programs can accommodate only a limited number of at Red Deer College. Your home 5. Francais 30 or FLA 30 students and the College may stop institution will determine admission accepting applications at any time. requirements. Group B (Fine Arts) 1. Applied Graphic Arts 35 Note: Bachelor of Science Nursing College Advanced Placement 2. Art 30 applicants will be offered admission on a You must have successfully completed at 3. Art 31 competitive basis, based on GPA ranking. least one 30-level course. 4. Comunication Technology Advanced You must have a minimum final mark of Level, Career and Technology Studies Admission Categories You may apply as one of the following: 80% in any Grade 12 subject that is a (CTS) (5 credits) prerequisite for the chosen College 5. Dance 35 Regular Student course. 6. Drama 30 You are able to meet the regular You must have a letter from your high 7. Music 30 (Choral, Instrumental or admission requirements for the program. school principal indicating: General (5 credits) (See the program section of this calendar.) 1. you are currently enrolled in high 8. Music 35 The regular admission requirements may school 9. Musical Theatre 35 include: 2. you are eligible for, or have had a 10. Performing Arts 35A, 35B, or 35C • suitable courses, grades, and averages successful background in, a gifted • tests, auditions, portfolios, or other education program, and Group C (Sciences) approved criteria. 3. you show social maturity, creativity, 1. Biology 30 Mature Student exceptional talent, and a commitment 2. Chemistry 30 You must be 19 years of age or older. You to finishing tasks. 3. Mathematics 30 (Pure) must be out of school for at least one full 4. Mathematics 31 year before the program starts. General Information About 5. Physics 30 Admission under this category is not Admission 6. Science 30 automatic. Check the specific admission Program Admission Requirements 7. Computer Science (CSE) Advanced requirements for the program you want The admission requirements for each Level, Career and Technology Studies to enter. (See the program section of this college program are listed in the (CTS) (5 credits) Calendar.) program sections of this Calendar. Group D (Optional Subjects) Red Deer College Career and Academic Most college programs require computer One 5-credit subject at the 30 level, or Preparation courses and upgrading skills, especially in the areas of word two 3-credit subjects at the 30 level courses from other colleges are processing, spreadsheets, e-mail and web (Special Projects 30 excluded). equivalent to Alberta high school navigation. Math 30 (Applied) diploma courses for admission purposes. OR Five 1-credit CTS units
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Alberta Education Courses Used For 76 3.15 All Applicants (Except Apprenticeship) Admission and Prerequisite 75 3.08 1. Submit a completed Application for Purposes 74 3.00 B Admission form to the Registrar’s Office Alberta Education RDC CAP 73 2.93 by mail, in person or electronically Course Name Course Name 72 2.85 (http://www.rdc.ab.ca) Accounting 10/20 Accounting 075 71 2.78 2. Submit a non-refundable application fee. The fee for Canadian Citizens and Biology 10/20 Biology 075 70 2.70 B- Permanent Residents is $70.00. Biology 30 Biology 095 69 2.60 International Students pay $140.00. Chemistry 10/20 Chemistry 075 68 2.50 3. Submit official transcripts of all previous Chemistry 30 Chemistry 095 67 2.40 secondary and post-secondary Computing 20 Computing 085 66 2.30 C+ education. Official transcripts must be ELA 10-1/ELA 20-2 English 075 65 2.23 64 2.15 sent directly from the issuing institution ELA 30-1 English 095 to the Registrar. ELA 30-2 English 090 63 2.08 62 2.00 C French 10/20 French 101 Note: All documents submitted become 61 1.93 French 30 French 102 the property of the College. They will not 60 1.85 Keyboarding 30 No equivalent be returned to you. Math 10 (Pure) Math 075 59 1.78 58 1.70 C- Math 20 Math 085 International Students 57 1.60 Math 20 (Pure) Math 085 For admission to RDC, follow all procedures Math 30 (Pure) Math 096 56 1.50 outlined above, and if your first language is Math 31 Math 097 55 1.40 not English, submit evidence that you are Physics 10/20 Physics 075 54 1.30 D+ capable in the English language. The Physics 30 Physics 095 53 1.23 College will accept as proof: Social Studies 13 No equivalent 52 1.15 a) a minimum TOEFL score of: 550 Social Studies 23 No equivalent 51 1.08 paper based , or 213 computer based, Social Studies 30 Social Studies 095 50 1.00 D or 80 internet based Social Studies 33 Social Studies 090 0-49 0.00 F OR Spanish 10/20 Spanish 101 b) a minimum grade of 60% in ELA 30-1 Spanish 30 Spanish 102 Credentials from Other Provinces and OR Countries c) IELTS - accept minimum score of 6.5 CAP - Alberta Education Grade If you are from another province or overall, with at least 5.5 on each Comparison country, you must have qualifications band score NOTE: This grade comparison does not comparable to those of Alberta d) CAEL - accept minimum score of 60 represent grade conversions made by Red applicants. The Registrar’s Office has overall, with at least 60 on each band Deer College instructors when grades are information on specific requirements. score assigned. It is a statement of competence e) MELAB - accept minimum score of equivalency between Career and Academic Effective for Fall 2009, BC and Yukon high 85 overall, with at least 80 on each Preparation Program and Alberta school applicants must present final band score Education courses, and will be used for grades that include a provincial exam *IQAS - you may be required to have your admission purposes only. grade for English 12. Provincial exams for documents evaluated by IQAS other courses are optional and if written, (International Qualifications Assessment Alberta CAP the final blended grade shall be used for Service) Education % gpa CAP admission purposes. For further information, contact 100 - 90 4.00 A, A+ Quotas and Enrolment Limits Assessment 89 3.95 Many Red Deer College programs and Room: 1230 88 3.90 courses have limited enrollment, and fill Phone: (403) 342-3219 87 3.85 quickly due to a high number of Test Centre 86 3.80 applications. Room 907 85 3.75 Phone: (403) 342-3292 84 3.70 A- How to Apply for Admission Email: [email protected] 83 3.63 When to Apply 82 3.56 Applications will be accepted according 81 3.50 to the dates published in the Academic 80 3.43 Schedule (see page 6). 79 3.37 78 3.30 B+ 77 3.23
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For entrance to a University transfer Wait Lists Choosing Another Program program • If you qualify for admission after the If you are not admitted into the program 1. As above program has filled, you will be of your choice, you will be told the reason 2. A minimum grade of 60% in English placed on a wait list. You will be and offered assistance in choosing 30 advised if space becomes available. another program. 3. An average of 60% overall on subjects • If you are on a wait list when the required for the particular program program starts, you may stay on the wait Refusal of Admission list for admission to the next available The College reserves the right to refuse If you are studying at Red Deer College term. All admission requirements and admission to any person. under student visa, you must consult the documents MUST be provided before calendar of the institution to which you you will be considered for the next Appeal of an Admission Decision intend to transfer regarding their policy available term. Contact the Registrar if you have on admitting international students. • If the program for which you are waitlisted has been declared concerns about an admission decision. Readmission oversubscribed, you will be given an You must apply for readmission if opportunity to indicate that you wish to Assessment • you are accepted and do not attend, or be considered for the next intake. To assist students in registering in courses • you completely withdraw from a • If admission requirements change for for which they have adequate program, or the program for which you are preparation, Red Deer College requires • you leave the College for one term or waitlisted, you must meet the new or suggests assessment in the following more (Spring/Summer excluded) areas: Current admission policy will apply in requirements by the document most cases. deadline for the term you are admitted to. Placement Testing Admission to Another Program (for Placement Testing is a requirement for all students currently enrolled at RDC) Official Admission students wishing to enter the Career and Apply at the Registrar’s Office. • Clear admission will be offered when all Academic Preparation Program. Open Applications will be accepted according final documents have been received, Studies students needing or wishing to to the dates published in the Academic showing you have met all program take High School equivalency courses Schedule (see page 4). admission requirements. may be required to arrange for placement testing prior to registration. Application Processing Deferring Your Acceptance for Admission Response Letters to Applications Communications Course Placement • You can defer your acceptance once if • You will be advised by mail as to which Students will be required to take a you are unable to attend because of documents are needed to complete College placement test before your application. special circumstances. registering in a 200-level written • You must inform the Registrar’s Office in communications course. (Students with An offer of Conditional Admission is writing if you wish to defer acceptance. 60% or greater in English 30 or ELA 30-1 given if: will be exempted from this test). • your application form shows that you Cancelling Your Program Students who do not achieve a have completed or are completing the If, for any reason, you cannot attend the satisfactory mark in this test will be program admission requirements. program to which you were admitted, required to complete COMM 150 before Note: Acceptance may be cancelled if please notify us of your intention to cancel they can register in the required 200- these documents are not received by your admission. To do so, you can email us level course. Students should take the stated deadlines. at [email protected] or phone us placement test early in the event (403)342-3400. preparatory work (COMM 150) is required. Test and Interview Results • Test and interview results will be kept Mathematics Diagnostic Test confidential according to College policy First year university math is difficult for and the Freedom of Information and many students. Red Deer College offers Protection of Privacy Act. the opportunity for students registering • You may ask the Registrar for results of in the courses to complete a diagnostic tests given by the College for admission test prior to the start of classes. purposes. Completion of the test will allow students • If you have been rejected on the basis of to anticipate weak areas and receive interviews, you can ask for the rationale assistance prior to and during classes. for rejection from the program Chairperson. Apply Online! Visit the RDC website at www.rdc.ab.ca
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Tuition and Student Association Fees are Health Fee (per year) $ 128.00 To waive, add family or re-activate charged on the number of billing credits Dental Fee (per year) $ 128.00 Student Health and Dental Plans, contact for the courses in which you are Extension to Incomplete Grade $ 50.00 the Student Benefits Plan Office before registered. Some courses are also Challenge Exams (per academic credit) September 30, 2011 (403-356-4982 or assessed Material and Special Fees and 1 credit $104.00 www.gallivan.ca/studentnetworks). are subject to change. 1.5 credits $131.00 2 credits $158.00 Canadian Citizens and Permanent 2.5 credits $185.00 Residents 2011/2012 3 credits $212.00 Approved Tuition 3.5 credits $239.00 All Programs $ 108.00/cr 4 credits $266.00 SA Fee $ 4.50/cr 4.5 credits $293.00 5.0 credits $320.00 International Students 2011/2012 5.5 credits $347.00 (per billing credit) 6 credits $374.00 Tuition $ 316.00/cr Transfer Credit $ 55.00 SA Fee $ 4.50/cr T2202A Replacement Fee $ 10.00 iCard - Replacement $ 20.00 Other Fees -Withdrawal $ 25.00 Application Fee -Photo Replacement/Duplicate$ 5.00 - Canadian Resident $ 70.00 -Printing/Photocopying - International Students $ 140.00 - white bond $ .10 Supplemental Exam $ 50.00 - color $ .50 Returned Cheque Charge $ 25.00 Parking Replacement Cards $ 10.00 Prior Learning Assessment $ 60.00 Activity & Wellness Fee/term $ 22.00 Prior Learning Portfolio $ 60.00 Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 5.00 (percourse to a maximum of $240.00) Program Cancellation Fee $ 50.00 Graduation Gown Rental $ 20.00 (per course to a maximum of $200.00) Diploma/Cert. Replacement $ 25.00 Advanced Placement $ 55.00 Deferral or Late Charge $ 25.00
How Can I Finance My Education? The RDC Student Funding and Awards Offi ce (Room 1101) is committed to helping you understand and access the sources of fi nancial aid available to you. The following services are off ered: • Information on government student loans and policies • Information on government grants • Assistance in applying for funding • Information on RDC awards and scholarships • Information on various external sources for scholarships • Information on money management
For more information | www.rdc.ab.ca/funding_and_awards | ph: 403.342.3254 | fax: 403.342.3262 | fi [email protected]
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Red Deer College recognizes prior To qualify for an RDC program credential, 3. Challenge exams allow students to learning of skills, knowledge or students must complete at least 25% of obtain a course grade in recognition competencies that have been acquired the credit requirements for the of their learning, obtained via through work, formal and informal credential through enrollment in RDC. To informal or formal means. Students education or training, self study or receive recognition of prior learning by applying to write a Challenge exam volunteer activity in the form of RDC, the individual requesting RPL must must provide appropriate Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL). have already applied to the College and documentation to support the RPL can take various forms, and the been admitted to a program. learning experiences they feel associated outcomes can be used for a qualify them to apply for the exam. variety of purposes relevant to the RPL may take one of the following You may only write a Challenge exam individual’s educational program at RDC. forms: once, unless you have new/ 1. Transfer Credit is applicable when additional learning experiences in Students transferring to another post- students wish to have formal the subject after writing the exam. A secondary institution to obtain their final accredited post-secondary courses failing grade in an RDC course is not academic credentials should be aware transferred to their RDC credential. substantive grounds for a Challenge, that the receiving institution is not Official transcripts, course unless the student can supply obliged to recognize credit granted descriptions and course outlines documentation of additional through RPL at RDC. Students are from the sending institution must be learning experiences. strongly advised to check with the provided before the learning is Students may not challenge a course receiving institution regarding the assessed. If granted, “TR” and the for which Advanced Placement or transfer of credit. Students who are credit granted would appear on the Transfer Credit has already been funded by Student Finance Board should official transcript, with no grade granted or which has been waived as note that credit granted via RPL might assigned. A non-refundable fee will a prerequisite for a higher level affect their status as a full-time student be charged per application, with the course. If the Challenge application and attendant financial support. exception of courses listed in the is approved, a non-refundable fee per Alberta Transfer Guide; Block course will be charged. A Challenge In order to obtain RPL, a student must Transfers from other post-secondary process must be completed before provide relevant, supporting institutions with existing transfer the last day of final exams for the documentation (usually in the form of an agreements and courses from within term in which the student is official transcript) acceptable to the RDC. registered in the Challenge section college of an equivalent course. Normally of the course. Once the Challenge is the Transfer Guide and the calendar 2. Advanced Placement is a method of completed, the Challenge Letter descriptions of equivalent courses will be recognizing learning, obtained via Grade will appear on the official used to determine if the course may be formal or informal means, which transcript with the appropriate formally recognized. Recognition may enables students to waive a credit weight, and a comment also be granted for experiences which are prerequisite and register directly indicating the grade was obtained equivalent to an identified RDC course into a higher level course. Students via the Challenge process. After (i.e. practica or studio). In these cases, the must provide appropriate registering in a Challenge, a student must provide documentation documentation or demonstrations as student may apply to “Withdraw” acceptable to the college. determined by the assessor. If from this process before the last day Students registering for programs and granted, “AP” will appear on the of final exams for the term in which courses commencing in September must official transcript with no grade or they are registered in the Challenge file completed Recognition of Prior course credit assigned. A section of the course. If a student Learning applications before the Add/ non-refundable fee per application withdraws from a Challenge, a “WD” Drop date in the Fall term, for credit to be will be charged. with a Challenge comment will applied to that term, and to be eligible to appear on the transcript. The “Drop” the appropriate course. Students Challenge fee is non-refundable. If seeking Recognition of Prior Learning for the Challenge process is not courses beginning in January, must file Recognition of Prior Learning completed within the timelines applications before the Add/Drop date in specified, a grade of “F will appear on the Winter term, for credit to be applied the transcript. to that term and to be eligible to “Drop”. The same provisions are in effect for the Spring term.
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4. Prior Learning Credit granted One of ELCC 210 or 220 9. International Baccalaureate (IB) through the Prior Learning One of ELCC 310 or 320 Program Assessment process recognizes ENGG 200 IB graduates may receive up to 30 formal and informal learning. LAW 250 credits (five full course equivalents) Applications for Prior Learning Music - all MUSP, MUSS, and MUSE at RDC for their IB credential earned during high school. IB grades of 5 or Credit must be accompanied by courses. lower will not be accepted for appropriate supporting OADM 140, 170, 240 transfer credit at RDC. documentation as determined by DACS 208, 311, 312 the assessor. The assessment process NURS 281, 285, 381, 385, 391, 395 Transfer credit at RDC will be may take many forms including: SOWK 206, 208, 308, 309 awarded based on current portfolio, skill demonstrations, EDAS 114, 181 articulation agreements with documentation, exams, letters of Courses Not Eligible for Advanced Alberta Universities as cited in the attestation of skill mastery, or other Standing: Alberta Transfer Guide. For courses assessment strategies deemed BADM 270 not governed by an articulation appropriate by the subject matter DACS 311, 312 agreement, students may choose to experts. If granted, “PL” and the SOWK 206, 208, 308, 309 pursue a Challenge process in order credit granted will appear on the to obtain academic credit atRDC. 7. Career and Technical Studies official transcript, no grade assigned. Modules A non-refundable fee per course will When registering please tell your Career and Technical Studies Academic Advisor that you have IB be charged. modules may be considered for courses. Caution must be exercised admission, or prior learning as Advanced Standing for IB courses 5. Home Schooling assessment purposes. Students may not be recognized by some Red Deer College recognizes that need to formally apply for receiving institutions. Policies of students learn and acquire Recognition of Prior Learning and institutions which you plan to attend knowledge in a variety of settings. A provide documentation from the after Red Deer College should be student who has completed a Home high school of the specific modules taken into account. Education Program, authorized or completed to be eligible for prior approved by the Alberta Ministry of learning assessments, or credit Assessment of IB or AP Courses Education, may qualify for Red Deer awards. Depending on the form of College admission by successfully assessment, a student may receive 8. Advanced Placement (AP) completing a Career and Academic • Transfer Credit (credit, but no Program Preparation Course Challenge grade is given for the course) or AP graduates may receive academic • Advanced Placement (the Assessment, or Alberta Learning credit at RDC for their AP credential requirement for completing Departmental Exams. Applicants earned during high school. Only AP the course as a prerequisite for must meet the competence grades of 4 or 5 are accepted for higher level courses is waived, equivalencies for all the courses transfer credit. An official AP but students will be required designated as prerequisite transcript is required for assessment. to substitute another course to requirements for admission to a meet transfer credit specific program. Transfer credit at RDC will be requirements) or awarded based on current • A challenge grade. 6. Restrictions articulation agreements with Each department is responsible for Alberta Universities as cited in the Following is an example of how outlining any restrictions in student Alberta Transfer Guide. For courses transfer credit for IB is currently not governed by an articulation access to challenge and advanced awarded based on existing agreement, students may choose to articulation agreements at Red Deer standing. The restrictions require pursue a Challenge process in order College and the University of the approval of Academic Council. to obtain academic credit atRDC. Alberta. (See chart on following page). Courses Not Eligible for Challenge: When registering please tell your All Art courses except ART 201, 203, Academic Advisor that you have AP 301, 303, 305, 306. courses. Caution must be exercised BADM 207, 270 as Advanced Standing for AP courses BUS 303 may not be recognized by some CSYS 222 receiving institutions. Policies of COMM 191, 294 institutions which you plan to attend DRAM 205, 212, 213, 303, 304, after Red Deer College should be taken into account. 305, 306, 307, 308, 310, 311, 312, 313, 314, 315, 316, 317, 318
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Example: International Baccalaureate Course Red Deer College Course U of A Course Credits Biology HL BIOL 218 BIOL 107 3 credits Chemistry SL5 CHEM 211 See Footnote 1 3 credits English HL ENGL 210 ENGL 101 6 credits French SL FREN 200 FREN 150 6 credits History HL See Footnote 2 HIST 120 6 credits Mathematics SL5 MATH 203 or 212 MATH 100 or 114 3 credits IB Diploma See Footnote 4 101 level Open Elective 3 credits
1 Students may apply to write a credit by special assessment examination in CHEM 101 or CHEM 103. 2 IB History of Europe HL is not equivalent to any course offered at RDC. However, students with IB History credentials who attend RDC and then transfer to U of A will qualify for transfer credit for History 120 when they register at the U of A. Students with Full IB Diplomas will receive credit for a 3-credit option course when they transfer to the U of A. 3 Students may apply to write a credit by special assessment examination in Math 100 or Math 114. 4 RDC will offer a $1,000.00 IB Diploma Scholarship to the first year RDC student with the highest IB Diploma score. 5 Students who plan to major in the physical sciences will be required by RDC to take the appropriate first year courses in mathematics and chemistry or to write challenge examinations rather than to accept transfer credit for Mathematics 212 and Chemistry 211.
10. Tech Prep - Articulation Agreement existing with the Central Alberta Technology Preparation Consortium include: Secondary Courses Red Deer College Course Equivalents Community Health Modules 1040, 1050, 1080, 2050, 2070, 3020, 3040, 3050 ECD 211 & Course Audit Community Health 2120 Grad requirement for some programs Community Health 2070 (ASL 1) Rehabilitation 351 Community Health - Health Science Modules (Advanced) and NAIT EMR Certificate Rehabilitation 205 Community Health 3010-3030, 3070, 3100 Second year Social Work Option - 3 credits Community Health - Health Science Modules (80% minimum mark) Advanced progress in first two years of Nursing Construction Technologies Modules Advanced Progress in first year apprenticeship Electro-Technologies Modules Advanced Progress in first year apprenticeship Fabrication Studies Modules Advanced Progress in first year apprenticeship Fashion Studies Modules 1030-1060, 2020, 2030, 2050-2110, 3020-3060, 3090 Drama 105 Financial Management 2010, 2050, 3030, 3020, 3040 Hospitality 202 (non-accounting majors only) Financial Management 2010, 2050, 3010, 3020, 3040 Hospitality 202 (non-accounting majors only) Financial Management 1010-1030 Office Administration 120 Financial Management 2020-2050 Office Administration 121 Foods 2150 Hospitality 215 Information Processing 1010, 1030, 1040, 2050, 2070, 2080 Hospitality 213 Information Processing 3110, 3120 & CMPT 110 Projects Computing 110 Information Processing 1010, 1030, 1040, 2040 Hospitality 307 Information Processing 3030 Law 125 Information Processing 3040 Law 235 Information Processing 2050 Law 126 Information Processing 2040 Office Administration 110 Information Processing 2050-2080, 2120 Office Administration 100/101 Information Processing 3030 Office Administration 111 Information Processing 2170, 2160, 3150 - 3170 & CSYS 112 final exam and assignment Computer Systems Technology 112 Tourism Studies 1010, 1020 Hospitality 301 Tourism Studies 1030 (Alberta Best or equivalent) Hospitality 233 Work Experience (250 hours relevant experience) Meets Social Work entrance requirement Work Experience (250 hours relevant experience) Hospitality & Tourism Practicum - HOSP 209, 217, or 224 depending on student’s major Work Site Learning (250 hours) One of: Industry-related placements only Hospitality 209 (Marketing major) Advanced credit relevant to student’s major Hospitality 224 (Accounting major) Hospitality 217 (Food and Beverage major)
Students seeking advanced credit at the college level must be registered as Tech Prep students in high school, complete the high school courses identified by individual college programs, and focus their studies in the most relevant CTS strand to the college program that they are entering.
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Red Deer College Related Careers AND The motion picture industry is a major 2. You must complete a successful Bachelor of contributor to the North American audition and/or interview/ economy and is at the forefront of the portfolio. Further guidelines digital revolution. The producers of regarding audition/interview Applied Motion feature films, television series and expectations are available at commercials seek gifted storytellers, www.rdc.ab.ca/performing_arts. actors, artists and technicians with strong Picture Arts backgrounds in the dramatic arts. Existing Program Content theatre programs provide a solid Production Stream Contact Persons foundation for advanced study in narrative Year 3 Dr. Dale Wheeler motion picture acting and production. MPA 301 Motion Picture Larry Reese The MPA program provides students with Fundamentals I Don Armstrong the specific skills and experience they MPA 302 Motion Picture E-mail: [email protected] need to gain an advantage in this highly Fundamentals II Local calls: 403-342-3400 competitive industry. MPA 303 Motion Picture Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 Business/Career Path Graduates of the Production Stream will MPA 304 Screenwriting The Program apply their broad-based understanding of Techniques The Applied Degree in Motion Picture Arts the nature of production to pursue MPA 305 Motion Picture enables students who have completed two multiple job tracks as their careers Directing years of post-secondary theatre studies (or progress. Typically, graduates will begin MPA 311 Motion Picture equivalent) to expand and apply their employment at entry levels in various Technology primary theatre training to the rapidly areas of the industry, including MPA 315 Motion Picture growing motion picture, television and cinematography, camera operation, digital Production I multimedia industries. The two years of editing, production design, sound MPA 316 Motion Picture completed theatre studies is followed by a recording, production management, and Production II program year (3rd year) of intensive theory special effects. Some graduates may MPA 320 Motion Picture and hands-on instruction culminating in an choose to act as self-employed contractors Projects I advanced certificate in Performance or in their own creative business ventures. MPA 321 Motion Picture Production. Students may then choose to Projects II go on to the final (4th year) which is a Acting Stream graduates will be prepared Year 4 credited mentored work experience the to audition for performance roles in MPA 403 and MPA 404 equivalent of two four-month terms or the feature films, movies of the week, series opportunity to complete a substantial television, commercials, and voice-overs. Acting Stream motion picture project. The program has Year 3 two streams: the Production Stream and With experience and proven ability, MPA 301 Motion Picture the Acting Stream. graduates from both streams may also Fundamentals I advance into entrepreneurial roles as MPA 302 Motion Picture directors, writers, and producers, Fundamentals II supervising content creation in a wide MPA 303 Motion Picture variety of current and emerging media. Business/Career Path MPA 304 Screenwriting Admission Requirements Techniques MPA 305 Motion Picture Directing 1. You must have completed 2 years of a MPA 312 Audition Techniques post-secondary Theatre Studies MPA 317 Motion Picture Acting I Program (or equivalent) with a MPA 318 Motion Picture Acting II minimum 2.00 GPA. Other related MPA 320 Motion Picture Projects I post-secondary credits and/or MPA 321 Motion Picture Projects II equivalent experience will be considered. Year 4 MPA 403 and MPA 404
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Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 University of Calgary Students may maintain part-time status Year 3 and can start their program with evening Tuition $3,672.00 Bachelor of Arts classes, but eventually must take day time Student Association Fees $ 153.00 classes to complete their degree. Fees $ 960.00 Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 Related Careers Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 170.00 English Major The purpose of a university education in Books/Materials $ 170.00 the arts is not just to train you for a Total $5,169.00 Psychology Major specific job, but to help you develop Sociology Major general skills that can be put to use in Year 4 many different work situations. The Tuition $2,160.00 Conference Board of Canada has Student Association Fees $ 90.00 Chairperson identified the following as critical skills Fees $1,000.00 Dr. Jane MacNeil required for Canada’s workforce: Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 E-mail: [email protected] * Academic Skills (Communication, Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 100.00 Local calls: 403-342-3400 Thinking, Learning, Research) Total $3,394.00 Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 * Personal Management Skills (Positive Attitudes/Behaviours, Responsibility, Students may be eligible for a partial The Program Adaptability) tuition refund depending on the nature of The University of Calgary/Red Deer * Teamwork Skills (Working with Others) their 4th year practicum experience. College Bachelor of Arts Collaborative Degree is a 4 year program (40 half year Bachelor of Arts students have Graduation Requirements courses) that can be completed entirely exceptional opportunities to learn and You must pass all of the required Year 3 at the Red Deer College campus. English, hone these skills while also acquiring a courses in the Production or Acting Psychology, or Sociology Majors are background in their specific area(s) of Stream and satisfactorily complete both available. An optional Minor in interest. 4th year work experience or production Anthropology, Communication Studies courses with a two year GPA of 2.00 to English, History, Philosophy, Political English graduates may find employment receive the Bachelor of Applied Motion Science, Psychology, or Sociology may in a variety of fields, such as researcher, Picture Arts. also be completed. speech writer, administrative assistant, public relations officer, publisher’s agent, or advertising copy writer. Students take the first 2 years in the Red Deer College B.A. university transfer Sociology graduates may obtain University of Calgary program. (Students with transfer credit employment in related areas such as from other institutions can often use it social services, corrections, research, Bachelor of Social towards Year 1 & 2.) They then apply to statistics, and government service. complete the 3rd and 4th years as a University of Calgary student at the Red Psychology graduates might obtain Work Deer College campus. employment in related areas such as social services, counselling, law The University of Calgary, Faculty of Social Year 1 & 2 courses are Red Deer College enforcement, human resources, life skills Work, Learning Circle Route, offers an university transferable courses taught by training, or government service. innovative variation of the Bachelor of RDC Faculty. Year 3 & 4 courses are taught Social Work degree at the Red Deer Bachelor of Arts graduates may also go on by a combination of University of Calgary College campus. Students attend nine- to professional studies for example in and Red Deer College Faculty. hour modules on alternate weekends fields such as law, business, education, throughout the Fall and Winter terms etc.) or may continue to graduate studies (normally on Friday evenings and The B.A. degree awarded is the same for a Master’s or Doctoral degree in their Saturdays). Students enter the program in degree granted to students who specific area of interest. Graduate work is September and the application deadline is complete their course work at the required in order for a student to become April 1 for the following September. University of Calgary. Graduation a Chartered Psychologist or to become an requirements are the same as those instructor or researcher at the university For further information or to obtain the outlined in the University of Calgary level. University of Calgary Faculty of Social Work Calendar. (See “Graduation directly at 1-888-492-2083 (toll free) or Requirements” later in this section for check the website at www.fsw.ucalgary.ca. program details.)
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Admission Requirements December. Refer to the site listed above Sociology Majors: RDC SOCI Application & Admission Requirements for further details. 260, SOCI 261, SOCI 310, SOCI to Years 1 & 2 (Red Deer College) If you wish to take U of C courses prior to 312, SOCI 332 & SOCI 333; SR Apply to the Red Deer College Bachelor formal admission to the Bachelor of Arts SOCI (6 credits). of Arts university transfer program to Collaborative Program, consult the B.A. NOTE: A maximum of 20 half course complete Years 1 & 2 (i.e. the first 14-20 Collaborative Degree Office about equivalents (60 transfer credits) from Red half course equivalents) of your 40 course becoming a part-time U of C Open Studies Deer College and/or any institutions other degree. Admission requirements are student. than the University of Calgary may be listed under the Bachelor of Arts transferred into this program. In order for (university transfer program) section of Admission Requirements to Year 3 a course to transfer, a minimum grade of the Red Deer College calendar. (University of Calgary at Red Deer “D” or better must have been achieved in College) the course. If you do not have the high school courses you need to enter the RDC B.A. transfer For admission to Year 3 you will need: If you will exceed the 20 half course program directly, RDC offers high school 1. English & Sociology Majors: ELA 30-1 equivalent transfer limit before the next upgrading courses, which you can take or acceptable equivalent. (NOTE: Fall Year 3 U of C program intake, consult before or during the start of your degree Acceptable equivalent from RDC is the B.A. Collaborative Degree Office program. Consult an Academic Advisor or ENGL 095). about taking courses as a U of C Open check the Open Studies or Career and or Psychology Majors: Studies student. Academic Preparatory program sections ELA 30-1 and Math 30 (Pure) (or Math of the RDC Calendar for details. 31) or acceptable equivalents. NOTE: Fees Acceptable equivalents from RDC are You pay Red Deer College fees for Year 1 & You may already have credit towards Year ENGL 095, MATH 096 (or MATH 097). 2 of this program. One full year of course 1 & 2 of your degree if you have taken a 2 2. A minimum of 14 half course year post-secondary diploma program or work usually consists of ten 3 credit equivalents (i.e. 42 transfer credits) university transferable post secondary courses (30 credits). courses. Contact the B.A. Collaborative of applicable university-level work Degree Office to have your previous already completed (normally by the Once you have been admitted to the course work assessed before you register end of the previous Winter term). University of Calgary B.A. Program Year 3 in further Red Deer College courses. 3. English & Sociology Majors: A (at Red Deer College), you will pay all minimum grade point average of required fees to the University. Fees are Note: A maximum of 20 half course 2.00 (on the 4.00 scale, approximately charged per half course. The normal load equivalents (60 transfer credits) from Red “C” average) over your most recent 10 for a full-time student is 5 half courses per Deer College and/or any institutions half course equivalents (30 term in Fall & Winter terms. other than the University of Calgary may transfer credits) university-level work. be transferred into this program. In order Psychology Majors Check the Program Page (www.rdc.ab.ca/ for a course to transfer, a minimum grade A minimum 2.5 (subject to change) of “D” or better must have been achieved uofc_collab_degree) or each institution’s the actual GPA required for in the course. But no more than 6 credits fee schedule for updated fees. “D” or “D+” grade are allowed in courses in acceptance may be higher. Check the the major field. A minimum grade of C- in Program Page www.rdc.ab.ca/ Academic Rules & Regulations any preprequisite courses. uofc_collab_degree or the U of C Once you have been admitted to the Registrar’s Office for details. University of Calgary (at Red Deer If you will exceed the 20 half course College), you are subject to the U of C’s Although it is not required, it is strongly equivalent transfer limit before the next academic deadlines, rules and recommended that you have completed regulations. The “U of C at RDC” Student Fall Year 3 U of C program intake, consult the following RDC courses or equivalents Handbook on the Program Page the B.A. Collaborative Degree Office by the end of Year 2. Otherwise course (www.rdc.ab.ca/uofc_collab_degree about taking courses as a part-time U of C sequencing may be affected and the summarizes much of the important Open Studies student. remaining courses may have to be taken information. Details are available in the over a period longer than 2 years: U of C Calendar. Application to Year 3 (University of English Majors: RDC ENGL 219/ Calgary at RDC) 220; ENGL 302* (full year); ENGL The University of Calgary accepts students 340* (full year); Sr ENGL (6 into the collaborative program for the credits) Fall term ONLY. Apply now at: Psychology Majors: RDC www.rdc.ab.ca/uofc_collab_degree. The PSYC 260, PSYC 261 & PSYC application deadline is usually April 1; 312* [*full year course].; Sr PSYC however, for early registration and better (12 credits) chosen from course selection, complete your Foundation courses. application for Fall admission by
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Graduation Requirements Year 2 Year 2 Course requirements to graduate with • ENGL 302 (full year) - Intro to • PSYC 312 (full year) - Experimental each of the degrees are outlined in the Contemporary Theoretical Design & Quantitative Research current University of Calgary Calendar Practices Methods under “Faculty of Social Sciences” (for • ENGL 340 Lit in Engl Middle Ages to • Sr PSYC courses chosen from Foundations Psychology & Sociology Majors and Present (3 credits) courses (12 credits) History & Political Science Minors) or • ENGL 300-level options (of your • Non-PSYC Options (12 credits) “Faculty of Humanities” (for English Majors choice) (6 credits) Note: Do not exceed 8 HCE PSYC courses & Minors & Philosophy Minors). A • 4 Non-ENGL Options (15 credits) while an RDC student. detailed degree worksheet can be obtained from the Program Website Apply to the U of C (at RDC) Year 3 Apply to the U of C (at RDC) Year 3 program (www.rdc.ab.ca/uofc_collab_degree. program during 2nd year. Students must during 2nd year. You MUST have ELA 30-1 or Program planning assistance is available present ELA 30-1 for admission to the U of equivalent for admission to the U of C (at from the B.A. Collaborative Degree Office. C (at RDC) ENGL program. RDC) PSYC program. While MATH 30 (Pure) or MATH 31 or equivalent is required prior The following program outlines are University of Calgary (at Red Deer to taking PSYC 312, it is not an admission designed to give an overview of the requirement. degree requirements and recommended College) Student course sequencing. These requirements Year 3 University of Calgary (at Red Deer are unofficial and subject to change. • 2 HCE’s ENGL 400-level College) Student Please refer to the Academic Planning • 1 HCE 300 or 400-level ENGL in Year 3 Guides at http:// Postcolonial Studies www.rdc.ab.ca_academic_advising/ • 7 Options (21 credits) • PSYC 400-level (including 1 HCE guides.html or the U of C Collaborative with lab) (9 credits) Office http://www.rdc.ab.ca/ Year 4 • PSYC 300-level Foundation course uofc_collab_degree/ for the most up to • 2 HCE’s 400-level ENGL (or more to complete Foundation date information regarding these • 2 HCE’s 300 or 400-level ENGL in courses) (6 credits) programs. Do not base your course Canadian Literature • Options (24 credits) selections on the information contained • 7 Options (21 credits) here; this is for general information Notes: Year 4 purposes only. • Maximum 20 HCE ENGL in degree • PSYC 400-level (including 1 HCE • No more than 16 half-year courses with lab )(9 credits) The University of Calgary (at Red Deer above can be Junior (200-level). • Options (21 credits) College) B.A. Collaborative Degree • At least 1 of the ENGL above must Program degree consists of a minimum of be a “Canadian Literature” course Notes 40 half course equivalents as follows: (e.g. ENGL 371, 372, 471, 473, 509 • PSYC Foundations Courses: All and at least one ENGL must be a students must take ENGLISH MAJOR “Postcolonial Studies” course (e.g. -PSYC 312 (as above) Recommended sequence of courses 10 ENGL 385, 391, 490, 491, 493, 515 - PSYC 341 Social Psychology - PSYC 353 Developmental half course equivalents (HCE’s) per year • Maximum 8 HCE in the major from Red Deer College will transfer to the - PSYC 357 Adult Development & Aging Red Deer College Student U of C. - PSYC 369 Sensation & Perception or Year 1 ENGLISH MAJOR - HONOURS - PSYC 358 Cognition • ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) - PSYC 375 Brain & Behaviour A B.A. Honours Degree in English can be • Language Requirement (6 credits) - PSYC 383 Personality or PSYC 389 completed at the Red Deer College • ENGL Options (6 credits) Abnormal Psychology • Non-ENGL Options (6 credits) campus. Program requirements are different than those listed above. See the • Maximum 20 HCE PSYC in degree • Options (6 credits) • No more than 16 half-year courses * If ENGL 210 or ENGL 219 & ENGL 220 B.A. Collaborative Degree Office for program details and degree worksheets. above can be Junior (200-level). taken instead of ENGL 200, take RDC • Maximum 8 half-course equivalents ENGL 304 - A Survey of British PSYCHOLOGY MAJOR can be taken in the major while a Literature in Year 2 to meet the ENGL RDC student. 200 requirement. Recommended sequence of courses 10 half course equivalents (HCE’s) per year. PSYCHOLOGY MAJOR - Red Deer College Student HONOURS Year 1 A B.A. Honours Degree in Psychology • PSYC 260 & PSYC 261 - Basic Program requirements are different than Psychological Processes & Social those listed above. See the B.A. & Individual Behaviour (6 credits) Collaborative Degree Office for program • Science requirement (6 credits) details and degree worksheets. • Non-PSYC Options (18 credits)
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SOCIOLOGY MAJOR ANTHROPOLOGY MINOR POLITICAL SCIENCE MINOR Recommended sequence of courses 10 Include a minimum of at least five, and Include 12 POLI half course equivalents half course equivalents (HCE’s) per year not more than six, full course equivalents (HCE’s) in your program including at least 6 in Anthropology, of which three or more HCE’s at the Senior level (300 or higher) Red Deer College Student must be at the senior level. Year 1 PSYCHOLOGY MINOR • SOCI 260 & SOCI 261 - Sociological COMMUNICATIONS STUDIES Include 10-12 PSYC half course equivalents Concepts & Perspectives & MINOR (HCE’s) in your program including PSYC 260 Canadian Society (6 credits) To complete a Communications Studies and PSYC 312 and at least half at the Senior • Science requirement (6 credits) minor as a student in the Collaborative BA level (300 or higher). • SOCI Options (6 credits) degree at the RDC campus, include at • Non-SOCI options (12 credits) least 5 and not more than 6 full-course SOCIOLOGY MINOR equivalents from the Field of Include 10-12 SOCI half course equivalents Year 2 Communications Studies, including: (HCE’s) in your program including at least 6 • SOCI 312 & SOCI 310 - Intro to Social •RDC courses COMM 271, 341, 369, 371, HCE’s at the Senior level (300 or higher). Methodology & Intro to Social 375, and 381 Statistics (6 credits) •COMS 383 is required for the RDC/UC Course Offerings •SOCI 332 & SOCI 333 - The Collaborative minor and available While enrolled in the University of Calgary Development of Sociology I & II online for Collaborative students • Sr SOCI (6 credits) through the U of C B.A. Program at Red Deer College (years 3 • Non-SOCI Options (96 credits) •At least 1.5 full-course equivalents must and 4), you will take a combination of two also be taken from the following types of courses: courses offered on campus Apply to the U of C (at RDC) Year 3 options offered at RDC: COMM directly by the University, and Red Deer program during 2nd year. You MUST have 383, FILM 201, FILM 202, PHIL College courses that have been specifically 201 and SOCI 344. BUS 303 must ELA 30-1 or equivalent for admission to cross-listed as University of Calgary also be taken to fulfill this the U of C (at RDC) SOCI program. equivalents. requirement, though it must be taken during the first tw years University of Calgary (at Red Deer Each year there will be a selection of courses while registered as an RDC available, not only in English, Psychology, College) Student student. Year 3 and Sociology, but also in other Humanities • SOCI 400-level (6 credits) and Social Sciences disciplines: ENGLISH MINOR Anthropology, Classics, Communications, • SOCI 315 - Social Statistics II (6 credits) Include 10-12 ENGL half course Economics, Film Studies, French, History, • Options (18 credits) equivalents (HCE’s) in your program Philosophy, Political Science, and Spanish. A including: number of Science and Fine Arts courses are Year 4 • ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) also cross-listed in Art, Astronomy, Biology, • SOCI 400-level (6 credits) • ENGL 302 (full year) - Intro to • Options (24 credits) Contemporary Theoretical Computing Science, Drama, Geography, Practices Music and Physiology. Notes • ENGL 340 (full year) - Literature in • Maximum 20 HCE SOCI in degree English-Middle Ages to Present For further information contact: • No more than 16 half-year courses B.A Collaborative Degree Office above can be Junior (200-level) HISTORY MINOR Beth O’Reilly, Program Advisor & • Maximum 8 half-course equivalents Include 10-12 HIST half course Administrator can be taken in the major while a equivalents (HCE’s) in your program Phone: 403-357-3674; Fax: 403-342-3530 RDC student. including: E-mail: elizabeth.o’[email protected] • Minimum 3 half year equivalent courses U of C @ RDC website SOCIOLOGY MAJOR - HONOURS in a Concentration Area: www.rdc.ab.ca/uofc_collab_degree A B.A. Honours Degree in Sociology can - Canadian or European History Room 2506I be completed at the Red Deer College • Minimum 1 half course equivalent Box 5005 campus. Program requirements are HIST 400-level * Red Deer AB (Canada) different than those listed above. See the • At least 6 HCE’s must be at the Senior T4N 5H5 B.A. Collaborative Degree Office for level (300 or higher). program details and degree worksheets. Dr. Jane MacNeil PHILOSOPHY MINOR Department of Humanities and Social MINOR FIELD Include a minimum of at least five full- Sciences A Minor Field of study is not required but course equivalents, of which at least 6 Phone: 403-342-3323 may be completed in the following areas: HCE’s must be at the senior level. E-mail: [email protected] RDC BA web site: www.rdc.ab.ca/humss
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University of Alberta Application Process Athabasca University Although all courses are taught on the Bachelor of campus of Red Deer College, application Bachelor of for this program must be made to the University of Alberta. Students may Education choose to use the University of Alberta’s Management on-line application process or they can Contact Person mail in completed application forms to Contact Person Brad McDiarmid the University of Alberta. Although the Pat O’Meara E-mail: [email protected] application deadline is March 1, students E-mail: [email protected] Local calls: 403-342-3400 are strongly advised to apply earlier. Local calls: 403-342-3400 Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 Because there are more applicants to the Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 program than there are places, The University of Alberta Bachelor of enrollment management is in effect. Note: Courses are not available for the Education program, in collaboration with Under enrollment management, an Fall of 2011 and will be subject to Red Deer College, offers two years of overall target of 40 new admissions is set availability in Winter 2012. study for degree completion and teacher for the program. A minimum AGPA for certification with a focus in middle years application is set each year; all admissions Red Deer College and Athabasca education. The program is available to are competitive, and the actual admission University work together to provide RDC students who have completed either the AGPA may be higher. students and alumni with easy, local first two years of the BEd Elementary access to degree completion program or an approved degree. opportunities that build on RDC Athabasca University credentials. A Bachelor of Management During the program, you will prepare to post-diploma degree program is now teach children and young adolescents in offered on-site at the College. It can be the middle years of schooling (grades 4 Bachelor of completed in RDC classrooms, or by through 9). You will study curriculum and combining classroom courses with teaching methods appropriate for this distance and online courses through the age group, classroom management, General Studies University. middle school philosophy and Contact Person organization, adolescent psychology and Renate Scheelar, Office 1809-C, Other post-diploma degree programs are learning, philosophy, policy and social Phone: 403-343-4026 available to RDC graduates, with credit for issues relevant for middle school e-mail: [email protected] college courses completed. teachers. The Program To find out how you can get university Each year, forty (40) students are selected credit for your RDC credential and finish a Red Deer College, in collaboration with on a competitive basis for admission into related degree at your own pace, please Athabasca University, offers a three-year the program. As you progress through call our Information Centre at Bachelor of General Studies. The B.G.S. the program you will form lasting 1-800-788-9041 or visit us online at provides a framework of individualized relationships and become part of a www.athabascau.ca study within an Applied Studies or Arts professional learning community. and Science designation that gives you Because all students take the same freedom to choose courses to meet sequence of courses over a two-year career or educational goals. There is no period, the program is designed residency requirement and the degree specifically for full-time study. may be completed in three years of full- time study or pursued on a part-time basis The program includes two practicum taking courses offered by Red Deer experiences. The first experience will be College. All courses transferred to this for five weeks during the Fall Term of the degree program must be university-level 3rd year (includes a one week credit as determined by Athabasca observation period). You will be paired University. For further information refer with another student and placed in a to Athabasca University Calendar or make middle school in or near Red Deer. The an appointment with an Academic second experience will be for nine weeks Advisor. in the Winter Term of the final year. Placement will be in Red Deer and Central Alberta area schools in classes ranging from Grades 4 through 9.
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University of Alberta Transfer Features Note: The courses specified above will be University of Alberta (at off-campus used in the GPA calculation for Bachelor of Red Deer College site) conditional admission. You will apply to the University of Alberta OR for admission to Year 4 of the University of 2. Mature Student Alberta Collaborative Baccalaureate You must be 19 years of age or older, Science in Nursing Nursing Program with Red Deer College out of high school at least one full Chairperson as directed by the Nursing Department year before the program starts, and Sheila McKay Staff. The University of Alberta will accept have a minimum average of 65% E-mail: [email protected] the completed first three years of the with no mark below 50% in: Local calls: 403-342-3400 program as a block transfer. To be eligible a. Biology 30 Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 to continue to fourth year, you must have b. Chemistry 30 or Science 30 completed all required 3rd year courses c. English 30 or ELA 30-1 Related Careers and have a minimum G.P.A. of 2.00. The U d. Mathematics 30 or Mathematics 30 (Pure) This program prepares you for first-level of A Faculty of Nursing also requires a nursing positions in any health care satisfactory medical examination, up-to- Additional Requirements agency. You will be skilled in problem date immunization including Hepatitis B, In order to proceed to the next clinical solving, critical thinking, and clinical and a valid C.P.R. certificate at the Health Care Provider Level. nursing course you must satisfy the decision making, with a focus on following requirements by September 1 promoting and maintaining good health Application Deadline of your first year in the Nursing Program: and caring for the sick. A bachelor’s For the 2010-2011 Academic Year, the 1. A specific schedule of immunization degree is often required for nursing GPA calculation for Conditional (forms provided by college). positions, and is usually preferred by 2. Evidence of a valid C.P.R. certificate at Admission will be calculated according to employers. A degree also improves your the Health Care Provider Level. You one of the following: must be recertified in each year of the chances for promotion. 1. 25 high school credits from the program. following subjects: Biology 30, 3. Evidence of a valid Standard First Aid The Program Chemistry 30 or Science 30, Math 30 certificate. The Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BScN) (Pure), ELA 30-1, and one 30-level program began at Red Deer College in subject from Group A, B, or C. If any Note: While not an admission September 1990 through a collaborative of these courses are in progress at requirement for the program, applicants agreement between the College and the the transcript of submission are advised that they will be required to University of Alberta. deadline, the 20-level in the subject provide a Criminal Record Check to will be used. agencies where they will be placed for The program begins with admission to 2. 18 post-secondary credits including practicum experiences. The existence of Red Deer College in Year 1 as a student in all credits from the most-recently a criminal record may prevent clinical the University of Alberta Collaborative completed term plus the best grades placement, program completion, Baccalaureate Nursing Program with Red from the next most recent term. professional licensure and therefore, may Deer College. For the first three years 3. Applicants with fewer than 18 post- affect employment prospects. It is each you are registered as a Red Deer College secondary credits will have their GPA agency’s or institution’s decision to accept calculated using all post-secondary student. During Year 3 you apply for or reject a student for placement or credits plus the credits from the observation experience based on the official admission to the University of most recent semester from high results of the criminal record check. Alberta for your fourth year. As long as school using the best grade(s) from Prospective students who have a criminal you meet the criteria (see below), you thefollowing five subjects: Biology record should discuss the matter with the continue at Red Deer College to 30, Chemistry 30 or Science 30, Math department Chair prior to applying for complete your 4th year. 30 (Pure), ELA 30-1 to reach 18 admission. credits. After completing year 4, you will Transcript Deadline: before March 1st. Program Content convocate from the U of A with a BScN. As A revised curriculum for the four year a graduate, you will be eligible to write Admission Requirements Collaborative program began in 1997. the Canadian Registered Nurse 1. Minimum average of 65% with no The method of instruction is Context Examination (C.R.N.E.) national mark below 50% in: Based Learning (CBL). Throughout the examination. This is required for license a. Biology 30 program, students work in small groups to practice in Alberta as a registered b. Chemistry 30 or Science 30 with a tutor to explore a series of learning nurse (RN). c. ELA 30-1 packages based on situations of relevance d. Mathematics 30 (Pure) to nursing. Content from nursing, e. Subject from Group A, B, or C physical sciences, medical science, social (See “Alberta Grade 12 Course Groups,” page 8.)
www.rdc.ab.ca 21 DEGREE COMPLETION PROGRAMS sciences and humanities is introduced and Note: To proceed to third year all courses integrated beginning with the first listed in Year 1 and Year 2 must have been learning package in NURS 280. Nursing passed. practice normally occurs in concentrated blocks of time in each term in a variety of Intersession settings including community and Elective (3 credits) institutions in each year of the program. In addition, a 3 credit English course and two Year 3 electives are part of the program. NURS 390 NURS 394 (7 weeks) (7 weeks) Course Sequence NURS 391(or 395) NURS 395 (or 391) A. For students commencing Nursing in (7 weeks) (7 weeks) or after September, 1997: *PHIL 388 POLI 324 * Note 1: Content to be integrated within NURS 301 (part 1) NURS 301 (part 2 scenarios in NURS CBL courses (e.g., NURS Nursing Research 280, NURS 284, NURS 380, NURS 384, NURS 390, NURS 394, etc.). In some cases, Intersession students will register in successive parts of Elective (3 credits) the courses across terms. A final grade is given when the course is complete. Note: To proceed to fourth year, all third Note 2: Electives - electives are those year courses including senior electives courses which transfer to the University of must have been passed. Alberta; a grade of “C-” is required for credit transfer of electives. Year 4 Note 3: Any U of A transferable Political Fall Term Winter Term Science or Philosophy 3 credit course will NURS 490 NURS 494 be accepted instead of the Political (7 weeks) (4 weeks) Science or Philosophy courses listed in NURS 491 NURS 495 Year 3. (7 weeks) (10 weeks) Note 4: Nursing 396: Students may receive credit for a 3 credit U of A Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 transferable statistics course. In this case, Year 1 Year 2 they would register in Nursing 301 Tuition $ 4,212.00 $3,888.00 (Nursing Research) instead of Nursing 396. S/A Fees $ 175.50 $ 162.00 Fees $ 190.00 $ 170.00 Year 1 Activity & Wellness$ 44.00 $ 44.00 Fall Term Winter Term FST Fee $ 195.00 $ 180.00 NURS 280 NURS 284 Books/Materials $ 2,453.00 $1,606.00 (7 weeks) (7 weeks) Total $ 7,269.50 $6,050.00 NURS 281 NURS 285 (7 weeks) (7 weeks) Year 3 Year 4 *NURS 270 *NURS 271 Tuition $ 3,888.00 $ TBA (Integrated Psyc I) (Integrated Psyc II) S/A Fees $ 162.00 $ TBA *NURS 272 (part 1) NURS 272 (part 2) Fees $ 175.00 (Integrated Sociology)NURS 273 Activity & Wellness$ 44.00 $ TBA NURS 215 (Integrated FST Fee $ 180.00 (Anatomy) Microbiology) Books/Materials $ 1,287.00 $ TBA Total $ 5,736.00 $ TBA Intersession English (3 credits) Advanced Standing and Challenge Examinations Year 2 Nursing courses from other programs will NURS 380 NURS 384 be evaluated on a case-by-case basis for (7 weeks) (7 weeks) advanced standing. When challenge NURS 381(or 385) NURS 385 (or 381) examinations are approved, you must do (7 weeks) (7 weeks) them in sequence, meeting the NURS 274 (part 1) NURS 274 (part 2) prerequisites for each course. All first and (Integrated Physiology) second-year nursing courses may be NURS 304 (part 1) NURS 304 (part 2) challenged. Using & Interpreting Statistics for Nursing Research With approval BScN students have six years from the time of admission to complete requirements for the degree (U of A Calendar 2009/2010). 22 www.rdc.ab.ca UNIVERSITY TRANSFER PROGRAMS
• Bachelor of Arts Program Information Academic Advising - Anthropology This section includes general information Academic Advisors provide students - Communications on transfer programs available at RDC. For with information and resources that - Economics more details about course selection, enable them to make informed - English program requirements, and admission and decisions relevant to their education. - French or Spanish transfer information, please refer to the These resources include the RDC - History Academic Advising Planning Guides Calendar, the Academic Planning Guide - Philosophy available through the Academic Advising for your program and transfer university - Political Science webpage (address below). the Alberta Transfer Guide and the - Psychology calendar and contact information for your - Sociology If you are planning to transfer to programs intended university. • Bachelor of Arts in Recreation at institutions others than those with and Leisure Studies whom RDC has identified transfer They will assist you in interpreting • Bachelor of Commerce agreements, you should contact the information from these resources or refer • Bachelor of Education transfer institution as early as possible you to your intended university if regarding course planning. • Bachelor of Science & Bachelor of appropriate. Education Combined Degree NOTE: This information is current at the • Bachelor of Fine Art Please be aware that you are responsible time of publishing and may change as the • Bachelor of Kinesiology & for ensuring that your registration is universities revise their programs. Sport Studies complete and appropriate and that your course choices comply with the program • Bachelor of Science General Admission Requirements to which you have been admitted at RDC • Bachelor of Science in Admission to a Red Deer College university and/or to the university to which you - Agriculture transfer program does not ensure future intend to transfer. - Agricultural/Food Business admission to a university. Please refer to Management university calendars or RDC academic Any changes you make to your courses, - Atmospheric Sciences/ advisors for more information. your major or your transfer destination Environmental Earth Science may adversely affect your transferable - Biochemistry If you are studying at Red Deer College under credit, your admission to university or - Biological Sciences student visa, or if you have not always lived your eligibility to graduate from Red - Chemistry within the province of Alberta, you must Deer College. - Computing Science consult the calendar of the institution to - Engineering which you intend to transfer regarding their For the most current university program - Environmental & policy on admitting international and out- and transfer information, plese click see Conservation Sciences of-province students. This may vary between the Academic Advising homepage at - Environmental Science or institutions. www.rdc.ab.ca/academic_advising. Click Environmental Management on Planning Guides. - Forestry Course Transfer - Forest Business Transfer credit agreements between RDC If you have questions regarding university Management and the Alberta universities are admission, program requirements, course - General maintained by the Alberta Council on selection or transfer, please contact an - Human Ecology Admission and Transfer (ACAT). For specific academic advisor : - Mathematics or Statistics course and program transfer information, Phone: 403.342.3400 or Math and Economics please visit the ACAT website at Email: [email protected] - Nutrition & Food Sciences www.transferalberta.ca Questions Web: www.rdc.ab.ca/ - Physics or Geophysics regarding transfer can be directed to The academic_advising/ - Physiology Alberta Council on Admissions and Transfer - Psychology at 11th floor Commerce Place, 10155 - 102 - Pre-Professional Programs St., Edmonton AB T5J 4L5. - Chiropractic - Dentistry NOTE: Transfer credit awarded for RDC - Medicine courses and programs will vary according - Optometry to the university to which you intend to - Pharmacy transfer. - Veterinary Medicine
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Chairperson Bachelor of Arts graduates may also go on Honours Dr. Jane MacNeil to professional studies in fields such as Honours programs are designed to E-mail: [email protected] law, business, education, etc., or may prepare students particularly well for Local calls: 403-342-3400 continue to graduate studies (for a advanced study at the Master’s or Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 Master’s or Doctoral program) in their Doctoral level in the major field of specific area of interest. interest. High standards of performance See page 23 for general information. are required in Honours programs. Most Liberal Arts graduates generally have universities offer Honours programs in superior skills in conceptual analysis, Two-Year University Transfer the same fields as the Majors listed above. evaluation and critical reasoning, Program You should consult with an Academic leadership motivation, and interpersonal Red Deer College offers the first two Advisor for details. and communication skills. years of these degree programs: 1. Bachelor of Arts* The Program Transfer Features 2. Bachelor of Arts (Honours) You may transfer up to 60 credits (20 The objective in all programs is to provide three credit courses) taken at Red Deer you with the basis of a liberal arts Four-Year Degree Completion College to the university of your choice. education which will allow you to transfer * Years three and four of a University of This normally represents the first two to universities offering a Bachelor of Arts Calgary Bachelor of Arts degree can be years of a four year program. The courses degree program. completed at Red Deer College. Majors you select must meet the program in English, Psychology and Sociology are requirements of that specific university. available (with optional Minors in English, In most cases, you will major in one of the subjects listed below. By declaring a History, Political Science, Psychology, and Note: Admission to university is major, you are simply stating your intent Sociology). competitive and based on academic to pursue a comprehensive study of that See the program website: www.rdc.ab.ca/ achievement. Consult with an Academic subject area. Some university programs uofc_collab_degree or the Calendar Advisor for details. section entitled “Degree Completion require you to declare a minor, which Programs: University of Calgary Bachelor represents a second subject you will study in some depth as well. Course Load: Full-time or Part- of Arts”. time Study The Bachelor of Arts program is open to For the most current university program Majors full-time students and part-time students. and transfer information, please see the You are required to complete a major in A full-time student will take at least 3 Academic Advising homepage at the Bachelor of Arts degree. A major courses per term (minimum 9 credits), www.rdc.ab.ca/academic_advising. Click includes a certain number of courses with 5 (15 credits) being the normal full on Planning Guides. taken in one field of study. Generally, about half of the courses taken in a four load. Extra courses represent special burdens and may result in poor academic Related Careers year degree will be chosen from the major field. This number will vary performance. A student will be Advertising Government and according to your choice of major and the permitted to take more than 5 courses in Civil Service university you attend. a term only under exceptional Banking & Finance Research circumstances and with the approval of an Investment Dealing Retail Sales Majors available at RDC are Anthropology, Academic Advisor. Part-time students Administration Law Enforcement Communications, Economics, English, take 1 or 2 courses per term. and Corrections French, History, Philosophy, Political Counselling Industrial Science, Psychology, Sociology and Admission Requirements Relations Spanish. 1. Minimum average of 60% with no Public Relations Management mark below 50% in: Radio and Television Real Estate See detailed information on the a. ELA 30-1 Recreation Journalism following pages for specific requirements b.4 courses from Groups A, B, or C Insurance Urban Planning for individual majors. (Social Studies 30 and a 30-level Publications & Printing Languages and Language other than English Linguistics highly recommended), with no Armed Forces Writing more than one course from Consulting Social Services Group B (See “Alberta Grade 12 Course Groups,” page 8)
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Note: Some Universities require Pure If you wish to check exact degree • Breadth and Diversity (18 credits) Math 30 for admission or as a prerequisite requirements and transfer equivalents, To acquaint students with and offer for required courses. Transfer students see the university calendars and the them a basic awareness of the variety of are responsible for learning the specific Alberta Transfer Guide (http:// disciplines practiced throughout the admission, progression, and prerequisite www.transferalberta.ca). The Registrar’s Faculty of Arts, students must complete requirements of their programs. Office has reference copies. 6 credits from each of the following groups: OR Course Selection Group 1 Creative Process in the Arts 2. Mature Student Universities normally place restrictions Select six credits of transferable You must be 19 years of age or older, on the type of courses accepted for the coursework from ART, DRAM, or MUSI out of high school at least one full B.A. degree. These restrictions may take (not MUSI 210) year before the program starts, and the form of required core subjects, or Group 2 Cultures and Cultural Products have a minimum average of 60% discipline areas and limits on the number Select six credits of transferable with no mark below 50% in: of first-year courses that you can take. In coursework from ENGL, FILM, HIST, a. ELA 30-1 selecting courses, you must make sure CLAS, or PHIL b. Subject from Group A, B, or C they meet both the admission and the Group 3 Social Systems and Interactions (See “Alberta Grade 12 Course program requirements of the transfer Select six credits of transferable Groups,” page 8) university. coursework from: OR ANTH, GEOG (only those courses 3. Successful completion of one year University of Alberta Bachelor designated as Arts courses: GEOG 250 of a diploma program and of Arts Program Requirements: Chairperson approval. and/or GEOG 251), ECON, POLI, PSYC See Academic Advising Planning Guides (only those courses designated as Arts for more specific program details: Students should be aware of the courses: PSYC 261, PSYC 312*, PSYC following: www.rdc.ab.ca/academic_advising. For U 341, PSYC 347, PSYC 353, PSYC 358, • whether or not Math 30-Pure is required of A credit weights, check the Alberta PSYC 389, or SOCI. for admission or as a prerequisite varies Transfer Guide (http:// depending on transfer destination www.transferalberta.ca). • Options (24 credits) • students without Math 30-Pure may Select 24 credits of transferable limit their eligibility to some major or U of A will accept for credit those courses coursework from ARTS, SCIENCE, or institutions and programs listed in the Alberta OTHER with an overall maximum of 18 • this recommendation applies only to Transfer Guide to the extent that they are credits from the OTHER category. (Refer Bachelor of Arts majors available at RDC relevant and applicable to the degree to to the University of Alberta Calendar for and Math 30-Pure specifically. For other which the student is admitted. (Alberta further details). 30-level admission or prerequisite Transfer Guide, 2010-2011, page 37). requirements, or for admission to other Arts degrees, please refer to the appropriate Program Requirements Anthropology (ANTH), Art (ART), Classics university calendar. • Basic Requirements (36 credits) (CLAS), Drama (DRAM), Economics (ECON) • A major subject of concentration English (ENGL), Film Studies (FILM), Deficiencies in High School • A minor subject of concentration or two French (FREN), Geography (GEOG) (only Course Requirements major subjects of concentration. GEOG 250, GEOG 251), History (HIST), If you are eligible for admission but need Music (MUSI, MUSE), Philosophy (PHIL), high school equivalency courses, see an Students who declare a double major are Political Science (POLI), Psychology (PSYC) Academic Advisor. not permitted to declare a minor. (only courses transferring as Faculty of Arts courses), Sociology (SOCI), Spanish (SPAN) Program Content Basic Requirements The following information provides basic • Junior English Science program content but does not include ENGL 219 and ENGL 220 Astronomy (ASTR), Biochemistry (BIOC), specific details regarding requirements. • Language Biology (BIOL), Botany (BOT), Chemistry This information is current at the time of 6 credits of a language other than (CHEM), Computing Science (CMPT) (not publication but may change as the English CMPT 261), Geography (GEOG) (only GEOG universities change their requirements. • The Study of Science (6 credits) 230 and GEOG 231), Genetics (GENE), Select 6 credits of transferable Mathematics (MATH), Microbiology (MICR), coursework from ASTR, BIOC, BIOL, Physics (PHYS), Psychology (PSYC) (only BOTA, CHEM, CMPT, (not CMPT 261) courses transferring as Faculty of Science GENE, GEOG (only GEOG 230 and/or courses), Statistics (STAT), Zoology (ZOOL) GEOG 231), MICRO, MATH, PHYS, PSYC (only PSYC 260, PSYC 312*, PSYC 368, PSYC 369, PSYC 375, and/or PSYC 377) STAT*, ZOOL
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Other University of Lethbridge Science Accounting (ACCT), Business (BUS, BADM), Bachelor of Arts Program All transferable courses in the following Communications (COMM), Dance (KDNC), Requirements subjects are classified as Sciences: BIOC, Education (EDCM, EDFN, EDFX, EDIT, EDUC), BIOL, CHEM, CMPT, MATH, PHYS, PSIO, Engineering (ENCP, ENGG, ENPH), ZOOL See Academic Advising Planning Guides Family Studies (FAM), Geography (GEOG) for more specific program details: (only GEOG 318, GEOG 381, GEOG 393), The following courses are also classified as www.rdc.ab.ca/academic_advising. For U Kinesiology (KNSS, KPED, KPAC, PSIO), Sciences: ANTH 200, ANTH 306, ANTH 319, of A Credit weights, check the Alberta Disability & Community Studies (DACS), ANTH 390, ASTR 205, BUS 307, ENGG 230, Transfer Guide (http:// GENE 370, GENE 375, GEOG 230, GEOG 231, www.transferalberta.ca. Junior Courses KNSS 200, KNSS 201, KNSS 307, MICR 365, No more than 48 U of A credits at the 200 PHIL 221; PHIL 222 or PHIL 389; PHIL 364, Majors available: Anthropology, PSYC 260, PSYC 312, PSYC 368, PSYC 369, Level are permitted in your program. Economics, English, French, French/ PSYC 375, PSYC 377; STAT 250 or BADM 111 Spanish, Geography, History, Philosophy, or BUS 306 University of Calgary Political Science, Psychology, Sociology. Bachelor of Arts Core Program Requirements Art, Dramatic Arts, Agricultural Studies, Open Options Any U of L transferable Archaeology & Geography, Canadian course for which you have See Academic Advising Planning Guides for Studies, General Humanities, General the prerequisite(s) more specific program details: Social Science, Urban & Regional studies. (including transferable www.rdc.ab.ca/academic_advising. For U of COMM). A Credit weights, check the Alberta General Liberal Education Requirement Transfer Guide (http:// (GLER) Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 www.transferalberta.ca. The General Liberal Education Year 1 Requirement (GLER) is a 12-course Tuition $3,456.00 Major Field: 42-60 credits required in the requirement for all University of Student Association Fees $ 144.00 major field. Lethbridge undergraduate students. You Fee $ 60.00 should complete these requirements by Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 Optional Minor: requires completion of the end of your second year. Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 160.00 between 30-36 credits in a particular field Books/Materials $1,200.00 of study. You must complete 12 transferable credits Total $5,064.00 from each of the following three areas: Domain of Science: 6 credits are required • Humanities and Fine Arts Year 2 from the Faculty of Science. RDC Science • Social Sciences Tuition $3,672.00 courses that fulfill the U of C Science • Science Student Association Fees $ 153.00 requirement: Astronomy (ASTR 205); Fee $ 60.00 Biochemistry (BIOC 393); Biology (BIOL Humanities and Fine Arts: Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 201, 217, 218, 301, 317, 318); Chemistry All transferable courses in the following Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 170.00 (CHEM 211, 212; one of CHEM 351, 352); subjects are classified as Fine Arts and Books/Materials $1,200.00 Computing Science (CMPT 201, 261); Humanities (excluding those courses listed Total $5,299.00 Genetics (GENE 370, 375); Mathematics as Sciences): ART, DRAM, ENGL, FREN, HIST, (MATH 221, 204; one of MATH 202, 203); MUSI (not MUSE or MUSI 210), PHIL, SPAN Graduation Requirements Microbiology (MICR 365); Physics (PHYS You must pass 20 term university transfer 205, 226, 241, 247); Statistics (STAT 251*); The following courses are also classified as courses or a minimum of 60 credit hours, Zoology (ZOOL 325, 342) Fine Arts and Humanities: ANTH 308, CLAS and achieve a minimum cumulative GPA of *Economics, Psychology, Sociology Majors 209, COMM 271, FILM 201, FILM 202, INTD 2.00 to receive a Red Deer College should not take any statistics courses as 240, KNSS 205, POLI 308, SOCI 307 Diploma in University Transfer Studies. options. Options: All students in the Faculty of Arts Social Science: are encouraged, but not required, to All transferable courses in the following complete at least 15 credits from across subjects are classified as Social Sciences the fields of study within the Faculty of (excluding those courses listed as Fine Arts Arts. and Humanities or Sciences): ANTH, ECON, KNSS (excluding KNSS 280), POLI, Complete details are available from PSYC, SOCI Academic Advising. The following courses are also classified as Refer to the University of Calgary Calendar Social Sciences: FAM 315 (not FAM 322), for further details. GEOG 251, GEOG 381, 382
26 www.rdc.ab.ca UNIVERSITY TRANSFER PROGRAMS Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology
Chairperson The Program University of Calgary Dr. Jane MacNeil For a general discussion of the B.A. See page 25 for the Compulsory Core E-mail: [email protected] Program, see page 24. Program Requirements that must be Local calls: 403-342-3400 completed in the course of the four-year Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 Anthropology in particular is the study of degree. See page 23 for general information. humankind and the human experience Credits below = U of C credits. Red Deer from its beginnings to the present day. Two-Year University Transfer College credits may differ from U of C RDC special interests include cultural Program credits. Check the Alberta Transfer Guide anthropology, applied anthropology, Red Deer College offers the first two for transfer credit information. African cultures, globalisation and years of these degree programs: anthropology of religion and cultural 1. Bachelor of Arts Refer to the University of Calgary 2. Bachelor of Arts (Honours) change in global and local contexts. Program requirements on the Bachelor of Arts page for detailed information. Related Careers Admission Requirements Advertising See page 24 for admission requirements. Suggested Year 1 Pattern Government and Civil Service ANTH 200/ANTH 201 (6 credits) Research Transfer Features ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) Retail Sales See page 24 for transfer features. Science (6 credits) Administration Options (12 credits) Law Enforcement and Corrections University of Alberta Suggested Year 2 Pattern Counselling See page 25 for the Compulsory Core Industrial Relations Sr ANTH (12 credits) Requirements that must be completed in Open Option (18 credits) International Relations the course of the four-year degree. Public Relations U of C recommends taking GEOG 250 and/ Management or 251 as Open Options Credits below = U of A credits. Red Deer Radio and Television College credits may differ from U of A Journalism University of Lethbridge Urban Planning credits. Check the Alberta Transfer Guide See page 26 for the General Liberal Publishing and Printing for transfer credit information. Education Requirements that must be Languages and Linguistics completed in the course of the four-year Armed Forces Refer to the University of Alberta degree. Writing Program Requirements on the Bachelor Consulting of Arts page for detailed information. Credits below = U of L credits. Red Deer Social Services College credits may differ from U of L Museum Curation Suggested Pattern Year 1 credits. Check the Alberta Transfer Guide for transfer credit information. Artist/Illustrator ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) ANTH 200/ANTH 201 (6 credits) Graduates may also go on to professional Refer to the University of Lethbridge Basic Requirement (18 credits) studies (for example in fields such as law, Program requirements on the Bachelor of business, education, etc.) or may continue Arts page for detailed information. to graduate studies (for a Master’s or Suggested Pattern Year 2 Doctoral program) in Anthropology. Sr ANTH (12 credits) Suggested Year 1 Pattern Basic Requirement (6 credits) ANTH 203/ANTH 204 (6 credits) B.A. graduates generally have superior Open Option (12 credits) ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) skills in conceptual analysis, evaluation Open Option (6 credits) and critical reasoning, leadership Universities may not grant credit for a General Liberal Education Requirements motivation, and interpersonal and 100 level language course if 30 level (12 credits) communication skills. course in high school was completed in the same language. Suggested Year 2 Pattern ANTH 361 or Sr ANTH (3 credits) Sr ANTH (9 credits) General Liberal Education Requirements (6 credits) Open Options (12 credits)
www.rdc.ab.ca 27 UNIVERSITY TRANSFER PROGRAMS Bachelor of Arts in Communications Studies
Chairperson Graduates may also go on to professional Suggested Pattern Year 2 Dr. Jane MacNeil studies (in fields such as law, business, COMM 341 (3 credits) E-mail: [email protected] education, etc.) or may continue to COMM 371 (3 credits) Local calls: 403-342-3400 graduate studies (in a Master’s or Doctoral COMM 375 (3 credits) Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 program) in Communication Studies or COMM 381 (3 credits) See page 23 for general information. another academic discipline such as Options (6 credits) Sociology or Women’s Studies. Intercultural Requirement (6 credits) University Transfer Program 6 credits from Communications options. Red Deer College offers the first two B.A. graduates generally have superior from LIST B (see below). years of the following degree program: skills in conceptual analysis, evaluation 1. Bachelor of Arts, Major in and critical reasoning, leadership LIST B courses available at RDC: BUS 303, Communications Studies motivation, and interpersonal and FILM 201, FILM 202, PHIL 201, PHIL 301, communication skills. PHIL 350 For the most current university program and transfer information, please see the The Program Academic Advising homepage at For a general discussion of the B.A. www.rdc.ab.ca/academic_advising. Click Program, see page 24. on Planning Guides. Communication Studies provides an Related Careers understanding of communications A degree in Communications Studies research and practice. Students can provides students with skills and pursue a broad range of study, including knowledge that can apply across a variety the areas of media studies and rhetoric of professional situations, from the and discourse. corporate world to the not-for-profit sector to academic institutions. Admission Requirements See page 24 for admission requirements. The following list provides some career areas that draw Communication Studies Transfer Features graduates for employment: See page 24 for transfer features. Advertising Counselling University of Calgary Industrial Relations See page 25 for Compulsory Core Public Relations Requirements that must be completed in Management the course of the four-year degree. Radio and Television Publishing and Printing Requirements that must be completed in Journalism the course of the four-year degree. Languages and Linguistics Credits below = U of C credits. Red Deer Writing College credits may differ from U of C Consulting credits. Check the Alberta Transfer Guide Social Services for transfer credit information. Government and Civil Service International Relations Suggested Pattern Year 1 Banking and Finance COMM 271 (3 credits) Research COMM 369 (3 credits) Investment Dealing COMM 381 (3 credits) Retail Sales ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) Administration Intercultural Requirement (6 credits) Law Enforcement and Corrections Science requirement (6 credits) Real Estate Option (3 credits) Recreation Armed Forces Insurance Urban Planning
28 www.rdc.ab.ca UNIVERSITY TRANSFER PROGRAMS Bachelor of Arts in Economics
Chairperson resources in order to best satisfy University of Calgary Dr. Jane MacNeil individual and social wants. The tools of See page 25 for the Cumpulsory Core E-mail: [email protected] economics can be used to analyse issues Requirements that must be completed in Local calls: 403-342-3400 as diverse as unemployment, inflation, the course of the four-year degree Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 globalization, discrimination, See page 23 for general information. environmental issues, taxation, health Credits below = U of C credits. Red Deer care and professional sports. Each year College credits may differ from U of C Two-Year University Transfer courses are offered in microeconomics credits. Check the Alberta Transfer Guide Program and macroeconomics, and in selected for transfer credit information. Red Deer College offers the first two fields such as money and banking, labour years of these degree programs: economics, international economics, Refer to the University of Calgary 1. Bachelor of Arts sports economics, development Program requirements on the Bachelor of 2. Bachelor of Arts (Honours) economics and industrial organization. Arts page for detailed information.
Related Careers Admission Requirements Suggested Pattern Year 1 The following careers are open to See page 24 for admission requirements. ECON 201/ECON 202 (6 credits) graduates with a BA in Economics. Some Math 30 Pure is essential for pursuing a ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) Science requirement (6 credits) may require additional training or B.A. majoring in Economics. If you do not MATH 202 (3 credits) certification in the specific field: have Math 30 Pure, you may pursue the MATH 221 (3 credits) - securities broker - commoditiesbroker equivalent course during your first year at STAT 251 (3 credits) - financial manager - insurance agent RDC. For further information, see an - banker - credit analyst Academic Advisor. Suggested Pattern Year 2 - investment analyst- researcher ECON 381 (3 credits) - auditor - sales representative Transfer Features Sr ECON (15 credits) - real estate agent - financial planner See page 24 for transfer features. Open Options (18 credits) - government policy analyst - economic development officer University of Alberta University of Lethbridge See page 25 for the Compulsory Core See page 26 for the General Liberal Many BA graduates pursue further Requirements that must be completed in Education Requirements that must be degrees in professional fields (such as law the course of the four-year degree. completed in the course of the four-year or business administration) or graduate degree. Credits below = U of A credits. Red Deer degrees in Economics (MA or PhD College credits may differ from U of A degree). The following careers are open Credits below = U of L credits. Red Deer credits. Check the Alberta Transfer Guide to graduates with such degrees: College credits may differ from U of L for transfer credit information. - professor - research economist credits. Check the Alberta Transfer Guide for transfer credit information. - lawyer - accountant Refer to the University of Alberta - business administrator Program Requirements on the Bachelor Refer to the University of Lethbridge - regional/urban planner of Arts page for detailed information. Program requirements on the Bachelor of Arts page for detailed information. B.A. graduates generally have superior Suggested Pattern Year 1 skills in conceptual analysis, evaluation ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) Suggested Pattern Year 1 and critical reasoning, leadership ECON 201 (3 credits) ECON 201/ECON 202 (6 credits) motivation, and interpersonal and ECON 202 (3 credits) MATH 202 (3 credits) MATH 202 or 203 (3 credits) communication skills. STAT 251 (3 credits) Basic Requirement (15 credits) ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) The Program Suggested Pattern Year 2 General Liberal Education Requirements For a general discussion of the B.A. ECON 381 (3 credits) (12 credits) Program, see page 24. Sr Econ (6 credits) STAT 251 (3 credits) Suggested Pattern Year 2 Basic Requirement (6 credits) ECON 381 (3 credits) Economics studies how households, Open Option (12 credits) Sr ECON (6 credits) businesses and governments make BUS 307 (3 credits) choices about how to allocate scarce Open Options or GLER (18 credits)
www.rdc.ab.ca 29 UNIVERSITY TRANSFER PROGRAMS Bachelor of Arts in English
Chairperson B.A. graduates generally have superior University of Calgary Dr. Jane MacNeil skills in conceptual analysis, evaluation and See page 25 for the Compulsory Core E-mail: [email protected] critical reasoning, leadership, motivation, Requirements that must be completed in Local calls: 403-342-3400 and interpersonal and communication the course of the four-year degree. Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 skills. See page 23 for general information. Credits below = U of C credits. Red Deer The Program College credits may differ from U of C Two-Year University Transfer For a general discussion of the B.A. credits. Check the Alberta Transfer Guide for transfer credit information. Program Program, see page 24. Red Deer College offers the first two Refer to the University of Calgary years of these degree programs: RDC offers courses that range from Program requirements on the Bachelor of 1. Bachelor of Arts Shakespeare to aboriginal literature, Arts page for detailed information. 2. Bachelor of Arts (Honours) expository to creative writing, national literatures to popular genres, allowing you Suggested Pattern Year 1 Four-Year Degree Completion to learn practical skills while acquiring ENGL 219/220 (6 credits) Years three and four of a University of cultural knowledge. Language other than English (6 credits) Calgary Bachelor of Arts English major Sciences requirement (6 credits) degree can also be completed on the Admission Requirements Open Option (12 credits) campus of Red Deer College. See the See page 24 for admission requirements. section entitled “Degree Completion Suggested Pattern Year 2 Programs: University of Calgary Bachelor Transfer Features ENGL 302 (6 credits) of Arts”. See page 24 for transfer features. ENGL 340 (6 credits) Sr. ENGL (6 credits) For the most current university program University of Alberta Open Option (12 credits) See the section entitled “Degree and transfer information, please see the See page 25 for the Compulsory Core Academic Advising homepage at Completion Programs: University of Requirements that must be completed in Calgary Bachelor of Arts”. www.rdc.ab.ca/academic_advising. Click the course of the four-year degree. on Planning Guides. University of Lethbridge Related Careers Credits below = U of A credits. Red Deer See page 26 for the General Liberal College credits may differ from U of A The study of English develops the skills Education Requirements that must be credits. Check the Alberta Transfer Guide you require in the workplace - creative completed in the course of the four-year for transfer credit information. degree. problem solving, accurate research, persuasive writing, and confident public Refer to the University of Alberta Program Credits below = U of L credits. Red Deer speaking. It may lead to jobs in any of the Requirements on the Bachelor of Arts College credits may differ from U of L following areas: page for detailed information. credits. Check the Alberta Transfer Guide Advertising Government and Civil Service for transfer credit information. Research Suggested Pattern Year 1 Administration ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) Refer to the University of Lethbridge Public Relations Basic Requirements (24 credits) Program requirements on the Bachelor of Management Arts page for detailed information. Radio and Television Suggested Pattern Year 2 Journalism ENGL 332 (full year course) (6 credits) Suggested Pattern Year 1 Publishing & Printing ENGL 376 or 377 (3 credits) ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) Languages and Linguistics Sr ENGL (3 credits) Open Options (12 credits) Writing Options (12 credits) General Liberal Education Requirements Consulting (12 credits)
Graduates may also go on to professional Suggested Pattern Year 2 studies (for example, in fields such as law, Sr. ENGL (12 credits) business, education, etc.) or may continue Open Options (6 credits) to graduate studies (for a Master’s or General Liberal Education Requirements Doctoral program) in English. (12 credits)
30 www.rdc.ab.ca UNIVERSITY TRANSFER PROGRAMS Bachelor of Arts in French or Spanish
Chairperson The Program *Note: Level determined by students’ Dr. Jane MacNeil For a general discussion of the B.A. prerequisites, refer to the RDC calendar E-mail: [email protected] Program, see page 24. for course prerequisite information. Local calls: 403-342-3400 Students presenting French Language Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 French and Spanish cover the study of ARTS 30 or Francais 30 may apply for See page 23 for general information. grammar and literature of the French and advanced placement directly into FREN Spanish languages. Some courses include 203. Those wanting credit for FREN 202 Two-Year University Transfer sample readings from French-speaking and may apply to challenge the course. The Program Spanish-speaking countries. recommended pattern may vary depending on prerequisites presented. Red Deer College offers the first two years of these degree programs: Red Deer College offers introductory to University of Calgary 1. Bachelor of Arts advanced French language courses. Beginner’s level to second year university See page 25 for the Compulsory Core 2. Bachelor of Arts (Honours) courses are available. Red Deer College Requirements that must be completed in the course of the four-year degree. Related Careers also offers beginner’s and university level Spanish courses. The study of a second language Credits below = U of C credits. Red Deer complements any career as it broadens a Admission Requirements College credits may differ from U of C student’s intercultural understanding, See page 24 for admission requirements. credits. Check the Alberta Transfer Guide improves communication skills, facilitates for transfer credit information. international business and expands Transfer Features international work opportunities. See page 24 for transfer features. Refer to the University of Calgary Fluency in French and/or Spanish can give Program requirements on the Bachelor of an applicant for any position a clear University of Alberta Arts page for detailed information. advantage over unilingual candidates. In See page 25 for the Compulsory Core Canada, proficiency in French is desirable Requirements that must be completed in Suggested Pattern Year 1 in civil service positions and the study of the course of the four-year degree. French or Spanish French and/or Spanish can also lead to a *recommended to transfer after Year 1 career in foreign service. Specializing in Credits below = U of A credits. Red Deer ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) French and/or Spanish can lead to a College credits may differ from U of A FREN 202/FREN 203 (6 credits) or career in teaching or translation/ credits. Check the Alberta Transfer Guide SPAN 201/SPAN 202 (6 credits) Science requirement (6 credits) interpretation, as well as open doors to for transfer credit information. Option (12 credits) graduate study, international business, international law and many other fields. Refer to the University of Alberta Program Requirements on the Bachelor of Arts page University of Lethbridge Learning a second language helps one for detailed information. See page 26 for the General Liberal better understand one’s native language, Education Requirements that must be and helps to develop a student’s Suggested Pattern Year 1 completed in the course of the four-year analytical and critical reading skills. In the French and/or Spanish (FREN) (SPAN) degree. global economy where free trade within ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) the Americas, Europe and Asia is French or Spanish (6 credits)* Credits below = U of L credits. Red Deer constantly expanding, a foreign language French or Spanish or Basic Requirement College credits may differ from U of L is increasingly becoming an essential (12 credits) credits. Check the Alberta Transfer Guide tool. for transfer credit information. Suggested Pattern Year 2 Graduates may also go on to professional French and/or Spanish (FREN) (SPAN) Refer to the University of Lethbridge studies (for example in fields such as law, French or Spanish (6 credits) Program requirements on the Bachelor of business, education, etc.) or may continue Basic Requirement (12 credits) Arts page for detailed information. to graduate studies (for a Master’s or Open Option (12 credits) Doctoral program) in French or Spanish. Suggested Pattern Year 1 French B.A. graduates generally have superior *Must transfer after year 1 skills in conceptual analysis, evaluation FREN 202/FREN 203 (6 credits) ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) and critical reasoning, leadership Open Options (6 credits) motivation, and interpersonal and General Liberal Education Requirements communication skills. (12 credits) www.rdc.ab.ca 31 UNIVERSITY TRANSFER PROGRAMS Bachelor of Arts in History
Chairperson History is the analysis of the human past. University of Calgary Dr. Jane MacNeil Courses are offered in three main areas: See page 25 for the Compulsory Core E-mail: [email protected] Canada, Europe and British. RDC special Requirements that must be completed in Local calls: 403-342-3400 interests include Western Canadian the course of the four-year degree. Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 history, British Empire and See page 23 for general information. Commonwealth, Modern British social Credits below = U of C credits. Red Deer history and Modern Europe. First year College credits may differ from U of C Two-Year University Transfer courses include Classics, Medieval, Early credits. Check the Alberta Transfer Guide Program Modern World, and Modern World. for transfer credit information. Red Deer College offers the first two years of these degree programs: Admission Requirements Refer to the University of Calgary Program requirements on the Bachelor of 1. Bachelor of Arts See page 24 for admission requirements. 2. Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Arts page for detailed information. Transfer Features Related Careers Suggested Pattern Year 1 See page 24 for transfer features. Advertising ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) Government and Civil Service Any two of HIST 207,HIST 208, HIST 209 (6 Research Note: While there are no prerequisites for credits) Administration second year History courses, students are Science requirement(6 credits) Law Enforcement and Corrections encouraged to learn the fundamentals of Options (12 credits) Public Relations historical writing and research in first Management year courses. Suggested Pattern Year 2 Radio and Television HIST 373/HIST 374 (6 credits) Recreation University of Alberta Sr HIST (12 credits) Journalism See page 25 for the Compulsory Core Open Option (12 credits) Urban Planning Requirements that must be completed in Publishing & Printing the course of the four-year degree. University of Lethbridge Armed Forces See page 26 for the General Liberal Writing Education Requirements that must be Credits below = U of A credits. Red Deer Consulting completed in the course of the four-year College credits may differ from U of A Museum degree. Archivist credits. Check the Alberta Transfer Guide for transfer credit information. Credits below = U of L credits. Red Deer Graduates may also go on to professional College credits may differ from U of L studies (for example in fields such as law, Refer to the University of Alberta credits. Check the Alberta Transfer Guide business, education, etc.) or may continue Program Requirements on the Bachelor for transfer credit information. to graduate studies (for a Master’s or of Arts page for detailed information. Doctoral program) in History. Refer to the University of Lethbridge Suggested Pattern Year 1 Program requirements on the Bachelor of B.A. graduates generally have superior ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) Arts page for detailed information. skills in conceptual analysis, evaluation Junior History (two of HIST 207, 208, 209 and critical reasoning, leadership or CLAS 209) (6 credits) Suggested Pattern Year 1 motivation, and interpersonal and HIST 207 or 209 (3 credits) Basic Requirement (18 credits) communication skills. Jr HIST (3 credits) ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) The Program Suggested Pattern Year 2 General Liberal Education Requirements Sr. HIST (12 credits) For a general discussion of the B.A. (12 credits) Program, see page 24. Basic Requirement (6 credits) Open Option (6 credits) Open Option (12 credits) Suggested Pattern Year 2 Sr HIST (9 credits) HIST 373 or HIST 374 (3 credits) General Liberal Education Requirements (6 credits) Open Options (12 credits)
32 www.rdc.ab.ca UNIVERSITY TRANSFER PROGRAMS Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy
Chairperson Philosophy is the study of thought and Suggested Pattern Year 1 Dr. Jane MacNeil reasoning, with special application to ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) E-mail: [email protected] abstract and conceptual areas of enquiry Language other than English (6 credits) Local calls: 403-342-3400 typically outside of the fields of the PHIL 201 or PHIL 202 (3 credits) Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 sciences, such as the Nature of Reality or PHIL 222 (3 credits) See page 23 for general information. Moral Values. Science requirement (6 credits) Option (6 credits) Two-Year University Transfer Admission Requirements Program See page 24 for admission requirements. Suggested Pattern Year 2 Red Deer College offers the first two Sr PHIL (15 credits) years of these degree programs: Transfer Features Open Option (15 credits) 1. Bachelor of Arts See page 24 for transfer features. 2. Bachelor of Arts (Honours) University of Lethbridge University of Alberta See page 26 for the General Liberal For the most current university program See page 25 for the Compulsory Core Education Requirements that must be and transfer information, please see the Requirements that must be completed in completed in the course of the four-year Academic Advising homepage at the course of the four-year degree. degree. www.rdc.ab.ca/academic_advising. Click on Planning Guides. Credits below = U of A credits. Red Deer Credits below = U of L credits. Red Deer College credits may differ from U of A College credits may differ from U of L Related Careers credits. Check the Alberta Transfer Guide credits. Check the Alberta Transfer Guide Administration for transfer credit information. for transfer credit information. Government and Civil Service Research Refer to the University of Alberta Refer to the University of Lethbridge Management Program Requirements on the Bachelor Program requirements on the Bachelor of Journalism of Arts page for detailed information. Arts page for detailed information. Publishing Computing and Information Technology Suggested Pattern Year 1 Suggested Pattern Year 1 Ethics Practitioner (Hospital, Business) ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) PHIL 201/PHIL 202 (6 credits) PHIL 201(3 credits) PHIL 221/PHIL 222 (6 credits) Graduates may also go on to professional PHIL 202 (3 credits) ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) studies (for example in fields such as law, Basic Requirement (18 credits) General Liberal Education Requirements business, education, etc.) or may continue (12 credits) to graduate studies (for a Master’s or Suggested Pattern Year 2 Doctoral program) in Philosophy. Suggested Pattern Year 2 Sr Phil (12 credits) Sr. PHIL (6 credits) B.A. graduates generally have superior Basic Requirement (6 credits) Open Options (18 credits) skills in conceptual analysis, evaluation Open Option (12 credits) General Liberal Education Requirements and critical reasoning, leadership (6 credits) motivation, and interpersonal and University of Calgary communication skills. See page 25 for the Compulsory Core Requirements that must be completed in The Program the course of the four-year degree. For a general discussion of the B.A. Program, see page 24. Credits below = U of C credits. Red Deer College credits may differ from U of C credits. Check the Alberta Transfer Guide for transfer credit information.
Refer to the University of Calgary Program requirements on the Bachelor of Arts page for detailed information.
www.rdc.ab.ca 33 UNIVERSITY TRANSFER PROGRAMS Bachelor of Arts in Political Science
Chairperson Liberal Arts graduates generally have University of Calgary Dr. Jane MacNeil superior skills in conceptual analysis, See page 25 for the Compulsory Core E-mail: [email protected] evaluation and critical reasoning, Requirements that must be completed in Local calls: 403-342-3400 leadership motivation, and interpersonal the course of the four-year program. Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 and communication skills. See page 23 for general information. Credits below = U of C credits. Red Deer The Program College credits may differ from U of C Two-Year University Transfer For a general discussion of the B.A. credits. Check the Alberta Transfer Guide Program Program, see page 24. for transfer credit information. Red Deer College offers the first two years of these degree programs: Political Science is the study of politics Refer to the University of Calgary 1. Bachelor of Arts and government, the location and use of Program requirements on the Bachelor of 2. Bachelor of Arts (Honours) power in society, and quests for human Arts page for detailed information. betterment. For the most current university program Suggested Pattern Year 1 and transfer information, please see the Admission Requirements ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) Academic Advising homepage at See page 24 for admission requirements. POLI 200 (6 credits) www.rdc.ab.ca/academic_advising. Click Science requirement (6 credits) on Planning Guides. Transfer Features Open Option (12 credits) See page 24 for transfer features. Related Careers Suggested Pattern Year 2 Law University of Alberta POLI 308/POLI 309 (6 credits) POLI 320 (6 credits) Government and Civil Service See page 25 for the Compulsory Core Radio and Television POLI 360 or Sr POLI (6 credits) Education Requirements that must be completed in Open Option (12 credits) Research the course of the four-year degree. Journalism University of Lethbridge Armed Forces Credits below = U of A credits. Red Deer See page 26 for the General Liberal Consulting College credits may differ from U of A Education Requirements that must be Industrial Relations credits. Check the Alberta Transfer Guide completed in the course of the four-year Law Enforcement and Corrections for transfer credit information. degree. Urban Planning Banking and Finance Refer to the University of Alberta Credits below = U of L credits. Red Deer Social Services Program Requirements on the Bachelor College credits may differ from U of L Administration of Arts page for detailed information. credits. Check the Alberta Transfer Guide Recreation for transfer credit information. Investment Dealing Suggested Pattern Year 1 Advertising ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) Refer to the University of Lethbridge Public Relations POLI 200 (6 credits) Program requirements on the Bachelor of Management Basic Requirement (18 credits) Arts page for detailed information. Counselling Real Estate Suggested Pattern Year 2 Suggested Pattern Year 1 Insurance POLI 308 (3 credits) POLI 200 (6 credits) Publishing and Printing POLI 309 (3 credits) ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) Languages and Linguistics POLI 320 (6 credits) General Liberal Education Requirements Writing Basic Requirement (6 credits) (18 credits) Retail Sales Open Option (12 credits) Suggested Pattern Year 2 Graduates may also go on to graduate Sr POLI (3 credits) studies (for a Master’s or Doctoral POLI 308 or 309 (3 credits) program) in Political Science. POLI 320 (6 credits) Open Options (18 credits)
34 www.rdc.ab.ca UNIVERSITY TRANSFER PROGRAMS Bachelor of Arts in Psychology
Chairperson problems or mental illness. They may also University of Calgary Dr. Jane MacNeil study to become research psychologists See page 25 for the Compulsory Core E-mail: [email protected] in one of the many areas of psychology. Requirements that must be completed in Local calls: 403-342-3400 Graduates may also go on to professional the course of the four-year degree. Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 studies in fields such as medicine, law, or See page 23 for general information. business. Credits below = U of C credits. Red Deer Psychology graduates generally have College credits may differ from U of C Two-Year University Transfer superior skills in problem solving, critical credits. Check the Alberta Transfer Guide Program thinking, collecting, analyzing and for transfer credit information. Red Deer College offers the first two interpreting data, writing and years of these degree programs: communicating. Refer to the University of Calgary 1. Bachelor of Arts Program requirements on the Bachelor of 2. Bachelor of Arts (Honours) The Program Arts page for detailed information. For a general discussion of the B.A. Four-Year Degree Completion Program, see page 24. Suggested Pattern Year 1 Years three and four of a University of ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) Calgary Bachelor of Arts Psychology major Psychology is the study of mental PSYC 260/PSYC 261 (6 credits) degree can also be completed on the processes and behavior. RDC special Science requirement (6 credits) campus of Red Deer College. See also the interests include: memory and attention, Options (12 credits) section entitled “University of Calgary social psychology, physiological Bachelor of Arts Completion at Red Deer psychology, and anomalous experiences. Suggested Pattern Year 2 College”. Sr. PSYC from Foundation courses (12 Admission Requirements credits) For the most current university program See page 24 for admission requirements. PSYC 312 (6 credits) and transfer information, please see the Open Option (12 credits) Academic Advising homepage at Transfer Features www.rdc.ab.ca/academic_advising. Click See page 24 for transfer features. University of Lethbridge on Planning Guides. See page 26 for the General Liberal University of Alberta Education Requirements that must be See page 25 for the Compulsory Core Related Careers completed in the course of the four-year Requirements that must be completed in Social Services degree. Advertising the course of the four-year degree. Government and Civil Service Credits below = U of A credits. Red Deer Credits below = U of L credits. Red Deer Research College credits may differ from U of A College credits may differ from U of L Retail Sales credits. Check the Alberta Transfer Guide credits. Check the Alberta Transfer Guide Administration for transfer credit information. for transfer credit information. Law Enforcement and Corrections Counselling Refer to the University of Alberta Refer to the University of Lethbridge Industrial Relations Program Requirements on the Bachelor Program requirements on the Bachelor of Public Relations of Arts page for detailed information. Arts page for detailed information. Management Radio and Television Suggested Pattern Year 1 Suggested Pattern Year 1 Real Estate ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) PSYC 260/PSYC 261 (6 credits) Recreation PSYC 260 (3 credits) ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) Journalism PSYC 261 (3 credits) General Liberal Education Requirements Insurance Basic Requirement (18 credits) (15 credits) Urban Planning Open Option (3 credits) Consulting Suggested Pattern Year 2 PSYC 312 (6 credits) Suggested Pattern Year 2 Sr PSYC (6 credits) chosen from PSYC 353, Through graduate studies in Psychology, PSYC 312 (6 credits) 383, 341, 358, 369, 375 students may become chartered PSYC 375/PSYC 341 (6 credits) Basic Requirement (6 credits) psychologists, working in clinical settings Open Options (18 credits) with clients who have emotional Open Option (12 credits)
www.rdc.ab.ca 35 UNIVERSITY TRANSFER PROGRAMS Bachelor of Arts in Sociology
Chairperson Graduates may also go on to professional Suggested Pattern Year 1 Dr. Jane MacNeil studies (for example in fields such as law, ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) E-mail: [email protected] business, education, etc.) or may continue SOCI 260 (3 credits) Local calls: 403-342-3400 to graduate studies (for a Master’s or SOCI 261 (3 credits) Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 Doctoral program) in Sociology. Basic Requirement (18 credits) See page 23 for general information. Suggested Pattern Year 2 B.A. graduates generally have superior Two-Year University Transfer SOCI 332 (3 credits) skills in conceptual analysis, evaluation SOCI 312 (3 credits) Program and critical reasoning, leadership Red Deer College offers the first two SOCI 310 (3 credits) motivation, and interpersonal and Sr SOCI (3 credits) years of these degree programs: communication skills. Basic Requirement (6 credits) 1. Bachelor of Arts Open Option (12 credits) 2. Bachelor of Arts (Honours) The Program Note: Sociology 261 is not required as a For a general discussion of the B.A. prerequisite for senior Sociology courses; Four-Year Degree Completion Program, see page 24. it is strongly recommended. Years three and four of a University of Calgary Bachelor of Arts Sociology major Sociology is the study of the organization Criminology Concentration degree can also be completed on the and process of human society. Courses are Students seeking admission to campus of Red Deer College. See also the offered in social theory, social research Criminology should include ENGL 219/ section entitled “University of Calgary methods, and areas of special interest 220, SOCI 260, PSYC 260/261 and a Bachelor of Arts Completion at Red Deer which include the following: criminology, Language other than English in the first year of their program. College”. medical sociology, First Nations sociology, ethnic relations, social stratification, For the most current university program gender, family, aging, and mass media and University of Calgary and transfer information, please see the popular culture. See page 25 for the Compulsory Core Academic Advising homepage at Requirements that must be completed in www.rdc.ab.ca/academic_advising. Click Admission Requirements the course of the four-year degree. on Planning Guides. See page 24 for admission requirements. Credits below = U of C credits. Red Deer Transfer Features College credits may differ from U of C Related Careers credits. Check the Alberta Transfer Guide See page 24 for transfer features. Advertising for transfer credit information. Government and Civil Service Research University of Alberta Refer to the University of Calgary Administration See page 25 for the Compulsory Core Program requirements on the Bachelor of Law Enforcement and Corrections Requirements that must be completed in Arts page for detailed information. Industrial Relations the course of the four-year degree. Public Relations Suggested Pattern Year 1 Management Credits below = U of A credits. Red Deer ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) Radio and Television College credits may differ from U of A SOCI 260/SOCI 261 (6 credits) Recreation credits. Check the Alberta Transfer Guide Science requirement (6 credits) Journalism for transfer credit information. Options (12 credits) Urban Planning Publishing & Printing Refer to the University of Alberta Suggested Pattern Year 2 Armed Forces Program Requirements on the Bachelor SOCI 332/SOCI 333 (6 credits) Writing of Arts page for detailed information. SOCI 310/SOCI 312 (6 credits) Consulting Sr SOCI Options (6 credits) Social Services Open Option (12 credits)
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Optional Concentration for Sociology Majors: 18 credits required. Consult the U of C calendar for details regarding Bachelor of Commerce concentrations. Donald School of Business - Downtown Criminology, Deviance & Social Control Gender, Family & Work Chairperson Transfer Features Pat O’Meara Ethnicity, Immigration & Multiculturalism Most universities have enrollment E-mail: [email protected] Sociology of Health quotas. You must compete for admission. Local calls: 403-342-3400 A G.P.A. of 3.00 or higher is Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 University of Lethbridge recommended. For course by course See page 23 for general information. See page 26 for the General Liberal transfer agreements, please see Education Requirements that must be www.transferalberta.ca completed in the course of the four-year One- and Two-Year University degree. Transfer Program Admission Requirements 1. Minimum average of 60% and no Credits below = U of L credits. Red Deer For the most current university program mark below 50% in: College credits may differ from U of L and transfer information, please see the a. ELA 30-1 credits. Check the Alberta Transfer Guide Academic Advising homepage. Click on b. Mathematics 30 (Pure) for transfer credit information. Planning Guides. c. Subject from Group A or C (Social Studies 30 recommended) Refer to the University of Lethbridge Related Careers d. Subject from Group A or C Program requirements on the Bachelor of Bachelor of Commerce programs prepare e. Subject from Group A, B, or C Arts page for detailed information. you for a wide range of professional and/ (Mathematics 31 recommended) or management level careers in business (See “Alberta Grade 12 Course Suggested Pattern Year 1 or the public sector. Bachelor of Groups, page 8) SOCI 260/SOCI 261 (6 credits) Commerce graduates are tomorrow’s OR ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) leaders in the world of business and 2. Mature Student General Liberal Education Requirements government. You must be 19 years of age or older, (18 credits) out of high school at least one full year The Program before the program starts, and have Suggested Pattern Year 2 The Bachelor of Commerce program will a minimum average of 60% with no SOCI 310/SOCI 312 (6 credits) provide you with background skills and mark below 50% in: SOCI 332/SOCI 333 (6 credits) knowledge in the various specialized a. ELA 30-1 Open Options (18 credits) areas of business, as well as in the b. Mathematics 30 (Pure) humanities and social sciences. Emphasis is on developing the ability to analyze Program Content various organizational problems of a University of Alberta (Alberta School of human and/or technical nature. Business, Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) At RDC, students may complete Year 1 and Year 2 of the programs at the University of All applicants must complete one year of Alberta, University of Calgary, University pre-professional studies in order to apply of Lethbridge, Athabasca University or to the program. other Canadian universities. Suggested Pattern Year 1 When the student transfers to the BUS 201 (3 credits) University of his/her choice, a specialized BUS 306/BUS 307 (6 credits) area of study (a major) may be selected. ECON 201/ECON 202 (6 credits) These specializations include: ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) • Accounting MATH 202 or MATH 203 (3 credits) • Computer Science Two Non-Business Options (6 credits) • Economics • Entrepreneurship & Innovation Suggested Pattern Year 2 • First Nations’ Governance ACCT 202/ACCT 204 (6 credits) • Human Resource Management & Labour BADM 132 (3 credits) Relations BUS 303 (3 credits) • Finance BUS 310 (3 credits) • International Business BUS 311 (3 credits) • Marketing Four Non-Business Options (12 credits) • Political Science • Others as offered by the University you This program will vary slightly depending choose on the major chosen.
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University of Calgary Haskayne School Suggested Pattern Year 2 Year 2 of Business, Bachelor of Commerce ACCT 202/ACCT 204 (6 credits) OR Tuition $ 3,456.00 (BCom) ACCT 202/ACCT 104 (6 credits) Student Association Fees $ 144.00 BADM 132 (3 credits) Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 Entry to the B.Com Program at U of C BUS 303 (3 credits) Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 160.00 requires 2 years (60 credits) of pre- CMPT 261 (3 credits) Books/Materials $ 1,050.00 professional studies. Five General Liberal Education Total $ 4,854.00 Requirements (15 credits) Suggested Pattern Year 1 Graduation Requirements BUS 201 (3 credits) This program will vary slightly depending You must pass 20 term university transfer ECON 201/ECON 202 (6 credits) on the major chosen. courses or a minimum of 60 credit hours, ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) OR and achieve a minimum cumulative GPA ENGL 219 & PHIL 201 (6 credits) OR Athabasca University (Bachelor of of 2.00 to receive a Diploma in University ENGL 219 & Junior Humanities Option (6 Commerce) Transfer Studies. credits) OR For specific program requirements and ENGL 219 & Fine Arts Option (6 credits) regulations, please contact Athabasca Business Commerce Society MATH 202 OR MATH 203 (3 credits) University directly. http:// The purpose of the Business Commerce One Junior Science Option *(3 credits) business.athabascau.ca (1.888.449.8813) Society is to facilitate interaction among One Junior Social Science Option (3 Business Administration and Bachelor of credits) Suggested Pattern Year 1 Commerce Transfer students, Faculty Two Junior Non-Commerce Options (6 BADM 110 (3 credits) members and the business community credits) CMPT 261 (3 credits) through a variety of social, academic and COMM 250 (3 credits) recreational sports activities. Students in Suggested Pattern Year 2 ECON 201/ECON 202 (6 credits) these programs or planning to enter ACCT 202/ACCT 204 (6 credits) OR ENGL 219/220 (Recommended)(6 credits) these programs, are encouraged to ACCT 202 & Sr Non-Com Option (6 credits) OR become members. BUS 306/BUS 307 (6 credits) ENGL 219 and one Junior Humanities, BUS 311 (3 credits) OR Sr Non Com Option Science or Social Science (6 credits) CMPT 261 (3 credits) MATH 202 (3 credits) COMM 361 (or Senior Non-Commerce Two Junior Humanities, Science or Social Option (3 credits) Science (6 credits) Two Senior Fine Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences or Science Options* (6 credits) Suggested Pattern Year 2 One Senior Non-Commerce Option (3 ACCT 202/ACCT 204 (6 credits) credits) BUS 306/BUS 307 (6 credits) * Excluding MATH, STAT or CMPT courses BUS 311 (3 credits) Four Senior Humanities, Science or Social Note: All courses which you intend to Science (12 credits) submit to the U of C for admission One of BADM 132 or BADM 281 or BUS requirements must be completed by June 303 30 of the year in which you intend to transfer. Canadian University College (Bachelor of Business Administration) University of Lethbridge (Faculty of Canadian University College provides Management, Bachelor of Management) students with the opportunity to transfer into its Bachelor of Business All applicants must complete one year of Administration (4-yr) degree program. To pre-professional studies in order to apply meet the core, cognate, and major to the program. requirements for transfer into this program, you should consult with an Suggested Pattern Year 1 Academic Advisor. BUS 306 (3 credits) ECON 201/ECON 202 (6 credits) Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) Year 1 Five General Liberal Education Tuition $ 3,564.00 Requirements/Option (15 credits) Student Association Fees $ 148.50 Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 165.00 Books/Materials $ 1,050.00 Total $ 4,971.50
38 www.rdc.ab.ca UNIVERSITY TRANSFER PROGRAMS Bachelor of Education
Chairperson The University of Calgary offers a two-year Admission Requirements Brad McDiarmid after-degree Bachelor of Education (Master 1. Minimum average of 60% with no E-mail: [email protected] of Teaching Program. Students need to mark below 50% in: Local calls: 403-342-3400 complete a recognized undergraduate a. ELA 30-1 Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 degree prior to entering this program. b. Three subjects from Group A or C See page 23 for general information. c. Subject from Group A, B, C, or D The Calgary Faculty of Education continues (See “Alberta Grade 12 Course One- and Two-Year University to offer a number of five-year combined Groups,” page 8) Transfer Program degree programs in which you can attain OR both a Bachelor of Education and another 2. Mature Student Bachelor degree at the same time. For the most current university program You must be 19 years of age or older, Interested students should contact the and transfer information, please see the out of high school at least one full year University of Calgary or an Academic Academic Advising homepage at before the program starts, and have a Advisor. www.rdc.ab.ca/academic_advising. Click minimum average of 60% with no mark on Planning Guides. below 50% in: Transfer institutions accept a limited a. ELA 30-1 number of students to the Bachelor of The Program b. Subject from Group A or C Education program. Successful transfer is (See “Alberta Grade 12 Course Graduates of the four-year Bachelor of based on proper course selection, credit Groups, page 8). Education program (University of Alberta) hours completed, grade point average and the five-year combined degree (G.P.A.), and other requirements. These Note: If you are admitted as a Mature program (University of Alberta and requirements vary depending on which Student, you still must meet prerequisite Lethbridge) are eligible to apply for university, route, and major/minor you requirements for university transfer Teacher Certification in the Province of choose. Some routes and majors are more courses. (Prerequisites for Red Deer Alberta and all other provinces. Red Deer competitive than others and may require a College university transfer courses are College offers up to two years of these higher grade point average for transfer. listed under the course descriptions at programs. the back of this Calendar.) You may have Detailed information regarding course to take more 30-level high school Your educational experience is further selection and transfer requirements for subjects than the minimum stated above, enhanced through active participation in University of Alberta and University of in order to complete courses needed for the Education Undergraduate Society Lethbridge are provided by Red Deer your degree. (EUS). Membership in this society entitles College before you register. If you plan to you to attend conferences, conventions transfer elsewhere, you may need to and other activities of the Alberta Completion of Math 30 (Pure) is highly contact your destination university or recommended, especially for the Teachers’ Association. college regarding course planning. Elementary Education Program. Academic Advisors at Red Deer College Transfer Features can assist you in this process. You may transfer up to two years taken at Important Notes: Red Deer College to the university of your choice. Some routes and majors may For interim certification applicants must require transfer after one year if Red Deer provide evidence of Canadian citizenship College does not offer all needed courses. or permanent residency and must be proficient in English or French. Before planning your program and registering, decide on the university you Students should be aware that all want to attend, the grade level you want persons applying for certification as a to teach, and the subject area in which you teacher in Alberta will be subject to the want to specialize. (See details under following restrictions on eligibility: “University Programs.”) Except where the Minister of Education decides otherwise, the Registrar, Teacher Development and Certification shall not issue a teaching certificate to:
www.rdc.ab.ca 39 UNIVERSITY TRANSFER PROGRAMS a. a person who has been convicted for an University of Alberta Gen. Soc. Sci. Physical Education + indictable offense under the Criminal Elementary (Kindergarten to Grade 6) Gen. Soc. Sci. Social Studies Education Code; or Generalist Program Economics Social Studies Education* b. a person whom the Registrar has Minors include: History Social Studies Education* reason to believe should not be issued - Early Childhood Education Political Science Social Studies Education Sociology Social Studies Education a certificate. - Educational Psychology - English as a Second Language ** Degree BFA/BEd - Fine Arts The Registrar shall refuse to issue a Art Art Education*** teaching certificate to any applicant - Language and Literacy - Mathematics/Science possessing an indictable criminal Degree BFA/BEd - Music Education* conviction. The Registrar may refuse to Dramatic Arts Drama Education*** issue a teaching certificate to an - Native Education ** - Physical Education applicant possessing a criminal conviction Degree BMgmt/BEd - Second Languages: French of a nature deemed unsuitable for Gen Mgmt Career & Tech Studies: - Second Languages: Spanish teaching children or for any other reason. Business Focus Applicants may appeal the decision of the - Social Studies - Special Education Registrar to a Certification Appeal Degree BMus/BEd - Visual Studies Committee established by the Minister. Music Music Education*** Appeals must be made in writing within Secondary (Grades 7-12) 30 days of being advised of the Registrar’s Degree BSc/BEd Majors include: decision not to issue a certificate. Math Mathematics Education* - Art * Gen. Sciences Mathematics Education* - Biological Sciences For additional information please contact Bio. Sciences Science Education - Career & Technology Studies * ** the Registrar, Teacher Development and Chemistry Science Education* - Chemistry Certification, Alberta Education at Gen. Sciences Science Education* - Drama 310.000 and then 780-427-2045. Geography Science Education * - English Language Arts University Programs - General Sciences Program Content - Mathematics * (Year 1 & 2) Legend: - Music * - Physical Education + Apply to the Kinesiology program. Please note that these credits are U of A - Physical Sciences * Transfer after one year may be credits and U of L credits. necessary. - Physics * - Second Languages (French) * ** Transfer may be difficult at this time. University of Alberta - Elementary Route - Second Languages (Spanish) * Courses needed may not be available at - Education Option (3 credits) - Social Studies Red Deer College. You should have an - EDPY 200 (3 credits) alternate major in mind and/or apply - EDIT 302 (3 credits) Minors include: directly to the University. - English (6 credits) All major subjects above and *** Graduates of the Music, Theatre - Fine Arts (3 credits) - Health Education Studies (Performance or Technology - Health (3 credits) - Instructional Technology ** majors only) and Visual Arts diplomas may - Mathematics (3 credits) - Special Education apply to the University of Lethbridge’s - Natural Science (3 credits) post-diploma BMus/BEd or BFA/BEd and - Physical Education (3 credits) University of Lethbridge complete these two degrees with an - Social Science (3 credits) Students completing a combined degree additional 35 courses. - Option/Minor Courses (27 credits) through the U of L take two majors, one major for each degree. Please see an Academic Advisor if you University of Alberta - Middle Years have questions about the Music, Theatre Route Degree BA/BEd Studies or Visual Arts programs. - EDUC 250 (3 credits) - EDPY 200 (3 credits) Art Art Education * - EDIT 302 (3 credits) Dramatic Arts Drama Education - English (6 credits) English English Language Arts Ed. - Fine Arts (3 credits) Gen. Humanities English Language Arts - Health (3 credits) Ed. - Mathematics (3 credits) French Modern Languages Ed. * - Natural Science (3 credits) French/Spanish Modern Languages Ed - Physical Education (3 credits) French/Spanish* - Social Science (3 credits) Geography Social Sciences - Non-Education Options (24 credits) Education* - Open Option (3 credits) Kinesiology Physical Education +
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University of Alberta - Secondary Route Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of - EDIT 302 (3 credits) - Education Option (3 credits) - EDPY 200 (3 credits) Education Combined Degree - English (6 credits) - Major/Minor/Options (45 credits)
University of Calgary Chairperson Some routes and majors are more Please consult with an Academic Advisor Brad McDiarmid competitive than others and may require a E-mail: [email protected] higher grade point average for transfer. University of Lethbridge Local calls: 403-342-3400 Detailed information regarding course - EDFX 203 (3 credits) Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 selection and transfer requirements for - EDFN 341 or EDFN 201 (3 credits) See page 23 for general information. University of Alberta and University of - Education Options (9 credits) Lethbridge are provided by Red Deer - Major (24 or 33 credits) One-and Two-Year University College before you register. If you plan to - Options (21 or 12 credits). Transfer Program transfer elsewhere, you may need to contact your destination University or College regarding course planning. Canadian University College The Program Canadian University College provides Academic Advisors at Red Deer College A combined BEd/BSc program allows you to can assist you in this process. students with the opportunity to transfer satisfy the minimum requirements of both into the Bachelor of Education (4-yr) degrees in five years. The program provides Admission Requirements program. To meet the core, cognate, a broader science background while 1. Minimum average of 60% with no minor, specialization and major maintaining the teacher education requirements for transfer into this component. Graduates of the combined mark below 50% in: program, you should consult with degree are eligible to apply for Teacher a. Biology 30 Canadian University College, School of Certification in the Province of Alberta and b. ELA 30-1 Education. all other provinces. Red Deer College c. Mathematics 30 (Pure) offers up to two years of these programs. d. Two of Chemistry 30, Mathematics Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 31, Physics 30 Year 1 Transfer Features OR Tuition $3,564.00 You may transfer up to two years taken at 2. Mature Student Student Association Fees $ 148.50 Red Deer College to the university of your You must be 19 years of age or older, Fees $ 35.00 choice. Some routes and majors may out of high school at least one full year Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 require transfer after one year if Red Deer before the program starts, and have a Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 165.00 College does not offer all courses needed. minimum average of 60% with no Books/Material $1,070.00 mark below 50% in: Total $5,026.50 Before planning your program and a. ELA 30-1 registering, decide on the university you b. Mathematics 30 (Pure) Year 2 want to attend, the grade level you want to c. Two of Biology 30, Chemistry 30, Tuition $3,564.00 teach, and the subject area in which you Mathematics 31, Physics 30 Student Association Fees $ 148.50 want to specialize. (See details under Fees $ 20.00 Program Content Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 “University Programs”). Teaching science in secondary school Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 165.00 requires studying a variety of subjects. For Books/Material $1,070.00 Direct transfer arrangements are in place to the University of Alberta, you will normally Total $5,011.50 the University of Alberta and University of Lethbridge. You may arrange to transfer to major in one of the following areas and Graduation Requirements other institutions at which a Bachelor of minor in another: 1. Biological Sciences includes You must pass 20 term university transfer Education is offered. Biology, Botany, Entomology, courses or a minimum of 60 credit hours, Genetics, Immunology and Infection, and achieve a minimum cumulative GPA Transfer institutions accept a limited number of students to the Bachelor of Marine Science, Microbiology, of 2.00 to receive a Diploma in University Neuroscience, Pharmacology, Education program. Successful transfer is Transfer Studies. Physiology, Zoology. based on proper course selection, credit 2. Mathematical Sciences includes hours completed, grade point average Applied Probability, Computing (G.P.A.), and other requirements. These Science, Mathematics, Statistics. requirements vary depending on which university, route, and major you choose. 3. Physical Sciences includes Astronomy, Chemistry, Mathematical Physics, Physics.
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Transfer to the University of Alberta after one year is required for all of these Bachelor of Fine Art programs in order to meet the U of A Faculty of Science residency requirement.
University of Alberta Chairperson Please note that these credits are U of A The Program Jason Frizzell credits. The instructors in the Visual Art E-mail: [email protected] Suggested Pattern Year 1 Department are themselves practising Local calls: 403-342-3400 artists. Studios are fully equipped for English (6 credits) Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 ceramics, sculpture, painting, drawing, Biological Sciences (6 credits)) See page 23 for general information. Mathematical Sciences (6 credits) printmaking, and design. Physical Sciences (6 credits) Two-Year University Transfer Science Major/Minor or Arts options (6 The program offers you a concentrated Program credits) visual arts foundation in a two-year time The Bachelor of Fine Art program provides span. The first year emphasizes a comprehensive program of studies for University of Calgary experience in drawing, painting, design, those considering a career or general Please consult with an Academic Advisor. education in visual art. ceramics, sculpture, art history, and English. A broad range of visual University of Lethbridge Over the past thirty years, hundreds of Red experiences will help you form a visual Follow the BEd Combined Degree Program Deer College BFA graduates have arts vocabulary and master skills in as outlined in the Bachelor of Education successfully transferred to all of the major composition and technical areas. section of this Calendar (see page 40). universities and art colleges across Canada and completed their BFA degree. Many Emphasis in the second year is on creative Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 have gone on further and now have their growth and visual maturity in studio work. Year 1 MFA degree and are practicing artists, art Tuition $ 3,888.00 teachers and art professors. Transfer Features Student Association Fees $ 162.00 You may transfer up to 20 course Fees $ 50.00 Related Careers Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 equivalents taken at Red Deer College to This program emphasizes the importance the University of Alberta, University of Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 180.00 of a general foundation in art. Calgary, University of Lethbridge or the Books/Material $ 1,050.00 Competition for employment in Alberta College of Art. The B.F.A. program Total $ 5,374.00 specialized art fields is very keen, making the strength of your basic education very is also transferable to most other Year 2 important. Canadian universities and art colleges. Tuition $ 3,996.00 Student Association Fees $ 166.50 The following employment-related fields Admission Requirements Fees $ 120.00 require a general art foundation, followed 1. Minimum average of 60% with no Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 by more specialized training, ending in a mark below 50% in: Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 185.00 four-year undergraduate degree or a. ELA 30-1 or ELA 30-2 Books/Material $ 1,050.00 Master’s degree. Note: Students who enter the Total $ 5,561.50 Fine Art - sculpture, painting, ceramics, program with ELA 30-2 must take printmaking, photography, and drawing ELA 30-1 or the equivalent Graduation Requirements Crafts Design - ceramics, textiles, glass, and (English 095) and may not jewellery You must pass 20 term university transfer complete the program in four courses or a minimum of 60 credit hours, Commercial Design - lay-out, illustration, terms. English 095 is not credited and achieve a minimum cumulative GPA of display, model-making, and photography towards diplomarequirements. 2.00 to receive a Diploma in University Environmental Design - architectural, b. Three subjects from Group A,B, or Transfer Studies. urban, environmental, and industrial design C Photography - creative, commercial, c. One subject from Group A,B,C or industrial, and freelance D Art Education - secondary and post- (See “Alberta Grade 12 Course secondary Groups,” page 8) Other - art galleries, framing shops, etc. OR 2. Mature Student You must be 19 years of age or older, out of high school at least one full year before the program starts, and have a minimum 60% average with no mark below 50% in:
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a. ELA 30-1 or ELA 30-2 Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 Note: Students who enter the Year 1 program with ELA 30-2 must take Tuition $4,860.00 ELA 30-1 or the equivalent Student Association Fees $ 202.50 (English 095) and may not Fees $ 285.00 Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 complete the program in four Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 225.00 terms. Books/Materials $2,285.00 English 095 is not credited towards Total $7,901.50 diploma requirements as it is equivalent to high school ELA 30- Year 2 1. Tuition $4,644.00 b. Subject from Group A, B, or C Student Association Fees $ 193.50 (See “Alberta Grade 12 Course Fees $ 300.00 Groups,” page 8). Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 215.00 Program Content Books/Materials $2,265.00 Suggested Pattern Year 1 Total $7,651.50 ART 101/ART101 Visiting Artists ART 201/ART 203 Art History I and II Graduation Requirements ART 231/ART 233 Visual Fundamentals I & You must pass 20 term university transfer II courses or a minimum of 60 credit hours, ART 241/ART 243 Drawing I and II and achieve a minimum cumulative GPA ART 251 Two Dimensional of 2.00 to receive a Diploma in University Studies Painting I Transfer Studies. ART 261 Three Dimensional Studies - Ceramics I ART 281 Three Dimensional Studies-Sculpture I English One term course at the 200 level.
Suggested Pattern Year 2 ART 101/ART 101 Visiting Artists ART 341/ART 343 Drawing III and IV Two studio electives from the following: ART 351/ART 353 Painting II and III ART 361/ART 363 Ceramics II and III ART 375/ART 377/ Printmaking (Two ART 379 will be offered each year) ART 381/ART 383 Sculpture II and III One term academic option English One term course at the 200 level Two term University transfer academic option (preferably a 300 level Art History).
University of Lethbridge Transfer You may enter the third year of BFA (Art) at the University of Lethbridge or the Alberta College of Art and Design if you have successfully completed all of the program requirements, or transfer to most Canadian universities.
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Chairperson Admission Requirements Two Year University Transfer Sharon Hamilton 1. Minimum average of 60% with no Program E-mail: [email protected] mark below 50% in: Kinesiology is the study of the science of Local calls: 403-342-3400 a. ELA 30-1 movement. The Red Deer College Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 b. Three subjects from Group A, B, or Kinesiology and Sport Studies program See page 23 for general information. C offers the first 2 years of a variety of c. Subject from Group A, B, C, or D Bachelor Degree programs. University Transfer Program (See “Alberta Grade 12 Course Red Deer College offers one year of Groups,” page 8) For the most current university program transfer to the University of Alberta’s OR and transfer information, please see the Bachelor of Arts in Recreation, Sport and 2. Mature Student Academic Advising homepage at Tourism Degree. You must be 19 years of age or older, www.rdc.ab.ca/academic_advising. Click out of high school for at least one full on Planning Guides. If you wish to transfer to a university other year before the program starts, and than the University of Alberta, please have a minimum average of 60% with The program offers university transfer to check with that university before no mark below 50% in: the following programs: registering in courses. a. ELA 30-1 The University of Alberta b. Subject from Group A or C Bachelor of Physical Education - BPE For the most current university program (See “Alberta Grade 12 Course BSc Kinesiology - BScKin and transfer information, please see the Groups,” page 8) BPE/BEd - 5 year combined degree Academic Advising homepage at The University of Calgary www.rdc.ab.ca/academic_advising. Click Program Content Bachelor of Kinesiology - BKin on Planning Guides. ENGL 219/220 Essay Composition & The University of Lethbridge Critical Reading/Literary Bachelor of Arts. - Kinesiology Related Careers Analysis Bachelor of Arts (Kinesiology)/BEd • Municipal parks and recreation KNSS 204 Introduction to (Physical Education) Combined - 5 departments Sociocultural year program • programmers Foundations of Physical Bachelor of Science - Kinesiology • planners Education, Leisure and Bachelor of Science - Exercise Science • facility operators Sport Out of province universities through • managers KNSS 205 History of Sport proper course selection (see an Academic • administrators KNSS 210 Fitness and Wellness Advisor) • Federal and provincial governments Theory and Practice • cultural services KNSS 240 Adapted Physical Transfer to other programs and other • recreation services Education universities is possible. These transfer • parks services KNSS 250 Introduction to the • Youth service agencies Administration of Sport, opportunities include: • Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs Physical Activity, and • Athletic Therapy program (4 year • Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. Recreation Programs Bachelor’s Degree in PhysicalEducation • Institutional recreation 2 Art Options - Liberal Arts Foundation or Kinesiology plus a 5th year at Mount • hospitals Courses Royal University) - After completing 2 • rehabilitation centres 1 Option - Liberal Arts Foundation Course years (60) applicable transfer credits) at • seniors’ centres or Open Option RDC students transfer to the U of A or • correctional centres the U of C to complete their degree. • Tourism and commercial recreation Program Readmission They then apply to the Mount Royal • Camping and outdoor recreation See page 10. University Athletic Therapy Advanced Certificate Program for a 5th year of studies to complete requirements for this certificate. This program is very competitive. • BComm/BKIN (5 year combined program) - University of Calgary
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The program can lead into the following Admission to a university program may be Note: If you are applying to the Faculty of areas of study: limited by quota. Entry is based on your Kinesiology at the University of Calgary, • adapted physical education academic record. You should expect you must present ELA 30-1, Biology 30, • athletic therapy heavy course and program demands and Math 30 (Pure) and Chemistry 30 for • fitness and health promotion the need for a competitive GPA if you admission. For the U of C - Exercise and Health Physiology Major - Math 30 (Pure) • physical education in schools wish to transfer to a university program. • physical activity leadership (minimum grade of 70%) is required. • tourism and hospitality Math 31 is recommended. For the U of C - The objective of the program is to • outdoor education Biomechanics Major - Math 30 (Pure) • sports administration educate and prepare qualified leaders in (minimum grade of 70%) and Math 31 are • coaching the field of Kinesiology and Sport Studies required; Physics 30 is recommended. • dance who: • sport sciences - are prepared for employment in Note: If you are applying to the University • physical therapy related fields and agencies in the of Alberta Bachelor of Science • occupational therapy private and public sectors Kinesiology (BScKin), admission to this - are prepared for teaching and program requires the following high Related Careers coaching careers in school systems school subject requirements - ELA 30-1, • elementary schools - may choose to continue their Chemistry 30, Math 30 (Pure), Physics 30, • secondary schools education at the graduate level and one of Biology 30 or Physical • colleges and universities Education 30 (5 credits) or approved 35 level equivalent (5 credit), including • community centres You must complete an after degree Exercise Science 35, Sports Medicine 35, • corporate setting program in Education if you wish to • municipal recreation departments or Sport Performance 35. become a certified teacher in Alberta. • provincial sport organizations This normally qualifies you to teach in • private fitness centres Program Content • sport clubs physical education and health areas, plus This program is designed for students • private enterprise one or more other subject areas. who wish to complete the 2-year General • health care Selecting proper courses during your Diploma in Kinesiology and Sport Studies • youth services program is important for this reason. and continue on to a Bachelor’s Degree. • rehabilitation centres Students wishing to complete the • outdoor pursuits Admission Requirements Adapted Physical Education, Coaching & • volunteer organizations 1. Minimum average of 60% with no Sport Performance, Fitness & Health • government agencies mark below 50% in: Promotion , or Sport Management a. ELA 30-1 Diploma, and transfer to university, need The Program b. Two subjects from Group A*and/ to select the appropriate options and physical activity courses. (See Kinesiology The program is designed so that students or C and Sport Studies Diploma, page 95- can complete a 2-year diploma (see (for this program only, Math 30 College Open. No Classes and see an Kinesiology and Sport Studies Diplomas, (Applied) may also be used as one Academic Advisor.) page 97), and then enter the work force of these subjects) or transfer to a university and complete a c. Subject from Group C (Biology 30 University of Alberta Bachelor’s degree. The program is recommended) Bachelor of Physical Education designed for students wishing to transfer d. Subject from Group B, C, or D Year 1 to the University of Alberta, the (see “Alberta Grade 12 Course KNSS 200 Structural Anatomy University of Calgary or the University of Groups”, page 8) KNSS 201 Biomechanics Lethbridge. Transfer to other universities * Only one language other than English KNSS 204 Sociocultural Foundations of is possible with proper program will be accepted P.E. Leisure & Sport consultation and careful course selection. OR KNSS 210 Fitness and Wellness Theory For university transfer, the courses you 2. Mature Student & Practice select must meet the program You must be 19 years of age or older, KNSS 240 Adapted Physical Education requirements of the specific university out of high school for at least one KNSS 270 Leadership & Instruction in chosen. full year before the program starts, Physical Activity KDNC 200 The Spectrum of Dance in and have a minimum average of 60% Society with no mark below 50% in: ENGL 219/ENGL 220 a. ELA 30-1 Essay Composition and b. Subject from Group C (Biology 30 Critical Reading/Literary recommended) Analysis Two Physical Activity Courses - KPAC/ KDNC
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Year 2 Year 2 KNSS 270 Leadership & Instruction in PSIO 258 Elementary Physiology I PSIO 258 Elementary Physiology I Physical Activity PSIO 259 Elementary Physiology II PSIO 259 Elementary Physiology II KDNC 200 Spectrum of Dance in Society KNSS 202 Physiology of Exercise KNSS 202 Physiology of Exercise 2 KPAC/KDNC courses KNSS 203 Skill Acquisition & KNSS 203 Skill Acquisition & ENGL 219/ENGL 220 Performance Performance Essay Composition and Critical KNSS 205 History of Sport KNSS 209 Measurement & Evaluation Reading/Literary Analysis KNSS 250 Intro to the Admin of Sport, KNSS 220 Introduction to Athletic MATH choose from MATH 260 or Physical Activity & Recreation Therapy any transferable Math or STAT KNSS 240 Adapted Physical Education Programs course Two Physical Activity Courses - KPAC/KDNC KNSS 250 Intro to the Admin of Sport, Physical Two of: Year 2 Activity & Recreation KNSS 209 Measurement and Students should schedule courses so that Programs Evaluation there are 6 courses in each term (including KNSS 244 Introduction to Two of: KPAC’s). (Total transfer credits = 33) Nutrition KNSS 205 History of Sport PSIO 258 Elementary Physiology I KNSS 253 Psychological Sport KNSS 244 Introduction to Nutrition KNSS 203 Skill Acquisition & Performance KNSS 253 Psychological Sport Performance KNSS 307 Growth and Performance KNSS 205 History of Sport Development KNSS 260 Introduction to Coaching KNSS 220 Introduction to Athletic PSYC 260 Basic Psychological Theory Processes KNSS 280 Outdoor Education* Therapy OR One of: KNSS 299 Directed Studies KNSS 307 Growth and Development KNSS 220 Introduction to Athletic KNSS 307 Growth & Development KNSS 250 Intro to the Admin of Sport, Therapy *KNSS 280 includes a one week camp Physical Activity & KNSS 260 Introduction to during the fourth week in August. Recreation Programs Coaching Theory KNSS 260 Intro to Coaching Theory OR KNSS 280 Introduction to Outdoor For transfer and course selection specifics, KNSS 280 Intro to Outdoor Education* Education* it is strongly recommended that students 2 KPAC/KDNC courses KNSS 299 Directed Studies in see an Academic Advisor. KPED 292 Introduction to Elementary Kinesiology and Sport School PE Studies Bachelor of Physical Education/Bachelor EDPY 200 Introduction to Educational INTD 240 Integrated Arts of Education BPE/BEd (5-year) Programs Psychology or Education Approach to Movement Red Deer College offers the first two years option * KNSS 280 includes a one week camp of the BPE/BEd combined programs. EDIT 302 Instructional Application of during the fourth week in August. Students completing the first two years of Technology the combined degree program will EDUC 250 The Profession of Teaching Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology transfer into the BPE program at the U of A Year 1 for year 3. Upon completion of year 3 (99 For transfer and course selection specifics KNSS 200 Structural Anatomy credits), they will apply to the BEd Program it is strongly recommended that students KNSS 201 Biomechanics for year 4 & 5. The program is very see an Academic Advisor. KNSS 204 Sociocultural Foundations of competitive and a limited number of P.E. Leisure and Sport spaces are available for transfer applicants BPE/BEd (Secondary Route) KNSS 210 Fitness and Wellness Theory & into year 3 at the University of Alberta. Year 1 These programs are highly competitive Practice Students should schedule courses so that and limited by quota and acceptance into KNSS 270 Leadership & Instruction in there are 6 courses in each term (including the combined degree route at the U of A is Physical Activity KPAC’s). (Total transfer credits = 33) not guaranteed. MATH 202 Elementary Calculus KNSS 200 Structural Anatomy ENGL 219/ENGL 220 KNSS 201 Biomechanics Essay Composition and Critical BPE/BEd (Elementary Route) KNSS 204 Sociocultural Foundations of Reading/Literary Analysis Year 1 P.E. Leisure & Sport CHEM 211 Introductory University Students should schedule courses so that KNSS 210 Fitness & Wellness Theory & Chemistry there are 6 courses in each term (including Practice CHEM 251 Introductory Organic KPACs) (Total transfer credits = 33) KNSS 270 Leadership & Instruction in Chemistry KNSS 200 Structural Anatomy Physical Activity KNSS 201 Biomechanics KDNC 200 Spectrum of Dance in Society KNSS 204 Sociocultural Foundations of 2 KPAC/KDNC courses P.E. Leisure and Sport ENGL 219/ENGL 220 KNSS 210 Fitness & Wellness Theory & Essay Composition and Critical Practice Reading/Literary Analysis KNSS 240 Adapted Physical Education 2 Minor courses
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Year 2 Two of: Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 Students should schedule courses so that One Approved Option Year 1 there are 6 courses in each term KNSS 203 Skill Acquisition & Tuition $3,456.00 (including KPAC’s). (Total transfer credits = Performance Student Association Fees $ 144.00 33) KNSS 220 Introduction to Athletic Fees $ 60.00 PSIO 258 Elementary Physiology I Therapy Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 KNSS 205 History of Sport KNSS 250 Intro to the Admin of Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 160.00 KNSS 240 Adapted Physical Education Sport, Physical Activity Books/Materials $1,000.00 & Recreation Programs Total $4,864.00 KNSS 250 Intro to the Admin of Sport, KNSS 253 Psychological Sport Physical Activity & Performance Year 2 Recreation Programs KNSS 260 Introduction to Tuition $3,456.00 KNSS 260 Introduction to Coaching Coaching Theory Student Association Fees $ 144.00 2 KPAC/KDNC courses KNSS 299 Directed Studies in Fees $ 60.00 KPED 294 Introduction to the Kinesiology and Sport Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 Movement of Activities of Studies Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 160.00 Youth INTD 240 Integrated Arts Books/Materials $1,000.00 EDIT 302 Instructional Application of Approach to Movement Total $4,864.00 Technology EDPY 200 Introduction to Educational Note: Students should plan to take KNSS Graduation Requirements Psychology You must pass 20 term university transfer 200, PSIO 258, PSIO 259, and BIOL 217 at 2 Minor Courses courses or a minimum of 60 credit hours, RDC before transferring to U of C. and achieve a minimum cumulative GPA Approved Options should be selected For transfer and course selection specifics of 2.00 to receive a Diploma in University after consultation with an Academic it is strongly recommended that students Transfer Studies. see an Academic Advisor. Advisor and considering the major you will choose upon transferring. University of Calgary General Major Approved Options are: Bachelor of Kinesiology ENGL 219 and/or PSYC 260. Year 1 Students interested in pursuing the KNSS 200 Structural Anatomy Leadership in Pedagogy and Coaching KNSS 201 Biomechanics Major at the U of C should discuss, with an KNSS 204 Sociocultural Foundations of academic advisor, requirements for P.E. Leisure & Sport admission to this program at U of C prior KNSS 210 Fitness and Wellness Theory to commencement of their RDC & Practice Kinesiology program. KNSS 240 Adapted Physical Education KNSS 270 Leadership & Instruction in * KNSS 280 includes a one week camp Physical Activity during the fourth week in August. KDNC 200 The Spectrum of Dance in Society University of Lethbridge Two Approved Options Students apply to the Kinesiology Two Physical Activity Courses - KPAC/ program at RDC KDNC or KNSS 280* - Bachelor of Arts (Kinesiology) Year 2 - Bachelor of Arts (Kinesiology)/Bachelor PSIO 258 Elementary Physiology I of Education (Physical Education) (5-year PSIO 259 Elementary Physiology II program) KNSS 205 History of Sport - Bachelor of Science (Kinesiology) KNSS 209 Measurement and Evaluation - Bachelor of Science (Exercise Science) KNSS 244 Introduction to Nutrition KNSS 307 Growth and Development For transfer and course selection specifics BIOL 217 Introduction to Cell Biology students are directed to see an Academic Two Physical Activity Courses - KPAC/ Advisor. KDNC or KNSS 280*
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See page 23 for general information. Transfer depends on proper course selection, credit hours completed, grade The Program point average (G.P.A.), and other The objective of these programs is to requirements. The minimum stated G.P.A. provide access to the first and, in some does not guarantee admission to a cases, the second year of study toward professional program. “general” or “subject specific” programs which can be transferred to the provincial Laboratory Safety universities. Requirements Chemistry: You must have a lab coat and The “subject specific” programs provide safety glasses to take part in Chemistry education in the conventional scientific labs. You can buy these items at the disciplines. You can take a number of College Bookstore. options, but the number and sequence of the science courses is more rigid than in Course Selection the “general” program. Note: Not all the courses listed under the programs may be offered every academic The “general” program gives you the year. flexibility to build a science program When selecting courses, the Arts and around your personal strengths and Science options are defined as: interests by blending the “subject specific” Arts Option Science Option areas. This is done by declaring a major and Anthropology Astronomy* minor subject. Art* Biochemistry Drama* Biology The “pre-professional” programs are Economics Chemistry designed to meet the admission English Computing requirements of professional schools (such French Science* as medicine, dentistry, veterinary Genetics medicine, pharmacy, optometry, and *Geography *Geography chiropractic medicine). These programs (except 230/231) (230/231) are very competitive, and you should plan History Mathematics your program so that you have the option Music* Microbiology of completing a science degree if your Philosophy Physics admission into the professional program is Political Science Physiology* denied or delayed. Psychology *Psychology (except 260) (260) In many cases, transfer from one major to Sociology Statistics another can be arranged with a minimal Spanish Zoology *Does loss in study time. not apply at some universities. Check with Academic Advisors. Transfer Features You may transfer up to 20 course Program Readmission equivalents taken at Red Deer College to See page 10. the university of your choice. The courses you select must meet the program Graduation Requirements requirements of that specific university. You must pass 20 term university transfer Before planning your program and courses or a minimum of 60 credit hours, registering, you should decide to which and achieve a minimum cumulative GPA university you will transfer, and in what of 2.00 to receive a Diploma in University subject area (major) you want to specialize. Transfer Studies.
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Chairperson Admission Requirements A major and minor in Sciences may not Warren Elgersma 1. Minimum average of 60% with no share courses from the same department. E-mail: [email protected] mark below 50% in: For example, the following combinations Local calls: 403-342-3400 a. ELA 30-1 are not allowed: Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 b. Mathematics 30 (Pure) Earth Sciences/Arts Geography See page 23 or general information. c. Two of Biology 30, Chemistry 30, Science Psychology/Arts Mathematics 31, Physics 30 Psychology One-Year or Two-Year University d. Subject from Group A, B, or C Transfer Program (See “Alberta Grade 12 Course Courses in a major or minor subject area Groups,” page 8) may not overlap. For example, if the major is Mathematical Sciences and the For the most current university program OR minor is Statistics, the major would and transfer information, see Planning 2. Mature Student consist of Mathematics courses and Guides in Academic Advising. You must be 19 years of age or older, out of high school for at least one full Computing Science courses but no Statistics courses. The minor would The Program year before the program starts, and have a minimum average of 60% with consist exclusively of Statistics courses. The BSc General program gives you a no mark below 50% in: broad education in more than one branch a. ELA 30-1 See U of A calendar for details on courses of study. Students either complete two b. Mathematics 30 (Pure) required for majors and minors. majors or one major and one minor. c. Two of Biology 30, Chemistry 30, Majors are chosen from ten science Mathematics 31, Physics 30 Please note these are U of A credits subject areas. Suggested Pattern Year 1 If you enroll in the General program and Program Content The following outlines provide a basic ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) intend to transfer to a BSc Specialization Two junior MATH, STAT, CMPT (6 credits) or Honors program in the Faculty of understanding of program content but do not contain details regarding specific Two junior PHYS , CHEM, ASTR (6 credits) Science at U of A, carefully follow the Two junior BIOL, GEOG, PSYC (6 credits) requirements for the latter program course requirements. This information is current at the time of publication but Two junior Arts or Science Options (6 when selecting your courses consult an credits) Academic Advisor. This applies to all may change as the universities change their requirements. students intending to transfer to the Suggested Pattern Year 2 Universities of Calgary or Lethbridge 12 credits toward major which do not offer a BSc General program. University of Alberta A major subject area is chosen from 6 credits toward minor 12 credits towards Arts or Science Transfer Features Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Computer Sciences, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Options, major and/or minor This program transfers to BSc General at U Mathematical Sciences, Mathematics, of A and also allows for subsequent Physical Sciences, Physics, Science NOTES: transfer to University of Alberta BSc Psychology, and Statistics & Applied Students with a major or minor in Specialization and Honours programs if Probability. A major should be chosen chemistry are recommended to admission requirements are met for when registering for year two courses. complete CHEM 211/CHEM 212 in year those programs. It also allows for transfer one and CHEM 351/CHEM 352 in year two. to University of Calgary BSc Honours and The student has the option of choosing a Majors programs and to majors in The minor subject in the faculties of Science, Options in Arts or Sciences are chosen University of Lethbridge BSc program. Arts or Business. If the minor subject from transferable courses from: ANTH, chosen is from Arts, any requirements as ASTR, ART, BIOC, BIOL (not 209), CHEM, Note: There are some major/minor specified by the Faculty of Arts must be CLAS, CMPT 201, DRAM, ECON, FILM, FREN, combinations which have required met. Please see U of A Calendar for minor GENE, GEOG, HIST, MATH, MUSE, MUSI, courses (usually in the second year) that subject areas in the Faculty of Arts. See PHIL, PHYS, POLI, PSYC (not 312), SOCI, are not offered at Red Deer College. note below concerning the Business SPAN, STAT, ZOOL. Students taking these combinations can Minor. either take other (transferrable) courses during a second year or can transfer after their first year at Red Deer College.
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BSC General with Business Minor Fine Arts and Humanities transferable Admission to BSc General with a Business courses in ART, DRAM, ENGL, FREN, HIST, Minor is competitive. Admission to the MUSI (not MUSI 210, 213, or 214), PHIL, minor is by application after year one SPAN plus other courses as noted in the with preference given to those who academic planning guide. apply at this point in their program. Applicants must present ENGL 219/220, Social Sciences transferable courses in ECON 201/202, MATH 202 or MATH 203, ANTH (all non-Science and non- one of MATH, STAT, CMPT 201; and 6 Humanities ANTH courses), ECON, GEOG credits in Physical Sciences (Physics or 251, GEOG 381, GEOG 382), KNSS (except Chemistry) or 6 credits taken from KNSS 280), POLI, PSYC (excluding PSYC Biology, Science Geography, or Science 260 and other Science PSYC courses), Psychology. See Planning Guides in SOCI plus other courses as noted in Academic Advising for further academic planning guides.. information. Sciences transferable courses in BIOC, University of Lethbridge BIOL, CHEM, CMPT, MATH, PHYS, PSIO, STAT, Please note these are U of L credits ZOOL plus other courses as noted in The pattern below is an example of BSc academic planning guide. General using Biological Sciences, Chemistry, and Mathematics for the three Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 science streams. See Planning Guides in Year 1 Academic Advising for further Tuition $3,888.00 information. Student Association Fees $ 162.00 Fees $ 120.00 Suggested Pattern Year 1 Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 BIOL 217/BIOL 218 (6 credits) Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 180.00 CHEM 211/CHEM 212 (6 credits) Books/Materials $1,200.00 MATH 202 (or 203)/MATH 204 (6 credits) Total $5,594.00 2 Fine Arts or Humanities Requirements (6 credits) Year 2 2 Social Science Requirements (6 credits) Tuition $3,888.00 Student Association Fees $ 162.00 Suggested Pattern Year 2 Fees $ 120.00 CHEM elective (3 credits) Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 BIOL 317/BIOL 318 (6 credits) Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 180.00 One of MATH 221, STAT 251 (3 credits) Books/Materials $1,200.00 2 Fine Arts or Humanities Requirements Total $5,594.00 (6 credits) 2 Social Science Requirements (6 credits) 2 Electives (6 credits)
U of L’s General Liberal Education Requirement (GLER) A maximum of four courses from one department may be used in meeting the General Liberal Education Requirement. Math and Computer Science are counted as separate departments for a Science Major. Biology (BIOL), Microbiology (MICR), Zoology (ZOOL), Botany (BOTA), and Genetics (GENE) are considered part of the Biological Sciences Department.
50 www.rdc.ab.ca UNIVERSITY TRANSFER PROGRAMS Bachelor of Science in Agriculture
Chairperson Transfer Features Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 Warren Elgersma The courses in this program can be Tuition $3,672.00 E-mail: [email protected] transferred in full to BSc Agriculture at Student Association Fees $ 153.00 Local calls: 403-342-3400 University of Alberta. Refer to University Fees $ 40.00 Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 of Alberta calendar for the complete Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 See page 23 for general information. listing of courses under the Faculty of Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 170.00 Agricultural, Life and Environmental Books/Materials $1,200.00 One-Year University Transfer Sciences. Total $5,279.00 Program Students in BSc Agriculture will choose a Admission Requirements major from Agricultural and Resource 1. Minimum average of 60% with no Economics, Animal Science, Crop Science, mark below 50% in: Range and Pasture Management or a. Biology 30 Sustainable Agricultural Systems. The b. Chemistry 30 major must be chosen before entering c. ELA 30-1 the third year but may be chosen as early d. Mathematics 30 (Pure) as the beginning of the first year. e. Subject from Group A, B, C, or D (See “Alberta Grade 12 Course For the most current university program Groups,” page 8) and transfer information, see Planning OR Guides in Academic Advising. 2. Mature Student You must be 19 years of age or older, Related Careers out of high school for at least one • Provincial and federal government full year before the program starts, and • inspectors have a minimum average of 60% with • administrators no mark below 50% in: • researchers a. Biology 30 • Commercial and industrial b. Chemistry 30 • sales and promotion personnel c. ELA 30-1 • researchers d. Mathematics 30 (Pure) • Self-employment as farmers and ranchers Program Content • Graduates also play an important role Please note that these credits are U of A in discussing and solving ecological credits. problems. This involvement is found in One Core Program for all majors: many areas of the work force. ECON 201/202 (6 credits) ENGL 219/220 (6 credits) The Program MATH 202 (or MATH 203)/STAT 251 (6 The Red Deer College program is a credits) modified first year of study that provides 2 of: BIOL 217, 218, 317, 318 (6 credits credit for the first year of Bachelor of 1 Elective (3 credits) Science Agriculture. It is strongly 1 of: BUS 303, COMM 271, or COMM 361 recommended that students complete all (3 credits) junior requirements before taking senior courses.
www.rdc.ab.ca 51 UNIVERSITY TRANSFER PROGRAMS Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Food Business Management
Chairperson Transfer Features Program Content Warren Elgersma The courses in this program can be Please note these credits are U of A E-mail: [email protected] transferred in full to BSc Agricultural Food credits. Local calls: 403-342-3400 Business Management program at Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 University of Alberta. Refer to University of University of Alberta See page 23 for general information. Alberta calendar for the complete listing Suggested Pattern Year 1 of courses under the Faculty of Agriculture Business Management/Food One-Year University Pre- Agricultural, Life and Environmental Business Management Professional Program Sciences. One of: BIOL 217, 218 (3 credits) Students in BSc Agricultural Food ECON 201/ECON 202 (6 credits) Business Management will choose one Admission Requirements MATH 202 (or MATH 203)/STAT 251 (6 specialization: Agricultural Business 1. Minimum average of 60% with no credits) Management, Food Processing Business mark below 50% in: COMM 271 or COMM 361 (3 credits) Management, or Food Service Business a. Biology 30 ENGL 219/220 (6 credits) Management. This must be chosen b. Chemistry 30 2 Electives (6 credits) before entering third year, but may be c. ELA 30-1 chosen as early as the beginning of the d. Mathematics 30 (Pure) Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 first year. e. Subject from Group A, B, C or D Tuition $ 3,564.00 (See “Alberta Grade 12 Course Student Association Fees $ 148.50 For the most current university program Groups,” page 8) Fees $ 20.00 and transfer information, see the OR Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 Planning Guides in Academic Advising. 2. Mature Student Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 165.00 You must be 19 years of age or older, Books/Materials $ 1,200.00 Related Careers out of high school for at least one full Total $ 5,141.50 Agricultural/Food Business Management year before the program starts, and graduates develop a strong have a minimum average of 60% with understanding of business concepts and no mark below 50% in: principles as applied to either the a. Biology 30 agricultural industry or the food industry. b. Chemistry 30 Graduates have a basic knowledge of the c. ELA 30-1 technical processes involved. d. Mathematics 30 (Pure)
The Program The Red Deer College program is a pre- professional year that prepares the student for admission to the degree program. Normally, three additional years of study are required.
52 www.rdc.ab.ca UNIVERSITY TRANSFER PROGRAMS Bachelor of Science in Atmospheric Sciences and Bachelor of Science Environmental Earth Sciences
Chairperson Admission Requirements Atmospheric Sciences Warren Elgersma 1. Minimum average of 60% with no ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) E-mail: [email protected] mark below 50% in: GEOG 230/GEOG 231 (6 credits) Local calls: 403-342-3400 a. ELA 30-1 MATH 202 (or 203)/204 (6 credits) Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 b. Mathematics 30 (Pure) Physics 241/247 (6 credits) See page 23 for general information. c. Chemistry 30 Two of: MATH 221, STAT 251, CMPT 201 (6) d. Physics 30 One-Year University Transfer e. Biology 30 * OR Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 Program f. Subject from Group A, B, or C Tuition $ 3,996.00 Earth and Atmospheric Sciences is the (See “Alberta Grade 12 Course Student Association Fees $ 166.50 study of the atmosphere, surface and Groups,” page 8) Fees $ 100.00 interior of the earth. OR Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 2. Mature Student Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 185.00 For the most current university program You must be 19 years of age or older, Books/Materials $ 1,200.00 and transfer information, see the out of high school for at least one full Total $ 5,691.50 Planning Guides in Academic Advising. year before the program starts, and have a minimum average of 60% with Related Careers no mark below 50% in: a. ELA 30-1 • All levels of government b. Mathematics 30 (Pure) • planning commissions c. Chemistry 30 • urban and housing project d. Physics 30 planning e. Biology 30 * • parks and recreation planning * For the Environmental Earth Sciences • energy and natural resources program only. planning • overseas service • Teaching (with BEd) Program Content • Cartography (map-making) Please note these credits are U of A credits. The Program University of Alberta Red Deer College offers the first year of Suggested Pattern Year 1 university study toward BSc Atmospheric Environmental Earth Sciences Sciences/Environmental Earth Sciences. CHEM 211/CHEM 212 (6 credits) ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) Transfer Features GEOG 230/GEOG 231 (6 credits) The courses offered in this program can MATH 202( or MATH 203/MATH 204 (6 be transferred to most universities. credits) Physics (6 credits)
www.rdc.ab.ca 53 UNIVERSITY TRANSFER PROGRAMS Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry
Chairperson Transfer Features Warren Elgersma The courses offered in this program can be E-mail: [email protected] transferred to most universities. The Local calls: 403-342-3400 courses you select must meet the program Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 requirements of the university chosen. See page 23 for general information. Admission Requirements One Year University Transfer 1. Minimum average of 60% with no Program mark below 50% in: a. Biology 30 For the most current university program b. Chemistry 30 and transfer information, see Planning c. ELA 30-1 Guides in Academic Advising. d. Mathematics 30 (Pure) e. Physics 30 Related Careers •Provincial and federal government Program Content • technologists in pure and applied Please note these credits are U of A research credits. • Hospital laboratories • technologists in clinical University of Alberta Biochemistry Suggested Pattern Year 1 • Industrial laboratories, including food BIOL 217 (3 credits) technology and drug industry CHEM 211/CHEM 212/CHEM 351 (9 credits) • research PHYS 205/PHYS 226 (6 credits) • analytical control ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) • developmental work MATH 202 (or MATH 203)/MATH 204, MATH • Teaching 221 or STAT 251 (6 credits) • Graduate studies Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 The Program Tuition $3,996.00 Red Deer College offers one year of Student Association Fees $ 166.50 studies toward BSc Biochemistry. Fees $ 140.00 Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 There is a broad range of science courses Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 185.00 in the program, allowing for easy transfer Books/Materials $1,200.00 to other programs. These include Total $5,731.50 Chemistry, various Biology programs, and some pre-professional programs.
54 www.rdc.ab.ca UNIVERSITY TRANSFER PROGRAMS Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences
Chairperson Admission Requirements University of Calgary Warren Elgersma 1. Minimum average of 60% with no Note: Physics 30 is recommended for E-mail: [email protected] mark below 50% in: this program. Local calls: 403-342-3400 a. Biology 30 Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 b. Chemistry 30 Please note these credits are U of C See page 23 for general information. c. ELA 30-1 credits. d. Mathematics 30 (Pure) Suggested Pattern Year 1 Two-Year University Transfer e. Subject from Group A, B, or C BIOL 217/BIOL 218 (6 credits) Program (Physics 30 or Mathematics 31 CHEM 211/CHEM 212 (6 credits) strongly recommended) Breadth Requirement/CHEM 351 or Breadth Requirement (6 credits) For the most current university program (See “Alberta Grade 12 Course MATH 202 (or MATH 203)/MATH 221 or and transfer information, see Planning Groups,” page 8) MATH 204 (6 credits) Guides in Academic Advising. OR 2. Mature Student PHYS 205 or Option/PHYS 226 or Option (6 credits) Related Careers You must be 19 years of age or older, out of high school for at least one full • Elementary or high school teacher (with year before the program starts, and Year 2 certification) have a minimum average of 60% with See an academic advisor for information. • Graduate school (continued studies) no mark below 50% in: • Research and development a. Biology 30 University of Lethbridge • universities b. Chemistry 30 Please note these credits are U of L • medical schools c. ELA 30-1 credits. • research institutes d. Mathematics 30 (Pure) • government agencies Suggested Pattern Year 1 • private companies Program Content BIOL 217/BIOL 218 (6 credits) • Public service CHEM 211/CHEM 212 (6 credits) • park service Please note these credits are U of A credits. STAT 251 (3 credits) • field biologists Fine Arts or Humanities (6 credits) Social Sciences (6 credits) The Program University of Alberta Suggested Pattern Year 1 One of: MATH 202, MATH 203 or MATH Red Deer College offers the first one or BIOL 217/BIOL 218 (6 credits) 221 (3 credits) two years of study toward a degree in CHEM 211/CHEM 212 or Science Option biological sciences at Alberta (6 credits) Year 2 universities. Details of the University of Science Option/CHEM 351 (6 credits) See an academic advisor for information. Alberta , University of Calgary and The ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) University of Lethbridge programs are STAT 251/one of MATH 202, 203, or 221 (6 Canadian University College given below. credits) Canadian University College provides students with the opportunity to transfer Transfer Features Suggested Pattern Year 2 into its Bachelor of Science (Three- and The courses offered in this program can A variety of offerings exist - Animal Four-yr) Biology programs. To meet the be transferred in full to most universities. Biology, Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, core, cognate, and major requirements for The courses you select must meet the Microbiology, and Moleculer Genetics. transfer into this program, consult with an program requirements of the university The appropriate courses depend upon Academic Advisor. chosen. You should be prepared to the major you have chosen. See an choose a major within the biological academic advisor for details. Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 sciences. Year 1 & 2 Tuition $4,104.00 A transfer student may obtain up to 2 full Student Association Fees $ 171.00 years credit in Biological Sciences at U of Fees $ 130.00 A, U of C, or U of L (Alberta Transfer Guide Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 www.transferalberta.ca). Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 190.00 Books/Materials $1,150.00 Total $5,789.00
www.rdc.ab.ca 55 UNIVERSITY TRANSFER PROGRAMS Bachelor of Science in Chemistry
Chairperson The Program University of Calgary Warren Elgersma Red Deer College offers the first year of Suggested Pattern Year 1 E-mail: [email protected] studies. CHEM 211/CHEM 212 (6 credits) Local calls: 403-342-3400 Option (3 credits) Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 Transfer Features MATH 202 (or MATH 203)/MATH 204/MATH See page 23 for general information. 221 (9 credits) The courses offered in this program can PHYS 205/PHYS 226 (6 credits) be transferred to most universities. The One Year University Transfer 3 Non-Science Options (9 credits) courses you select must meet the Program program requirement of the university University of Lethbridge chosen. Suggested Pattern Year 1 For the most current university program CHEM 211/CHEM 212 (6 credits) and transfer information, see Planning Admission Requirements PHYS 241 (3 credits) Guides in Academic Advising. 1. Minimum average of 60% with no MATH 202 (or MATH 203)/MATH 204/MATH mark below 50% in: 221 (9 credits) Related Careers a. Chemistry 30 Fine Arts or Humanities requirements* (6 Chemists conduct research to develop b. ELA 30-1 credits) new or improved materials, compounds, c. Mathematics 30 (Pure) Social Science requirements* (6 credits) and substances. They are employed in a d. Physics 30 wide variety of industries, including e. Subject from Group A, B, or C Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 • chemical • petrochemical (Mathematics 31 recommended) Tuition $3,888.00 • pharmaceutical • mineral (See “Alberta Grade 12 Course Student Association Fees $ 162.00 • metal • pulp and Groups,” page 8) Fees $ 110.00 paper OR Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 • manufacturing • utilities 2. Mature Student Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 180.00 • health • education You must be 19 years of age or older, Books/Materials $1,200.00 • government out of high school for at least one Total $5,584.00 full year before the program starts, Completing BSc Chemistry can lead to and have a minimum average of 60% work in industry or be a step toward a with no mark below 50% in: career in teaching, medicine, etc. The a. Chemistry 30 specialization program prepares you for a b. ELA 30-1 career as a professional chemist in c. Mathematics 30 (Pure) research or industrial labs, or it can d. Physics 30 prepare you for graduate work in (Mathematics 31 recommended.) chemistry. Program Content Chemists also work in technical sales and Please note these credits are U of A, U service, and in managing regulatory of C and U of L credits. programs. Employment for chemists is expected to grow in the chemical University of Alberta products, chemical service, and Suggested Pattern Year 1 environmental fields. (Honours or Specialization) CHEM 211/CHEM 212/CHEM 351 (9 credits) ENGL 219/ENGL 220 or ENGL 219/Arts Option (6 credits) MATH 202 (or MATH 203)/MATH 204 (6 credits) PHYS 241/PHYS 247 (6 credits) Science Option (3 credits)
56 www.rdc.ab.ca UNIVERSITY TRANSFER PROGRAMS Bachelor of Science in Computing Science
Chairperson The Program Program Content Warren Elgersma The first year of studies at Red Deer Please note these credits are U of A E-mail: [email protected] College offers science courses and credits. Local calls: 403-342-3400 options that are common to all specialties Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 at the second-year level. It includes University of Alberta See page 23 for general information. courses in Mathematics, Computing Suggested Pattern Year 1 Science, English, and Science. The first CMPT 214/CMPT 215 (6 credits) Note: This one year transfer program to year prepares you to choose a specialty ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) the University of Alberta has been that is personally appealing. MATH 203/MATH 204 (6 credits) suspended until further notice. However, Options (12 credits) RDC offers a two year Computer Transfer Features *Year 2 course at U of A. Information Systems Diploma that can be The courses offered in this program can **Choose from BIOL, CHEM, PHYS, PSYC used as credit towards a BSc degree in be transferred in full to University of 260, ZOOL Computer Science at two other Alberta Alberta. There is limited transfer to institutions. Students with a CIS diploma University of Calgary and The University of Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 may complete a two year (20 course) Post- Lethbridge. Tuition $3,888.00 Diploma BSc Degree in Computer Science Student Association Fees $ 162.00 at the The University of Lethbridge. As Admission Requirements Fees $ 40.00 well, holders of a CIS diploma will be 1. Minimum average of 60% with no Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 awarded 60 credits towards the 120 credit mark below 50% in: Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 180.00 Bachelor of Science in Computing and a. ELA 30-1 Books/Materials $1,050.00 Information Systems Degree (Post b. Mathematics 30 (Pure) Total $5,364.00 Diploma) at Athabasca University. For c. Subject from Group C more information, see CIS Diploma. (Mathematics 31 recommended) d. Subject from Group C (Physics 30 One-Year University Transfer recommended) Program e. Subject from Group A, B, or C (Chemistry 30 or Biology 30 For the most current university program recommended) and transfer information, see Planning (See “Alberta Grade 12 course Guides in Acadamic Advising. Groups,” page 8) OR Related Careers 2. Mature Student Computing Science is one of the fastest You must be 19 years of age or older, growing sciences. The widespread use of out of high school for at least one full computers in public, private, and year before the program starts, and corporate business has created a great have a minimum average of 60% with demand for qualified personnel. no mark below 50% in: a. ELA 30-1 Graduates can work as computer analysts, b. Mathematics 30 (Pure) programmers, and teachers. They also offer c. Subject from Group C consulting and research services. (Mathematics 31 recommended) d. Subject from Group C (Physics 30 recommended) (See “Alberta Grade 12 Course Groups,” page 8).
www.rdc.ab.ca 57 UNIVERSITY TRANSFER PROGRAMS Bachelor of Science in Engineering
Chairperson College will provide you with an Program Content Warren Elgersma understanding of mathematics and Please note these credits are U of A and E-mail: [email protected] physical sciences such as Physics and U of C credits. Local calls: 403-342-3400 Chemistry. You will apply this For University of Calgary transfer: Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 understanding to solving engineering CHEM 203/CHEM 205 (6 credits) See page 23 for general information. problems in such courses as Engineering ENCP 200 (3 credits) Statics, Dynamics and Design. ENGG 230 (3 credits) One-Year University Transfer ENPH 231 (3 credits) Program You will take one course in computer programming so as to use computers in PHYS 269/PHYS 359 (6 credits) solving engineering problems. You will MATH 212/MATH 213/MATH 223 (9 For the most current university program also use computer-aided graphics. credits) and transfer information, see Planning Complementary Studies Course (3 credits) Guides in Academic Advising. You must also learn to communicate effectively in the English language. For University of Alberta transfer: Related Careers CHEM 203/CHEM 205 (4.3+3.8 credits) Engineers deal with the planning, design, Transfer Features ENCP 200 (3.8 credits) construction, testing, management, or The courses in this program can be ENGG 200 (2 credits) operation of facilities. transferred in full to University of Alberta ENGG 230 (4 credits) or University of Calgary or University of ENPH 231 (4.3 credits) Civil engineers design bridges, roads, Saskatchewan or University of Regina. You PHYS 269 (3.8 credits) airports, pipelines, dams, ships, buildings, must decide on the transfer university MATH 212/MATH 213/MATH 223 transportation systems, and urban when you enter the program. It is (4+3.5+3.5 credits) systems. imperative that students who will apply Complementary Studies Course (3 credits) to University of Alberta take the full first Mechanical engineers are involved in year in one academic year. For transfer to the University of energy production and use, combustion Saskatchewan or University of Regina, see processes, vehicle design, and propulsion Planning Guides in Academic Advising. systems design. Admission Requirements 1. Minimum average of 65% with no mark below 50% in: Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 Chemical engineers deal with chemical Tuition $4,320.00 processes. They design and analyze a. Chemistry 30 b. ELA 30-1 Student Association Fees $ 180.00 systems involving organic materials, Fees $ 55.00 nuclear fuels, and food processing. c. Mathematics 30 (Pure) d. Mathematics 31 Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 e. Physics 30 Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 200.00 Electrical engineers work with Books/Materials $1,105.00 communication, navigation, controls, Total $5,904.00 electronics, power, and instrumentation Other Requirements systems. 1. That the Engineering program admission be contingent upon Computer engineers design new submission of a personal profile as computer systems and applications. described in Other Requirement #2 and completion of an information Other engineering programs available at session with members of the U of A or U of C are material science, engineering faculty as described in engineering physics, mining, petroleum, Other Requirements #3. biomedical, geomatics, manufacturing 2. A written personal profile and software. describing student’s goals, The Program commitment, knowledge, interests, and expectations. A detailed The first year of studies at Red Deer description of the topics for the profile will be provided. 3. An information session with members of the Engineering Faculty to inform students about the engineering program.
58 www.rdc.ab.ca UNIVERSITY TRANSFER PROGRAMS Bachelor of Science in Environmental & Conservation Sciences
Chairperson Transfer Features Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 Warren Elgersma The courses in this program can be Tuition $ 3,888.00 E-mail: [email protected] transferred in full to BSc in Environmental Student Association Fees $ 162.00 Local calls: 403-342-3400 and Conservation Sciences at University Fees $ 100.00 Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 of Alberta. Refer to University of Alberta Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 See page 23 for general information. calendar for the complete listing of Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 180.00 courses under the Faculty of Agricultural, Books/Materials $1,050.00 One-Year University Transfer Life and Environmental Sciences. Total $5,424.00 Program Students in BSc Environmental and Admission Requirements Conservation Sciences will choose one 1. Minimum average of 60% with no major: Conservation Biology, mark below 50% in: Environmental Economics and Policy, a. Biology 30 Human Dimensions of Environmental b. Chemistry 30 Management, Land Reclamation, or c. ELA 30-1 Wildlife and Rangeland Resources. d. Mathematics 30 (Pure) e. Subject from Group A, B, C or D For the most current university program (See “Alberta Grade 12 Course and transfer information, see Planning Groups,” page 8) Guides in Academic Advising. OR 2. Mature Student Related Careers You must be 19 years of age or older, BSc Environmental and Conservation out of high school for at least one full Sciences is for students interested in year before the program starts, and environmental and conservation issues. have a minimum average of 60% with Graduates have a strong background in no mark below 50% in: both the basic and applied sciences. They a. Biology 30 are able to evaluate effects of human land b. Chemistry 30 use on plant, soil, water, animal, and c. ELA 30-1 human resources and to assess and d. Mathematics 30 (Pure) facilitate conservation, reclamation, and remediation measures for natural and Program Content damaged ecosystems. They are not only Please note these credits are U of A reactive but also agents for positive, credits. responsible stewardship and change. University of Alberta Suggested Pattern Year 1 BIOL 218 (3 credits) CHEM 211/CHEM 351 (6 credits) ECON 201/ECON 202 (6 credits) ENGL 219/one of ENGL 220,COMM 271 or COMM 361) (6 credits) MATH 202 (or MATH 203)/STAT 251 (6 credits) Free Elective (3 credits)
www.rdc.ab.ca 59 UNIVERSITY TRANSFER PROGRAMS Bachelor of Science Environmental Science or Bachelor of Science Environmental Management
Chairperson Please note that Royal Roads University Program Content Warren Elgersma has a different philosophy in terms of Suggested Pattern Year 1 E-mail: [email protected] admitting students compared to many ENGL 219/220 (6 credits) Local calls: 403-342-3400 other universities. While an overall GPA Two of BIOL 217, 218, 317, 318 (6 credits) Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 of B is an admission requirement, each CHEM 211/CHEM 212 or 351 (6 credits) See page 23 for general information. applicant presents his or her motivation 4 Options (12 credits) for seeking education in the discipline, Two-Year University Transfer his or her work experience and/or Year 2 Program community service, and the opinions of See an Academic Advisor Red Deer College offers the first two two references (work experience, years of study towards BSc Environmental community service, academic Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 Science or BSc Environmental performance) confirming him or her as a Tuition $3,672.00 Management at Royal Roads University in suitable candidate for the BSC Student Association Fees $ 153.00 Victoria, British Columbia. A unique Environmental program. Fees $ 100.00 feature of this BSc Environmental science Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 program is the intensive 12-month Admission Requirements Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 170.00 program that allows students with at least 1. Minimum average of 60% with no Books/Materials $1,050.00 two years of post-secondary education to mark below 50% in: Total $5,189.00 complete the degree in just one year. a. Biology 30 b. Chemistry 30 For the most current university program c. ELA 30-1 and transfer information, see Planning d. Mathematics 30 (Pure) or Guides in Academic Advising. Mathematics 30 e. Subject from Group A, B, C or D Related Careers (See “Alberta Grade 12 Course These degrees give students the Groups,” page 8) scientific skills essential to problem OR solving and skills that can immediately be 2. Mature Student applied to the workplace. The program You must be 19 years of age or older, produces graduates who are capable out of high school for at least one full decision makers on issues of year before the program starts, and environmental concern in government or have a minimum average of 60% industry. Students are employed in a with no mark below 50% in: range of environmental jobs. a. Biology 30 b. Chemistry 30 Transfer Features c. ELA 30-1 Admission to BSc Environmental Science d. Mathematics 30 (Pure) or or BSc Environmental Management is Mathematics 30 competitive. Admission is based on the following criteria: Minimum 60 credits that includes required courses, overall GPA of B, two letters of reference, resume, personal statement.
60 www.rdc.ab.ca UNIVERSITY TRANSFER PROGRAMS Bachelor of Science in Forestry
Chairperson Transfer Features Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 Warren Elgersma The courses in this program can be Tuition $3,780.00 E-mail: [email protected] transferred in full to BSc Forestry at Student Association Fees $ 157.50 Local calls: 403-342-3400 University of Alberta. Note that this Fees $ 30.00 Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 recommended program does not Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 See page 23 for general information. correspond exactly with the first year at Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 175.00 the University of Alberta (some courses Books/Materials $1,105.00 One-Year University Transfer are from subsequent years in the Total $5,291.50 Program program). Refer to the University of Alberta calendar for the complete listing For the most current university program of courses under the Faculty of and transfer information, see Planning Agricultural, Life and Environmental Guides in Academic Advising. Sciences.
Related Careers Admission Requirements A growing interest in forest 1. Minimum average of 60% with no management, resource management, and mark below 50% in: preservation of the natural ecology a. Biology 30 means an increasing number of jobs in b. Chemistry 30 the field of Forestry. c. ELA 30-1 d. Mathematics 30 (Pure) There are jobs in many federal and e. Subject from Group A, B, C, or D provincial government agencies. Typical (See “Alberta Grade 12 Course jobs include Groups,” page 8) • silviculture OR • reforestation 2. Mature Student • forest tree improvement You must be 19 years of age or older, • forest management out of high school for at least one full • fire control year before the program starts, and • forest research have a minimum average of 60% with no mark below 50% in: The Program a. Biology 30 b. Chemistry 30 Red Deer College offers a modified first c. ELA 30-1 year of study that provides credit for first d. Mathematics 30 (Pure) year of BSc Forestry. Program Content Please note these credits are U of A credits.
Forestry Suggested Patten Year 1 COMM 271 or COMM 361 (3 credits) CHEM 211 (3 credits) ECON 201/ECON 202 (6 credits) ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) MATH 202 (or MATH 203)/STAT 251 (6 credits) 2 Free Electives (6 credits)
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Chairperson The Program Program Content Warren Elgersma The Red Deer College program is a pre- Please note these credits are U of A E-mail: [email protected] professional year that prepares the credits. Local calls: 403-342-3400 student for admission to the degree Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 program. Normally, three additional Suggested Pattern Year 1 See page 23 for general information. years of study are required. CHEM 211 (3 credits) ECON 201/ECON 202 (6 credits) One-Year University Transfer Transfer Features ENGL 219/COMM 271 or COMM 361 (6 Program The courses in this program can be credits) transferred in full to BSc Forest Business MATH 202 (or MATH 203)/STAT 251 (6 For the most current university program Management at University of Alberta. credits) and transfer information, see Planning Note that this suggested course Two of ACCT 202, BUS 303, BADM 132 (6 Guides in Academic Advising. sequence does not correspond exactly credits) with the first year at University of Alberta 1 Free Elective (3 credits) Related Careers (some courses are from subsequent years Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 This program develops graduates with in the program). Refer to University of Tuition $ 3,780.00 the abilities required of foresters and of Alberta calendar for the complete listing Student Association Fees $ 157.50 business professionals. Graduates should of courses under the Faculty of Fees $ 30.00 appreciate the need to manage forested Agricultural, Life and Environmental Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 areas with due concern for all resources Sciences. Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 175.00 and be capable of managing forested Books/Materials $ 1,105.00 areas as integrated ecological entities. Admission Requirements Total $ 5,291.50 Graduates should also fully understand 1. Minimum average of 60% with no and appreciate the business management mark below 50% in: skills needed to manage organizations a. Biology 30 effectively and efficiently within the b. Chemistry 30 forest industry. c. ELA 30-1 d. Mathematics 30 (Pure) BSc Forest Business Management is e. Subject from Group A, B, C, or D intended to prepare students for careers (See “Alberta Grade 12 Course as professional foresters and is for Groups,” page 8) individuals planning careers focusing on OR forest practices, but who also demand 2. Mature Student specialized knowledge in business You must be 19 years of age or older, management practices. The Forest out of high school for at least one full Business Management program prepares year before the program starts, and students for careers as Registered have a minimum average of 60% Professional Foresters. Graduates may with no mark below 50% in: immediately apply to the Alberta a. Biology 30 Registered Professional Foresters b. Chemistry 30 Association to complete the registration c. ELA 30-1 process. d. Mathematics 30 (Pure)
62 www.rdc.ab.ca UNIVERSITY TRANSFER PROGRAMS Bachelor of Science in Human Ecology
Chairperson Cross-cultural program planning Program Content Warren Elgersma International development Please note these credits are U of A E-mail: [email protected] Cultural policy and program credits. Local calls: 403-342-3400 development Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 Health promotion and education Suggested Pattern Year 1 See page 23 for general information. ECON 201/202 (6 credits) Transfer Features Social Science or Humanities Core (3 One-Year University Transfer The courses in this program can be credits) Program transferred in full to BSc Human Ecology SOCI 310 or STAT 251 (3 credits) Human Ecology is about people and their program at the University of Alberta. ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) environments, including their home, Refer to University of Alberta calendar for 1 Free Elective (3 credits) COMM 271 or COMM 361 (3 credits) clothing, family, and community. From the complete listing of courses under the 2 Science Requirements (6 credits) fashion design, to textile science, to Faculty of Agricultural, Life and credit counseling and skills education to Environmental Sciences. Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 community development and services, Tuition $ 3,564.00 Human Ecologists have the skills to Admission Requirements Student Association Fees $ 148.50 enhance both their own and other’s lives. 1. Minimum average of 60% with no Fees $ 45.00 Beginning in 2000 new programs have mark below 50% in: Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 been designed to meet professional a. Chemistry 30 or Biology 30 Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 165.00 development and potential job b. ELA 30-1 Books/Materials $ 1,125.00 opportunities. Students in BSc in Human c. Mathematics 30 (Pure) Total $ 5,091.50 Ecology will choose one major: Family d. Subject from Group A or C Ecology or Textiles and Clothing. e. Subject from Group A, B, C, or D (See “Alberta Grade 12 Course Two-Year University Transfer Groups,” page 8) Program OR For the most current university program 2. Mature Student and transfer information, see Planning You must be 19 years of age or older, Guides in Academic Advising. out of high school for at least one full year before the program starts, Related Careers and have a minimum average of 60% Clothing and Textiles (including Textile with no mark below 50% in: Science) a. Chemistry 30 or Biology 30 Fashion and textile design b. ELA 30-1 Functional clothing design (military, c. Mathematics 30 (Pure) sportswear) Note: If you plan to major in the science Textile testing, textile science and quality aspects of Clothing and Textiles you control should present Chemistry 30. You may Museum conservation and curatorship present Clothing and Textiles 30 or 5 Fashion business management credits in advanced CTS Fashion Studies Fashion media strands for admission. Interior design
Family Ecology Consumer education and advocacy Financial counselling/planning Family and sexuality education Child care program planning Child welfare Career counseling Addictions counseling Community development Community nutrition and health Immigrant and refugee family services
www.rdc.ab.ca 63 UNIVERSITY TRANSFER PROGRAMS Bachelor of Science in Mathematics or Statistics or Math and Economics
Chairperson 2. Mature Student: Suggested Pattern Year 1 Warren Elgersma You must be 19 years of age or older, Mathematics and Economics E-mail: [email protected] out of school for at least one full year ECON 201/ECON 202 (6 credits) Local calls: 403-342-3400 before the program starts, and have a STAT 251 (3 credits) Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 minimum average of 60% and no MATH 203, MATH 204, MATH 221 (9 credits) See page 23 for general information. mark lower than 50% in the following ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) courses or their equivalents: CMPT 201 (3 credits) One Year University Transfer a. ELA 30-1 1 Option (3 credits) Program b. Mathematics 30 (Pure) For the most current university program c. Mathematics 31 University of Calgary and transfer information, see Planning d. Physics 30 Suggested Pattern Year 1 Mathematics Guides in Academic Advising. Note: At least one other 30-level science and Statistics subject will be required for science MATH 201 (or MATH 203)/MATH 204/MATH Related Careers options. 221 (9 credits) 5 Non-Science Options (15 credits) • business 2 Options (6 credits) • industry Program Content • government Please note these credits are U of A Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 • teaching credits. Tuition $ 3,456.00 • private consulting University of Alberta Student Association Fees $ 144.00 Fees $ 40.00 The Program Suggested Pattern Year 1 Mathematics, Computational Science (Mathematics) & Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 Red Deer College offers the first year of Specialization or Honors in Statistics Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 160.00 studies toward BSc Specialization in ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) Books/Materials $ 1,050.00 Actuarial Sciences, Mathematics, MATH 203/MATH 204/MATH 221 (9 Total $ 4,894.00 Computational Science, Mathematics & credits) Economics, and Mathematics & Finance; CMPT 201 (3 credits) BSc Specialization or Honors in Statistics. 4 Options (12 credits)
Transfer Features Suggested Pattern Year 1 Mathematics The courses offered in this program can and Finance be transferred to most universities. ECON 201/ECON 202 (6 credits) ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) Admission Requirements MATH 203/MATH 204/MATH 221 (9 1. Minimum average of 60% and no credits) mark below 50% in: STAT 251 (3 credits) a. ELA 30-1 CMPT 201 (3 credits) b. Mathematics 30 (Pure) 1 Option (3 credits) c. Mathematics 31 d. Physics 30 e. 30-level subject from Group A or C (science recommended) (See “Alberta Grade 12 Course Groups,” page 8) OR
64 www.rdc.ab.ca UNIVERSITY TRANSFER PROGRAMS Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and Food Science
Chairperson The Program 2. Mature Student Warren Elgersma The program at Red Deer College is one You must be 19 years of age or older, E-mail: [email protected] year of study toward Bachelor of Science out of high school for at least one full Local calls: 403-342-3400 Nutrition and Food Science. year before the program starts, and Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 havea minimum average of 60% with See page 23 for general information. Three majors are offered: Food Science no mark below 50% in: and Technology, Nutrition and Food, and a. Biology 30 One Year University Transfer Nutrition. The Food Science and b. Chemistry 30 Program Technology Major meets the guidelines c. ELA 30-1 This program is offered in the Faculty of of the Canadian Institute of Food Science d. Mathematics 30 (Pure) Agricultural, Life, and Environmental and Technology (CIFST) and the Institute Sciences at University of Alberta. of Food Technologists (IFT). The Program Content Nutritional Science Major, with Please note these credits are U of A For the most current university program appropriate courses chosen from the credits. and transfer information, see Planning approved program electives, is Guides in Academic Advising. accredited by the Dietitians of Canada. University of Alberta Students planning to be Registered Food Science & Technology Major and Related Careers Dietitians should carefully read the Nutrition and Food Major Nutrition and Food Science involves information provided in the University of BIOL 217 (3 credits) applying basic sciences (Chemistry, Alberta calendar. KNSS 244 (3 credits) Biology, Biochemistry, and Microbiology) ECON 201/ECON 202 (6 credits) to the processing, preservation, and Transfer Features CHEM 211/CHEM 212 (6 credits) distribution of food. Graduates will find The courses in this program can be ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) work in all aspects of the food handling transferred in full to BSc Nutrition and Mathematics Core/Core Requirement or industry: Food Sciences at University of Alberta. Free Elective (6 credits) • dietitians Refer to University of Alberta calendar for • home economists the complete listing of courses under the Nutrition • nutritionists Faculty of Agricultural, Life and ECON 201ECON /202 (6 credits) • government Environmental Sciences. BIOL 217 (3 credits) • control of food processing KNSS 244 (3 credits • private industry Admission Requirements ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) • food processing 1. Minimum average of 60% with no CHEM 211/CHEM 212/ CHEM 351 (9 • international agencies mark below 50% in: credits) • Canadian International a. Biology 30 STAT 251 (3 credits) Development Agency b. Chemistry 30 • United Nations c. ELA 30-1 Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 • research d. Mathematics 30 (Pure) Tuition $3,672.00 • food handling, processing, and e. Subject from Group A, B, C, or Student Association Fees $ 153.00 preserving Macroeconomics 30 and Micro- Fees $ 80.00 eonomics 30, or a minimum of Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 five credits in Career and Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 170.00 Technology subjects at the Books/Materials $1,105.00 Advanced level from the Total $5,224.00 following strands: Agriculture, Community Health, Foods, Forestry or Wildlife. (See “Alberta Grade 12 Course Groups”, page 8) OR
www.rdc.ab.ca 65 UNIVERSITY TRANSFER PROGRAMS Bachelor of Science in Physics or Geophysics
Chairperson Transfer Features Geophysics Warren Elgersma The courses offered in this program can CHEM 211/CHEM 212 or CHEM 351 (6 E-mail: [email protected] be transferred to most universities. credits) Local calls: 403-342-3400 However, some of these courses do not PHYS 241/PHYS 247 (6 credits) Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 satisfy the physics program requirements MATH 202 (or MATH 203)/MATH 204/MATH See page 23 for general information. at U of C. 221 (9 credits) 3 Arts Options (9 credits) One-Year University Transfer Admission Requirements Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 Program 1. Minimum average of 60% with no Tuition $ 3,780.00 mark below 50% in: Student Association Fees $ 157.50 a. Chemistry 30 For the most current university program Fees $ 20.00 b. ELA 30-1 and transfer information, see Planning Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 c. Mathematics 30 (Pure) Guides in Academic Advising. Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 175.00 d. Physics 30 Books/Materials $ 1,260.00 e. Subject from Group A, B, or C Related Careers Total $ 5,436.50 • condensed matter physicists (Mathematics 31 recommended) • industrial and applied physicists (See “Alberta Grade 12 Course • atomic and molecular physicists Groups,” page 8) • geophysicists OR • particle physicists 2. Mature Student • medical physicists You must be 19 years of age or older, • mathematical physicists out of high school for at least one full • astronomers year before the program starts, and • meteorologists have a minimum average of 60% with • optical physicists no mark below 50% in: a. Chemistry 30 Physicists are involved in the b. ELA 30-1 development of such products as the c. Mathematics 30 (Pure) CANDU reactor and the computer-aided d. Physics 30 Magnetic Resonance Imaging (M.R.I.) technology. Some physicists provide Program Content weather-forecasting services, monitor Please note these credits are U of A the environment, and teach physics. credits.
The Program University of Alberta Red Deer College offers the first year of Suggested Pattern Year 1 studies toward honours or specialization Physics BSc Physics or Geophysics. MATH 202 (or MATH 203)/MATH 204/ MATH 221 (9 credits) PHYS 241/PHYS 247 (6 credits) 3 Arts Option (9 credits) 2 Science Options (6 credits)
66 www.rdc.ab.ca UNIVERSITY TRANSFER PROGRAMS Bachelor of Science in Physiology
Chairperson Admission Requirements Warren Elgersma 1. Minimum average of 60% with no E-mail: [email protected] mark below 50% in: Local calls: 403-342-3400 a. Biology 30 Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 b. Chemistry 30 See page 23 for general information. c. ELA 30-1 d. Mathematics 30 (Pure) One Year University Transfer e. Physics 30 Program Program Content For the most current university program Please note these credits are U of A and transfer information, see Planning credits. Guides in Academic Advising. University of Alberta Related Careers Suggested Pattern Year 1 • research assistant BIOL 217/BIOL 218 (6 credits) • government biological laboratories CHEM 211/CHEM 212 (6 credits) • pharmaceutical laboratories CHEM 251/CHEM 352 (6 credits) • clinical investigation ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) • Master’s Degrees and medical research 2 Arts or Science Options (6 credits) units in hospital • similar, but more senior positions, to Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 those above Tuition $ 4,104.00 • the most suitable honors program to Student Association Fees $ 171.00 prepare for a career in medicine Fees $ 130.00 Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 The Program Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 190.00 Books/Materials $ 1,050.00 Red Deer College offers the first year of Total $ 5,689.00 studies toward Honors BSc Physiology.
Transfer Features The courses offered in this program can be transferred to most universities.
www.rdc.ab.ca 67 UNIVERSITY TRANSFER PROGRAMS Bachelor of Science in Psychology
Chairperson The Program Suggested Pattern Year 2 (Honors) Warren Elgersma Red Deer College offers the first two years PSYC 312 (6 credits) E-mail: [email protected] of studies toward specialization and honors PSYC 369 (3 credits) Local calls: 403-342-3400 BSc Psychology. PSYC 375 (3 credits) Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 2 of: PSYC 341, PSYC 353, PSYC 358, PSYC See page 23 for general information. Transfer Features 383 (6 credits) 2 of: ANTH, ECON, POLI &/or SOCI (6 The courses offered in this program can be credits) Two-Year University Transfer transferred to most universities. The 2 Science Options (6 credits) Program courses you select must meet the program requirements of the university chosen. Suggested Pattern Year 2 (Specialization) For the most current university program 2 of: PSYC 353, PSYC 383, PSYC 341, PSYC Admission Requirements and transfer information, see Planning 358 (6 credits) Guides in Academic Advising. 1. Minimum average of 60% with no PSYC 312 (6 credits) mark below 50% in: PSYC 369, PSYC 375 (6 credits) Related Careers a. Biology 30 4 Arts &/or Science Options (12 credits) • social services b. ELA 30-1 • advertising c. Mathematics 30 (Pure) Please note these credits are U of C • government and civil service d. Chemistry 30 or Physics 30 credits. • research e. Subject from Group A, B, or C University of Calgary • retail sales (Math 31 recommended) Suggested Pattern Year 1 • administration (See “Alberta Grade 12 Course ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) • law enforcement and corrections Groups,” page 8) PSYC 260/PSYC 261 (6 credits) • counselling OR BIOL 217/BIOL 218 (6 credits) • industrial relations 2. Mature Student CHEM 211/CHEM 212 (6 credits) • public relations You must be 19 years of age or older, MATH 202 (or 203) (3 credits) • management out of high school for at least one full PHYS 205 or MATH 221 (3 credits) • radio and television year before the program starts, and • real estate have a minimum average of 60% with Suggested Pattern Year 2 • recreation no mark below 50% in: PSYC 312 (6 credits) • journalism a. Biology 30 4 Senior Psychology courses (12 credits) • insurance b. ELA 30-1 4 Breadth Requirements (12 credits) • urban planning c. Mathematics 30 (Pure) • consulting d. Chemistry 30 or Physics 30 Please note these credits are U of L credits. Through graduate studies in Psychology, Program Content University of Lethbridge students may become chartered Please note these credits are U of A Suggested Pattern Year 1 psychologists, working in clinical settings credits. PSYC 260/PSYC 261 (6 credits) with clients who have emotional 3 Electives (Sciences recommended) (9 problems or mental illness. They may also University of Alberta (Honours or credits) study to become research psychologists Specialization) 2 Fine Arts or Humanities Requirements (6 in one of the many areas of psychology. Suggested Pattern Year 1 credits) Graduates may also go on to professional BIOL 217/BIOL 218 (6 credits) 3 Social Science Requirements (9 credits) studies in fields such as medicine, law, or CHEM or PHYS (6 credits) business. ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) Suggested Pattern Year 2 PSYC 260/PSYC 261 (6 credits) PSYC 312 (6 credits) Psychology graduates generally have 2 of MATH 202 (or MATH 203), MATH 204, PSYC 375/PSYC 341 (6 credits) superior skills in problem solving, critical MATH 221, CMPT 201 (6 Credits) 4 Electives (Sciences recommended) (12 thinking, collecting, analyzing and credits) interpreting data, writing and 2 Fine Arts or Humanities Requirements (6 communicating. credits)
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Bachelor of Science Pre-Professional Programs
Chairperson Pre-Professional Program for Admission Requirements Warren Elgersma 1. Minimum average of 60% with no E-mail: [email protected] mark below 50% in: Local calls: 403-342-3400 Chiropractic a. Biology 30 Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 b. Chemistry 30 See page 23 for general information. Pre-Professional Program c. ELA 30-1 d. Mathematics 30 (Pure) Pre-professional course work for Medical e. Subject from Group A, B or C* Laboratory Science is available at Red Related Careers Deer College. Please see the Chairperson • private practitioner (See “Alberta Grade 12 Course or an Academic Advisor. • research Groups,” page 8) Note: *Physics 30 required for most Please note that course work for pre- The Program chiropractic colleges in the U.S.A. professional programs varies as per With the exception of the New Zealand university. It is a student’s responsibility College of Chiropractic, a Pre- Program Content to ensure they are taking correct pre- Chiropractic program requires three Admission to chiropractic colleges professional coursework when applying years of post-secondary study. RDC offers requires a minimum of three full years of to a University other than specified in the the first two years after which the third university study while some colleges Calendar. year is completed at a university. require a Bachelor’s degree. You must make sure you meet admission and For the most current university program In Canada, the Canadian Memorial minimum course load requirements for and transfer information, see the Chiropractic College in Toronto offers the the professional program as well as your Planning Guides in Academic Advising. Doctor of Chiropractic program in English alternate degree program. and the Universite du Quebec offers International Students and Students Doctorat en Chiropractique in French. Minimum program content includes: Applying to Programs Outside of their Students may also attend one of the many Home Province chiropractic colleges in the United States Suggested Pattern Year 1 You are advised to consult the calendar of or the New Zealand College of BIOL 217/BIOL 218 (6 credits) the institution to which you will be Chiropractic. CHEM 211/CHEM 212 (6 credits) applying regarding its policy on ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) admitting international and out-of- The New Zealand College of Chiropractic PSYC 260 (3 credits) province students. This may vary requirements can be met at RDC after Social Sciences or Humanities (9 credits) between institutions. two years of study. The New Zealand College of Chiropractic does not require a Year 2 third year of study at a university. See an academic advisor for details. Program Admission Features Admission to the Pre-Professional Program for Chiropractic at Red Deer College does not guarantee admission to a chiropractic college. You should fulfill the Pre-Professional Program to meet chiropractic college admission requirements and also design your program so you can work towards a Bachelor’s degree. Competitive admission to professional programs requires a high grade point average. Check with universities to be aware of specific admission requirements.
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Pre-Professional Program for Admission Requirements The Pre-Professional Medicine program is 1. Minimum average of 60% with no a minimum two full years of post- mark below 50% in: secondary study. You must maintain the Dentistry a. Biology 30 required GPA to be considered for b. Chemistry 30 admission to Medicine. Competitive Two Year Pre-Professional c. ELA 30-1 admission to professional programs requires a high grade point average. You Program d. Mathematics 30 (Pure) e. Physics 30 should check with universities to be aware of specific admission requirements. Related Careers Program Content • private practice You must make sure you meet admission Admission Requirements • various provincial and federal and minimum course load requirements 1. Minimum average of 60% with no government agencies for the professional program as well as mark below 50% in: • the Armed Forces Royal Canadian your alternate BSc program. a. Biology 30 Dental Corps b. Chemistry 30 University of Alberta c. English 30 or ELA 30-1 The Program Please note these credits are U of A d. Mathematics 30 or Mathematics The Pre-Dentistry program is the first two credits. 30 (Pure) years of a Bachelor of Science program, Suggested Pattern Year 1 e. Physics 30 tailored to meet the admission BIOL 217/BIOL 218 (6 credits) requirements of the Doctor of Dental CHEM 211/CHEM 212 (6 credits) Program Content Surgery program at the University of ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) You must make sure you meet admission Alberta. 3 Arts or Science options (9 credits) and minimum course load requirements CHEM 351 (3 credits) for the professional program as well as Program Admission Features your alternate BSc program. This program is designed to prepare Year 2 students to meet admission See an academic advisor for details. Suggested Pattern Year 1 requirements to The Doctor of Dental BIOL 217/BIOL 218 (6 credits) Surgery (DDS) program in the Faculty of CHEM 211/CHEM 212/CHEM 351 (9 Medicine and Dentistry at the University Pre-Professional Program for credits) of Alberta. Competitive admission to professional programs requires a high ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) grade point average. You should check Medicine MATH 202 (or MATH 203) or Arts Option with universities to be aware of specific (3 credits) admission requirements. Two Year Pre-Professional STAT 251 (3 credits) Program 1 Arts Option (3 credits) Because space is limited in the Dentistry program at University of Alberta, Related Careers Year 2 admission to the Pre-Professional Apart from general practice, there are See an academic advisor for details. Program for Dentistry at Red Deer over 30 specialties of study and practice. College does not guarantee admission to There are also many fields of research and University of Alberta. You should meet all further study. of the Pre-Dentistry requirements, but also design your program so that you can The Program complete a Bachelor of Science degree. The Pre-Medicine program is the first two years of a Bachelor of Science program. Consult U of A Calendar for other admission requirements. Program Admission Features Selecting the right courses for the first This program is designed to meet the two years is vital when choosing courses admission requirements of the Doctor of for the Pre-Professional Program for Medicine programs at both University of Dentistry at University of Alberta. You Alberta and University of Calgary. must see an academic advisor before selecting courses.
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Pre-Professional Program for Admission Requirements Program Admission Features 1. Minimum average of 60% with no Admission to BSc Pharmacy requires mark below 50% in: completion of a minimum of one year of Optometry a. Biology 30 pre-professional course work and a high b. Chemistry 30 grade point average. Admission to the Pre-Professional Program c. ELA 30-1 pre-professional program at RDC does not d. Mathematics 30 (Pure) guarantee admission to the professional e. Physics 30 program. You should check with the Related Careers university to be aware of specific • clinical practice Program Content admission requirements. • private clinics • partnerships RDC Admission Requirements • public health units Suggested Pattern Year 1 1. Minimum average of 60% with no • education services BIOL 217/BIOL 218 (6 credits) mark below 50% in: • public or industrial consultants CHEM 211/CHEM 351 (6 credits) a. Biology 30 • research and advanced study ENGL 219 (3 credits) MATH 202 (or MATH 203) /STAT 251 (6 b. Chemistry 30 c. ELA 30-1 The Program credits) 3 Arts or Science Options (9 credits) d. Mathematics 30 (Pure) The Pre-Optometry program at RDC is the e. Subject from Group A, B, or C first two years of the three year pre- Year 2 (Physics 30 recommended) professional program required for See an academic advisor. (See “Alberta Grade 12 Course admission to Doctor of Optometry at Groups,” page 8) University of Waterloo in Waterloo, OR Ontario. Your third year of study will be Pre-Professional Program for 2. Mature Student: completed at a university of your choice. You must be 19 years of age or older, You must make sure you meet admission out of high school for at least one full and minimum course load requirements Pharmacy year before the program starts, and for the professional program as well as have a minimum average of 60% with your alternate degree program. no mark below 50% in: One-Year Pre-Professional a. Biology 30 Program Admission Features Program b. Chemistry 30 Admission to the Pre-Optometry c. ELA 30-1 program at Red Deer College does not Related Careers d. Mathematics 30 (Pure) guarantee admission to Doctor of • retail pharmacies (Physics 30 recommended) Optometry at University of Waterloo. You • hospital pharmacies should meet the admission requirements • non-hospital health care services Program Content of the professional school, and also design • government agencies Please note these credits are U of A your program so that you can complete a • pharmaceutical industry including credits. Bachelor of Science degree. Competitive drug inspection and research, admission to professional programs pharmaceutical marketing and sales, Suggested Pattern Year 1 requires a high grade point average. You and administration. BIOL 217 (3 credits) should check with universities to be BIOC 393 or BIOC 301 (3 credits) aware of specific admission requirements. The Program CHEM 211/CHEM 212 (6 credits) The Pre-Pharmacy program is the first CHEM 251/CHEM 352 (6 credits) year of a Bachelor of Science program ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) tailored to meet the admission MATH 202 (or MATH 203)/STAT 251 (6 requirements to BSc Pharmacy in the credits) Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of Alberta.
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Pre-Professional Program for Admission Requirements The Program 1. Minimum average of 60% with no This pre-professional Doctor of Veterinary mark below 50% in: medicine may fulfill credit towards a Veterinary a. Biology 30 Bachelor of Science, or other degree b. Chemistry 30 program. c. ELA 30-1 Medicine d. Mathematics 30 (Pure) Program Admission Features e. Physics 30 The University of Calgary Veterinary Medicine (UCVM) program requires Two-Year Pre-Professional Program Content successful completion of 48 credits of full Program Please note these credits are U of S time post secondary course work (4 full (University of Saskatchewan) credits. time post secondary terms) to be eligible Suggested Pattern Year 1 for admission consideration. Applicants Related Careers BIOL 217/BIOL 218 (6 credits) must complete 10 required courses (30 Graduates find work in both private CHEM 211/CHEM 212/CHEM 351 (9 credits) plus another 18 credits of course practice and government agencies. Their credits) work. UCVM will not normally consider work involves caring for the health of ENGL 219/ENGL 220 (6 credits) applicants who present required courses farm livestock, poultry, and pet animals; Two of MATH 202 (or MATH 203), MATH taken more than 10 years prior to the also areas such as public health work, 204, MATH 221 or STAT 251 (6 credits) application date. Admission is highly health care of zoo animals, and the field of 1 Option (3 credits) competitive, meeting admission criteria veterinary research. does not necessarily guarantee admission Suggested Pattern Year 2 to UCVM, and only residents of Alberta The Program BIOC 393 (3 credits) are eligible to appy. UCVM strongly BIOL 317/BIOL 301 (6 credits) encourages students to apply to the The Pre-Veterinary Medicine program is MICR 365 (3 credits) program as soon as they meet the the first two years of a Bachelor of Science PHYS 205/PHYS 226 (6 credits) minimum requirements. The program, tailored to meet the admission GENE 370 or GENE 375 (3 credits) requirements can be met after two years requirements of the Western College of CHEM 352 or Option (3 credits) at RDC. Veterinary Medicine (WCVM) at 2 Options (6 credits) University of Saskatchewan in Prospective veterinary medicine Saskatoon,Saskatchewan. students are advised to design their 2 Pre-Professional Program for year program to meet admission Program Admission Features requirements at UCVM while pursuing an The Western College of Veterinary alternate degree suitable to their Medicine requires successful completion Veterinary interests and possible future of 20 specific courses plus a high GPA to employment. be eligible for admission. Medicine Admission Requirements Please note that University of 1. Minimum average of 60% with no Saskatchewan strongly encourages mark below 50% in: prospective students to work towards Two-Year Pre-Professional a. Biology 30 obtaining a Bachelor of Science degree b. Chemistry 30 while preparing for admission to the Program (University of Calgary) c. ELA 30-1 Doctor of Veterinary Medicine program. d. Mathematics 30 (Pure) Most successful applicants have 3 or 4- e. Subject from Group A, B, or C years of university study prior to Related Careers (Physics 30 recommended - admission. The program will prepare graduates for required for U of S) work in both private practice (community Admission to Red Deer College does not and rural practise), and government Program Content guarantee admission to WCVM at agencies. and also such areas as public Please note these are U of C credits University of Saskatchewan. The quota for health work, health care of zoo animals Suggested Pattern Year 1 Alberta students is 20 per year. and the field of veterinary research. Competitive admission to professional BIOL 217/BIOL 218 (6 credits) programs requires a high grade point CHEM 211/CHEM 212 (6 credits) average. You should check with CHEM 351 or STAT 251(3 credits) universities to be aware of specific ENGL 219/220 (6 credits) admission requirements. 1 Option (3 credits)
Year 2 Please see an Academic Advisor
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Heavy Equipment Technician - 4 years Trades & Industry Apprenticeship including four 8-week in-class sessions Maintenance and repairs of heavy vehicles, Training Training other heavy industrial mobile and stationary Donna Hennig, Acting Dean, Office 2915-P, equipment. Pre-Employment Phone: (403)342-3100 OR (888-475-1101) OR Pre-Employment programs are offered on Alberta Advanced Education & Technology Instrument Technician - 4 years including an open enrollment cost recovery basis in Apprenticeship and Industry Training (local two 8-weeks in the 1st and 2nd year and two different trades areas including: regional office) at (403)340-5151. 10-weeks in the 3rd and 4th years. •Electrical www.tradesecrets.gov.ab.ca Instrument technicians install, maintain and •Heavy Equipment Technician repair the measuring and control •Plumbing The Programs instruments used in industrial and •Welding commercial processing. Red Deer College has 15 apprenticeship These programs vary in length and will be RDC is now offering all 4 years of training. offered at varying times. They will provide programs leading to journeyman status: first period and some second period Locksmith - 4 years including four 8-week Apprenticeship shop and theory training. Automotive Service Technician - 4 years in-class sessions or distance delivery. including four 8-week in-class sessions. Installs, replaces, rebuilds. rearranges, Admission Requirements Services and repairs automobiles and repairs or readjusts locking devices or safes; These vary with program. To qualify for the light trucks. makes keys; and circumvents locking Apprenticeship Provincial exam, students devices. Training also available through must successfully complete the Pre- Carpenter - 4 years including four 8- Distance Delivery. employment program. week in-class sessions Works with wood and wood substitutes in Millwright - 4 years, including four 8 week Certification the construction of buildings and other in-class sessions. You will receive a Red Deer College structures. Millwrights install, maintain, repair and Certificate of Completion upon successfully troubleshoot stationary industrial meeting the course requirements. The Cook - 3 years including three 240 hours machinery and mechanical equipment in programs are recognized by the in-class sessions. factories, production plants and recreational Apprenticeship Industry Training. Cooks prepare food in eating facilities. establishments including hotels, Red Deer College now offers all 4 periods of Open Enrollment Programs include: training. •Transportation Safety Director restaurants, institutions, trains and ships. Their major responsibilities are nutrition, •Power Engineering Parts Technician & Materials Technician food costs and sanitation. •Master Electrician The new trade resulting from the merging •Gas Process Operator/Productin Field of the Parts Technician trade and the Operator RDC now offers all 3 periods of training.. Warehousing occupation has two branches: •Occupational Health and Safety The program operates on a Weekly Parts Technician and Parts Technician - •Cross Connection Back Flow Prevention Apprenticeship Training System (WATS) Materials Technician. The Parts Technician •Woodworking model providing technical training in branch of the trade is a 3-year program with •Basic Welding short segments (one day a week) over an a technical training format of 6-8-6 weeks in •Pumpinstaller extended period of time (30 or 40 weeks), its respective 1st, 2nd and 3rd periods. in •Rig Tech - Level 1 on-line thereby enabling the apprentice to the first year and two 6 week in-class •”B” Pressure for Journeyman Welders remain employed full time while training. sessions in the second and third year. Parts For more information call 403-342-3442 Technicians manage and dispense parts or http://continuingeducation.rdc.ab.ca inventories, which may include automotive, Electrician - 4 years including three 8- heaby duty, farm implement, industrial, week and one 12-week in-class sessions recreational vehicle, jobbers, plumbing, Installs, alters, repairs and maintains electrical, etc. They may also be responsible electrical systems to supply heat, light, for stock handling, warehousing, identifying power, controls and signals or fire alarms. and cataloguing parts and assemblies as well as ordering, receiving, inspecting, sorting, Gasfitter (A) - Gasfitters size, install, test, pricing and selling, depending on business adjust and service natural gas and areas. Red Deer College now offers all three propane equipment ranging from years of training. residential furnaces to industrial boilers. One one year of training offered at RDC.
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Plumber - 4 years including four 8-week Trade Careers - A Smart Choice When apprentices successfully complete in-class sessions their apprenticeship program, they Installs piping, fixtures, appliances, www.tradesecrets.gov.ab.ca graduate to certified journeymen. The equipment and controls for water, gases Alberta Journeyman Certificate proves to and sanitation purposes in residential and Trades careers have a lot going for the themselves and to any future employer commercial establishments. skilled men and women who work in that they meet Alberta’s high industry them...lots more than most of them standards. Rig Technician - 3 years, including three 4 imagined when they first started out! week in-class sessions. • many trades offer the right kind There are 50 apprenticeable trades in Rig Technicians operate oil and gas of challenge as they are highly Alberta. drilling rigs. There are three levels of technical, involve lots of math training and each period of technical and sciences, and are changing Who can enter an apprenticeship training consists of 4 weeks of in-class quickly program? Age doesn’t matter. You can sessions. Graduates of the Rig Technician • a trade career can lead to enter apprenticeship during high school or any time after. Most first-time apprenticeship program are certified supervision, management, the apprentices are in their late teens or journeypersons who will be able to take professions and business early 20s. responsibility for personal safety and the entrepreneurship safety of others, supervise, coach and train • most tradespeople can write a ‘ To be an apprentice you need to: apprentices and floor hands and perform “Red Seal’ exam and earn an • complete grade 12 (some trades the duties of a Motorhand (Level 1), Interprovincial Standards Red Seal on their journeyman don’t require Grade 12, but many Derrickhand (Level 2) or Driller (Level 3). certificate. This lets them employers prefer to hire high school They also perform assigned tasks in work in most Canadian provinces graduates), accordance with quality and production and territories or standards required by Industry. • pay rates vary; generally they are • write and pass an entrance exam, good or Sprinkler Systems Installer - 4 years • while some trades occasionally • take part in the Registered including three 7-week in-class sessions are affected by temporary Apprenticeship Program (RAP) while Installs and maintains fixed fire economic slowdowns, the aging you’re still in high school, earning an extinguishing systems. workforce means an overall income and credit toward your increase in future demand apprenticeship and your high school Steamfitter/Pipefitter - 3 years, for skilled tradespeople. diploma. including three 8-week in-class sessions Employers need people with the Installs and maintains piping, equipment right skills! In many cases, students who have taken and controls for hot water, steam, process certain Career and Technology Studies and chemical systems in industrial and Learning a Trade (CTS) program modules may receive commercial establishments. credits toward an apprenticeship. The same applies for those who have taken Apprenticeship: The short story certain kinds of post-secondary training. Water Well Driller - 2 years including An apprentice is someone learning a These credits can shorten the time it two 6-week in-class sessions trade while he or she is employed. Drills, installs and services water wells, takes to complete an apprenticeship and become a certified journeyman. and installs and services water well Apprenticeship is a combination of on- pumping systems. the-job training, work experience and technical training in a trade. A person who has previous training or Welder - 3 years including three 8-week work experience in a trade and wants to in-class sessions Apprentices spend about 80% of the time find out if they qualify for entry or Joins metal by fusion using oxyacetylene learning on-the-job from a qualified advanced standing in an apprenticeship flame, electric arc or other welding tradesperson. The rest of the time they program may apply for a Prior Learning processes. take technical training, usually at a Assessment. college or technical institution. Depending on the trade and the region in Alberta Learning is taking steps to Alberta, there may be other methods of increase the participation of Aboriginal delivery of technical training. people in the trades through its Enhancing Aboriginal Participation in the An apprenticeship program lasts 1 to 4 Trades Communication Initiative. years, depending on the trade. From day Aboriginal people interested in one, apprentices earn money for their becoming an apprentice to learn a trade time on the job. First-year apprentices may find useful information in the Step earn about half of a journeyman’s wage. Into the Trades brochure and on the The pay increases as the training ThinkTrades website. progresses.
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. ‘OK, I’m interested. What’s next?’ Technical training can involve 4 to 12 7 weeks class length Step One: Choose a trade weeks of classroom sessions annually. In Tuition $ 665.00 Check the list of apprenticeable trades some trades alternate delivery methods Shop/Material Fee $ 65.00 and narrow your choices (see Trades & are available including distance learning, Student Association $ 29.75 Occupations). Get as much information as weekly apprenticeship training (attend Activity & Wellness Fee $ 22.00 you can about your choices from school classes one day a week), and Competency- Total $ 781.75 counsellors, the Internet, your local Based Apprenticeship Training (CBAT). library, or your nearest Apprenticeship 8 weeks class length and Industry Training Office. Year-by-year: Do it! Tuition $ 760.00 To move from one year of apprenticeship Shop/Material Fee $ 65.00 Next, talk to people working in the trades to the next, and to receive your wage Student Association $ 34.00 that interest you. Speak to their increases, each year you need to: Activity & Wellness Fee $ 22.00 employers – maybe they’ll let you ‘job- • have the required number of Total $ 881.00 shadow’ to see what the day-to-day work months of on-the-job training is like. Ask lots of questions! • have the required number of 10 weeks class length hours ofon-the-job training Tuition $ 950.00 Step Two: Find an employer • successfully complete technical Shop/Material Fee $ 65.00 Thousands of employers hire and train training Student Association $ 42.50 apprentices. But there’s no getting • pass the industry exams Activity & Wellness Fee $ 22.00 around the fact that finding an employer • ensure your record book is Total $1,079.50 to train you is the hardest part of the updated by your employer, and process. You must be employed to be an • send your record book to the 12 weeks class length apprentice. nearest Apprenticeship and Tuition $1,140.00 Many employers already know the Industry Training Office for a Shop/Material Fee $ 65.00 apprenticeship training process. But take Certificate of Progress stamp Student Association $ 51.00 a copy of our brochure ‘Training Activity & Wellness Fee $ 22.00 apprentices’ to your interview in case you How much does apprenticeship Total $1,278.00 find one who doesn’t. The brochure training cost? explains apprenticeship for employers. It’s There is a tuition fee for technical All Apprenticeship E-Campus courses will available from Apprenticeship and training. Like all other adult learners, be assessed an additional $50.00 E- Industry Training Offices. apprentices pay a portion of the cost of Campus Technology Fee. The above fees their training. The apprentice must pay do not include textbooks or modules. Step Three: Apply the tuition fee to the educational Once you have an employer, download institution before commencement of the Additional costs include student and print an Apprenticeship Application class. association, locker, parking and other and Contract or contact any of our offices facility fees, textbooks and other for an application. You and your employer Tuition fees are presently under review classroom materials. Apprentices who complete the application/contract, and and subject to change. must travel to receive technical training you return it to one of our offices. Then, are responsible for travel, we’ll help you with Step Four. Tuition Fees for 2011/12 are: accommodation and meals.
Step Four: The Apprenticeship Contract 4 weeks class length Financial assistance is available to The application/contract is an agreement Tuition $ 380.00 apprentices in a variety of forms: between you and your employer. It Shop/Material Fee $ 65.00 • Several scholarships are available outlines who’s responsible for what Student Association $ 17.00 for apprentices. Sources include during your apprenticeship. Activity & Wellness Fee $ 22.00 Red Deer College, the Federal Total $ 484.00 Government, and the Provincial You are responsible for completing both Government your technical and on-the-job training. 6 weeks class length • Most apprentices are eligible for Tuition $ 570.00 employment insurance (EI) while Your employer is responsible for paying Shop/Material Fee $ 65.00 attending technical training. you a certain percentage of the Student Association $ 25.50 • Based on need, financial journeyman wage rate, increasing your Activity & Wellness Fee $ 22.00 assistance may be available to pay as you progress through training, Total $ 682.50 apprentices while attending training you on the job, and for allowing training through Alberta you to attend technical training. Works - Apprenticeship Grant.
More information and applications are available at the Student Funding & Awards Office - Room 1101, by telephoning 403-342-3254 or by e- mailing [email protected].
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How do apprentices register for technical training? In May of each year, employers and apprentices receive a mailing from eCampus online Apprenticeship and Industry Training that includes information about where and when training is available, and learning opportunities here! instructions on how to apply at each institute or college.
The apprentice, after consulting with their employer, applies directly to the institute or college before the training starts. • Class registration is on a first- come, first-served basis. Early application is recommended because training space may be limited. • The apprentice may need to pay either the full tuition fee or a deposit at the time of application.
The institute or college will verify the apprentices eligibility and provide Take individual courses or earn written confirmation of registration to both the apprentice and the employer. one of 60 provincially accredited certifi cates, diplomas and applied For more information about Alberta’s Apprenticeship Program degrees online, including: www.tradesecrets.gov.ab.ca • Educational Assistant Certifi cate • Early Learning & Child Care Diploma • Pharmacy Technician Certifi cate • Virtual Assistant Certifi cate
eCampusAlberta is your connection to 15 post-secondary institutions and technical institutes within Alberta, including Red Deer College, that have formed a partnership to off er increased access to high quality learning opportunities.
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Red Deer College offers diplomas and/or certificates, or both, in many different career areas:
• Automotive Service Certificate • Alternate Delivery Two programs that can lead you to an • Business Administration - Communications education equivalent to Alberta High • Career & Academic Preparation - Educational Assistant School, and prepare you to go on to other • Carpentry & Construction (formerly Teachers programs at the College: Certificate Assistant • Career and Academic Preparation • Computer Systems - High School Equivalency • Open Studies -Networking Certificate - Office Administration - Software Developer - Pharmacy Technician Certificate - Virtual Assistant Employment readiness and job skills - Computer Information training are available: Systems Diploma • Career Development Certificate • Trades Introduction Programs - Network Systems Technology Programs • Transitional/Vocational Diploma - Multimedia Web Developer • Early Learning & Child Care - Professional Bookkeeping (formerly Early Childhood - Alberta Senior Citizens Programs in trades lead to journeyman Development) Housing Association/Red status: • Educational Assistant Deer College Certificate • Apprenticeship Training (formerly Teacher Assistant) - Site Managers • Financial Services Diploma - Activity Coordinators • Health Related Programs - University of Alberta/Red The College offers support courses for Sky - Guided Practice Course Deer College Certificate Wings Aviation Academy: - Health Care Aide - Occupational Health & • Aviation - Refresher Program Safety • Hospitality and Tourism - English as a Second Management Language Continuing Education offers a wide range • Kinesiology and Sport Studies - Pre-Trades of credit-free courses, seminars, • Legal Assistant Diploma workshops, and other programs. • Motion Picture Arts • Other Training Opportunities • Music - Aviation • Office Technology Certificate - Professional Accountant • Open Studies (formerly General - Continuing Education Studies) (credit-free programming) • Pharmacy Technician • Practical Nurse Diploma • Professional Drivers Certificate • Social Work • Theatre and Entertainment Production • Theatre Performance and Creation • Transitional/Vocational Program • Unit Clerk Program • Virtual Assistant • Visual Art
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Contact Program Content Jim Peden Fall Term E-mail: [email protected] EMP 101 Employment & Local calls: 403-342-3400 Communications I Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 AUTO 101 Tools and Safety AUTO 102 Brakes One Year Certificate AUTO 103 Electrical I AUTO 104 Welding The Program AUTO 105 Powertrains and Drivelines This Certificate provides students with the AUTO 106 Basic Transmissions knowledge, skills and experience to enter AUTO 180 Practicum I automotive service occupations. Students will learn basic skills in repairing, Winter Term maintaining and overhauling a motor EMP 102 Employment & vehicle. Students will also learn skills for Communications II success in the workplace (communication AUTO 107 Steering and Suspension skills, computer literary, customer service, AUTO 108 Wheel Alignment team work and conflict management). The AUTO 109 Engine Fundamentals program covers the complete content of AUTO 110 Electrical II the First Period of Automotive Service AUTO 181 Practicum II Apprenticeship technical training. Graduates will be eligible to challenge Graduation Requirements the First Period Automotive Services You must pass all courses and achieve a Technician apprenticeship exam. minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0.
Once employed, graduates of the Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 Certificate may continue their education Tuition $ 3,996.00 by enrolling in Automotive Service Student Association Fees $ 166.50 Technician apprenticeship. When Fees $ 1,400.00 indentured as an apprentice, the time at Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 Red Deer College may be used as a credit Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 185.00 towards apprenticeship. Other graduates Books/Materials $ 400.00 will find employment in jobs in Total $ 6,191.50 automotive service, parts, small engine repair, sales, RV repair, and repair of agricultural machinery.
Admission Requirements 1. 50% in Math 10 (Pure) or 50% in Math 20 (Applied) or Math 23 and 50% in English 10 or 50% in English 23 OR 2. College Board Placement Test - a minimum score above the 43rd percentile on the English component of the College Board Placement Test (written on campus) or the Test of Adult Basic Education (written off campus) and a score of 2 on a writing sample. - a minimum score above the 53rd percentile on the Math component of the College Board Placement Test (written on campus) or the Test of Adult Basic Education (written off campus).
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Chairperson Transfer Features Admission Requirements Pat O’Meara Red Deer College has agreements with the Business Administration Diploma E-mail: [email protected] following groups regarding course credits 1. High School Diploma Local calls: 403-342-3400 toward these programs: Minimum average of 60% with no Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 • Society of Management Accountants of mark below 50% in: Alberta a. ELA 30-1 The department offers both a Business • Certified General Accountants b. Mathematics 30 (Pure) Administration Diploma and Association of Alberta OR Management Certificate program as well • Purchasing Management Associationof Minimum average of 65% with no as on site courses for the Athabasca Canada mark below 50% in: University Bachelor of Management • Athabasca University - Business a. ELA 30-2 program. Administration Diploma graduates will b. Mathematics 30 (Applied), receive up to 2 years of credit toward OR Two-Year Diploma the 3-Year Bachelor of Management Minimum average of 62.5% with no Degree, 4-Year Bachelor of mark below 50% in one of the Business Administration Management or 4-Year Bachelor of following combinations: Diploma Commerce (Post-Diploma) program. a. ELA 30-1 and Mathematics 30 (Applied) OR This two-year program provides a broad • University of Lethbridge - Business b. ELA 30-2 and Mathematics 30 background in accounting, finance, Administration Diploma graduates may (Pure) human resource management, complete the Post-Diploma Bachelorof 2. Mature Student information technology, marketing, Management Degree which is offered You must be 19 years of age or older, economics, statistics, management, law, in Calgary, Edmonton and Lethbridge. out of high school at least one full year and policy. Two majors are offered: A 3.0 GPA is required for admission. before the program starts and have a Accounting and Marketing. A General • Okanagan College - Business minimum average of 60% with no Diploma without a Major is also offered. Administration Diploma graduates will receive 2 years of credit toward the 4- mark below 50% in: a. ELA 30-1 The Business Administration Diploma may Year Bachelor of Business b. Mathematics 30 (Pure), be completed in two years if a student Administration Degree. OR proceeds through their program of study • NAIT, SAIT, Grant MacEwan University, Minimum average of 65% with no by completing five (5) courses per Mount Royal University - Business mark below 50% in: semester, as set out under “Program Administration graduates may receive a. ELA 30-2 Content” below. Alternatively, students up to two years of credit towards the b. Mathematics 30 (Applied), may choose to take fewer (from one to Bachelor of Applied Business OR four-courses per semester) in order to Administration Degree. Minimum average of 62.5% with no accommodate other obligations, such as mark below 50% in one of the work, family or a slower academic pace. following combinations: a. ELA 30-1 and Mathematics 30 Related Careers (Applied) OR The Business Administration program b. ELA 30-2 and Mathematics 30 prepares you for a wide range of careers (Pure) in different business and public sector Mature students not meeting these organizations. standards should consider applying for Students are encouraged to select one of admission to the Management Certificate the Majors. Students may select the Program. Accounting or Marketing Major, as they enter Year 2, or they may choose to graduate with the General Diploma. Often, the specialized skills acquired in a major will facilitate a graduate’s successful entry into the work force in a position that relates directly to their Major.
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Communications Course Marketing Major - Year 2 BUS 305 Organization Theory Placement Testing ACCT 104 Managerial Accounting and Design Students will be required to take a College BADM 260 Introduction to Finance BUS 307 Intro to Business placement test before registering in a BADM 270 Business Policy and Strategy Statistics II written communications course. (Students BADM 281 Human Resource FINS 180 Financial Products & with 60% or greater in English 30-1 will be Management Services exempted from this test.) Students who do BUS 311 Legal Foundations of the * The open option may be a 3-credit not achieve a satisfactory mark in this test Canadian Economy College Level Business or a Non-Business will be required to complete COMM 150 Four Options (choose from BADM 204, course approved by the department. before they can register in the required BADM 238, BADM 240, BADM 241, BADM course, COMM 250. Students should take 242, BADM 243, BADM 247, BADM 249, Notes: Notes 1-7 refer to equivalent the placement test early in the event BADM 251) courses that may be taken in lieu of various preparatory work (COMM 150) is required. Open Option * specified courses. Students may receive COMM 150 will not be accepted for credit credit for only one of each equivalency. General Diploma - Year 2 as an option for the Business Administration Students considering university transfer or ACCT 204 Managerial Accounting Diploma. an accounting designation should consult BADM 260 Introduction to Finance with an Academic Advisor or their Computing Skills BADM 270 Business Policy and Strategy Chairperson regarding these courses. Students entering the program should have BADM 281 Human Resource a working knowledge of file management Management 1 ACCT 202 is equivalent to ACCT 102 plus ACCT 103 and word processing It is recommended BUS 311 Legal Foundations of the 2 ACCT 204 is equivalent to ACCT 104 that students without this prerequisite Canadian Economy 3 ECON 201 is equivalent to ECON 100 knowledge complete CMPT 071 and CMPT Four Business Options (choose from list 4 ECON 202 is equivalent to ECON 101 083, or a course that includes these below) 5 BUS 306 is equivalent to BADM 111 modules prior to taking BADM 207. Open Option * 6 BUS 310 is equivalent to BADM 260 and is acceptable as a prerequisite for BADM Program Content Business Options: 270. All BADM Students - Year 1 ACCT 205 Cost Accounting ACCT 102 Introductory Accounting I ACCT 206 Auditing 7. BADM 170, BADM 107, BUS 358, CMPT ACCT 103 Introductory Accounting II ACCT 209 Intermediate 261 and CMPT 170 are not accepted for BADM 110 Introduction to Management Financial Accounting I credit towards the Business BADM 111 Introduction to Statistics ACCT 210 Intermediate Administration Diploma BADM 132 Introduction to Marketing Financial Accounting II BADM 207 Management Information Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 Systems & Technology ACCT 211 Personal Taxation BUS 303 Introduction to ACCT 212 Corporate Taxation Year 1 Organizational Behaviour BADM 204 Interpersonal Skills Tuition $ 3,780.00 COMM 250 Business and Workplace BADM 232 Business Technology Student Association Fees $ 157.50 Writing BADM 233 Programming for the Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 ECON 100 Introduction to Business Web Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 175.00 Microeconomics BADM 234 Web Design Books/Materials $ 1,050.00 ECON 101 Introduction to Business BADM 235 Applied Database Macroeconomics Total $ 5,206.50 Development BADM 238 Electronic Commerce Accounting Major - Year 2 Program Readmission ACCT 104 Managerial Accounting OR BADM 240 Personal Selling See page 10. ACCT 204 (Strongly Recommended) BADM 241 Advertising ACCT 209 Intermediate Financial BADM 242 Marketing Research Graduation Requirements Accounting I BADM 243 Marketing Surveys You must pass all courses and achieve a ACCT 210 Intermediate Financial BADM 247 Retail Management minimum cumulative GPA of 2.00. Accounting II BADM 249 Events Management BADM 260 Introduction to Finance BADM 251 Entrepreneurship BADM 270 Business Policy and Strategy BADM 253 Project Management BADM 281 Human Resource BADM 261 Financial Management Management BUS 311 Legal Foundations of the BADM 262 Investments Canadian Economy BADM 280 Industrial Relations Two options (choose from ACCT 205, BADM 290 Work Practicum ACCT 206, ACCT 211, ACCT BADM 320 Selected Topics in 212) Management Open Option * BADM 321 Selected Topics in Management
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Athabasca University - Bachelor Business Administration of Management (Post Diploma) Management Diploma or Financial Services Diploma after the Management Note: Courses are not available for the Certificate Fall of 2011 and will be subject to Certificate Students wanting to advance their availability in Winter 2012. studies in business administration or This program is designed for students financial services are able to apply the who work full-time and study part-time. Business Administration diploma Management Certificate courses to the graduates will receive up to 2 years (60*) The Certificate permits part-time two-year Business Administration or towards the 3 year (90*) Bachelor of students to earn a college credential. You Financial Services Diploma; however, Management program. Red Deer College must complete eight business courses as course selection should be given careful and Athabasca University have entered outlined below to be awarded the consideration as part of the overall into an agreement whereby most of the certificate. planning for the Management Certificate. remaining courses required to complete Where possible, it is recommended that this degree program are offered in a * Full-time admission is also available to students. students meet the English and Math classroom setting at Red Deer College. requirements of the diploma program. Students may complete the program in Students will be required to take a one year of full-time study or may Admission Requirements College placement test before progress on a part-time basis. There are no formal admission registering in a written communications requirements. The English and course. (Students with 60% or greater in If you are interested in pursuing this Mathematics requirements for the English 30-1 or ELA 30-1 will be exempt option on completion of your diploma, Business Administration Diploma from this test.) Students who do not contact the Registrar’s Office for programs are highly recommended, but achieve a satisfactory mark in this test will additional information on courses being not required. be required to complete COMM 150 offered at the College. prior to registering in the required Program Content - Eight diploma course COMM 250. Students Courses should take the placement test early in Business 1 Accounting Course (except ACCT 075) the event that COMM 150 is required. 1 Computing Course (3 or 4 credits) COMM 150 is not accepted for credit as (BADM 207 Recommended_ an option in the Management Certificate, Commerce Society BUS 303 - Intro to Org Behaviour the Business Administration Diploma, or 1 Economics Course the Financial Services Diploma. The purpose of the Business Commerce 4 Business Options Society is to facilitate interaction among Program Content – Eight Business Administration and Bachelor of Courses are to be selected from those Courses Commerce transfer students, faculty listed under “Program Content” for the members and the business community 1 Accounting Course (except ACCT 075) Business Administration Diploma. BUS 1 Computing Course (3 or 4 credits) through a variety of social, academic and 201 - Introduction to Business may also be recreational sports activities. Students in BADM 207 Recommended used as a Business Option in this program. BUS 303 - Intro to Org Behaviour these programs or planning to enter Red Deer College Continuing Education these programs, are encouraged to 1 Economics Course course work may be used for up to two 4 Business Options become members. course equivalents. Generally, forty five hours of approved Continuing Education Courses are to be selected from those Please see the Chair of Business and courses will be considered equivalent to Commerce for more information. listed under “Program Content” for the one three credit Business Option course. Business Administration Diploma or Exceptions to the above are to be Financial Services Diploma. BUS 201 - approved by the Department. Introduction to Business may also be used as a Business Option in this program. It is Computing Skills recommended that students take either Students entering the program should one of BUS 201 - Introduction to Business have a working knowledge of word or BADM 110 - Introduction to processing and spreadsheet software. Management as one of their four (4) Students without the prerequisite business options. It is recommended that knowledge can take CMPT 261, or CMPT students choosing ACCT 102 Introductory 170 for credit toward their Management Accounting I also take, as an option course, ACCT 103 Introductory Certificate. BADM 107 is not accepted for Accounting II. Students entering the credit in the Management Certificate. It Management Certificate program is recommended that students with without requisite computer skills and requisite computing skills take BADM who are planning on applying to the 207. Business Administration Diploma or
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Financial Services Diploma are highly recommended to take CMPT 071 and CMPT 083, or a course that includes these Career & Academic Preparation modules as a prerequisite to BADM 207.
For students planning to ladder into the Chairperson 2. Placement interview. You will meet Business Administration Diploma program Renate Scheelar with a Career and Academic or Financial Services Diploma, Continuing E-mail: [email protected] Preparation advisor to review Education courses will not be accepted for Local calls: 403-342-3400 the assessment results and your credit. For students planning to ladder Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 career goals. The advisor will help into the Business Administration Diploma you create a Learning Plan and program, BUS 201 - Introduction to The Career and Academic Preparation register you into appropriate courses Business will be applied towards the Open (CAP) program gives adult students an based on the assessment, your prior Option in that program. opportunity to learning, and your career goals. 1. upgrade academic skills Note: Transcripts will be required if you 2. acquire a High School Equivalency have attended high school or another Students who have completed the Diploma that is accepted by other post-secondary institution. Management Certificate program and colleges and universities in Alberta successfully fulfill the graduation and by most employers requirement for the Business Program Content 3. upgrade to meet entrance Administration Diploma or Financial The Career and Academic Preparation requirements for vocational, career, Services Diploma will be granted the program offers high school equivalency in and university programs Business Administration Diploma or all academic disciplines. These courses 4. develop teamwork skills, work with Financial Services Diploma only. are accepted in place of Alberta others, practice problem-solving, and Education courses for admission and develop effective study skills Notes: Notes 1-7 refer to equivalent prerequisite purposes at Red Deer 5. prepare for entry to the workplace or a courses that may be taken in lieu of various College. The following describes the chosen career specified courses. Students may receive course numbering system: 6. create a portfolio of identifiable skills. credit for only one of each equivalency. 40/50 Levels -Pre-high school refresher 1 ACCT 202 is equivalent to ACCT 102 courses (English, Mathematics) plus ACCT 103 Program Delivery 75 Levels -Grade 10/11 in high school 2 ACCT 204 is equivalent to ACCT 104 You can learn in a traditional, classroom 85 Levels -Grade 11 in high school 3 ECON 201 is equivalent to ECON 100 setting with an instructor, or take courses 90/95/96 Levels -Grade 12 in high school 4 ECON 202 is equivalent to ECON 101 in the CAP Learning Centre by 5 BUS 306 is equivalent to BADM 111 independent, self-study with instructor Expenses guidance and/or tutor support. 6 BUS 310 is equivalent to BADM 260 and You will have to buy your own textbooks. is acceptable as a prerequisite for BADM Textbooks range from $80.00 to $150.00 Courses by Independent Study per course. In addition, a graphing 270. Some courses in our program may be taken calculator is required for your Math 85 7. BADM 170, BADM 107, BUS 358, CMPT as 1-credit modules (Computing). 261 and CMPT 170 are not accepted for and Math 96 courses. It will cost approximately $160.00. credit towards the Business Most of our academic subjects are available Administration Diploma as flexible, accessible and supported learning in the CAP Learning Centre. Graduation Requirements Graduation Requirements Since most post-secondary programs have You must pass all courses and achieve a Admission Procedures special requirements for the admission of mature students, it is strongly minimum cumulative GPA of 2.00. 1. Placement Assessments. The Career recommended that students contact an and Academic Preparation program Academic Advisor or Department Chair in Program Cost Estimates 2011/2012 will arrange testing to help place you specific program areas to determine how Tuition $3,456.00 in the appropriate level of courses. best to meet these entry requirements. Student Association Fees $ 144.00 Assessments are not required for Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 current CAP students or students who Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 160.00 have been out of school or college for Books/Materials $ 900.00 less than one year. Total $4,704.00
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Few programs require mature students to possess a complete high school diploma. For those students who wish to Carpentry & Construction Certificate receive a high school equivalency diploma, the Career and Academic Preparation program will grant a High School Chairperson Admission Requirements Equivalency Diploma if the student has not Gary Halvorson 1. 50% in Math 10 (Pure) or 50% in received one previously. Students must E-mail: [email protected] Math 20 (Applied) or Math 23 and apply to the Registrar to receive this Local calls: 403-342-3400 50% in English 10 or 50% in English diploma. Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 23 OR Red Deer College High School Equivalency One Year Certificate 2. College Board Placement Test Diploma Requirements: - a minimum score above the 43rd You must have 5 courses in order to qualify. The Program percentile on the English component of (2 of the 5 courses must be completed at The Carpentry and Construction the College Board Placement Test Red Deer College) Certificate will provide graduates with (written on campus) or the Test of These must include: knowledge, skills, and experience to assist Adult Basic Education (written off 1. ENGL 090 or ENGL 095 their entry into carpentry/construction campus) and a score of 2 on a writing 2. Mathematics 075 or higher occupations. The program is designed for sample 3. Biology 075 or Chemistry 075 or individuals who are interested in the - a minimum score above the 53rd Physics 075 or higher carpentry trade but who have litmited or percentile on the Math component of 4. Social Studies 090 or Social Studies no previous exposure to the trade the College Board Placement Test 095 through work, school, volunteer (written on campus) or the Test of 5. One other course of at least 2 credits activities, or life experiences. Students Adult Basic Education (written off course that is not a prerequisite to any will learn terminology and basic skills in campus). of the required courses listed above word working and carpentry. This will courses (eg Accounting, Computing). include safe and proper use of hand and Program Content Note: Students going on to any degree power tools, building procedures, how to Fall Term program or to a technical institute are work with concrete forms, floor and wall EMP 101 Employment & responsible for checking on the Admission framing, roofs, doors and windows, Communications I Requirements of their future program. blueprint reading, shop drawing, applied CARP 100 Carpentry Trade Introduction Consult with an Academic Advisor in the mathematics, and safety. Students will CARP 103 Blueprints I Information Centre. also learn skills to help them succeed in CARP 105 Trade Mathematics I the workplace such as communication CARP 107 Carpentry Projects Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 skills, job search techniques, teamwork, CARP 120 Construction Safety I Fall conflict management, and customer CARP 180 Carpentry Practicum I Tuition $ 1,512.00 service. The program covers the Student Association Fees $ 63.00 complete content of the First Period and Winter Term Activity & Wellness Fee $ 22.00 a portion of Second Period of Carpentry EMP 102 Employment & Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 70.00 Apprenticeship technical training. Communications II Books/Materials $ 480.00 CARP 104 Blueprints II Total $ 2,147.00 Graduates may find employment in the CARP 106 Trade Mathematics II construction industry, including areas CARP 108 Carpentry Projects II Winter such as residential, commercial, and CARP 110 Building Procedures Tuition $1,728.00 industrial construction, carpentry, CARP 121 Construction Safety II Student Association Fees $ 72.00 manufacturing of wood products, and CARP 181 Carpentry Practicum II Activity & Wellness Fee $ 22.00 related businesses. Graduates may apply Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 80.00 to challenge the First Period Carpentry Graduation Requirements Books/Materials $ 480.00 Apprenticeship exam upon successful Students must achieve a minimum Total $2,282..00 course completion. Some graduates may cumulative GPA of 2.0 in all courses. continue their education by becoming indentured in the Carpentry Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 Apprenticeship program. When Tuition $4,212.00 indentured as an apprentice, the time at Student Association Fees $ 175.50 RDC may be used as credit towards Fees $1,400.00 apprenticeship based on the discretion of Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 the Apprenticeship Board and your Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 195.00 employer. For full information on Books/Materials $ 995.00 Apprenticeship, please contact Total $7,021.50 Apprenticeship and Industry Training or go the www.tradesecrets.gov.ab.ca.
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Chairperson The CIS program will be applying for Transfer Features Brian McLachlin accreditation by the Canadian Red Deer College E-mail: [email protected] Information Processing Society (CIPS), an Depending on electives chosen, graduates Local calls: 403-342-3400 organization representing computing of the CIS program may apply up to 6 of 8 Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 professionals in Canada. This required courses towards a Management accreditation provides graduates of the Certificate from Red Deer College. Two-Year Diploma program with national recognition Required courses for the CIS program that towards a CIPS Information Systems also meet requirements for the The Program Professional (ISP) designation. Management Certificate program include Computer technology enables people - COMM 250, ITEC 170, BADM 204, BADM from cellular phones to MP3 players to Learning Outcomes 253, and two Business Options. gaming systems and business Graduates of the CIS program will possess This Certificate is offered by the Business applications. Technology is embedded in the following skills and knowledge: Adinistration Department at Red Deer all aspects of our daily lives. Information 1. Analyse business problems and College. Students must complete eight technology (IT) professional create these develop Information Technology business courses approved by the Business technologies. Computer Information solutions Administration program Chairperson to be Systems (CIS) graduates have the skills to 2. Use online resources to investigate awarded a Management Certificate. develop software applications for today’s and analyse potential solutions new technologies. 3. Participate in the implementation of Please contact an academic advisor for projects individually and/or within a team details regarding this program and/or the Related Careers environment Chairperson of the Business Administration Career opportunities in the IT field 4. Develop and deploy desktop, web- Department. continue to grow and expand, both based, mobile and distributed nationally and internationally. CIS applications Athabasca University graduates are well positioned to take 5. Plan and navigate development Holders of a CIS diploma will be awarded 60 advantage of this increased market processes through the software lifecycle credits towards the 120 credit Bachelor of demand for IT skills because they are well stages Science in Computing and Information prepared with the knowledge-base and 6. Develop interactive websites Systems Degree (Post Diploma). skill-sets necessary to successfully engage 7. Write SQL statements to manipulate in an exciting, challenging, and well- data and databases Graduates of the Computer Information compensated futures. 8. Consider the impact of network Systems diploma may receive up to 39 technologies on applications credits for IT core courses. Students may Types of positions: 9. Practice industry standard codes of also get additional credit for non-IT Software Developer conduct diploma courses. Students may apply this • Client Server Applications 10. Complete relevant documentation, credit to a Bachelor of Arts - Information • Enterprise Computing activity reports, project plans, and Systems degree or a Bachelor of Science - • Mobile Applications proposals Computing Information Systems degree. • Advanced Web Development 11. Consider the international context within the work environment Students may work toward a degree Systems Analyst 12. Identify and engage in learning that is through Athabasca’s distance education • Program and Application Design responsive to the workplace and that programs. This may be done on a part-time advances career path basis. Database Administrator 13. Practice effective interpersonal communication skills in the following University of Lethbridge Most graduates will integrate into their IT situations: Students may complete a two year (20 • presentation skills profession as a software developer or course) Post-Diploma B.Sc. Degree in • client interaction systems analyst. With experience and Computer Science. Graduates of the • conflict resolution proven ability, students may advance into Computer Information Systems diploma • teaching (clients and co-workers) information technology management may also apply to complete the 2 year Post- • leading small teams and/or specialized areas of technology Diploma Bachelor of Management Degree. such as database administration. • cultural sensitivity NAIT/SAIT Graduates of the Computer Information Systems diploma may apply to complete the 2 year Post-Diploma Bachelor of Applied Information Systems Technology at NAIT or the Bachelor of Applied Technology Information Systems at SAIT.
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Admission Requirements Communications Course ITEC 271 Database Server A. Academic Requirements Placement Testing Configuration ITEC 274 Structured Query 1. High School Diploma with no mark Students will be required to take a below 50% in: Language College placement test before ITEC 290 Project II a. ELA 30-1 registering in a written communications IT Option b. Mathematics 30 (Pure) course. (Students with 60% or greater in OR English 30 will be exempted from this Term 5 (Spring Term), Year 2 50% in ELA 30-1 & 65% in test.) Students who do not achieve a ITEC 193 Practicum OR Mathematics 30 (Applied) with either satisfactory mark in this test will be ITEC 196 Work Experience OR Physics 30 or Chemistry 30 or Science required to complete COMM 150 before ITEC 293 Practicum OR 30 with a minimum mark of 50% they can register in the required course, ITEC 296 Work Experience Note: One of ITEC 193, ITEC 196, ITEC 293, OR COMM 254. Students should take the or ITEC 296 is required for graduation. 2. Mature Student placement test early in the event You must be 19 years of age or older, This course can be taken at the end of the preparatory work (COMM 150) is student’s first or second year. out of high school at least one full year required. Students needing to do COMM before the program starts, and have a 150 will have the opportunity to Program Electives minimum make of 50% in Mathematics complete all the Communications As part of the graduation requirements 30 (Pure) requirements within the two year time for a Diploma in Computer Information OR frame. Systems, students are required to pass a a minimum mark of 65% in minimum of three different elective Mathematics 30 (Applied) and either Program Content courses. One course must be from the Information Technology department. Chemistry 30 or Physics 30 or Science Term 1, Year 1 30 with a minimum mark of 50% Two courses must be from the Business ITEC 100 IT Service Desk department. AND ITEC 105 Discrete Mathematics B. Other Requirements ITEC 120 Computer Networking With prior written approval from the All CIS students must have a laptop ITEC 150 Structured Programming department chair, a Science course may computer that is using Microsoft ITEC 153 Visual Programming be substituted for a Business elective Windows as the operating system. ITEC 156 Object Oriented course. Please contact department Chair for Programming minimum specifications ITEC 170 Systems Analysis and Should a student possess any oither course(s) and/or credentials not listed Design Recommendations above for which they wish to have considered for advanced credit, please Applicants are also expected to have Term 2, Year 1 contact the Information Technology working skill sets in at least the following COMM 250 Business and Workplace Department Chairperson areas of workstation management and Writing operations through course work and/or ITEC 115 Operating Systems Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 industry experience: ITEC 140 Desktop Operating Year 1 • word processing Systems Tuition $3,348.00 ITEC 160 Web Design • e-mail communications Student Association Fees $ 139.50 • internet research and download ITEC 163 Web Clent ITEC 166 Web Server Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 • file and print management ITEC 175 Object Oriented Analysis Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 155.00 • basic operating systems literacy and Design Books/Materials $3,200.00 ITEC 180 Career Skills Total $6,886.50 Applicants requesting further information, ITEC 190 Project I skill assessment, and/or learning support Year 2 courses (CMPT 083, 086, 087, or 089) Term 3, Year 2 Tuition $4,104.00 should contact an academic advisor and/or BADM 204 Interpersonal Skills Student Association Fees $ 171.00 the Information Technology Department BADM 253 Project Management Fees $ 22.00 Chairperson for assistance. ITEC 264 Mobile Applications Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 ITEC 280 IT Profession Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 190.00 Business Option Books/Materials $2,400.00 Business Option Total $6,931.00 Term 4, Year 2 ITEC 251 Data Structures ITEC 254 Advanced Java Graduation Requirements ITEC 257 Extensible Markup You must pass all courses and achieve a Language minimum cumulative GPA of 2.00. ITEC 261 Advanced Web Programming ITEC 267 Distributed Applications
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(formerly Early Childhood As well as the above, other opportunities Certificate Distance (Blended) Delivery Development) for employment for Diploma graduates courses are based in Red Deer and include: combine the strengths of print-based Chairperson • day care directors and administrators independent study materials, with Jane Proudlove • family support workers/visitors computer-facilitated support, as well as E-mail: [email protected] • child care program coordinators (in a on-site classroom delivery two Saturdays Local calls: 403-342-3400 women’s shelter, for instance) throughout the Semester per course. Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 • family support workers • instructional assistants to children All the Diploma courses are provided “on- One-Year Certificate with special needs in preschool or line”. These are offered on a rotational Two-Year Diploma school programs basis.
The importance of the early years in a The Program A complete cycle of ELCC courses can be child’s development is well established. Red Deer College offers a one-year completed through part-time study over There is a critical need for a variety of certificate and a two-year diploma a four-year period or less. This multi- programs for children and families and for program in Early Learning & Child Care. delivery approach is highly effective in trained staff to ensure children’s Each course you take focuses on a meeting the diverse needs of adult developmental needs are being met. The different topic important to those who students. Early Learning & Child Care Program work with young children - everything trains professionals to work with children from child development, to guiding Students with an ELCC Diploma may from birth to eight years, with some behavior, to planning snacks and bulletin transfer to related fields in some related preparation for working with boards, to planning and participating in university programs. Students wishing to children from eight to twelve years of play experiences, to interacting with transfer to these universities should seek age. Throughout the program, there is an children who have special needs. information on additional admission emphasis on developing caring requirements from the institution. relationships with children and families. The ELCC department operates in partnership with college and community Students can enter the program in A one-year certificate and/or a two-year programs serving children from birth to September, January or May and can diploma can help prepare students for a twelve years of age. Students work in register as part-time or full-time students. rewarding career. This program is practicum placements in these programs designed to provide students with the as a method of integrating theory and Admission Requirements opportunity to gain knowledge and practice. There are two practicum courses A) Academic Requirements develop competencies in such areas as in each of the ELCC programs. By the end Certificate Program child development, interpersonal of the Diploma Program, students assume 1. High School Diploma with a relations, curriculum content, family many of the responsibilities related to minimum mark of 50% in ELA 30-1 studies, exceptional children, and preschool care and education in their OR program management. practicums. a minimum mark of 65% in ELA 30-2 OR Focus is placed on the integration of Outreach (Distance) Delivery 2. Mature Student theory and practice. This is accomplished The Outreach Program in Early Learning & You must be 19 years of age or older, by an extended practicum in a variety of Child Care offers the opportunity to study out of high school at least one full year early learning and care program at the college level, to continue working, before the program starts, and have a environments. and to remain in your community for minimum mark of 50% in ELA 30-1 most of the experience. There are several OR Related Careers methods of Outreach Delivery: The a minimum mark of 65% ELA 30-2 Graduates of the Certificate program in certificate program is available by OR Early Learning & Child Care may find Blended Delivery based at RDC and the a minimum score at the 50th employment in a variety of positions: diploma is available online. percentile on the English component • early childhood caregivers in child of the College Board Placement Test care programs (written on campus) or the Test of • instructional assistants in Adult Basic Education (written off kindergarten programs and primary campus) and a score of 2-3 on a writing grades sample. • teachers in a nursery school • caregivers in school-age careprograms • family day home providers
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*Note: Government requires people who Program Content Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 work directly with young children to have Year 1 - Certificate Program Year 1 a current immunization record and a COMM 150 Fundamentals of College Tuition $3,780.00 criminal record check. While not an and Workplace Writing or Student Association Fees $ 157.50 admission requirement for the program, COMM 254 Human Services Writing Fees $ 90.00 some practicum agencies and field ELCC 201 Foundations of Early Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 placements may require Criminal Record Childhood Development Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 175.00 Checks of students working in their ELCC 206 Child Development & Books/Materials $ 975.00 organizations. Information about Exceptionalities Total $5,221.50 obtaining Criminal Record checks will be ELCC 210 Practicum I provided to students after they have ELCC 211 Child Development Year 2 been admitted to the program. Some ELCC 212 Program Planning I Tuition $3,672.00 programs may require medical ELCC 213 Interpersonal Relations I Student Association Fees $ 153.00 examinations, as well. ELCC 215 Program Planning II Fees $ 185.00 ELCC 217 Guiding Behavior Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 Part Time and Outreach Students ELCC 218 Program Planning III Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 170.00 1. You may meet the requirements ELCC 220 Practicum II Books/Materials $ 725.00 above Note: Students are encouraged to take Total $4,949.00 OR COMM 254 if they qualify. 2. Mature Students may be admitted as Graduation Requirements conditional students to two ELCC Year 2 - Diploma Program A certificate will not be granted if a courses in the certificate program. *ELCC 305 School Age Care diploma has been awarded. Upon the successful completion of *ELCC 308 Family Support these courses, and the *ELCC 309 Aboriginal Children & You must pass all first year courses to recommendation of the Chairperson, Families receive a certificate and pass all second they may be admitted to the Early ELCC 310 Practicum III year courses to receive a diploma. Learning & Child Care Program. ELCC 313 Interpersonal Relations II ELCC 314 Children in Society Diploma Program ELCC 315 Program Administration 1. Early Learning & Child Care ELCC 317 Program Planning V Certificate with a minimum G.P.A. ELCC 320 Practicum IV of 1.7, or consent of the Chair ELCC 321 Family Studies 2. Transferring students from another ELCC 323 Program Planning IV post-secondary institution will be ELCC 325 Children With Special required to present an equivalent Needs academic program. *One of ELCC 305, ELCC 308, ELCC 309 or one other option approved by the Chair. Communications Course Placement Testing Special Fees and Expenses ELCC students will be required to take a You should budget about $975.00 per College Placement Test before year for books and supplies. Practicum registering in a written communications courses are usually in the Red Deer area, course (COMM 150 or COMM 254). The but you should expect some extra costs achieved test score will be used as an for travel, clothes, etc. indicator of placement in COMM 150 or COMM 254. Students with 60% or greater in English 30 will be exempted from this test and qualify to register in COMM 254.
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Chairperson Admission Requirements Note: You should have a valid Standard St. Maria Cicman A) Academic Requirements John Ambulance Emergency Training E-mail: [email protected] 1. High School Diploma Certificate, or equivalent Red Cross Local calls: 403-342-3400 A minimum mark of 50% in ELA 30-1 Certificate. Many employers prefer this Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 OR training, but it is not an admission or a minimum mark of 65% in ELA 30-2 graduation requirement. One-Year Certificate OR 2. Mature Student Program Content Related Careers You must be 19 years of age or older, Length of program: 10 months (September Both full- and part-time jobs are available, out of high school at least one full year to June) with salaries varying widely across the before the program starts, and have a province. See the school board in the minimum mark of 50% in ELA 30-1 COMM 150 Fundamentals of College area you plan to seek work for contract OR and WorkplaceWriting details. There is an increased demand for a minimum mark of 65% in ELA 30-2 CMPT 261 Introduction to assistants to work with students with OR Computing OR special needs. a minimum score at the 50th CMPT 170 Microcomputer percentile on the English component Applications Jobs include the following: of the College Board Placement Test EDAS 111 Role of the Assistant • classroom assistants at all levels from (written on campus) or the Test of EDAS 114 Field Experience early childhood to adult education Adult Basic Education (written off EDAS 116 Human Relations • assistants to students with special campus) and a score of 2-3 on a EDAS 151 Exceptionalities I needs including private agencies writing sample. Applicants who score EDAS 152 Exceptionalities II • library assistants between the 40th and 50th EDAS 153 Exceptionalities III • playground and lunch room percentile will be considered for EDAS 160 Assisting the Language supervisors admission depending on the Learning Teacher assessment under Other EDAS 161 Assisting the Math Teacher Requirements. EDAS 181 Field Practice The Program OR Option: 45 hours Graduates assist teachers in both complete at least three College-level Note: If they qualify, students are instructional and non-instructional tasks. courses with a minimum grade of D, encouraged to replace COMM 150 with a This program will train you in a wide and a minimum G.P.A. of 2.00. 200 level COMM or ENGL. range of interpersonal and practical skills OR needed for such work. 3. You may be admitted as a Note: Students on academic warning or conditional part-time student. If you probation will not be placed in practicum Note: This program is also available complete a total of three Educational (EDAS 181 or EDAS 114) until they have through on-line delivery. Distance Assistant courses with a minimum cleared this status. students require regular access to a grade of D, and a minimum G.P.A. of computer with internet service. Please 2.00, you will be admitted to the Options: Students need one of EDAS 156, Educational Assistant Program. EDAS 157, EDAS 158, EDAS 159, or 3 of EDAS contact the program for details. 163, EDAS 164, EDAS 165, EDAS 166, EDAS Note: While not an admission 167 and EDAS 168. (You may receive credit requirement for the program, some for one option if you qualify for advance practicum agencies and field placements credit or prior learning credit). Additional may require Criminal Record Checks of credit may be received for course students working in their organizations. equivalencies. Information about obtaining Criminal Record Checks will be provided to Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 students after they have been admitted Tuition $ 3,996.00 to the program. Student Association Fees $ 166.50 Fees $ 122.00 Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 185.00 Books/Materials $ 1,200.00 Total $ 5,713.50 Books/Materials: Allow approximately $120/course for textbooks.
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Special Fees and Expenses EDAS 181, EDAS 114: $50.00 each (for on- Financial Services line delivery or on-campus) Donald School of Business - Downtown
All distance delivery courses have an Chairperson Related Careers additional fee of $50.00 Pat O’Meara The financial services industry E-mail: [email protected] encompasses a wide range of sectors Advanced Standing and Local calls: 403-342-3400 including banking, insurance, investment Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 Challenge Examinations brokerages, financial planning, wealth If you are applying for Advanced Standing management and mutual funds; however, The Financial Services Diploma is a from banks to brokerages, different in any Educational Assistant Course, diploma offered by the Business please contact the Department for employers generally focus on the same Administration and Commerce entry level core competencies, knowledge additional forms. Advanced standing or Department. credit may be granted for courses in and attributes. As such, the Financial Services Diploma is designed to equip other departments. Advanced credit is Two-year Diploma not given for EDAS 181 Field Practice. students with the specialized skills and Financial Services Diploma knowledge to meet the demands of entry Courses not open to challenge: EDAS 114, and intermediate level positions within EDAS 181 The Donald School of Business, Red Deer the industry. College, in partnership with the Graduation Requirements Investment Funds Institute of Canada The Financial Services Diploma has been designed to prepare students with a broad You must pass eleven compulsory courses (IFIC), and the strong support of local business background and a solid foundation and 45 hours of optional credits, and financial services providers, offers the in financial services for a wide range of achieve a minimum cumulative GPA of Financial Services Diploma. This two-year career opportunities within the industry. 2.00. diploma combines specific courses that address the required core competencies Careers in the financial services include of entry and intermediate level financial Investment Advisor, Personal Financial services employees with courses that Services Representative, Account Manager, provide a background in business Loans Officer; Mortgage Specialist, administration in the areas of accounting, Compliance Officer, and Branch Manager to finance and financial services, information name just a few career directions. technology, marketing, economics, statistics and business policy. Accreditation Investment Funds in Canada (FINS 281) is The Financial Services Diploma may be offered in conjunction with the IFIC and is completed in two years if a student the required course for those seeking to proceeds through their program of study sell investment funds in Canada. At the by completing five (5) courses per completion of this course all students will semester. Alternatively, students may write the qualifying IFIC exam and if they choose to take fewer (from one to four attain a grade of 60% or greater will be courses per semester) in order to qualified to seek registration as an accommodate other obligations, such as Investment Funds Salesperson in Canada. quality of work and family life or a slower Students taking FINS 281 have three academic pace. opportunities to take the final IFIC exam provided that these attempts are proctored by an RDC Finance or Financial Services Instructor. FINS 286 (Insurance in Canada) is also offered in conjunction with the IFIC on a similar basis.
Transfer Features Financial Services Diploma graduates may complete the Post-Diploma Bachelor of Management Degree offered by the University of Lethbridge in Calgary, Edmonton and Lethbridge. A 3.0 GPA is required for admission.
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Admission Requirements Communications Course Year 2 Financial Services Diploma Placement Testing FINS 281 Investment Funds in Canada 1. High School Diploma Students will be required to take a FINS 282 Consumer Credit Minimum average of 60% with no College placement test before FINS 286 Insurance in Canada mark below 50% in: registering in a written communications FINS 287 Advanced Financial a. ELA 30-1 course. (Students with 60% or greater in Planning b. Mathematics 30 (Pure) English 30 or ELA 30-1 will be exempted FINS 270 Financial Services Selling OR from this test.) Students who do not BUS 311 Legal Foundations of the Minimum average of 65% with no achieve a satisfactory mark in this test will Canadian Economy mark below 50% in: be required to complete COMM 150 BADM 260 Introduction to Finance a. ELA 30-2 before they can register in the required BADM 262 Investments b. Mathematics 30 (Applied) course, COMM 250. Students should take BADM 270 Business Policy & Strategy OR the placement test early in the event FINS 320/ Selected Topics in Financial Minimum average of 62.5% with no preparatory work (COMM 150) is FINS 321 Services** mark below 50% in one of the required. COMM 150 will not be ACCT 104 Managerial Accounting following combinations: accepted for credit as an option for the ** These courses are optional and are NOT a. ELA 30-1 and Mathematics 30 Financial Services Diploma. a requirement for completing the (Applied) OR Diploma in Financial Services. b.ELA 30-2 and Mathematics 30 Computing Skills (Pure) Students entering the program must Notes: Notes 1-7 refer to equivalent 2. Mature Student have a working knowledge of file courses that may be taken in lieu of You must be 19 years of age or older, management and word processing. It is various specified courses. Students may out of high school at least one full recommended that students without this receive credit for only one of each year before the program starts and prerequisite knowledge complete CMPT equivalency. have a minimum average of 60% with 071 and CMPT 083, or a course that Students considering university transfer no mark below 50% in: includes these modules prior to taking or an accounting designation should consult with an Academic Advisor or their a. ELA 30-1 BADM 207*. Chairperson regarding these courses. b. Mathematics 30 (Pure) * Please note that these courses will not be recognized for credit in the program. 1 ACCT 202 is equivalent to ACCT 102 OR plus ACCT 103 Minimum average of 65% with no mark Program Content 2 ACCT 204 is equivalent to ACCT 104 below 50% in: Year 1 3 ECON 201 is equivalent to ECON 100 a. ELA 30-2 ACCT 102 Introductory Accounting I 4 ECON 202 is equivalent to ECON 101 b. Mathematics 30 (Applied) 5 BUS 306 is equivalent to BADM 111 ACCT 103 Introductory Accounting II OR 6 BUS 310 is equivalent to BADM 260 BADM 111 Introduction to Statistics Minimum average of 62.5% with no and is acceptable as a prerequisite for FINS 180 Financial Products and mark below 50% in one of the BADM 270. Services following combinations: 7. BADM 170, BADM 107, BUS 358, FINS 280 Financial Services Work a. ELA 30-1 and Mathematics 30 CMPT 261 and CMPT 170 are not Experience* (Applied) OR accepted for credit towards the BADM 132 Introduction to Marketing b. ELA 30-2 and Mathematics 30 Financial Services Diploma. BADM 207 Advanced Microcomputer (Pure) Applications Note: Mature students not meeting BUS 303 Introduction to these standards should consider applying Organizational Behaviour for admission to the Management COMM 250 Business and Workplace Certificate Program. Writing ECON 100 Introduction to Business Microeconomics ECON 101 Introduction to Business Macroeconomics
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Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 Year 1 Health Related Programs Tuition $4,104.00 Student Association Fees $ 171.00 Chairperson Note: While not an admission requirement Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 Sheila McKay for the program, applicants are advised that Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 190.00 E-mail: [email protected] they will be required to provide a Criminal Books/Materials $1,070.00 Local calls: 403-342-3400 Record Check to agencies where they will Total $5,579.00 Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 be placed for practicum experiences. The existence of a criminal record may prevent Year 2 clinical placement, program completion Tuition $3,240.00 Health Care Aide and therefore, may affect employment Student Association Fees $ 135.00 prospects. It is each agency’s or institution’s Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 Program decision to accept or reject a student for Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 150.00 placement or observation experience Books/Materials $1,500.00 This program prepares the graduate to based on the results of the criminal record Total $5,069.00 work in the full role of the Health Care check. Prospective students who have a Aide, in acute care facilities, continuing criminal record should discuss the matter FINS 281(Investment Funds in Canada) care facilities as well as in clients’ homes. with the department Chair prior to and FINS 286 (Insurance in Canada) are applying for admission. offered in conjunction with the Please check with the Registrar’s Office Investment Funds Institute of Canada for the dates of the next offering. Program Content (IFIC) which will require students to pay HCA 130 Safe Work Practices examination registration fees of Related Careers HCA 131 Activities of Daily Living I approximately $150 per course. These Health Care Aides may work in continuing HCA 132 Medication Delivery fees are subject to change without notice care, in clients’ homes or in hospital. HCA 133 Dementia Care from the IFIC. HCA 134 Roles & Communications The Program HCA 135 Health, Aging & Illness The Canadian Institute of Financial The HCA program consists of a variety of HCA 136 Activities of Daily Living II Planning (CIFP) recognizes FINS 287 as learning approaches including clinical HCA 137 Care for Complex Clients credit towards the Institute’s Registered practice supervised by a program Retirement Planning Certificate (RRC). instructor in a continuing care facility. HCA 138 Care for Diverse Clients This course requires additional course Following the supervised clinical practice HCA 122 HCA Supervised Clinical materials and an examination fee of $325 students are required to complete a Practice which is paid directly to the CIFP. The preceptored clinical experience. HCA 123 HCA Preceptored final exam in FINS 287 shall be the final Graduates complete the approved Clinical Practice qualifying exam towards the RRC Alberta Health & Wellness Health Care certification and upon successful Aide 2010 curriculum and are certified as Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 completion of this exam; students will Health Care Aides in Alberta. Tuition $2,484.00 earn the RRC certification. Student Association Fees $ 103.50 Note: HCA 130; HCA 131; HCA 132 and Supplies $ 77.00 Equivalent core courses required for a HCA 133 meet the “pre-service Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 Certified Credit Professional Designation requirements as defined by Alberta Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 115.00 are available at RDC. Please see website Health and Wellness. Books/Materials $ 605.00 for more details. Total $3,428.50 Admission Requirements Graduation Requirements 1. Successful completion of ELA 10-1 or Graduation Requirements You must pass all courses and achieve a ELA 10-2 or an equivalent (or Students must successfully complete all minimum cumulative GPA of 2.00. equivalency testing) OR required courses, including practicum and G.E.D. preceptorship, in order to graduate. 2. Immunization to be completed prior to program start.
Call RDC Test Centre for details on testing requirements.
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Health Care Aide Nursing Guided Pre-Hospital Program - High Practice Course Care Programs School Career and (Credit free) The Southern Alberta Institute of Technology Studies The Nursing Guided Practice course is Technology (SAIT) offers the Emergency designed to assist nurses who have Medical Responder and Emergency Route graduated from an entry level nursing Medical Technician-Ambulance programs program within the past 3 years, who are on Red Deer College Campus. Students The Health Care Aide - High School CTS Registered Nurses but have had the apply to and are registered with SAIT but Route is designed for high school students opportunity for little or no work as nurses attend classes in Red Deer. For who wish to take the CTS health studies since graduation. It will also assist information about the programs and to stream to complete the requirements for Registered Nurses who wish to change arrange for application, please contact the Health Care Aide program. RDC their practice area. The course provides SAIT at 1-877-284-7248. partners with high schools to offer the an opportunity for lab and preceptored content from the HCA provincial practice in basic nursing areas thus curriculum that is not already part of the facilitating competence and confidence CTS health stream. Students begin the in clinical practice. program by registering for the CTS health studies courses then register at RDC to take Admission Requirements the additional courses to receive an RDC, - Registered Nurse in Alberta HCA credential. The program will prepare - Valid CPR certification at Basic graduates to work in institutional and Rescuer Level community settings. - Current Immunization
Program Content Note: While not an admission Block recognition for the following CTS requirement for the program, applicants Health Studies Courses: are advised that they will be required to HSS 1010 Health & Wellness provide a Criminal Record Check to Foundations agencies where they will be placed for HSS 1020 Nutrition & Wellness practicum experiences. The exictence of HCS 1050 Musculoskeletal System I a criminal record may prevent clinical HCS 1060 Digestive System placement, program completion, HCS 1070 Respiratory System professional licensure and therefore, may HCS 1080 Cardiovascular System affect employment prospects. It is each HCS 1100 Infection & Immunity I agency’s or institutions decision to accept HCS 1110 Infection & Immunity 2 or reject a student for placement or HCS 2020 First Air/CPR with AED observation experience based on the HCS 2050 Nervous System & Senses results of the criminal record check. HCS 2060 Endocrine System Prospective students who have a criminal CCS 2010 Health Care 1 record should discuss the matter with the CCS 3030 Aging and Frailty department Chair prior to applying for CCS 3010 Health Care 2 admission. CCS 3020 Health Care 3 HCA 122 Health Care Aide Supervised Clinical Practice HCA 123 Health Care Aide Preceptored Clinical Practice HCA 124 HCA Theory - CTS Route
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Chairperson Our graduates have earned positions with Note: While not an admission Robert Van Someren major hotel, food service and tourism requirement for the program, some E-mail: [email protected] operations throughout Canada and the practicum agencies and field placements Local calls: 403-342-3400 World. Hong Kong, Great Britain, may require Criminal Record Checks of Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 Switzerland, Mexico, Australia, the Cayman students working in their organizations. Islands and the United States are a few Information about obtaining Criminal countries where our graduates have One-Year Certificate/Two-Year Record Checks will be provided to chosen to work. Diploma students after they have been admitted Transfer Features to the program. Prospective students Tourism, both in Canada and around the who have a criminal record should discuss world is predicted to maintain a rapid The Hospitality and Tourism Program may the matter with the department Chair pace of growth. This translates into provide graduates with advanced standing prior to applying for admission. continued demand for program in various university degree programs: graduates and increased opportunities University of New Brunswick (Saint John) for advancement within the Hospitality & - Bachelor of Applied Management in Program Content 1. Accommodation and Marketing Tourism industry. There are opportunities Hospitality and Tourism Management for professionally trained personnel in all University of Lethbridge areas of this “people business.” Red Deer Certificate - Bachelor of Management College and the hospitality industry have Fall & Winter Terms Athabasca University formed a partnership that benefits the COMM 140 Fundamentals of Workplace - Bachelor of Administration student and the industry. Both partners Communications contribute to all aspects of the program, - Bachelor of Professional Arts, HOSP 203 Front Office Procedures from development to accreditation. Communication Studies Major HOSP 204 Guest Room Management University of Calgary HOSP 206 Hospitality Marketing The program offers a one-year certificate - Bachelor of Hotel and Resort HOSP 208 Hospitality Sales and and a two-year diploma in two areas of Management Advertising specialization: Malaspina University College HOSP 213 Computers 1. Accommodation and Marketing - Bachelor of Tourism Management HOSP 215 Food Safety and Sanitation Management Royal Roads University Management HOSP 220 Basic Food Preparation 2. Food and Beverage Management - Bachelor of Arts in International HOSP 221 Basic Dining Room Hotel Management The certificate is designed to give the Service student the basic skills and knowledge HOSP 233 Quality Service Integration Please contact the Chairperson for further required for entry-level and supervisory HOSP 240 Hospitality Human positions. The diploma is designed to information. Resource Management prepare the student for management HOSP 241 Strategic Career positions. Admission Requirements Development I Academic Requirements HOSP 243 Workplace Safety and Career and Employment Certificate Responsibility Opportunities 1. High School Diploma HOSP 244 Introduction to Hospitality Services and Facilities One of the biggest benefits to graduates OR HOSP 313 Advanced Computers for is the diversity of careers available, 2. General Equivalency Diploma Hospitality whether close to home or around the OR world. Red Deer College graduates have 3. Mature Student Spring Term chosen careers such as Front Office You must be 19 years of age or older, WKEP 230 1st Year Field Work Manager, Sales and Marketing Manager, out of high school at least one full year Restaurant Manager, Food and Beverage before the program starts, AND obtain Manager, Human Resources Manager, a satisfactory mark (score of 50% or Event Coordinator and Entrepreneur. greater) on a test of basic English and Math administered by the College and a score of 2 or higher on a writing sample.
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Diploma 2. Food and Beverage Management Spring Term Fall and Winter Terms Certificate WKEP 330 2nd Year Field Work HOSP 202 Introductory Accounting Fall and Winter Terms HOSP 205 Security and Emergency COMM 140 Fundamentals of *Options may not include high school equivalency courses. If you plan to transfer Management Workplace Communications to a university refer to the Alberta Transfer HOSP 214 Food, Beverage and Labor HOSP 206 Hospitality Marketing Guide. Cost Controls HOSP 208 Hospitality Sales and HOSP 236 Hospitality Management Advertising HOSP 213 Computers Graduation Requirements Accounting HOSP 215 Food Safety and Sanitation A student must pass all courses and achieve HOSP 242 Strategic Career Management a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0 to Development II HOSP 220 Basic Food Preparation graduate from the certificate or diploma HOSP 303 Convention and Event HOSP 221 Basic Dining Room program. Management Service HOSP 306 Accommodation and HOSP 228 Bar and Beverage Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 Restaurant Law Management Food & Beverage Management HOSP 308 Tourism Operations HOSP 230 Introduction to Wine Tuition $3,996.00 HOSP 312 Hospitality Operations HOSP 233 Quality Service Integration Student Association Fees $ 166.50 Fees $ 350.00 and Entrepreneurship HOSP 239 Food Purchasing and Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 HOSP 318 Contemporary Hospitality Production Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 185.00 Management Theory HOSP 240 Hospitality Human Books/Materials $1,100.00 HOSP 328 Electronic Marketing for Resource Management Total $5,841.50 Hospitality and Tourism HOSP 241 Strategic Career Development I Option* 3 credits Year 2 HOSP 243 Workplace Safety and Tuition $3,888.00 Spring Term Responsibility Student Association Fees $ 162.00 WKEP 330 2nd Year Field Work HOSP 244 Introduction to Hospitality Fees $ 30.00 Services and Facilities Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 180.00 Accommodation & Marketing Spring Term Books/Materials $1,250.00 Management WKEP 230 1st Year Field Work Total $5,429.00 Year 1 Tuition $4,104.00 Diploma Special Fees and Expenses Student Association Fees $ 171.00 Fall and Winter Terms Field Work placements will require the Fees $ 295.00 HOSP 202 Introductory Accounting student to pay for living expenses and have Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 HOSP 205 Security and Emergency proper attire for the workplace. Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 190.00 Management Books/Materials $1,106.00 HOSP 214 Food, Beverage and Labor Students participating in Food and Total $5,510.00 Cost Controls Beverage Labs are required to provide HOSP 226 Menu Planning and their own uniforms and proper footwear. Year 2 Design Tuition $3,672.00 HOSP 236 Hospitality Management Student Association Fees $ 153.00 Accounting Fees $ 30.00 HOSP 242 Strategic Career Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 Development II Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 170.00 HOSP 303 Convention and Event Books/Materials $1,250.00 Management Total $5,319.00 HOSP 306 Accommodation and Restaurant Law HOSP 312 Hospitality Operations and Entrepreneurship HOSP 318 Contemporary Hospitality Management Theory HOSP 322 Fine Dining Food Preparation HOSP 320 Fine Dining Service HOSP 321 Beverage Operations Option* 3 credits
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Chairperson Admission Requirements Program Content Sharon Hamilton 1. Minimum average of 60% with no Diploma - Kinesiology and Sport E-mail: [email protected] mark below 50% in: Studies - General Local calls: 403-342-3400 a. ELA 30-1 This program is designed for students who Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 b. Subject from Group A* and/or C wish to (1) complete the General Diploma (for this program only, Math 30 or (2) continue on to complete a four year Two-Year Diploma Program (Applied) may also be used as Kinesiology is the study of the science of one of these subjects) Bachelor’s Degree. The General Diploma is movement. The Red Deer College c. Subject from Group A* or C the University of Alberta and University of Kinesiology and Sport Studies program d. Subject from Group C (Biology 30 Calgary Transfer Programs pattern of offers 2-year diploma specializations in the recommended) courses. following areas: e. Subject from Group B, C, or D - Kinesiology and Sport Studies (see “Alberta Grade 12 Course General Diploma (transfer to Bachelor of General Groups”, page 8) Physical Education Degree at the - Kinesiology and Sport Studies * Only one language other than English University of Alberta) Adapted Physical Education will be accepted Year 1 - Kinesiology and Sport Studies OR KNSS 200 Structural Anatomy Coaching & Sport Performance 2. Mature Student KNSS 201 Biomechanics - Kinesiology and Sport Studies You must be 19 years of age or older, KNSS 204 Sociocultural Foundations Fitness and Health Promotion out of high school for at least one full of P.E. Leisure & Sport - Kinesiology and Sport Studies year before the program starts, and Sport Management have a minimum average of 60% with KNSS 210 Fitness and Wellness no mark below 50% in: Theory & Practice The diploma programs allow you to acquire a. ELA 30-1 KNSS 240 Adapted Physical Education knowledge and experience in either b. Subject from Group C (Biology KNSS 270 Leadership & Instruction in Adapted Physical Education, Coaching and 30 recommended) Physical Activity Sport Performance, Fitness and Health Note: After completing your diploma and KDNC 200 The Spectrum of Dance in Promotion, Sport Management or take the if you are applying to transfer to the Society General Diploma pattern of courses. After Faculty of Kinesiology at the University of ENGL 219/ENGL 220 completing the 2-year Diploma Program, Calgary, you must present ELA 30-1, Essay Composition and you may transfer to a university to Biology 30, Mathematics 30 (Pure) and Critical Reading/Literary complete a 4-year Bachelor’s Degree Chemistry 30 for admission. For the U of C - Analysis program (see Kinesiology and Sport Exercise and Health Physiology Major - Two Physical Activity Courses - KPAC/KDNC Studies - University Transfer Programs, Mathematics 30 (Pure) (minimum grade of page 45). 70%) is required. Math 31 is recommended. For the U of C - Year 2 The Program Biomechanics Major - Mathematics 30 PSIO 258 Elementary Physiology I The objective of the diploma program is to (Pure) (minimum grade of 70%) and Math PSIO 259 Elementary Physiology II educate and prepare qualified leaders in 31 are required; Physics 30 is KNSS 202 Physiology of Exercise the field of Kinesiology and Sport Studies recommended. KNSS 203 Skill Acquisition & who are prepared for employment in Performance related fields and agencies in the private Note: If you are applying to the University KNSS 205 History of Sport and public sectors. of Alberta Bachelor of Science Kinesiology KNSS 250 Intro to the Admin of Sport, (BScKin), admission to this program Physical Activity, & requires the following high school subject Recreation Programs requirements - English Language Arts 30-1, Two Physical Activity Courses -KPAC/KDNC Chemistry 30, Pure Mathematics 30, Two of: Physics 30, and one of Biology 30 or Physical Education 30 (5 credit) or KNSS 209 Measurement and approved 35 level equivalent (5 credit), Evaluation including Exercise Science 35, Sports KNSS 244 Introduction to Medicine 35, or Sport Performance 35. Nutrition Studies KNSS 253 Psychological Sport Performance KNSS 307 Growth and Development PSYC 260 Basic Psychological Processes
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One of: KNSS 260 Introduction to KNSS 240 Adapted Physical Education KNSS 220 Introduction to Coaching Theory KNSS 270 Leadership and Instruction Athletic Therapy KNSS 299 Directed Studies in in Physical Activity KNSS 260 Introduction to Kinesiology and Sport KDNC 200 The Spectrum of Dance in Coaching Theory Studies Society KNSS 280 Introduction to INTD 240 Integrated Arts Approved Option Outdoor Education* Approach to Approved Option KNSS 299 Directed Studies in Movement Two Physical Activity Courses - KPAC/KDNC Kinesiology and Sport Studies Note: Students should plan to take KNSS Year 2 INTD 240 Integrated Arts 200, PSIO 258, PSIO 259 and BIOL 217 at PSIO 258 Elementary Physiology I Approach to RDC before transferring to U of C. PSIO 259 Elementary Physiology II Movement KNSS 250 Intro to the Admin of Sport, * KNSS 280 includes a one week camp Approved Options should be selected Physical Activity, & during the fourth week in August. after consultation with an Academic Advisor and considering the major you Recreation Programs KNSS 299 Directed Studies in General Diploma (transfer to Bachelor of will choose upon transferring. Kinesiology Degree at the University of General Major Approved Options are Kinesiology and Sport Calgary). ENGL 219 and/or PSYC 260. Studies Year 1 INTD 240 Integrated Arts Approach to KNSS 200 Structural Anatomy Students interested in pursuing the Adapted Physical Education KNSS 201 Biomechanics Leadership in Pedagogy and Coaching KNSS 285 Physical Activity & Aging KNSS 204 Sociocultural Foundations Major at the U of C should discuss, with an DACS 207 Values and Issues of P.E. Leisure & Sport Academic Advisor, requirements for Three of: KNSS 210 Fitness and Wellness admission to this program at U of C prior BIOL 217 Intro to Cell Biology Theory & Practice to commencement of their RDC (required for U of C KNSS 240 Adapted Physical Kinesiology program. transfer students) Education * KNSS 280 includes a one week camp KNSS 202 Physiology of Exercise KNSS 270 Leadership & Instruction in during the fourth week in August. (U of A transfer only) Physical Activity KNSS 205 History of Sport KDNC 200 The Spectrum of Dance in Diploma - Kinesiology and KNSS 209 Measurement and Society Sport Studies - Adapted Evaluation Two Approved Options Physical Education KNSS 244 Introduction to Two Physical Activity Courses - KPAC/ The Adapted Physical Education Program Nutrition KDNC or KNSS 280* is designed for students who wish to (1) KNSS 253 Psychological Sport Performance Year 2 complete a diploma with a focus in KNSS 307 Growth and PSIO 258 Elementary Physiology I adapted physical education (2) pursue the Development PSIO 259 Elementary Physiology II university transferable program of studies KNSS 205 History of Sport in the area of Kinesiology and Sport Two Physical Activity Courses - KPAC/ KNSS 209 Measurement and Studies or the University of Calgary KDNC (KPAC 290 Evaluation Bachelor of Community Rehabilitation recommended) KNSS 244 Introduction to Program. PSYC 260 Basic Psychological Nutrition Processes KNSS 307 Growth and Development The 2-year Adapted Physical Education BIOL 217 Introduction to Cell program is designed so that the students The diploma program requires the Biology will acquire the knowledge, skills and completion of the above listed courses or Two Physical Activity Courses - KPAC/ attitudes in preparation for a career in acceptable replacement courses. KDNC or KNSS 280* the area of adapted physical education Two of: program development and delivery. Acceptance into the Adapted Physical One Approved Option Education Diploma Program is limited by KNSS 203 Skill Acquisition & Course Selection quota based on a minimum GPA of 2.0, Performance Year 1 Directed Study placement availability and KNSS 220 Introduction to KNSS 200 Structural Anatomy an interview. Athletic Therapy KNSS 201 Biomechanics KNSS 250 Intro to the Admin of KNSS 204 Sociolcultural Foundations Students normally apply to this diploma Sport, Physical Activity, program starting December 1 of their first & Recreation Programs of PE Leisure and Sport year of studies in the Kinesiology and Sport KNSS 253 Psychological Sport KNSS 210 Fitness and Wellness Studies Program. Performance Theory & Practice
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Diploma - Kinesiology and One of: Course Selection Sport Studies - Coaching & BIOL 217 Intro to Cell Biology Year 1 Sport Performance (required for U of C KNSS 200 Structural Anatomy This Diploma Program is designed for transfer students) KNSS 201 Biomechanics KNSS 205 History of Sport students who wish to (1) complete a KNSS 204 Sociocultural Foundations KNSS 209 Measurement and diploma with a focus on Coaching & Sport of PE Leisure & Sport Evaluation Performance or (2) pursue the university KNSS 210 Fitness and Wellness KNSS 244 Introduction to transferable program of studies in the Theory & Practice Nutrition area of Kinesiology and Sport Studies. KNSS 240 Adapted Physical (recommended for U Education of C transfer students) KNSS 270 Leadership & Instruction The 2-year Coaching & Sport Performance KNSS 307 Growth and in Physical Activity program is designed so that the students Development KDNC 200 The Spectrum of Dance will acquire the necessary knowledge, One of: in Society skills and attitudes required to coach KPAC 290 Metabolic Approved Option select individual or team sports. Conditioning Approved Option KPAC 321 Applied Resistance One Physical Activity Course - KPAC/KDNC Training Course Selection KPAC 290 Metabolic Conditioning Year 1 An Advanced KPAC KNSS 200 Structural Anatomy Year 2 The diploma program requires the KNSS 201 Biomechanics PSIO 258 Elementary Physiology I completion of the above listed courses or KNSS 204 Sociocultural Foundations PSIO 259 Elementary Physiology II of PE Leisure & Sport acceptable replacement courses. KNSS 202 Physiology of Exercise (U of KNSS 210 Fitness and Wellness The Coaching Diploma also requires the A transfer only) Theory & Practice completion of First Aid and CPR. KNSS 209 Measurement & Evaluation KNSS 240 Adapted Physical KNSS 244 Introduction to Nutrition Education Acceptance into the Coaching Diploma KNSS 250 Intro to the Admin of Sport, KNSS 270 Leadership & Instruction in Program is limited by quota based on a Physical Activity, & Physical Activity minimum GPA of 2.0, Directed Study Recreation Programs KDNC 200 The Spectrum of Dance in placement availability and an interview. KNSS 299 Directed Study Society KPAC 321 Applied Risistance Training Approved Option Students normally apply to this diploma Two of: Approved Option program starting December 1 of their first KNSS 203 Skill Acquisition and One Physical Activity Course - KPAC/KDNC year of studies in the Kinesiology and Performance One of: Sport Studies Program. KNSS 205 History of Sport KPAC 290 Metabolic KNSS 220 Athletic Therapy OR Conditioning Diploma - Kinesiology and Sport KNSS 280* Outdoor Education KPAC 321 Applied Resistance KNSS 253 Psychological Sport Training Studies - Fitness and Health Promotion Performance An Advanced KPAC This Diploma Program is designed for KNSS 307 Growth and students who wish to (1) complete a Development Year 2 diploma with a focus on Fitness and Health BIOL 217 Intro to Cell Biology PSIO 258 Elementary Physiology I Promotion or (2) pursue the university (required for U of C PSIO 259 Elementary Physiology II transferable program of studies in the area transfer students) KNSS 202 Physiology of Exercise (U of of Kinesiology and Sport Studies. PSYC 260 Basic Psychological A transfer only) Processes KNSS 250 Intro to the Admin of Sport, The 2-year Fitness and Health Promotion Two Physical Activity Courses - KPAC/ Physical Activity, & Program is designed so that the students KDNC Recreation Programs will acquire the necessary knowledge, BUS 201 Introduction to Business KNSS 253 Psychological Sport skills and attitudes required to plan and BADM 132 Introduction to Performance instruct fitness classes, perform a variety of Marketing KNSS 260 Intro to Coaching Theory fitness testing protocols, counsel KNSS 299 Directed Studies individuals and groups regarding fitness The diploma program requires the in Kinesiology & Sport programs and establish and operate fitness completion of the above listed courses or Studies programs in industry, clubs and acceptable replacement courses. The One of: communities. Fitness and Health Promotion Diploma KNSS 203 Skill Acquisition & Program also requires the following Performance certifications: KNSS 220 Introduction to AFLCA - Alberta Fitness Leadership Athletic Therapy Certification Association certification in one of the four
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specialities: Older Population, Course Selection KNSS 244 Introduction to Aerobic, Aquatic, Resistance Year 1 Nutrition Training (AFLCA Certification KNSS 200 Structural Anatomy KNSS 253 Psychological Sport includes CPR) OR the NCCP KNSS 201 Biomechanics Performances Level I Weightlifting - KNSS 204 Sociocultural Foundations KNSS 260 Introduction to Instructional Stream of PE Leisure & Sport Coaching AFLCA group exercise OR the NCCP KNSS 210 Fitness and Wellness KNSS 280* Introduction to Level I Weightlifting - Instructional Stream Theory & Practice Outdoor Education Athletic First Aid (Standard First Aid KNSS 240 Adapted Physical BIOL 217 Intro to Cell Biology accepted) and CPR Level B or C. Education (required for U of C CSEP-CPT (Certified Personal Trainer) - KNSS 270 Leadership & Instruction in transfer) Students are able to write the Physical Activity INTD 240 Integrated Arts CSEP-CPT national certification KDNC 200 The Spectrum of Dance in Approach to Movement examination upon completion of Society Two Physical Activity Courses - KPAC/ their Fitness & Health Promotion Approved Option KDNC Diploma coursework. Approved Option *KNSS 280 includes a one week camp Two Physical Activity Courses - KPAC/ during the fourth week in August. These certifications are available through KDNC the Kevin Sirois Fitness and Resource The diploma program requires the Centre at Red Deer College at a cost of Year 2 completion of the above listed courses or approximately $60-$150 per certification. acceptable replacement courses. Acceptance into the Fitness and Health PSIO 258 Elementary Physiology I PSIO 259 Elementary Physiology II Promotion Diploma Program is limited by Acceptance into the Sport Management quota based on a minimum GPA of 2.0, KNSS 250 Intro to the Admin of Diploma program is limited by quota based Directed Study placement availability and Sports, Physical Activity, & on a minimum GPA of 2.0, Directed Study an interview. Recreation Programs placement availability and an interview. KNSS 299 Directed Studies in Students normally apply to this diploma Students normally apply to this diploma Kinesiology & Sport Studies program starting December 1 of their first program starting December 1 of their first One of: year of studies in the Kinesiology and Sport year of studies in the Kinesiology and Sport KNSS 205 History of Sport Studies Program. Studies Program. KNSS 253 Psychological Sport Performance Program Cost Estimates - 201012012 Diploma - Kinesiology and Sport Four of: General Studies - Sport Management ACCT 202 Introductory Financial Year 1 Tuition $3,672.00 This program is designed for students who Accounting Student Association Fees $ 153.00 wish to (1) complete a diploma with a focus BUS 201 Introduction to on sport management or (2) pursue the Fees $ 60.00 Business Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 university transferable program of studies BADM 132 Introduction to Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 170.00 in the area of Kinesiology and Sport Marketing (no U of C Books/Materials $1,050.00 Studies. transfer) Total $5,149.00 BUS 303 Introduction to The 2-year diploma program in Sport Organizational Year 2 Management is designed to provide Behavior (if not taken Tuition $3,672.00 knowledge and practical skills so that the in year 1) Student Association Fees $ 153.00 graduate of this program can work in a BUS 311 Legal Foundations of Fees $ 60.00 variety of sport management settings. the Canadian Economy Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 Employment positions may include: ECON 201 Introduction to Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 170.00 Books/Materials $1,105.00 planning and directing programs and Microeconomics Total $5,204.00 activities in clubs, leagues, and summer One of: camps; civic or provincial sport governing KNSS 202 Physiology of Exercise Graduation Requirements organizations or a variety of other sport, (U of A transfer only) You must complete all courses with a recreation and fitness agencies. KNSS 203 Skill Acquisition and minimum cumulative grade point average Performance of 2.0 with no grade less than D in any Students will acquire administration and KNSS 205 History of Sport course to receive the Kinesiology and leadership skills necessary for the KNSS 209 Measurement and Sport Studies Diploma. planning, designing, marketing and Evaluation implementing of sports programs, as well KNSS 220 Introduction to as instruction and analytical skills Athletic Therapy necessary for teaching and coaching.
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Chairperson Note: It is to your advantage to have basic Year 2 Diana Gillespie keyboarding skills before beginning the LAW 202 Workplace Success E-mail: [email protected] Program. Strategies Local calls: 403-342-3400 LAW 230 Litigation III Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 Note: While not an admission requirement LAW 231 Real Estate III LAW 232 Real Estate IV for the program, some practicum agencies LAW 233 Commercial Law Two-Year Diploma and field placements may require Criminal LAW 234 Estate Planning record checks of students working in their Related Careers LAW 236 Legal Information organizations. Information about Processing II Legal assistants often find work in law obtaining Criminal Record Checks will be LAW 240 Litigation IV offices, governments, financial provided to students after they have been LAW 242 Applied Problem Solving institutions, and oil and gas companies. admitted to the program. LAW 244 Estates Administration They work under a lawyer’s supervision, LAW 245 Family and Domestic Law taking over many routine legal and Communications Course LAW 246 Criminal Procedure administrative responsibilities. Placement Testing LAW 250 Work Experience* Students will be required to take a College Specific examples of Legal Assistant * The work experience requirement duties include handling real estate placement test before registering in a written communications course. (Students (practicum) is to be completed during May transactions; preparing common forms of and June following the second year. A with 60% or greater in English 30 will be wills, estates, and probate work, minimum of 210 hours (full time) is exempted from this test.) Students who do collection work, and litigation and needed for your practicum. The corporate work. Legal Assistants may also not achieve a satisfactory mark in this test Department will help you find a suitable perform general office and clerical duties, will be required to complete COMM 150 placement in Alberta. Practicum is graded especially in the beginning. before they can register in the required on a credit/no credit basis. Normally, you course, COMM 250. Students should take must be eligible to graduate by June 30 to Students may become members of the the placement test early in the event take part in a practicum. Alberta Association of Professional preparatory work (COMM 150) is required. Paralegals. Apply to the Association. Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 Program Content Year 1 The Program Year 1 Tuition $4,104.00 In this two-year program you will be COMM 250 Business and Workplace Student Association Fees $ 144.00 introduced to rules of law, legal Writing Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 160.00 procedures and some basic assistant skills. LAW 102 Beginning Keyboarding Books/Materials $ 900.00 You will also gain practical experience in LAW 105 Introduction to the a law office. Total $5,574.00 Canadian Legal System Admission Requirements LAW 110 Litigation I Year 2 LAW 111 Real Estate I A) Academic Requirements Tuition $4,212.00 LAW 112 Corporate Law 1. High School Diploma Student Association Fees $ 175.50 OR LAW 115 Contracts Fees $ 57.00 2. Mature Student LAW 120 Litigation II Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 You must be 19 years of age or older, LAW 121 Real Estate II Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 195.00 Books/Materials $1,145.00 out of high school at least one full year LAW 125 Intermediate Keyboarding Total $5,828.50 before the program starts and have a LAW 126 Legal Information minimum mark of 50% in ELA 30-1 Processing I or ELA 30-2, or a minimum score at LAW 130 Personal Injury Graduation Requirements the 50th percentile on the English You must pass all courses and achieve a component of the College Board minimum cumulative GPA of 2.00. Placement Test (written on campus) or the Test of Adult Basic Education (written off campus) and a score of 2- 3 on a writing sample.
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Chairperson Related Careers a) A minimum TOEFL score of 550 paper Warren Elgersma There is a high demand for Medical Lab based or 213 computer based or 80 E-mail: [email protected] Assistant in Central Alberta, as well as in internet based Local calls: 403-342-3400 other areas provincially and OR Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 interprovincially. Medical Lab Assistants b) A minimum grade of 60% in ELA 30-1 find employment in hospitals, community OR 23-week Certificate Program health centers, and public or private c) IELTS - accept minimum score of 6.5 The program is designed so that students clinical laboratories. overall, with at least 5.5 on each band complete sixteen weeks of classroom and score laboratory study at RDC followed by a Transfer Features d) CAEL - accept minimum score of 60 seven week practicum of clinical Graduates of the MLA program who wish overal, with at least 60 on each band laboratory training. The program uses the to continue their education are given an score Northern Alberta Institute of Technology automatic interview for the MLT (Medical e) MELAB - accept minimum score of 85 (NAIT) Medical Lab Assistant curriculum. Lab Technologist) and CLXT (Combined Lab overall, with at least 80 on each band The Medical Lab Assistant certificate and X-ray Technologist) programs at NAIT, score. includes four major areas of study: credit for the Medical Terminology course phlebotomy, urinalysis, histology, and and for selected skills (i.e. Phlebotomy) Foreign credentials may require microbiology. Students are trained to depending on their experience. The evaluation by the Internation Qualification collect, process, and prepare patient program length for these diplomas is not Assessment Services (IQAS) branch of specimens, enter data, perform clerical shortened. Alberta Labour. Please call IQAS at and reception services, perform 780.427.2655 for more information. electrocardiograms and urinalysis, and Note: There is one annual intake in Fall carry out basic laboratory procedures. for the MLA program usually beginning Career Investigation Graduates of the MLA program are in October. Applicants are required to complete a eligible to write the Canadian Society for Medical Laboratory Assistant Program Medical Laboratory Science MLA national Admission Requirements Specific Career Investigation Report Form. certification examination. A visit to a clinical laboratory or collection A) Academic Requirements site and completion of a Career 1. Minimum average of 60% and no During practicum experience, students Investigation form specific to the Medical mark below 50% in: Laboratory Assisting program are required. will address a limited selection of a. English 30-1 or 30-2 competency in a simulation lab. The b. Chemistry 20 B) Non-academic Requirements remainder of the unpaid practicum c. Biology 20 occurs in settings whose staffing includes Immunization Requirements d. Pure Math 10 or Applied Math 20 Once accepted into the Medical Medical Laboratory Assistants. The 2. Keyboarding skills (minimum 30 words available practicum sites are located Laboratory Assistant program, students will per minute with 90% accuracy) be given an immunization requirement primarily in central Alberta and 3. Basic computer literacy exam Edmonton. form to be completed by their physician, AND public health nurse or health professional. Additional Requirements Your immunization must be up-to-date All students are expected to travel to A completed Career Investigation report clinical agencies throughout Central prior to orientation. Your completed that documents a visit or job shadow in a immunization requirement form must be Alberta Health Services Region for the clinical laboratory or blood collection site. clinical practicum. Travel to Edmonton submitted at your program’s orientation in practicum sites is a strong possibility to September. International Applicants Don’t wait - start updating your ensure students have access to clinical As English is the language of instruction in experiences. Students require access to immunization today. You will need all programs at RDC, you must have an immunization against tetanus and reliable transportation that will enable adequate knowledge of written and them to complete the requirements for diptheria, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, spoken English as a prerequisite for varicella (chicken pox) and hepatitus B the clinical practicum. During the clinical admission. Regardless of your country of practicum students may also be required (including Hepatitis B titre). You will also origin or citizenship status, you must be required to undergo tuberculosis to arrange alternate accommodation for demonstrate English-language proficiency up to 7 weeks during the winter screening within a specified time prior to prior to being accepted and have a valid practicum placement. Failure to do so will semester. Students are responsible for Study Permit. costs associated with this travel. prevent you from participating in program activities and clinical placement. A copy of The College will accept as proof: your records may be obtained from your public health clinic or physician’s office.
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Criminal Record Check A criminal record check may be required at some clinical training sites. If it is required, students are responsible for providing a satisfactory criminal record check within three months prior to the start of their first clinical practicum. Once the document is obtained, at the student’s expense, it is his or her responsibility to present it to the clinical site to which he or she has been assigned. Please note that failing to obtain security clearance could prevent the student from advancing to the Clinical Practicum experience and completing the certificate program.
Program Content Year 1 Oct-April (irregular term) MLA 100 Professional Relations MLA 101 Basic Electrocardiography MLA 102 Quality Management MLA 103 Basic Anatomy and Physiology RDC Alumni...Stay Connected! MLA 104 Medical Terminology MLA 105 Infection Control and Safety MLA 106 Blood Collection & Handling The Red Deer College Alumni Association is governed by a MLA 107 Introduction to General volunteer executive and is dedicated to: Laboratory Procedures • Promoting academic excellence at Red Deer College MLA 108 Introduction to Medical • Maintaining an informed, interested and committed Alumni Laboratory Testing • Furthering the friendship and associations made while MLA 109 Miscellaneous Speciman attending RDC Processing MLA 110 Urinalysis Membership in the Alumni Association is automatic. As an Alum, MLA 115 Clinical Practicum there are a number of ways for you to stay connected:
Graduation Requirement VOLUNTEERING DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS You must pass all required courses Support the Association AWARD including Clinical Practicum. through committees or Awarding an alum who has executive involvement. distinguished themselves in Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 MAGAZINE & EZINES personal, academic or public Tuition $3,024.00 service achievement. (Domestic Students Only) Receive a copy of Notebook Student Association Fees $ 126.00 magazine annually along with ONLINE COMMUNITIES Lab Consumables Fee $ 500.00 fresh ezine articles delivered Join us in NetCommunity Prac Sim Lab Consumables Fee $ 300.00 quarterly to your Inbox. (powered by Ning) at Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 REUNIONS http://rdcalumni.ning.com or Books/Materials $1,090.00 Organizing a reunion. look us up on Facebook, Twitter Optional: Prac Transportation $ 500.00 and LinkedIn. Total $5,584.00
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Contact Persons Graduates of the Production Stream will MPA 305 Motion Picture Directing Dr. Dale Wheeler apply their broad-based understanding of MPA 311 Motion Picture Technology Larry Reese the nature of production to pursue MPA 315 Motion Picture Production I Don Armstrong multiple job tracks as their careers MPA 316 Motion Picture Production II E-mail: [email protected] progress. Typically, graduates will begin MPA 320 Motion Picture Projects I Local calls: 403-342-3400 employment at entry levels in various MPA 321 Motion Picture Projects II Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 areas of the industry, including cinematography, camera operation, Program Cost Estimates - 2010/2011 The Program digital editing, production design, sound Tuition $ 3,621.00 The Applied Degree in Motion Picture Arts recording, production management, and Student Association Fees $ 144.50 enables students who have completed two special effects. Some graduates may Fees $ 960.00 years of post-secondary theatre sttudies (or choose to act as self-employed Activity & Wellness Fee $ 40.00 equivalent) to expand and apply their contractors in their own creative business Books/Materials $ 250.00 primary theatre training to the rapidly ventures. Total $ 5,015.50 growing motion picture, television and multimedia industries. The two years of Acting Stream graduates will be prepared Acting Stream completed theatre studies is followed by a to audition for performance roles in Year 3 program year (3rd year) of intensive theory feature films, movies of the week, series MPA 301 Motion Picture and hands-on instruction culminating in an television, commercials, and voice-overs. Fundamentals I advanced certificate in Performance or MPA 302 Motion Picture Production. Students may then choose to With experience and proven ability, Fundamentals II go on to the final (4th year) which is a graduates from both streams may also MPA 303 Motion Picture Business/ credited mentored work experience the advance into entrepreneurial roles as Career Path equivalent of two four-month terms or the directors, writers, and producers, MPA 304 Screenwriting Techniques opportunity to complete a substantial supervising content creation in a wide MPA 305 Motion Picture Directing motion picture project. The program has variety of current and emerging media. MPA 312 Audition Techniques two streams: the Production Stream and MPA 317 Motion Picture Acting I the Acting Stream. Admission Requirements MPA 318 Motion Picture Acting II 1. You must have successfully completed MPA 320 Motion Picture Projects I Related Careers 2 years of a post-secondary Theatre MPA 321 Motion Picture Projects II The motion picture industry is a major Studies Diploma Program (or Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 contributor to the North American equivalent) with a minimum 2.00 GPA. Tuition $3,672.00 economy and is at the forefront of the Other related post-secondary credits Student Association Fees $ 153.00 digital revolution. The producers of and/or equivalent experience will be Fees $ 960.00 feature films, television series and considered. Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 commercials seek gifted storytellers, AND Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 170.00 actors, artists and technicians with strong 2. You must complete a successful Books/Materials $ 250.00 backgrounds in the dramatic arts. Existing audition and/or interview/portfolio. Total $5,249.00 theatre programs provide a solid Further guidelines regarding audition/ foundation for advanced study in narrative interview expectations are available at Graduation Requirements motion picture acting and production. The www.rdc.ab.ca/performing_arts. MPA program provides students with the You must pass all of the required Year 3 specific skills and experience they need to Program Content courses in the Production or Performance gain an advantage in this highly Production Stream Stream with a GPA of 2.00 to receive the competitive industry. Year 3 Advanced Certificate in Motion Picture MPA 301 Motion Picture Arts. Fundamentals I MPA 302 Motion Picture Fundamentals II MPA 303 Motion Picture Business/Career Path MPA 304 Screenwriting Techniques
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Chairperson In this program you will learn the Students who wish to pursue the two- Dr. Dale Wheeler fundamentals of reading, writing, hearing, year Music Diploma program at Red Deer E-mail: [email protected] and performing music. Through classroom College after completing the Music Local calls: 403-342-3400 instruction and private lessons you will Preparatory program will be required to Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 gain valuable knowledge and will sharpen re-audition on their primary instrument. your playing skills. Optional participation Since there is some overlap in course Related Careers by audition in small and/or large requirements between the two Music is one of the largest and fastest- ensembles will allow you to further programs, students who complete the growing industries in North America. The develop your performance abilities. Music Preparatory program will have following is a short list of opportunities in already fulfilled some of the this field: The program has three main components: requirements for the Music Diploma. 1) Core Classes Performance: Solo, small and large All students are required to take classes in Admission Requirements ensembles (eg. bands, music rudiments and aural skills, A) Academic Requirements introductory music history, basic piano, orchestras) music theatre 1. High School Diploma with a and communications. These courses will minimum mark of 50% in ELA 30-1 or accompanying, provide fundamental training in the basics ELA 30-2 recording artist, studio of music. OR musician, conductor. 2. Mature Student Composition: Song writing, arranging, 2) Primary Instrument Study You must be 19 years of age or older, transcription, film Each semester of the program you will out of high school at least one full year scoring, computer- take private lessons on the instrument on before the program starts, and have a generated music. which you had a successful entrance minimum mark of 50% in ELA 30-1 Merchandising: Promotion/publicity, audition. Lessons are available on most or ELA 30-2, or a minimum score at management, music standard instruments (subject to the 50th percentile on the English sales, budgeting/ instructor availability). Current options component of the College Board accounting, copyright. include: Placement Test (written on campus) or Technology: Recording engineer, Voice Classical Piano the Test of Adult Basic Education Woodwinds Jazz Piano sound technician, (written off campus) and a score of 2- Brass Classical Guitar 3 on a writing sample. equipment maintenance Percussion Electric Guitar AND and set up, concert hall Strings Brass Guitar B) Other Requirements technical director. Private instruction on instruments such as 1. Audition: College music study Teaching: Private and group Organ or in areas such as Conducting or assumes that an acceptable standard of instruction in a home Composition may be available to qualified proficiency in an instrumental or vocal studio, private and group students. area has already been acquired. You must instruction in music declare a principal instrument (eg. guitar, academies, colleges, and 3) Optional Classes voice, piano, etc.) when you apply and universities. Depending on your interests, course load present a playing audition on this and performance abilities, a variety of instrument. You will continue to pursue One-Year Music Preparatory music ensembles are open to all students lessons on this instrument during your Program on the basis of audition. time in the program. The audition The one-year Music Preparatory Program consists of the following elements: Note: Completion of the Preparatory a. A polished performance of two is designed to: Program does not guarantee admission contrasting pieces of your choice that 1) provide an opportunity for students into the Music Diploma Program. demonstrate your playing or singing who have a general interest in music abilities. and wish to broaden their knowledge and skills; 2) provide an entry-level opportunity for students who are considering a career in music and intend on pursuing the Music Diploma program but have limited formal music training.
www.rdc.ab.ca 103 CERTIFICATE AND DIPLOMA PROGRAMS b. A demonstration of technical skills Program Content Two-Year Music Diploma appropriate to your instrument (eg. MUSI 194 Introductory Music Theory I Program vocalises for singers; scales, chords, MUSI 195 Introductory Aural Skills I The two-year Music Diploma may be arpeggios, long tones, tonguing, etc. as MUSI 196 Introductory Music Theory II taken for general interest or to help appropriate for pianists and other MUSI 197 Introductory Autal Skills II prepare you for a professional career in instrumentalists). MUSS 145/ Secondary Instrument music. In today’s world, musicians are c. Aural tests (eg. recognition of chord MUSS 145 Study (Private Lessons) required to be highly-trained, well- qualities and melodic intervals, (repeated for credit) rounded, and versatile. The Music clapback of rhythmic patterns). MUSI 233 Introduction to Music Diploma program provides you with a d. Playing or singing a short unfamiliar History solid core of essential courses while excerpt at sight. MUSI 241/ Basic Piano I & II allowing you the option to focus on e. A brief interview to discuss your MUSI 242 (Students with Gr. 4 Piano particular areas of interest. Our unique musical background, interests and from the Royal Conservatory blend of traditional and contemporary goals. or equivalent are exempt. courses provides you with the utmost Requests for exemption flexibility in pursuing career choices. 2. Theory placement test: This written should be directed to the The Music Diploma is designed to: test covers key signatures, major and Assessment & Test Centre). 1) provide a solid foundation of minor scales, triads, intervals, meter COMM 250 Business & Workplace transferable courses for those students and rhythm, and common musical Writing (ENGL 219, ENGL who wish to use the Diploma as a terms. A score of 80% or greater is 210 or ENGL 200 may be stepping stone towards a 4-year required. Students with Royal substituted if you have university degree; Conservatory Grade II Rudiments (or English 30) 2) provide valuable skills and hands-on equivalent) are exempt. Requests for Open Options (may include Music) experience for those students who may exemption should be directed to the (3 credits) choose to pursue more immediate Assessment & Test Centre. interests in the music industry, in the * See “Communications Course pop/rock field, or in private teaching. Note: The audition requirements and the Placement Testing” above. theory placement test are the same for The program has four main components: both the Music Preparatory program and Other approved music options may be 1) Core Classes the Music Diploma program. The results selected providing you have the All students are required to take classes of these will determine the appropriate necessary prerequisites and the courses in music theory, aural skills, music history, program placement. fit your timetable. music merchandising, basic piano, and communications. Further guidelines regarding audition expectations and the theory placement 2) Primary Instrument Study test are available at www.rdc.ab.ca/ Each semester of the program you will performing_arts take private lessons (MUSP) on the instrument on which you had a successful Communications Course entrance audition. Lessons are available Placement Testing on the most standard instruments Students will be required to take a (subject to instructor availability). College placement test before Current options include: registering in a written communications Voice Classical Piano course. (Students with 60% or greater in Woodwinds Jazz Piano English 30 will be exempted from this Brass Classical Guitar test.) Students who do not achieve a Percussion Electric Guitar satisfactory mark in this test will be Strings Bass Guitar required to complete COMM 150 before Private instruction on instruments such as they can register in the required course, Organ or in areas such as Conducting or COMM 256. Students should take the Composition may be available to qualified placement test early in the event students. preparatory work (COMM 150) is required.
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3) Ensembles Transfer arrangements are different at AND You will participate in at least one MUSE each university and you are advised to B) Other Requirements performance ensemble each semester. consult the Alberta Transfer Guide, your 1. Audition: College music study The expectation is that you will remain in Chairperson, Academic Advisors and the assumes that an acceptable standard of the same ensemble for an entire year. university to which you will transfer for proficiency in an instrumental or vocal Ensemble credits gained as a Music area has already been acquired. You must more information. Preparatory student do not count declare a principal instrument (eg. guitar, towards fulfilling this requirement. voice, piano, etc.) when you apply and The University of Lethbridge: Red Deer present a playing audition on this 4) Specialized Options College enjoys a block transfer instrument. You will continue to pursue You will choose an additional 6 credit arrangement whereby Music Diploma lessons on this instrument during your hours of music course options in graduates who have a GPA of 2.50 and time in the program. The audition consultation with your music faculty have majored in classical piano, classical consists of the following elements: advisor that allow you to pursue voice, classical guitar or an orchestral a. A polished performance of two individual areas of interest. Some instrument may be accepted into the contrasting pieces of your choice that examples of possible options and course Post-Diploma B.Mus./B.Ed program at the demonstrate your playing or singing combinations include: University of Lethbridge. Students who abilities wish to pursue a more general music and b. A demonstration of technical skills Performance education combination may also choose appropriate to your instrument (eg. MUSI 397 Performance Practicum vocalises for singers; scales, chords, the B.A. (Music)/B.Ed. route. MUSI 401 Graduation Recital arpeggios, long tones, tonguing, etc. as appropriate for pianists and other Composition Students considering this option are instrumentalists). MUSI 361/MUSI 362 advised to consult the appropriate c. Aural tests (eg. recognition of chord Composition I & II calendar information from the University qualities and melodic intervals, MUSI 398 Theory Practicum of Lethbridge as soon as possible clapback of rhythmic patterns). (available in print and online) to ensure d. Playing or singing a short unfamiliar Merchandising that they are fully aware of all excerpt at sight. MUSI 321 Music Business: Career & requirements. They are also advised to e. A brief interview to discuss your Products begin an early dialogue with admissions musical background, interests and MUSI 322 Music Business: personnel in the University of Lethbridge goals. Performance Music Department. 2. Theory placement test: This Music Technology written test covers key signatures, National Association of Music Merchants MUSI 280/ Recording Studio major and minor scales, triads, Affiliated Music Business Institutions: Our MUSI 282 Technology I & II intervals, meter and rhythm, and affiliation with NAMBI provides transfer common musical terms. A score of Note: The Merchandising courses, as for our Music Merchandising courses and 80% or greater is required. Students sanctioned by the National Association of practica to approximately 30 other with Royal Conservatory Grade II Music Merchants, are transferable to a member schools in the USA. A list of Rudiments (or equivalent) are exempt. number of NAMBI institutions offering these institutions can be found at Requests for exemption should be “Music Merchandising/Business of Music” www.wiu.edu/users/mimusba/nambi/ directed to the Test & Assessment degree. Students are required to enroll schools. Centre. in MUSI 321 and MUSI 322 to qualify for transferability. Those interested can Admission Requirements Note: The audition requirements and the obtain specific information from the A) Academic Requirements theory placement test are the same for Music Merchandising course instructor. both the Music Preparatory program and 1. High School Diploma with a the Music Diploma program. The results minimum mark of 50% in ELA 30-1 Transfer Features of these will determine the appropriate or ELA 30-2 Graduates of the Music Diploma may be program placement. OR able to pursue university degree studies Further guidelines regarding audition 2. Mature Student in a variety of areas. These include expectations and the theory placement baccalaureate degrees in Music, Arts, You must be 19 years of age or older, test are at www.rdc.ab.ca/ Education as well as a number of more out of high school at least one full year performing_arts. specialized areas such as Music before the program starts, and have a Merchandising and/or Music Therapy. minimum mark of 50% in ELA 30-1 Individual courses in the Music Diploma or ELA 30-2, or a minimum score at program can be transferred to most North the 50th percentile on the English American universities on a course-by- component of the College Board course basis. Placement Test (written on campus) or the Test of Adult Basic Education (written off campus) and a score of 2-3 on a writing sample. www.rdc.ab.ca 105 CERTIFICATE AND DIPLOMA PROGRAMS
Communications Course Year 2 Note: For each semester add $160 if Placement Testing MUSI 346/ Comprehensive Music taking MUSP private lessons and $360 if Students will be required to take a MUSI 347 Theory III & IV taking MUSS private lessons. College placement test before MUSI 348/ Comprehensive Aural and Note: In addition to tuition and course registering in a written communications MUSI 349 Keyboard Skills III & IV fees, you should budget each year for the course. (Students with 60% or greater in MUSE xxx Performance Ensemble following: music scores (approximately English 30 will be exempted from this (4 credits) $100.00), instrument purchase (if test.) Students who do not achieve a MUSP 360/ Principal Instrument necessary), instrument maintenance satisfactory mark in this test will be MUSP 460 Study III & IV (strings, reeds, drum heads, etc. required to complete COMM 150 before MUSI 321 Music Business: Career and approximately $150.00), plus textbooks they can register in the required course, Products and materials (approximately $750.00). COMM 256. Students should take the or Note: MUSI 321 - special materials fee of placement test early in the event MUSI 322 Music Business: $550. for the NAMM field trip. preparatory work (COMM 150) is Performance required. Note: Students who wish to attend the Graduation Requirements NAMM Winter Show in Los Angeles are You must pass all courses for Year 1 and 2 Program Content required to enroll in MUSI 321. and achieve a minimum cumulative GPA Year 1 of 2.0. Year 1 or 2 MUSI 257/ Comprehensive Music Choose one of the following music history MUSI 258 Theory I & II Note: Those students considering a classes: MUSI 259/ Comprehensive Aural and transfer to the Post-Diploma B. Mus./B.Ed. MUSI 304 History of Medieval, MUSI 260 Keyboard Skills I & II at the University of Lethbridge should be Renaissance & Baroque MUSE 201/202Symphonic Winds I & II aware that a minimum GPA of 2.50 is Music or required for admission. MUSI 301 History of Classical and MUSE 205/206Jazz Ensemble I & II Romantic Music or MUSI 302 History of Post-Romantic MUSE 217/218Chamber Choir I & II & 20th Century Music MUSP 145/ Principal Instrument AND MUSP 245 Study I & II (Private Music Options (3 credits) Lessons) Open Options (may include Music) (6 MUSI 233 Introduction to Music credits) History MUSI 241/ Basic Piano I & II MUSI 242 (Students with Gr. 4 Note: Options should be selected after Piano from the Royal consultation with your music faculty Conservatory or advisor. These options will allow you to equivalent are exempt. pursue a specific focus within the music Requests for exemption area. should be directed to the Test & Assessment Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 Centre). Year 1 COMM 191 Oral Communications Tuition $3,780.00 ENGL 219 Language & Literature Student Association Fees $ 157.50 or Fees $ 400.00 COMM 250 Business & Workplace Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 Writing Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 175.00 Books/Materials $1,045.00 * See “Communications Course Total $5,601.50 Placement Testing” above. Year 2 Note: COMM 250 is not transferable. Tuition $3,888.00 Student Association Fees $ 162.00 Fees $ 950.00 Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 180.00 Books/Materials $1,045.00 Total $6,269.00
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Chairperson Learning Outcomes AND Brian McLachlin Graduates of the Networking Certificate B) Other Requirements E-mail: [email protected] will possess the following skills and All Networking Certificate students must Local calls: 403-342-3400 knowledge: have a laptop computer that is using Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 1. troubleshoot common software and Microsoft Windows as the operating hardware problems in a network system. Please contact department Chair One Year Certificate environment for minimum specifications. People are enabled by computer 2. use online resources to identify technology - from cellular phones to MP3 solutions Recommendations players to gaming systems and business 3. participate in the implementation of Applicants are also expected to have applications. Technology is embedded in projects individually and/or within a working skill sets in at least the following all aspects of our daily lives. Networking team environment areas of workstation management and Certificate graduates support many of 4. install, configure, and troubleshoot operations through course work and/or today’s new technologies. devices in a network industry experience: 5. configure, maintain and troubleshoot • word processing Related Careers routing protocols between routers. • e-mail communications Career opportunities in the Information 6. control network access firewalls and • internet research and download Technology (IT) field continue to grow ACLs • file and print management and expand, both nationally and 7. provide common network Help Desk • basic operating systems literacy. internationally. Networking Certificate support graduates will be positioned to take 8. configure,maintain and repair Applicants requesting further advantage of this increased market desktop systems information, skill assessment, and/or demand for IT skills because they are well 9. manage a network environment learning support courses (CMPT 083, 086, prepared with the knowledge-base and using debugging tools and scripting 087 or 089) should contact an academic skill-sets necessary to successfully engage 10. write structured software programs advisor and/or the Information in an exciting IT career in either business 11. practice industry standard codes of Technology Department Chairperson for or industrial environments. A career in IT conduct assistance. will appeal to applicants who are looking 12. complete relevant documentation for exciting, challenging, and well- and activity reports Communications Course compensated futures. 13. practice effective communication Placement Testing with clients including cultural Students will be required to take a sensitivity Types of positions: entry-level positions College placement test before 14. identify and engage in learning in: registering in a written communications activities that are responsive to the • desktop support - configuration, setup, course. (Students with 60% or greater in workplace. maintenance, trouble shooting and English 30 will be exempted from this updates (hardware) test.) Students who do not achieve a Admission Requirements • network support - servers, Local Area satisfactory mark in this test will be Network maintenance A) Academic Requirements required to complete COMM 150 before • IT service desk - providing support for 1. High School Diploma with no mark they can register in the required course, hardware and software below 50% in: COMM 250. Students should take the a. ELA 30-1 placement test early in the event With experience and proven ability, b. Mathematics 30 (Pure) preparatory work (COMM 150) is students may advance into specialized OR required. Students needing to do COMM areas of technology. Many courses in the 50% in ELA 30-1 & 65% in Mathematics 150 will have the opportunity to Networking Certificate program help to 30 (Applied) with either Physics 30 or complete all the Communications prepare students to write certification Chemistry 30 or Science 30 with a requirements with the two year time exams from the Microsoft Certified minimum mark of 50% frame. System Administrator credential, the OR Disco Certified Network Administrator 2. Mature Student credential, and the following CompTIA You must be 19 years of age or older, out of exams: A+, Network+, Server+, and high school at least one full year before Wireless+. the program starts, and have a minimum mark of 50% in Mathematics 30 (Pure) OR a minimum mark of 65% in Mathematics 30 (Applied) and either Chemistry 30 or Physics 30 or Science 30 with a minimum mark of 50%.
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Program Content Term 1 Network Systems Technology COMM 250 Business and Workplace Writing ITEC 100 IT Service Desk Chairperson Many courses in the Network Systems ITEC 105 Discrete Mathematics Brian McLachlin Technology program help to prepare ITEC 110 Computer Hardware E-mail: [email protected] students to write certification exams ITEC 120 Computer Networking Local calls: 403-342-3400 from the Microsoft Certified System ITEC 122 Wireless Technology Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 Administrator credential, the Cisco ITEC 150 Structured Programming Certified Network Administrator ITEC 153 Visual Programming Two Year Diploma credential, some of the exams in the Cisco Certified Network Professional credential Year 2 People are enabled by computer and the following CompTIA exams: A+, ITEC 115 Operating Systems technology - from cellular phones to MP3 Network+, Server+, Linus+, Wireless+, ITEC 124 TCP/IP players to gaming systems and business and Security+. ITEC 126 VOIP applications. Technology is embedded in ITEC 128 WAN all aspects of our daily lives. Information ITEC 130 Security I Technology (IT) professionals create these Learning Outcomes ITEC 140 Desktop Operating technologies. Network Systems Graduates of the NST will possess the Systems Technology (NST) graduates manage and following skills and knowledge: ITEC 145 Server Configuration support today’s new technologies 1. troubleshoot common software and ITEC 180 Career Skills including wireless and mobile devices. hardware problems in a network ITEC 190 Project I environment Related Careers 2. use online resources to investigate Term 3 (Spring Term) Career opportunities in the Information and analyse potential solutions ITEC 193 Practicum OR Technology (IT) field continue to grow 3. participate in the implementation of ITEC 196 Work Experience and expand, both nationally and projects individually and/or within a internationally. NST graduates will be team environment Should a student posess any other well positioned to take advantage of this 4. anticipate, analyse and develop course(s) and/or credentials not listed increased market demand for IT skills solutions to increase network above for which they wish to have because they are well prepared with the efficiency considered for advanced credit, please knowledge-base and skill-sets necessary 5. plan and implement security contact the Information Technology to successfully engage in an exciting, protocols Department Chairperson. long-term, professional IT career in either 6. design, implement and manage a business or industrial environments. A network Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 career in IT will appeal to applicants who 7. integrate heterogeneous systems Tuition $3,996.00 are looking for exciting, challenging, and 8. configure,maintain and repair desktop Student Association Fees $ 166.50 well-compensated futures. systems Fees $ 22.00 9. consider the international context Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 In addition to desktop support, help desk, within the work environment Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 185.00 and network support the program 10. write structured software programs Books/Materials $2,400.00 prepares students to be Network or 11. practice industry standard codes of Total $6,813.50 Systems Administrators with skills in: conduct • wireless networks 12. complete relevant documentation, Graduation Requirements • heterogeneous networks including activity reports, project plans, and proposals You must pass all courses and achieve a VOIP 13. identify and engage in learning minimum cumulative GPA of 2.00. • web servers • security systems activities that are responsive to the • database administration workplace and that advances career path The NST program will be applying for 14. practice effective interpersonal accreditation by the Canadian Technology communication skills in the following Accreditation Board, and the Association situations: of Science and Engineering Technology • presentation skills Professionals (ASET), an organization • client interaction representing technology professionals in • conflice resolution Alberta. • teaching (clients and co-workers) • leading small teams • cultural sensitivity
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Transfer Features Admission Requirements Communications Course Red Deer College A) Academic Requirements Placement Testing Depending on electives chosen, 1. High School Diploma with no mark Students will be required to take a graduates of the NST program may posess below 50% in: College placement test before up to 5 of 8 required courses towards a a. ELA 30-1 registering in a written communications Management Certificate from Red Deer b. Mathematics 30 (Pure) course. (Students with 60% or greater in College. Required courses for the NST OR English 30 will be exempted from this program that also meet requirements for 50% in ELA 30-1 & 65% in test.) Students who do not achieve a the Management Certificate program Mathematics 30 (Applied) with either satisfactory mark in this test will be include COMM 250, ITEC 170, BADM 204, Physics 30 or Chemistry 30 or Science required to complete COMM 150 before BADM 253 and a Business Option. 30 with a minimum mark of 50% they can register in the required course, OR COMM 250. Students should take the This Certificate is offered by the Business 2. Mature Student placement test early in the event Administration Department at Red Deer You must be 19 years of age or older, preparatory work (COMM 150) is College. Students must complete eight out of high school at least one full year required. Students needing to do COMM business courses approved by the before the program starts, and have a 150 will have the opportunity to Business Administration program minimum mark of 50% in Mathematics complete all the Communications Chairperson to be awarded a 30 (Pure) requirements with the two year time Management Certificate. OR frame. a minimum mark of 65% in Please contact an academic advisor for Mathematics 30 (Applied) and either Program Content details regarding this program and/or the Chemistry 30 or Physics 30 or Science Term 1, Year 1 Chairperson of the Business 30 with a minimum mark of 50%. COMM 250 Business and Workplace Administration Department. AND Writing B) Other Requirements ITEC 100 IT Service Desk Athabasca University All Networking Certificate students ITEC 105 Discrete Mathematics Holders of a NST diploma will be awarded must have a laptop computer that is ITEC 110 Computer Hardware 60 credits towards the 120 credit using Microsoft Windows as the ITEC 120 Computer Networking Bachelor of Science in Computing and operating system. Please contact ITEC 122 Wireless Technology Information Systems Degree (Post department Chair for minimum ITEC 150 Structured Programming Diploma). specifications. ITEC 153 Visual Programming Graduates of the NST diploma may Recommendations Term 2, Year 1 receive up to 39 credits for IT core Applicants are also expected to have ITEC 115 Operating Systems courses. Students may also get additional working skill sets in at least the following ITEC 124 TCP/IP credit for non-IT diploma courses. areas of workstation management and ITEC 126 VOIP Students may apply this credit to a operations through course work and/or ITEC 128 WAN Bachelor of Arts - Information Systems industry experience: ITEC 130 Security I degree or a Bachelor of Science - • word processing ITEC 140 Desktop Operating Computing Information Systems degree. • e-mail communications Systems • internet research and download ITEC 145 Server Configuration Students may work toward a degree • file and print management ITEC 180 Career Skills through Athabasca’s distance education • basic operating systems literacy. ITEC 190 Project I programs. This may be done on a part- time basis. Applicants requesting further Term 3, Year 2 information, skill assessment, and/or BADM 204 Interpersonal Skills University of Lethbridge learning support courses (CMPT 083, 086, BADM 253 Project Management Graduates of the NST diploma may apply 087 or 089) should contact an academic ITEC 170 Systems Analysis and to complete the 2 year Post-Diploma advisor and/or the Information Design Bachelor of Management Degree. Technology Department Chairperson for ITEC 264 Mobile Applications assistance. ITEC 280 IT Profession NAIT/SAIT Business Option Graduates of the NST diploma may apply to complete the 2 year Post-Diploma Bachelor of Applied Information Systems Technology at NAIT or the Bachelor of Applied Technology Information Systems at SAIT.
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Term 4, Year 2 ITEC 220 Network Design and Architecture Office Technology Certificate ITEC 230 Security II ITEC 241 Unix Administration Donald School of Business - Downtown ITEC 271 Database Server Configuration Chairperson Transfer Features ITEC 290 Project II Deb Kindopp The Office Technology Certificate transfers IT Option E-mail: [email protected] IT Option to all Office Administration Diploma Local calls: 403-342-3400 Programs in colleges in Alberta. Term 5 (Spring Term), Year 2 Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 ITEC 193 Practicum OR Completion of the Office Technology ITEC 196 Work Experience OR The Office Technology Certificate Certificate grants 6 credits towards the ITEC 293 Practicum OR Program may be taken on a full- or part- Virtual Assistant Certificate. ITEC 296 Work Experience time basis. Completion of the Office Technology Note: One of ITEC 193, 196, 293 or 296 is One Year Certificate Certificate grants 30 credits (one year) required for graduation. This course can An administrative assistant is the towards a Bachelor of Professional Arts be taken at the end of the student’s first cornerstone of the modern office. This or second year. Degree, Communication Major, at person is adept at utilizing current Athabasca University. computer software and technology and Program Electives has learned how to be a life-long learner! Two Office Technology Certificate courses As part of the graduation requirements are equivalent to courses offered from the for a Diploma in Network Systems The Office Technology Certificate Canadian Institute of Bookkeeping as part of Technology, students are required to pass Program provides students with the their Certified Bookkeeper credential. See a minimum of three different elective software training to be competitive in a additional information regarding this courses. Two courses must be from the continuously changing field. In addition program at www.cibcb.com. Information Technology department. to well-defined keyboarding skills, you One course must be from the Business will gain basic bookkeeping knowledge, Graduates may complete a second year of department. oral and written communication training in the Online Office Administration knowledge, training in office procedures With prior written approval from the and you will have the opportunity to Diploma. Through a collaboration among department chair, a Science course may grow personally and professionally Keyano College, Red Deer College and SAIT, be substituted for a Business elective through a personal leadership course. A you can complete an Office Administration course. practicum placement in an office setting Diploma entirely online. Apply at provides you with an opportunity to www.keyano.ca, phone Keyano College toll Should a student possess any other combine your newly developed skills and free 1-800-251-1408 or contact Gina course(s) and/or credentials not listed knowledge with on-the-job-training. You Langager, Chairperson, at (780) 791-8952 or above for which they with to have will be qualified for entry-level office [email protected]. considered for advanced credit, please positions. contact the Information Technology Admission Requirements Department Chairperson. Related Careers A) Academic Requirements There is an on-going local and national 1. 50% in ELA 30-1 or Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 demand for well-trained office personnel, 65% in ELA 30-2 Year 1 especially in the growing business OR Tuition $3,348.00 2. Mature Student Student Association Fees $ 139.50 community of Central Alberta. Employers Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 have expressed a strong interest in hiring You must be 19 years of age or older, Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 155.00 one-year college graduates. Graduates out of high school at least one full year Books/Materials $2,400.00 will find work in both small and large before the program commences, and Total $6,086.50 centres. have a minimum mark of 50% in ELA 30-1 or ELA 30-2, or a minimum Year 2 score at the 50th percentile on the Tuition $4,320.00 The Program Student Association Fees $ 180.00 If you have curriculum concerns, you are English component of the College Fees $ 22.00 invited to see the Office Administration Board Placement Test and a score of Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 Program Chairperson or a member of the 2-3 on a writing sample Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 200.00 Office Administration faculty about a Books/Materials $1,200.00 Note: While not an admission suitable program of study. Total $5,966.00 requirement for the program, some practicum agencies and field Graduation Requirements placements may require Criminal You must pass all courses and achieve a Record Checks of students working in minimum cumulative GPA of 2.00.
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their organizations. Information about obtaining Criminal Record Open Studies Checks will be provided to students after they have been admitted to the program. (formerly General Studies) 3. Mature Student You must be 19 years of age or older, Program Content Chairperson out of high school at least one full year Year 1 Fall Term Renate Scheelar before the program starts, and have no OADM 100 Information Processing I E-mail: [email protected] mark below 50% in: OADM 110 Document Processing I Local calls: 403-342-3400 a. ELA 30-1 or ELA 30-2 OADM 126 Basic Accounting Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 b. Subject from Group A or C (See “Alberta Grade 12 Course OADM 130 Office Systems I Open Studies is a program that allows you Groups,” page 10 of calendar) COMM 150 Fundamentals of College to begin your studies on a full- or part- Note: If you need three or more high and Workplace Writing time basis. The Open Studies program school level subjects, you must apply lets you take courses and explore to the Career and Academic Year 1 Winter Term different options in order to help you Preparation Program. OADM 101 Spreadsheet make educational and career decisions. If OR Fundamentals you need more than two academic areas 4. A recommendation from an OADM 102 Computer Essentials of high school-level courses, you must Academic Advisor OADM 111 Document apply to the Career and Academic Processing II Preparation Program. Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 OADM 131 Office Systems II Tuition $3,240.00 OADM 135 Introduction to Purposes of Open Studies Student Association Fees $ 135.00 Industry Sectors 1. You may design a program of studies Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 OADM 160 Personal Leadership to suit your interests and needs. Open Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 150.00 Studies is not tied to any one career, so Books/Materials $1,050.00 Year 1 Spring Term you can take courses which appeal to Total $4,619.00 OADM 170 Practicum you if you have the proper prerequisites. Please note that some Program Readmission Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 courses are program specific and may See page 10. Tuition $4,212.00 not be available to Open Studies Student Association Fees $ 175.50 students. Fees $ 37.00 2. If you do not meet admission Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 requirements to certificate, diploma or Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 195.00 university programs, you may complete Books/Materials $1,000.00 those requirements and then apply to Total $5,663.50 these programs. 3. If you require a high school Recognition of Prior Learning/ equivalency math course from the CAP Experience program as part of your Open Studies The Office Administration Department program and have been out of high recognizes that learning is a lifelong school math for more than one year, process. Students may receive you will be required to take a math Recognition of Prior Learning in some placement test prior to registering for courses where the learning of skills, the CAP math course. knowledge or competencies has been acquired through work, formal and Admission Requirements informal education or training, or self 1. No mark below 50% in: study. Recognition of Prior Learning is a. ELA 30-1 or ELA 30-2 applicable in OADM 110, OADM 111, b. Three subjects from Group A, B OADM 100, OADM 101, and OADM 123. or C c. One subject from Group A, B, C Application forms for Recognition of Prior or D Learning are available through the OR Registrar’s Office. Students with a 2. High School Diploma keyboarding speed of 35 nwam should OR apply for Prior Learning Assessment in OADM 110.
Graduation Requirements You must pass all courses and achieve a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.00. www.rdc.ab.ca 111 CERTIFICATE AND DIPLOMA PROGRAMS Pharmacy Technician
Chairperson The Distance Program Admission Requirements Rock Folkman Note: This is a part-time program. A) Academic Requirements E-mail: [email protected] 1. High School Diploma with no Local calls: 403-342-3400 15 courses mark below 60% in: Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 2 1/3 years a. Biology 30 7 terms b. Chemistry 30 or Science 30 One-Year Certificate •2 months of practicum c. ELA 30-1 or ELA 30-2 Technicians have worked in the pharmacy • Community Pharmacy (160 hrs, 4 d. Mathematics 30 (Pure) or field for many years, but only on-the-job week block) Mathematics 30 (Applied) training was available. In 1976, Red Deer • Hospital Pharmacy (160 hrs, 4 week e. Computer literacy (including College began a training program to block) intro word processing, more fully prepare technicians for their spreadsheet tasks. To participate in the distance program, Testing available at Red Deer students must have access to a computer College. Our graduates have been very well with Internet and e-mail capabilities. f. Keyboarding 30 nwpm. Testing received by pharmacists and employers, Distance students must also arrange for available at Red Deer College. and the responsibilities given to them an approved examination proctor. OR have greatly expanded. This program 2. Mature Student should be of interest if you would like an Lab courses are at the RDC campus. You must be 19 years of age or officially recognized training period, older, out of high school at least one followed by interesting and varied job Transfer Features full year before the program starts opportunities in the pharmacy field. Pharmacy Technician courses taken at Red with no mark below 60% in: Deer College are not transferable for Related Careers a. Biology 30 credit toward a Bachelor of Science b. Chemistry 30 or Science 30 Graduates work in hospitals, community Degree in Pharmacy at the University of c. ELA 30-1 or ELA 30-2 or a pharmacies and related pharmaceutical Alberta. minimum score at the 50th fields, under a Pharmacist’s supervision. percentile on the English Duties include: Fast-Track Option component of the College • preparing medication for dispensing A fast-track option may be available to Board Placement Test (written • compounding pharmaceuticals students interested in taking an on campus) or the Test of Adult • preparing aseptic products accelerated distance program. This Basic Education (written off • inventory control program allows students to take 2 first campus) and a score of 2-3 on • purchasing year courses and 2 second year courses a writing sample. • merchandising each term. Therefore 4 courses per term d. Mathematics 30 or • record keeping as required under such in fall, winter and spring terms. Lab Mathematics 30 (Pure) or acts as the Food and Drug Act courses are taken here at RDC in spring Mathematics 33 or • narcotics control term (May & June). This requires a Mathematics 30 (Applied) or a • third party billing commitment for 2 weeks in May and 2 minimum score at the 60th • drug distribution weeks in June. Students then complete percentile for the Math • prepacking pharmaceuticals their hospital and community pharmacy component of the College • computer processing practicums and the communications Board Placement Test (written course in fall term of the second year. • clerical and other duties as necessary on campus) or the Test of Therefore the "fast track" program is Adult Basic Education usually completed in 1 year plus 1 term. (written off campus). The On-Campus Program We advise prospective students to apply e. Computer literacy (including 15 courses to the program and once accepted let the intro word processing, 3 terms Pharmacy Technician Program Assistant spreadsheet). 10 months (September to June): know via email if they would like their Testing available at Red Deer • 8 months at Red Deer College name added to our list of students College. • 2 months of practicum interested in fast tracking. "Fast tracking", f. Keyboarding 30 nwpm. Testing • Community Pharmacy (160 hrs, if available, will be accommodated on a available at Red Deer College. 4 week block) first come-first served basis following an AND • Hospital Pharmacy (160 hrs, applicant's acceptance into the pharmacy 4 week block) technician program.
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B) Other Requirements Winter Term On Campus Program Cost Estimates (to be submitted after application and COMM 140 Fundamentals of 2011/2012 transcripts) Workplace Tuition $4,212.00 1. Knowledge of the Pharmacy Technician Communications Student Association Fees $ 175.50 career (forms provided by the PHAR 111 Pharmacy Practice II Fees $ 162.00 College). Pharmacy experience is an PHAR 121 Dispensing II Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 asset. PHAR 151 Hospital Pharmacy Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 195.00 Books/Materials $1,250.00 2. Two letters of reference from PHAR 155 Aseptic Technique Total $6,038.50 educators or employers, or both PHAR 171 Community Pharmacy (forms provided by the College). PHAR 181 Pharmacology II Fees and Expenses 3. A one- to two-page handwritten essay Practicum Expenses - These vary giving your reasons for choosing a Spring Term depending on where your practicum is. Pharmacy Technician career. PHAR 191 Retail Pharmacy Placements are made all over Alberta, 4. A medical and personal health review Practicum with only a few in Red Deer. The completed before starting the PHAR 192 Hospital Pharmacy department will try to let you choose the program (forms provided by the Practicum area so your living expenses will be low, if College). possible. Minimum costs will be two 5. Include relevant pharmacy Distance Program months board and room, relocation costs, experience and prior learning on your Year 1 and travel to and from the workplace. You application. Fall - Term 1 will need proper clothing for working Note: PHAR 110 Pharmacy Practice I with the public in a professional setting. • Pharmacy Technician employers may PHAR 140 Pharmaceutical require that you be bondable. Calculations Material and Special Fees: PHAR 110, • Part time students may be accepted PHAR 111, PHAR 130, PHAR 140, PHAR with the approval of the program Winter - Term 2 151, PHAR 171, PHAR 180, PHAR 181, chairperson PHAR 130 Pharmacy Laws and PHAR 190, COMM 140 Agreements $50 (each distance delivery only) Note: While not an admission PHAR 181 Pharmacology II requirement for the program, applicants Graduation Requirements are advised that they will be required to Spring - Term 3 (Red Deer Campus) You must pass all courses. provide a Criminal Record Check to most PHAR 120 Dispensing I (Lab) agencies where they will be placed for PHAR 161 Computer Skills Due to the changing nature of pharmacy practicum experiences. The existence of and health care, students must complete a criminal record may prevent clinical Year 2 the program within 4 academic years placement, program completion, Fall - Term 4 from the term to which they were first professional licensure and therefore, may PHAR 111 Pharmacy Practice II admitted. Students will be required to affect employment prospects. It is each PHAR 180 Pharmacology I repeat courses that don’t meet this agency’s or institution’s decision to accept requirement. If you have any questions regarding this requirement, consult the or reject a student for placement or Winter - Term 5 Department Chairperson. observation experience based on the PHAR 171 Community Pharmacy results of the criminal record check. PHAR 151 Hospital Pharmacy Prospective students who have a criminal record should discuss the matter with the Spring - Term 6 (Red Deer Campus) department Chair prior to applying for PHAR 121 Dispensing II (Lab) admission. PHAR 155 Aseptic Technique
Program Content Year 3 On Campus Program Fall - Term 7 Fall Term COMM 140 Fundamentals of PHAR 110 Pharmacy Practice I Workplace PHAR 120 Dispensing I Communications PHAR 130 Pharmacy Laws and PHAR 191 Retail Pharmacy Agreements Practicum (160 hrs) PHAR 140 Pharmaceutical PHAR 192 Hospital Pharmacy Calculations Practicum (160 hrs) PHAR 161 Computer Skills PHAR 180 Pharmacology I
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Chairperson Note: While not an admission Year 2 Winter Term Sheila McKay requirement for the program, applicants PN 242 Pediatric Nursing E-mail: [email protected] are advised that they will be required to PN 243 Maternity Nursing Local calls: 403-342-3400 provide a Criminal Record Check to PN 246 Community Nursing Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 agencies where they will be placed for PN 247 Nursing Science IV - practicum experiences. The existence of a Transition to Graduate Two Year Diploma criminal record may prevent clinical PN 248 Focused Practicum This program delivered over two academic placement, program completion, PN 249 Comprehensive years prepares the graduate to become a professional licensure and therefore, may Practicum Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) following affect employment prospects. It is each graduation and successful completion of agency’s or institution’s decision to accept Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 the Canadian Practical Nurse Registration or reject a student for placement or Year 1 Exam. As a LPN, the graduate will provide observation experience based on the Tuition $4,428.00 nursing care in a variety of health care results of the criminal record check. Student Association Fees $ 184.50 settings, such as hospitals, the community Prospective students who have a criminal Fees $ 90.00 and other health care agencies. record should discuss the matter with the Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 department Chair prior to applying for Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 205.00 Admission Requirements admission. Books/Materials $2,034.50 In order to be admitted to the program Total $6,986.00 the student must: Program Content 1. meet the following academic Year 1 Fall Term Year 2 requirements: COMM 191 Oral Communication Tuition $3,888.00 - 60% in ELA 30-1 PN 216 Anatomy, Physiology Student Association Fees $ 162.00 - 60% in a level Biology 30 & Microbiology Fees $ 142.00 - 60% in one of the following: Math PN 217 Adult Health Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 20 (Pure), Math 20 (Old), Applied Assessments Books/Materials $1,990.00 Math 30 or Math 33 (old) OR PN 218 Nursing Science I - Total $6,519.75 70% in Math 20 (Applied) or Math Foundations 23 (old) SOCI 260 Sociological Graduation Requirements Concepts & You must pass all required courses and 2. Immunization to be completed prior Perspectives achieve a minimum cumulative GPA of to program start date. Or equivalent 3 credit 2.0. humanities, social Additional Requirements science or science In addition to the above requirements the course) student must provide evidence of current CPR certification at the Health Care Year 1 Winter Term Provider Level. You must recertify each PN 225 Pathophysiology year. PN 226 Applied Pharmacology PN 227 Nursing Science II - Advanced Skills PN 228 Growth & Development Across the Lifespan PN 229 Continuing Care Practicum
Year 1 Spring Term ENGL 219 Language & Literature
Year 2 Fall Term PN 231 Mental Health PN 235 Nursing Science III - Medical/Surgical Nursing PN 237 Acute Care Practicum PN 236 Health Education
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Coordinator 4. Present driver abstract at time of * Students will meet the standard Ric Bolton application showing: required by CTHRC for earning your E-mail: [email protected] - no more than five demerit points wheels: Reading Text; Document Use 1, Local calls: 403-342-3400 - license has not been suspended Numeracy 1). The Professional Driver pre- Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 within 12 months of course Employment TOWES is the property of the registration Canadian Trucking Human Resources Note: This program is not currently - no criminal code driving related Council (CTHRC) offered during the 2011/2012 academic convictions within 5 years of the year. application Program Content 5. Has at least Alberta Grade 10 or DRIV 110 Classroom The Program equivalent DRIV 120 Classroom and Supervised The Professional Driver Certificate 6. Has met minimum essential skill Practicum program consists of classroom learning requirements as determined by and one-on-one behind the wheel the Professional Driver Pre- Program Cost Estimates - not offered training. Each student will also complete employment TOWES * Tuition a supervised practicum with a driver 7. Has sufficient English language Student Association Fees coach. Successful completion of all proficiency to meet RDC Supplies components is necessary in order to meet admission requirements (TOEFL Activity & Wellness Fee the program requirements. score of 550 on the paper test or Books/Materials 213 on the computer based test, Total This program prepares the graduate to or Level 5 of RDC ESL Certificate, work as a professional truck driver. or equivalent (LINC level 8/9) Graduates will have the competencies, 8. Criminal Record Check skills, and experience necessary for success in entry-level, professional driver Call RDC Test Centre for details on testing positions in the trucking and requirements. transportation industry. In addition to the Professional Driver Certificate from Note: Applicants need to be aware that: Red Deer College, graduates will be a. In order to drive in the United eligible for a CTHRC certificate (Canadian States, candidates must be aware Trucking Human Resources Council) and that a criminal record may the Alberta Infrastructure and disallow them from crossing the Transportation Professional Driver international border Endorsement on the Class 1 Licence. b. The minimum age for a commercial driver in the United Admission Requirements States is 21 years 1. Currently holds a valid Alberta c. In order to drive in the United Class 5 drivers license. Must States drivers will be subject to pre- employment and random drug tests produce license and authorize pursuant to US regulations college to check status at time of d. Some trucking companies have application and throughout hiring policies requiring highway program drivers be 19-21 years of age or 2. Must be 18 years of age at time of older application 3. Provide evidence that National Safety Code medical requirements for class 1 drivers license have been met at the time of enrolment
www.rdc.ab.ca 115 CERTIFICATE AND DIPLOMA PROGRAMS Social Work
Chairperson 2. To prepare students to continue their when possible. Your main function Elaine Spencer education in a Bachelor of Social Work must involve contact with people, and E-mail: [email protected] program. one reference form needs to be Local calls: 403-342-3400 completed by the supervisor of the Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 Transfer Features volunteer work. Please contact the Social Work program directly at 403- Two-Year Diploma The Red Deer College Social Work Diploma can be transferred to the Faculty 342-3304 to discuss the applicability Students may apply for the program on a of Social Work, University of Calgary of volunteer opportunities and/or fulltime or part-time basis, and (programs in Calgary and Edmonton, and employment for your application. application requirements and the Learning Circles Program offered at Red 3. An interview with a Social Work faculty application process are the same for each Deer College); the University of Victoria; member is required as part of stream. Program planning will take place Thompson Rivers University (Kamloops); admission. Once your completed with students during the registration University of Regina. package is received by the College, process. you will be contacted for this Admission Requirements interview. The majority of your work The mission of the Social Work Diploma A) Academic Requirements or volunteer experience must be Program at Red Deer College is to 1. High School Diploma with no mark prepare the student for employment as a completed prior to your interview below 50% in: social worker and to provide a foundation with a Social Work faculty member. a. ELA 30-1 or ELA 30-2 for further post-secondary education by b. Social Studies 30 introduction to and integration of: Note: While not an admission OR practice skills, theoretical knowledge requirement for the program, most 2. Mature Student base, and application of social work ethics practicum agencies may require Criminal You must be 19 years of age or older, and values. The Program fulfills its’ Record Checks of students working in out of high school at least one full year mission through promotion of ethical their organizations. Other agencies may before the program starts, and have practice, social and economic justice, require that instituted orientation minimum mark of 50% in ELA 30-1 or respect for and acceptance of diversity programs specific to their agency be ELA 30-2, or a minimum score at the among peoples, and relationship undertaken. Students should be 50th percentile on the English building. prepared for approximately $50 to $75 in component of the College Board extra expense when placed in these Placement Test (written on campus) or Social workers are trained to ‘help people agencies. help themselves’. The focus of social work the Test of Adult Basic Education is on the interactions between people (written off campus) and a score of 2-3 on a writing sample. Increasingly, social work practice in many and their social environment. The social services agencies requires workers program looks at how to help people AND B) Other Requirements to work extended hours of operation. meet the demands of daily life. It looks at Many agencies now provide a variety of how social work seeks to improve 1. Once it has been determined that you have met the academic requirements programs associated with their services people’s problem-solving and coping that operate on evenings or weekends. skills, and links them with systems that in (A) above, you will be mailed a package of materials which includes Students need to be prepared to work offer resources, services, and during non traditional business hours if opportunities. (a) a personal profile/questionnaire, and (b) three confidential reference placed in these agencies. Related Careers request forms. All students are required to complete this Note regarding university transfer: While Social Work Diploma graduates can questionnaire and arrange for their students may enter the SOWK Diploma expect job opportunities in both public references to be forwarded to the program without ELA 30-1, those and private agencies. You may work, College in order to have a complete intending to transfer to a university directly or indirectly, with people having admissions package. program are advised to complete ELA 30- problems with finances, employment, 2. You are required to complete a 1 before entering the program. This will child neglect, foster care, alcohol or drug enable you to take university transferable dependency, marital and family conflict, minimum of 100 hours of volunteer or English courses in your first year. Students young offenders, and individual employment in a related social who enter the program without ELA 30-1 emotional problems. service field. The purpose of the volunteer work is exposure to the may take English 30 (or equivalent) upon The Program human services field. It is admission to Social Work but may not complete the Diploma within four terms. Objectives of the program are: recommended that volunteer hours ELA 30-1 is not credited toward Diploma 1. To provide a two-year diploma program be completed with one organization requirements. in Social Work that will prepare students with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed for jobs in beginning social work positions.
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Program Content Year 2 Fall Term Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 Year 1 Fall Term SOWK 301 Social Work Practice with Year 1 English or Communication Option* Individuals and Families Tuition $4,320.00 PSYC 260 Basic Psychological SOWK 210 Social Work Practice with Student Association Fees $ 180.00 Processes Groups Fees $ 40.00 SOCI 260 Sociological Concepts SOWK 306 Social Work Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 and Perspectives Administration Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 200.00 SOWK 201 Introduction to Social SOWK 308** Field Work III Books/Materials $1,430.00 Works Methods I SOWK 312 Social Problems and Total $6,214.00 SOWK 204 Social Work Ethics in Issues In Social Work Practice Option * (3 credits) Year 2 SOWK 207 Social Services History, Option * (3 credits) Tuition $4,320.00 Function and Structure Student Association Fees $ 180.00 SOWK 208** Field Work Winter Term Fees $ 40.00 SOWK 304 Social Work Methods V - Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 Winter Term Working with Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 200.00 English or Communication Option* Communities Books/Materials $1,320.00 PSYC 261 Social and Individual SOWK 307 Social Policy Total $6,104.00 Behaviour SOWK 309** Field Work IV SOCI 261 Social Institutions and SOWK 313 Social Work in Health Readmission Process Care Settings See page 10. SOWK 202 Introduction to Social Option* (3 credits) Works Methods II * One of your three options must include Graduation Requirements one of PSYC 353, PSYC 355 or PSYC 357. You must pass all course requirements SOWK 209** Field Work II This course may be taken in either the fall and achieve a minimum cumulative GPA or winter term in second year. Options of 2.00 may not include high school equivalency courses. If you plan to transfer to a university, choose courses which are transferable ** Following individual student program planning, students have the option to complete Field Placement in Year 1 and/ or Year 2 during the Winter and Spring Terms.
Red Deer College is committed to increasing the skill and knowledge of its learners and its community to become better integrated into the global community.
This includes: • Opportunities to study abroad • Providing global and international perspectives in its curricula • Hosting international learners on-campus • Assisting in the development of educational services in other countries • Five-level English as a Second Language (ESL )program • Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
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Chairperson Learning Outcomes AND Brian McLachlin Graduates of the Software Developer B) Other Requirements E-mail: [email protected] Certificate will possess the following skills All Software Developer Certificate Local calls: 403-342-3400 and knowledge: students must have a laptop Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 1. given design specifications, develop computer that is using Microsoft algoriths Windows as the operating system. One Year Certificate 2. use online resources to identify Please contact department Chair for People are enabled by computer solutions minimum specifications. technology - from cellular phones to MP3 3. participate in the implementation of players to gaming systems and business projects Recommendations applications. Technology is embedded in 4. develop and deploy desktop and web- Applicants are also expected to have all aspects of our daily lives. Software based applications working skill sets in at least the following Developer graduates write software 5. navigate development processes areas of workstation management and applications for many of today’s through the software lifecycle stages operations through course work and/or technology. including testing industry experience: 6. interact effectively with operating • word processing Related Careers systems and services • e-mail communications Career opportunities in the Information 7. write structured and object oriented • internet research and download Technology (IT) field continue to grow and programs that interact with databases • file and print management expand, both nationally and 8. develop interactive websites • basic operating systems literacy. internationally. Software Developer 9. consider the impact of Local Area Certificate graduates will be positioned to Network technology on applications Applicants requesting further take advantage of this increased market 10. provide common Help Desk support information, skill assessment, and/or demand for IT skills because they are 11. practice industry standard codes of learning support courses (CMPT 083, 086, prepared with the knowledge-base and conduct 087 or 089) should contact an academic skill-sets necessary to successfully engage 12. complete relevant documentation advisor and/or the Information in an exciting IT career in either business and activity reports Technology Department Chairperson for or industrial environments. A career in IT 13. practice effective communication assistance. will appeal to applicants who are looking with co-workers including cultural for exciting, challenging, and well- sensitivity Communications Course compensated futures. 14. engage in learning activites that are Placement Testing responsive to the workplace. Students will be required to take a Types of positions - entry-level College placement test before programmer with skills in software Admission Requirements registering in a written communications applications including: A) Academic Requirements course. (Students with 60% or greater in • web development 1. High School Diploma with no mark English 30 will be exempted from this • desktop (Windows) applications below 50% in: test.) Students who do not achieve a • user interface design a. ELA 30-1 satisfactory mark in this test will be • IT service desk - providing support for b. Mathematics 30 (Pure) required to complete COMM 150 before hardware and software. OR they can register in the required course, 50% in ELA 30-1 & 65% in COMM 250. Students should take the Most graduates will integrate into their IT Mathematics 30 (Applied) with placement test early in the event profession as a software developer or help either Physics 30 or Chemistry 30 or preparatory work (COMM 150) is desk analyst. With experience and proven Science 30 with a minimum mark of required. Students needing to do COMM ability, students may advance into 50% 150 will have the opportunity to specialized areas of technology. Many OR complete all the Communications courses in the Software Developer 2. Mature Student requirements with the two year time Program help to prepare students to write You must be 19 years of age or older, frame. certification exams from the Microsoft out of high school at least one full Certified Software Developer credential year before the program starts, and and the CompTIA Network+ exam. have a minimum mark of 50% in Mathematics 30 (Pure) OR a minimum mark of 65% in Mathematics 30 (Applied) and either Chemistry 30 or Physics 30 or Science 30 with a minimum mark of 50%.
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Program Content Term 1 ITEC 100 IT Service Desk ITEC 105 Discrete Mathematics ITEC 120 Computer Networking ITEC 150 Structure Programming ITEC 153 Visual Programming ITEC 156 Object Oriented Programming ITEC 170 Systems Analysis and Design
Term 2 COMM 250 Business and Workplace Writing ITEC 115 Operating Systems ITEC 140 Desktop Operating Systems ITEC 160 Web Design ITEC 163 Web Client ITEC 166 Web Server ITEC 175 Object Oriented Analysis and Design ITEC 180 Career Skills ITEC 190 Project I
Term 3 (Spring Term) ITEC 193 Practicum OR ITEC 196 Work Experience
Should a student posess any other course(s) and/or credentials not listed above for which they with to have considered for advanced credit, please contact the Information Technology Department Chairperson.
Program Cost Estimates 2011/2012 Tuition $3,996.00 Student Association Fees $ 166.50 Fees $ 22.00 Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 185.00 Books/Materials $2,400.00 Once you’ve done the work Total $6,813.50 Frame your accomplishment with pride! Graduation Requirements You must pass all courses and achieve a • Three styles to choose from minimum cumulative GPA of 2.00 • Two wood and one black metal fi nish • Acid-free materials
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www.rdc.ab.ca 119 CERTIFICATE AND DIPLOMA PROGRAMS Theatre and Entertainment Production
Related Careers Admission Requirements Chairperson We train technicians and craftspeople that A) Academic Requirements Dr. Dale Wheeler work behind the scenes in the ever- 1. High School Diploma with successful E-mail: inquire @rdc.ab.ca growing entertainment industry. Our completion of ELA 30-1 or ELA 30-2 Local calls: 403-342-3400 alumni are employed as stage managers, OR Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 sound designers and technicians, follow 2. Mature Student spot operators, production managers, You must be 19 years of age or older, out Two-Year Diploma stage electricians, lighting designers and of high school at least one full year before Theatre and Entertainment technicians, production management the program starts, and successful Production assistants, stage carpenters, scenic completion of ELA 30-1 or ELA 30-2. painters, and property builders. AND B) Other Requirements The Program Graduates working in production often To be accepted to the technical This program offers a Diploma in Theatre join the International Alliance of Theatrical production program you need to have a and Entertainment Production and Stage Employees (IATSE), the labor union successful interview. Further guidelines prepares graduates to work behind the representing technicians, artisans and regarding interview expectations are scenes in the live entertainment and craftspeople in the entertainment available at www.rd.c.ab.ca/performing_ event industries. The program includes industry, including live theatre, motion arts. components of class theory, studio picture and television production, and training and hands-on practica in lights, trade shows. They may work on contract or Program Content scenic paint, props, sound, set may choose to freelance through the Open to Theatre and Entertainment construction, theatre design and stage union. Production students only management. Our graduates also work in related areas of Year 1 Students work in assigned practica as the entertainment industry, including THTR 105 Production Crew I members of the resident theatre cruise ships, theme parks, concert tours, THTR 106 Production Crew II company, and are able to integrate their industrial presentations, specialized THTR 107 Production Crew III technical skills in the production of service companies, film and television. THTR 118 Scenic Props season of live theatre, in settings Some eventually move into more senior THTR 125 Stagecraft I simulating professional conditions. management positions. THTR 126 Stagecraft II Faculty and professional guest artists are THTR 135 Entertainment Industry the directors and designers for the plays Graduates may also choose to transfer Sound produced by the Theatre programs. credits and resume experience to B.F.A. or THTR 136 Live Events Sound Students work in a variety of performance specialty study elsewhere in design or THTR 145 Entertainment Industry spaces; an exceptional Mainstage technology, or apply to continue training Lighting I proscenium theatre of 576 seats, a black- at RDC as part of our Applied Degree in THTR 146 Entertainment Industry box experimental theatre, found spaces Motion Picture Arts. Lighting II and outside event locations. Productions THTR 158 Entertainment Arts in this program are technically Transfer Feature Drafting challenging and provide valuable Theatre and Entertainment Production THTR 168 Stage and Event experience for student technicians. graduates can accumulate credits to Management I transfer into year two of B.A., B.Ed., or B.F.A. THTR 176 Entertainment Industry In addition to the theatre productions, studies at a variety of universities. RDC Design students have the opportunity to work on does have an agreement with the ART 231 Visual Fundaments a variety of events that take place in the University of Lethbridge, which allows our Arts Centre. Students are involved with Technical students to be admitted to the 2- the set up and operation of professional, year Post-Diploma B.F.A. (Dramatic Arts). touring theatre productions, folk jaz, and Graduates are eligible to apply for the 3rd pop concerts, and a host of other events and 4th years of the Advanced Certificate as connected with our performing Arts and Applied Degree in Motion Picture Arts programs and Red Deer College. at RDC.
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Year 2 THTR 205 Applied Practice and Theatre Performance & Creation Theory I THTR 206 Applied Practice and Theory II Chairperson Related Careers THTR 207 Applied Practice and Dr. Dale Wheeler Arts and Culture are a growth industry in Theory III E-mail: inquire @rdc.ab.ca North American with many theatre artists THTR 215 Scenic Painting Local calls: 403-342-3400 creating their own material for festivals, THTR 258 Drawing as Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 solo companies, industry productions and Communication multi-disciplinary collaborations. Film, THTR 265 Stage and Event Two-Year Diploma television, new media and the circus are Management II Theatre Performance and also avenues that graduates of our THTR 278 Entertainment Arts Creation program have embarked on. By offering a Design & Visual program that trains both actor and Communication creator, our graduates have an exciting THTR 285 Professional The Program and varied palette with which to infuse Development I This program offers training for the the professional theatre industry. THTR 286 Professional emerging theatre artist, as both actor and Development II creator of theatre. Training will include Transfer Feature THTR 295 Intensives Series I course related theory and research with Theatre programs at RDC have over a THTR 296 Intensives Series II studio training in skills for the actor and decade of experience in transferring THTR 297 Intensives Series III creator of theatre to be accompanied with students to university programs and Approved COMM course applied practicum to bring the process preparing them for entrance into leading oriented courses to fruition. These theatre training schools in North America Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 practicum opportunites are as follows: (i.e. National Theatre School, Studio 58, Year 1 stage productions, touring productions, Sheridan College, Julliard, site-specific creation projects, theatre Tuition $3,996.00 Neighbourhood Playhouse, etc.). intensives with professional guest Student Association Fees $ 166,50 Students have the opportunity to instructors, theatre related field trips and Fees $ 515.00 accumulate University Transfer credits field study placements in provincial Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 into year two of numerous renowned theatre centres. Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 185.00 university theatre programs. RDC Books/Materials $ 960.00 graduates have continued on to receive When not involved in a practicum, students Total $5,866.50 B.A. Honours in Drama, BFA in drama, are taking four days of intense classes with education degrees and MFA degrees in components of: career planning, theatre Year 2 theatre related forms at the University of history, dramaturgy/play analysis, acting, Tuition $3,888.00 Alberta, York University, University of voice, movement, creation, improvisation, Student Association Fees $ 162.00 British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, writing, dance, stage fighting, lifestyle and Fees $ 595.00 University of Calgary and the University of wellbeing, interdisciplinary arts, and Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 Lethbridge. Graduates are also eligible devising theatre. The fifth day is reserved Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 180.00 to apply for the 3rd and 4th years of the for specialty intensives, industry related Books/Materials $ 960.00 Avanced Certificate and Applied Degree events, creation sessions and one-on-one Total $5,829.00 in Motion Picture Arts at RDC. coaching with a professional theatre artist/ instructor. Theatre and Entertainment Production Service Courses students should budget for: The performing arts department also Drafting tools & Arts supplies $ 200.00 offers a selection of university transfer Scenography $ 50.00 drama courses for students in other RDC Safety equipment $ 160.00 programs. These courses are taught by Tools $ 100.00 either professional guest instructors or Textbooks $ 450.00 faculty from Theatre Performance and USITT Conference TBA Creation.
Graduation Requirements You must pass all courses, and achieve a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.00.
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Admission Requirements Program Content Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 A) Academic Requirements for Theatre Open to Theatre Performance and Year 1 Performance and Creation: Creation studentsl only Tuition $4,320.00 1. High School Diploma with successful Student Association Fees $ 180.00 completion of ELA 30-1 Year 1 Fees $ 420.00 OR THTR 100 Theatre Research and Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 2. Mature Student Development I Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 200.00 You must be 19 years of age or older, out THTR 101 Theatre Research and Books/Materials $1,050.00 of high school at least one full year before Development II Total $6,214.00 the program starts, and successful THTR 110 The Business of Theatre I completion of ELA 30-1 THTR 111 The Business of Theatre II Year 2 AND THTR 120 The Expressive Body I Tuition $3,564.00 B) Other Requirements THTR 121 The Expressive Body II Student Association Fees $ 148.50 To be accepted into the Theatre THTR 130 The Expressive Voice I Fees $ 600.00 Performance and Creation program you THTR 131 The Expressive Voice II Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 must have a successful audition. Further THTR 140 Acting I Books/Materials $1,050.00 guidelines regarding audition THTR 141 Acting II Total $5,571.50 expectations are available at THTR 150 Theatre Artist Practicum www.rd.c.ab.ca/performing_ arts. I Theatre Performance and Creation THTR 151 Theatre Artist Practicum students should budget for both Year 1 Career Goals II and Year 2 RDC Theatre Performance and Creation THTR 160 Devising Theatre Textbooks and materials graduate profile: The RDC Theatre ENGL 219 Language and Literature $1050.00 Performance and Creation diploma INTD 241 Wellness & Lifestyle Management program produces innovative theatre Graduation Requirements artists who actively contribute to the You must pass all courses and achieve a Canadian theatre community as creators, Year 2 minimum cumulative GPA of 2.00. directors, performers, educators, arts THTR 200 Theatre Research and administrators and producers. The RDC Development III grad is also provided with the training to THTR 210 The Business of Theatre further excel at leading education centres III such as the National Theatre School in THTR 220 The Expressive Body III Montreal, the University of Alberta BFA THTR 230 The Expressive Voice III program in Edmonton, Simon Fraser THTR 240 Acting III University in Vancouver and UBC - THTR 250 Theatre Artist Practicum Okanagan, the Applied Degree in Motion III Picture Arts at Red Deer College, as well as THTR 251 Theatre Artist Practicum other related degrees at leading North IV American universities. Transfer credits and THTR 260 Creative Fusion resume experience may also lead to B.Ed., INTD 321 Contemporary Art in B.F.A., B.A. Drama Honours, or specialty Process I study elsewhere in the world. One Approved option
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Chairperson Training programs and placements are 3. Employment Assistance Program Janice Findlay individualized to meet your learning Following your Transitional Vocational E-mail: [email protected] needs, interests and employment goals. Program year, you may choose to Local calls: 403-342-3400 Although instructors in the program work participate in a year of individualized Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 closely with you and the employer to employment support. An instructor will assist in training and provide feedback on help you to maintain and stabilize the The Program your progress, TVP students are not job employment you already have, or assist This program offers employment coached. you with another job search. readiness and job skills training to adults with developmental disabilities. If you You will be involved in several Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 spent most of your school years in placements throughout the year to help Tuition $3,672.00 modified classes or left school early you best determine your most suitable Student Association Fees $ 153.00 because of educational difficulties, you employment option. Fees $ 447.00 may be interested in this program. Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 Work experience courses include: Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 170.00 This program focuses on teaching useful TVOC 013 Jobsite Skills Training I Total $4,486.00 work skills, attitudes and behaviours. You TVOC 017 Jobsite Skills Training II will be prepared for a job in the TVOC 018 Block Practicum Funding is provided through the Skills community through classroom Investment Program, Alberta instruction and on-site job training. 2. Classroom courses Employment and Immigration. Call Janice Courses teach and review basic functional Findlay at (403)342-3113 for details. We will work with you in setting skills, attitudes, and knowledge related to individual goals directed toward employment and daily living. These employment, interpersonal and include: independence skill development. TVOC 010 Self Awareness TVOC 011 Vocational Preparation Admission Requirements TVOC 012 Recreation and To be accepted into the program, you Community Living must TVOC 014 Interpersonal Skills * be 18 years of age or over TVOC 015 Skills for Employment * complete the application package and TVOC 016 Skills for Independence assessment * have a personal interview with Department members * have previous work experience, through work experience training or a previous job * a sincere desire to acquire employment skills through community based work experiences.
Course Length 10 months (September to June)
Program Content 1. Jobsite Skills Training You will be involved in Workplace Skills Training three days a week providing you with the opportunity to work directly with employers and their staff within Red Deer businesses.
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Chairperson affect employment prospects. It is each Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 Deb Kindopp agency’s or institution’s decision to accept Tuition $2,376.00 E-mail: [email protected] or reject a student for placement or Student Association Fees $ 99.00 Local calls: 403-342-3400 observation experience based on the Fees $ 3.00 Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 results of the criminal record check. Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 Prospective students who have a criminal Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 110.00 The Program record should discuss the matter with the Books/Materials $ 450.00 This program provides opportunities to department Chair prior to applying for Total $3,082.00 develop the skills and attributes to admission. efficiently operate in the management Graduation Requirements and coordinating position of a unit clerk. Program Content Successful completion of all required It is imperative that, as a key team player, UNIT 100 Computer Skills courses. the unit clerk has highly developed UNIT 101 Speed Building communication and interpersonal skills UNIT 102 Medical Terminology with proficiency in stress and time UNIT 103 Processing Medical management. The program promotes Orders and encourages extensive student UNIT 105 Preceptored Practice involvement as most activities are UNIT 106 Exploring the Role of the interactive and the learning is Unit Clerk experiential. UNIT 107 Essential Communication Skills for Unit Clerks Related Careers This program prepares the graduate to Recognition of Prior Learning/ work in hospital, long term care, and Experience other health related institutional settings The Office Administration Department as a Unit Clerk or Unit Secretary to recognizes that learning is a lifelong provide clerical support to patient care process. Students may receive units. It includes instruction in computer Recognition of Prior Learning in some applications, medical terminology, and courses where the learning of skills, the various roles of the Unit Clerk. knowledge or competencies has been acquired through work, formal and Admission Requirements informal education or training, or self A) Academic Requirements study. Recognition of Prior Learning is 1. a. Three Grade 11 subjects applicable in UNIT 100 and UNIT 101. including ELA 20-1 or ELA 20-2 Further information is available at http:// OR www.rdc.ab.ca/rpl/. Application forms for b. G.E.D. plus essay Writing Test Recognition of Prior Learning are (ELA 20-2 level writing ability) available through the Registrar’s Office. 2. Entrance Testing: a. Typing speed of 20 wpm
B) Other Requirements Immunization Records to be completed prior to program start date. Note: While not an admission requirement for the program, applicants are advised that they will be required to provide a Criminal Record Check to agencies where they will be placed for practicum experiences. The existence of a criminal record may prevent clinical placement, program completion, professional licensure and therefore, may
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Chairperson Admission Requirements Program Content Beverly McCrostie A) Academic Requirements (Total of Nine 3-credit courses) E-mail: [email protected] 1. 50% in ELA 30-1 or 65% ELA 30-2 Core courses: Local calls: 403-342-3400 OR VA 100 Document Formatting Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 Mature Student VA 110 Communication Skills You must be 19 years of age or older, VA 120 Basic Bookkeeping for The Program out of high school at least one full year Home Business Trends in telecommuting, the growth of before the program commences, VA 130 Starting a Virtual Assistant the Internet, and corporate downsizing and have a minimum mark of 50% in Business have contributed to the growth of the ELA 30-1 or ELA 30-2, or a minimum VA 140 Office Management for virtual assistant profession. This online score at the 50th percentile on the Virtual Businesses program will provide opportunities for English component of the College VA 150 Marketing Your Virtual students to gain entrepreneurial skills, Board Placement Test and a score of 2- attitudes, technology skills and related 3 on a writing sample. Business knowledge to adapt to providing office 2. Entrance Testing VA 160 Virtual Practicum services virtually from their home offices. Keyboarding speed of 30 net words OADM 200 Desktop Publishing Students will learn how to create and per minute on 3, 3-minute timings market a viable home-based business with 3 or fewer errors on eath time. Choose one of: using their technological skills to For testing off campus, contact OADM 201 Electronic Spreadsheets contract office support to for-profit Admissions at 403.342.3400 or OADM 220 Automated Accounting businesses and not-for-profit agencies. [email protected] VA 170 Web Design Optional specialization will allow B) Recommended students to select from other major Note: While not an admission Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 support areas: Automated Accounting, requirement for the program, in order Tuition $2,916.00 Web Design, and Electronic Spreadsheets. to be successful students should have Student Association Fees $ 121.50 basic computer skills (able to Fees $ 406.00 There are three intakes: beginning function independently on basic September, January and April of each year. computer software programs and able Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 Each course is 14 weeks in length. to carry out basic Internet Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 135.00 navigation). Because of the Books/Materials $1,000.00 Related Careers entrepreneurial nature of Virtual Total $4,622.50 Certificate graduates are prepared to Assistants, students should be operate an office services home-based independent learners who use time Each course is $386.75 plus the cost of business. Graduates may also transfer into management skills to accomplish textbooks. the Office Administration Online tasks. Collaborative Diploma. Recognition of Prior Learning/ Experience Transfer Features The Office Administration Department Virtual Assistant Certificate courses will recognizes that learning is a lifelong transfer to all Office Administration process. Students may receive Certificate and Diploma Programs in Recognition of Prior Learning in some colleges in Alberta. The amount of courses where the learning of skills, transfer credit will vary depending upon the program and college. knowledge or competencies has been acquired through work, formal and informal education or training, or self study. Recognition of Prior Learning is applicable in VA 100, VA 110, VA 120, OADM 200, OADM 201, OADM 220 and VA 170. Application forms for Recognition of Prior Learning are available through the Registrar’s Office at [email protected] or the Test Centre at [email protected]
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Chairperson The Program Program Content Jason Frizzell The instructors in the Visual Art program Year 1 E-mail: [email protected] are themselves practicing artists. Studios ART 101/ART 101 Visiting Artists Local calls: 403-342-3400 are fully equipped for ceramics, sculpture, ART 201/ART 203 Art History I and II Toll Free: 1-888-732-4630 painting, drawing, printmaking, and ART 231/ART 233 Visual design. Fundamentals I & II Two-Year Diploma Program ART 241/ART 243 Drawing I and II For the past 30 years, successful graduates The program offers you a concentrated ART 251 Two Dimensional of the Red Deer College Visual Art visual arts foundation in a two year time Studies-Painting I diploma program have successfully span. ART 261 Three Dimensional transferred to most major colleges and Studies-Ceramics I art schools across Canada. Hundreds of The first year emphasizes experience in ART 281 Three Dimensional Visual Art diploma students have earned drawing, painting, design, ceramics, Studies-Sculpture I their BFA degree and many are sculpture, art history, and English. A English One term course professional artists, teachers and broad range of visual experiences will (level determined professors. help you form a visual arts vocabulary and by entry master skills in composition and technical qualifications) Related Careers areas. Year 2 This program emphasizes the importance ART 101/ART 101 Visiting Artists of a general foundation in art. Most The second year of the program ART 341/ART 343 Drawing III and IV related careers in art require further emphasizes creative growth and visual One-term academic option studies beyond two years, either at maturity in studio work. You will also be English One-term course university or art college. Competition for introduced to studies in the humanities. (diploma or employment in specialized art fields is university level) very keen, making the strength of your Transfer Features Two-term University transfer academic basic education very important. After successfully completing the Visual option (preferably a 300 level Art Art program, you may transfer into the History). The following employment-related fields third year of Fine Art at the Alberta Two electives from the following full-year require a general art foundation, College of Art and Design, the University studio courses: followed by more specialized training, of Lethbridge (BFA), or a Bachelor of Fine ART 351/ART 353 Painting II and III ending in a four-year undergraduate Art program at any other Alberta ART 361/ART 363 Ceramics II and III degree or Master’s degree. University. ART 375/ART 377/ Fine Art - sculpture, painting, ceramics, ART 379 Printmaking (two printmaking, photography, and drawing Transfer requirements vary from one will be offered each Crafts Design - ceramics, textiles, glass, university to another. See the Alberta year) and jewellery Transfer Guide for detailed transfer ART 381/ART 383 Sculpture II and III Commercial Design - lay-out, illustration, policies. display, model-making, and photography Program Cost Estimates - 2011/2012 Environmental Design - architectural, Admission Requirements Year 1 urban, environmental, and industrial 1. High School Diploma with no grade Tuition $4,860.00 design below 50% in ELA 30-1 or ELA 30-2 Student Association Fees $ 202.50 Photography - creative, commercial, OR Fees $ 285.00 industrial, and freelance 2. Mature Student Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 Art Education - secondary and post- You must be 19 years of age or older, Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 225.00 secondary out of high school at least one full year Books/Materials $2,285.00 Other - art galleries, framing shops, etc. before the program starts, and have a Total $7,901.50 minimum of 50% in ELA 30-1 or ELA 30-2, or a minimum of 50th percentile Year 2 on the English component of the Tuition $4,644.00 College Board Placement test (written Student Association Fees $ 193.50 on campus) or the Test of Adult Basic Fees $ 300.00 Education (written off campus) and a Activity & Wellness Fee $ 44.00 score of 2-3 on a writing sample. Facility, Service & Tech Fee $ 215.00 Books/Materials $2,265.00 Total $7,661.50
Graduation Requirements You must pass all courses and achieve a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.00.
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Multimedia Web Admission Requirements Professional Bookkeeping • High School completion is Certificate Program Design recommended (Classroom or Online offerings available) • RDC’s Multimedia Web Design Certificate Strong computer skills including program is your first step towards a career Microsoft Windows Every organization, large or small, requires • in Multimedia and Web Design! Strong communication and someone with the right training to interpersonal skills maintain and update its financial records. • From digital imaging, desktop publishing, Fundamental drawing skills, artistic to web design, new opportunities in talent, a flair for creativity or experience Bookkeepers hold vital positions within the digital communications are emerging with software used in the program are companies they work for. They verify and every day. This 21 week full-time program not required but are considered assets. balance receipts, post debits and credits, • prepares successful graduates for a range A computer skills assessment and record transactions and create financial of career opportunities in a growing and college entrance assessments may be reports. Some bookkeepers have offices in dynamic field. required at the discretion of the their own homes and earn extra money in Program Coordinator addition to their regular salary. Newspaper Now entering its 12th year, this exciting ads regularly appear for payroll clerks, program is designed to: Program Content accounts receivable/payable clerks, and • teach the concepts of multimedia • Fundamentals of Multimedia Design bookkeepers for large and small businesses. design • Adobe Illustrator Enjoy career independence in this exciting • publish to the web and print • Digital Photography Essentials profession! • integrate various types of digital media • Adobe Photoshop to meet the marketing, advertising and • Adobe InDesign RDC has developed a comprehensive part- design needs of clients • Digital Video and Audio time 9 month certificate program to • The Business of Multimedia address the needs of this growing The program features: • Introduction to X/HTML and CSS profession in central Alberta. • excellent instructors and proven • Web Usability training methods • Adobe Dreamweaver Admission Requirements • state-of-the-art Media Technology Lab • Adobe Flash • High School completion is and training in the latest industry • Portfolio Development recommended standard software • Strong computer skills including • student financing, scholarship, and Graduation Requirements Microsoft Windows bursaries are available The student must receive a grade of S • A computer skills assessment and (satisfactory) for each of the program college entrance assessments may be courses. In addition, students must have an required at the discretion of the 80% attendance rate in each course and Program Coordinator the professional development workshops.
Students are expected to complete the program within the twenty-two weeks that the program is scheduled.
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Program Content Alberta Senior Site Managers Program • Manual accounting for service and This program is designed to build personal merchandising businesses Citizens Housing strengths in areas such as leadership skills, • Comprehensive training in Simply pertinent business theories and Accounting and QuickBooks Association/Red management practices that provide value • Real-world lab simulations and projects to seniors’ housing industry. The courses • Advanced transactions, payroll and GST Deer College for this program are: • Microsoft Office training including • Orientation: Learning to Learn Word and Excel • Site Managers Certificate • Communication Skills* • Classroom or online, the choice is yours • Activity Coordinators Certificate • Leadership and the Role of the Manager • Interpersonal Relations This program will provide graduates with Red Deer College and Alberta Senior • Site Management the knowledge and skills needed to Citizens’ Housing Association (ASCHA) • Site Operations* successfully enter private practice as a have partnered to provide two seniors’ • Human Resource Management Professional Bookkeeper of fulfill the housing certificate programs: one for Site • Aging Process* requirements of a Bookkeeper position Managers and the other for Activity • Common Medical Conditions* within a company. Coordinators. Activity Coordinators Program The convenient two evenings per week These are part-time programs that were This program is designed to enhance your schedule will help individuals meet their specifically designed for the working ability to creatively and effectively educational and professional person who is able to commit an average program activities that meet the needs of development goals in a way that is of 15 – 20 hours of class time per course seniors’ housing residents in a stimulating manageable with an individual’s busy over a two-year period. This arrangement and safe environment. The courses for this schedule. allows you to remain employed while you program are: complete the program on a part-time • Orientation: Learning to Learn* Graduation Requirements basis. • Communication Skills* The student must receive a grade of S • Recreation Programming (satisfactory) for each of the program Program sessions begin in the spring of • Personal and Professional Development courses. In addition, students must have even-numbered years with courses held • Leisure Education an 80% attendance rate in each course. over the following two-year period. The • Site Operations* next session begins in April 2004. The • Program Management Students are expected to complete the subsequent session will begin in spring, • Aging Process* program within the 9 months that the 2006. • Common Medical Conditions* program is scheduled. Admission Requirements * These courses are common to both There are no formal admission programs. requirements. Applicants may be currently employed in a seniors’ housing Graduation Requirements facility or not currently employed at a Students must successfully complete all seniors’ facility, but interested in a career courses in their program to graduate and in this field. earn the certificate.
Program Content Program Cost Estimate Both programs consist of an orientation For ASCHA members: $2,500.00 course and eight additional courses that Non-members: $3,400.00 will be delivered during spring and fall sessions for two consecutive years. The (Note: Fees for the entire program do not courses will be delivered in a variety of have to be paid in advance. Fees are forms, such as in the classroom at RDC, on- payable as each course is scheduled). site at other locations, home study, homework assignments, and on-line courses.
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Level 5: The focus is on analysis of Occupational Health English As A Second multimedia, and of writing, revising and & Safety (with U of A) Language editing to effectively express ideas for a variety of academic and business writing situations. High demands on fluency are To receive your U. of A. O.H. & S. Certificate, The English as a Second Language made as students contribute to debates, you must have completed all 6 of the Certificate Program is for students who meetings and other group interactions as compulsory core courses, and 2 of the want to improve their English for general well as individual projects. possible 8 elective core courses and 35 communication, employability purposes hours in elective enrichment courses or academic study. Graduation Requirements (minimum 329 hours total). Courses/ Students must successfully complete Level seminars may not be offered every Successful completion of Level Five of the Five to earn the Certificate of Completion. English as a Second Language Certificate semester. Intended primarily for part-time A minimum of 70% for Speaking/Listening will satisfy the language proficiency students working in the field, the program and for Reading/Writing is required to pass requirements for most Certificate and will take approximately 2 to 3 years to each level. complete. Please call the U. of A., at 1-800- Diploma programs at Red Deer College. 808-4784 to register for the certificate or Program Cost Estimates Per 15 week University Transfer programs may require to receive a full listing of course selections term additional English Language Proficiency at RDC call 403-342-3517. International Students assessment. N.B. These courses are open to anyone, in Registration Fee $ 100.00 addition to those registered in and wishing Tuition $3,495.00 to complete the entire Occupational Admission Requirements Books/Materials $ 200.00 Health Level 1: Basic English (a TOEFL score of Total $3,695.00 & Safety Certificate Program. 300 or higher in a practice test OR Canadian Residents Admission Requirements Proof of ability to work at a CLB 4 in Tuition $2,975.00 Contact the U of A for admission Speaking/Listening AND Reading/Writing Books/Materials $ 200.00 requirements. Levels 2-5: Successful completion of Total $3,175.00 previous level or placement testing. Program Content Canadian Residents may be eligible to 6 Compulsory Core Courses: Program Content receive Skills Investment Funding. • Introduction to Health & Safety Systems Level 1: A basic course for students who • Management of Health & Safety Systems want to increase fluency and master basic Pre-Employment • Fundamentals of Occupational Hygiene grammar and sentence structures. Learn • Applied Occupational Hygiene reading strategies to develop, build and See page 73. • Health & Safety Legislation & Policy analyse new vocabulary. • Organizational Behavior (Bus.303 at RDC) Level 2: Writing effective paragraphs by studying grammar, sentence structure and mechanics using a multimedia 8 possible elective core courses (any 2 out approach. Learn to understand and follow of these): moderately complex readings by • Basis Train-the-Trainer identifying factual and inferred details, • Training and Development of the and practice speaking skills. Workplace • Fundamentals of Disability Management Level 3: Focussing on grammar and • Fundamentals of Auditing related skills required for writing • Fundamentals of Ergonomics paragraphs in a clear and effective • Interpersonal Communications in manner. Small group discussions and Business presentatons are used to further expand • Risk Managment and Communications - fluency skills. • Safety Hazard Recognition, Evaluation & Control Level 4: A sophisticated study of grammar and mechanics needed to write 35 hours of Elective Enrichment Courses effectively for business and academics. (for complete listing see Oral presentations expand speaking www.extension.ualberta.ca/ opportunities as literature, procedures appliedsciences/prog_ohs.aspx ) and problem solving situations are described and compared. Graduation Requirements You must pass all courses and receive a minimum of 50%.
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Aviation Diploma B. Medical Fitness F. Duration Candidates must be cleared to The Aviation Diploma program includes 2 semesters in each of two years. Each Commercial Pilot Medical Standards Contact semester is fifteen weeks long. The (Category 1) by a Ministry of Transport Sky Wings Aviation Academy Ltd., academic program will take Box 190, Penhold, AB T0M 1R0. Doctor. Call Sky Wings for a list of approximately half the student’s time, and Phone 403-886-5191, Fax 403-886-4279 specified Doctors in your area. the flying theory and flight instruction Toll Free: 1-800-315-8097 part of the program will take the other C. Private Pilot’s License half of this time. The program can be Red Deer College, Managenent Applicants may be conditionally accepted structured for the individual and an Certificate Program, into the program subject to being in accelerated curriculum can be arranged. Box 5005, Red Deer, AB T4N 5H5 possession of a medical at the time of Contact the Program Coordinator and we Phone 403-342-3400 registration. Sky Wings Aviation offers an can plan for your career needs. accelerated six week private pilot course The Program during the months of July and August or it Communications Course Sky Wings Aviation Academy offers a two- may be completed by entering in Placement Testing year diploma in Aviation in partnership September and enrolling in the private Students will be required to take a with Red Deer College. Academic pilot course along with the normal College placement test before courses for a Management Certificate are academic course load. registering in a written communications taken at Red Deer College. You will course. (Students with 60% or greater in D. Fee Structure graduate with a strong background in English 30-1 will be exempted from this Fees will vary for individual students, test.) Students who do not achieve a business and subjects related to flight in however, an approximate figure of modern high-performance transport satisfactory mark in this test will be $40,000.00 for the two years may be used required to complete COMM 150 before aircraft. for planning purposes. they can register in the required course, COMM 250. Students should take the You will receive a Commercial Pilot Students will be required to make a placement test early in the event License at the end of the first year. In the deposit of $500.00 to hold a position preparatory work (COMM 150) is second year, you will have the option of upon registration, and one of $5,000.00 required. prior to the commencement of each obtaining either a Multi-Engine semester. Subsequent course costs are Program Content Instrument Rating or a Flight Instructor payable midway through the term. Rating, along with a Single Engine Maximum funding available from Alberta Preparatory as required Instrument Rating. You will also receive a Student Loans to qualified applicants is Flight training to achieve a Private Pilot Management Certificate from Red Deer currently $27,000.00 for the entire License can be done at Sky Wings Aviation. Please contact. College. program. Out-of-province students may be eligible through their respective Admission Requirements & Fee finance boards (i.e. Saskatchewan, Eight Business Administration courses are Manitoba, Ontario, etc.) required to complete the Management Structure Certificate. Refer to the Business A. Academics Some scholarships are available. Contact Administration section of the calendar for Successful completion of high school Sky Wings Aviation for a list of benefactors details. including the following courses or their and application procedures. equivalent. If you are unsure if your transcript will meet requirements, please E. How to Apply contact us by telephone or fax. Since, for practical purposes, each class is limited to 25 students, you are advised to Mathematics 30 (Pure) or Mathematics 30 apply as soon as possible to Sky Wings, complete and return the application form (Applied) with a $75.00 non-refundable fee. English 30-1 or English 30-2 Applications should be submitted by Accounting and Computer experience is April 1 for September, and by August 30 recommended for classes starting in January. Late Mathematics 31 is recommended applications will be reviewed as space Physics is an asset, but not required permits. (Faxes and PDF Files are acceptable and fees may be paid by credit card).
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Sky Wings courses include: Continuing Industrial & Trades Training Aviation 101 Human Factors, Phone 342-3517 Navigation, Engines, Education - Waterwell Drilling Air Regs - Transportation Safety Director Aviation 102 Commercial Pilot’s Continuing Education offers a wide range - Journeyman/Tradesman Updating License Flight of courses, seminars and workshops - Oil & Gas Industry Related Courses Training designed to meet the needs of life long - Distance Delivery Trades Programs Aviation 201 Theory of Flight, learners. These credit-free offerings - Programs – see page 72 Meteorology, Weight provide opportunities for workplace skills Pre-employment Trades and Balance, Air development, career enhancement and Carriers personal growth. Management Training Aviation 202 Flight Training Phone 342-3216 Aviation 301 Advanced Course guides are available in August and - Leadership Meteorology, January. Please call 403 357-3663 - Human Resource Management Advanced Information is also available on the Web - Conflict Management Navigation, address: - Financial Management Instrument Flight http://extension.rdc.ab.ca Procedures Computer Training – Phone 342-3433 Aviation 401 Instructional - Introductory Courses The programs offered by Continuing Technique, Airline - Application software Education are learner-centered and Management, First - Accounting, Project Management and designed to be accessible, relevant, Aid, Survival Training, AutoCAD practical and convenient. Program Theory of Flight, - Multimedia, Web Design and Digital Coordinators also provide customized Crew Resource Photography “on-site” training programs for groups and Management - Customized Systems and Information businesses. Technology Training Option 1 Continuing Education programming Aviation 403 Single Engine IFR Arts Programming includes: Aviation 502 Instructor Rating Continuing Education offers highly acclaimed programming in the Visual and Option 2 Career Development Programming Performing Arts. Excellent instructors Aviation 303 Multi-Engine and superb facilities provide unique Endorsement Flight For Career Development Programming learning opportunities for students. Training designation, a program must include measurable outcomes and be recognized Aviation 402 Multi-Engine Visual Arts – Phone 342-3130 by Alberta Learning as a program for Instrument Rating - Summer Series – summer visual arts which students are eligible to receive Flight Training school for adults Students Finance Board funding. Often, (prerequisite to 404) - Hot Glass Career Development programs will Aviation 404 PCC on Advanced - Year round arts programming Twin Aircraft. involve certification of learning by a body external to the college. See page 122 for Performing Arts – Phone 342-3526 a complete listing of Career All above courses are requirements as - Conservatory of Music Development Certificate Programs. well as one of the stated options. - Conservatory of Dance - Adult Concert Band Business and Industry Training Graduation Requirements - Clinics on Campus Sky Wings will award a diploma if you pass Continuing Education provides training all courses and achieve a minimum Summer Camps programs for learners wishing to upgrade cumulative GPA of 2.00. You must also Art Camps – Phone 342-3504 their workplace skills. Programs are have obtained a Commercial Pilots - Musicamp Alberta responsive to the changing needs of License with a Multi Engine Instrument - Arts Trek business and industry and help individuals Rating OR a Commercial Pilot License - Adventures in Summer Music and businesses keep current in their with an Instrument Rating and Single - Summerscapes changing environments. Engine Instrument Rating. - College for Kids
Upon completion you could receive: Science Camps – Phone 342-3504 1. Sky Wings Aviation Academy Diploma 2. Red Deer College Management Certificate
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Sport Camps - Phone 342-3201 - Basketball - Volleyball - Hockey - Soccer - Combo Camps
Fitness & Lifestyle Programming Phone – 342-3140
The Kevin Sirois Fitness Centre provides fitness and lifestyle courses, programs and services. Supported by a provincial “Be Fit for Life” grant, the KS Centre supports and encourages healthy lifestyles throughout Central Alberta though activities such as: - leadership certification programs - fitness & lifestyle appraisals - Mobile Fitness Unit - Cardiac Rehabilitation - Worksite Wellness initiatives
General Interest Programming Phone – 357-3663 - Language Training - Human Services Programming - Personal Growth Professional Accountant Designation Students seeking a professional accounting RDC Student for a Day designation (Chartered Accountant - C.A., Certified General Accountant - C.G.A.; or Certified Management Accountant - C.M.A.) must earn a university degree. Students may seek a business degree, focussing on Experience RDC accounting, by enrolling in the Business Administration Diploma program (Accounting major) or the Bachelor of • Take a tour • Meet the faculty Commerce program. The program description for the Diploma program is • Win a prize • Meet the coaches described on page 78; the Bachelor of Commerce is described on page 38. • Attend a class • Cheer on a team • Take in a play • Attend a concert • Enjoy refreshments
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In this section, courses are listed to show Definitions (0-3) No classes. what is normally offered at Red Deer Three hours of labs per week. Credit - The equivalent of 15 hours of class College. Some courses are not offered every (3-1S-3) Three hours of classes, instruction. (Example: 1 hour per week for year. Check the timetable to see if specific 1hour of seminar, and 15 weeks including the final exam period. courses will be offered. three hours of labs per week. (3/2) Classes on alternate weeks Course - A series of learning opportunities Each course is identified by the name of the within a specific subject area to which a final subject, followed by a course number and a Course Length grade is assigned. course weight. The instructor/student Length of courses may vary, see timetable contact hours are also shown as well as the for length of courses. Courses have a variety of learning number of weeks the course normally lasts, opportunities, among which are the the title of the course, and a brief A term usually lasts 15 weeks, including the following: description. exam period. Courses lasting 15 weeks are called term courses. Class - a series of learning activities aimed at Example: acquiring theory. ACCT 206-3 (BC=4) Some courses last two terms, or 30 weeks. i) Activities in the class are directed (3-1) 15 weeks This includes two exam periods, one at the by the instructor Auditing end of each term. These courses usually run OR from September to April. They are called ii) Context based Learning ACCT name of the subject, often full courses. an abbreviation Lab - a series of structured learning activities 206 the course number which Prerequisites and Co-requisites to facilitate the application of concepts, gives the course a unique Courses listed as prerequisites must be theories and principles. identity completed before you start the course in -3 the number which follows question. For example, BIOL 297 lists Seminar/Tutorial - a series of structured the dash is the course Biology 30 or equivalent as prerequisite. learning activities aimed at further credit weight This means that you must complete Biology exploration and application of concepts, (BC=4) the number of billing credits 30 or equivalent before you can take BIOL theories and principles. (3-1) theinstructor/student contact 297. Courses listed as co-requisites must be hours per week; 3 hours of taken at the same time as the course in Clinical - a series of learning activities aimed class and 1 hour of lab question. at applying theory in prescribed clinical 15 weeks the number of weeks the class Note: You usually have to complete a junior experiences. runs course in the same subject before you can Auditing the title of the course take a senior course. This is true even if it is Practicum - a learning activity aimed at not listed as a prerequisite. If you wish to combining theory with practical Assignment of Academic register in a 300-level course without experience. having taken at least one 200-level course Credits, or Credit Weight, to in the same subject, check with an advisor. Courses Field Work - an educational experience involving work of a practical nature acquired Restricted Courses Course credits are a measure of learning by students in a work situation. opportunities based on the number and Some courses are available only if you are admitted to a certain program. type of instructional hours or equivalent Instructor/Student Contact Hours learning experiences. For Red Deer College The figures in brackets following the course Reserved Courses Diploma and Certificate courses, academic title and number show the number of contact Some courses are available first to students credits are normally equal to billing credits. hours per week. The first figure is the number in a certain program. Once most students For courses in University Transfer Programs, of class hours. The last figure is the number have registered, these courses are opened academic credits are normally equal to the of lab hours. Seminar hours are identified to all students. credit given at university. This is usually with an S. Practicum, Clinical and Fieldwork equal to the number of lecture hours. are usually expressed as total hours. You can find information on restricted and (3-0) Three hours of classes per reserved courses in the College Timetable. week. No labs. (3-3) Three hours of classes and three hours of labs per week.
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Accounting ACCT 202-3 (BC=5) ACCT 210-4 (BC=5) (5-0) 15 weeks (4-1) 15 weeks Introductory Financial Accounting Intermediate Financial Accounting II ACCT 075-6 (BC=6) Postulates, principles of accounting relating Monetary and non-monetary liabilities. (6-0) 15 weeks to external reporting, and uses of financial Accounting for bonds, leases, pensions, and Basic Accounting accounting information. Emphasis is on shareholders’ equity. Tax allocation. See “Career and Academic Preparation accounting for organizational resources and Analysing financial statement information. Courses,” page 200. equities, preparing and analysing financial Statement of changes in financial position. statements, and reporting to owners, Accounting for changes and correcting ACCT 102-4 (BC=4) creditors, and other external decision errors. (4-0) 15 weeks makers. Prerequisite: ACCT 209. Introductory Accounting I Note: Designed for Second Year Commerce Theory and practice of accounting as applied Students. ACCT 211-3 (BC=3) to the accumulation, external reporting, and Credit will not be granted for both ACCT 102/ (3-0) 15 weeks external uses of financial accounting 103 and 202. Personal Taxation information. The Income Tax Act as it relates to calculating Credit will not be granted for both ACCT 102 ACCT 204-3 (BC=3) personal income tax. Employment income and 202. (3-0) 15 weeks and property income. Capital gains. General Managerial Accounting deductions, exemptions, and tax rates. ACCT 103-4 (BC=4) ACCT 204 covers the same topics as ACCT Aspects of tax planning. Does not cover (4-0) 15 weeks 104 in more depth and adds several unincorporated business income. Introductory Accounting II additional topics. Prerequisite: ACCT 103 or 202 or consent of Preparing and analysing accounting Prerequisite: ACCT 103 or 202 the instructor. information for shareholder and Credit will not be granted for both ACCT 104 management use. and 204. ACCT 212-3 (BC=3) Prerequisite: ACCT 102 Bachelor of Commerce students must take (3-0) 15 weeks Credit will not be granted for both ACCT 103 ACCT 204. Diploma students may take either Corporate Taxation and 202. ACCT 104 or 204. The Income Tax Act as it relates to calculating corporate taxes. Rules for business expense ACCT 104-3 (BC=3) ACCT 205-3 (BC=3) deductions. Capital cost allowance. Details (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks of calculating taxes. Filing requirements. Managerial Accounting Cost Accounting Prerequisite: ACCT 211 Using accounting information for Basic cost accounting and multiple purpose managerial decision making, operating and systems for management control. Profit- Anthropology capital budgets, and product costing. cost relationships. Inventory valuation. Prerequisite: ACCT 102 Material costing. Budgeting and Note: Not all courses listed may be offered. Credit will not be granted for both ACCT 104 performance evaluation. Standard costs. Check Course Timetable for availability. and 204. Variance analysis. Direct costing and Diploma students may take either ACCT 104 relevant costing. Cost allocation. Process ANTH 200-3 (BC=3) or 204. Bachelor of Commerce must take costing. (3-0) 15 weeks ACCT 204 (and may not take ACCT 104). Prerequisite: ACCT 104 or 204. People & Biocultural Evolution An examination of people and culture ACCT 106-4 (BC=4) ACCT 206-3 (BC=4) around the world. The focus will be on (3-2) 15 weeks (3-1) 15 weeks archaeological and physical Management Accounting and Finance Auditing anthropological components (race, Using accounting information for Objectives, principles, standards, and evolution). managerial decision making. Budgeting, procedures of external auditing. Audit of Note: Do not take ANTH 200 or 201 if you financial forecasting and analysis, and an assets, liabilities, equity, revenue, and have already completed ANTH 203. introduction to corporate finance. expenses. Prerequisite: ACCT 102 Prerequisite: ACCT 103 or 202. ANTH 201-3 (BC=3) Credit will not be granted for both ACCT 104 (3-0) 15 weeks and 106. ACCT 209-4 (BC=5) People and Culture (4-1) 15 weeks An examination of people and culture Intermediate Financial Accounting I around the world. The focus will be on Generally accepted accounting principles. cultural anthropological components Objectives of financial statements. Revenue (language, culture growth and culture recognition. Time value of money. Valuation change). of current assets. Accounting for Note: Do not take ANTH 200 or 201 if you inventories. Fixed assets and long-term have already completed ANTH 203. investments. Prerequisites: ACCT 103 or 202.
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ANTH 203-3 (BC=3) ANTH 309-3 (BC=3) ANTH 331-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks Introduction to Anthropology Introduction to Physical Anthropology Anthropology of Gender Provides a general introduction to Human evolution and human variation. Comparative analysis of gender as a central Anthropology through the study of central Topics include primatology, osteology, feature of social identity and of social concepts and key issues, including culture, hominoid palaeontology, and variation in relations of power, with particular reference human cultural development, biological modern populations. to feminist approaches to the exploration evolution, social organization, cultural Prerequisite: ANTH 200 or ANTH 203, or of women’s experience in their historical theory, symbolic systems and culture consent of the Department. and cultural variety. change. Prerequisite: ANTH 201 or ANTH 203, or Note: You cannot receive credit for ANTH ANTH 321-3 (BC=3) consent of the department. 203 if you have previously taken either ANTH (3-0) 15 weeks 200 or 201. Ethnographic Survey of Latin America ANTH 356-3 (BC=3) A survey of cultural traditions of Mexico, the (3-0) 15 weeks ANTH 204-3 (BC=3) Caribbean, and Central and South America Ethnographic Survey of First Nations of (3-0) 15 weeks as they have evolved since the 16th century. Canada Global Citizenship Prerequisite: ANTH 201 or ANTH 203, or The cultural history of the First Nations A survey of basic elements of global consent of department. peoples of Canada including the analysis of citizenship. Central concepts to building the contemporary groups. knowledge and understanding of the ANTH 323-3 (BC=3) Prerequisite: ANTH 201 or ANTH 203, or interconnectedness of human cultures will (3-0) 15 week consent of the Department. be explored by focusing on topics including Ethnographic Survey of Africa social justice and equity, diversity, Anthropology 323 will survey various groups ANTH 357-3 (BC=3) globalization and interdependence, across Africa going from traditional foraging (3-0) 15 weeks sustainable development, and peace and groups through to current industrial Applied Anthropology conflict. societies in Africa. Introduction to the practical use of Prerequisite: ANTH 201 or ANTH 203, or anthropological knowledge and research ANTH 306-3 (BC=3) consent of the department. methods. Includes discussion of the specific (3-0) 15 weeks challenges of practicing anthropology Introduction to Archaeology ANTH 327-3 (BC=3) outside of academia. The nature, purposes, theory, and methods (3-0) 15 weeks Prerequisite: SOCI 310 or SOCI 312 or of anthropological archaeology. Emphasis Globalization and Indigenous/Cultural consent of the department. You cannot is on how past societies are reconstructed Minorities receive credit for ANTH 357 if you have from archaeological evidence and the The survival of indigenous and minority previously taken SOCI 322. explanation of cultural evolution. cultures in various societies. Relationships Prerequisite: ANTH 200 or ANTH 203, or among race, class, culture, and politics. ANTH 361-3 (BC=3) consent of the Deparment. Genocide, ethnocide, and the future of (3-0) 15 weeks native peoples in the modern state. Peoples & Cultures of Central America ANTH 307-3 (BC=3) Prerequisite: ANTH 201 or ANTH 203 or Cultural history of the native peoples of (3-0) 15 weeks consent of the Department. Mexico and Guatemala. Contemporary Introduction to Social and Cultural Indian communities. Anthropology ANTH 330-3 (BC=3) Prerequisite: ANTH 201 or ANTH 203, or Comparing human society and culture, (3-0) 15 weeks consent of the Department. particularly non-Western communities. Technology and Culture Emphasis is on the family, social structure, Evolution of tools and techniques. How ANTH 363-3 (BC=3) political institutions, religion, and processes society adapts to environment through (3-0) 15 weeks of change. technology. Relationships between Anthropological Perspectives on Prerequisite: ANTH 201 or ANTH 203, or technology, ideology, and social Religion consent of the Department. organization. Contemporary anthropological theoretical Prerequisite: ANTH 201 or ANTH 203 or perspectives on indigenous and world ANTH 308-3 (BC=3) consent of the Department. religions. (3-0) 15 weeks Prerequisite: ANTH 201 or ANTH 203 or Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology consent of the Department. Language and communication in the context of anthropology. A brief survey of field and analytic methods. Theory of linguistic anthropology. Prerequisite: ANTH 201 or ANTH 203, or consent of the Department.
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ANTH 391-3 (BC=4) ART 203-3 (BC=3) ART 301-3 (BC=3) (3-0-3) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks Human Osteology Art History II Art History This is a comprehensive and intensive A survey of Art History from Renaissance to Forms and concepts in art and architecture course on human skeletal material in modern. in Canada. Early French and English colonial archaeological context. Lectures and labs periods to Confederation. will cover techniques for identifying ART 231-3 (BC=5) complete and fragmentary skeletal and (4-2) 15 weeks ART 303-3 (BC=3) dental elements, for recognizing the form Visual Fundamentals 2D (3-0) 15 weeks and function of soft tissue attachments, on A foundation level, project based studio Art History bones and for determining individualizing course that introduces the formal elements Forms and concepts in Canadian art and characteristics such as age at death and sex. and principles of two dimensional design. architecture from Confederation to Additional topics include skeletal growth modern. The Group of Seven, Nationalism, and development, the identification of the ART 233-3 (BC=5) Regionalism, and more recent normal range of variation in human skeletal (4-2) 15 weeks development. anatomy, and distinguishing human from Visual Fundamentals 3D animal bones. This course should be A foundation level, project based studio ART 305-3 (BC=3) considered essential for students planning course that introduces the formal elements (3-0) 15 weeks future work in the interpretation of modern and principles of three dimensional design. Art History and archaeological human remains or the European painting, sculpture, and hominid fossil record. ART 241-3 (BC=5) architecture. The nineteenth century to the Prerequisites: ANTH 309, or a course in (4-2) 15 weeks end of Impressionism. Biology or Zoology, or consent of the Drawing I Department. Basic theory and practice of drawing. ART 306-3 (BC=3) Note: May include use of life models (3-0) 15 weeks Art Art History ART 243-3 (BC=5) Painting, sculpture, and architecture. From (4-2) 15 weeks the end of Impressionism, through the early Note: Not all courses listed may be offered. Drawing II art movement of the 20th century, to the Check Course Timetable for availability. ART 241 continued. Basic theory and 1950’s. practice of drawing. Emphasis is on analysis ART 101-.5 (BC=.5) and motivation. ART 341-3 (BC=5) (0-1) 15 weeks Prerequisite: ART 241. (4-2) 15 weeks Visiting Artists Note: May include use of life models Drawing III This is a presentation based course featuring Theory and practice of drawing. Emphasis is a diverse range of visiting artists who are ART 251-3 (BC=5) on developing more advanced drawing and professionally active in the visual art studio (4-2) 15 weeks perception skills. areas. Presentations will contain a variety of Two Dimensional Studies - Painting I Prerequisite: ART 231, 233, 243. graphic content. Introduction to various materials and Note: May include use of life models Note: This course will be evaluated using a techniques in both traditional and credit (pass)/non-credit (fail) grading system contemporary formats. ART 343-3 (BC=5) based upon 75% attendance. Note: May include use of life models (4-2) 15 weeks Note: Repeat for credit 4 times for 2 credits. Drawing IV To complete their program requirement, ART 261-3 (BC=5) Emphasis is on refining technique and BFA and Visual Art students must have (4-2) 15 weeks resolution of working concepts. completed a total of 2 credits in ART 101. Three Dimensional Studies - Ceramics I Prerequisite: ART 341. Beginning date for ART 101 is Fall 2002. Ceramic process in image and idea. Note: May include use of life models
ART 201-3 (BC=3) ART 281-3 (BC=5) ART 351-3 (BC=5) (3-0) 15 weeks (4-2) 15 weeks (4-2) 15 weeks Art History I Three Dimensional Studies - Sculpture I Painting II A survey of Art History from Prehistoric to Sculptural process in image and idea. ART 251 continued. A contemporary Renaissance. approach to painting that develops individual strengths, using a problem solving approach. Prerequisite: For AU, U of C, U of L, AUC, B.F.A. program: ART 251, 231, 233 and 243. For U of A, B.F.A. program: ART 231, 233, 243, 251, 281. Note May include use of life models
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ART 353-3 (BC=5) ART 381-3 (BC=5) ART 461-3 (BC=5) (4-2) 15 weeks (4-2) 15 weeks (4-2) 15 weeks Painting III Sculpture II Ceramics ART 351 continued. Developing and realizing sculpture using ART 363 continued. Emphasis is on refining Prerequisite: ART 351. various techniques and materials. personal imagery in terms of composition Note: May include use of life models Prerequisites: FOR U of C, U of L, AUC, B.F.A. and conception. More in-depth Program: ART 231, 233, 243, 281. understanding of ceramic techniques. ART 361-3 (BC=5) For U of A, B.F.A. Program: ART 231, 233, 243, Prerequisite: ART 363. (4-2) 15 weeks 251/281. Co-requisite: ART 499 Ceramics II Emphasis is on hand building and surface ART 383-3 (BC=5) ART 463-3 (BC=5) enrichment. Lectures, critiques, and studio (4-2) 15 weeks (4-2) 15 weeks practice. Sculpture III Ceramics Prerequisite: ART 231, 233, 243 and 261. Further study and work in sculpture. ART 461 continued. Prerequisite: ART 381. Prerequisite: ART 461. ART 363-3 (BC=5) Co-requisite: ART 499 (4-2) 15 weeks ART 441-3 (BC=5) Ceramics III (4-2) 15 weeks ART 475-3 (BC=5) Further work and study in clay. Kiln firing Drawing (4-2) 15 weeks principles and introduction to throwing. Emphasis is on an individual problem solving Printmaking - Relief Intaglio Lecture, critiques, and studio practice. approach. You have more responsibility to Technology of relief and intaglio printing Prerequisite: ART 361. set visual and conceptual parameters and to processes. Developing personal imagery, extend your visual inquiry process. effective visual communication, ART 375-3 (BC=5) Prerequisite: ART 343 composition, and design. (4-2) 15 weeks Co-requisite: ART 499 Prerequisite: ART 375, 379. Printmaking I Note: May include use of life models Co-requisite: ART 499 Relief printmaking, including woodcut, wood engraving, linocuts, and colour ART 443-3 (BC=5) ART 479-3 (BC=5) printmaking. (4-2) 15 weeks (4-2) 15 weeks Prerequisites: For AU, U of C, U of L, AUC, B.F.A. Drawing Printmaking - Relief Intaglio program: ART 231, 233, 243. ART 441 continued. ART 475 continued. For U of A, B.F.A. program: ART 231, 233, 243, Prerequisite: ART 441. Prerequisite: ART 375, 379. 251/281. Co-requisite: ART 499 Co-requisite: ART 499 Note: May include use of life models ART 377-3 (BC=5) ART 481-3 (BC=5) (4-2) 15 weeks ART 451-3 (BC=5) (4-2) 15 weeks Printmaking II (4-2) 15 weeks Sculpture Silkscreen (serigraph) printmaking. Painting Extending your performance base as it Prerequisites: For AU, U of C, U of L, AUC, B.F.A. Expanding your ability in and knowledge of relates to ideas, media, and process. program: ART 231, 233, 243. painting concepts and processes. Using and Prerequisite: ART 383. For U of A, B.F.A. program: ART 231, 233, 243, handling related media. Co-requisite: ART 499 251/281. Prerequisite: ART 353. Corequisite: ART 379. Co-requisite: ART 499 ART 483-3 (BC=5) (4-2) 15 weeks ART 379-3 (BC=5) ART 453-3 (BC=5) Sculpture (4-2) 15 weeks (4-2) 15 weeks ART 481 continued. Printmaking III Painting Prerequisite: ART 481. Intaglio and relief printmaking. Includes ART 451 continued. Co-requisite: ART 499 etching, engraving, collograph, and colour Prerequisite: ART 451 printing. Co-requisite: ART 499 ART 499-3 (BC=4) (4-2) 15 weeks Studio and Professional Practice Seminar that together with self-directed studio research and production fosters a commitment to critical thinking and professional practice. Required co-requisite for students registered in 400 level studio course Note: May be repeated for credit
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Astronomy AUTO 103-3 (BC=3) AUTO 110-2 (BC=2) (45 class hours, 15 lab hours) (30 class hours, 15 lab hours) Electrical I Electrical II ASTR 205-3 (BC=3) Obtain basic electrical knowledge and To obtain further knowledge of electrical (3-0) 15 weeks develop skills required to diagnose and The Modern Universe circuit diagnostics and an overview of repair automotive electrical systems. A survey of modern astronomy with a focus automotive computer systems. Pre or Co-requisite: AUTO 101 on how our present views of the universe Prerequisite: AUTO 103 developed. Exploring the solar system by AUTO 104-1 (BC=1) telescope and spacecraft. The birth and AUTO 180-1 (BC=1) (6 class hours, 12 lab hours) death of stars. Variable stars. Interstellar Welding (40 practicum hours) medium. The Milky Way and other galaxies. Safe use of oxyacetylene and MIG Practicum I Pulsars (neutron stars) and supernovae. The equipment. Acquire basic knowledge and Provides the student an opportunity to work concept of a black hole. Exploding galaxies skills for safe use of gas heating and cutting in a shop setting and job shadow a (radio galaxies) and quasars. The evolution and MIG equipment. journeyman technician. of the universe. The possibilities of Pre or Co-requisite: AUTO 101 Pre or Co-requisite: AUTO 101 extraterrestrial life and interstellar communication. AUTO 105-1 (BC=1) AUTO 181-2 (BC=2) (20 class hours) (85 practicum hours) Automotive Service Powertrains and Drivelines Practicum II Knowledge and skills required to diagnose The student will be job shadowing and and repair clutches, driveshafts, universal EMP 101-4 (BC=4) applying skills he or she has learned in the joints and constant velocity joints. (60 class hours) Automotive Service Program in a shop Pre or Co-requisite: AUTO 101 Employment & Communications I setting. Introduction to written and oral Prerequisite: AUTO 180 communication skills with emphasis on AUTO 106-1 (BC=1) business style correspondence. Course also (15 class hours, 10 lab hours) includes WHMIS, Standard First Aid and CPR Basic Transmissions Biochemistry Certifications. An overview of manual transmission operation and diagnosis, along with BIOC 301-3 (BC=3) EMP 102-1 (BC=1) automatic transmission service. (3-0-0) 15 weeks (15 class hours) Pre or Co-requisite: AUTO 101 Introductory Biochemistry Employment & Communications II An introduction to the fundamental Further practice in written and oral AUTO 107-4 (BC=4) principles of biochemistry. Protein communication skills with emphasis on (45 class hours, 25 lab hours) structure and function; lipids and the problem solving, interview skills and Steering and Suspension structure of biological membranes; Acquire knowledge and develop skills to resume writing. nucleotides and the structure of nucleic service and repair steering linkages, Prerequisite: EMP 101 acids; bioenergetics and the metabolism of suspension systems, wheels, hubs and tires, manual and power steering gears. carbohydrates, lipids, and nitrogen; the AUTO 101-2 (BC=2) integration and regularion of cellular (20 class hours, 10 lab hours) Prerequisites: AUTO 101 metabolism. Tools and Safety Prerequisites: CHEM 211 and 251 or CHEM Knowledge and skills required to identify AUTO 108-5 (BC=5) and safely use basic hand tools, common (45 class hours, 45 lab hours) 351 power tools, measuring tools and fastening Wheel Alignment Restrictions: Students may only transfer devices. Complements the steering and suspension BIOC 301 or BIOC 393 for credit. course. Learn steering angles, alignment AUTO 102-5 (BC=5) procedures, diagnosis and steering column BIOC 393-3 (BC=4) (50 class hours, 40 lab hours) construction. Use state of the art wheel (3-0-3) 15 weeks Brakes alignment equipment. Introduction to Biochemical Molecules Knowledge and skills required to diagnose Pre or Co-requisite: AUTO 101 This is essentially the same course as BIOC and repair master and wheel cylinders, disc 301 but has a laboratory. brakes, drum brakes, brake valves and park AUTO 109-5 (BC=5) Prerequisites: CHEM 211 and 251or CHEM brakes, power brakes and antilock brake 351 systems. (45 class hours, 35 lab hours) Restrictions: Students may only transfer Pre or Co-requisite: AUTO 101 Engine Fundamentals An overview of basic engine construction BIOC 301 or BIOC 393 for credit. and systems, including diagnosis and repair of common failures. Prerequisite: AUTO 101
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BIOC 430-3 (BC=3 integrating mind, body and spirit for social endomembrane system, protein targeting, (3-0-0) 15 weeks change. An experiential approach will be exocytosis and endocytosis; nuclear Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology employed to explore our understanding and structure and function: cell cycle control This course is intended to provide students responses to critical world events and trends and cancer. with a comprehensive introduction to the that impact our survival and well being. Prerequisites: BIOL 217 biochemistry of nucleic acids. It covers: the Prerequisite: Biology 30 or Science 30 or Prerequisite or Co-requisite: CHEM 251 or Social 30 or equivalent 351. structure and properties of nucleotides and nucleic acids; DNA based information BIOL 217-3 (BC=4) BIOL 317-3 (BC=4) technologies; genes and chromosome (3-3) 15 weeks (3-3) 15 weeks structure; molecular mechanisms in DNA Introduction to Cell Biology Molecular Genetics and Heredity replication, repair, and recombination; RNA An introduction to cellular and molecular The chromosomal and molecular basis for metabolism; protein synthesis and biology. Topics include: biological the transmission and function of genes. The targeting; the regulation of gene macromolecules; membrane structure and construction of genetic and physical maps expression. function; cellular structure; bioenergetics of genes and genomes. Strategies for the Prerequisites: BIOC 301, CHEM 212 and 352. and energy flow; respiration and isolation of specific genes. Examples of Students transferring to the University of photosynthesis; cell division and the cell regulatory mechanisms for the expression Alberta with less than a B- in the cycle; DNA structure and replication; of the genetic material in prokaryotes and prerequisite courses will not receive transcription and translation; recombinant eukaryotes. transfer credit for this course. DNA and genetic regulation. Note: Credit will not be given for BIOL 317 Prerequisite: Biology 30 & Chem 30 and 297 Note: BIOL 217 and 218 can be taken in Prerequisite: BIOL 217 Biology either order. BIOL 318-3 (BC=4) (See also Microbiology, Bacteriology, BIOL 218-3 (BC=4) (3-3) 15 weeks Botany, Genetics, Physiology, and Zoology.) (3-3) 15 weeks Principles of Ecology Organisms in their Environment Ecology is the scientific study of interactions Note: Not all courses listed may be offered. An introduction to how the diverse between organisms and their environment Check Course Timetable for availability. organisms on this planet have been affected in a hierarchy of levels of organization: by their environment and how the current individuals, populations, communities, and BIOL 075-4 (BC=4) environment is the product of the activities ecosystems. The course is designed to (4-1) 15 weeks or organisms. The course also examines how provide a comprehensive survey of general Introductory Biology evolution has operated over long time concepts that can stand alone or serve as periods to produce major groups of preparation for advanced courses in See “Career and Academic Preparation organisms and how evolutionary origins are ecology. Courses,” page 200. reflected in their classification. The Laboratory exercises focus on the scientific principles that underlie our understanding method, experimental design, critical BIOL 095-6 (BC=6) of the major lineages will be discussed using thinking and scientific writing. (5-2) 15 weeks examples from bacteria, fungi, protists, Prerequisite: BIOL 218 Preparatory Biology animals, and plants. A description of the See “Career and Academic Preparation involvement of organisms in major Courses,” page 200. ecosystem processes leads to an evaluation Botany of the stability of those systems and of human BIOL 201-3 (BC=4) impact on the processes. BOTA 310-3 (BC=4) (3-3) 15 weeks (3-0-3) 15 weeks Prerequisite: Biology 30 The Plant Kingdom - Vascular Plants Concepts in Biology Note: BIOL 217 and 218 can be taken in either order. A comparative survey of vascular plants Brief introduction to the philosophy of focusing on their morphology, classification biology. Unity and diversity. How structure BIOL 301-3 (BC=3) and phylogeny. Emphasis is placed on living and function complement each other. (3-0-0) 15 weeks plant groups with some paleobotanical Homeostasis. Genetics and evolution. Eukaryotic Cellular Biology evidence presented. Ecology. Biological basis of behaviour. A structural and functional dissection of a Prerequisite: BIOL 218 Relationship between biology and society. eukaryotic cell. Detection of specific Prerequisite: Biology 30 molecules at the ultrastructural level: plasma membrane structure and function: BIOL 209-3 (BC=3) cytoskeleton involvement in intracellular (3-0-0) 15 weeks transport, mitosis, and cytokinesis; the Towards a Sustainable Society The emergence of a sustainable worldview involves the emerging of ideas from science, religions, and economics. These ideas are coupled with a movement towards
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Business BUS 307-3 (BC=4) Business (3-1) 15 weeks Introduction to Business Statistics II BUS 201-3 (BC=3) Administration Statistical techniques used in business (3-0) 15 weeks Introduction to Business decision making, analysis of variances, chi- Note: Not all courses listed may be offered. This course covers the foundations for future square distribution, non-parametric tests of Check Course Timetable for availability. courses in the B.Comm. program including hypothesis and multiple regression and accounting, organization behaviour, correlation analysis. BADM 107-2* (BC=2) finance, information systems and marketing. Prerequisite: BUS 306 or BADM 111. (3-1) 15 weeks Cases, group projects and a computerized Computer Skills for Business business game may be used. BUS 310-3 (BC=3) BADM 107 is designed to provide students (3-0) 15 weeks with requisite computing skills to succeed in BADM 207 Advanced Microcomputers. BUS 303-3 (BC=3) Introduction to Finance (3-0) 15 weeks The course consists of three modules; CMPT Types of securities and basic methods of Introduction to Organizational 071- Introduction to Computers, CMPT 083- valuation. Valuation and selection of physical Behaviour Word Processing I, and CMPT 086- An introduction to the factors that influence and intellectual assets. Operation of asset Spreadsheet Skills I. human behavior in organizations. Topics markets and market efficiency. Risk *Non-traditional delivery in course include perception, personality, values, measures and risk reduction methods. group behavior, leadership, politics and Financing policy, including choices between BADM 110-3 (BC=3) power. Students will be encouraged to use debt and equity financing. (3-0) 15 weeks this information to better understand Prerequisite: BUS 306 Introduction to Management themselves and how they make choices in Co-requisite: ACCT 202 A competency based course for managing organizations. Note: It is strongly recommended that organizations and people. Competency student complete ACCT 202 before modules include: planning, organizing, BUS 305-3 (BC=3) registering in BUS 310. controlling, delegating, meetings, ethics, (3-0) 15 weeks time and stress management, critical Organization Theory and Analysis thinking, conflict, negotiating, job re- BUS 311-3 (BC=3) Organizational structure and processes. design, and creative thinking. Case studies (3-0) 15 weeks Theoretical models used to analyse and and team exercises are used to develop manage organizations. The context of Legal Foundations of the Canadian interpersonal and decision-making skills. organization theory. Problems and use of Economy classical and modern theory. Organization Both the private and public sectors of our BADM 111-3 (BC=4) dynamics. economy rest on a structure of legal and (3-1) 15 weeks Prerequisite: BUS 303. social institutions. This course looks at the Introduction to Statistics Canadian legal system with emphasis on the The use of statistics and probability in BUS 306-3 (BC=4) social policy behind the rules, rather than business decision making. Methods of (3-1) 15 weeks on the rules of law themselves. Includes the collecting, organizing, interpreting, and Introduction to Business Statistics I nature, sources, philosophy, and policy presenting data. Measures of central tendency and dispersion. Discrete and The use of statistics and probability in objectives of the law. Selected topics from business decision making. Methods of continuous probability distributions. the field of tort and contract law. collecting, organizing, interpreting, and Standard normal distribution. Sampling and presenting data. Measures of central statistical estimation. Testing hypothesis. tendency and dispersion. Discrete and Credit will not be granted for both BADM continuous probability distributions. 111 and BUS 306. Standard normal distribution. Sampling and statistical estimation. Testing hypotheses. BADM 132-3 (BC=3) Credit will not be granted for both BADM (3-0) 15 weeks 111 and BUS 306. Introduction to Marketing The activities involved in the flow of goods and services from the manufacturer to the consumer. A consumer approach to marketing is stressed. Decisions on product, place, promotion, and pricing. Other related marketing topics and how they are used to develop policies and strategies.
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BADM 204-3 (BC=3) BADM 235-3 (BC=4) BADM 243-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 15 weeks (3-1) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks Interpersonal Skills Applied Database Development Marketing Surveys Theory and skills of interpersonal relations. Expands on the construction of simple Marketing survey theory and skills. Research Topics include: understanding and database models to those involving more project, including designing and improving interpersonal relationships, complex designs that deal with the administering a questionnaire and perception, customer service, negotiation interactions of multiple entities. Focuses on tabulating and evaluating the project. skills, conflict resolution, giving and using tools that facilitate the development Group and individual work. receiving feedback, presentation skills, of user-specific applications on a stable Prerequisite: BADM 242 coaching and counselling, interviewing database infrastructure. Complex forms and skills. reports and the usage of scripts using SQL or BADM 247-3 (BC=3) similar languages will be explored. (3-0) 15 weeks BADM 207-4 (BC=5) Prerequisite: BADM 207 Retail Management (4-1) 15 weeks An introduction to retail management. Management Information Systems and BADM 238-3 (BC=4) Topics such as location analysis, pricing, Technology (3-1) 15 weeks advertising and promotions, store layout The role of information systems, business Electronic Commerce and design, competition evaluation, and staff processes and information technology in The focus will be on the business strategies management will be discussed. managing organizations and solving and procedures necessary to use the Prerequisite: BADM 132 business problems. The effective use of Internet to deliver goods and services system and productivity software such as Prerequisite: CSYS 100 or BADM 207, or BADM 249-3 (BC=3) spreadsheets, database applications and consent of department (3-0) 15 weeks presentation tools. Events Management Note: Students who are deficient in the BADM 240-3 (BC=3) Theory and practice of planning, fundamental skills of file management, e- (3-0) 15 weeks implementing, coordinating, marketing mail or word processing are encouraged to Personal Selling and evaluating various types of events take the computing modules CMPT 071 and/ The role of selling in the business world. The including award ceremonies, convention or CMPT 083 or enroll in full courses that nature and rewards of selling. Details of the planning, trade shows, fundraisers, festivals, include these modules: CMPT 085 or CMPT salesperson’s job and qualifications. seminars, and concerts. 261. Knowledge and skills needed for successful Prerequisite: BADM 132 or consent of selling. The sales process. The salesperson’s department. BADM 232-3 (BC=3) personal, customer, and social (3-0) 15 weeks responsibilities. BADM 251-3 (BC=3) Business Technology Prerequisite: BADM 132 (3-0) 15 weeks Students will research, use and evaluate a Entrepreneurship variety of current technologies related to BADM 241-3 (BC=3) This course develops the tools necessary for business. Through simulations and projects, (3-0) 15 weeks both future entrepreneurs and those the students will gain experience in the Advertising already active in the business community to setup, operation and issues of modern Advertising and its role in the Marketing compete effectively in the world of business technology. Mix. Advertising and society. The commerce. Prospective entrepreneurs will Prerequisite: BADM 207 Promotional Mix. Functions of advertising learn how to investigate and evaluate agencies. Creative strategy. Media strategy. business opportunities, and to acquire the BADM 233-3 (BC=3) Advertising and the law. skills and knowledge needed to establish (3-0) 15 weeks Prerequisite: BADM 132 new business ventures, as well as, how to Web Development meet the organization’s social responsibility This course introduces the students to BADM 242-3 (BC=3) to its community. coding for the web. Students will learn (3-0) 15 weeks Note: Designed for BADM students. advanced programming in HTML as well as Marketing Research Note: Not open to students in the first year introductory concepts in CGI scripting and Methods of defining problems, collecting without consent of the department. XML. data, analysing data, and presenting results Prerequisite: BADM 207 for marketing problems. Research methods BADM 253-3 (BC=3) used in all functions of business. Specific (3-0) 15 weeks BADM 234-3 (BC=3) areas of market research, including the use Project Management (3-0) 15 weeks of focus groups. Emphasis is on the Designed to explore the basic elements of Web Design marketing function of research. project management. This includes Students will learn advanced web design Prerequisite: BADM 132 planning, scheduling, maintaining progress using web authoring tools. Students will be of the activities that comprise a project. By furthering their knowledge of design and applying knowledge gained to actual web layout by utilizing a variety of projects, students are able to understand multimedia development tools. project life cycles, scheduling, planning, Prerequisite: BADM 207 control and implementation.
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BADM 260-3 (BC=3) BADM 280-3 (BC=3) BADM 321-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks Introduction to Finance Industrial Relations Selected Topics in Management The role of finance in today’s business firms. Labour relations and collective bargaining. Specialized areas of managerial or Cash budgets, financial forecasting and Labour legislation, negotiating and entrepreneurial concerns, or both. analysis, and sources and uses of funds. administering collective agreements, and Functional areas of business, including Effective management of current assets, settling disputes. Concepts, theories, management, marketing, finance, working capital, and fixed assets. Capital legislation, history, practices, and current accounting, and human resources. Course budgeting and methods of evaluating trends and issues in the Canadian industrial offering and specific topics depend on if an capital projects, with emphasis on relations system. instructor is available. discounted cash flow techniques. Class Prerequisite: BADM 281 discussion of relevant case problems. BADM 327-1* (BC=1) Prerequisite: ACCT 102/103 or 202. BADM 281-3 (BC=3) (2-1) 5 weeks Note: Designed for second year Business (3-0) 15 weeks Quantitative Methods Module For Administration students. Human Resource Management Accountants An introduction to human resource issues for Selected Management Science and BADM 261-3 (BC=3) the employee, supervisor, manager, and statistical topics for Accountants. Topics (3-0) 15 weeks human resources staff. Planning, include linear programming, statistical Financial Management recruitment, selection, compensation, decision theory, time series and index The firm’s optimal capital structure. Short- performance appraisal, and labour relations numbers. term, intermediate, and long-term sources issues will be discussed. Prerequisite: BUS 306 or BADM 111 or of capital funds. Leasing, dividend policy, Note: Designed for BADM students. consent of the department. ledgers, and acquisitions. Class discussion of Note: Not open to students in the first year *The successful completion of both BADM relevant case problems. without consent of the department. 327 and BUS 307 will enable students to Prerequisite: BADM 260. obtain transfer credit for CGA’s Quantitative BADM 290-3 (BC=3) Methods I. BADM 262-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks Work Practicum Investments This course provides the student with an Carpentry and Practical and theoretical aspects of investing opportunity to work in a business setting and Construction in marketable securities are explored. apply the skills he/she has learned in the Stocks, bonds, and other marketable Business Administration Program. Students EMP 101-4 (BC=4) securities, such as exchange traded funds are required to work at least 90 hours (60 class hours) and mutual funds, will be discussed. In (normally unpaid) during the term. The Employment & Communications I particular the risks and returns from instructor will assist in finding a suitable work Introduction to written and oral investing will be reviewed within the placement. communication skills with emphasis on context of various types of securities Prerequisite: Completion of the 1st year of business style correspondence. Course also markets. Various theories in behavioral the Business Administration Program with a includes WHMIS, Standard First Aid and CPR finance are also discussed. minimum GPA of 2.0. Prerequisite: ACCT 103 or 202 Certifications. BADM 320-3 (BC=3) BADM 270-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 15 weeks EMP 102-1 (BC=1) (3-0) 15 weeks Selected Topics in Management (15 class hours) Business Policy and Strategy Specialized areas of managerial or Employment & Communications II Integration of learning from other courses entrepreneurial concerns, or both. Further practice in written and oral in the Business Administration and Financial Functional areas of business, including communication skills with emphasis on Services programs and development of management, marketing, finance, problem solving, interview skills and resume strategic thinking. In addition to studying accounting, and human resources. Course writing. the theory and application of business offering and specific topics depend on if an Prerequisite: EMP 101 strategy, students will also run their own instructor is available. companies in a competitive business simulation, analyse the performance of CARP 100-5 (BC=5) companies and the environment and make (60 class hours, 45 lab hours) presentations to management boards. Carpentry Trade Introduction Prerequisite: Completion of all first year Knowledge of the Carpentry trade, materials Business Administration and/or Financial for construction, hand tools, machines and Services diploma courses. power tools for further application. Prerequisite or Co-requisite: BADM 260 or BUS 310
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CARP 103-3 (BC=3) CARP 110-4 (BC=4) CHEM 095-5 (BC=5) (30 class hours, 45 lab hours) (45 class hours, 45 lab hours) (4-1S-2) 15 weeks Blueprints I Building Procedures Preparatory Chemistry Introduction to drawings and drawing Knowledge and skills required for the See “Career and Academic Preparation instruments. Knowledge and skills to construction aspects of residential and light Courses,” page 201. produce orthographic drawings, isometric commercial building projects. This includes CHEM 203-3 (BC=4) drawings and fee hand sketches. Also building layout, excavation, concrete forming and the framed structure. (3-1S-3/2) 15 weeks includes introduction to blueprint Introductory University Chemistry I interpretation. CARP 120-3 (BC=3) Stoichiometry, ideal gases, atomic (45 class hours) structure and bonding, thermochemistry, CARP 104-3 (BC=3) Construction Safety I chemical equilibrium, acids and bases, (30 class hours, 45 lab hours) Introduction to construction safety and also buffers, titrations. Blueprints II including WHMIS, Standard First Aid, CPR Prerequisite: Chem 30 or equivalent, Math Knowledge and skills to read and interpret Certification and Explosive Actuated Tools. 30 (Pure). residential blueprints, light commercial Co-requisite: MATH 202 (203 or 212). blueprints and be able to produce shop CARP 121-2 (BC=2) Note: For Engineering students. drawings and sketches from blueprints. (30 class hours) Prerequisite: CARP 103 Construction Safety II CHEM 205-3 (BC=4) Knowledge and skills required for safe (3-1S-3/2) 15 weeks Introductory University Chemistry II CARP 105-3 (BC=3) operation of explosive activated tools, hand tools and powered tools. Includes Titration curves, solubility and complex ion (45 class hours) knowledge and understanding of safe equilibria, entropy and Gibbs energy, Trade Mathematics I rigging procedures and construction safety chemical kinetics, electrochemistry, Knowledge and skills using basic math training. bonding and structure. concepts complemented with problem Prerequisite: CARP 120 Prerequisite: CHEM 203 solving related to the Carpentry trade. Co-requisite: MATH 204 or 213. CARP 180-1 (BC=1) CARP 106-3 (BC=3) (40 practicum hours) CHEM 211-3 (BC=4) (45 class hours) Carpentry Practicum I (3-1S-3) 15 weeks Trade Mathematics II Applied knowledge provides the Introductory University Chemistry I The ability to interpret blueprints and basic opportunity for continued learning in the Stoichiometry, ideal gases, atomic math come together at this point to be able Carpentry trade. structure and bonding, thermochemistry, to calculate perimeter, area and volume chemical equilibrium, acids and bases, measurements of materials for a specific CARP 181-2 (BC=2) buffers, titrations. project. (80 practicum hours) Prerequisite: Chem 30, Math 30 (Pure) Prerequisite: CARP 105 Carpentry Practicum II Applied knowledge provides the CHEM 212-3 (BC=4) CARP 107-2 (BC=2) opportunity for advancement in the (3-1S-3) 15 weeks (15 class hours, 45 lab hours) Carpentry trade. Introductory University Chemistry II Carpentry Projects Prerequisite: CARP 180 Titration curves, solubility and complex ion This course offers the opportunity to apply equilibria, entropy and Gibbs energy, the theory from the classroom to a variety chemical kinetics, electrochemistry, of projects. Designed to improve hand skills Chemistry bonding and structure. in a safe environment. Prerequisite: CHEM 211 CARP 108-2 (BC=2) Note: You must have a lab coat and safety CHEM 241-3 (BC=4) (15 class hours, 45 lab hours) glasses to take part in chemistry labs. You Carpentry Projects II can buy these items at the College (3-0-3) 15 weeks Once successful in CARP 107 students will Bookstore. Please note that contact lenses Introductory Bio-Organic Chemistry use the skills learned to complete more are not permitted in the labs. Structures, bonding, functional groups, complex projects focusing on quality, safety Note: Not all courses listed may be offered. reactivity, properties, synthesis, biological and organization. Projects will include Check Course Timetable for availability. chemistry, natural occurrence, and uses of hands on experience with layout and hydrocarbons, alcohols, phenols, sulfur and CHEM 075-4 (BC=4) assembly of concrete forming, floor, wall and halogen compounds, carbonyl compounds, (4-1) 15 weeks roof framing. amines, and carbohydrates. Introductory Chemistry Prerequisites: CARP 100, 103, 105 & 107 Prerequisite: Chemistry 30 (minimum 75% See “Career and Academic Preparation strongly recommended). Courses,” page 201. Note: You can only get credit for one of CHEM 241, 251, and 351
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CHEM 251-3 (BC=4) CHEM 351-3 (BC=4) Career and Academic (3-1S-3) 15 weeks (3-1S-3) 15 weeks Introductory Organic Chemistry I Organic Chemistry I Preparation Courses An introduction to the chemistry of carbon An introduction to the chemistry of carbon compounds. Nomenclature, physical compounds. The molecular structure, See page 200. properties, stereochemistry and reactions nomenclature, reactions, reaction of hydro carbons, alcohols, thiols, alkyl mechanisms and stereochemistry of halides, ethers and epoxides. Use of organic hydrocarbons, and some functional groups Communications molecules in industry and biology. including haloalkanes, alcohols, thiols, Some Communications Studies courses are Prerequisite: Chem 30 ethers and epoxides. Important organic available through alternate delivery. Note: Students normally take CHEM 251 compounds related to industry, agriculture Correspondence versions of COMM 150 and after receiving credit in CHEM 211, although and everyday use are introduced. COMM 254 are available for students in CHEM 211 is not a prerequisite. CHEM 352 Prerequisites: CHEM 203 or CHEM 211 distance delivery programs. On-line versions is a continuation of CHEM 251. You can only Note: You can only get credit for one of CHEM of COMM 140, COMM 250, COMM 252 and get credit for one of CHEM 241 and 251. 241, CHEM 251 and CHEM 351. COMM 254 are available for students who Note: This course is restricted to pre- have Internet access and who need an pharmacy students or departmental CHEM 352-3 (BC=4) alternative to on-campus classes. approval. You will only receive credit for (3-1S-3) 15 weeks Note: Alternate delivery is not available for Organic Chemistry II one of CHEM 241, CHEM 251 and CHEM 351. all courses every year. To enroll in an This course is a continuation of CHEM 251 or alternate delivery section, please check the CHEM 351. Nomenclature, physical CHEM 291-3 (BC=3) Timetable and select a course designated as properties, stereochemistry, synthesis, and (3-0) 15 weeks “correspondence” or “on-line”. reaction of aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic Applying Chemistry to Society and the acids and derivatives, carbohydrates, amino Environment: A Gentle Introduction Placement Criteria acids, proteins and amines. Chemistry of for Non-Science Majors Students should refer to their program biomolecules. Use of spectroscopic tools. Topics will include the chemistry of global requirements before selecting a Industrial, environmental and biological warming, depletion of the ozone layer, air Communications course. Students are implications. and water pollution, alternative fuels, advised that they will be required to take the Prerequisite: CHEM 251 or CHEM 351 nuclear fission and fusion, nutritional College placement test before registering chemistry, illegal drugs and in COMM 250, 252, 254 or 256. Students who CHEM 370-6 (BC=8) pharmaceuticals, polymers and plastics, obtain 60% or greater in ELA 30-1 will be (3-3) 30 weeks superconductors and semiconductors, exempted from this test. Students who do Elementary Physical Chemistry metal refinement and corrosion, etc.. not achieve a satisfactory mark on this test Gas laws. The laws of thermodynamics. Prerequisite: Science 30 or equivalent will be required to complete COMM 150 Calorimetry. Phase equilibria, chemical Note: B.Sc. students cannot take this course before entering COMM 250, 252, 254 or 256. equilibria, and solution theory. for credit. As taking COMM 150 may affect timetables Electrochemistry. Kinetic molecular theory. established by individual programs, students Chemical kinetics. Catalysis. CHEM 311-3 (BC=4) are strongly advised to take the placement Prerequisites: CHEM 212 or equivalent, (3-0-4) 15 weeks test early in case the preparatory course MATH 204 or equivalent. Quantitative Analysis I (COMM 150) is required. Phone the Principles, methods, and experimental Assessment and Test Centre at 342-3292 to applications. Solution l equilibria, Classics arrange to take the placement test. titrimetry, volumetric laboratory skills and Course Equivalencies evaluating experimental data are CLAS 209-3 (BC=3) emphasized. Examples of organic and For program completion requirements at (3-0) 15 weeks RDC, COMM 250, 252, 254, and 256 are inorganic analysis. Early World History I Prerequisite: CHEM 212 equivalent to each other. These courses, For description, see under HISTORY courses though equivalent at RDC, may not transfer CHEM 313-3 (BC=4) to other institutions in the same way. Please CLAS 320-3 (BC=3) see an academic advisor for more (3-0-4) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks Quantitative Analysis II information on specific transferability of all Roman History COMM courses. CHEM 311continued. Principles, methods For description, see under HISTORY courses and experimental applications of separation techniques, atomic and molecular spectrometry, electrochemistry, and evaluation of experimental data. Examples of organic and inorganic analysis. Use of analytical literature. Prerequisite: CHEM 311
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COMM 140-3 (BC=3) COMM 252-3 (BC=3) COMM 294-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks Fundamentals of Workplace Technical and Scientific Writing Group Communication Communications Theory and practice in composition to Theory and practice of communication in Introduction to written and oral prepare students for academic and small groups. Interpersonal communication, communications with an emphasis on professional work in scientific and group dynamics, meetings, making decisions, grammar, basic sentence structure, short technological fields. Emphasis will be on solving problems, resolving conflict, business correspondence, and an mechanics, style, tone and organization of leadership, and team building. introduction to effective oral communications including abstracts, communication, with the public, in the reports, research projects, letters and COMM 341-3 (BC=3) workplace. resumes. (3-0) 16 weeks COMM 140 is not accepted as a prerequisite Prerequisite: Placement criteria must be New Media, Technology, and Society for COMM 200 level courses. met (see above). A study of the implications of information technology for political, social and economic COMM 141-1 (BC=1) COMM 254-3 (BC=3) organization, individual psychology, and (0-2) 10 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks concepts of knowledge. Historical, ethical and Fundamentals of Workplace Human Services Writing legal implications will be discussed. Communications (Lab) Theory and practice in composition to Note: This course assumes only very basic Further exercises and practice in effective prepare students for academic and familiarity with computers at the “user” level. oral communication, based on concepts professional work in human services. Familiarization with more advanced introduced in COMM 140. Emphasis on Emphasis on the effective use of mechanics, applications will be provided as required. nonverbal communication, interpersonal style, tone and organization of Prerequisite: ELA 30-1 or equivalent skills, conflict resolution, and oral communications. Applications include presentations. critical reading, objective observation, COMM 351-3 (BC=3) secondary research, and collaborative (3-0) 15 weeks COMM 150-3 (BC=3) writing. Visual Culture (3-0) 15 weeks Prerequisite: Placement criteria must be Students in this course will examine Fundamentals of College and met (see above). contemporary western visual culture, as it is Workplace Writing constituted by visual modes of Practice in fundamental writing skills with COMM 256-3 (BC=3) communication. Through analysis of images an emphasis on grammar, basic business (3-0) 15 weeks in art, print advertising, documentary correspondence, and short reports for Writing Skills for the Fine Arts photography, and a range of television, video, business or college. Theory and practice in composition to and film genres, students will investigate the COMM 150 is accepted as a prerequisite for prepare students for academic and relation of cultural practices, ideologies and COMM 200 level courses. professional work in the cultural arts. institutions to the production and reception Students will analyze and interpret texts as of visual messages. COMM 191-3 (BC=3) well as produce clear, well-structured, and Prerequisite: ELA 30-1 or equivalent. (3-0) 15 weeks mechanically sound compositions. Oral Communications Prerequisite: Placement criteria must be COMM 361-3 (BC=3) Theory and practice in interpersonal met (see above). (3-0) 15 weeks communications for the workplace. Communicating Through Speech and Students will consider such issues as COMM 271-3 (BC=3) Writing perception, listening, non-verbal (3-0) 15 weeks This course focuses on helping students communications, conflict resolution, self- Introduction to Communications communicate more effectively through their disclosure, and the nature of groups while Studies writing and speaking. Students will examine developing skills related to interviewing, This course provides an overview of the classical and contemporary rhetoric to gain participating in meetings, working development and key theoretical areas an appreciation of the history and theory of effectively with a team, and informative and within the field of Communications Studies, the rhetorical tradition. Students will also put persuasive public speaking. with focus on how communication can serve theory into practice through construction of as an agent of social and cultural change. essays and speeches. 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COMM 369-3 (BC=3) COMM 381-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks Computing Science Rhetorical Perspectives History of Communication This course provides an introduction to the This course provides an overview of the Note: Not all courses listed may be offered. theory and practice of rhetoric. Topics development of major systems of Check Course Timetable for availability. covered will include persuasion, audience communication throughout history, in and situational analysis, rhetorical strategies conjunction with the historical and social CMPT 072-1 (BC=1) in various genres, and ethical considerations contexts in which these developments took Keyboarding I in the practice of rhetoric. Students will place and have shifted over time. Focus will An introduction to touch keyboarding learn to apply rhetorical theory to their own be given both to technological through the use of a computerized package. written and oral arguments, as well as advancements and a theoretical A minimum of 20 net words per minute (five critically evaluate various types of rhetorical understanding of how these advancements errors maximum) is required upon texts. have shaped and reflected both society and completion. Keyboarding is required as a Prerequisite or Co-Requisite: COMM 271 individuals. A variety of theoretical prerequisite skill for all further RDC Note: Students cannot receive credit for perspectives on the role of communication computer modules. both COMM 361 & COMM 369 in history will be considered. Exemptions - CTS INF1020 or prior learning Prerequisite: ELA 30-1 recognition. COMM 371-3 (BC=3) Note: All relevant CTS modules must have (3-0) 15 weeks COMM 383-3 (BC=3) been completed within the past two years. Critical Media Studies (3-0) 15 weeks Note: A minimum grade of 70% in all CTS This course will study various forms of media Introduction to Public Relations modules is required. and culture from a critical standpoint, This course provides an introduction to the focusing on visual forms of communication theory and practice of Public Relations, with CMPT 073-1 (BC=1) such as advertising, art, photography, special focus on the Canadian context of Intermediate Keyboarding II television, video, film, and computer public relations. The course will overview Development of keyboarding skills for those imagery. Students will learn about a variety the history and development of public students with a non-clerical career of critical media theories such as visual relations, the various professional roles and orientation. The emphasis will be on the semiotics, aesthetics, structuralism, occupations in public relations, and key continued development of speed and feminism, postmodernism, transformation theories of public relations. Practical accuracy in typing skills. theory, and the theories of the Frankfurt applications will include preparation of Prerequisites: CMPT 072 or CTS INF1020 School. Special attention will be paid to public relations texts such as press releases, Exemptions: CTS INF2040 or recognized Canadian media and culture. backgrounders, press kits, PR plans and prior learning experience. Prerequisite: COMM 271 speeches. Note: All relevant CTS modules must have Note: Students cannot receive credit for Prerequisite: ELA 30-1 or equivalent been completed within the past two years. both COMM 351 and COMM 371 at RDC Note: A minimum grade of 70% in all CTS modules is required. COMM 375-3 (BC=1) (3-0) 15 weeks CMPT 076-1 (BC=1) Mass Communication in Canada Presentation/Publishing Software This course examines the role of mass media This module provides self-paced and in Canadian society. We will examine directed instruction for introductory level communications media including skills in presentation and desktop television, newspapers, magazines, film, publishing software. Skills to develop books, and new technologies. The course presentations in MS PowerPoint and will focus on areas such as the historical brochures, letterhead or business cards in development, policies, financial issues, and Publisher will be covered. audience reception of the various media in Prerequisites: CMPT 083/ CTS INF 2050 Canada. Special attention will be given Exemptions: CTS INF2060 or recognized throughout the course on the role of prior learning experience. Canadian mass media in a global context, Note: All relevant CTS modules must have particularly in relation to the United States. been completed within the past two years. Prerequisite: ELA 30-1 Note: A minimum grade of 70% in all CTS modules is required.
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CMPT 083-1 (BC=1) CMPT 090-4 (BC=4)* CMPT 093-1 (BC=1) Word Processing I (3-2) 15 weeks Spreadsheet Skills II This module provides instruction for the Information Processing Using This module provides self-paced and efficient use of practical word processing Microcomputers directed instruction for intermediate level skills required to produce a report This is a self-directed course covering spreadsheet skills. Additional skills with containing a title page, a bibliography, research skills, together with word formulas, functions, charts and macros will headers, and page numbering according to processing, spreadsheet and database be covered with Excel. a style guide. Use of editing, formatting, and applications. This course will provide Prerequisites: CMPT 086/CTS INF2080 correcting features are required. Choice of students with an intermediate level of Exemptions: Recognized prior learning working with MSWord or Corel computer literacy. experience. WordPerfect; however, other word *The course is designed as a self-directed Note: All relevant CTS modules must have processing applications are acceptable for course but a mandatory seminary is been completed within the past two years. prior learning recognition. required to provide students with support; Note: A minimum grade of 70% in all CTS Prerequisites: CMPT 072 or CTS INF1020. please register in both the Lecture and modules is required. Exemptions: CTS INF2050 or recognized Seminar sections of this course. prior learning experience. Prerequisites: CMPT 085 OR CTS INF1020, CMPT 096-3 (BC=3) Note: All relevant CTS modules must have CTS INF2050 and CTS INF2080 OR CMPT 072, (2-2) 15 weeks been completed within the past two years. CMPT 083 and CMPT 086. Introduction to Programming Note: A minimum grade of 70% in all CTS Prior Learning recognition, based on a skills Introduction to the essential elements of modules is required. appraisal, is available for students with programming including control structures computer skills but application for PLAR and introductory data structures using the CMPT 085-4 (BC=4) must be completed by the Add/Drop date. “C++” language. (3-2) 15 weeks Note: Any student considering entering Introduction to Personal Computers CMPT 091-1 (BC=1) Computer Systems Technology should enrol This is a self-directed course covering an Integrating Software Applications in this course and CMPT 090 if necessary introduction to computers, together with This module provides instruction for the prerequisites are missing. word processing, spreadsheet and extended use and integration of the High School Equivalent: Elementary keyboarding applications. This course will applications within a software suite Programming. provide students with a basic level of including database, mail merge, graphics, Prerequisite: CMPT 085, consent of computer literacy. linking and embedding. Also includes Department or demonstrated competence *The course is designed as a self-directed extension of desktop and file management, in keyboarding, word processing, course but a mandatory seminar is required condensed theory and concept spreadsheets, and file management through to provide students with support; please understanding. assessment testing. register in both the Lecture and Seminar Prerequisites: CMPT 083 or INF 2050; CMPT sections of this course. 086 or INF 2080. CMPT 110-2* (BC=2) Prerequisites: None Exemptions: CMPT 090 or recognized prior (1-3) 15 weeks Prior Learning recognition, based on a skills learning experience. Introductory Computing appraisal, is available for students with Note: All relevant CTS modules must have Computing theory and application software. computer skills but application for PLAR been completed within the past two years. CPU and system architecture. Input/output must be completed by the Add/Drop date. Note: A minimum grade of 70% in all CTS devices. Secondary storage media. modules is required. Communications. Operating systems. AD CMPT 086-1 (BC=1) converters. Binary theory. Other topics. Spreadsheet Skills 1 CMPT 092-1 (BC=1) Lab work focuses on computing solutions to This module provides instruction for the Word Processing Skills II industry-related problems. Statistical efficient use of practical spreadsheet skills This module provides self-paced and analysis of experimental data using DOS. required to create a formatted worksheet directed instruction for intermediate level Word processing, spreadsheet and database with mathematical formulas. Use of relative, word processing. Merging documents, techniques, and spreadsheet design. Macro absolute and mixed cell referencing, of enhancing the visual display of text, macros programming, data parsing, mathematical functions, and of graphing tools is required. and templates will be covered. MSWord will functions, and graphing solutions. Strong Excel will be used for this module, however be used for this module; however, other working knowledge of DOS. Statistical topics other spreadsheet applications are word processing applications are of linear regression and correlation using acceptable for prior learning recognition. acceptable for prior learning recognition. the computer. Recommended Prerequisite: CMPT 083 or Prerequisites: CMPT 083/CTS INF2050 Prerequisite: Math 30 (Pure) or Math 30 CTS INF2050 Exemptions: CTS INF 3060 or recognized (Applied) Exemptions: CTS INF2080 or recognized prior learning experience. *Non-traditional course delivery prior learning experience. Note: All relevant CTS modules must have Note: All relevant CTS modules must have been completed within the past two years. been completed within the past two years. Note: A minimum grade of 70% in all CTS Note: A minimum grade of 70% in all CTS modules is required. modules is required.
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CMPT 170-3* (BC=3) CMPT 215-3 (BC=4) CMPT 351-3 (BC=4) (3-1.5) 15 weeks (3-3) 15 weeks (3-3) 15 weeks Microcomputer Applications Elementary Data Structures Elements of Programming I This is a self-directed course covering an Using a high level language to present and Basic programming techniques using a high introduction to computers, together with manipulate data structures. Strings, arrays, level language. Representing and word processing, spreadsheet and and linked lists. Stacks, queues, and trees. manipulating numeric and non-numeric educational technologies. This course will Uses of data structures. data. Computing systems, history, and uses. provide a basic foundation of computer Prerequisite: CMPT 214 or 351 and consent (C++ language) literacy for the Educational Assistant field. of the Department. Note: You cannot have credit in both CMPT *The course is designed as a self-directed 214 and 351. course but a mandatory seminar is required CMPT 261-3* (BC=4) Prerequisite: Math 30 (Pure). to provide students with support; please (3-0-3) 15 weeks register in both the Lecture and Seminar Introduction to Computing CMPT 360-3 (BC=4) sections of this course. This is a self-directed course covering an (3-3) 15 weeks Prerequisites: None introduction to computers, research skills Introduction to Object-Oriented Prior Learning recognition, based on a skills and computer theory, together with word Programming appraisal, is available for students with processing and spreadsheet applications. Theory and practical application of object- computer skills but application for PLAR must This course will provide a comprehensive oriented programming. Graphical be completed by the Add/Drop date. foundation of computer literacy in support interfaces. Object-oriented approach to of university-level study. program design and programming CMPT 201-3 (BC=4) *The course is designed as a self-directed techniques, language translators, and virtual (3-3) 15 weeks course but a mandatory seminary is required machines. Programming: A Gentle Introduction to to provide students with support; please Prerequisite: Consent of the Department Computing register in both the Lecture and Seminar This course provides an overview of sections of this course. Dance computing science concepts for students Prerequisites: None with little or no programming background. Prior Learning recognition, based on a skills See listings under “Kinesiology and Sports Topics include: representation of data; appraisal, is available for students with Studies,” page 171. machine architecture; operating system computer skills but application for PLAR must concepts; properties of algorithms and be completed by the Add/Drop date. computational problems; syntax of a high Disability & level procedural programming language; CMPT 262-3 (BC=4) basic data types and control structures. (3-0-3) 15 weeks Community Studies Students do introductory programming for a Introduction to Structured portion of the course. Intended for students Programming DACS 207-3 (BC=3) with no computing experience. CMPT 261 continued, using a high level (3-0) Note: U of A will not grant credit for this language on a personal computer. Program Values and Issues course if credit was first obtained in CMPT 214 control. Functions and subprograms. Arrays. This course introduces learners to the issues or equivalent. Manipulating strings. Sequential and affecting the lives of individuals and random access files. Buttons, windows, communities that are marginalized. CMPT 214-3 (BC=4) dialogue boxes, and menus. Designing user- Learners will explore the defining historical (3-3) 15 weeks friendly programs. Non-numerical moments as well as the current issues, Introduction to Computing Science applications are stressed. theories, and practices in the field of Computer architecture, operations and data Prerequisite: CMPT 261. disability studies. Additionally, this course storage. Machine language and assembler Note: Not open to Bachelor of Science provides insight into the key values that programming. Scientific applications and students. guide professional practice for systems programming in C++. Functions rehabilitation professionals. Learners will parameter passing and recursion. The CMPT 272-3 (BC=3) develop insight into the profession’s programming will progress from the (3-1) 15 weeks identity and the role the profession plays in structured perspective to the object oriented Formal Systems and Logic in advocating for change. paradigm. Computing Science Open to students in the KNSS Adapted Prerequisite: Math 30 (Pure) Propositional and predicate logic. Boolean Diploma Co-requisite: MATH 202 or 203 algebra and circuit design. Verifying Note: Students who have completed the programs and proofs. Formal languages, Basic Skills Training Program (BST) prior to regular expressions, and finite state entering the program may receive credit machines. Other formal systems useful in for DACS 207 Computing Science. Prerequisite: CMPT 214 Co-requisite: CMPT 215
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Drama DRAM 249-3 (BC=3) DRAM 324-3 (BC=3) (1-5) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks DRAM 201-3 (BC=3) Introduction to Dramatic Process Advanced Movement for the Actor (3-0) 15 weeks Improvising speech and movement, with Continued exploration of releasing, Play Analysis emphasis on imaginative development. The developing and expanding resources Understanding drama through critical process of acting and dramatic form. integral to movement in acting. Advanced analysis of plays. Using analysis for creative Developing communication skills. movement technique and development of solutions in play productions. Not accepted for credit in the Theatre performance skills. Studies Program. Not available to students Prerequisite: DRAM 203 and DRAM 224 DRAM 202-3 (BC=3) with credit in DRAM 350. (3-0) 15 weeks DRAM 347-3 (BC=3) Introduction to Theatre Art DRAM 301-1 (BC=1) (2-2.5) 15 weeks The origins and development of theatre art. (0-3) Introduction to Oral Communication Introduction to theatre history and theatre Production Workshop I Freeing the natural voice. Developing body aesthetics. Student initiated project work involving awareness related to the voice: breathing, theatre production or theatre related resonance, projection, articulation, and DRAM 203-3 (BC=3) research. range. Exploring basic techniques of oral (3-0) 15 weeks Note: Open to all students, subject to communication and interpretation, Introduction to Dramatic Movement approval of the Theatre Studies Department. drawing from various forms of literature. Releasing, developing, and expanding physical resources basic to movement in DRAM 302-1 (BC=1) DRAM 350-3 (BC=4) acting. Developing body awareness. (0-3) (3-3) 15 weeks Note: Open to Theatre Studies Acting Production Workshop II Introduction to Acting students only. Student initiated project work involving The process of acting and dramatic form theatre production or theatre related through dramatic improvisation. Formerly DRAM 204-1 (BC=1) research. DRAM 251. (2-1) 15 weeks Note: Open to students who have Note: Open to Theatre Studies Acting Singing for the Stage completed DRAM 301 and upon approval of students only. Developing the voice through choral the Theatre Studies department. singing and coaching. Vocal range, DRAM 353-3 (BC=3) technique, and musicality. DRAM 305-6 (BC=6) (1-5) 15 weeks Note: Open to Theatre Studies Acting (270 hours) 30 weeks Scene Study I students only. Acting Practicum II The study of acting, including analyzing and Senior Drama. Developing competencies in enacting scripted scenes and DRAM 205-6 (BC=6) research, rehearsal and performance characterization. (270 hours) 30 weeks relevant to assigned roles in Department Prerequisite: DRAM 249 or 350 or 321 or Acting Practicum I productions. consent of the Department. Developing competencies in theatre Note: Open to Theatre Studies Acting rehearsal and performance through students only. DRAM 354-3 (BC=3) assigned roles in Department productions. (1-5) 15 weeks Note: Open to Theatre Studies Acting DRAM 309-1 (BC=1) Senior Acting students only. (0-1.5) 30 weeks Applying acting technique to scripted Career Path Tutorial materials. Characterizing, analyzing, and DRAM 224-3 (BC=3) Researching and developing a life-skills or integrating main period styles. (3-0) 15 weeks career path strategy. Supervised by Prerequisite: DRAM 353 and consent of the Intermediate Movement for the Actor Department staff. Accessing information Department. Continued expansion of physical resources from and contacts with educators, practicing Note: Open to Theatre Studies Acting and development of movement practices for professionals, and employers in the theatre students only. actor movement. industry. DRAM 383-3 (BC=4) Prerequisite: DRAM 203 Note: For Theatre Studies Acting students (3-3) 15 weeks Note: Open to Theatre Studies Acting only. Introduction to Directing students only. DRAM 321-3 (BC=3) Fundamentals of directing through practical (1-3) 15 weeks exercises. Creative Drama Prerequisite: DRAM 353 and consent of the Use of dramatic technique in a variety of Department. group projects to develop self-expression. This course will serve leaders and teachers at all levels. Former experience in theatre is not required.
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DRAM 442-3 (BC=3) ELCC 210-4 (BC=4) ELCC 217-3 (BC=3) (2-2.5) 15 weeks (200 hours) Includes 15 hours seminar (3-0) 15 weeks Studies in Oral Interpretation Practicum I Guiding Behavior Interpretation and performance of poetry, Practical experience with young children in Understanding and fostering self-esteem in prose, and dramatic literature. community programs. young children. Practical information on Prerequisite: DRAM 347 Part time students must complete ELCC 210 appropriate strategies to help develop Note: Open to Theatre Studies Acting between the fourth to seventh course. students only. Consent of the chair is required for atypical children’s social-emotional behavior using registration requests. a “guidance” approach. Establishing DRAM 483-2 (BC-2) Note: This course will be evaluated using a partnerships between families and early (0-6) 15 weeks credit (pass)/non-credit (fail) grading childhood professionals. Advanced Directing system. Develop the director’s creative use of the ELCC 218-3 (BC=3) elements of directing. ELCC 211-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 15 weeks Prerequisite: DRAM 383 (3-0) 15 weeks Program Planning III Child Development Planning for play (including environments DRAM 493-3 (BC=3) Exploration of developmental theories. & schedules) and group times. Exploration (1-5) 15 weeks Methods of observing and recording of physical, construction, block, Design Production Lab children’s behavior. Study of prenatal woodworking, manipulative, and outdoor Advanced theatrical design. development. Physical, cognitive, moral, play. Introduction to music and song. Prerequisite: DRAM 314 or consent of the creative, and social emotional development Department. of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. Note: These courses can be taken in any sequence. ELCC 212-3 (BC=3) Early Learning & (3-0) 15 weeks ELCC 220-4 (BC=4) Child Care Program Planning I (200 hours) Includes 15 hours seminar Play theories and issues. Understanding the Practicum II role of play in children’s development, and Practical experience with young children (formerly Early Childhood & the role of adults in guiding and providing in community programs, extending the Development) play experiences. Planning for sensory play, objectives of ELCC 210. Part time students art play, and appropriate infant/toddler (These courses are intended for Early must complete ELCC 220 between the developmental experiences. Childhood Development students, but can seventh and tenth courses. Consent of the Note: These courses can be taken in any be taken by other students with consent of chair is required for atypical registration sequence. the Chair). With the exception of practicum requests. courses, all ELCC courses can be taken in any Prerequisite: ELCC 210. ELCC 213-3 (BC=3) sequence. Note: This course will be evaluated using a (3-0) 15 weeks credit (pass)/non-credit (fail) grading Interpersonal Relations I ELCC 201-3 (BC=3) system. (3-0) 15 weeks Self understanding and self acceptance as the basis of a professional’s ability to Foundations of Early Learning & Child Year 2 Care understand and value others. Gaining With the exception of practicum courses, all The characteristics and roles of Early knowledge of self and communication ELCC courses can be taken in any sequence. Childhood professionals in various program theories and skills. settings. Recent positions and issues on ELCC 305-3 (BC=3) “quality” in child care. Routines and ELCC 215-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 15 weeks transitions. Health, nutrition, and safety (3-0) 15 weeks School Age Care information and implications for practice. Program Planning II Child care, developmental needs, and Anti-bias curriculum. Understanding dramatic play and emergent appropriate interactions with children age literacy development. Planning socio- six through age twelve. Regulations and ELCC 206-3 (BC=3) administration of school age care programs. (3-0) 15 weeks dramatic experiences. Identifying quality children’s literature. Sharing stories with Providing quality experiences for children Child Development & Exceptionalities in school age programs. Course content children. Fostering language development Physical, cognitive, moral, creative, and presented on-line. This is an option course, in young children. social emotional development of children and students are required to take one of the Note: These courses can be taken in any ages five through eight. Attitudes, trends, three ELCC options provided OR one other and issues in providing services to children sequence. option approved by the chair. with special needs. Overview of basic types This course is open to unclassified students. of exceptionality.
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ELCC 308-3 (BC=3) ELCC 314-3 (BC=3) ELCC 321-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks Family Support Children in Society Family Studies The nature of family support work. Early Exploration of social, economic, religious, The family as an integral institution in intervention for at-risk families. Strategies and educational systems and their impact society. Various family forms, and the and techniques for supporting families. on families in Alberta, Canada, and the world. specific organization, functions, dynamics, Establishing helping relationships. Content Social, historical, and theoretical influences and influences on individual family presented on-line. This is an option course on child care. Focus on supporting families, members. Focus is on the stresses facing and students are required to take one of the professional advocacy, and on program contemporary families, and especially their three ELCC options provided OR one other planning that meets diverse needs. impact on children. option approved by the chair. Prerequisite: ELCC Certificate or consent of Prerequisite: ELCC Certificate or consent of Prerequisite: ELCC 321 recommended. ELCC department. department. Certificate or consent of department. ELCC 315-3 (BC=3) ELCC 323-3 (BC=3) ELCC 309-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks Program Administration Program Planning IV Aboriginal Children and Families Roles and functions of program Program planning in diverse early Focus on past traditions and contemporary administrators, coordinators, and home childhood settings. Includes planning math, issues facing Aboriginal children, families visitors in management and administration, science, and technological experiences. and communities. Emphasis on deepening program policies and procedural Parent and community involvement. knowledge and enhancing skills for guidelines, record keeping and information Record keeping, child assessment, program education, caring and working in systems, financial management and evaluation. partnership with Aboriginal people. Course administration, and staff supports for Prerequisite: ELCC Certificate or consent of content presented on-line. This is an option operating day cares, nursery schools, and department. course and students are required to take one family day home programs in Alberta. Note: These courses can be taken in any of the three ELCC options provided OR one Course content presented on-line. sequence. other option approved by the chair. Prerequisite: ELCC Certificate or consent of This course is open to unclassified students. the department. ELCC 325-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 15 weeks ELCC 310-5 (BC=5) ELCC 317-3 (BC=3) Children With Special Needs (200-250 hours) (3-0) 15 weeks Care and education of children with special Includes 15 hours seminar Program Planning V needs in inclusive environments. Practicum III Expanding experiences in early childhood Exploration of both developmental and Practical experience with young children in art, music, creative dramatics, and group behavioral program strategies to deal with a diverse range of community programs, times. Planning appropriate environments children’s exceptionalities. Emphasis on extending the objectives of first year and experiences for fostering literacy team planning with families and practicums. Part-time students must development. professionals. complete ELCC 310 between the fourth and Prerequisite: ELCC Certificate or consent of Prerequisite: ELCC Certificate or consent of seventh courses. Consent of the chair is department. department. required for atypical registration requests. Note: These courses can be taken in any Note: This course will be evaluated using a sequence. credit (pass)/non-credit (fail) grading system. ELCC 320-5 (BC=5) Prerequisite: ELCC Certificate or consent of (200-250 hours) department. Includes 15 hours seminar Practicum IV ELCC 313-3 (BC=3) Practical experience with young children in (3-0) 15 weeks a diverse range of community programs, Interpersonal Relations II extending the objectives of pre-requisite Developing skills that will help in relating ELCC 310. Part-time students must to others more effectively: self-esteem, complete ELCC 320 between the seventh conflict resolution, assertiveness, support and tenth courses. Consent of the chair is skills, team skills, etc. Strategies for applying required for atypical registration requests. these skills in working with children, families Prerequisite: ELCC 310 and colleagues. Note: This course will be evaluated using a Prerequisite: ELCC Certificate or consent of credit (pass)/non-credit (fail) grading system department. .
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Economics Prerequisite: ECON 201 ECON 355-3 (BC=3) Credit will not be granted for both ECON 101 (3-0) 15 weeks and 202. Sports Economics Note : Not all courses listed may be offered. Note: It is recommended that you have Economic analysis of sports, with emphasis Check Course Timetable for availability. Grade 12 level Math or equivalent as on professional team sports. Topics include background. demand for sports, the economic structure ECON 100-3 (BC=3) of leagues, winning and profitability, (3-0) 15 weeks ECON 323-3 (BC=3) franchise values, pay and performance, free Introduction to Business (3-0) 15 weeks agency, arbitration, and discrimination. Microeconomics International Economics Policy issues such as competition law and Terminology, concepts, theory, methods, Emphasis is on basic international trade government subsidies will also be and limitations of current microeconomic theories and policies. Gains from exchange considered. analysis. Analyzing and understanding and specialization. International factor Prerequisite: ECON 201 economics as it relates to individuals and movements. Theory of tariff and non-tariff businesses. How political, social, and market barriers. Exchange rates. Balance of ECON 373-3 (BC=3) forces determine and affect the Canadian payments. International debt. (3-0) 15 weeks economy. Prerequisite: ECON 201 and 202. Industrial Organization Credit will not be granted for both ECON Basic theory of industrial organization 100 and 201. ECON 331-3 (BC=3) economics, based on the analysis of market (3-0) 15 weeks structure, conduct, and performance. ECON 101-3 (BC=3) Labour Economics Emphasis is on aspects of Canadian industry (3-0) 15 weeks Using microeconomic principles to analyze and competition policy. Concepts of market Introduction to Business the labour market. The scope will include structure. The meaning and measurement Macroeconomics theory, empirical evidence, and policy of monopoly power. Competition. Barriers Terminology, concepts, and theory used to issues. Emphasis is on the Canadian to entry. Product differentiation. Economies understand, analyse, and evaluate the economy. Labour supply and labour of scale. Oligopoly. Collusion. Advertising. overall performance of an economy. demand. Equilibrium wages and Organization of the firm. Defining and using economic indicators. employment levels in both competitive and Prerequisite: ECON 201. Canadian banking system. Inflation and non-competitive labour markets. Wage unemployment. Monetary and fiscal policy. differentials, unions, and discrimination. ECON 381-3 (BC=3) Foreign control. Economic growth. Prerequisite: ECON 201. (3-1) 15 weeks International trade. Intermediate Microeconomic Theory Credit will not be granted for both ECON ECON 337-3 (BC=3) Theory of consumer behaviour. Theory of 101 and 202. (3-0) 15 weeks production and cost. Determining price and Development Economics output under competition, monopoly, and ECON 201-3 (BC=3) An introduction to the economic other market structures. (3-0) 15 weeks development process in developing Prerequisite: Math 30 (Pure), ECON 201. Introduction to Microeconomics nations. Analysis will include explanations Scarcity and choice. Methods used in for underdevelopment and examination of ECON 382-3 (BC=3) economic science. Specialization, markets, issues such as poverty, employment, income (3-1) 15 weeks and exchange. Supply and demand. Roles distribution, population growth, human Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory of consumers, firms, and resource owners capital, savings and investment, trade, Determination of income, employment, in competitive and monopolistic markets. foreign aid, and the role of markets and prices, interest rates, exchange rates and International trade. Government governments. balance of payments. Impact of supply intervention. Emphasis is on Canadian Prerequisite: ECON 201 and 202 or consent shocks, fiscal policy and monetary policy. problems, issues, policies, and institutions. of the Department. Prerequisite: Math 30 (Pure), ECON 201 and Credit will not be granted for both ECON 202. 100 and 201. ECON 341-3 (BC=3) Note: It is recommended that you have (3-0) 15 weeks Grade 12 level Math or equivalent as Money and Banking background. Nature and functions of money. Money creation. Financial markets and financial ECON 202-3 (BC=3) intermediation. Industrial structure and (3-0) 15 weeks regulation in Canadian banking. Elementary Introduction to Macroeconomics monetary theory. Central banking and Defining and measuring aggregate monetary policy. International finance. economic variables. National income and Prerequisite: ECON 201 and 202. monetary theory. Government monetary and fiscal policies. Unemployment and inflation. Exchange rates and balance of payment. Emphasis is on the Canadian economy.
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Education EDCT 421-3 (BC=3) experience component requires you to (3-0) 45 hrs; 2 weeks spend two mornings per week in a local Carpentry Level 2 CTS Teacher school. It is imperative that you leave this (These courses are intended for Education Education time free when you are creating your students.) This course builds on the skills and timetable. knowledge developed in Carpentry Level 1. This course will be graded as CR/NCR (credit/ EDCM 341-3 (BC=3) Prerequisite: EDCT 320 no credit) (3-0) 15 weeks Communication in the Classroom EDCT 430-3 (BC=3) EDIT 302-3 (BC=4) By focussing on your interpersonal skills, this (3-0) 45 hrs; 2 weeks (3-3) 15 weeks course examines communication in the Automotive Service Level 1 CTS Instructional Application of Technology classroom. Students will practice and Teacher Education This course will take you beyond learning improve these skills through presentations, This course is designed to meet the needs of specific software and expose you to ways you small group work, role playing, and teachers or BEd students who do not have a can integrate technology into your K-12 communication exercises. Trades credential (journeyperson) and who would like to build skills necessary to teach curriculum. Modules include word EDCT 410-3 (BC=3) in a Career and Technology Studies (CTS) processing, creating spreadsheets, digital (3-0) 45 hrs; 2 weeks automotive shop setting. The course media, desktop publishing, multimedia, and Welding Level 1 CTS Teacher Education addresses specific CTS content using webpage design. The objectives of the This course is designed to meet the needs Apprenticeship Individual Learning course are directly related to the Alberta of teachers or BEd students within the modules (ILMs). The focus is on learning how Learning ICT Curriculum. Basic to education program who do not have a to teach in a shop environment, developing intermediate word processing, internet and Trades credential (journeyperson) and who applicable automotive service skills, e-mail skills are recommended as would like to build skills necessary to teach developing knowledge and skills re safety prerequisites for all students. Credit will not in a Career and Technology Studies (CTS) guidelines and regulations. In addition be granted for EDPY 302 and EDIT 302. welding shop setting. The course addresses there is a focus on the development and specific CTS content using Apprenticeship assessment of projects suitable for shop use. Individual Learning modules (ILMs). The EDPY 200-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 15 weeks focus is on developing applicable welding EDFN 201-3 (BC=3) Introduction to Educational Psychology skills, developing knowledge and skills re (3-0) 15 weeks safety guidelines and regulations, and the Introduction to Canadian Education This course deals with the teaching- development and assessment of projects An introductory course that explores both learning process and student behavior. It suitable for shop use. historical and contemporary issues in includes theory, research and illustrations, education. Students will become aware of all dealing with classroom applications of EDCT 411-3 (BC=3) the factors that have shaped and are shaping psychological principles for education. (3-0) 45 hrs; 2 weeks Alberta’s public education system. This Topics will include the development of the Welding Level 2 CTS Teacher Education course helps students to develop the basic student in the cognitive, moral, gender and This course builds on the skills and skills and knowledge that will enable them psycho-social domains, theories of knowledge developed in Welding Level 1. to become effective classroom teachers. cognition, learning and motivation. Prerequisite: EDCT 310 Note: This course is not transferrable to U of A. ** EDCT 420-3 (BC=3) EDUC 250-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 45 hrs; 2 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks EDFN 341-3 (BC=3) The Profession of Teaching Carpentry Level 1 CTS Teacher (3-0) 15 weeks Education This course explores the complex role of Concepts of Childhood in the History of teachers as professionals in contemporary This course is designed to meet the needs Education of teachers or BEd students within the schools. Students will become familiar with A study of those views of childhood which the scope and expectations of the role of the education program who do not have a have exerted a significant influence on Trades credential (journeyperson) and who teacher and the framework within which educational theory and practice from teachers work. would like to build skills necessary to teach antiquity to today. in a Career and Technology Studies (CTS) Note: Credit will not be granted for both EDFX 203 and EDUC 250. carpentry shop setting. The course EDFX 203-3 (BC=4) addresses specific CTS content using (45 hours lecture, 60 hours fieldwork) 15 Apprenticeship Individual Learning EDUC 310-3 (BC=3) weeks (3-0) 15 weeks modules (ILMs). The focus is on developing Education Field Experience applicable carpentry skills, developing Introduction to Curriculum Studies An introductory education course that gives Field of inquiry unique to Education. knowledge and skills re safety guidelines you the opportunity to go out to area schools and regulations, and the development and Considers mandated programs of study, where you will work closely with theories, practices, and implications of assessment of projects professional teachers and observe and suitable for shop use. teaching and learning. interact with elementary, middle and/or Prerequisites: One of EDCM 341, EDFN 341, high school students. In your class seminar, EDFX 203, EDIT 302, EDPY 200, EDUC 250, you will learn about educational topics and FAM 322 or FAM 315 discuss your field experiences. The field www.rdc.ab.ca 153 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
EDUC 320-3 (BC=3) EDAS 152-3 (BC=3) EDAS 159-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks Media, Culture, and Curriculum Overview of Exceptionalities Hearing Impairment Principles, perspectives, and practices for This course examines definitions, This course examines issues and techniques future teachers. Implications for childhood classification schemes, prevalence, causes, involved in teaching persons with hearing and adolescence, literacy, learning, critical psychological and behavioural impairment. Definitions, classification thinking, creativity, gender, identity, characteristics, and introduces educational schemes, measurement, prevalence, causes, politics. considerations covering a wide range of psychological and behavioral characteristics Prerequisites: One of EDCM 341, EDFN 341, exceptionalities. and basic teaching techniques are reviewed. EDFX 203, EDIT 302, EDPY 200, EDUC 250, Prerequisite or Corequisite: EDAS 151 or Prerequisite: EDAS 111 and EDAS 152 or FAM 322, or FAM 315 consent of the Department. consent of the Department.
EDAS 153-3 (BC=3) EDAS 160-3 (BC=3) Educational Assistant (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks Fostering Positive Behaviour Assisting the Language Learning Note: Not all courses listed may be offered. Students will review both learning and Teacher Check Course Timetable for availability. behaviour management philosophies in Effective teaching strategies for language order to build a repertoire of effective arts. Topics include learning theory, early EDAS 111-3 (BC=3) techniques and strategies that fosters literacy intervention, comprehension and (3-0) 15 weeks positive behaviour change in the classroom. decoding strategies, the writing process and Role of the Assistant Prerequisite: EDAS 151 and EDAS 111 writing analysis with an emphasis on Clarification of the roles of the teacher and Co-requisite: EDAS 152 or consent of the assisting students in improving their reading the educational assistant. Topics include Department. and writing skills. code of conduct, job descriptions, tasks, Alberta Teachers’ Association policies, EDAS 156-3 (BC=3) EDAS 161-3 (BC=3) classroom management techniques and (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks positive school climate. Visual Impairment Assisting the Math Teacher This course examines issues and techniques Mathematical concepts taught at the EDAS 114-3 (BC=3) involved in teaching persons with visual elementary school level. Teaching (140 hours) 4 full weeks impairment. Definitions, classification techniques for the mathematics classroom. Field Experience schemes, measurement, prevalence, causes, Designing learning activities to improve Working as an educational assistant for four psychological and behavioural children’s understanding of math. full weeks. Includes a seminar component. characteristics and basic teaching Scheduled after all coursework is complete. techniques are reviewed. EDAS 163-1 (BC=1) Prerequisite: All compulsory course work. Prerequisite: EDAS 111 and EDAS 152 or (3-0) 5 weeks consent of the Department. Supporting Students with Anxiety EDAS 116-3 (BC=3) Disorders (3-0) 15 weeks EDAS 157-3 (BC=3) This course explores the most common Human Relations (3-0) 15 weeks anxiety disorders with an emphasis on Developing and increasing your Physical Disabilities strategies and practices that assist and understanding of self and others. Issues and techniques involved in teaching support these students in the classroom and Interpersonal skills required in supportive persons with physical disabilities. Common with their peers. roles as a para-professional. physical disabilities. Related materials and Prerequisite: EDAS 111 and 152 or consent equipment. of department. EDAS 151-3 (BC=3) Prerequisite: EDAS 111 and EDAS 152 or (3-0) 15 weeks consent of the Department. EDAS 164-1 (BC=1) History & Trends in Exceptionalities (3-0) 5 weeks Attitudes toward and services provided to EDAS 158-3 (BC=3) Supporting Students with Mental persons with disabilities throughout history. (3-0) 15 weeks Health Concerns Current trends and issues in special Communication Disorders This course explores the most common education. Laws relating to persons with Issues and techniques involved in teaching mental health disorders with an emphasis on disabilities in the U.S. and Canada, and students with communication disorders. strategies and practices that assist and Alberta in particular. Speech development, identifying disorders support these students in the classroom and and the role of the educational assistant. with their peers. Prerequisite: EDAS 111 and EDAS 152 or Prerequisite: EDAS 111 and 152 or consent consent of the Department. of department.
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EDAS 165-1 (BC=1) Engineering ENGG 251-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 5 weeks (1-4.5) 15 weeks Supporting Students with Disruptive Note: Not all courses listed may be offered. Design and Communication I Behaviour Disorders Check Course Timetable for availability. The principles of engineering design, This course explores some of the more engineering graphics and written common behaviour disorders with an communication learned within a hands-on ENCP 200-3 (BC=3) emphasis on developing strategies that project-based experience for engineering (3-0-1.5) 15 weeks assist students in areas of communication, students. Safety in the laboratory; working behaviour and social interaction in the Computer Programming for Engineers in a team environment; core skills for classroom. Fundamentals of computer programming engineering students; process of Prerequisite: EDAS 111 and 152 or consent with emphasis on solving engineering engineering design; graphical of department. problems. Programming in a high level communication: theory of projection, multi- language. Selection and loop structures, view representations, descriptive EDAS 166-1 (BC=1) routines, arrays and record types, text file geometry, sketching, information for (3-0) 5 weeks operation, pointers. manufacturing; written communication: Supporting Students with Autism Prerequisite: Consent of the Department. style, format, organization, preparation and Learners explore the characteristics of presentation skills. Real-life examples of classic Autism with an emphasis on building ENGG 200-2 (BC=2) design and engineering practice across all communication, social and behaviour (2-0-0) 15 weeks disciplines. Core competencies will be strategies for use in the classroom and other Orientation to the Engineering learned primarily within the context of inclusive settings. Profession team-based design projects. Prerequisite: EDAS 111 and 152 or consent Development and history of the engineering of department. profession. Branches of engineering. ENGG 253-3 (BC=3) Engineering roles in various branches. (1-4.5) 15 weeks EDAS 167-1 (BC=1) Includes presentations from engineers in Design and Communication II (3-0) 5 weeks different branches. Several written A continuation of Engineering 251. Supporting Students with Asperger’s assignments will form the basis for an Students will perform more advanced team- Syndrome assessment of your report writing abilities. based projects that integrate mathematical, In this course we explore the common Note: This course will be repeated for credit scientific and engineering knowledge and characteristics of Asperger’s syndrome with in 2nd term. skills. Issues that play critical roles in an emphasis on teaching strategies that Note: Open to Engineering students only. engineering design will be introduced, such encourage positive communication, social as project management, societal and and behaviour skills for students in the ENGG 205-3 (BC=4) environmental awareness, health and classroom and other inclusive settings. (3-2.5) 15 weeks safety, design for safety, sustainable Prerequisite: EDAS 111 and 152 or consent Engineering Mechanics I development, information access, etc. of department. Statics: Force vectors; equilibrium of particles in two and three dimensions; force ENPH 231-3 (BC=4) EDAS 168-1 (BC=1) system resultants; equilibrium of a rigid body (3-1S-3/2) (3-0) 5 weeks in two and three dimensions; trusses; frames, Engineering Dynamics Supporting Students with Classic machines and beams. Dynamics: Kinematics Kinematics and dynamics of particle. Work Autism and kinetics of particles. and energy methods. Impulse and angular Explore the characteristics that are used to momentum. Introduction to kinematics and differentiate classifications other than ENGG 230-3 (BC=4) dynamics of rigid bodies. Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome. (3-1-2) 15 weeks Prerequisite: MATH 212. Investigate a variety of communication, Engineering Statics Note: Open to Engineering students only social and behavioural strategies for use in Equilibrium of planar systems. Particle and the classroom and other inclusive settings. rigid-body equilibrium. Reduction of a Prerequisite: EDAS 111 and 152 or consent simple distributed loading. Structural of department. analysis, planar trusses and frames. Internal forces. Centre of gravity and centroid. EDAS 181-4 (BC=4) Friction. Moment of inertia. 15 hours seminar, 156 hours fieldwork Co-requisite: MATH 212 15 weeks Note: Open to Engineering students only. Field Practice Working under a co-operating supervisor in an educational setting. Taking part in a regularly scheduled seminar to discuss field practice. Prerequisite: EDAS 111, EDAS 160 and EDAS 116 Pre/Co-requisites: EDAS 161 and EDAS 152
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ENGL 220-3 (BC=3) ENGL 306-3 (BC=3) English (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks Literary Analysis Folklore in Children’s Literature Note: Not all courses listed may be offered. The course explores a range of literary genres This course offers a study of oral materials Check Course Timetable for availability. while continuing to focus on deepening the drawn into English literature from a range required structural and critical skills related of cultural traditions. These include myths ENGL 050-5 (BC=5) to thinking and writing about literature. (mainly Greek, Norse, and North American (4-2S) 15 weeks Prerequisite: ENGL 219. Indian), folk-tales (Perrault, Grimm, Basic English Andersen, and others), and legends. Ballads, See “Career and Academic Preparation Second-Year University Transfer English stories in song and verse, and lore in rhyme Courses,” page 201. Courses are studied. Common themes and theories These courses are open to students who have on the origin and evolution of folklore are ENGL 075-5 (BC=5) completed two term-courses or one full-year discussed. Modern folklore (such as fantasy (5-0) 15 weeks course in English at the 200 level, or who have Reading and Composition and science fiction) is related to folklore of the instructor’s permission. These courses may the past. The emphasis is on the place of See “Career and Academic Preparation be taken to meet specific program folklore in children’s literature. Courses,” page 201. requirements, to serve as elective credits Prerequisite: 6 credits of 200 Level English (options) in a program, and to lead to more ENGL 090-5 (BC=5) advanced work in English studies. If you wish ENGL 309-6 (BC=6) (5-0) 15 weeks to major in English or pursue an Honours (3-0) 30 weeks Practical Writing and Literature English program, consult the appropriate Expository Writing See “Career and Academic Preparation university calendars before choosing 300- Courses,” page 201. level courses. The purpose of this course is to increase your ability to write clear expository prose. ENGL 095-5 (BC=5) ENGL 302-6 (BC=6) Models of prose style will be studied and (5-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 30 weeks used in frequent writing practice. Literature and Composition Introduction to Contemporary Prerequisite: 6 credits of 200 Level English See “Career and Academic Preparation Theoretical Practices Courses,” page 201. This course will study the major schools of ENGL 330-3 (BC=3) contemporary literary theory, comparing (3-0) 15 weeks First-Year University Transfer English their principles and methods to changing Early English Renaissance Courses definitions of literature, testing their claims The literature of the later Tudor period is Red Deer College offers university transfer and uses against differing values of readers. studied, with emphasis on the early years of English courses at the 200 level. These are Theoretical debate and practical analysis Elizabeth’s reign. Writers include More, usually prerequisites for 300-level English combine in this course to train the student as Elyot, Hoby, Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Spenser, courses and for more advanced work in a polemical literary critic. Selected readings Marlow, Drayton, Shakespeare, and others. English. The overall objective for all 200- represent Gender, Post-Colonial, New Prerequisite: 6 credits of 200 Level English level courses is to develop critical reading Historical, Feminist, Marxist, Psychoanalytic, skills and composition skills at the university Structuralist, Reader-Response, and Formalist ENGL 331-3 (BC=3) level. Class discussions and instruction in criticism. (3-0) 15 weeks composing academic essays will be Prerequisite: 6 credits of 200 Level English Later English Renaissance combined with practice in critical analysis Prose and poetry from approximately 1600- and self-expression. ENGL 305-3 (BC=3) 1650 are studied. Poetry includes works by (3-0) 15 weeks Donne, Herbert, Vaughn, Jonson, Marvell, ENGL 219-3 (BC=3) The Development of Children’s Milton, and others. Prose includes readings (3-0) 15 weeks Literature from Bacon, Donne, Burton, Bunyan, and Essay Composition and Critical Providing historical background to current others. Reading concepts of children’s literature, the course Prerequisite: 6 credits of 200 Level English The focus is on formal preparation for examines the evolution of children’s university level essay writing and the skills literature, its trends and themes, as well as ENGL 332-6 (BC=6) related to critical reading, interpretation, contemporary children’s literature. A short (3-0) 30 weeks and argument. time is spent considering what childhood is, Prerequisite: ELA 30-1 or 095 so as to understand some of the childhood Shakespeare Note: Credit will not be granted for both responses to literature. The course then This course examines a representative ENGL 219 and ENGL 210. attempts to answer the question: “What is sampling of Shakespeare’s plays (histories, Children’s Literature?” comedies and tragedies) and attempts to Prerequisite: 6 credits of 200 Level English draw conclusions concerning his development as a dramatist. Various critical approaches to the plays will be discussed. 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ENGL 340-6 (BC=6) ENGL 351-3 (BC=3) how changes in morals, social values, (3-0) 30 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks political structures, and technology were Foundations: Literature in English from Poetry Reading and Analysis altering the artist’s reaction to his/her new the Middle Ages to the Present The focus of this course is on developing role in the world. (Recommended to be An historical survey of representative skills of careful reading and analysis of poetry, preceded by ENGL 361.) literature in English from the Middle Ages with attention to the relationship between Prerequisite: 6 credits of 200 Level English to the present. poetic form and meaning. Note: Not to be taken by students with credit Prerequisite: 6 credits of 200 Level English ENGL 371-3 (BC=3) in ENGL 200 or ENGL 304. (3-0) 15 weeks Prerequisite: ENGL 219 and ENGL 220 ENGL 357-6 (BC=6) Topic in Canadian Literature (3-0) 30 weeks The focus will vary from year to year, but ENGL 341-3 (BC=3) The English Novel possible topic areas include literature of a (3-0) 15 weeks This course examines key works in the specific Canadian region, genre, or theme The Augustan Age development of the English novel from the (for example, Canadian Prairie Writing, Major literary works of the Augustan period 18th to the early 20th century. The course Contemporary Canadian Women’s Writing, The Canadian Long Poem, Canadian Gothic). are examined, as well as the natural and covers the history of the genre, the techniques of the novel, and works by such Prerequisite: 6 credits of 200 Level English moral philosophy of the time. Emphasis is authors as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Note: You cannot have credit in both ENGL placed on the satirical works of Swift and Goldsmith, Walpole, Austen, Dickens, Eliot, 371 and 382 Pope, but a representative sampling of the Bronte, and Hardy. works of other men and women writers of Prerequisite: 6 credits of 200 Level English ENGL 373-6 (BC=6) the period will be considered. (3-0) 30 weeks Prerequisite: 6 credits of 200 Level English ENGL 361-3 (BC=3) American Literature to 1900 (3-0) 15 weeks This course examines American literature ENGL 343-3 (BC=3) Early 20th Century British Novel from the period of the first settlements in (3-0) 15 weeks The radical changes in morals, lifestyles, the early 1600’s, but concentrating on the The Age of Johnson social attitudes, and political concerns of the 19th century. As America emerged from its A complement to ENGL 341, this course deals early 20th century are reflected in the lives colonial status into nationhood, there with the major literary works of the second and writings of British prose writers of this developed a desire to construct a canon of distinctively American literature; this half of the 18th century. Although the course period. In addition to examining novels by a variety of writers, we will consider the course discusses the body of work that centres on the works of Samuel Johnson, influence that other artists, philosophers, constitutes this canon and also interrogates important works by other men and women and politicians had on the literature of this the canon, giving some attention to writers writers of the period will also be studied. period. (Recommended to be followed by tradionally omitted. Prerequisite: 6 credits of 200 Level English ENGL 368.) Prerequisite: 6 credits of 200 Level English Prerequisite: 6 credits of 200 Level English ENGL 345-3 (BC=3) ENGL 376-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 15 weeks ENGL 366-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 15 weeks The British Romantic Period (3-0) 15 weeks Introduction to Creative Writing: This course deals primarily with the major The Short Story Fiction Romantic poets, but other writers of the This course examines representative works This course provides instruction and period will be considered. The main focus is of short fiction illustrating the tradition of practice in the foundations of writing literary fiction. Writing exercises will focus on the poetry and its revolutionary or the short story in English. The course will on word play, developing evocative prophetic concerns. Also considered are the sample contemporary experiments in the language, the need for technically accurate radical changes in morals, lifestyles, social short story form and introduce a technical vocabulary appropriate to the study of and credible dialogue, identifying and attitudes, and mythological patterns of the narrative. mastering various narrative shifts such as Romantic period. Prerequisite: 6 credits of 200 Level English exposition and Free Indirect Discourse, and Prerequisite: 6 credits of 200 Level English understanding the necessity for tension and ENGL 368-3 (BC=3) conflict, characterization, and plot. ENGL 347-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 15 weeks Considerable time will be spent reading and (3-0) 15 weeks Later 20th Century British Novel studying peer work and existing examples The Victorian Period The Modern period is marked by a wide of excellent writing. It does not provide Victorian England (1837-1901) became the range of literary forms, styles, and content instruction in writing formulaic or non- centre of a cultural, political, and pioneered by the writers of the first quarter fiction. Participation in the workshop commercial empire, leading the world into of this century. This course focuses on the environment is essential. A strong academic average in writing-based courses is strongly a modern era of urban and industrial main writers of the next 30-40 years, whose recommended. development. This course divides the period works illustrate the ever-expanding scope of the Modern novel. These works also show Prerequisite: 6 credits of 200 Level English into early, middle, and late phases, studying how its literature responds to social change. Prerequisite: 6 credits of 200 Level English
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ENGL 377-3 (BC=3) ENGL 383-6 (BC=6) ENGL 391-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 30 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks Introduction to Creative Writing: American Literature from 1900 Topic In International Literature Poetry The major American writers of the 20th The focus of this course, while its content This course is conducted as a seminar. century have created a literature that will vary from year to year, will be on Models of excellent writing are used as a profoundly expresses the nature of literature written in English outside of basis for classroom discussion. This includes Canada, Great Britain, and the United States. existence in the modern world. This course works from the 20th century as well as Students may study work from a particular surveys the diversity of literary expression students’ own works. You will be expected geographic region - e.g., Africa, the Indian to hand in creative work and a set exercise in representative works of fiction, poetry, Subcontinent, the Caribbean, Australasia - every week. This is not a composition course. and drama of the period. or they may study particular issues in the It deals with practical problems of creative Prerequisite: 6 credits of 200 Level English field of post-colonial literature. writing, such as style, techniques, poetic Prerequisite: 6 credits of 200 Level English forms, and the role of the literary artist. You ENGL 385-3 (BC=3) Note: This course may be repeated for should have a good academic average, (3-0) 15 weeks credit. although you need not have been published. First Nations Literature Prerequisite: 6 credits of 200 Level English The emphasis will be on modern and ENGL 392-6 (BC=6) contemporary First Nations writing in (3-0) 30 weeks ENGL 378-3 (BC=3) Canada, though earlier works and some International English Literature (3-0) 15 weeks American First Nations writing will be The focus of the course will be on literatures Intermediate Creative Writing: Fiction introduced. Also considered will be the oral written in English outside of Canada, Great This course will build on the foundation Britain, and the United States, acquired in ENGL 376, with an emphasis on tradition and literary, cultural, and political encompassing representative works from wider practice of narrative skills. Attention issues related to course material. several areas such as Africa, Australasia, the will shift from exercises dedicated to Prerequisite: 6 credits of 200 Level English Caribbean, and the Indian subcontinent. particular aspects of narrative form to the Prerequisite: 6 credits of 200 Level English integration of these elements in completed ENGL 387-3 (BC=3) short fiction. Considerable reading and (3-0) 15 weeks ENGL 393-3 (BC=3) studying of existing models of excellent Topic in Literature and Society (3-0) 15 weeks writing are required. Participation in the Although the specific topic will vary from Science Fiction workshop environment is essential. year to year, this course investigates the This course will study the features and Prerequisite: Minimum Grade of B in ENGL conjunction of literature, culture, and social history of the science fiction genre through 376 or Consent of Department issues, examining historical, social, economic, political, and gender the study of representative works. Prerequisite: 6 credits of 200 Level English ENGL 379-3 (BC=3) determinants that intersect within (3-0) 15 weeks individual works. Specific topics may include ENGL 399-3 (BC=3) Intermediate Creative Writing: Poetry Literature and Science, Literature and Health Care, or Literature and Religion. (3-0) 15 weeks ENGL 377 is continued, with basically the Detective Fiction same objectives and assignments. This Prerequisite: 6 credits of 200 Level English Note: This course may be repeated for This course will study the genre of detective course concentrates more on your own credit. fiction using representative works from the creative work and less on special exercises. nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We Open to students who have done well in ENGL 389-3 (BC=3) will explore detective fiction’s history, ideas, ENGL 377. (3-0) 15 weeks and relation to both popular and literary Prerequisite: 6 credits of 200 Level English Topic in Women’s Writing culture. and ENGL 377 Although the specific topic will vary from Prerequisite: 6 credits of 200 Level English year to year, this course will examine writing ENGL 382-6 (BC=6) by women in ways that are informed by (3-0) 30 weeks theoretical approaches to women’s Canadian Literature from 1925 literature. Topics may focus on a specific This course is a critical and historical study of time period, genre, geographic region, or the literature of English-speaking Canada theme (such as Women’s Writing to 1900, from 1925 to the present. We will examine Women Novelists in Britain, Representations of Gender). both poetry and prose, concentrating on Prerequisite: 6 credits of 200 Level English modernist and postmodernist writers of the Note: This course may be repeated for period such as E.J. Pratt, Dorothy Livesay, credit. Earle Birney, Sinclair Ross, Margaret Atwood, Robert Kroetsch, Margaret Laurence, Mordecai Richler, Carol Shields, and Michael Ondaatje. Prerequisite: 6 credits of 200 Level English
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FILM 301-3 (BC=4) FINS 281-3 (BC=3) Family Studies (3-2) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks Topic in Film Genre Investment Funds in Canada (IFIC) FAM 315-3 (BC=3) This course provides students with an The Investment Funds in Canada course (3-0) 15 weeks overview of the style, narrative patterns, provides an in depth look at the Relationship Development historical evolution, and cultural fundamentals of mutual funds and related The study of the nature of intimate mythologies of a selected film genre, such as investment products in Canada. Students relationships in friendship, marriage and the musical, the western, horror, or children’s who successfully complete the course family. Teaching and classroom implications film requirements for FINS 281 Investment will be considered. Prerequisites: FILM 201 or 202; 6 credits of Funds in Canada (IFIC) are eligible to take 200 Level English; or consent of the the IFIC exam administered by The Institute FAM 322-3 (BC=3) department. of Canadian Bankers. A minimum of 60% (3-0) 15 weeks must be achieved on the IFIC examination Human Sexuality in order to register for a mutual funds An inquiry into the nature of sexual Financial Services license. Students are allowed three behaviour, its personal and cultural sources attempts at the exam before having to and its personal, familial, societal and FINS 180-3 (BC=3) repeat the course. educational implications. The focus of this (3-0) 15 weeks Prerequisite: FINS 180 or consent of class is to prepare future teachers to instruct Financial Products and Services department. sexuality education curriculum and to This course provides a conceptual provide background knowledge which will knowledge base, which allows students to FINS 282-3 (BC=3) help teachers understand children’s growth analyse and explain a wide variety of financial (3-0) 15 weeks and development as it pertains to human products and services available to banking Retail Credit in Canada sexuality. customers. This background is set against an This course begins with an overview of the analysis of the role of money and products/ six fundamentals of credit. Various retail Film services in the economy. The primary focus credit products, such as secured and is the ability to analyse, compare, and explain unsecured loans, lines of credit and different products and services as they relate mortgages, will be discussed. Time value of FILM 201-3 (BC=4) to the customers’ varied needs. money concepts will be used to calculate (3-2) 15 weeks loan payments and compare interest costs. Introduction to Film: Film Art FINS 270-3 (BC=3) The case study method will be used to This introductory film art course surveys the (3-0) 15 weeks develop students’ understanding of sound formal development and production value Selling and Negotiating in a Financial borrowing decisions. of cinema, providing a basic knowledge of Services Environment. Prerequisite: FINS 180 or consent of genre, form, style, and theory based on the The focus of this course will be on the department. close study of selected titles from the silent era to the present day. Its mandate is to application of person-to-person relationship selling and negotiating skills. The objective FINS 284-3 (BC=3) theorize film production and analyze film (3-0) 15 weeks of this course will be to refine sales and reception within a technical and aesthetic Fundamentals of Personal Finance negotiating skills through the use of framework. The Fundamentals of Personal Finance Co-requisite: 6 credits of 200 Level English discussions, cases, simulations, and addresses communication techniques and interactions with members of the industry. relationship building skills. The course FILM 202-3 (BC=4) Prerequisite: FINS 180 or consent of covers preparation, analysis and (3-2) 15 weeks department. understanding of personal financial Introduction to Film: Film History statements; preparing a debt and cash This introductory film course surveys the FINS 280-8 (BC=8) management plan; time value of money historical development and social value of (8-0) 500 hours over 16 weeks concepts in financial calculations, and cinema, providing a basic knowledge of Financial Services Work Experience economic theory as it applies to personal national schools, production eras, and This course provides an opportunity for finance. ideological trends based on the close study students to work in the financial services Prerequisite: FINS 180 or consent of of selected titles from the silent era to the industry and apply knowledge learned in department. present day. Its mandate is to theorize film their first year. Students will be exposed to a production and analyze film reception variety of entry level positions. This course within a historical and cultural framework. offers students paid work experience selling Co-requisite: 6 credits of 200 Level English personal financial products. Consult the program coordinator for details. Prerequisite: FINS 180 or consent of department.
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FINS 286-3 (BC=3) French Note: Students presenting French Language (3-0) 15 weeks Arts 30 or Francais 30 may apply for advanced Insurance in Canada Note: 100-level language courses are placement directly into French 203. Those Term and whole life, disability, accident, intended for students with little or no wanting credit for French 202 may apply to critical illness, and creditor insurance background in the language. Students who challenge the course. Those presenting IB contracts will be studied. The course will French HL or SL with a grade of 6 or higher have high school matriculation in the also review how these products are will receive credit as per page 28. language, or who are taking a 100-level underwritten by bank and non-bank insurers and coordinated with government benefits. course to meet a university’s matriculation FREN 302-3 (BC=4) Students will write the Life License requirements, may be denied transfer (4-0) 15 weeks Qualification Program (LLQP) exam at the credit. Check the Transfer Guide and with Advanced French I end of the course as offered by the IFIC. the university. To further develop written and oral skills Prerequisite: FINS 281 Note: Not all courses listed may be offered. learned in FREN 202-203 or an equivalent, Check Course Timetable for availability. with an emphasis on presentation grammar, FINS 287-3 (BC=3) composition and literary elements. (3-0) 15 weeks FREN 101-3 (BC=4) Conversation activities are included in the Advanced Financial Planning (4-1) 15 weeks course This course integrates the knowledge and Beginners’ French Prerequisite: FREN 200, FREN 203 or skills gained in the core curriculum of the For students without any French or with equivalent. Diploma in Financial Services program. French 10. Comprehension, speaking, Students will apply their skills and FREN 303-3 (BC=4) reading, and writing. The oral aspect of the knowledge in the development of a (4-0) 15 weeks comprehensive financial plan, as well as, language is stressed in class. Advanced French II other integrative activities throughout the A continuation of FREN 302. Further course. FREN 102-3 (BC=4) development of reading, written and oral Prerequisite: FINS 281, 282, BADM 260 or (4-1) 15 weeks skills with an emphasis on presentation consent of department. Beginners’ French II grammar, composition and literary analysis. For students who have taken French 20 or Conversation activities are included in the FINS 320-3 (BC=3) FREN 101. The oral aspect of the language is course. (3-0) 15 weeks stressed in class. The course will prepare you Prerequisite: FREN 302 Select Topics in Financial Services for university-level courses. Specialized areas of knowledge in financial Prerequisite: French 20 or FREN 101 or FREN 353-3 (BC=3) services that allow students to gain a broader equivalent or consent of the Department. (3-0) 15 weeks understanding of the diverse needs of the Introduction to French Canadian financial services industry, its management Literature FREN 202-3 (BC=4) and its customers. Course offering and Literary expression in French Canada, from specific topics depend on availability of a (4-1) 15 weeks its origins to the present time. A historical qualified instructor with the required skills Intermediate French I approach. and experience. Spoken and written French, including Prerequisite: FREN 200 or FREN 203 or grammar, composition, literature, and consent of the Department. FINS 321-3 (BC=3) conversation. The literature includes works (3-0) 15 weeks of modern authors. FREN 354-3 (BC=3) Select Topics in Financial Services Prerequisite: French 30, FREN 102 or (3-0) 15 weeks Specialized areas of knowledge in financial equivalent. Introduction to French Canadian services that allow students to gain a broader Literature understanding of the diverse needs of the FREN 203-3 (BC=4) Continuation and complement to FREN 353. financial services industry, its management (4-1) 15 weeks A textual approach with emphasis on the and its customers. Course offering and Intermediate French II problems of literary analyses. specific topics depend on availability of a A continuation of FREN 202. Further Prerequisite: FREN 200 or FREN 203 or qualified instructor with the required skills development of spoken and written French, consent of the Department. and experience. including grammar, composition, literature and conversation. The literature includes works of modern authors. Prerequisite: FREN 202, Francais 30 or equivalent.
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GEOG 250-3 (BC=3) GEOG 393-3 (BC=3) Genetics (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks Spatial Organization of Human Activity The Geography of Cities GENE 370-3 (BC=3) Introduction to the concepts of relative This introductory course will focus on how (3-0) 15 weeks location, spatial interaction and spatial cities have evolved as they have, in their Foundations of Molecular Genetics organization of human activity in both rural spatial and social structure, institutions and A detailed look at the genetics of and urban settings; geographical theories attitudes; understanding the historical microorganisms. Experiments on bacteria and techniques. processes and patterns by which cities have and viruses are used to examine concepts become simultaneously, the products and such as fertility, genetic fine structure, GEOG 251-3 (BC=3) shapers of economic, social, political and mutagenesus, DNA repair, DNA replication (3-0) 15 weeks technological change; studying and the control of gene expression. Introduction to Cultural Geography demographic change and its effects on city Prerequisite: BIOL 317. This introductory course will focus on basic internal structure and land use patterns; concepts in human geography, the human analysing the forces and factors that GENE 375-3 (BC=3) environment, sustainability and influence neighbourhood choice and (3-0) 15 weeks development, population dynamics, growth; understanding the The Genetics of Higher Organisms migration, economic development, interrelationship between economic and A survey of the principles of genetics of settlement patterns, cultural landscapes, social change within an urban context; and eukaryotes. Gene structure and function. the political world, industrialization, also comprehending the mechanisms of city Mendelian genetics. Cytoplasmic transportation, environmental change and systems. inheritance. Cytogenetics. Biochemical other topics of current interest. genetics. Developmental genetics. Based on lectures as well as hands-on class- Health Care Aide Emphasis is on examples from human room assignments, this course will enable genetics. students to acquire problem-solving and Prerequisite: BIOL 317. basic analytical skills widely applied in HCA 130-2 (BC=2) geography. (29 class hours; 5 lab hours) Geography Safe Work Hours GEOG 381-3 (BC=3) Introduction to client and workplace safety (3-0) 15 weeks focusing on knowledge and skills required Note: Not all courses listed may be offered. Geography of Canada to maintain safety for the client and the staff Check Course Timetable for availability. The regional geography of Canada. Canada’s member in the care environment. physical features and how they have affected GEOG 230-3 (BC=4) the country’s history and development. The HCA 131-2 (BC=2) (3-0-2) 15 weeks concept of geographic regions. Patterns (20 class hours; 22 lab hours) Introductory Physical Geography and characteristics of these regions, with Activities of Daily Living I Geomorphology: the nature and formation selected detailed studies. Develop skills to assist clients with personal of major landform features of the earth’s Prerequisite: A previous course in grooming and hygiene, and movement. surface. Rock weathering and slope Geography is strongly recommended. movements; landforms developed by the HCA 132-1 (BC=1) erosion and deposition processes of rivers, GEOG 382-3 (BC=3) (6 class hours; 12 lab hours) glaciers, winds, waves, and currents. A field (3-0) 15 weeks Medication Delivery trip may be offered. Relevant World Regional Geography Understand the role and responsibility of environmental issues will be addressed. This course is a study of the major world the Health Care Aide in assisting with the regions. Each region is examined in terms delivery of medication to clients. GEOG 231-3 (BC=4) of its distinguishing features as well as its (3-0-2) 15 weeks functional connectedness to other regions HCA 133-2 (BC=2) Introductory Physical Geography II through processes like globalization. (18 class hours) Atmosphere and biosphere. Physical Regional trading blocs, growing Dementia Care elements of weather and climate. Causes, environmental issues, access to, and use of Understand care required for clients with a changes, and patterns of weather. Climate resources, diasporas and trans- diagnosis of dementia and examine personal classification. How climate, soils, and nationalism,and, increasing developed- feelings and experiences as related to our vegetation are interrelated. Relevant developing country disparities are key aging population. environmental issues will be addressed. issues that are addressed within the Note: GEOG 230 does not have to precede framework of the ‘regional approach’ to HCA 134-3 (BC=3) GEOG 231. spatial analysis. (32 class hours; 9 lab hours) Roles and Communications Understand the role and responsibility of the Health Care Aide, relevant legislation, communication strategies and documentation.
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HCA 135-3 (BC=3) CLAS 320-3 (BC=3) HIST 301-6 (BC=6) (39 class hours) (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 30 weeks Health, Aging and Illness Roman History European History Since the Understand the systems of the human body The study of late Republican Rome and the Renaissance and the impact of developmental stages and Imperial period, using Roman Historians of A survey of European history from 1500 to chronic conditions. the time as source material. the present. Emphasis is on the political, economic, social and cultural development HCA 136-1 (BC=1) HIST 207-3 (BC=3) of European civilization as a whole. (14 class hours; 16 lab hours) (3-0) 15 weeks Activities of Daily Living II Early Modern World History 1450-1789 HIST 311-6 (BC=6) Develop advanced skills to assist with the This course deals with: the last of the Turko- (3-0) 30 weeks personal care of clients. Mongol invasions and empires; European International Relations in the 20th conquest of the Americas; piracy and slave Century HCA 137-2 (BC=2) trade; the Protestant Reformation and the The impact of ideologically based foreign (16 class hours; 20.5 lab hours) religious civil wars in Europe; the Scientific policies on international relations since Care for Complex Clients Revolution; the origins of the modern state World War I. Develop skills for assisting with more and the struggle for imperial hegemony; and complex care needs of clients. the Enlightenment and the French HIST 314-3 (BC=3) Revolution. (3-0) 15 weeks HCA 138-2 (BC=2) Europe in the Era of the World Wars, (28 class hours; 2 lab hours) HIST 208-3 (BC=3) 1900-1945 Care for Diverse Clients (3-0) 15 weeks The course begins with an analysis of Europe’s Develop skills for assisting with diverse care Modern World History 1789-1945 predominant political, economic and needs of clients. This course deals with: the impact of the cultural position in the world at the French Revolution; industrialization and its beginning of the twentieth century, and HCA 122-3 (BC=3) impact; the British Raj and the decline of proceeds to explore the origins, and (120 hours clinical practice) Manchu China; Marx, Darwin, racism and the conduct of World War I. War aims and the Health Care Aide Supervised Clinical new imperialism; the challenge of Japan and revolutionary consequences of defeat will Practice the United States to European world be explored. Special attention will be given Clinical practice in the role of the health care hegemony; World War I and the impact of to the Russian and German Revolutions of aide, supervised by an instructor, in an the Russian Revolution; Fascism and World 1917-1923, and the Peace Treaties which institutional setting. War II; Asian and African Nationalism and the resulted from the Paris Peace Conference. destruction of European Empires. The challenges presented by the “New HCA 123-2 (BC=2) Sciences”, and the “new” political ideologies (80 hours preceptored practice) HIST 209-3 (BC=3) of Fascism, and the economic crisis of the Health Care Aide Preceptored Clinical (3-0) 15 weeks 1930s will be examined, as will be the efforts Practice Pre Modern World History to dismantle the Paris Peace Settlements of Preceptored clinical practice in the role of A history of the world from the sixth century 1919. The course concludes with an the health care aide in institutional setting.. to the mid-fifteenth century. This course examination of World War II, the Holocaust Prerequisites: HCA 130, 131,132, 133, 134, deals with the barbarian invasions and the and the destruction of Europe. 135, 136, 137, 138 and HCA 122 collapse of the classical empires in Europe, China, and India; the expansion of universal HIST 315-3 (BC=3) religions of Buddhism, Hinduism, (3-0) 15 weeks History Christianity; the birth of Islam and the early Europe in the Era of the Cold War, 1942- Islamic Empires; the Crusades; the Turko- 1991 Note: Not all courses listed may be offered. Mongol Empires; the silk routes and the The course commences with a discussion of Check Course Timetable for availability. effect of trade and commerce on Europe and World War II in Europe, and the breakdown Asia, and the origins of European expansion of the wartime coalition, which defeated CLAS 209-3 (BC=3) into the rest of the world. Germany, i.e. from Hot War to Cold War 1942- (3-0) 15 weeks 1949. Efforts at economic and social Early World History I HIST 280-3 (BC=3) reconstruction of Eastern and Western The beginnings of civilization to circa A.D. (3-0) 15 weeks Europe, and the Conservative Democracies 600. Special emphasis is placed on Ancient Asia to 1500 in the West, the Soviet Bloc after Stalin, the Greek and Roman culture, mythology, A survey of the history of Asia from the loss of colonial empire, achieving religion and history. Students will be earliest historical period to the coming of prosperity. The European Common Market, introduced to the daily life and historical the Europeans. and the “Paris” and “Prague Springs of 1968”, importance of these two cultures. the Brezhnev Era, the 1980s as a new political HIST 281-3 (BC=3) era in Europe, Gorbachev Experiment and (3-0) 15 weeks the Revolution of 1989. Asia from 1500 A survey of the history of Asia from the coming of the Europeans to the present. Prerequisite: HIST 280
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HIST 333-3 (BC=3) HIST 371-3 (BC=3) HIST 380-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks A Social History of England from 1815 The Canadian West to 1870 Pre-Modern South Asia to 1914 A history of the Prairie and Pacific regions of South Asia from earliest historic times to the This course will examine the everyday life Canada in the era “when fur was king.” The coming of the Europeans. Emphasis is on the of the English people within the context of Indian in the fur trade. The rivalry of the fur cultural basis of South Asian history. early industrial society. The course will place trading companies. The Metis and ‘country specific emphasis on the development of born.’ Efforts to settle the West before 1870. HIST 383-6 (BC=6) social class and examine how aspects of (3-0) 30 weeks everyday life contributed to defining these HIST 372-3 (BC=3) China social groups. Special attention will be (3-0) 15 weeks A survey of China from pre-modern times to placed on social legislation, urban and The Prairie West Since 1870 the present. The first term covers Chinese suburbanization, sport and leisure practices, The Prairie region as part of the Dominion of history to 1800. There is a more detailed education and literacy, and popular protest Canada. The West and Confederation. The discussion of modern China in the second and political reform. impact of the railway. The National Policy. term. Settlement. Developing a regional identity. HIST 334-3 (BC=3) Western alienation. HIST 384-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks A Social History of England from 1918 HIST 373-3 (BC=3) Modern South Asia to the Present (3-0) 15 weeks South Asia from the coming of the Europeans This course will examine the everyday life Canadian History to 1867 to the present. of the English people within the context of Canada’s colonial era. The discovery and the modern state. The course will place settlement of the regions that would be Hospitality and special emphasis on the emergence of a united in the Dominion of Canada in 1867. consumer culture, the Welfare State, mass The development of social and political Tourism media, and changing class perceptions. institutions. This course and HIST 374 provide Special attention will be placed on popular a complete survey of Canadian history and a Management culture, the relationship to work and leisure, foundation for senior and advanced courses social legislation, political protest and in this field. HOSP 202-4 (BC=4) Thatcherism and the New Conservatives. (4-0) 15 weeks HIST 374-3 (BC=3) Accounting for Non-financial Managers HIST 349-6 (BC=6) (3-0) 15 weeks Introductory hospitality financial (3-0) 30 weeks A History of the Dominion of Canada accounting including the basic structure of The British Empire and Commonwealth A survey of the efforts to create a nation-state accounting, the accounting information The analysis of British Imperialism from the that controlled the northern half of the North system, and generally accepted accounting Old to the New Empires to the American continent. The National Policy. principles. establishment of the Commonwealth. This The nature of a Canadian identity. Canada course treats imperialism as a dialectic and among the community of nations. Threats to HOSP 203-3 (BC=3) examines the process from the point of view the country’s survival posed by regionalism, (3-1) 15 weeks of both the imperial and host nations. separatism, and the influence of the United Front Office Procedures Emphasis is placed on India, the West Indies, States. Presents a systematic approach to front North America and Africa. The course is a office procedures by detailing the flow of combination of seminar and lecture. HIST 377-3 (BC=3) business through a hotel, from the (3-0) 15 weeks reservation process to check-out and HIST 360-6 (BC=6) 20th Century Canada settlement. Training is provided on current (3-0) 30 weeks The impact of industrialization on Canada front office software. History of the U.S.A. and Canada’s role in international affairs in A survey of the history of the U.S. from the 20th century. Canada and the two World HOSP 204-2 (BC=2) colonial times to the present. The Wars. The growth of federal power. Canada (1.5-0) 15 weeks development of an American identity. The as a northern nation. Quebec nationalism. Guest Room Management effort to create an egalitarian society. The Western alienation. Addresses management responsibilities of evolution of the U.S. political system. the Executive Housekeeper such as staffing, American imperialism. The impact of HIST 379-3 (BC=3) purchasing, planning and controlling industrialism. (3-0) 15 weeks expenses. Other topics include guest room The First Nations and Canada design, amenities, and current guest room A survey of Indian and non-Indian interaction issues. since 1500. French-Indian relations. The role of the Indian in the defence of British North America. The Indian Treaties. The origin and development of the reserve system. The Government of Canada’s Indian Policy.
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HOSP 205-1 (BC=1) HOSP 215-2 (BC=2) HOSP 233-2 (BC=2) (1-0) 15 weeks (1.5-0) 15 weeks (1.5-0) 15 weeks Security and Emergency Management Food Safety and Sanitation Quality Service Integration Current security issues related to the Management Assess customer needs and develop business hospitality industry including procedures Various sanitation and food-related health strategies that result in service excellence. relating to physical security, emergency hazards are discussed. Effective strategies Create procedures that integrate Quality management and overall protection of for preventing outbreaks of food-borne Customer Service into all aspects of the guest guests and asset protection. illnesses are developed based on the Alberta Environmental Health standards. experience. HOSP 206-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 15 Weeks HOSP 220-2 (BC=3) HOSP 236-3 (BC=3) Hospitality Marketing (1-3) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks Concepts relating to product, price, place Basic Food Preparation Hospitality Management Accounting and promotion will be covered in this An introduction to basic restaurant food The use of accounting information in consumer based approach to marketing. preparation techniques including food managerial decision-making. Topics include This course includes the development of a storage, food safety, pre-preparation and financial statement analysis, ratio analysis, strategic marketing plan for a Tourism plate presentation. This course addresses pricing, cost management, cost-volume- operation. menu items similar to those prepared in fast profit relationships, budgeting, variance, food and casual dining establishments. cash flow analysis and cash management. HOSP 208-3 (BC=3) Prerequisite: HOSP 202 (3-0) 15 weeks HOSP 221-2 (BC=3) Hospitality Sales and Advertising (1-3) 15 weeks HOSP 239-3 (BC=3) Provides a theoretical and practical Basic Dining Room Service (3-0) 15 weeks background in Hospitality sales and An introduction to dining room service Food Purchasing and Production advertising. Focuses on practical sales emphasizing the development of Theory related to selection, composition, techniques, proven approaches for selling professional service skills. Includes preparation and storage of various food to targeting markets, and role of advertising electronic point-of sales training, hosting, items. Food trends, kitchen equipment, in sales. stewarding and barista duties in an actual kitchen design and recipe development will Prerequisite: HOSP 206 food service setting. also be discussed. HOSP 240-3 (BC=3) HOSP 213-3* (BC=3) HOSP 226-2 (BC=2) (3-0) 15 weeks (3-1.5) 15 weeks (1.5-0) 15 weeks Hospitality Human Resource Computers Menu Planning and Design This is a self-directed course covering an Management Covers practical menu design issues introduction to computers together with Issues involved in the transition from including item selection, pricing, design and word processing, spreadsheet and employee to supervisor. Topics include how presentation applications. This course will layout. Also covers the application of to build effective teams, improve provide a foundation of computer literacy specialized menu design software and menu interpersonal skills, deal with conflict, and for the hospitality and tourism industry. evaluation tools. motivate staff. Human Resource *The course is designed as a self-directed Management issues such as staffing, course but a mandatory seminary is required HOSP 228-2 (BC=2) recruiting, selection of staff, compensation, to provide students with support; please (1.5-1.5) 15 weeks benefits and labor relations are also register in both the Lecture and Seminar Bar and Beverage Management discussed. sections of this course. An overview of beverage operations and HOSP 241-1 (BC=1) Prerequisites: None basic bartending. Topics include product Prior Learning recognition, based on a skills (1-0) 15 weeks manufacturing, procuring, storing, issuing, Strategic Career Development I appraisal, is available for students with inventory management and Alberta Liquor computer skills but application for PLAR must An introduction to the Hospitality & Tourism laws. Lab experience offers practical be completed by the Add/Drop date. work environment. Examine job profiles, experience in bartending duties with an identify career goals and strategies, develop HOSP 214-3 (BC=3) emphasis on mixology. job search skills, prepare resumes and cover (3-0) 15 weeks letters, understand employee/employer Food, Beverage and Labor Cost HOSP 230-2 (BC=2) relationships and learn effective interview Controls (1.5-0) 15 weeks techniques. An emphasis on establishing effective food, Introduction to Wine beverage and labor cost controls. Includes An introduction to wines from various budgeting, setting operational standards, regions of the world. Includes viniculture, receiving, storing, issuing, production wine production techniques, selection, controls and labor cost management. wine tasting and evaluation. Matching wine with food and cellar management are also covered.
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HOSP 242-1 (BC=1) HOSP 312-3 (BC=3) HOSP 322-2 (BC=2) (1-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks (8 hours class - 64 hours lab) 9 weeks Strategic Career Development II Operations and Entrepreneurship Fine Dining Food Preparation Develop career goals and objectives, refine The capstone course in the program. A Advanced food preparation techniques, job search skills, prepare job-specific project based course that encompasses the detailed plate presentation and intricate resumes and cover letters, create personal application of practical skills in food combinations. Includes a selection of profiles, complete an industry career entrepreneurship: planning, organizing, complex menu items typically found in fine analysis and enhance interview leading, controlling, problem solving and dining establishments throughout North performance. business operations. America. Prerequisite: HOSP 318 Prerequisite: HOSP 220 HOSP 243-1 (BC=1) (1-0) 15 weeks HOSP 313-3 (BC=3) HOSP 328-2 (BC=2) Workplace Safety & Responsibility (3-0) 15 weeks (1-2) 15 weeks First-aid/CPR, WHMIS and ProServe Advanced Computers for Hospitality Electronic Marketing for Hospitality certification. Management and Tourism Note: This course will be graded as CR/NCR Develop intermediate and advanced word Delivering Hospitality & Tourism goods and (credit/no credit). processing, spreadsheet, desktop services via the World Wide Web. Topics publishing, and/or presentation software include electronic communication in the HOSP 244-1 (BC=1) skills using current software applications. inventory, exchange, advertisement, (up to 25 required hours) Emphasis will be placed on the application distribution and payment of goods and Introduction to Hospitality Services of skills as they relate to marketing, services. The major focus is the and Facilities accounting, human resources and understanding of effective web page design Experience and evaluate a selection of entrepreneurship. as it relates to hospitality-based business. Hospitality and Tourism facilities. The focus Prerequisite: HOSP 213 Prerequisite: HOSP 206, 213 is on the analysis of the services and operations from a guest perspective. HOSP 318-3 (BC=3) WKEP 230-4 (BC=2) Note: This course will be graded as CR/NCR (3-0) 15 weeks (240 required hours) (credit/no credit) Contemporary Hospitality 1st Year Field Work Management Theory The application of knowledge, skills and HOSP 303-3 (BC=3) An examination of contemporary abilities acquired in the first year of studies. (3-0) 15 weeks management issues in the Hospitality & Securing a position in the Hospitality & Convention and Event Management Tourism industry. Topics include the role of Tourism industry is required. This position is Defines the scope and segmentation of the management in today’s business subject to College approval. Supervision and convention and event market, describes environment, internal and external driving continuing employment is at the total marketing and sales strategies to attract forces, basic organizational design, discretion of the employer. The employer these markets, and explains techniques to fundamentals of planning, foundations of will be required to submit an assessment of meet their needs. Includes the application decision making, managing change and the student. The student must complete at of specialized space configuration innovation, management implications of a least 240 hours of field work experience. This software. diversified workforce, techniques for field work must begin after having satisfied effective critical analysis, social all other graduation requirements and be HOSP 306-3 (BC=3) responsibility and ethics. completed within six months. (3-0) 15 weeks Prerequisites: HOSP 220, 221 and 241 Accommodation and Restaurant Law HOSP 320-2 (BC=2) Note: This course will be graded as CR/NCR Provides an overview of contract law, tort (8 hours class - 64 hours lab) 9 weeks (credit/no credit) law, labour laws, and human rights as each Fine Dining Service relates to the hospitality industry. A practical experience to enhance fine WKEP 330-4 (BC=2) Additional topics include: insurance, dining service skills including American and (240 required hours) licensing, the Public Health Act, the Liquor French service styles as well as professional 2nd Year Field Work Control Act, and the Alberta Innkeepers wine service. Critical analysis of work place management Act. Prerequisite: HOSP 221 and operations. Securing a position in the Hospitality & Tourism industry is required. HOSP 308-3 (BC=3) HOSP 321-1 (BC=1) This position must be directly related to the (3-0) 15 weeks (0-4) 15 weeks career goals and aspirations as determined Tourism Operations Beverage Operations in HOSP 242 and is subject to College An introduction to Global Tourism. Management and operation of a Cocktail approval. Supervision and continuing Concepts include the psychology of travel, Lounge. Includes practical experience in the employment is at the total discretion of the the role of governments and industry role of General Manager, Event Coordinator, employer. The employer will be required to associations as well as the marketing and Kitchen Manager, Bar Manager and submit an assessment of the student. The business operations of various tourism Beverage Server. The focus is on planning, student must complete at least 240 hours of sectors. supervising and the control systems in a field work experience. This field work must beverage outlet. begin after having satisfied all other Prerequisite: HOSP 228
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(1-0) 15 weeks (1.5-1.5) 7.5 weeks Prerequisite: ITEC 124 IT Service Desk Wireless Technology An introduction to the Information Operational theory, configuration and ITEC 140-2 (BC=2) Technology Service Desk. Topics include troubleshooting of 802.11 x LAN wireless (3-3) 7.5 weeks client interaction, e-mail and telephone systems. Topics include wireless protocols Desktop Operating Systems etiquette, common office productivity and standards, wireless network planning, Introduction to various desktop operating software (word processors, spreadsheets, troubleshooting techniques, signal systems found in today’s networked databases), project management software, propagation issues, fundamental business environment. A practical course contact management software, and understanding and configuration of typical that provides students with experience organizer/scheduling software. security protocols. installing, configuring, optimizing, and Prerequisite: ITEC 120 troubleshooting various operating systems. ITEC 105-2 (BC=2) Co-requisite: ITEC 115 (2-0) 15 weeks ITEC 124-2 (BC=2) Discrete Mathematics (3-3) 7.5 weeks ITEC 145-2 (BC=2) Organization of number systems. Develops TCP/IP (3-3) 7.5 weeks skills in using and converting number TCP/IP based networks comprising the TCP/ Server Configuration systems. Topics include Boolean algebra and IP protocol suite. Topics include IP, ICMP, TCP, Planning, configuration, and its uses, set theory, logic statements and UDP protocols; IP subnetting, CIDR, troubleshooting of server systems. Topics computer circuitry. overview of application layer protocols, include hardware selection, active emerging network technologies, design directory configuration, managing users/ ITEC 110-2 (BC=2) and configuration of a typical LAN, network groups, domain management, configuring (3-3) 7.5 weeks troubleshooting and protocol analysis. DHCP and DNS services, printing support, Computer Hardware Prerequisite: ITEC 120 data backup/recovery procedures, and Theory, operation, configuration, and system diagnostic/recovery tools. troubleshooting of devices associated with ITEC 126-1 (BC=1) Prerequisite: ITEC 140 desktop and mobile computer systems. (1-0) 15 weeks Topics include operational theory of VoIP ITEC 150-2 (BC=2) common internal system components and Voice over IP (VoIP) telephony systems and (3-3) 7.5 weeks peripheral devices, component research, applications. Topics include VoIP Structured Programming operating system installation, operational theory, protocols and standards, Software design principles and problem troubleshooting using diagnostic software, QoS management, comparisons to other solving using structure programming. and effective configuration/repair telephony technologies, VoIP applications, Topics include the development of documentation. WAN-based VoIP integration; inter- algorithms, the representation of data, the operability with date networks, security syntax of a high level procedural ITEC 115-2 (BC=2) issues, design, configuration, programming language, basic data types (3-3) 7.5 weeks troubleshooting of a LAN-based VoIP and control structures. Includes coding, Operating Systems network system. compiling, debugging and documenting Operational theory of modern computer Co-requisite: ITEC 124 programs. operating systems. Topics include operating system architectures, concurrency issues, ITEC 128-2 (BC=2) ITEC 153-2 (BC=2) protection and security fundamentals, (4-0) 7.5 weeks (3-3) 7.5 weeks investigation of tools and diagnostic services Wide Area Networks Visual Programming both graphical and command-line based. Topics related to wide area networking Introduction to developing applications for (WAN) including telecommunication the Windows environment. Topics include infrastructures, frame relay, ISDN, xDSL, and graphical user interfaces, event driven international and emerging WAN strategies, input validation, file processing, technologies. database applications, and using classes. Prerequisite: ITEC 124 Visual Studio is currently used as the programming tool. Prerequisite: ITEC 150
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ITEC 156-2 (BC=2) ITEC 170-4 (BC=4) ITEC 196-8 (BC=6) (3-3) 7.5 weeks (3-3) 15 weeks (600 hours) 16 weeks Object Oriented Programming Systems Analysis and Design Work Experience Includes problem analysis, designing Tools, techniques, and methods for analyzing Paid work experience as a member of an IT algorithms, and implementing solutions to and designing integrated database systems department in a development or support these problems. Programming topics that solve business problems. Data modeling role. Includes reporting requirement and include object-oriented design, data types and object modeling techniques evaluation. Course normally taken at and abstraction, classes, method design, implemented using relational database completion of first year of studies. interfaces, inheritance, polymorphism, technology. Introduction of process Pre-Co-requisite: ITEC 180 exception handling, user intervaces and modeling techniques and joint application recursion. design methodologies. Exposure to CASE ITEC 220-2 (BC=2) Prerequisite: ITEC 150 tools to help in the design and (3-3) 7.5 weeks documentation process. Network Design and Architecture ITEC 160-2 (BC=2) Topics include hierarchical network design, (3-3) 7.5 weeks ITEC 175-2 (BC=2) switch management, VLANs, routing Web Design (3-3) 7.5 weeks protocols, Layer-3 device management, Topics include web page authoring and Object-Oriented Analysis and Design SNMP deployment, remote network design techniques using XHTML and Introduction to the analysis and design of management, traffic analysis, Window/Unix Cascading Style Sheets, the design of object-oriented applications using the inter-networking, WAN protocols and effective Web pages including page layout, Unified Modeling Language (UML). Students infrastructures, network managment user interface design and graphic design, will also construct some of the models that software, virtual networking, RFP tendering. and using Visual Basic and ASP.Net are developed. Prerequisite: ITEC 130 technologies to construct dynamic web Prerequisite: ITEC 156, ITEC 170 content with the goal of creating a basic e- ITEC 230-2 (BC=2) Commerce web site. ITEC 180-1 (BC=1) (3-3) 7.5 weeks Prerequisite: ITEC 153 (1-0) 15 weeks Security II Career Skills Topics include advanced data encryption ITEC 163-1 (BC=1) Preparation for field work experience and techniques, secure network design, SSO (3-3) 4 weeks soft-skills essential for industry employment authentication, firewall configurations, Web Client success. Topics include information intrusion detection/prevention systems, Introduction to client-side programming technology sectors, emerging trends, soft- remote access authentication, VPNs, security techniques to develop dynamic web pages. skill identification, continuing education auditing, packet analysis, computer forensics, Using JavaScript, the student programs strategies, portfolio development, hardware security appliances, advanced objects, manipulates arrays, handles cookies, entrepreneur resources, employment ethical hacking techniques, security and validates web forms. The Document search strategies, resume design, and software review. Object Model (DOM) and dynamic HTML interview skills. Prerequisite: ITEC 130 (DHTML) is used to manipulate server generated content and enhance the user ITEC 190-2 (BC=2) ITEC 241-2 (BC=2) experience. (2-0) 15 weeks (3-3) 7.5 weeks Prerequisite: ITEC 160 Project Unix Administration Independent or group projects. Completed Commands and tools associated with the ITEC 166-1 (BC=1) with a supervising staff member and management of a Unix system. Topics include (3-3) 4 weeks involving systems analysis and design, file system structures, permissions, Web Server programming or networking and managing system processes and user Extension of the concepts developed in ITEC implementation of a solution to a user accounts, customizing system files, applying 160. Development of server generated web problem. system utilities, command line interface pages and database interaction using open operations, DNS, mail, FTP, web servers, and source tools, such as PHP for the server-side ITEC 193-4 managing, troubleshooting, monitoring programming and MySQL for the database. (240 hours) 8 weeks network operations. Real-world projects highlighting good Practicum Prerequisite: ITEC 115 program design to create practical web Industry-based experience working as a applications. Set up and maintenance of an member of an IT department in a ITEC 251-1 (BC=1) open source Apache Web server. development or support role. Includes (3-3) 4 weeks Prerequisite: ITEC 160 reporting requirements and evaluation. Data Structures Pre/Co-requisite: ITEC 180 Further development of the object- oriented programming skills. Topics include organization of data and implementation of common data structures such as lists, stacks, queues and trees, and the relationship between data structures and algorithms. Prerequisite: ITEC 156
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ITEC 254-1 (BC=1) ITEC 267-2 (BC=2) ITEC 290-4 (BC=4) (3-3) 4 weeks (3-3) 7.5 weeks (4-0) 15 weeks Advanced Java Distributed Applications Project Understanding of the complexities inherent Implementation of distributed applications Students work in a team to complete a in enterprise development and familiarity using a 3-Tier model. Topics include project of interest that integrates with technologies, concepts and building understanding the roles of the Presentation knowledge and skills from previous courses blocks of enterprise development. Hands- layer, Business layer and the Data Access and is responsive to current industry needs. on experience with concepts associated layer, and developing distributed Includes use of project management with Java Interprise API including database applications over LANs and the Internet process and software. Evaluation is based on connectivity, invoking remote methods and using .NET Remoting and Web Services. reports, meetings with the instructor, Servlets/JSPs. Prerequisites: ITEC 160, ITEC 175 achievement of project deliverables and Prerequisite: ITEC 156 project demonstrations/presentations. ITEC 271-2 (BC=2) ITEC 257-1 (BC=1) (3-3) 7.5 weeks ITEC 293-4 (3-3) 4 weeks Database Server Configuration (240 hours) 8 weeks Extensible Markup Language Installation, configuration, and Practicum Using the Extensible Markup Language (SML) management of relational database Industry-based experience working as a language to define and produce structured management software. Topics include role member of an IT department in a documents that facilitate the exchange of of the administrator, database design, data development or support role. Includes information between different systems. modeling, data integrity, backup, query reporting requirements and evaluation. Topics include how to create a well-formed optimization, security, server utilities, and Pre/Co-requisite: ITEC 280 XML document, validating the document client installation. against a schema, transforming the Prerequisite: ITEC 140 ITEC 296-8 (BC=6) document into another document using XSL, (600 hours) 16 weeks and programming against the document ITEC 274-2 (BC=2) Work Experience using DOM. (3-3) 7.5 weeks Paid work experience as a member of an IT Prerequisite: ITEC 163 Structured Query Language department in a development or support Introduction to the Structured Query role. Includes reporting requirement and ITEC 261-1 (BC=1) Language (SQL). Using SQL statements to evaluation. Optional course taken at the (3-3) 4 weeks retrieve and manipulate information from end of the student’s second year of studies. Advanced Web Programming databases, and to perform database Pre/Co-requisite: ITEC 280 Technologies associated with websites that administration tasks. Topics include SQL do more than simply store and retrieve syntax, queries, joins, views, transactions, information. Creation of web services and indexes, and developing applications that Interdisciplinary use of AJAX to create the content-rich, use databases. interactive web application often associated Prerequisite: 153 Studies with Web 2.0 sites, such as social networking web sites. Includes the development of a ITEC 277-2 (BC=2) Note: Courses in interdisciplinary studies Web 2.0 project. (3-3) 7.5 weeks will normally be ‘team taught’ by members Prerequisite: ITEC 257 Robotics of different disciplines. This course offers an overview of robotic Note: Not all courses listed may be offered. ITEC 264-2 (BC=2) systems as applied towards scientific and Check Course Timetable for availability. (3-3) 7.5 weeks industrial applications. Mobile Applications Prerequisite: ITEC 150 INTD 240-3 (BC=3) Theoretical foundations of mobile (3-0) 15 weeks computing systems, wireless networks, and ITEC 280-1 (BC=1) Integrated Arts Approach to Movement advanced mobile applications. (1-0) 15 weeks An applied course in physical education Architectures of mobile distributed Profession emphasizing the connection between computing systems; wireless network Skills necessary to excel in the profession. creative expression through the mediums classification and management; use of the Activities include continuing education of art, music, drama, dance and wellness as it Internet in mobile computing. research towards advanced post-secondary applies to work with diverse clients with Development of mobile applications for accreditations, identification of profession multiple needs. This course intends to give devices such as the Tablet PC, PDAs, practice associations, professional ethics, students working in the field of adapted Smartphones, and mobile phones. understanding data privacy laws, advanced physical education creative alternatives for Prerequisite: ITEC 153 portfolio management, addressing project maximizing the quality of life for their tenders, business development guidelines clients. It intends to broaden their outlook and entrepreneur resources, interviewer on the connection between creativity and skills. wellness in physical education. Prerequisite: ITEC 180
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INTD 241-3 (BC=3) INTD 375-3 (BC=3) KNSS 204-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks Wellness & Lifestyle Management An Interdisciplinary Approach to Social Introduction to Sociocultural This course introduces the student to Gerontology Foundations of Physical Education, concepts of health, wellness and fitness, This interdisciplinary course on social Leisure and Sport. providing practical strategies for developing gerontology introduces students to issues The study of the nature, function and role of and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Students, associated with aging in Canadian society. play, physical education, recreation, leisure, through lectures, practical experience and Social gerontology is explored from a variety and games as a basis for understanding the self-evaluation will address personal of perspectives and disciplines. sociocultural foundations of sport and how wellness in the areas of fitness, nutrition, Prerequisite: Any 200 level university contemporary society organizes and stress management and self-responsibility. transfer course or consent of the transfers attitudes and skills. The course serves to assist the student in self- department. empowerment by developing and KNSS 205-3 (BC=3) promoting healthy eating, attitudes of Kinesiology and (3-0-0) 15 weeks physical activity and behaviors for History of Sport themselves and others. Sport Studies This course provides a foundational understanding of the historical INTD 301-5 (BC=5) development of sport. Lectures will include Note: Not all courses listed may be offered. (2-0-14) 2 weeks the development of the Olympic Sport Check Course Timetable for availability. Cultural Immersion Movement and the history of sport and The focus of this course is to develop cross- leisure in Canada from colonial times to A. Kinesiology and Sport Studies cultural competencies through immersion present. Historical effect and changes in Courses in an international setting or selected professionalization, gender roles, culture, domestic location. Interagency Olympic games structure and socialization KNSS 200-3 (BC=4) collaboration and practical experience with in Canadian sport and leisure are included. (3-0-2) 15 weeks an emphasis on global issues and their impact Prerequisite: KNSS 204 Structural Anatomy on health in regions with middle or low A survey of the structure of the human body. income populations will be the focus of this KNSS 209-3 (BC=3) Prerequisite: Biology 30 recommended. course. (3-0) 15 weeks Note: You must successfully complete a Recommended prerequisites: Any 200 level Measurement and Evaluation Laboratory Safety Orientation Seminar and university transfer course. Methods and techniques for evaluating Examination before taking part in labs. These physical activity programs and participants. seminars are offered during the first week INTD 321-3 (BC=3) Applying tests and measurement in a variety of classes for each term. If you have (3-1) 15 weeks of sport community and institutional completed the seminar and examination Contemporary Art in Process I settings. before, you may be exempted from the 20th century trends in music, drama, visual seminar by passing a challenge examination. art, dance, and creative writing. The course KNSS 210-3 (BC=3) involves individual and group work by way of (2-0-2) 15 weeks KNSS 201-3 (BC=3) studying, being exposed to, and applying Fitness and Wellness Theory and (3-0) 15 weeks these disciplines. There are both evening Practice Biomechanics performances and presentations and day Basic concepts of fitness and nutrition and Qualitative analysis of human movement, classes. Limited to second and/or third year how they apply to individual needs. using biomechanical principles. students. KNSS 220-3 (BC=3) KNSS 202-3 (BC=4) INTD 322-3 (BC=3) (3-0-1.5) 15 weeks (3-2) 15 weeks (3-1) 15 weeks Introduction to Athletic Therapy Physiology of Exercise Contemporary Art in Process II Athletic therapy in theory and practice. This course will examine the effects of INTD 321 continued. Sports medicine, care and prevention of exercise on the functioning of the human Prerequisite: INTD 321 or consent of injuries, and safety in athletics and physical body. The lecture, laboratory experience instructor. education. and supplementary readings are designed Prerequisite: KNSS 200. to promote an understanding of the INTD 370-3 (BC=3) physiological responses to acute and (3-0-0) 15 weeks KNSS 240-3 (BC=3) chronic exercise. Global Development and Health (3-0-1.5) 15 weeks Prerequisite or Co-requisite: PSIO 258/259 Overview of global development and health Adapted Physical Education issues in a cross-cultural context. In this An introduction to the current trends in the KNSS 203-3 (BC=3) course students will examine, from theory and practice of adapted physical (3-0) 15 weeks interdisciplinary perspectives, major global education. The course includes a survey of Skill Acquisition and Performance issues, and the promotion of global special populations and the implications for Theory of skill acquisition, motor learning, development and health in middle and lower program development and delivery. and performance in a variety of sports, income regions. physical activities, and recreation. Prerequisite: Any 200 level course, or consent of the instructor. www.rdc.ab.ca 169 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
KNSS 244-3 (BC=3) KNSS 285-3 (BC=3) B. Dance Courses (3-0) 15 weeks (3-3) 15 weeks KDNC 200-3 (BC=3) Introduction to Nutrition Physical Activity and Aging (3-1) 15 weeks This course presents an overview of normal This course will examine the biological, The Spectrum of Dance in Society nutritional requirements, physiological psychological and sociological aspects of Theory and practice of dance as a human functions and food sources. It examines the aging and their application in developing physical activity. Focus will be on the importance of nutritional adequacy in activities and working with older adults. aesthetic, expressive, and rhythmical optimal health and disease prevention. Particular emphasis will be given to the role aspects of movement in a culture’s artistic Students will learn to evaluate nutritional of physical activity and its impact on aging. and social life. Movement content, issues and nutritional status. techniques, improvisation, and composition Note: Not to be taken by students with credit KNSS 299-3 (BC=3) in a variety of dance forms. in KNSS 224. (1.5-0) 30 weeks Directed Studies in Kinesiology and KDNC 255-1.5 (BC=2) KNSS 250-3 (BC=3) Sport Studies (2-1) 15 weeks (3-0-0) 15 weeks Through cooperative work experience and Social Dance Introduction to the Administration of seminars, students will take part in applied Theory and practice for individuals and Sport, Physical Activity, and practical experiences in a diploma area. partners in the foxtrot, waltz, swing, rumba, Recreation Programs Prerequisite: Consent of Chairperson. cha cha, and additional dances. Basic knowledge and skills needed to administer a sport, physical activity, or KNSS 307-3 (BC=3) KDNC 260-1.5 (BC=2) recreation program. (3-0-0) 15 weeks (2-1) 15 weeks Growth and Development Jazz Dance KNSS 253-3 (BC=3) Changes in physical growth and motor Theory and personal skill in body awareness (3-0) 15 weeks development with emphasis on individual and placement, locomotion, and Psychological Sport Performance differences. choreographed jazz dance. The course provides an introduction to sport psychology and mental performance with a KPED 292-3 (BC=4) KDNC 340-3 (BC=3) focus on understanding human behaviour in (3-1.5) 15 weeks (3-0-0) 15 weeks physical activity and sport. This course Introduction to Elementary School Modern Dance examines the perspectives of sport Physical Education Theory and practice in creative dance psychology in conjunction with personality This course provides theoretical and technique, improvisation, and composition. and social psychology. practical experiences in teaching and planning physical education. Emphasis is on C. Physical Activity Courses KNSS 260-3 (BC=3) physical literacy and developmentally (3-0-0) 15 weeks appropriate activities for elementary school Physical activity is the primary means Introduction to Coaching Theory aged children 5-12. physical educators use to help others attain A range of coaching topics, both theoretical well-being and personal fulfillment. As a and practical. KPED 294-3 (BC=3) Kinesiology and Sport Studies student, or an Note: This course meets the standards of (3-0) 15 weeks Education student with a P.E. major or minor, N.C.C.P. Part A & Part B. Theory. Introduction to the Movement you need to take part in and appreciate a Activities of Youth, Part I variety of activities, from your own and other KNSS 270-3 (BC=3) A wide range of physical activities and cultures, to better meet the leisure and (2-0-2) 15 weeks important underlying concepts. Emphasis work needs of your clients. You will develop Leadership and Instruction in Physical is on understanding concepts which relate a personal foundation of physical activity, Activity to games, skills, and activities. including appreciation, skill, analytical Leadership, communication, instructional understanding, and knowledge about skills and development are explored on an KPED 295-3 (BC=3) different activities. Physical activity is the individual and group basis and applied to a (3-0) 15 weeks “physical” in physical education. variety of settings and activities. Introduction to the Movement Activities of Youth, Part II KPAC 200-1.5 (BC=2) KNSS 280-3 (BC=4) Emphasis is on individual activities in a range (2-1) 15 weeks (3-0-3) 15 weeks of settings. Swimming Introduction to Outdoor Education Prerequisite: KPED 294. Theory and practice in the front and back Concepts and experiences in outdoor crawl, breast stroke, side stroke, and education and leadership. Three hours per KPED 309-3 (BC=3) elementary back stroke. Other aquatic skills. week of lecture/lab, along with a four-day (3-0-0) 15 weeks fall camp. Camp occurs during the fourth Introduction to the Scientific Basis of KPAC 211-1.5 (BC=2) week in August. (Participation in the course Human Movement (2-1) 15 weeks requires that all students complete and Structure, function, and capacities of the Basketball return a participant information package in human body as they relate to movement. Theory and practice in individual and team early August. If you do not receive an Note: Not for Kinesiology degree credit. activities. information package by the end of July, please contact the Kinesiology Department at 403-342-3201).
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KPAC 214-1.5 (BC=2) KPAC 255-1.5 (BC=2) KPAC 310-3 (BC=3) (2-1) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks Ice Hockey Yoga for Beginners Aquatics The technical and introductory tactical This course is designed to introduce The development of proficiency in components of the game of ice hockey are students to fundamental yoga postures swimming, understanding of scientific presented in this course. Emphasis will be while developing a basic appreciation of principles applied to performance and placed on improving both technical skills yoga theory as it pertains to health and analysis of aquatic skills, development of and coaching expertise. Students are wellness. The course will be practical in teaching skills in aquatics, and eligible for Hockey Canada Coach Level and nature. The students will be introduced to understanding and application of lifesaving Developmental Level Certification. different schools of Hatha Yoga, with primary theory and resuscitation. focus on Ashtanga Yoga. Emphasis will be on Prerequisite: Red Cross Blue Level (Level 6) KPAC 218-1.5 (BC=2) the progressive practice of selected yoga or ability to swim front crawl and back crawl (2-1) 15 weeks asanas. efficiently. Soccer Theory and practice in passing, control KPAC 260-1.5 (BC=2) KPAC 311-3 (BC=3) dribbling, shooting, heading, and defending. (2-1) 15 weeks (3-0-0) 15 weeks Gymnastics Analysis and Instruction of Basketball KPAC 231-1.5 (BC=2) Theory and practice in the basic movements The theory, practice, and teaching of the (2-1) 15 weeks common to all forms of gymnastics. fundamental skills of basketball. Badminton Prerequisite: KPAC 211 or consent of Theory and practice in service and service Department. KPAC 270-1.5 (BC=2) return, forehand and backhand drive, clear and smash, drop shots, basic tactics, and (2-1) 15 weeks KPAC 314-3 (BC=3) officiating. (Must supply own equipment.) Track and Field (3-0-0) 15 weeks Theory and practice in sprints, long jump, Analysis and Instruction of Ice Hockey KPAC 233-1.5 (BC=2) shot put, hurdles, high jump, discus, distance Advanced theory of the game of Ice Hockey (2-1) 15 weeks running, triple jump, javelin, and pole vault. is emphasized. Included are on-ice skills Racquetball/Squash development and the practice of on-ice Theory and practice in service and service KPAC 281-1.5 (BC=2) tactics and multiple player strategies. (Must return, forehand and backhand strokes, and (2-1) 15 weeks supply own equipment). basic tactics. (Must supply own equipment.) Cross Country Skiing Prerequisite: KPAC 214 or consent of Personal skill in diagonal striding, double Department. KPAC 235-1.5 (BC=2) poling, skating, christy and telemark. Note: You must have the minimum skating (2-1) 15 weeks ability of an average hockey player. Note: One day trip will be scheduled on a Tennis weekend during the course. Theory and practice in service and service KPAC 321-3 (BC=3) return, forehand and backhand strokes, (3-0-0) 15 weeks approach shorts, volley, lob, and basic tactics. KPAC 290-1.5 (BC=2) Applied Resistance Training (Must supply own equipment.) (2-1) 15 weeks Examination and application of fundamental Metabolic Conditioning and specific principles associated with KPAC 237-1.5 (BC=2) Gaining knowledge and training in resistance training methodologies. (2-1) 15 weeks cardiovascular fitness through aerobic and Volleyball anaerobic conditioning. KPAC 337-3 (BC=3) Theory and practice in individual and team Prerequisite: KNSS 210 or consent of the (3-0-0) 15 weeks Analysis and Instruction of Volleyball activities. Chairperson. Theory, practice, and teaching of basic skills. Emphasis is on acquiring skills and basic team KPAC 240-1.5 (BC=2) KPAC 296-1.5 (BC=2) (2-1) 15 weeks systems. (2-1) 15 weeks Prerequisite: KPAC 237 or consent of Baseball/Fastball Flexibility and Relaxation Studying flexibility and relaxation. Department. Theory and practice in individual and team Physiological, historical, biomechanical, activities. individual, cultural and leadership perspectives. Studying flexibility and KPAC 245-1.5 (BC=2) relaxation in relation to overall fitness and (2-1) 15 weeks personal well being. Exploring practical Golf ways of including this knowledge into Theory and practice in driving, chipping, personal life, and into leadership training. pitching, and putting. A fee may be charged for green and range fees.
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Legal Assistant LAW 115-3 (BC=3) LAW 130-3 BC=3 (3-0) 15 weeks (1.5-1.5) 15 weeks Contracts Personal Injury (Open to Legal Assistant students or with Basic concepts of contract which can be used This course is designed to provide students consent of the Department.) to prepare for an in-depth study of legal with an understanding of a personal injury procedures. file. This will include learning how to gather Note: Not all courses listed may be offered. Prerequisite: LAW 105 or consent of the information prior to drafting a claim, the Check Course Timetable for availability. Department. drafting of a Statement of Claim and Statement of Defence for a personal injury LAW 102-3 (BC=3) LAW 120-3 (BC=3) claim and the assessment of the quantum of (1.5-1.5) 15 weeks (1.5-1.5) 15 weeks damages for such claims. Beginning Keyboarding Litigation II Prerequisite: LAW 110 For those with little or no previous Civil litigation procedures for law suits which keyboarding skills. Learn to touch key the are contested. Students are introduced to LAW 202-3 (BC=3) entire keyboard with no key watching. Statements of Defence and Statements of (1.5-1.5) 15 weeks Emphasis is on building skills through proper Defence and Counterclaim, Examinations for Workplace Success Strategies technique. Discovery, setting a matter down for trial, This course introduces strategies which trial procedures and Torts. assist the student in developing skills LAW 105-2 (BC=2) Prerequisite: LAW 110 necessary for employment in the legal (2-0) 15 weeks environment. Topics include: Ethics and Introduction to the Canadian Legal LAW 121-3 (BC=3) Professional Responsibilities for the Legal System (1.5-1.5) 15 weeks Assistant, the role of the Legal Assistant, Job Instruction covers the Canadian processes Real Estate II search strategies and marketing skills and institutions involved in making laws, Practical application of the theory acquired, using technologies in the law firm operations of the legal/judicial system, introduced in Real Estate I will be a focus of and management styles in law firms and Constitutional law and the various players in this course with the students completing legal departments. The course incorporates the judicial system. documentation relative to the basic practice previously learned material and of real estate in the Province of Alberta. assignments from other Program courses in LAW 110-3 (BC=3) Prerequisite: LAW 111 which the students are enrolled. (1.5-1.5) 15 weeks Prerequisites: LAW 230, 231, 233, 234, and Litigation I LAW 125-3 (BC=3) 236. This is an introductory course in civil (3-0) 15 weeks litigation. The course covers the legal Business Keyboarding LAW 230-3 (BC=3) system, the structure of a law suit, the Rules This course focuses on accuracy and speed- (1.5-1.5) 15 weeks of Court, commencing an action by building. In addition it focuses on Litigation III Statement of Claim, Judgments if no defence, Dictaphone work as well as document This course introduces the student to and settlement procedures. production including business forms, legal Provincial Court civil claims procedures. In documents and correspondence. addition students will learn garnishment LAW 111-3 (BC=3) Prerequisite: LAW 102, OADM 110 or and seizures procedures for collections of (1.5-1.5) 15 weeks equivalent - (INFO 2030 - 60%; INFO 2040 - Judgments. Real Estate I 50%.) Prerequisite: LAW 120 Introduction to real estate practice with an overview of the land titles system, types of LAW 126-3* (BC=3) LAW 231-3 (BC=3) ownership, types of documentation (3-1.5) 15 weeks (1.5-1.5) 15 weeks including: Transfers of Land, Mortgages and Legal Information Processing I Real Estate III Statements of Adjustment. This is a self-directed course covering an This course introduces students to real introduction to computers together with estate file development focusing on LAW 112-3 (BC=3) introductory and intermediate level word residential real estate transactions from a (1.5-1.5) 15 weeks processing. This course will provide a Seller and Buyer perspective. Corporate Law foundation of computer literacy for the Legal Prerequisite: LAW 121 Alberta business structures and legal Assistant field. procedures to create these organizations are *The course is designed as a self-directed LAW 232-3 (BC=3) examined. A hands-on approach is utilized course but a mandatory seminary is required (1.5-1.5) 15 weeks with students both creating and maintaining to provide students with support; please Real Estate IV a corporate minute book in accordance with register in both the Lecture and Seminar In this course students will be introduced to the Business Corporations Act, as well as sections of this course. a variety of real estate transactions as well as reporting to the law office client and Prerequisites: None database software currently used in industry completing the annual requirements of the Prior Learning recognition, based on a skills relative to the practice of real estate. corporation. appraisal, is available for students with Prerequisite: LAW 231 computer skills but application for PLAR must be completed by the Add/Drop date.
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LAW 233-3 (BC=3) LAW 245-3 (BC=3) MATH 097-4 (BC=4) (1.5-1.5) 15 weeks (1.5-1.5) 15 weeks (3-2) 15 weeks Commercial Law Family and Domestic Law Elementary Calculus and Modern Students are introduced to the purchase Using the Rules of Court, Matrimonial Mathematics and sale of a business including: Master Sales Property Act, the Marriage Act and the See “Career and Academic Preparation Agreements, sale of shares, sale of assets, the Divorce Act and the Family Law Act, students Courses,” page 202. Alberta Personal Property Registry System learn and produce documentation for a and commercial financing. Prenuptial Contract, Separation Agreement, MATH 202-3 (BC=4) Prerequisite: LAW 115 uncontested Divorce and a contested (3-2) 15 weeks Divorce. Issues regarding maintenance, Elementary Calculus I LAW 234-3 (BC=3) support and custody are also examined. Review of analytical geometry, (3-0) 15 weeks differentiation and integration of simple Estate Planning LAW 246-3 (BC=3) functions, and applications. This is an introductory course in Wills. (3-0) 15 weeks Prerequisite: Math 30 (Pure). Students will produce a Will using the Wills Criminal Procedure Note: You should take MATH 203 if you have Act. In addition, students will learn about Students are introduced to the principles at least 70% in Math 31 personal representatives, administrators, and the administration of criminal law using trustees, guardians and beneficiaries as they the Criminal Code of Canada. MATH 203-3 (BC=3) relate to the preparation of a Last Will and (3-0) 15 weeks Testament. LAW 250-3 (BC=3) Elementary Calculus (210 hours) 15 weeks Review of analytical geometry, LAW 236-3 (BC=3) Work Experience differentiation and integration of simple (3-0) 15 weeks Students are required to complete field functions, and applications. Legal Information Processing II work, normally during May and June and Prerequisite: Math 30 (Pure) and 31 or the This course is designed to prepare the normally after completion of all other course equivalent. student to work in a law office environment requirements. 210 hours -equal to six Note: Not recommended if you have less with advanced word processing concepts, weeks of full-time employment is required. than 70% in Math 31. communication and scheduling software The Department will assist in finding and law office accounting software. placement. MATH 204-3 (BC=3) Prerequisite: LAW 126 Prerequisite: GPA of 2.0 in all course (3-1) 15 weeks requirements prior to registration in LAW Elementary Calculus II LAW 240-3 (BC=3) 250 - Work Experience. Differentiation and integration of (1.5-1.5) 15 weeks trigonometric, exponential, and Litigation IV Mathematics logarithmic functions. Indeterminate forms This course covers select chambers and improper integrals. Techniques of applications. Students draft documentation integration. Applications. required by using the Rules of Court and fact Note: Not all courses listed may be offered. Prerequisite: MATH 202 or 203 or situations; problem-solving skills are a major Check Course Timetable for availability. equivalent. focus. Note: You cannot have credit in both MATH Prerequisite: LAW 230 MATH 050-5 (BC=5) 204 and MATH 213. (5-0) 15 weeks LAW 242-3 (BC=3) Preparatory Mathematics MATH 212-3 (BC=4) (1.5-1.5) 15 weeks See “Career and Academic Preparation (3-2) 15 weeks Applied Problem Solving Courses,” page 201. Calculus I A systematic method of problem solving is Review of functions and analytic geometry. applied to a variety of legal problems. MATH 075-5 (BC=5) Trigonometric, logarithmic, exponential Students analyse facts and situations, (5-0) 15 weeks and hyperbolic functions. Inverse functions. determine procedures necessary, and draft Introductory Algebra Limits and continuity. Derivatives and their appropriate documentation. See “Career and Academic Preparation interpretation. Methods of differentiation Prerequisite: LAW 130, 230, 233, 234, 244 Courses,” page 201. and applications. Parametric and polar coordinates and functions. LAW 244-3 (BC=3) MATH 085-5 (BC=5) Prerequisite: Math 30 (Pure) and 31 (1.5-1.5) 15 weeks (5-0) 15 weeks Note: Designed for Engineering students. Estates Administration Intermediate Algebra Students use the Surrogate Court Rules and See “Career and Academic Preparation forms to prepare the necessary Courses,” page 201. documentation for the passing of a deceased’s property to heirs. Students MATH 096-5 (BC=5) prepare Applications for Letters of Probate (4-2) 15 weeks and Administration. Precalculus: Algebra and Trigonometry Prerequisite: LAW 234 See “Career and Academic Preparation Courses,” page 201.
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MATH 213-3 (BC=5) MATH 260-3 (BC=3) Medical Lab Assistant (4-2) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks Calculus II Higher Arithmetic MLA 100-2 (BC=2) Integrals and areas: numerical methods and Critical thinking & problem solving. Tools for 22 class the Fundamental Theorem of calculus. Basic problem solving. Numeration systems, Professional Relations integration methods. Applications of system of integers and elementary number This introductory course develops the integration to lengths, areas, volumes, and theory, modulo mathematics. Rational learner’s understanding of the importance other physical quantities. Advanced numbers, ratio and proportion. of effective interprsonal communication integration methods. Differential Introduction to statistics. skills and team work in the health care equations. Infinite series and Taylor Prerequisite: Math 30 or Math 30 (Pure) or setting. The diverse needs and human expansions. consent of the Department relations posed by health care clients are also Prerequisites: MATH 212. Note: This course is restricted to Elementary explored. Students will analyze their Note: Designed for Engineering students. Education students. personal effectiveness related to wellness and stress management. MATH 221-3 (BC=3) MATH 302-3 (BC=4) (3-0) 15 weeks (4-0) 15 weeks MLA 101-1 (BC=1) Linear Algebra I Intermediate Calculus I 12 class, 12 lab Solving linear systems of equations. Matrix Infinite series. Plane curves and polar Basic Electrocardiography algebra. Determinants, vectors, lines and coordinates. Vectors and three dimensional This course is designed to provide basic planes, vector spaces, and applications. analytic geometry. Partial derivatives. theoretical aspects and the practical Prerequisite: Math 30 (Pure). Prerequisite: MATH 204 or equivalent. experience required to perform electrocardiograms. Includes recording MATH 223-3 (BC=3) MATH 303-3 (BC=4) technique, recognition and remedies of (3-0-1) 15 weeks (4-0) 15 weeks artifacts, and basic information on infarct Applied Linear Algebra Intermediate Calculus II recognition. Vectors and matrices. Solution of linear First order and second order linear equations. Equations of lines and planes. differential equations with constant MLA 102-1 (BC=1) Vector spaces and bases. Determinants. coefficients. Curves, tangent vectors, and arc 12 class Matrix algebra. Orthogonality and length. Integration in two and three Quality Management applications (least squares, Gram-Schmidt). dimensions. Polar, cylindrical, and spherical This course is designed to provide a Eigenvalues and eigenvectors and coordinates. Line and surface integrals. complete overview of methods used to applications. Green’s divergence and Stoke’s theorems. ensure quality patient care. The emphasis Prerequisite: Math 212 Prerequisite: MATH 302. will be on quality assurance and quality Note: Designed for Engineering Students control technique. MATH 313-3 (BC=3) MATH 230-3 (BC=3) (3-1S-0) 15 weeks MLA 103-2 (BC=2) (3-0) 15 weeks Differential Equation 30 class Mathematics: Ideas and Applications First order linear and non-linear equations. Basic Anatomy and Physiology Introduction to logic and set theory. Linear differential equations with constant This course has been designed to develop a Introduction to mathematical systems, coefficients. Laplace Transforms and basic understanding of the structure and number systems, and related topics. Basic application. Picard’s method. Series function of selected systems in the human algebra and analytic geometry. Problem solutions. body. solving and word problems. Systems of Prerequisite: MATH 204 or 213 or equations and inequalities. Graphing.Max/ equivalent. MLA 104-1 (BC=1) min problems. Linear programming. Co-requisite: MATH 302 17 class Introduction to probability and statistics. Note: Open to Engineering, Agricultural Medical Terminology Applications in social and life science. Engineering, B.Sc. in Physics, Geophysics, Knowing and using correct terminology is Prerequisite: Math 30 or equivalent is Computer Science, Geography part of effective communication. In health recommended. (Meteorology) and Mathematics students care, the terminology is especially important Note: This course is intended for Arts and only. and needs to be understood by all members Humanities students. Not accepted as an of the team. Take your first steps in learning option for science majors at the University MATH 328-3 (BC=3) the proper terminology used in health and of Calgary and the University of Lethbridge. (3-0) 15 weeks medical sciences. Introduction to Abstract Algebra MATH 251-3 (BC=3) Properties of integers. Permutations. (3-0) 15 weeks Groups. Lagrange’s theorem. Factor groups. Mathematics of Finance I Polynomials. Rings. Fields. Simple and compound interest. Simple and Prerequisite: Math 30 and a previous general annuities certain. Variable annuities university-level mathematics course. and perpetuities. Amortization schedules. Sinking funds. Applications. Prerequisites: Math 30 (Pure).
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MLA 105-2 (BC=2) MLA 109-2 (BC=2) Microbiology 22 class 26 class, 10 lab Infection Control and Safety Miscellaneous Specimen Processing MICR 365-3 (BC=4) Infection control - it’s a hot topic across the This course introduces students to different (3-0-3) 15 weeks world and demands attention in any Health types of specimens analyzed in the General Microbiology II care profession. Learn about the basics, laboratory, including urine, stool (fecal), Nutrient uptake, metabolism, extracellular including transmission of microorganisms, tissue, sputum, and other body fluids. proteins, chemotaxis, and differentiation. immunization practices for healthcare Students will learn how to instruct patients workers, blood-borne pathogens (Hepatitis properly to provide such specimens as The eukaryotic microbes, their ecological and HIV), SARS, standard precautions, required. Theoretical background and roles, and eukaryotic cell culture. The isolation procedures, sterilization and practical experience will be provided in the interactions environment and symbiotic disinfection, safety and WHIMS. preparation of specimens for analysis. These relationships. Basic principles of industrial procedures include specimen sorting, microbiology. The use of biotechnology for MLA 106-3 (BC=3) accessioning (data entry), checking specimen producing economically and medically 30 class, 30 lab suitability, centrifugation, aliquoting, and important substances. Laboratory exercises Blood Collection & Handling delivery of specimens to appropriate deal with topics related to the lecture This course provides information and laboratory departments. material. practical experience on the suitability, Prerequisite: BIOL 217 and CHEM 251 or MLA 110-2 (BC=2) collection, handling and transportation of CHEM 351 blood specimens to help ensure quality 20 class, 22 lab laboratory results. Emphasis will be placed Urinalysis on collection of blood samples from adults, The examination of urine provides a wide Motion Picture Arts children and infants. A variety of collection variety of useful medical information techniques for venipuncture and capillary regarding diseases of the urinary tract as well MPA 301-3 (BC=3) puncture will be covered. Professionalism as certain systemic diseases that produce (3-0) 15 weeks and excellent client service will be stressed quantitative alterations of urine constituents Motion Picture Fundamentals I throughout this course. The studens will be or the excretion or abnormal substances. Development of knowledge of all aspects of introduced to a Laboratory Information Macroscopic (chemical) and microscopic live action motion picture production. System (LIS). evaluation of urine constituents will be Includes development of basic competence learned. in production, direction and MLA 107-2 (BC=2) communication. 22 class, 14 lab MLA 115-4 (BC=8) 240 hours Introduction to General Laboratory MPA 302-3 (BC=3) Procedures Clinical Practicum (3-0) 15 weeks This course provides the theory and practice Most of the unpaid practicum is focuses on Motion Picture Fundamentals II required to perform basic procedures practical experience in settings where within the clinical laboratory. Laboratory staffing includes Medical Laboratory Further development of knowledge in glassware and pipettes, microscopes, basic Assistants. Phlebotomy experience is aspects of live action motion picture laboratory equipment, and reagent provided at collection sites, rapid response production. preparation with related mathematical laboratories and acute care sites. Other calculations will be covered. experiences include data entry, specimen MPA 303-3 (BC=3) accessioning, sorting and preparation, (3-0) 15 weeks MLA 108-2 urinalysis, cytology, microbiology, anatomic Motion Picture Business/Career Path 32 class, 18 lab pathology, and an introduction to An examination of film financing, Introduction to Medical Laboratory hematology. Students may be required to budgeting, scheduling and distribution. Testing travel to rural locations or to Edmonton to Included is entertainment law and the This course provides the student with a complete all or portions of their practicum societal and political context of the Canadian better understanding of the different experience. Students will address a limited film industry. Students will establish departments in a clinical laboratory and the selection of competencies in a simulation lab contacts with appropriate unions, agents medical laboratory procedures associated setting. with each. Emphasis will be placed on the and develop self-promotional strategies. definition, terminology and purpose of selected medical laboratory tests. The MPA 304-3 (BC=3) practical component of this course includes (3-0) 15 weeks basic procedures in Hematology, Screenwriting Techniques Microbiology, Anatomic Pathology, and Provides a practical introduction to Cytology. appropriate formats and techniques for screenwriting, and includes narrative forms and structure, character and story throughlines. Students will apply their knowledge and skills to short screenwriting projects.
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MPA 305-3 (BC=3) MPA 318-4 (BC=4) Prerequisite: MPA 403 (3-0) 15 weeks (3-3) 15 weeks Please refer to Degree Completion Program Motion Picture Directing Motion Picture Acting II Section for Year 4 of the Bachelor of Applied Director’s responsibilities, strategies, and Emphasis is on advancing knowledge and Motion Picture Arts Degree. skills including technical aspects of skills developed in Film Acting I in order to production and analysis of scripts. believably perform scenes of emotional Music Knowledge and skills will be used to direct intensity. Performance skills for various motion picture media and specific genre performers and crew in scene work. requirements will be developed. Note: Not all courses listed are offered every Prerequisite: MPA 317 semester or every year. Check Course MPA 311-3 (BC=3) Timetable for availability. (3-0) 15 weeks MPA 320-4 (BC=4) Motion Picture Technology (0-12) 15 weeks Performance Ensembles (2 cr/semester) Knowledge and maintenance and Motion Picture Projects I (BC=2) operational skills in production and post- Application of knowledge and skills to (0-3) 15 weeks production technologies such as analog and initiate, develop and produce media The study and performance of standard and current literature appropriate to the digital imaging systems, film/video transfer projects from concept to completion. Team specific vocal or instrumental ensemble. systems, compositing, etc. Explore skills, integrity, self-confidence, initiative, and professionalism are integral to success. Membership is limited and is by audition. emerging production technologies such as Scheduled public performances are motion control. MPA 321-4 (BC=4) generally a part of each ensemble Prerequisite: MPA 315 (0-12) 15 weeks experience. All ensembles are offered on a Motion Picture Projects II corequisite basis only, eg. students must be MPA 312-3 (BC=3) Further application of knowledge and skills registered in the same ensemble sequence (3-0) 15 weeks to develop media projects from concept to for both Fall and Winter semesters (eg. 201 Audition Techniques completion. Team skills, integrity, self- Fall/202 Winter), unless special permission Emphasis is on the knowledge, strategies, confidence, initiative and professionalism is granted by the Department. The first and skills needed for professional auditions. are integral to success. semester is normally prerequisite to the Students will develop a professional resume, Prerequisite: MPA 320 second. photograph, and industry standard reels/ Note: All ensembles are open (by audition) tapes/DVD. MPA 403-15 (BC=10) to students from all departments in the Prerequisite: MPA 317 (0-35) 15 weeks college. Applied Motion Picture Practicum I Note: *Check the Alberta Transfer Guide for MPA 315-4 (BC=4) The first term of a two-term mentored specific transfer information for MUSE (3-3) 15 weeks practicum. This involves: 1) The production courses marked with an asterisk*. Motion Picture Production I of a substantial motion picture project Skill development in cinematography, (including concept, production, MUSE 201, 202, 301, 302, 351, 352 camera operation, lighting, editing, sound, postproduction, marketing and promotion) Symphonic Winds* I, II, III, IV, V, VI and production management. Flexibility with access to College equipment and A concert band that rehearses and performs and learning skills needed to acquire facilities; and/or 2) work experience in the wind literature representing traditional specialized expertise is emphasized. motion picture industry, with a combination and contemporary styles, with priority of paid work, auditions, workshops, etc. given to important European and North MPA 316-4 (BC=4) accumulated under the guidance of MPA American stylistic periods. Emphasis is (3-3) 15 weeks staff. placed on learning musicianship through Motion Picture Production II Prerequisite: Completion of 3rd year of the the stylistic diversity of selected repertoire. Further development in cinematography, MPA program. The choice of repertoire will also consider camera operation, lighting, editing, sound the literature available to future educators and production management. MPA 404-15 (BC=10) in the secondary school setting. Prerequsitie: MPA 315 (0-35) 15 weeks Applied Motion Picture Practicum II MUSE 203, 204, 303, 304, 353, 354 MPA 317-4 (BC=4) The second term of a two-term mentored Concert Choir* I, II, III, IV, V, VI (3-3) 15 weeks practicum. This involves: 1) The production A wide range of quality traditional and Motion Picture Acting I of a substantial motion picture project contemporary choral music is performed in Knowledge of terminology, set etiquette, (including concept, production, a mixed choir of approximately 40 members. set directions and the roles and functions of postproduction, marketing and promotion) The integration of personal musical other film personnel. Opportunities to with access to College equipment and development with the principles of group practice performance on camera using facilities; and/or 2) work experience in the work and the development of blend are effective vocal and physical character traits. motion picture industry, with a combination important aspects of the course. Emphasis is on developing a confident poise of paid work, auditions, workshops, etc. for on camera and audio recording. accumulated under the guidance of MPA staff.
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MUSE 205, 206, 305, 306, 355, 356 24 members. Specific goals include gaining MUSI 197-2 (BC=2) Jazz Ensemble* I, II, III, IV, V, VI experience performing choral music in (2-0) 15 weeks A jazz band that rehearses and performs front of a live audience, building a varied Introductory Aural Skills II music characteristic of the big band era as repertoire of music, and learning the Skills and knowledge gained in MUSI 195 will well as literature of the modern day jazz principles of group work and integrating form the basis for more extensive work in ensemble. Students will explore the various these principles with individual skills. melodic and harmonic dictation, interval styles within this genre and develop recognition and sight-singing. improvisational skills required for this idiom. MUSE 219, 220, 319, 320, 369, 370 Prerequisite: MUSI 195 or consent of Chamber Ensemble* I, II, III, IV, V, VI Department Chair. MUSE 207, 208, 307, 308, 357, 358 The focus is on the rehearsal and Jazz Choir* I, II, III, IV, V, VI performance of acoustic, classical music for MUSI 203-3 (BC=3) This vocal ensemble will help you learn how small groups of two to four players or singers. (3-0) 15 weeks to perform Jazz, Swing and Popular music in The makeup of the ensemble or ensembles Computer Music Technology the style appropriate to each. will vary depending on the interests and Practical techniques, theory and skills of those enrolled. applications for computer-based multitrack MUSE 209, 210, 309, 310, 359, 360 MIDI sequencing and multitrack digital Orchestra* I, II, III, IV, V, VI MUSE 221, 222, 321, 322, 371, 372 audio, synthesizers, samplers, sound design, Selected woodwind, brass, string, and Percussion Ensemble* I, II, III, IV, V, VI special effects processing, and computer percussion students who are playing at Rehearsal and performance of percussion music notation and printing. Survey of advanced levels may arrange an audition ensemble literature that will be arranged applications for live music and theatre with the conductor of the Red Deer for various combinations of the following performances, as well as music, video and Symphony Orchestra. This is a professional instruments: marimba, xylophone, film studios. orchestra which draws players from across vibraphone, drum set, congas, snare drum, Note: This course is for music students as the province. timpani, etd. well as musicians who are not in the music Prerequisite: Audition diploma program. Department consent is MUSE 211, 212, 311, 312, 361, 362 required. Jazz Combo* I, II, III, IV, V, VI MUSI 194-3 (BC=3) Students work together in small groups to (3-0) 15 weeks MUSI 210-6 (BC=6) create arrangements of both old and new Introductory Music Theory I (3-1) 30 weeks jazz tunes. Weekly coaching sessions For students with little or no formal music Fundamentals of Music and Method in introduce various ideas and exercises to theory background who have interest in Education for Non-Music Majors enhance both improvisational ability and an understanding the rudiments of music A dynamic and practical introduction to understanding of jazz as a specific style. notation or who are preparing to enter the music teaching techniques and Music Diploma program. Designed to give fundamentals for the student interested in MUSE 213, 214, 313, 314, 363, 364 students a basic working knowledge of teaching elementary or middle-school aged Contemporary Styles I, II, III, IV, V, VI music reading through the study of pitch and children. Taught as a survey course and Bands are formed within the class and are rhythm notation, scales, key and time includes introductory keyboard, guitar and used as structured lab settings to explore signatures, intervals, and relevant various other instruments. Former the fundamental elements of important terminology. experience in music is not required. styles such as rock and roll, country, Latin, and alternative. MUSI 195-2 (BC=2) MUSI 213-3 (BC=3) (2-0) 15 weeks (3-1) 15 weeks MUSE 215, 216, 315, 316, 365, 366 Introductory Aural Skills I Chamber Winds I, II, III, IV, V, VI For students with little or no formal aural Fundamentals of Music and Method in Small group study of literature for wind skills training who have interest in Education I ensembles. Depending upon the improving their musicianship or who are A dynamic and practical introduction to instrumentation, repertoire may preparing to enter the Music Diploma music teaching techniques and incorporate combinations of brass and program. Emphasis will be placed on the fundamentals for the student interested in woodwinds ranging from duo to octet. identification by ear and sight of melodies, teaching elementary or middle-school aged Performance opportunities for various rhythms and harmonies. Music dictation and children. Topics include music theory, music ensembles are available in the acoustic elementary sight-singing will be an integral appreciation and singing as well as an noon recitals and other performances both aspect of the course. introduction to the keyboard and recorder. on and off campus. Correlates with the Alberta Learning MUSI 196-3 (BC=3) Curriculum. Former experience in music is MUSE 217, 218, 317, 318, 367, 368 (3-0) 15 weeks not required. Chamber Choir I, II, III, IV, V, VI Introductory Music Theory II Co-requisite: MUSI 213 lab This ensemble is geared towards the Skills and knowledge gained in MUSI 194 will experienced singer and will explore form the basis for more extensive work in advanced choral literature in both music reading, chord building, and cadence traditional and contemporary genres. construction. Enrolment is limited to approximately 16- Prerequisite: MUSI 194 or consent of Department Chair.
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MUSI 214 (BC=3) MUSI 257-3 (BC=3) MUSI 301-3 (BC=3) (3-1) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks Fundamentals of Music and Method in Comprehensive Music Theory I History of Classical and Romantic Education II Music rudiments review (scales, intervals, Music A continuation of MUSI 213 with an added chords, rhythms), non-harmonic tones, A performance-lecture survey of the styles, emphasis on lesson planning and music cadences, introduction to harmonic composers, and performers of the Classical teaching philosophy and techniques progression and voice-leading principles, and Romantic periods of music history. including Orff and Kodaly methods. Includes and melodic construction. Prerequisite: MUSI 233 or 202 an introduction to the guitar and other Prerequisite: Successful completion of the Note: Skill in music reading is an asset. classroom instruments. Theory Placement Exam or equivalent. Co-requisite: MUSI 214 lab MUSI 302-3 (BC=3) Prerequisite: MUSI 213 MUSI 258-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks History of Post-Romantic and 20th MUSI 233-3 (BC=3) Comprehensive Music Theory II Century Music (3-0) 15 weeks Harmonic analysis, harmonic progression, A performance-lecture survey of the styles, Introduction to Music History and four-part writing techniques for diatonic composers, and performers of the post- A survey of Western Music from Antiquity chords, seventh chords, secondary dominant Romantic and 20th century periods of music through the 20th Century. Through lecture, chords, leading-tone chords, and history. listening, and basic score examination, modulation; binary and ternary musical Prerequisite: MUSI 233 or 301 students will explore the traditions and forms. Note: Skill in music reading is an asset. practices that have culminated in both the Prerequisite: MUSI 257 art music and popular music idioms which MUSI 303-3 (BC=3) exist today. MUSI 259-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks History of Popular Music MUSI 234-3 (BC=3) Comprehensive Aural and Keyboard A survey of the history and evolution of popular music. Topics will include the history (3-0) 15 weeks Skills I of jazz, the roots of rock and roll, the British Masterworks of Music The aural study of music theory concepts covered in MUSI 257 using sight-singing, Invasion, Latin influences, techno, pop music, Elements that shape and enrich the musical dictation, and keyboard harmony. and urban trends. art: basic musical concepts, instruments, Prerequisite: Successful completion of the Prerequisite: MUSI 233 or 302 forms and styles, genres, and historical Theory Placement Exam or equivalent. implications. MUSI 304-3 (BC=3) Prerequisite: MUSI 233. MUSI 260-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks History of Medieval, Renaissance and MUSI 241-2 (BC=2) Comprehensive Aural and Keyboard Baroque Music (2-0) 15 weeks Skills II A performance-lecture survey of the styles, Basic Piano I The aural study of music theory concepts composers, and performers of the Medieval, Piano technique, scales, and keyboard covered in MUSI 258 using sight-singing, Renaissance and Baroque periods of music harmony. Emphasis is on developing a dictation, and keyboard harmony. history. repertoire of easy to moderate piano pieces Prerequisite: MUSI 257 and 259 Prerequisite: MUSI 233 to enhance the keyboard as a useable Prerequisite or Co-requisite: MUSI 258 Note: Skill in music reading is an asset. musical tool. Prerequisite: Ability to read music and a MUSI 280-3 (BC=3) MUSI 321-5 (BC=5) basic skill in voice or an instrument other (3-1) 15 weeks (4-3) 15 weeks than the piano. Recording Studio Technology I Music Business: Career and Products An introduction to the recording studio and A study of the business of music as it pertains MUSI 242-2 (BC=2) to basic recording engineering on a digital to music products and the retail industry, (2-0) 15 weeks audio workstation. Mixing theory, with emphasis on product areas, marketing Basic Piano II equipment theory and operation, and actual and sales. Throughout the practicum Skills acquired in MUSI 241 will be refined performance toward a finished recording. portion, the students will participate in and expanded. Particular emphasis will be Prerequisite: Enrolment in Music Diploma or “hands-on” approaches to a variety of placed on keyboard fluency, fingering, and consent of the Department. marketing and production situations. music reading. Students will be expected to complete a Prerequisite: MUSI 241 or consent of the MUSI 282-3 (BC=3) minimum of 45 practicum hours (20 hours Department Chair. (3-0) 15 weeks must be in the area of retail music in order Recording Studio Technology II to attend the NAMM Show in January). MUSI 280 continued. The study of advanced Prerequisite: 2nd year Music Diploma micing and recording techniques, computer student or consent of the Department. audio editing and refinement of skills towards additional projects. Prerequisite: MUSI 280.
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MUSI 322-5 (BC=5) MUSI 357-3 (BC=3) MUSI 398-4 (BC=4) (4-3) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks (1-2) 30 weeks Music Business: Performance Contemporary Theory III Theory Practicum A study of the business of music as it pertains MUSI 257/258 continued. Third term Offered over the fall and winter terms. to the performing musician, with emphasis theory. This course is practical in content, Activities depend on your area of study. on booking, touring, and the recording scope, and approach. It is meant to assist the Prerequisite: Minimum of 29 first-year industry. Throughout the practicum portion, ‘working’ musician in applying credits completed. the students will participate in “hands-on” fundamentals. approaches to a variety of marketing and Prerequisite: MUSI 250 or 258. Co-requisite: MUSI 361/362 production situations. Students will be expected to complete a minimum of 45 MUSI 358-3 (BC=3) MUSI 400-3 (BC=3) practicum hours (20 hours must be in the area (3-0) 15 weeks (120 hours) Includes 10 hours lecture of performance, booking, and/or tours. Contemporary Theory IV Merchandising Practicum II Prerequisite: Music Diploma student or MUSI 357 continued (fourth term theory). The student will be required to intern in a consent of the Music Department. Prerequisite: MUSI 357. particular area of the Music Industry as it pertains to their individual career focus. MUSI 346-3 (BC=3) MUSI 359-3 (BC=3) Examples of placements may include such (3-0) 15 weeks (0-3) 15 weeks things as touring, sales, or private studio Comprehensive Music Theory III Contemporary Aural Skills III teaching. Possible options must be Review of harmonic progression and voice- Third term aural study of materials in MUSI approved by the Merchandising instructor leading principles employed in the 17th and 357. well in advance of the proposed placement. 18th centuries; harmonic analysis, harmonic Prerequisite: MUSI 250 and 251; or MUSI progression, and four-part writing 258 and 260 Prerequisite: MUSI 322 or consent of the techniques for 19th-century music Prerequisite or Co-requisite: MUSI 357 Department. including borrowed chords, Neapolitan 6th Note: This course will be evaluated using a chords, augmented 6th chords, and MUSI 360-3 (BC=3) credit/no-credit grading system. modulation techniques; analysis of major (0-3) 15 weeks musical forms (sonata, rondo, and theme and Contemporary Aural Skills IV MUSI 401-2 (BC=2) variations). Fourth term aural study of materials in MUSI (2-0) 15 weeks Prerequisite: MUSI 250 or MUSI 258 358. Graduation Recital Prerequisite: MUSI 357 and 359 A public recital/concert of at least thirty MUSI 347-3 (BC=3) Prerequisite or Co-requisite: MUSI 358 minutes in length. The program should (3-0) 15 weeks consist of material studied during the Comprehensive Music Theory IV MUSI 361-3 (BC=3) student’s time as a Music Diploma student. Analysis and part writing techniques (3-0) 15 weeks A combination of solo and ensemble incorporating extended and chromatic Composition I harmonies from the 19th and 20th Development of basic composition skills. material is acceptable as approriate to the centuries (9th, 11th, and 13th chords, altered Principles of orchestra, band, choral, and student’s major instrument of study and dominants, chromatic mediants, coloristic popular instrument writing. Concepts and upon approval of the student’s instructor. chords, quartal chords, polychords), and practices of MIDI workstation and computer Co-requisite: MUSP 460 serialism. assisted composition. Prerequisite: MUSI 346 Prerequisite: B or better in MUSI 250 and MUSP 145-3 (BC=3) 251; or MUSI 258 and 260 (1-0) 15 weeks MUSI 348-3 (BC=3) Principal Instrument Study I (3-0) 15 weeks MUSI 362-3 (BC=3) Fifty-five minute weekly private lessons in a Comprehensive Aural and Keyboard (3-0) 15 weeks principal musical instrument or voice. Skills III Composition II Emphasis is on technique, style, The aural study of music theory concepts Second term study of the MUSI 361 course. musicianship, and interpretation, and on covered in MUSI 346 using sight-singing, Emphasis is on extended compositions and developing repertoire and performance dictation, and keyboard harmony. workstation/computer use. experience. Prerequisite: MUSI 250 & 251; or MUSI 258 Prerequisite: MUSI 361. Prerequisite: Open to Music Diploma & 260 students by successful performance Prerequisite or Co-requisite: MUSI 346 MUSI 397-4 (BC=4) audition. (1-2) 30 weeks MUSI 349-3 (BC=3) Performance Practicum MUSP 245-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 15 weeks Offered over the fall and winter terms. (1-0) 15 weeks Comprehensive Aural and Keyboard Activities depend on your area of study. Principal Instrument Study II Skills IV MUSP 145 continued. Prerequisite: Minimum of 29 first-year The aural study of music theory concepts Prerequisite: MUSP 145 credits completed. covered in MUSI 347 using sight-singing, dictation, and keyboard harmony. Co-requisite: MUSP 360/460. Prerequisite: MUSI 346 and 348 Prerequisite or Co-requisite: MUSI 347 www.rdc.ab.ca 179 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
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MUSS 145-2 (BC=2) NURS 281-5 (BC=5) NURS 385-7 (BC=7) (1-0) 15 weeks (3-0-15) 7 weeks (3-0-28) 7 weeks Secondary Instrument Study Nursing Practice I Nursing Practice IV Forty-five minute weekly private lessons in Beginning nursing practice with a focus on Practice focuses on health across the life- instrument or voice. Emphasis is on health promotion and interaction with span in child-birth facilities, homes, technique and musicianship. May be clients across the life span in a variety of non- community health clinics, schools and other repeated for credit. traditional settings. community based settings. Integration of Note: MUSS private lessons are open (by Prerequisite: NURS 280 the concepts of primary health care, health audition) to students from all departments promotion & disease prevention and in the college. NURS 284-5 (BC=5) determinants of health are examined in the (6-4S-3) 7 weeks community context. Nursing in Context A1 Prerequisites: NURS 284, 285 Nursing A continuation of the study of concepts introduced in NURS 280 with a focus on NURS 390-5 (BC=5) (Open to Nursing students only.) teaching and learning principles and (6-4S-3) 7 weeks increased health assessment and basic Nursing in Context C *NURS 215-3 (BC=3) nursing skills. Within the context of primary health care (3-0) 15 weeks Prerequisites: NURS 280, 281 focus is on restoration, rehabilitation and Anatomy support of clients experiencing more acute A survey of the structure of the human body. NURS 285-6 (BC=6) variances in health. Discussion related to (3-0-24) 7 weeks health promotion and disease prevention *NURS 270-3 (BC=3) Nursing Practice II continues. Advanced health assessment and Integrated Psychology I Nursing practice includes health status nursing skills will be introduced. Introductory psychology concepts assessment of clients and appropriate health Prerequisites: NURS 215, 274, 381, 384, 385 integrated into nursing through context promotion and disease prevention based learning. interventions. Practice occurs in settings NURS 391-7 (BC=7) where clients live or in community agencies (3-0-28) 7 weeks *NURS 271-3 (BC=3) (non-acute) where services to clients are Nursing Practice V Integrated Psychology II offered. Nursing practice will focus on restoration, Continuation of the study of psychology Prerequisites: NURS 280, 281 rehabilitation and support (including health concepts integrated into nursing through promotion and disease prevention) of context based learning. NURS 380-5 (BC=5) clients experiencing more acute variances Prerequisite: NURS 270 (6-4S-3) 7 weeks in health across the life span. Practice will Nursing in Context B occur in primary, secondary and tertiary level *NURS 272-3 (BC=3) Within the context of primary health care, acute care settings. Integrated Sociology I the focus shifts to restoration, rehabilitation Prerequisites: NURS 215, 274, 381, 384, 385 Introductory sociology concepts integrated and support of clients experiencing chronic into nursing through context based and less acute variances in health. Discussion NURS 394-5 (BC=5) learning. related to health promotion and disease (6-4S-3) 7 weeks prevention continues. Intermediate health Nursing in Context C1 *NURS 273-3 (BC=3) assessment and nursing skills will be Continuation of NURS 390 with increasing (3-0) 15 weeks introduced. situational complexity. Credit is given for Integrated Medical Microbiology Prerequisites: NURS 284, 285 Health Assessment upon successful Relevant medical microbiology concepts completion of the term. integrated into nursing through context NURS 381-7 (BC=7) Prerequisites: NURS 390 (391 or 395) based learning. (3-0-28) 7 weeks Nursing Practice III *NURS 274-6 (BC=6) Nursing practice will focus on restoration, Integrated Physiology rehabilitation and support (including health Physiology of humans integrated into promotion and disease prevention) of nursing through context based learning. clients with chronic and less acute variances
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NURS 395-7 (BC=7) NURS 490-5 (BC=5) OADM 102-3 (BC=3) (3-0-28) 7 weeks (6-6S-3) 7 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks Nursing Practice VI Nursing in Context D Computer Essentials Nursing practice will focus on restoration, A comprehensive approach to primary Students will learn beginning database rehabilitation and support (including health care components in the care of clients operations, the basic components of a health promotion and disease prevention) in complex, ambiguous situations. Case computer system, how to troubleshoot of clients across the lifespan experiencing management and multidisciplinary hardware and software problems, and how more acute variances in health. Practice will leadership skills are emphasized. Students to use a variety of Internet and distance occur in homes or in community-based may have the opportunity to lead a delivery tools. settings. multidisciplinary student group. Prerequisites: NURS 215, 274, 381, 384, 385 Prerequisites: NURS 391, 394, 395, 396 OADM 110-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 15 weeks 4th Year University of Alberta Degree NURS 491-7 (BC=7) Document Processing I Completion Nursing Courses (3-2-26) 7 weeks For those with little or no previous (from the University of Alberta Calendar) Nursing Practice VII keyboarding skills. Learn to touch key the Note: Students are required to complete Management and care of clients in alphabetic keyboard. Emphasis is on all 3rd year courses in order to proceed to ambiguous, complex situations occurring building skills through proper technique. the 4th year of the program. over a variety of settings. Prerequisites: NURS 391, 394, 395, 396 OADM 111-3 (BC=3) NURS 301-3 (BC=3) Prerequisites or Corequisite: NURS 490 (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks Document Processing II Nursing Research NURS 494-3 (BC=3) OADM 110 continued. Emphasis on Introduction to the process of research (6-0-3) 4 weeks building speed and accuracy and on the through a comparative analysis of selected Nursing in Context D1 production of mailable business studies exemplifying different theoretical, Synthesis and focus of nursing knowledge correspondence. A variety of advanced methodological, and analytical approaches. and application of nursing research in a Word features are explored including mail Emphasis is on the communicability of specified area of practice. To be permitted merge, sorting and selecting, fill-in forms, research, the needs of the research to enroll in this course, students must have tables, and columns to produce visually consumer, and the development of skills of passed all courses of their nursing program, appealing and professional-looking critical appraisal. except the co-requisite NURS 495. documents. Prerequisite: NURS 304 Prerequisite: OADM 100, 110 NURS 495-9 (BC=9) NURS 304-3 (BC=3) (1-0-34) 10 weeks OADM 126-6 (BC=6) (3-0) 15 weeks Nursing Practice VIII (6-0) 15 weeks Using and Interpreting Statistics for Comprehensive and consolidated approach Basic Accounting Nursing Research to professional practice of nursing in an area Learn the fundamentals of accounting An introduction to reading, understanding of special interest to the student. through hands-on experience. Apply and interpreting commonly used statistics Co-requisite: NURS 494 accounting principles in manual and in published health sciences research. automated environments. Provides hands-on approach to Office Administration understanding measurement, sampling, OADM 130-3 (BC=3) and common statistical analysis techniques (3-0) 15 weeks through critical appraisal of results from OADM 100-3 (BC=3) Office Systems I published health care studies. (3-0) 15 weeks Current office procedures techniques in Information Processing managing records and practicing mail NURS 461-7 (BC=7) This is a hands on introduction to computer procedures. Develop speed and accuracy (0-1s-34c) 10 weeks concepts, systems, and terminology using on an electronic calculator while learning Nursing Practice VII, Internship Route Microsoft Windows and Word. Course work basic business math. During a Spring/Summer placement of 10 covers electronic file management and weeks in a sponsoring agency, the student basic Word skills. OADM 131-3 (BC=3) will manage and care for clients in (3-0) 15 weeks ambiguous, complex situation. OADM 101-3 (BC=3) Office Systems II Prerequisites: NURS 390, 391, 394, 395, and (3-0) 15 weeks Explore the systems, procedures and 396 or 301. Consent of the Faculty is also Spreadsheet Fundamentals technology of the contemporary office. required. This course will provide students with Complete an office simulation package. hands-on training in the basic/intermediate Prerequisite: OADM 130 operations of Microsoft Excel. Topics covered include creating and formatting worksheets and charts, writing formulas, performing what-if analysis, and using financial functions.
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OADM 135-3 (BC=3) OADM 220-3 (BC=3) using pharmaceuticals. Contracts for (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks payment by third party paying agencies. Introduction to Industry Sectors Automated Accounting - Online Payment forms. Assist the studentsin determining an Delivery industry sector for practicum and workforce Emphasis is on automated accounting PHAR 140-3 (BC=3) employment. Increase the students’ procedures and systems. Data entry, (3-0) 15 weeks awareness and understanding of the generating and analyzing reports and Pharmaceutical Calculations industries within Alberta. Create an accounting simulations using integrated Mastering accurate calculations in: effective resume, cover letter, and portfolio. accounting software. dispensing, pricing, systems of measure, Develop interview skills. Prerequisites: OADM 123 or OADM 126 or compounding mixtures and dilutions, and VA 120 or equivalent. preparing parenteral products, as they apply OADM 160-3 (BC=3) in pharmacy. (3-0) 15 weeks Pharmacy Technician Personal Leadership PHAR 151-3 (BC=3) Individual effectiveness. Topics include: (3-0) 15 weeks attitude, perception, goal setting, (Open to Pharmacy Technician students Hospital Pharmacy organization, stress and time management, only.) Practice of pharmacy in an institutional creative thinking, adaptability, self-concept setting. Guidelines for hospital pharmacies. and interpersonal communication. PHAR 110-3 (BC=3) The principles of preparing pharmaceuticals Complete a class project. (3-1) 15 weeks and antineoplastic drugs under aseptic Pharmacy Practice I conditions. OADM 170-3 (BC=3) Includes medical terminology, the Prerequisite: PHAR 110, 120, 140, 180 (120 hours) 6 weeks prescription process, dispensing function, Practicum PHAR 155-1 (BC=1) pharmacy references, dosage forms, Employment experience in an office (0-3) 15 weeks precaution labels, introduction to pharmacy setting. During the practicum, students will Aseptic Technique apply technical and administrative skills . Group and individual instruction in preparing while assisting office staff. Grading will be PHAR 111-3 (BC=3) sterile products under aseptic conditions. credit/non-credit. (3-1) 15 weeks Preparing antineoplastic drugs. Prerequisite: Meet conditions stated in the Pharmacy Practice II Prerequisite: PHAR 110, 120, 140, 180 Office Experience Agreement, which Course deals with over-the-counter Prerequisite or Co-requisite: PHAR 151 include a minimum GPA of 2.00 with no medications available in Canada. grade lower than D in the Office Technology Prerequisite: PHAR 110 PHAR 161-1 (BC=1) Certificate fall and winter term courses. (0-3) 15 weeks PHAR 120-2 (BC=2) Computer Skills OADM 200-3 (BC=3) Knowledge of and skill on pharmacy software. (0-5) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks Dispensing I Desktop Publishing - Online Delivery PHAR 171-3 (BC=3) With an emphasis on desktop publishing, All aspects of dispensing. Filling (3-0) 15 weeks this course will build on word processing prescriptions and completing all required Community Pharmacy techniques and will explore the advanced pricing, record-keeping and computer Basics of merchandising and operating features and applications of a current word functions. community retail pharmacies. Pharmacy processing program, a presentation location and layout. Merchandising. program and a desktop publishing program. PHAR 121-2 (BC=2) Purchasing and inventory management. Prerequisite: OADM 100 and OADM 111 or (0-5) 15 weeks Pricing. Advertising and promotion. VA 100 or equivalent. Dispensing II All aspects of dispensing continued. PHAR 180-3 (BC=3) OADM 201-3 (BC=3) Principles of compounding and how they are (3-1) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks applied in preparing a variety of Pharmacology I Electronic Spreadsheets - Online The major drug classes used in health care. pharmaceuticals. Delivery Related anatomy, physiology, and medical Prerequisite: PHAR 110, 120, 130, 140, 161, Advanced spreadsheet applications and conditions. Pharmacology, terminology, and how they apply to business operations. 180 medications. Becoming familiar with the Spreadsheet documents, macros, graphics, generic, trade and manufacturers’ names of what-if analysis. PHAR 130-3 (BC=3) 400 common medications. Content Prerequisite: OADM 101 or VA 120 (3-0) 15 weeks includes: antimicrobial drugs, autonomic Pharmacy Laws and Agreements meds, CNS meds, respiratory meds, The relationship between pharmacists and gastrointestinal meds. pharmacy technicians. The responsibilities and authority of each position. Related Acts and the records required for acquiring and
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PHAR 181-3 (BC=3) semantics and metatheory of sentential (3-1) 15 weeks Philosophy logic: truth-tables, truth-functional Pharmacology II completeness, soundness and The major drug classes used in health care. Note: Not all courses listed may be offered. completeness of the natural deductive Related anatomy, physiology, and medical Check Course Timetable for availability. system, compactness. conditions. Pharmacology, terminology, and medications. Becoming familiar with the Note: 200-level Philosophy courses do not PHIL 300-3 (BC=3) generic, trade and manufacturers’ names of require previous Philosophy. PHIL 201, 202 (3-0) 15 weeks 400 common medications. Content and 222 are recommended if you intend to Professional Ethics includes: musculo-skeletal meds, major in Philosophy. This course is designed to acquaint students cardiovascular meds, endocrine meds, Note: There are no prerequisites for 300- with the range of ethical questions and issues dermatological meds, eye and ear meds. level courses (except for PHIL 389). You will that arise for practitioners of various Note: PHAR 180 does not have to precede find it helpful, however, to take PHIL 202 professions. Students will develop their PHAR 181 before taking any 300-level courses. PHIL critical and analytical skills in their own 201 will provide valuable background for arguments designed to appraise and PHAR 191-3 (BC=3) PHIL 339, 340, 348, 355 and 386. develop good ethical positions on a variety Retail Pharmacy Practicum of issues and problems common to many - Community Pharmacy (160 hrs, 4 week PHIL 201-3 (BC=3) professions, problems like: professional block) (3-0) 15 weeks responsibility, the use of codes of ethics in Practical experience in a community Values and Society making good ethical decisions, privacy and pharmacy. Placements will be in locations The classical problems of Western client confidentiality, professional client- across the province,or outside the province, philosophy. Studying and discussing practitioner relationships, issues of public so there may be extra expenses. selected philosophical classics and and private ethical responsibility. Prerequisite: Passing grades in all Pharmacy contemporary works. Emphasis is on courses. questions of moral and other values, and on PHIL 301-3 (BC=3) Note: the nature of society and justice. (3-0) 15 weeks 1) This course will be graded as CR/NCR Note: Do not take if you have credit in PHIL The Theory of Knowledge (Credit/No Credit) 239 or 240. Epistemology is the study of the origin, 2) Due to the rapidly changing nature of nature, methods, and limits of knowledge. pharmacy and health care, students PHIL 202-3 (BC=3) Topics: Truth, skepticism, must complete both practicum courses (3-0) 15 weeks representationalism, and phenomenalism. (PHAR 191 and PHAR 192) within one Knowledge and Reality Rational belief and the criteria of knowledge. academic year of finishing their other The classical problems of Western Theories of justification, including course work. Students not able to meet philosophy. Studying and discussing foundationalism and coherentism. this timeline will have to repeat the lab selected philosophical classics and Externalist theories, including reliabilism courses: PHAR 120, 121, 155 and 161. contemporary works. Emphasis is on and naturalism. The possibility of a priori 3) Please note that most practicums questions of the nature and extent of human knowledge and the justification of require a block set of full-time hours not knowledge, and classic problems about the induction. part-time. nature of reality and our place in it. Note: Do not take if you have credit in PHIL PHIL 321-3 (BC=3) PHAR 192-3 (BC=3) 230 or 240. (3-0) 15 weeks Hospital Pharmacy Practicum Metaphysics (Hospital Pharmacy (160 hours, 4 week PHIL 221-3 (BC=3) Topics may include freedom of the will, the block) (3-0) 15 weeks mind-body problem, and the nature of time. Practical experience in a hospital pharmacy. Practical Logic The character of metaphysical reasoning. Placements will be in locations across the Informal and elementary formal methods province,or outside the province, so there and principles used to distinguish correct PHIL 323-3 (BC=3) may be extra expenses. and incorrect reasoning. Informal fallacies, (3-0) 15 weeks Prerequisite: Passing grades in all Pharmacy definitions, and elementary principles of Philosophy of Mind courses. scientific method. What it means to be a person and have a Note: mind. The relationship of philosophical ideas 1) This course will be graded as CR/NCR PHIL 222-3 (BC=3) to scientific studies of mental phenomena. (Credit/No Credit) (3-0) 15 weeks Topics may include: The mind-body 2) Due to the rapidly changing nature of Symbolic Logic I relationship, personal identity, memory, pharmacy and health care, students Basic concepts of logic: consistency, logical imagination, intention, desire, emotion, and must complete both practicum courses truth, entailment, equivalence. sensation. 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Authors (3-0) 15 weeks influences of various schools of philosophy such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger Advanced Ethics and feminist thought. and Sartre may be considered. Consequentialist versus non- consequentialist views. Meaning and PHIL 350-3 (BC=3) PHIL 375-3 (BC=3) objectivity in morals. Free will and moral (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks responsibility. The ethics of virtue. Philosophy of Art Science and Society Contractarian ethics. This course is designed to acquaint students The intellectual, cultural and social with various aspects of art criticism, dimensions of science and their PHIL 341-3 (BC=3) evaluating and critically appraising the implications. Topics may include the impact (3-0) 15 weeks claims and arguments found in critical of the Newtonian revolution, mechanism, Ancient Philosophy discourse and in philosophical texts materialism and Darwinism, and the nature Ancient Greek philosophy. Examining the elaborating aspects of art criticism. Students of objectivity and rationality. one/many problem. Considering pre- should develop sound analytical skills Socratic philosophy by studying necessary to construct good arguments of PHIL 386-3 (BC=3) Pythagoreanism, Heraclitus, Parmenides their own in which they move beyond the (3-0) 15 weeks and Democritus. Examining Socrates uncritical acceptance of beliefs about the Philosophy and Health Care Issues through readings of Plato’s early dialogues, nature of art, the knowledge of art and the Concepts and issues central to health care considering Plato in detail. Emphasis is on judgements of value about art. knowledge and practice. Rights and the development of Plato’s Theory of Forms. responsibilities of patients and health care PHIL 355-3 (BC=3) personnel. Passive and active euthanasia. PHIL 342-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 15 weeks Abortion. Medical research and (3-0) 15 weeks Philosophy of the Environment experimentation. Disclosure of diagnosis Aristotle and Hellenistic Philosophy Designed to bring traditional and and risks. Death and suffering. Studying the works of Aristotle dealing with contemporary philosophical theories and ontology, epistemology, logic and ethics. methods to bear on issues raised by our PHIL 388-3 (BC=3) Examining some of the leading figures in the relationship to the environment. The (6-0) 7 weeks schools of Epicureanism and Stoicism. ethical, aesthetic, or metaphysical Philosophy and Nursing Considering Scepticism as exhibited by ramifications of certain major This course involves elementary methods Pyrronism and the Academics. environmental problems, such as pollution, and principles for analyzing reasoning in overpopulation, or resource exhaustion will everyday contexts as well as a philosophical PHIL 345-3 (BC=3) be considered. examination of concepts and issues central (3-0) 15 weeks to knowledge and practice in nursing. Descartes to Kant PHIL 357-3 (BC=3) Note: This course is available only to Early modern philosophy. Examining (3-0) 15 weeks students registered in the BScN- rationalist and empiricist traditions of the Philosophy of Religion Collaborative Program. seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The concept of religion. Arguments for and Descartes’ so-called “epistemic turn”. against the existence of God. Meaning and PHIL 389-3 (BC=3) Identifying and isolating the intelligibility in religious language. (3-0) 15 weeks epistemological problems generated by Symbolic Logic II this epistemic turn. Examining possible PHIL 364-3 (BC=3) Syntactical and semantic aspects of solutions (if any) to these problems using (3-0) 15 weeks predicate logic and predicate logic with works by authors such as Leibniz, Locke, Philosophy of Science I identity: truth-trees and the decision Berkeley, Hume and Kant. The philosophy of natural science. problem; natural deduction; elementary Hypothesis testing. The nature of causation, modal theory; soundness and completeness PHIL 347-3 (BC=3) law, and explanation. of the natural deduction systems; (3-0) 15 weeks compactness; the Lowenheim-Skolem Kant to Russell PHIL 365-3 (BC=3) theorem; introduction to second-order Eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth (3-0) 15 weeks logic. century philosophy. Studying and discussing Philosophy of Science II Prerequisite: PHIL 222 or consent of the a variety of issues including epistemological, The debate over the possibility of objectivity Department. metaphysical, ethical and logical. in the social sciences, which began with the Considering the theories of authors such as work of Max Weber. Positivism. Kant, Fichte, Hegel, J.S. Mill, Sartre, and Hermeneutics. Critical theory. Russell. Ethnomethodology.
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PHIL 399-3 (BC=3) circular motion; vibrations; waves in matter; PHYS 246-3 (BC=4) (3-0) 15 weeks wave optics; sound; black body radiation, (3-1S-3) 15 weeks Philosophy and Computing photons, de Broglie waves; models of the Fluids and Waves Philosophical themes and problems using atom. Examples relevant in environmental, A calculus-based course for students fifth generation computer technology. life, and medical sciences will be majoring in the physical sciences. Fluid Mainstream topics in philosophy as they emphasized. statics and dynamics, elasticity and simple apply to modern technological society. Prerequisites: Physics 20 or equivalent, harmonic motion; sound waves, wave Topics are chosen that can be illustrated in a Math 30 (Pure). Physics 30 is strongly properties of light; quantum waves, wave- programming language. The focus will be recommended. particle duality. on the philosophical topic, not the Note: Credit may be obtained for only one Prerequisite: PHYS 244 computing language. As most of these of PHYS 205, 224, 241, 244 or ENPH 231. Corequisite: MATH 204 or equivalent. issues are currently researched using Note: PHYS 224 should be followed by PHYS Note: Credit may be obtained for only one artificial intelligence, we will use PROLOG 226. of PHYS 207, 226, 246, 247 or 269 and/or an expert system shell. PHYS 226-3 (BC=4) PHYS 247-3 (BC=4) (3-0-3) 15 weeks (3-1S-3) 15 weeks PhysicalEducation Fluids, Fields, and Radiation Waves, Optics and Thermal Physics and Sport Studies Fluid statics and dynamics, gases, kinetic Oscillations, simple harmonic motion, interpretation; electrostatics; currents and waves. Gravitation. Sound. Light, circuits; magnetic fields; electromagnetic geometrical optics, optical instruments, (See Kinesiology and Sport Studies) induction; nuclear radiation, its interaction interference and diffraction. Fluids. Kinetic with matter and applications. theory. Heat and thermodynamics. Physics Prerequisite: PHYS 205 Prerequisite: PHYS 241 or ENPH 231 Note: Credit may be obtained for only one Co-requisite: MATH 204 or 213 Note: Not all courses listed may be offered. of PHYS 207, 226, 246, 247 or 269. Note: You can have credit in only one of PHYS Check Course Timetable for availability. 206, 207, 237, 243, 247, or 269. PHYS 241-3 (BC=4) PHYS 075-4 (BC=4) (3-1S- 3) 15 weeks PHYS 269-3 (BC=4) (4-1) 15 weeks Mechanics (3-1S-3/2) 15 weeks Introductory Physics Kinematics. Particle dynamics. Work and Wave Motion, Optics and Sound See “Career and Academic Preparation energy. Linear momentum. Rotational Geometrical optics, optical instruments. Courses,” page 203. kinematics. Rotational dynamics. Oscillations, waves, sound, light, Equilibrium of rigid bodies. interference and diffraction. Simple PHYS 095-5 (BC=5) Prerequisite: Physics 30 and Math 30 (Pure). harmonic motion. (4-1S-2) 15 weeks Co-requisite: MATH 202 (203) or 212. Prerequisites: Physics 30, Math 30 (Pure)and Preparatory Physics Note: You can have credit in only one of PHYS 31. See “Career and Academic Preparation 203, 205, 231, or 241. Co-requisites: MATH 202 or 203 or 212. Courses,” page 203. ENGG 230 PHYS 244-3 (BC=4) Note: You can have credit in one of PHYS 207, PHYS 205-3 (BC=4) (3-1S-3) 15 weeks 247, or 269. (3-3) 15 weeks Newtonian Mechanics and Relativity Note: For engineering students only. Introductory General Physics I A calculus-based course for students (Mechanics) majoring in the physical sciences. PHYS 356-2 (BC=2) A non-calculus course in physics. Newtonian mechanics, including (3-1S-3/2) 8 weeks Kinematics, vectors, and forces in kinematics, dynamics, conservation of Electricity equilibrium. Linear and rotational motion. momentum and energy, rotational motion (First half of PHYS 359 up to and including Dynamics of particles (oscillations). and angular momentum; special relativistic DC circuits) Prerequisite: Physics 30 or equivalent. Math kinematics and dynamics, including length Note: Only for Engineering Students bound 30 (Pure) contraction, time dilation, and the for the University of Regina. conservation of energy and momentum in Note: You can have credit in only one of PHYS PHYS 224-3 (BC=4) special relativity. 355, 356, 359 (3-0-3) 15 weeks Prerequisites: Math 30 (Pure), Physics 30. Particles and Waves Corequisities: MATH 202 or 203 or 212 or PHYS 359-3 (BC=4) Algebra-based course for students in life, equivalent. (3-1S-3/2) 15 weeks environmental, and medical sciences. It Note: Credit may be obtained for only one Electricity and Magnetism guides the student through two distinct of PHYS 205, 224, 241, 244 or ENPH 231 Electric charge. Electric potential. 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PSIO 262-6 (BC=6) POLI 309-3 (BC=3) POLI 328-3 (BC=3) (3-0), (3-0) 30 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks Elementary Physiology History of Political Thought II (Hobbes Elements of Public Administration Physiology of mammals and humans. to the Present) The major institutions, processes, and issues Prerequisite: Biology 30; Chem 30. Equal to the second half of POLI 310. of public administration at the federal level Prerequisite: Not open to students in the first in Canada. Government organization. PSIO 263-6 year without consent of the Department. Budgets. Policy making. Selected personnel (3-0), (3-0) 30 weeks issues. Democratic control. Accountability. Human Physiology POLI 310-6 (BC=6) Introductory course in human physiology. (3-0) 30 weeks POLI 360-6 (BC=6) Prerequisites: BIOL 217 or 218; plus 6 credits History of Political Thought (3-0) 30 weeks of university level chemistry. Survey course in Western political International Relations Note: Credits may be obtained in only one philosophy, including notable The nature of foreign policy. The dynamics of PSIO 262 or 263. developments and major political of interactions between states. Causes of war. philosophers. Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Imperialism. Role of non-state actors. Hobbes, Rousseau, Marx, and John Stuart Mill. Note: This is the core course in international Prerequisite: Not open to students in the first relations and is a prerequisite for most 400- year without consent of the Department. level courses. Note: This is the core course in political Prerequisite: Not open to students in the theory and is a prerequisite for most 400 level first year without consent of the courses in the field. Department. POLI 200 recommended.
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POLI 388-3 (BC=3) and suggested diagnostic tests and PN 236-3 (BC-3) (3-0) 15 weeks treatments for representative and specific (6.5-0) 7 weeks Politics and Global Trade - I diseases are discussed. Health Education Democracy; the technological imperative; Prerequisite: PN 216 An overview of the physical, social, mental, trade and ethics; international trade environmental and spirtual aspects of regimes and their politics. PN 226-3 (BC=3) health at the personal and community level. Note: admission restricted to senior level (5-0) 9 weeks Health promotion for individuals and students in University Transfer and Business Applied Pharmacology communities is addressed. Administration Programs, or by consent of The application of knowledge of therapeutic the Department. drugs, their effects on the body, and nursing PN 237-6 (BC=6) responsibilities when administering (271 clinical hours) 8 weeks POLI 389-3 (BC=3) medications are discussed. Acute Care Practice (3-0) 15 weeks Focus is on the nursing needs of clients Politics and Global Trade - II PN 227-5 (BC=5) throughout the life cycle in acute care The state in the global economy; trade (6.5-5) 9 weeks settings. facilitation federally and provincially; Nursing Science II - Advanced Prerequisites: PN 231, 235, 236 introduction to area studies. Knowledge and skills required to provide Note: Admission restricted to senior level safe, competent, holistic nursing care to PN 242-3 (BC=3) students in University Transfer and Business clients within the framework of the nursing (5-0) 9 weeks Administration Programs, or by consent of process. Focus is on the principles underlying Pediatric Nursing the Department. nursing actions, health promotion and the An introduction to the needs and nursing integration of concepts from other courses. interventions related to children. Co-requisite: PN 225 Community resources and client teaching Practical Nurse are addressed. PN 228-3 (BC=3) Prerequisites: PN 237 PN 216-6 (BC=6) (5-0) 9 weeks (6-0) 15 weeks Growth and Development Across the PN 243-3 (BC=3) Anatomy, Physiology, Microbiology Lifespan (45 class hours) (9 weeks) An introduction to the normal structure and An overview of human growth and Maternity Nursing function of the human body according to development and normal behavioral An introduction to the needs and nursing body systems. An introduction to micro- responses through the lifespan. interventions of childbearing families. organisms and their relationship to disease Community resources and client teaching process. PN 229-5 (BC=5) are addressed. (216 clinical hours) 6 weeks Prerequisites: PN 237 PN 217-3 (BC=3) Continuing Care Practice (2-2) 15 weeks Introduction to continuing care settings with PN 246-3 (BC=3) Adult Health Assessment opportunity to apply previously acquired (5-0) 9 weeks Introduction to adult physical assessment. knowledge and skills when caring for clients Community Nursing in these settings. An introduction to the concepts, theories PN 218-4 (BC=4) Prerequisites: PN 217, 218, 225, 226, 227 and practices of community health nursing (3-3) 15 weeks and health promotion as it relates to Nursing Science I - Foundations PN 231-3 (BC=3) individuals, families and groups. The knowledge and skills required for (45 class hours) 7 weeks Prerequisites: PN 237 provision of safe, competent, holistic care Mental Health to clients in a variety of settings are Focus is on the promotion of mental health, PN 247-3 (BC=3) introduced. The focus is on health prevention and management of mental (5-0) 9 weeks promotion, spirituality, ethnicity and disorders throughout the life cycle, within Nursing Science IV - Transition to culture, legal and ethical considerations in various health care settings. Graduate nursing. The psychomotor skills necessary Prerequisites: PN 225, 226, 227, 229 Builds on previous learning in the areas of to nursing will be developed based on professionalism, leadership, and entry to underlying theoretical principles and PN 235-5 (BC=5) practice. Critical thinking in the application incorporating critical thinking in their (6.5-8.5) 7 weeks and integration of previous learning is application. Nursing Science III - Medical/Surgical addressed to assist in the transition from the Nursing role of student to that of entry level PN 225-3 (BC=3) The focus of this course is the knowledge and graduate nurse. (5-0) 9 weeks skills required to provide safe, compteent, Co-requisite: PN 242, 243, 246 Pathophysiology holistic care for the adult client who is Prerequisite: PN 237 The alterations in normal human physiologic experiencing acute alterations in health. structure and function which underlie Focus is on the principles underlying nursing diseases processes are examined. actions, health promotion and the Pathological processes and concepts, integration of concepts from other courses. predisposing factors, clinical manifestations Prerequisite: PN 229
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PN 248-3 PSYC 341-3 (BC=3) (116 hours of preceptored clinical) 3 week Psychology (3-0) 15 weeks Focus Practicum Social Psychology Opportunities are provided to observe and Note: Not all courses listed may be offered. Individual and group behaviours as they are apply nursing knowledge and skills in a Check Course Timetable for availability. affected by social contexts. Topics may variety of settings, such as mental health, include the self and social perception, social maternity, and community. May include PSYC 260-3 (BC=3) cognition; prejudice, discrimination, and practice in a continuing care setting with a (3-0) 15 weeks stereotyping; attitude formation and focus on leadership roles. Basic Psychological Processes change; conformity and obedience; Prerequisites: PN 242, 243, 246, 247 An overview of some of the important areas affiliation and attraction; pro- and anti-social in psychology. Topics include the nature and behaviours; and applied social psychology PN 249-4 (BC=4) history of psychology, research methods, the topics (law, health). (155 hours preceptored clinical) 4 weeks biological foundations of behaviour, genes Prerequisite: PSYC 260/261 or SOCI 260 Comprehensive Practicum and evolution, sensation and perception, Preceptorship experience provides the states of consciousness, learning and PSYC 347-3 (BC=3) opportunity to make the transition from a adaptation, and memory. (3-0) 15 weeks student to a graduate role. Note: This course is a prerequisite for most Psychology of Gender Prerequisite: PN 247 psychology courses and is normally followed An overview of psychological perspectives by PSYC 261. on gender including the nature of gender, alternative expressions of gender (e.g. Professional Driver PSYC 261-3 (BC=3) transgenderism), the reproduction of (3-0) 15 weeks gender through social institutions, the DRIV 110-11 (BC=28) Social and Individual Behaviour question of gender similarities and 145 class hours; 50 lab/observation hours An overview of some of the important areas differences, gender stereotypes and Classroom in Psychology. Topics include thought, discrimination, and the implications of Introduction to the transportation industry, language, and intelligence; motivation and gender for various facets of daily living. regulatory environment, safety essential emotion; development over the lifespan; Prerequisite: PSYC 260/261 skills, and career considerations. The CTHRC personality; psychological disorders and Note: U of C bound students cannot also take approved Earning Your Wheels curriculum their treatments; stress, health, and coping; PSYC 439 for credit. provides the foundation for this course. To and behaviour in a social context. reflect the post-class 1 nature of the Prerequisite: PSYC 260. PSYC 353-3 (BC=3) program, there are 85 hours Theory, 60 Note: PSYC 260/261 is a prerequisite for (3-0) 15 weeks Behind the Wheel, 50 Observation). many courses in the Department. Child Development Delivered by Red Deer College using An examination of theory and research accredited Red Deer College instructors and PSYC 305-3 BC=3) related to physical, cognitive, emotional and private training schools equipment and (3-0) 15 weeks social development across infancy and facilities which meet CTHRC standards. History of Psychological Thought childhood. The roots of psychological thought in Prerequisite: PSYC 260/261 DRIV 120-7 (BC=4) Western culture, and the relationship 25 class hours; 240 supervised practicum between theories of human nature and PSYC 355-3 (BC=3) hours) changing social institution. (3-0) 15 weeks Classroom and Supervised Practicum Prerequisites: PSYC 260 & PSYC 261 Adolescence Practicum with a trucking company with an An examination of theory and research accompanying professional driver coach/ PSYC 312-6 (BC=8) related to physical, cognitive, emotional, mentor. This hands-on experience is a (3-2) 30 weeks and social development occurring during combination of observation and driving. The Experimental Design and Quantitative adolescence. coach/mentor provides guidance and Methods for Psychology Prerequisite: PSYC 260/261 ensures that the student acquires core An integrated approach to the methods, Note: U of C bound students cannot also take competencies and driving experience. principles, and ethics of psychological PSYC 429 for credit. Theory delivered by Red Deer College. research and the statistical techniques Practicum designed and supervised by Red utilized for the analysis of these data. PSYC 357-3 (BC=3) Deer College, with participating trucking Prerequisites: Math 30 (Pure) and PSYC 260. (3-0) 15 weeks companies. Prerequisite or Co-requisite: PSYC 261 Psychology of Adult Development and Prerequisite: PD 110 Aging PSYC 321-3 (BC=3) An examination of adult development (3-0) 15 weeks during adulthood and aging. Topics may Industrial & Organizational Psychology include life-span developmental theories The world of work. Topics include career and methods; biological processes; sensory, development, performance, motivation, perceptual, and cognitive processes; conditions of work, employee selection and personality and social processes; life training, and organization. transitions; mental health issues; and dying. Prerequisite: PSYC 260/261 or consent of Prerequisite: PSYC 260/261. the Department.
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PSYC 358-3 (BC=3) PSYC 377-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks Social Work Cognitive Psychology Human Neuropsychology A survey course in cognition. Major Changes in mood, motivation, perception, (Open to Social Work students only.) theoretical approaches and research in areas attention, memory, and language as such as perception, attention, memory, the SOWK 201-3 (BC=3) revealed by studies of structural alterations representation of knowledge, language, (3-0) 15 weeks in the human brain. reasoning and problem solving. Introduction to Social Work Methods I Prerequisite: PSYC 260/261. Prerequisite: PSYC 260/261 and 375 An overview of the social service field. Prerequisite or Co-requisite: PSYC 312. Philosophy, purpose, and objectives of social PSYC 383-3 (BC=3) work practice. Emphasis is on the helping (3-0) 15 weeks PSYC 367-3 (BC=3) process, working principles, and cardinal Personality (3-0) 15 weeks values of social work. Developing the Survey course including theory and research Human Sexual Behaviour knowledge and skills needed for case work. related to the major problems in the study of Prerequisite or Co-requisite: SOWK 204 This course explores and integrates personality. knowledge from many disciplines including Prerequisite: PSYC 260/261. SOWK 202-3 (BC=3) medicine, biology, anatomy, psychology, (3-0) 15 weeks history, law, anthropology, social science, PSYC 389-3 (BC=3) Introduction to Social Work Methods II the arts, and religion in describing human (3-0) 15 weeks SOWK 201 continued. Communication skills sexual behaviour. Abnormal Psychology in social work practice. Interviewing, Prerequisite: PSYC 260/261. General introduction, with emphasis on assessing, and recording skills. Audio-visual contemporary views of the nature, equipment is used in developing PSYC 368-3 (BC=3) development, and treatment of interpersonal communication skills. (3-0) 15 weeks psychological disorders. Prerequisite: SOWK 201 Prerequisite: PSYC 260/261 Principles of Learning Note: Students cannot get credit for PSYC Traditional and modern research on classical SOWK 204-3 (BC=3) 389 and 489. (3-0) 15 weeks conditioning, operant conditioning, and Social Work Ethics in Practice memory. Emphasis is on research dealing PSYC 391-3 (BC=3) A comprehensive overview of ethical with non-human animals, but human (3-0) 15 weeks principles and theory in social work practice. applications are included where relevant. Health Psychology The main focus of this course is on the skill Prerequisite: PSYC 260/261 Examining the relationship of psychology to development, integration and application Prerequisite or Co-requisite: PSYC 312 illness and related dysfunction, promotion of ethics in decision-making in critically and maintenance of health, and the health reflective social work practice. PSYC 369-3 (BC=3) system. (3-0) 15 weeks Prerequisite: PSYC 312. SOWK 207-3 (BC=3) Sensation and Perception (3-0) 15 weeks Theoretical and experimental issues related Science Social Services History, Function and to sensation and perception. Structure Prerequisite: PSYC 260/261 This course pertains to the philosophy, SCIE 050-5 (BC=5) history and development of social welfare Prerequisite or Co-requisite: PSYC 312 (5-0) 15 weeks in relation to social services organizations, Basic Science programs and methods of service delivery. PSYC 375-3 (BC=3) See “Career and Academic Preparation Focus is on the variety of venues for social (3-0) 15 weeks Courses,” page 202. work practice and different groups of Brain and Behaviour individuals who social workers interact with. Brain function related to sensation, Social Studies movement, learning, motivation, and SOWK 208-4 (BC=5) thinking. How the brain interacts with SOST 090-5 (BC=5) (240 hours) behavioural systems. (5-0) 15 weeks Field Work I Prerequisite: Biology 30 or equivalent and Canadian Studies Normally two days per week in one of a PSYC 260/261. (Biology 30 prerequisite See “Career and Academic Preparation variety of social service agencies. Observing required by U of A bound students). Courses,” page 202. the agency and social service practice. Learning agency policies and procedures. SOST 095-5 (BC=5) Working closely with a practicum supervisor (5-0) 15 weeks in the agency. Included are 15 hours of Twentieth Century World seminars that focus on the integration of See “Career and Academic Preparation classroom lecture material and field practice Courses,” page 202. experience. Prerequisite or Co-requisite: SOWK 204, SOWK 201, SOWK 207
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SOWK 209-4 (BC=5) are exposed to the expected roles and SOWK 313-3 (BC=3) (240 hours) responsibilities of administrators in social (3-0) 15 weeks Field Work II services settings. The course prepares Social Work in Health Care Settings SOWK 208 field placement continued. students to assume administrative The purpose of the course is to examine, Under supervision, you will take beginning responsibilities and become aware of the understand, and critique current theories, responsibility for delivery of social services current administrative challenges in the issues, practices, and the unique role of the to individuals, groups, or communities. social services field. social worker in health and mental health. Included are 15 hours of seminars that focus Prerequisites: SOWK 202, SOWK 207 The emphasis is on knowledge of various on the integration of classroom lecture approaches to health and mental health and material and field practice experience. SOWK 307-3 (BC=3) on the role of the sodial worker in Prerequisite: SOWK 208. (3-0) 15 weeks assessment, referral, intervention and Social Policy advocacy amidst the various approaches, and SOWK 210-3 (BC=3) Introduces students to the macro level of on the interdisciplinary context of health (3-0) 15 weeks social policy formulation and the impact and mental health. Social Work Practice with Groups policies have on social service delivery. Prerequisite: SOWK 202 This course is about the theory and practice Attention is paid to the linkage between of working with groups. The focus is on the ideologies and policy directions, and to the Sociology knowledge and skill for effective social work impact of globalization on Canadian social practice in groups, as both group member policy. Note: Not all courses listed may be offered. and leader. Task and treatment groups and Prerequisites: SOWK 207, SOWK 312 Check Course Timetable for availability. their various applications in practice are explored SOWK 308-4 (BC=5) SOCI 260-3 (BC=3) Prerequisite or Co-requisite: SOWK 201 (240 hours) (3-0) 15 weeks Field Work III SOWK 301-3 (BC=3) An extension of SOWK 208/209. Normally Sociological Concepts & Perspectives (3-0) 15 weeks two days per week in a field agency for the Sociological perspectives and concepts used Social Work Practice with Individuals second year. After an orientation to the to analyse social behaviour. The nature of and Families agency, you will provide service to a selected group behaviour and social interaction. This course expands on the work in SOWK client group under supervision. Included are Culture, social organization, the social 201 and 202. Further develops knowledge 15 hours of siminars that focus on the personality, and deviance. of Social Work interviewing, assessment and integration of classroom lecture material Note: SOCI 260 is the prerequisite for most intervention techniques. Emphasis on and field practice experience. advanced courses. working with individuals to facilitate Prerequisite: SOWK 209 change, beginning family assessment in SOCI 261-3 (BC=3) diverse contexts, and intervention SOWK 309-4 (BC=5) (3-0) 15 weeks knowledge and skills with family groups. (240 hours) Canadian Society Prerequisite: SOWK 202 Field Work IV Family, religion, education, politics, and The final field placement course. You will SOWK 304-3 (BC=3) have a variety of training experiences in a economics. Social stratification and social (3-0) 15 weeks particular social service agency. Included inequality. Social Work Practice with Communities are 15 hours of seminars that focus on the Prerequisite: SOCI 260 This course focuses on working with integration of classroom lecture material communities. Students are exposed to and field practice experience. SOCI 301-3 (BC=3) contemporary theories and models of Prerequisite: SOWK 308. (3-0) 15 weeks community organization practice as well as Sociology of Gender and Sexuality drawing on field experiences which SOWK 312-3 (BC=3) Comparing gender and sex roles in different students may have already had. The focus in (3-0) 15 weeks societies. Emphasis is on contemporary the course is to integrate theory and field Social Problems and Issues in Social Canada. Gender and sex role behaviour and experiences as related to community Work theories of their origin. Recent research on organization practice, and discuss the Current trends and issues in social work the social effects of gender and sex roles. challenges, strategies and benefits of practice and how they relate to social Prerequisite: SOCI 260 or consent of working with communities. problems. Students examine selected social Prerequisite: SOWK 202, SOWK 210 problems relevant in Canadian society and department. are introduced to a structural anti- SOWK 306-3 (BC=3) oppressive social work framework. An SOCI 305-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 15 weeks introduction to quantitative and qualitative (3-0) 15 weeks Social Work Administration forms of social work research. Selected Topics in Sociology Social Work Administration focuses on the Prerequisite: SOWK 207 Examination of selected topics in practice skills required for ethical and sound contemporary sociology. Topics may focus social work practice in management on specific sociological issues, institutions settings. The theories that support the or problems (such as culture and society, practice skills are investigated, and students development, sport, rural studies).
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Prerequisite: SOCI 260 or consent of the Prerequisite: SOCI 310 or SOCI 312 or SOCI 333-3 (BC=3) department. consent of the department. (3-0) 15 weeks Note: This course may be repeated for Note: You cannot receive credit for SOCI 322 The Development of Sociology II credit. if you have previously taken ANTH 357. The contributions of modern and contemporary sociological theorists. SOCI 307-3 (BC=3) SOCI 323-3 (BC=3) Emphasis is on Structural Functionalism, Symbolic Interactionism, (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks Ethnomethodology, Contemporary First Nations in Canada Sociology of Poverty Feminist Theory, Neo-Marxism and Critical The main point of focus for this course will Meaning, origins, extent, and effects of Theory, and Post-Structuralism and Post- be the dynamics of Native groups’ relations poverty. Focus is on Canadian society. Modernism. with each other and with the larger society. Reviewing theoretical explanations of Prerequisite: SOCI 332 Topics include: decolonization and relations poverty. The relationships between poverty with the state, demography, organizations, and social institutions such as education, SOCI 341-3 (BC=3) nationalism and nation-building, power, health care, housing, criminal justice, and (3-0) 15 weeks community and economic development, the political order. Reviewing and Social Psychology social class and public policy. Inuit and Metis evaluating various poverty programs. Note: This course is not currently offered. If issues will also be discussed. Prerequisite: SOCI 260 or consent of the you wish to take Social Psychology, register Prerequisite: SOCI 260 or consent of the Department. for PSYC 341 (3-0), which carries an identical department. program credit at the University of Alberta. Prerequisite: SOCI 260/261 or PSYC 260/ SOCI 325-3 (BC=3) 261. SOCI 310-3 (BC=4) (3-0) 15 weeks (3-3) 15 weeks Criminology SOCI 344-3 (BC=3) Introduction to Social Statistics The nature of crime and how it is defined. (3-0) 15 weeks Statistical reasoning and techniques used by Measurement problems and official Mass Communication and Popular sociologists to summarize data and test statistics. Crime in relation to social-cultural Culture hypotheses. Topics include describing factors. Theoretical explanations of criminal An analysis of the varieties of mass media distributions, cross-tabulations, probability, behaviour. Critical perspectives. Selected such as radio, television, film and books and correlation/regression and non-parametric types of crime. Emphasis is on Canadian their effects on popular culture. tests. society. Prerequisite: SOCI 260 or consent of the Prerequisite: SOCI 260 or consent of the Prerequisite: SOCI 260 or consent of the Department. department. Department. Note: This course may not be taken for credit SOCI 363-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 15 weeks by students with credit in SOCI 311-6. SOCI 327-3 (BC=3) Sociology of Work (3-0) 15 weeks The social relations of production and the SOCI 312-3 (BC=4) Criminal Justice and Crime Control organization of work in advanced (3-3) 15 weeks The social response to crime. Considering industrialized countries. Focus is on how crime control strategies have Introduction to Social Methodology Canadian society. Topics include: values and developed. Evaluating theories of Research design, data collection, and data meanings attached to work; work and punishment. The function of criminal law. processing strategies used by sociologists. leisure; the union phenomenon; alienation Elements of the Canadian criminal justice Topics include research values and ethics, from work; professionalism; the hierarchical system such as the police, courts, and scaling, reliability and validity, nature of the workplace; the impact of corrections. Incarceration and release experimentation, survey research technological development on the labour measures. Changing directions in crime process; and the role of the government in techniques, historical methods, field control. Formal and informal alternatives to labour relations. research, and content analysis. criminal justice. Critical perspectives. Prerequisite: SOCI 260 or consent of the Prerequisite: SOCI 310 or equivalent Prerequisite: SOCI 325 Note: This course may not be taken for credit Department. by students with credit in SOCI 311-6. SOCI 332-3 (BC=3) SOCI 365-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks SOCI 322-3 (BC=3) The Development of Sociology I Social Stratification The origin and development of classical (3-0) 15 weeks An introduction to the sociological study of sociological theory. Emphasis is on the Social Issues in Canada social stratification and structured Enlightenment, Romantic-Conservative A survey course on social issues in Canada. inequality with a focus on Canadian society. Reaction, Saint-Simon, Comte, Marx, Regional and national scope will be covered Topics include different systems of Durkheim, Weber, and Freud. in such areas as health, safety, the economy, stratification, various theoretical approaches Prerequisite: SOCI 260 or consent of the the environment, community belonging, to stratification, class and social inequality, Department. integration of newcomers and education. contemporary perspectives and research, socio-economic, gender, ethnic and racial bases of social inequality. 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SOCI 368-3 (BC=3) SOCI 376-3 (BC=3) SPAN 201-3 (BC=4) (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks (4-1) 15 weeks Canadian Ethnic and Minority Group Sociology of Religion Intermediate Spanish I Spoken and written Spanish, including Relations General theory plus selected topics. The grammar, composition, literature and Canada is a tremendously diverse country nature and origins of religion. Religion as an conversation. The literature includes works encompassing many ethnic and minority expression of historical, social, and personal groups. Social processes involved in of modern authors. conditions. Religion and social change. developing and understanding minority Prerequisite: Spanish 30 or SPAN 102 or Religion and individual and social variations. group relations in Canada will be the central equivalent. focus for this course. The three main Social functions of religion. Emphasis is on concentrations will be on French/English religion in western society, and Canada in SPAN 202-3 (BC=4) relationships, Aboriginal issues, and particular. (4-1) 15 weeks challenges relating to all the other groups Prerequisite: SOCI 260 or consent of the Intermediate Spanish II that have come to Canada. Department. The continuation of SPAN 201. Spoken and Prerequisite: SOCI 260 or consent of the written Spanish, including grammar, Department. SOCI 395-3 (BC=3) composition, literature and conversation. (3-0) 15 weeks The literature includes works of modern authors. SOCI 371-3 (BC=3) Sociology of Leisure Prerequisite: SPAN 201 or equivalent. (3-0) 15 weeks A sociological analysis of the nature and Sociology of the Family forms of leisure. Topics include historical and The nature of the family in contemporary contemporary perspectives, trends and Statistics North American society. Family interaction issues in leisure participation in patterns and how these are related to the Note: Not all courses listed may be offered. many changes in the modern family. postindustrial society, leisure provision, Check Course Timetable for availability. Prerequisite: SOCI 260 or consent of the programs and research, the future of leisure. Department. Emphasis will be on leisure in Canadian society. STAT 241-3 (BC=3) (3-1) 15 weeks SOCI 373-3 (BC=3) Prerequisite: SOCI 260 or consent of the Introduction to Statistics (3-0) 15 weeks department. Elementary statistics. Probability. Sociology of Aging Descriptive statistics. Sampling Aging as a socio-cultural phenomenon with distributions. Testing hypotheses. a focus on social and institutional factors Spanish Correlation and regression. associated with aging in modern society. Note: 100-level language courses are Prerequisite: Math 30 (Pure) Topics include aging and the self-concept; intended for students with little or no family; politics; economics and work; background in the language. Students who STAT 251-3 (BC=4) demographics; health and health care; have high school matriculation in the (3-0-2) 15 weeks housing and transportation; retirement and language, or who are taking a 100-level Introduction to Applied Statistics I leisure; death and dying; various course to meet a university’s matriculation Data collection and presentation, comparative, theoretical and historical requirements, may be denied transfer descriptive statistics. Probability perspectives, with a focus on Canadian credit. Check the Transfer Guide and with distributions, sampling distributions and the society. the university. central limit theorem. Point estimation and Prerequisite: SOCI 260 or consent of the hypothesis testing. Correlation and department. SPAN 101-3 (BC=4) (4-1) 15 weeks regression analysis. Goodness-of-fit and contingency table. SOCI 374-3 (BC=3) Beginners’ Spanish I Beginning to learn Spanish. Understanding, Prerequisite: Math 30 (Pure) (3-0) 15 weeks Note: This course may not be taken for credit Social Organization of Health Care speaking, reading and writing. The oral aspect of the language is stressed in class. if credit has already been obtained in any of An introduction to the sociological study of STAT 241, PSYC 309, SOCI 311, or BUS 306 the structure and dynamics of health care in SPAN 102-3 (BC=4) Canadian society. Topics include: trends in (4-1) 15 weeks STAT 365-3 (BC=3) health care, social epidemiology, health and Beginners’ Spanish II (3-0) 15 weeks illness behaviour, professional-client For students who have taken SPAN 101. The Elements of Probability Theory relationships, health care occupations, and oral aspect of the language is stressed in Finite probability spaces. Discrete and the sociology of hospitals. class. continuous random variables. Random Prerequisite: SOCI 260 or consent of the Prerequisite: SPAN 101 or equivalent. vectors. Probability density functions and Department. their corresponding distributions, including uniform, binomial, geometric, Poisson, exponential, normal, etc. Prerequisite: MATH 204 or equivalent Co-requisite: MATH 302
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Theatre & THTR 125-4 (BC=4) THTR 168-2 (BC=2) (74 hrs) (36 hrs) Entertainment Introduction to Stagecraft I Stage and Event Management Entertainment production techniques Introduction to fundamentals of the Production including stage and shop safety, scenic production process in management and carpentry. Strong hands-on component. communication skills for the entertainment Note: Courses open to Theatre & industry. Entertainment Production students only THTR 126-3 (BC=3) (48 hrs) THTR 176-3 (BC=3) THTR 105-2 (BC=2) Stagecraft II (40 hrs) (120 hrs minimum) Continued study of entertainment Design within the Entertainment Production Crew I production techniques, including Industry This course will be the first introduction of continued stage and shop safety, scenic Introduction of the study and practice of the student to a working knowledge of the carpentry, and theatrical rigging. theatrical designing, including settings, technical aspects of entertainment Prerequisite: THTR 125 props, lighting and costumes used within the production. Students will apply course entertainment industry. Emphasis will be instructed learning, including those of THTR 135-2 (BC=2) made on the technical connections to stagecraft, drafting, prop building, lighting, (44 hrs) historical theatre, and the processes of sound, and stage management, as well as Sound for the Entertainment Industry thechnical play analysis. This course will continued hands-on learning. Students will Theory and practice in basic sound for the implement skills previously acquired, be assigned to a designated technical area, entertainment industry. Examining the including those of drawing, drafting, prop as well as expected hours of participating in function and operation of professional sound building, lighting and stagecraft. other areas within various productions and equipment and the fundamentals of sound events. Students will be assisted by 2nd year design. THTR 205-3 (BC=3) students, and instructed by a department (180 hrs minimum) technical instructor. THTR 136-2 (BC=2) Applied Practice and Theory I Co-Requisite: THTR 125 and consent of the (41 hrs) Theoretical and practical instruction in the Department. Sound for Live Events production of entertainment events Continued theory and practice in basic through involvement in theatre and THTR 106-2 (BC=2) sound for the entertainment industry. entertainment productions. This will allow (120 hrs minimum) Examine the function and operation of students to implement and refine skills Production Crew II professional sound equipment, and the previously acquired, in both class and Continued theoretical and practical fundamentals of sound design. practical work. instruction towards a working knowledge Prerequisite: THTR 135 Students will be assigned a designated area of the technical aspects of entertainment of responsibility within various productions production. THTR 145-2 (BC=2) and events. Prerequisite: THTR 105 and consent of the (42 hrs) Prerequisite: THTR 107 and consent of the Department. Lighting for the Entertainment Industry Department. I THTR 107-2 (BC=2) Theory and practice in basic electricity for THTR 206-3 (BC=3) (120 hrs minimum) the theatre. Function and operation of (180 hrs minimum) Production Crew III professional lighting equipment. Applied Practice and Theory II Continued theoretical and practical Theoretical and practical instruction in the instruction towards a working knowledge of THTR 146-2 (BC=2) production of entertainment events the technical aspects of entertainment (41 hrs) through involvement in theatre and production. The work may be a new Lighting for the Entertainment Industry entertainment productions. Students will application of practica skills, or be an II have the opportunity to redevelop and opportunity to redevelop and strengthen Continued theory and practice in basic strengthen previously acquired skills, or current skills. electricity for the entertainment and they may be assigned to a position meant to Prerequisite: THTR 106 and consent of the theatre. Function and operation of introduce new skills. Students will be Department. professional lighting equipment. assigned a designated area of responsibility Prerequisite: THTR 145 within various productions and events. THTR 118-3 (BC=3) Prerequisite: THTR 205 and consent of the (48 hrs) THTR 158-3 (BC=3) Department. Scenic Props (40 hrs) Introduction to the theory and techniques Drafting for the Entertainment Arts THTR 207-3 (BC=3) of developing scenic props. Presented in Introduction to technical communication (180 hrs minimum) workshop format. techniques within the entertainment Applied Practice and Theory III industry. Emphasis on theatrical drafting, Theoretical and practical instruction in the drafting conventions and types of working production of entertainment events. drawings as important elements in the Students will be able to continue refining communication of technical and design skills and working on communication and requirements. www.rdc.ab.ca 193 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS team building skills required in the THTR 285-2 (BC=2) entertainment industry. Students will be (30 hrs) Theatre assigned a designated area of responsibility Professional Development I Performance and within various productions and events Researching and developing life-skills and where they will work with first year students career paths within the Entertainment Creation in a supervisory role. industry. Accessing information from Prerequisite: THTR 206 and consent of the contacts with educators, practicing Note: Courses open to Theatre Department. professionals, and employers in the Performance and Creation students entertainment industry. only THTR 215-2 (BC=2) (36 hrs) THTR 286-2 (BC=2) THTR 100-2 (BC=2) Scenic Painting (42 hrs) (33 hrs) This course will teach the student a Professional Development II Theatre Research & Development I systematic approach to painting theatrical Researching and developing life-skills and An introduction for the theatre artist into scenery. The class will examine traditional career paths within the Entertainment the practical and theoretical approaches to scene painting techniques and the tools and industry. Accessing information from play analysis, theatrical forms and styles. materials that have been developed to contacts with educators, practicing support those techniques. Instructed by professionals, and employers in the THTR 101-2 (BC=2) department staff. entertainment industry. (30 hrs) Prerequisite: THTR 176 Prerequisite: THTR 285 Theatre Research & Development II Continued practical and theoretical THTR 258-3 (BC=3) THTR 295-2 (BC=2) investigation of plays, theatrical forms and (40 hrs) (24 hrs) styles. Drawing as Communication Intensive Series I Prerequisite: THTR 100 Introduction to perspective rendering and Students will be able to choose areas of figure drawing as a communication tool interest in the entertainment industry to THTR 110-1 (BC=1) within the production processes of study at a more advanced level. Material may (11 hrs) entertainment events. be presented in workshop, classroom, or The Business of Theatre I Prerequisite: THTR 158 through hands-on work. Introduction to the business of theatre as it Prerequisite: THTR 126 and consent of the pertains to the individual theatre artist. THTR 265-2 (BC=2) Department (30 hrs) THTR 111-1 (BC=1) Stage and Event Management II THTR 296-3 (BC=3) (10 hrs) Continued management and (56 hrs) The Business of Theatre II communication skills for the entertainment Intensive Series II Continued investigation of the business of industry. Theatre and entertainment production theatre as it pertains to the individual Prerequisite: THTR 168 advanced study intensives. Students will be theatre artist and theatre collaborators. able to choose areas of interest in the Prerequisite: THTR 110 THTR 278-5 (BC=5) entertainment industry to study at a more (80 hrs) advanced level. THTR 120-3 (BC=3) Design and Visual Communication Prerequisite: THTR 295 (44 hrs) within the Entertainment Industry The Expressive Body I Examining the creative techniques and THTR 297-3 (BC=3) An introduction to physical techniques and visual communication of theatrical design (64 hrs) practices as it relates to theatre acting and from concept to final presentation. Emphasis Intensive Series III creation work. will be made on the various forms of Theatre and entertainment production communication used by designers. This advanced studies intensives. Students will THTR 121-3 (BC=3) course will implement skills previously be able to choose areas of interest at a more (40 hrs) acquired, including those of drawing, advanced level in order to reinforce career The Expressive Body II drafting, prop building, lighting and choices. Continued development of physical stagecraft. Prerequisite: THTR 296 techniques and practices as it relates to Prerquisite: THTR 176 theatre acting and creation work. Prerequisite: THTR 120
THTR 130-3 (BC=3) (44 hrs) The Expressive Voice I Introduction to the techniques and practices of voice training as it relates to theatre acting, singing and creation work.
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THTR 131-3 (BC=3) THTR 210-1 (BC=1) THTR 260-8 (BC=8) (40 hrs) (9 hrs) (120 hrs class/30 hrs lab) The Expressive Voice II The Business of Theatre III Creative Fusion Continued development of voice Further investigation of the business of An intense advanced level laboratory techniques and practices as it relates to theatre as it pertains to the individual integrating disciplines of the theatre as they theatre acting, singing and creation work. theatre artist and the global theatre relate to solo and group theatre creation Prerequisite THTR 130 industry. and performance. This course, taught by a Prerequisite: THTR 111 team of specialists, will have students THTR 140-3 (BC=3) applying advanced levels of movement, (30 hrs class/36 hrs lab) THTR 220-3 (BC=3) acting and voice skills for development and Acting I (36 hrs) presentation of both published works and An introduction to improvisation as it relates The Expressive Body III self created works. to the process of acting and creating for the Advanced application of physical expression Prerequisites: THTR 220, THTR 230, THTR 240 theatre. techniques and practices as it relates to & THTR 160. theatre acting and creation work. THTR 141-3 (BC=3) Prerequisite: THTR 121 (30 hrs class/30 hrs lab) Acting II THTR 230-3 (BC=3) Transitional Continued exploration of the acting and (36 hrs) Vocational creation process as it relates to theatre text. The Expressive Voice III Prerequisite: THTR 140 Advanced application of voice techniques TVOC 010-4 (BC=4) and practices as it relates to theatre acting, (4-0) 15 weeks THTR 150-2 (BC=2) singing and creation work. Self-Awareness (90 hrs) Developing and increasing your Theatre Artist Studio I THTR 240-3 (BC=3) understanding of self and how you present An introductory level of competencies for (30 hrs class/24 lab) that to others. further training practices, rehearsal Acting III processes and presentations of published Advanced application of the acting and TVOC 011-4 (BC=4) plays, new plays and/or self-created works creation process as it relates to theatre (4-0) 15 weeks as it relates to ensemble theatre creation styles. Vocational Preparation and performance. Prerequisite: THTR 141 Introduction to the world of work. Examining reasons for working, areas that influence THTR 151-3 (BC=3) THTR 250-3 (BC=3) success on the job, getting a job, and (135 hrs) (135 hrs) keeping it. Theatre Artist Studio II Theatre Artist Studio III An intermediate level of competencies for An advanced level of rehearsal process and TVOC 012-2 (BC=2) rehearsal and performance of published performance as it relates to a piece of (2-0) 15 weeks plays, new plays and/or self-created works theatre (published, new work or self Recreation and Community Living as it relates to ensemble theatre creation creation) and/or placement in a theatre Studying basic concepts of fitness, nutrition and performance. related field study environment. and lifestyle planning. Identifying services Prerequisite THTR 150 Prerequisite: THTR 151 provided by local community agencies and facilities. THTR 160-3 (BC=3) THTR 251-5 (BC=5) (40 hrs) (225 hrs) TVOC 013-5 (BC=5) Introduction to Devising Theatre Theatre Artist Studio IV (300 hours) 15 weeks An introduction to concepts and alternative An advanced level of rehearsal process and Jobsite Skills Training I approaches for devising original theatre performance as it relates to a piece of “Hands-on” skill training in the employment pieces. theatre (published, new work or self area best suited to your interests and Prerequisite: ENGL 219 and THTR 140 creation) and/or placement in a theatre abilities. Three days per week. related field study environment. This course THTR 200-1 (BC=1) will also focus on self created solo TVOC 014-3 (BC=3) (18 hrs) performance along with preparation for (3-0) 16 weeks Theatre Research and Development III entering the professional realm of theatre Interpersonal Skills Advanced practical and theoretical or going on to further advanced levels of Communicating with others in the most investigation of theatre text, form and styles. training. effective way. Conflict resolution skills, Prerequisite: THTR 101 Prerequisite: THTR 250 assertiveness, problem-solving and stress management.
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TVOC 015-3 (BC=3) UNIT 102-4 (BC=4) (3-0) 16 weeks (60 hours) Virtual Assistant Skills for Employment Medical Terminology Exploring occupational choices and looking Using and interpreting medical VA 100-3 (BC=3) at individual abilities and interests. Learning terminology, abbreviations and symbols (3-0) 15 weeks and practicing job search techniques. commonly used in the health care system. Document Formatting Using MS Word emphasis will be on the TVOC 016-3 (BC=3) UNIT 103-7 (BC=7) production of mailable correspondence, (3-0) 16 weeks (105 hours) (including merge), tabulated and tabled Skills for Independence Processing Medical Orders material, basic reports, minutes, and Combines skills necessary for banking and Transcribing medical orders using a manual itineraries. The focus will also be on building budgeting with skills needed for wise (paper) process combined with entering keyboarding speed and accuracy. shopping and having an apartment. orders into current Alberta Health Services software. This course is taught offsite. VA 110-3 (BC=3) TVOC 017-5 (BC=5) Prerequisite or Co-requisite: UNIT 102 (3-0) 15 weeks (320 hours) 16 weeks Communication Skills Jobsite Skills Training II UNIT 105-2 (BC=2) Produce professional letters, memos, “Hands-on” skill training in the employment (145 hours) reports, and articles. Other topics covered area best suited to your interests and Preceptored Practice include: Internet research, abilities. Three days per week. Experience in a health care setting with a teleconferencing, networking, and Unit Clerk preceptor. telecommuting. TVOC 018-5 (BC=5) Prerequisites: Unit Clerk 100, 101, 102, 103, (240 hours) 6 weeks 106, 107 VA 120-3 (BC=3) Block Practicum (3-0) 15 weeks Full-time work experience in the field you UNIT 106-3 (BC=3) Basic Bookkeeping for a Home want to find a job in. Hours of work during (45 hours) Business this placement will vary depending on the Exploring the Role of the Unit Clerk Practical accounting procedures for a small type of business. Concepts, skills and attitudes necessary to business, including MS Excel. This basic perform the role of the Unit course is not intended to train students in Clerk. accounting procedures at the level Unit Clerk necessary to offer accounting services to UNIT 107-3 (BC=3) clients. See OADM 220 as an option for UNIT 100-2 (BC=2) (45 hours) further training in accounting. (68 lab hours) Essential Communication Skills for Unit Computer Skills Clerks VA 130-3 (BC=3) This is a self-directed course covering an Develop critical oral, written and non-verbal (3-0) 15 weeks introduction to computers, together with communication skills including telephone Starting a Virtual Assistant Business word processing and spreadsheet skills. Topics include: Business plan, marketing plan, applications. This course will provide a licenses, tax laws, business equipment, foundation of computer literacy for the Unit setting a rate, troubleshooting office Clerk field. equipment. Survey of several topics that will *The course is designed as a self-directed be covered in more depth in other courses. course but a mandatory seminar is required to provide students with support; please VA 140-3 (BC=3) register in both the Lecture and Seminar (3-0) 15 weeks sections of this course. Office Management for Virtual Prerequisites: None Businesses Prior Learning recognition, based on a skills Topics include: Time management, appraisal, is available for students with developing business relationships, business computer skills but application for PLAR must ethics, handling conflicts, stress be completed by the Add/Drop date. management, separating home life and business, office setup and layout of a home UNIT 101-1 (BC=1) office, meetings and event planning. (42 lab hours) Speed Building VA 150-3 (BC=3) Computer keyboard speed and accuracy (3-0) 15 weeks building. Marketing Your Virtual Business Topics include: Determine a niche, network with other Virtual Assistants, design a company web site, company image, VA associations.
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VA 160-3 (BC=3) (120 hours) 15 weeks Virtual Practicum Complete 120 hours of practical online experience with a business. Take part in online seminars to discuss the practicum with the practicum coordinator. Grading will be credit/ non-credit. Prerequisites: Complete all the required courses and one option course while maintaining a GPA of 2.00 with no grade lower than D.
VA 170-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 15 weeks Web Design Learn the basic to advanced functions of Macromedia Dreamweaver to create web sites, including: formatting text, inserting images, creating hyperlinks, building tables and frame sets, adding multimedia content and dynamic HTML features. Zoology
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ZOOL 325-3 (BC=4) (3-3) 15 weeks Comparative Anatomy of the Vertebrates Vertebrate structure and functional significance. Chordates, origin of vertebrates, survey of vertebrate classes, early development and major systems. Emphasis is on the mammals. Prerequisite: BIOL 218
ZOOL 342-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 15 weeks Animal Physiology: Intercellular Communication Communication between cells. Functioning of the nervous and muscular system. Sensing of the environment. Hormones, regulation and action. Immunity. Examples from invertebrate and vertebrates. Prerequisite: BIOL 217
ZOOL 350-3 (BC=4) (3-3) 15 weeks Survey of the Invertebrates Systematics, functional anatomy, life cycles, distribution, evolution, and importance of major invertebrate taxa. Brief survey of minor taxa. Selected topics in invertebrate biology. Prerequisite: BIOL 218
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Note: You must have strong prerequisite ADEV 065-3 (BC=3) ADEV 069-2 (BC=2) skills to be successful in higher course levels. (3-0) 15 weeks (0-2-0) 15 weeks Essential Skills for Learning and Supported Study Note: Some courses in our program may be Working I Learners will participate in a systematic taken through independent study subject Learners will complete modules based on approach to study activities, taking advantage to Chairperson approval. assessed individual needs in the areas of: of various resources. Study and learning Building Personal Capacity, Planning and strategies will include formal and informal Managing, Interacting and Communicating. activities and resources such as student study Prerequisite: ADEV 062 groups, instructor consultation, Learning Accounting Resource Center, Computer Lab, Counselling ADEV 066-3 (BC=3) & Learning Support. Learners will be ACCT 075-6 (BC=6) 15 weeks responsible for planning and recording their (6-0) 15 weeks Essential Skills for Learning and plans and activities. Basic Accounting I Working II Note: Check with Office 1809 for the forms to This course is equavalent to OADM 120. Learners will complete additional modules record study time. High School Equivalent: Grade 10-11 level. based on assessed individual needs in the areas of: Building Personal Capacity, Planning and Managing, Interacting and Biology Adult Development Communicating. Prerequisite: ADEV 065 BIOL 075-4 (BC=4) ADEV 061-2 (BC=2) Note: May not be offered every year. (4-1) 15 weeks 15 weeks Introductory Biology Work Place Learning ADEV 067-3 (BC=3) For students with no biology background. Learners will complete a combination of 15 weeks Includes basic cell chemistry and cell work site learning and/or volunteerism and Essential Skills for Learning and function; genetics and evolution; instructional modules designed to meet Working III classification of living things. Lab work is individual needs on a continuum of pre- Learners will complete additional modules related to class discussion and gives you employment skills to workplace based on assessed individual needs in the practical experience in a lab setting. experience. areas of: Building Personal Capacity, High School Equivalent: Grade 10-11 level Prerequisite or Co-requisite: ADEV 040 or Planning and Managing, Interacting and Prerequisite: ENGL 075 or English 10 ADEV 062 or consent of the Department. Communicating. Co-requisite: ENGL 075 Prerequisite: ADEV 066 ADEV 062-3 (BC=3) Note: May not be offered every year. BIOL 095-6 (BC=6) (3-0) 15 weeks (5-2) 15 weeks Learning and Working Cultures ADEV 068-1 (BC=1) Preparatory Biology Learners will participate in a variety of (0-1-0) 15 weeks Principles of human anatomy and physiology. activities to assist them to experience and Supported Study Basic environmental biology. This course will understand the culture of learning and Learners will participate in a systematic prepare you for more advanced studies in working. Activities may include: portfolio approach to study activities, taking biology. Lab work is related to class development, career exploration, work advantage of various resources. Study and discussions, and allows you to improve certain place ethics, learning strategies. learning strategies will include formal and biology lab skills. A strong background in basic informal activities and resources such as chemistry recommended. ADEV 063-2 (BC=2) student study groups, instructor High School Equivalent: Grade 12 level 15 weeks consultation, Learning Resource Center, Prerequisite: BIOL 075 or Biology 20 Occupational Elements Computer Lab, Counselling & Learning (Alberta) This course allows learners to contract to Support. Learners will be responsible for complete learning experiences which planning and recording their plans and result in certifications such as First Aid and activities. WHIMIS that will increase readiness for Note: Check with Office 1809 for the forms immediate employment. to record study time. Note: May not be offered every year.
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Chemistry English Mathematics Note: You need a lab coat and safety glasses Note: Students who have been out of high to take part in chemistry labs. You can buy ENGL 050-5 (BC=5) school for one year or more and needing a these items at the Bookstore. Please note (4-2S) 15 weeks mathematics course in the Career and that contact lenses are not allowed in the Basic English Academic Preparation program will be laboratory. For students who have been away from required to be tested prior to placement. school for some time. This course is designed Please book for your test by calling 342- CHEM 075-4 (BC=4) to develop reading, comprehension and 3400 or 343-4026. (4-1) 15 Weeks vocabulary skills and to develop writing Introductory Chemistry skills. It provides a basic introduction to MATH 050-5 (BC=5) For students with no chemistry background. literature. (5-0) 15 weeks Elements and the periodic table. Chemical Preparatory Mathematics bonding. Nomenclature. Chemical ENGL 075-5 (BC=5) A basic mathematics course for students reactions. Stoichiometry. Lab work is (5-0) 15 weeks requiring algebra or applied mathematics. related to class discussions. Reading, Viewing and Composition Operations on rational numbers; High School Equivalent: Grade 10-11 level Introduction of major literary genre. introduction to statistics; Metric and English Prerequisite or Co-requisite: MATH 075, Development of critical and analytical measurement; geometry in 1, 2 & 3 Math 10, Math 10 (Pure) or Math 23. reading and viewing skills. Presentation of dimensions; introduction to algebra; and responses to text in written and oral form. solving equations. CHEM 095-6 (BC=6) Development and improvement of writing (5-0-2) 15 weeks skills, including grammar study. Introduction MATH 075-5 (BC=5) Preparatory Chemistry to research and documentation. (5-0) 15 weeks For students with previous study in bonding, High School Equivalent: Grade 11 level Introductory Algebra nomenclature, and stoichiometry. Gases. Prerequisite: ENGL 050 or consent of the An introductory course for students Solutions. Energy. Electrochemistry. Department. requiring algebra. Topics include; Equilibrium. Acids and Bases. Lab work is polynomials and factoring; linear equations related to class discussions. ENGL 090-5 (BC=5) and their graphs; solving equations and High School Equivalent: Grade 12 level (5-0) 15 weeks inequalities; problem solving; geometry; Prerequisite: CHEM 075 or Chem 20, and Critical and Analytical Study of Texts and trigonometry. MATH 075 or Math 10. Read and respond to non-fiction, poetry, Prerequisite: MATH 050, Math 13 or Math short and long fiction, and drama. Respond 10 Prep Computers critically and analytically to non-print texts such as short films, video clips, MATH 085-5 (BC=5) documentaries, etc. Employ grammatical (5-0) 15 weeks BCMT 050-4 (BC=4) structures to demonstrate increasingly Intermediate Algebra (3-2) 15 weeks sophisticated writing style. Expand and An intermediate course for students Basic Computer Skills polish research skills. requiring algebra. Topics include: functions, For students who have very minimal High School Equivalent: ELA 30-2 relations and graphing; systems of computer skills. An introduction to Prerequisite: ENGL 075, English 20-1, ELA equations; radicals and their properties; practical basic computer skills including 20-2, English 23 or consent of the rational expressions; quadratic equations using windows, keyboarding, word Department. and functions; and selected topics from processing, and using Internet e-mail. A trigonometry. hands-on integrated approach designed for ENGL 095-5 (BC=5) Prerequisite: MATH 075, Math 10 Pure, or the apprehensive computer beginner. (5-0) 15 weeks Math 23 or 33 Literature and Composition CMPT 073-1 (BC=1) The major literary forms of prose, drama, and MATH 096-6 (BC=6) Intermediate Keyboarding II poetry. Critical and analytical reading. Essay (6-0) 15 weeks See page 137 for course description. writing to develop clear, concise effective Precalculus: Algebra & Trigonometry arguments. A senior math course. Topics include: CMPT 085-4 (BC=4) High School Equivalent: Grade 12 level quadratic functions; polynomial and rational (3-2) 15 weeks Prerequisite: English 20, ELA 20-1, ENGL 090, functions; logarithmic and exponential Introduction to Personal Computers ELA 30-2 or consent of the Department. functions; trigonometric functions; See page 137 for course description. sequences and series; permutations and combinations. Problem solving methods CMPT 090-4 (BC=4) will be emphasized. (3-2) 15 weeks Prerequisite: MATH 085 or Math 20 Pure Information Processing Using Microcomputers See page 137 for course description.
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MATH 097-5 (BC=5) PHYS 095-6 (BC=6) (5-0) 15 weeks (5-0-2) 15 weeks Social Studies Elementary Calculus and Modern Preparatory Physics Mathematics Measurement and data analysis review. SOST 090-5 (BC=5) A senior course recommended for students Linear and 2-dimension motion. Vectors (5-0) 15 weeks who will be taking university calculus with applications; statics and dynamics. Canadian Studies courses. Calculus topics include: limits and Gravity, work & energy. Electricity and Explores multiple perspectives on continuity; derivatives; graphing; magnetism theory and application. globalization and the impace of applications of derivatives; integration; High School Equivalent: Grade 12 level. globalization on identity, economies, and applications of integration. Topics in modern Prerequisite: Physics 20 or PHYS 075, and quality of life. This course also explores the mathematics will be chosen from the MATH 085 or Math 20 (Pure) or Math 30 complexities of nationalism, including mathematics of social choice, management (Applied) or consent of the Department. Canadian and international contexts. The science, growth and symmetry. origins of nationalism and its influence High School Equivalent: Math 31 globally, regionally, and internationally are Prerequisite: MATH 096 or Math 30 (Pure) Science also considered. Ideologies are also Corequisite: Math 096 or Math 30 (Pure) considered as they relate to contemporary SCIE 050-5 (BC=5) global issues. Note: Students with an applied mathematics (5-0) 15 weeks High School Equivalent: Social Studies 20- background from high school will be Basic Science 2/30-2 required to upgrade according to the results Basic scientific theories and principles in Prerequisite or Co-requisite: English 75 or of their math placement test. biology, chemistry and physics. Includes a ELA 20-2, or consent of Department. discussion of the structure of matter, chemical reactions, energy and motion, SOST 095-5 (BC=5) Music heat, water, living things, ecology and human (5-0) 15 weeks body systems. This course will prepare you Twentieth Century World MUSI 192-3 (BC=3) for high school level sciences and is highly Two major topics: political and economic (3-0) 15 weeks recommended. systems, and cooperation and conflict in the Rudiments of Music Theory and Aural Note: May not be offered every semester twentieth century. The development of the Skills ideologies of fascism, socialism, For students with little or no formal music communism, and capitalism. Major conflicts theory and aural skills background who have of the twentieth century, including WWI and interest in these basics of music, or who are WWII. preparing to enter the Music Diploma High School Equivalent: Grade 12 level program. Designed to acquire a basic Prerequisite: SOST 085 or Social Studies 20 working knowledge in traditional theory: or consent of the Department. notation, scales, key and time signatures, Prerequisite or Co-requisite: ENGL 095 or intervals, terminology, reading, ELA 30-1, or ELA 30-2 or consent of the identification by ear and by sight of Department. melodies, rhythms and harmonies. Will prepare prospective students for entrance into Red Deer College’s Music Diploma program. Physics
PHYS 075-4 (BC=4) (4-1) 15 weeks Introductory Physics Measurement, data analysis, SI units. Heat applications. Pressure, fluids, buoyancy. Waves, sound, light and optics. Lab and project work related to classroom concepts. High School Equivalent: Grade 10-11 level Prerequisitie: MATH 075, Math 10 or 23 or consent of the Department.
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Canadian Studies Reading GED & PreTrades
CAST 050-5 (BC=5) READ 038-5 (BC=5) ABES 043-5 (BC=5) (5-0) 15 weeks (5-0) 15 weeks (5-0) 15 weeks Canadian Studies Basic Reading PreTRADES Students will focus on citizenship and A structured reading course which provides Trades math, applied physics, and English becoming involved citizens. Skills relevant basic reading skills and improves vocabulary. necessary for passing the trade entrance to employability, job success, and personal Students entering this level may have examination administered by Alberta management will be covered. Topics may limited reading skills. Career Development (excludes electrical). include problem-solving, conflict Note: May not be offered every year Prerequisite: MATH 040 and ENGL 040 or resolution, teamwork, and critical thinking equivalent. in the workplace. READ 039-5 (BC=5) Note: Available at Rocky Mountain House (5-0) 15 weeks campus only. Basic Reading Students will read a variety of materials more fluently. Vocabulary development and Mathematics reading comprehension are stressed. Note: May not be offered every year MATH 038-5 (BC=5) (5-0) 15 weeks READ 040-5 (BC=5) Basic Math (5-0) 15 weeks Basic skills in adding, subtracting, multiplying Basic Reading and dividing whole numbers, plus an Increased focus on improving reading skills, introduction to fractions. enriching vocabulary and developing Note: May not be offered every year critical thinking skills. Students entering this level are reasonably fluent readers. MATH 039-5 (BC=5) (5-0) 15 weeks Writing Basic Math Understanding fractions, decimals, WRIT 038-5 (BC=5) geometry, measurement. (5-0) 15 weeks Basic Writing MATH 040-5 (BC= 5) Sentences, simple paragraphs, spelling, and (5-0) 15 weeks phonics. Students entering this level may Basic Math have limited writing skills. A review of fractions and whole numbers, Note: May not be offered every year plus concentration on decimals, percent, ratio and proportion, measurement, and WRIT 039-5 (BC=5) graphing. (5-0) 15 weeks Basic Writing Sentence construction and paragraphs, spelling rules and strategies, journal writing. Introduction to grammar. Note: May not be offered every year
WRIT 040-5 (BC=5) (5-0) 15 weeks Basic Writing Concentration is now focused on writing clearly and confidently to prepare for further studies or employment. Includes a study of grammar.
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ARTX 101-1 ARTX 110-1 ARTX 120-1 (30 hours) 1 week (30 hours) 1 week (30 hours) 1 week Introductory Drawing Mixed Media Drawing Intermediate Watercolour Painting Basic theory and practice of drawing. An introduction to the theory and practice of Developing more advanced watercolour mixed media drawing. painting skills. ARTX 102-1 (30 hours) 1 week ARTX 111-1 ARTX 121-1 Landscape Drawing (30 hours) 1 week (30 hours) 1 week Theory and practice of drawing the Introductory Painting Introductory Wheelthrowing landscape. A perceptual approach to painting. Basic theory and practice of using the potter’s wheel. ARTX 103-1 ARTX 112-1 (30 hours) 1 week (30 hours) 1 week ARTX 122-1 Design Still Life Painting (30 hours) 1 week Theory and practice of design and visual Theory and practice of painting still life. Basic Handbuilding Techniques communication. An introduction to sculpture processes ARTX 113-1 using clay. ARTX 104-1 (30 hours) 1 week (30 hours) 1 week Exploring Painting Media ARTX 123-1 Functional Design An introduction to a variety of painting media. (30 hours) 1 week Theory and practice of designing functional Surface Treatments for Ceramic objects. ARTX 114-1 Sculpture (30 hours) 1 week An introduction to surface treatments for ARTX 105-1 Approaches to Painting ceramic sculpture. (30 hours) 1 week An exploration of various approaches to Three Dimensional Design painting. ARTX 124-1 Theory and practice of three dimensional (30 hours) 1 week design. ARTX 115-1 Introduction to Ceramic Tile Making (30 hours) 1 week Basic theory and practice of ceramic tile ARTX 106-1 Intermediate Landscape Painting making. (30 hours) 1 week Developing more advanced landscape Intermediate Drawing drawing skills. ARTX 125-1 Theory and practice of drawing with an (30 hours) 1 week emphasis on developing more advanced ARTX 116-1 Introductory Raku skills. (30 hours) 1 week Basic theory and practice of the raku ceramic Painting on Location firing process. ARTX 107-1 Theory and practice of painting in an off- (30 hours) 1 week campus setting. ARTX 126-1 Expressive Drawing (30 hours) 1 week Theory and practice of drawing with an ARTX 117-1 Mold Making for Slip Casting emphasis on development of a personal (30 hours) 1 week Theory and practice of making molds for drawing style. Portrait Painting ceramic slip casting. Theory and practice of portrait painting. ARTX 108-1 ARTX 127-1 (30 hours) 1 week ARTX 118-1 (30 hours) 1 week Figure Drawing (30 hours) 1 week Clay Modelling Theory and practice of drawing the human Figure Painting Introduction to the process of clay figure. Theory and practice of painting the human modelling. figure. ARTX 109-1 (30 hours) 1 week ARTX 119-1 Anatomical Drawing (30 hours) 1 week Theory and practice of anatomical drawing Introductory Watercolour Painting Basic theory and practice of watercolour painting.
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ARTX 128-1 ARTX 138-1 ARTX 147-1 (30 hours) 1 week (30 hours) 1 week (30 hours) 1 week Ceramic Sculpture Advanced Wheelthrowing Etching Sculptural process using clay. Studio bases. Focussing on form and Basic theory and practice of the etching function. process. ARTX 129-1 (30 hours) 1 week ARTX 139-1 ARTX 148-1 Low Fire Glazing (30 hours) 1 week (30 hours) 1 week Theory and practice of low fire ceramic Ceramic Form and Surface Monotype Printmaking glazing. Emphasis on refining personal imagery using Basic theory and practice of monotype advanced techniques of ceramic printmaking. ARTX 130-1 construction and surface design. (30 hours) 1 week ARTX 149-1 High Fire Glazing ARTX 140-1 (30 hours) 1 week Theory and practice of high fire ceramic (30 hours) 1 week Plastercast Printmaking glazing. Introductory Sculpture Basic theory and practice of Plastercast An introduction to the sculptural process. Printmaking. ARTX 131-1 (30 hours) 1 week ARTX 141-1 ARTX 150-1 Wood Fire Glazing (30 hours) 1 week (30 hours) 1 week Theory and practice of the wood firing Figure Sculpture Japanese Woodcut Printmaking process for ceramics. Theory and practice of sculpting the human Basic theory and practice of the process of figure. Japanese woodcut printmaking. ARTX 132-1 (30 hours) 1 week ARTX 142-1 ARTX 151-1 Creative Glazing (30 hours) 1 week (30 hours) 1 week Emphasizing design and creativity in the Sculpting the Head Wood Engraving application of ceramic glazes. Theory and practice of sculpting the human Basic theory and practice of wood engraving. head. ARTX 133-1 ARTX 152-1 (30 hours) 1 week ARTX 143-1 (30 hours) 1 week Intermediate Raku (30 hours) 1 week Collography Development of personal style and Rubber Mold Making An introduction to the theory and practice creativity using the Raku Ceramic Firing Theory and practice of making rubber molds of collography. process. for bronze casting. ARTX 153-1 ARTX 134-1 ARTX 144-2 (30 hours) 1 week (30 hours) 1 week (60 hours) 2 weeks Relief Printmaking Advanced Tilemaking Bronze Casting An introduction to the process of relief Theory and practice of more advanced Theory and practice of the lost wax method printmaking using linocuts. techniques of ceramic tilemaking. of bronze casting. ARTX 154-1 ARTX 135-1 ARTX 145-1 (30 hours) 1 week (30 hours) 1 week (30 hours) 1 week Introductory Glassblowing Intermediate Wheelthrowing Patina Workshop Basic theory and practice of glassblowing. Emphasis is on refining techniques of An introduction to the patiunation process throwing and developing more complex for metals. ARTX 155-1 forms on the potter’s wheel. (30 hours) 1 week ARTX 146-2 Introductory Hand Bookbinding ARTX 136-1 (60 hours) 2 weeks Basic theory and practice of hand (30 hours) 1 week Sculpting the Body bookbinding. PaperClay for Ceramic Sculpture Theory and practice of sculpting the human The sculptural process using paperclay. body, including skeletal structures and ARTX 156-1 musculature. (30 hours) 1 week ARTX 137-1 Traditional Hand Bookbinding (30 hours) 1 week Basic theory and practice of hand Advanced Functional Wheelthrowing bookbinding using traditional methods. Studio bases. The development of complex functional forms on the potter’s wheel.
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ARTX 157-1 ARTX 166-1 (30 hours) 1 week (30 hours) 1 week Hand Formed Metal Paper Marbelling Basic theory and practice of hand raising Theory and practice of Japanese and metal. European techniques of paper marbelling.
ARTX 158-1 ARTX 167-1 (30 hours) 1 week (30 hours) 1 week Fabric Techniques Stained Glass An introduction to the theory and practice A studio based class in the basic techniques of surface design on fabric. of stained glass, including copper foil and lead construction methods. ARTX 159-1 (30 hours) 1 week ARTX 168-1 Metal Casting (30 hours) 1 week Basic theory and practice of casting metal for Glass Fusing jewellery making. An introduction to the techniques of kiln fired glass. ARTX 160-1 (30 hours) 1 week ARTX 169-1 Intermediate glassblowing (30 hours) 1 week Theory and practice of more advanced Hand Papermaking techniques of glassblowing. The theory and practice of hand papermaking emphasizing technique and ARTX 161-1 creativity. (30 hours) 1 week Glass Sculpture ARTX 170-1 The sculptural process using hot glass. (30 hours) 1 week Quilting ARTX 162-1 The design and construction of quilts, (30 hours) 1 week including colour theory, stitching Intermediate Hand Bookbinding techniques and historical references. Theory and practice of more advanced techniques including non-adhesive ARTX 171-1 bookbinding. (30 hours) 1 week Weaving ARTX 163-1 Theory and practice of weaving. (30 hours) 1 week Advanced Jewellry Techniques ARTX 172-1 Refinement of techniques and (30 hours) 1 week development of personal styles through the Photography creative process. Fundamental technical and aesthetic aspects of using the camera and ARTX 164-1 photographic materials. (30 hours) 1 week Intermediate Silk Dyeing ARTX 173-1 Theory and practice of silk dyeing using (30 hours) 1 week traditional Japanese techniques. Furniture Making Studio based introduction to the design and ARTX 165-1 construction of contemporary furniture. (30 hours) 1 week Fashion Design An introduction to basics of fashion design including pattern making, cutting and construction.
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Part of RDC’s ECON 201-3 (BC=3) ECON 382-3 (BC=3) Internationalization Strategy (3-0) 15 weeks (3-1) 15 weeks is to foster international Introduction to Microeconomics Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory awareness and Scarcity and choice. Methods used in Determination of income, employment, understanding. Courses economic science. Specialization, markets, prices, interest rates, exchange rates and appearing contain a and exchange. Supply and demand. Roles of balance of payments. Impact of supply significant international component or consumers, firms, and resource owners in shocks, fiscal policy and monetary policy. are offered in an international setting. competitive and monopolistic markets. Prerequisite: ECON 201 and 202. International trade. Government ART 201-3 (BC=3) intervention. Emphasis is on Canadian ENGL 391-3 (BC=3) (3-0) 15 weeks problems, issues, policies, and institutions. (3-0) 15 weeks Art History I Credit will not be granted for both ECON 100 Topic In International Literature A survey of Art History from Prehistoric to and 201. The focus of this course, while its content will Renaissance. Note: It is recommended that you have Math vary from year to year, will be on literature 30 or equivalent as background. written in English outside of Canada, Great ART 203-3 (BC=3) Britain, and the United States. Students may (3-0) 15 weeks ECON 202-3 (BC=3) study work from a particular geographic Art History II (3-0) 15 weeks region - e.g., Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, A survey of Art History from Renaissance to Introduction to Macroeconomics the Caribbean, Australasia - or they may modern. Defining and measuring aggregate study particular issues in the field of post- economic variables. National income and colonial literature. ART 301-3 (BC=3) monetary theory. Government monetary Prerequisite: Full year of 200-level English. (3-0) 15 weeks and fiscal policies. Unemployment and Note: This course may be repeated for Art History inflation. Exchange rates and balance of credit. Forms and concepts in art and architecture payment. Emphasis is on the Canadian in Canada. Early French and English colonial economy. ENGL 392-6 (BC=6) periods to Confederation. Prerequisite: ECON 201 (3-0) 30 weeks Credit will not be granted for both ECON 101 International English Literature ART 303-3 (BC=3) and 202. The focus of the course will be on literatures (3-0) 15 weeks written in English outside of Canada, Great Art History ECON 323-3 (BC=3) Britain, and the United States, encompassing Forms and concepts in Canadian art and (3-0) 15 weeks representative works from several areas architecture from Confederation to International Economics such as Africa, Australasia, the Caribbean, and modern. The Group of Seven, Nationalism, Emphasis is on basic international trade the Indian subcontinent. Regionalism, and more recent theories and policies. Gains from exchange Prerequisite: Full year of 200-level English development. and specialization. International factor movements. Theory of tariff and non-tariff HIST 311-6 (BC=6) ART 305-3 (BC=3) barriers. Exchange rates. Balance of (3-0) 30 weeks (3-0) 15 weeks payments. International debt. International Relations in the 20th Art History Prerequisite: ECON 201 and 202. European painting, sculpture, and Century The impact of ideologically based foreign architecture. The nineteenth century to ECON 337-3 (BC=3) policies on international relations since the end of Impressionism. (3-0) 15 weeks World War I. Development Economics ART 306-3 (BC=3) An introduction to the economic (3-0) 15 weeks development process in developing Art History nations. Analysis will include explanations Painting, sculpture, and architecture. for underdevelopment and examination of From the end of Impressionism, through issues such as poverty, employment, income the early art movement of the 20th distribution, population growth, human century, to the 1950’s. capital, savings and investment, trade, foreign aid, and the role of markets and governments. Prerequisite: ECON 201 and 202 or consent of the Department.
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HIST 314-3 (BC=3) INTD 370-3 (BC=3) KENYA (3-0) 15 weeks (3-0-0) 15 weeks BIOL 318-3 (BC=4) Europe in the Era of the World Wars, Survey on International Health (3-3) 15 weeks 1900-1945 Overview of international health issues and Principles of Ecology The course begins with an analysis of Europe’s organization using primary health care Ecology is the scientific study of interactions predominant political, economic and principles to look at major global health between organisms and their environment cultural position in the world at the issues and the provision of health care in in a hierarchy of levels of organization: beginning of the twentieth century, and middle and lower income countries. individuals, populations, communities, and proceeds to explore the origins, and (International studies course administered ecosystems. The course is designed to conduct of World War I. War aims and the through the Nursing Department). provide a comprehensive survey of general revolutionary consequences of defeat will Prerequisites: PSYC 260 or SOCI 260 or concepts that can stand alone or serve as be explored. Special attention will be given ANTH 201 or BUS 303 or NURS 270 or NURS preparation for advanced courses in ecology. to the Russian and German Revolutions of 272. Laboratory exercises focus on the scientific 1917-1923, and the Peace Treaties which method, experimental design, critical resulted from the Paris Peace Conference. MUSI 383-3 (BC=3) thinking and scientific writing. The challenges presented by the “New (3-0) 15 weeks Prerequisite: BIOL 218 Sciences”, and the “new” political ideologies Music Merchandising I of Fascism, and the economic crisis of the A study of the business of music as pertaining KENYA 1930s will be examined, as will be the efforts to the music products industry, education, ANTH 323-3 (BC=3) to dismantle the Paris Peace Settlements of and music performance. The course (3-0) 15 week 1919. The course concludes with an provides the students with a background in, Ethnographic Survey of Africa examination of World War II, the Holocaust and a basic understanding of, the scope and Anthropology 323 will survey various and the destruction of Europe. breadth of the music industry as an ever groups across Africa going from traditional changing and dynamic field. foraging groups through to current HIST 315-3 (BC=3) Prerequisite: Second year music student or industrial societies in Africa. (3-0) 15 weeks consent of Department Chair. Europe in the Era of the Cold War, 1942- Note: Students who wish to attend the BELIZE 1991 NAMM Winter Show are required to enroll ZOOL 350-3 (BC=4) The course commences with a discussion of in this course. (3-3) 15 weeks World War II in Europe, and the breakdown Survey of the Invertebrates of the wartime coalition, which defeated MUSI 384-3 (BC=3) Systematics, functional anatomy, life cycles, Germany, i.e. from Hot War to Cold War 1942- (3-0) 15 weeks distribution, evolution, and importance of 1949. Efforts at economic and social Music Merchandising II major invertebrate taxa. Brief survey of reconstruction of Eastern and Western A study of the business of music as pertaining minor taxa. Selected topics in invertebrate Europe, and the Conservative Democracies to the music industry with emphasis on the biology. in the West, the Soviet Bloc after Stalin, the performing musician. Particular emphasis Prerequisite: BIOL 218 loss of colonial empire, achieving will be given to issues such as booking, prosperity. The European Common Market, touring, etc. In addition, the following courses have a and the “Paris” and “Prague Springs of 1968”, Prerequisite: MUSI 383 significant international perspective: the Brezhnev Era, the 1980s as a new political ANTH 200, 201, 307; GEOG 251, 381; HIST era in Europe, Gorbachev Experiment and POLI 360-6 (BC=6) 207, 208, 209, 280, 281, 301, 314, 315, 333, the Revolution of 1989. (3-0) 30 weeks 334, 349, 360, 380, 383, 384; POLI 388, 389 International Relations For further information please contact the HIST 349-6 (BC=6) The nature of foreign policy. The dynamics respective department Chairs or the (3-0) 30 weeks of interactions between states. Causes of war. International Education Office at (403)342- The British Empire and Commonwealth Imperialism. Role of non-state actors. 3587 or by e-mail at [email protected] The analysis of British Imperialism from the Note: This is the core course in international Old to the New Empires to the relations and is a prerequisite for most 400- International Partners establishment of the Commonwealth. This level courses. course treats imperialism as a dialectic and Ecole Superieure de Commerce examines the process from the point of view The following courses offer the opportunity International Du Pas-De Calais (ESCIP) of both the imperial and host nations. for study in an international setting: Saint Omer, France Emphasis is placed on India, the West Indies, - Exchange Agreement North America and Africa. The course is a combination of seminar and lecture. Hokkaido Asai Gakuen University Hokkaido, Japan - Exchange Agreement
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208208 www.rdc.ab.cawww.rdc.ab.ca Index INDEX A D N Dentistry ...... 70 Network Certificate ...... 107, 166 AAcademic Advising ...... 23 D N Network Systems Technology ...... AcademicAccounting Advising ...... 134 23 Dentistry ...... 70 Network Certificate ...... 107, 166 E ...... 108, 166 AdmissionAccounting ...... 134 8 Network Systems Technology ...... Early Learning & Child Care 86, 150 Nursing ...... 21, 180 CONTACT US AdultAdmission Basic Education...... Courses . 201 8 E ...... 108, 166 Economics ...... 29, 152 Nutrition and Food Sciences ...... 65 AdultAgricultural/Food Basic Education Business Courses...... 201 Early Learning & Child Care 86, 150 Nursing ...... 21, 180 Education ...... 153 O Agricultural/FoodManagement Business...... 52 Economics ...... 29, 152 Nutrition and Food Sciences ...... 65 Educational Assistant ...... 88, 154 Office Administration ...... 181 AgricultureManagement ...... 5152 Education ...... 153 O Engineering ...... 58, 155 Office Technology Certificate ..... 110 AgricultureAnthropology ...... 27, 134 51 Educational Assistant ...... 88, 154 Office Administration ...... 181 English ...... 30, 156 Open Studies ...... 111 AnthropologyApplication Processing ...... 27, 134 10 Engineering ...... 58, 155 Office Technology Certificate ..... 110 Environmental and Conservation...... Optometry ...... 71 ApplicationApprenticeship Processing Training ...... 1073 English ...... 30, 156 Open Studies ...... 111 Sciences ...... 59 ApprenticeshipAssessment ...... Training ...... 1073 Environmental and Conservation...... Optometry ...... 71 P AssessmentAssignment of...... Academic Credits 133 10 Sciences ...... 59 F Pharmacy ...... 71 AssignmentAtmospheric of Sciences/Environmental Academic Credits 133 P Fees ...... 11 Pharmacy Technician ...... 112, 182 AtmosphericEarth Sciences Sciences/Environmental ...... 53 F Pharmacy ...... 71 Financial Services ...... 89, 159 Philosophy ...... 33, 183 AutomotiveEarth Sciences Service ...... 78, 138 53 Fees ...... 11 Pharmacy Technician ...... 112, 182 Forest Business Management ...... 62 Physics ...... 66, 185 AutomotiveAviation ...... Service ...... 78, 138 130 Financial Services ...... 89, 159 Philosophy ...... 33, 183 Forestry ...... 61 Physiology ...... 67, 186 Aviation ...... 130 Forest Business Management ...... 62 Physics ...... 66, 185 B ForestryFrench or Spanish...... 31, 160, 193 61 PhysiologyPolicy on Admission ...... 67, 186 8 Political Science ...... 34, 186 BBachelor of Arts ...... 16, 24 French or Spanish ...... 31, 160, 193 Policy on Admission ...... 8 G Practical Nurse ...... 114, 187 Bachelor of Arts in...... Sociology 16,...... 3624 Political Science ...... 34, 186 Geophysics ...... 66 Pre-Professional Programs ...... 69 Bachelor of ArtsEducation in Sociology ...... 20,...... 3936 G Practical Nurse ...... 114, 187 General Studies ...... 111 Prior Learning ...... 12 Bachelor of FineEducation Art ...... 20, 3942 Geophysics ...... 66 Pre-Professional Programs ...... 69 Professional Driver ...... 115, 188 Bachelor of FineGeneral Art Studies...... 2042 General Studies ...... 111 Prior Learning ...... 12 H Psychology ...... 35, 68, 188 Bachelor ofof GeneralKinesiology Studies and ...... 20 Professional Driver ...... 115, 188 Health Care Aide ...... 91, 161 BachelorSport of Studies Kinesiology ...... and ...... 44 H Psychology ...... 35, 68, 188 History ...... 32, 162 S BachelorSport of Studies Management ...... 4420 Health Care Aide ...... 91, 161 Hospitality and Tourism ...... Social Work ...... 16, 116, 189 Bachelor of ManagementScience and Bachelor ...... of 20 History ...... 32, 162 S Management ...... 94, 163 Sociology ...... 36, 190 BachelorEducation of Science Combined and Bachelor...... of41 Hospitality and Tourism ...... Social Work ...... 16, 116, 189 How to Apply ...... 9 Software Developer Certificate ...... BachelorEducation of Science Combined Environmental...... 41 .. Management ...... 94, 163 Sociology ...... 36, 190 Human Ecology ...... 63 ...... 118, 166 BachelorScience of Scienceor Envir Environmental ...... 60 .. How to Apply ...... 9 Software Developer Certificate ...... BachelorScience of Science or Envir General ...... 4960 Human Ecology ...... 63 ...... 118, 166 I T Bachelor of Science Generalin Nursing ...... 2149 Information Technology ...... 166 Tech Prep ...... 14 BachelorBiochemistry of Science ...... in Nursing 54, .... 138 21 I T International Baccalaureate ...... 13 Theatre & Entertainment Production BiochemistryBiological Sci ences ...... 55,54, 139138 Information Technology ...... 166 Tech Prep ...... 14 International Learning Opportunities ...... 120, 193 BiologicalBusiness Administra Sciences tion ...... 79, 55, 139 140 International Baccalaureate ...... 13 Theatre & Entertainment Production ...... 205 Theatre Performance & Creation ...... Business Administration ...... 79, 140 International Learning Opportunities ...... 120, 193 C International...... Students ...... 205 9 Theatre...... Performance & Creation 121,...... 194 Trades ...... 73 CCareer & Academic Preparation ...... International Students ...... 9 ...... 121, 194 K Transfer ...... 23 Career...... & Academic Preparation 82, ...... 198 Trades ...... 73 Kinesiology and Sport Studies ...... Transitional/Vocational Program ..... Career...... Development Certificate 82,...... 198 K Transfer ...... 23 ...... 95, 169 ...... 123, 195 CareerPrograms Development...... Certificate ...... 127 Kinesiology and Sport Studies ...... Transitional/Vocational Program ..... CarpentryPrograms and Construction...... 83, 142 127 ...... 95, 169 ...... 123, 195 L U CarpentryChemistry and...... Construction 56,83, 143142 Legal Assistant ...... 99, 172 Unit Clerk ...... 124, 196 ChemistryChiropractic ...... 56, 143 69 L U University Transfer Programs ...... 23 ChiropracticCommerce ...... 3769 Legal Assistant ...... 99, 172 Unit Clerk ...... 124, 196 M Upgrading ...... 82 CommerceCommunication...... Studies ...... 3728 University Transfer Programs ...... 23 Management Certificate ...... 81 CommunicationComputer Information Studies Systems ...... 28 M Upgrading ...... 82 Mathematics ...... 64, 173 V Computer...... Information Systems 84,...... 166 Management Certificate ...... 81 Medical Lab Assistant ...... 100, 174 Veterinary Medicine ...... 72 Computing...... Science ...... 84, 166 57 Mathematics ...... 64, 173 V Medicine ...... 70 Virtual Assistant ...... 125, 196 Computing Science ...... 57 Medical Lab Assistant ...... 100, 174 Veterinary Medicine ...... 72 MedicineMotion Picture ...... Arts ...... 15, 102, 175 70 VirtualVisual Art Assistant ...... 126 ...... 125, 196 MotionMusic Picture ...... Arts ...... 15,103, 102, 175 176 Visual Art ...... 126 Music ...... 103, 176
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