| COMM6 | Communications – Report Writing | 45 hours | In this course, you will learn how to plan, organize, illustrate, edit, and present written and oral material in both an informational and analytical style to businesses, service and technological industries, and government agencies. |
| COMM19 | Academic Writing & Research I | 45 hours | This course emphasizes consolidation of literacy, critical thinking, and communication skills. Students will analyse a range of challenging texts from various time periods, countries, and cultures: write analytical and argumentative essays and a major paper for an independent literary research project: and apply key concepts to analyse media works. An important focus will be on understanding academic language and using it coherently and confidently in discussion and argument. |
| COMM38 | Writing about Placement | 45 hours | Reporting on Placement covers report writing skills that are placement – oriented with the Correctional Worker Program. Students continue development of their written communication abilities. Assignments are related to the program and to placement situations. |
| COMM62 | Introduction to Literature | 45 hours | This course introduces students to the excitement and challenge of reading and responding to literature at a first-year university level. Divided into thematic units focused on interpretation (weeks 1-8) and gender (weeks 9-15), the course considers the ways in which texts of different traditions and geographical locations both reflect and shape the vital concerns of their — and our — ages. Introduction to Literature also emphasizes the reader as a partner in making meaning, and students will be encouraged to develop their interpretive voices through exploration of a variety of critical perspectives. |
| COMM64 | Writing & Composition I | 45 hours | Writing and Composition I prepares students for the writing challenges they will encounter first in the University Transfer program and later in university. Exercises focus on developing students’ ability to produce clear discursive prose, with particular attention paid to elements of structure and mechanics. Students also expand their skills in argumentation by learning how to craft an effective thesis statement and support an argument. Finally, students increase their fluency with different style guides and the tenets of appropriate citation and documentation. The course emphasizes the expository essay, but students successfully completing “Writing and Composition I” will possess skills applicable to a wide variety of academic writing situations. |
| COMM129 | Communications for Blasting Techniques I | 30 hours | This course, designed specifically for student in the Blasting Techniques program, focuses on the development of fundamental reading, writing, speaking, observational and research skills within the context of program and work needs in the blasting field. Students will prepare and respond to a variety of technical documents, some with links to their other program courses, and in the process learn to apply rules of usage in keeping with professional and program standards. Assessment strategies will be tied closely to other first semester courses. |
| COMM146 | Comm at Work for the Helping Professionals | 45 hours | Successful communicators use knowledge, skills and strategies to create effective messages for a range of audiences and contexts. This course emphasizes critical thinking and problem-solving to meet communication challenges in today’s workplace. Students will refine workplace writing, communication skills and presentation techniques through a variety of assignments, assessments and hands-on practice. |
| COMM159 | Comm at Work for the Health Professionals | 45 hours | Successful communicators use knowledge, skills and strategies to create effective messages for a range of audiences and contexts. This course emphasizes critical thinking and problem-solving to meet communication challenges in today’s workplace. Students will refine workplace writing, communication skills and presentation techniques through a variety of assignments, assessments and hands-on practice. |
| COMM181 | Career Mappping & Development | 38 hours | In this course students will learn about the process of career development and planning in Natural Resources, which includes self-assessment, career mapping and job market research. Students will also participate in effective interview experiences and the development of a career portfolio. |
| COMM186 | Customer Service Comm in the Adventure Workplace | 45 hours | In this course, students will learn how to provide excellent customer service for work as adventure skills trainers, adventure business or tourism employees. Students will enhance their communication skills as an integral component of effective customer service in providing a variety of outdoor and recreational pursuits. Topics include basic customer service skills, and communication skills, both oral and written suitable for a business environment. |
| COMM201 | Communications I | 45 hours | Communications I is an introductory course that provides a foundation in college-level communications by teaching students to read critically, write appropriately for a variety of audiences, conduct and cite research, and revise for clarity and correctness. In seminars and labs, students will engage in both independent and collaborative activities, including the development of a digital portfolio designed to help them become more effective communicators in academic and professional environments. |
| HUMN2 | Intro to Philosophy I | 45 hours | This course is the first of a two part introduction to philosophy. Our focus in this course will be on metaphysical and epistemological issues in philosophy. Here we will question the very nature and foundation of the universe and our place within it. We will look at many issues including whether God’s existence can be proven, whether humans have free will, what connection, if any, exists between mind and body, and whether knowledge is possible. |
| HUMN4 | Critical Thinking Across Disciplines | 45 hours | In this course the student will learn the role of concepts, models and theories in their own thought, and in scholarly writing, research and discourse. Students will examine the central and remarkable power of the concepts they use in both everyday speech and academic settings and become more rigorous and original critical thinkers. They will also have an appreciation of historical perspectives on language and thought from the Middle Ages to the present. As students progress through the year, they will apply these skills to their writing and in discussions and colloquia. |