This course is the first in a series of three cooperative work experience placements, offering students the opportunity to apply classroom learning in a paid, minimum 400-hour work term in the business world. Students will gain hands-on experience in a professional setting, focusing on foundational business skills. Participation in the co-op program is optional but requires successful completion of all three work terms to fulfill the co-op pathway. The work term is monitored and evaluated by the employer.

The general orientation of this course is the basic research perspective of the scientific definition, investigation, and modeling of the structures and processes of attention, perception, learning, memory, cognition, and consciousness. It is a course in the current established research traditions, theories, and paradigms of cognitive psychology.

This course will focus on the role and responsibilities of the health care aide when communicating effectively as a member of the collaborative care team. Strong communication skills are an important part of being a successful health care aide. The health-care environment requires competent verbal, written, and electronic communication skills, which are part of digital literacy. This course will focus on professional communication with other team members, clients, and client’s families; written communication, including documentation in client records and report completion; problem-solving strategies; and handling conflict successfully. A focus on communicating effectively with clients from all cultures while demonstrating cultural competence and understanding the diversity of individuals will be included. Communication strategies for overcoming the challenges and barriers to communication between the client and caregiver caused by disease, illness, and aging in the client will also be discussed.

This course explores basic and therapeutic communication skills for the health professional. Communication skills required for the development of caring relationships and to overcome barriers will be discussed, as well as the skills needed for interprofessional practice, group and family communication. Health teaching in individual and group settings is an important component of this course.

Introduction to the role of communication in professional nursing. Incorporates oral communication, therapeutic communication techniques, and interprofessional communication. Focus is on communication for the nurse-client relationship.

Introduction to concepts, theories, and practices of community health nursing. Focus is on health promotion strategies for communities as client.

The course covers theories, ethics and evidence-informed approaches to community health nursing including primary health care, population health, health maintenance and promotion, and disease and injury prevention. It includes exploration of concepts of community-based assessment, planning, intervention and evaluation with community-as-client. The practicum portion of the course includes a variety of community settings. Nursing practice will include health assessment and interventions for clients throughout the lifespan and care continuum.

An organization cannot be as successful if they do not have the tools and resources to develop, measure, and reward employee performance. Developing and administering compensation and total rewards systems are key as employees expect fair and equitable compensation. Students will leave the course with and understanding of allocating financial and non-financial rewards (including learning and development) to employees. They will learn about different forms of pay models, aligning compensation with the organizational goals and strategies, and the internal and external pressures on compensation. Specifically, the subjects of job analysis, job evaluation, wage and salary structures, and types of compensation plans will be addressed as well as issues in compensation.

This course will help students become more sophisticated users and producers of written texts. Instruction will include basic academic essay writing skills and the various rhetorical approaches used when addressing specific audiences. The main goals of the course are to help students integrate reading and writing and to become familiar with the conventions of college- (and university-) level writing. This includes producing coherent, logical texts that are relatively free of surface errors. To achieve these goals, the course encourages students to think critically, to read closely and analytically, and to compose responses to a variety of texts, both written and visual.

Review of the courses they have completed. Students will receive special presentations, guest speakers and discussion of cases or rounds on the clinic rotations when possible.

This course will cover preparation for the Veterinary Technicians National Exam (VTNE). Students will receive special presentations, guest speakers and discussion of cases or rounds on the clinic rotations when possible.

General introduction to number representation, architecture and organization concepts of von Neumann machines, assemble level programming, exception handling, peripheral programming, floating point computations and memory management.

Digital circuits, combinational systems, memory, register transfer, control logic design, CPU design, and advanced topics on micro-architectures.

Fundamentals of computer programming with emphasis on solving engineering problems. Structure and syntax of computer programs, variables, data types, data structures, control structures, functions, input/output operations, debugging, software development process.

This course is a practical introduction to software applications commonly used in business. Students will develop a working knowledge of an operating system and various software applications which supports coursework, as well as prepares students for the business environment.

Under the direction of a regulated health-care professional, learners will work in a health-care setting such as continuing care or acute care, providing person-centred care and support for clients and their families.

The solution to marketing problems rests in sound analysis of consumer behavior. Using the case method, you will find a practical outlet for quantitative and qualitative consumer analysis tools. Cases will explore both goods and services marketing in both industrial and consumer environments.

Through a seminar approach, this course explores the many ethical dimensions of business and includes a major group project for which class time is allotted.

This course provides a general corporate framework for financial decision making. The course examines types of securities, basic methods of valuation, valuation and selection of physical and intellectual assets, operation of asset markets, market efficiency, risk measures and risk reduction methods, financing policy, including choices between debt and equity financing.

This course examines human movement to identify movement dysfunction and increased risk potential. Emphasis will be on identifying sources of impairment through muscle and movement assessment techniques. Students will learn to apply corrective exercises to recovery from impairments, reduce injury potential, and improve performance.