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.

This course will introduce post-secondary students to English studies and the historical contexts that shape literature. Generally, a specific historical period will be covered and the development of various genres will be examined. Instruction will include essay writing skills. Because the course content will vary among instructors, it is strongly recommended that students consult an academic advisor or the Department of Arts and Education for more specific descriptions regarding the course focus.

This course will explore a specific issue (to be determined by the instructor) using a variety of genres and media. Instruction will include essay writing skills. Because the course content will vary among instructors, it is strongly recommended that students consult an academic advisor or the Department of Arts and Education for more specific descriptions regarding the course focus.

An introduction to the discipline of English and to the ways in which those in that discipline think about and analyze literary and everyday language practices. Various samples of literature will be examined in order to learn about the vocabulary used in literary studies. Instruction in essay writing will also be included.

This course aims to develop the student's ability to provide effective written and oral information. It will focus on instruction in fundamental writing skills, including building effective sentences and paragraphs, and on learning to communicate clearly across a range of genres and media used in academic and professional contexts, including correspondence and presentations. Students will be introduced to the principles of information gathering, analysis, and citation.

Representative works of writers illustrating the tradition of the short story in English are presented.

At an introductory level, this course emphasizes the principles and practices of writing publishable prose. Students are allowed to write in various genres aimed at traditional publication or other markets.

An examination of women’s writing in English from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

This course examines children’s literature in English in historical and contemporary contexts.

This course is designed to provide students in Education who expect to work with children (ages 0-12) with a working knowledge of important concepts and issues in Educational Psychology. Students will gain an understanding of how children from diverse backgrounds develop and learn and how teachers provide appropriate learning opportunities to support academic, cognitive and moral development, culture and diversity, and psychological development.

This course is designed to provide students in Education who expect to work with adolescents (ages 11-17) with a working knowledge of important concepts and issues in Educational Psychology. Students will gain an understanding of how adolescents from diverse backgrounds develop and learn and how teachers provide appropriate learning opportunities to support academic, cognitive and moral development, culture and diversity, and psychological development.

Introduction to the origin and evolution of the Earth and the solar system, and plate tectonics and the rock cycle. Simple energy balances and interactions between radiation and the atmosphere, oceans, ice masses, and the global hydrological cycle. Evolution of life, biogeography, and global climate in the context of geological time. The carbon cycle. Human interaction with the Earth. Mineral and energy resources.

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 is the entry-level course for students who have chosen French. Basic conversational vocabulary will be covered, as well as verbal structures including past tense. You will develop aural/oral skills through drills, directed dialogue and music. This course cannot be taken for credit if the student has taken French 20 (French grade 11) or French 30 (French grade 12) at the high school level.

This course will cover more detailed grammatical patterns, including verb tenses and their uses. Aural/oral skills will continue to develop through increased use of French in class and laboratory practice. This course cannot be taken for credit if the student has taken French 30 (French Grade 12) at the High School level.

This intermediate university course builds on beginner courses taken in high school or university and combines spoken and written French, and enhances skills in listening, comprehension, pronunciation, grammar, production, literature, and French/Francophone culture.

This intermediate university course is a continuation of spoken and written French, and enhances further skills in listening, comprehension, pronunciation, grammar, production, literature, and French/Francophone culture.

Basic concepts on the organization of genetic material and its expression will be developed from experiments on bacteria and viruses during the course.

During this course, you will focus on the role and responsibilities of a health care aide working in a variety of employment settings. The focus of this course is to share information that will result in safe, ethical, and respectful care based on the needs of the client. Care that meets these standards is known as person-centred care. To meet the goal of person-centred care, the health care aide must be familiar with the provincial legislation that guides safe, ethical, and personalized care. In addition, knowledge of how to work as part of the health-care team is essential, as is the ability to follow your employer’s policy and procedures and your job description. The HCA is responsible for identifying, managing, and preventing potential environmental hazards in facilities and community-based settings and focusing on the client’s safety as well as your own safety in different settings.

In this course, you will study the systems that make up the human body and discuss the milestones of growth and development across a lifetime. You will read about and discuss the most common of the chronic illnesses that you may encounter, and you will learn how to provide safe care based on evidence-informed practices according to the clients’ diagnoses, needs, and care plans. The information learned in this course will provide you with care strategies to support the client and the client’s family through the process of a client’s dying and death.