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SOC 101 - Perspectives on Canadian Society
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 45
This course introduces students to the critical analysis of modern society with an emphasis on the Canadian context. Students use basic sociological concepts to discuss thematic areas such as family, education, religion, health, crime, technology, mass media, and the environment.
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SOC 106 - Indigenous-Settler Relations in Canada
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 45
Students will critically examine the relationships between Indigenous Peoples and the political, judicial, socioeconomic, and value systems of the majority society. Within this context, students will evaluate contemporary land claim settlements and the evolution of Indigenous self-government.
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SOC 110 - Women in Canadian Society
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 45
A critical examination of the status of women in Canadian society. Theoretical perspectives on womens status will be analyzed. Special attention is paid to womens paid and unpaid labour, media portrayal, feminist organizations, women of colour, gender relations, and violence against women.
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SOC 112 - “Race” and Ethnicity in Canada
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 45
Students will explore the sociology of “race” and ethnicity within the context of contemporary Canadian multiculturalism. Students will examine how current understandings of “race” and ethnicity affect life in Canada and how racism and ethnocentrism function within Canadian political and social life. Students will also explore the legacies of colonialism in Canada and the roles of multiculturalism and anti-racism in overcoming inequality.
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SOC 120 - The Environment and Society
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 45
This course provides an introduction to the analysis of social relations within their ecological contexts. Students learn to apply a critical lens to understand the political, economic, and cultural aspects of environmental sustainability in contemporary society. Economic activity, public policy, and social movements are analyzed by focusing on specific environmental problems at local and global levels.
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SOC 160 - Family and Community
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 45
Students study the variety and dynamics of family and community in contemporary society with critical examination of significant issues. How families and communities adapt to change in society is discussed. Special attention is paid to changing trends, variations in families, gender relations, family violence, community oriented interventions, and social policies.
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SOC 162 - Social Problems
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 45
Poverty, racism, sexism, homophobia, crime, and sustainability are some of the social problems affecting Canada. Students will analyze the way such social problems are constructed and addressed within contemporary Canadian society. Within this context, students will learn to employ a sociological lens to understand the realities and contexts of inequity and inequality both in Canada and the world at large.
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SOC 200 - Capitalism and Globalization
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 45
This course examines the historical development of modern, capitalist society with an emphasis on contemporary processes of globalization. It introduces students to the economic, political, and cultural aspects of capitalism as they apply to Canada and the world. Topics include liberalism and neoliberalism, development and global poverty, imperialism and neocolonialism, global citizenship and the anti-globalization movement.
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SOC 211 - Introduction to Africa
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 45
The course covers the ecosystem, social structure, and human factor of pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial Africa. Within this framework and using theories and methods of sociology and African Studies, the issues of slavery, colonialism, globalization, health, culture, community, conflict,development, trade, education, inequality, and the African Diaspora are critically examined.
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One of:
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SOC 230 - Indigenous Research Methodology
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 45
This course introduces students to qualitative research and indigenous research methodologies, methods, and techniques. It provides students with relevant research knowledge, strategies, skills and tools to do their own research in, and evaluate existing research on, Aboriginal communities. Hands-on experience is emphasized.
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SOC 250 - Sociology of Deviance
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 45
An examination of theories of deviance, the historical forces which have shaped these theories, the research based on them, and a critical evaluation of their contribution to our understanding of the causes of deviance.
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SOC 280 - Social Research Methods
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 45
An introduction to social science research, this course is intended to develop students’ research and analytical skills. Topics include sources and kinds of information, types and testing of theories and hypotheses, problem design and analysis, enquiry modes, data analysis and reporting, and the ethics and politics of social research.
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SOC 290 - Special Topics in Sociology
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 45
Students will be introduced to selected topics in Sociology. Topics may vary from term to term. Please check with the department or instructor for information about the current course.
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SPAN 100 - Basic Spanish 1
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 60
This is an introductory course for students with little or no knowledge of Spanish. Students develop basic proficiency in oral expression, listening comprehension, reading, writing, and acquire a fundamental knowledge of grammar and vocabulary. Emphasis is on oral communication.
Pre or Co-requisites
One of:
Notes: Native speakers of Spanish or students with Spanish 12 may not enroll.
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SPAN 101 - Basic Spanish 2
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 60
This introductory course furthers proficiency in oral expression, listening comprehension, reading and writing. Students will expand their knowledge of grammatical structures and vocabulary and will develop the ability to communicate in simple and predictable situations.
Prerequisites
One of:
Notes: Native speakers of Spanish may not enroll.
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SPAN 190 - Special Topics in Hispanic Culture
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 45
Explore new ways of seeing the world through selected topics in Hispanic culture. In this course taught in English, you will deepen your social, cultural and linguistic knowledge and understanding of the topic. Possible topics include Latin America’s Literary Boom, Hispanic Culture through Film, Cuban Society and Culture, and Introduction to the Hispanic World through Poetry. Learning activities may consist of guest speakers, field trips and cultural activities.
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One of:
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SPAN 205 - Spanish Through Storytelling
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 60
This course, conducted primarily in Spanish, is based on a communicative approach to learning language. Students review and expand on grammatical concepts and vocabulary by listening to and participating orally in interactive stories and through grammar explanations. In combination with oral storytelling, students also write stories and read history and culture-based fiction. In this immersion style course, students acquire language through active engagement.
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SPAN 206 - Conversación y Cine
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 60
In this course, conducted primarily in Spanish, students gain confidence in oral expression and aural comprehension with an emphasis on idiomatic grammatical structures and vocabulary. Students will expand their comprehension and communication skills by watching Spanish-language films and engaging in conversational activities relevant to the content. Students will observe the language in its natural context, listen to a variety of accents, and continue learning colloquial expressions. Students will further expand their knowledge and understanding of the cultures and history of the Hispanic world through films and selected readings.
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SPAN 240 - Composición En Español
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 60
Through Spanish-language text and media, students will consolidate grammar concepts and improve their writing skills in a variety of styles and registers. Students will read from culturally authentic Hispanic sources, such as comics, blogs, short literary texts and articles, and will also listen to media reports, video clips and music. Students will compose correspondence, summaries, and short academic compositions, as well as provide and respond to written peer feedback and comment on literary texts. This course emphasizes precise written language, intermediate-level grammatical structures and richness of vocabulary. This course is conducted entirely in Spanish.
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SPEX 110 - Fitness for Life
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 45
An overview of health promotion and wellness models as they relate to health, social, cultural, economic, international and environmental issues. The principles of exercise prescription for cardiovascular fitness, muscular strength and endurance are presented. Emphasis is placed on personal health, nutrition, stress and prevention of activity injuries.
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SPEX 160 - Sport Marketing & Promotions
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 60
Restricted to students in Sport Management
This course is designed to assist students in creating and critiquing marketing, promotions and public relations efforts specific to sport. Emphasis will be placed on marketing concepts and strategies utilized specifically in and through sport and the sport industry. This course includes hands-on experience with a variety of sport organizations including the Chargers Intercollegiate Athletics programs.
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SPMA 100 - Leadership & Organization of Sport in Canada
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 60
Students will examine various leadership theories, styles and characteristics, and their application to managing and leading in sport. Students will study the structure, organization and delivery models of sport in Canada. Students will also explore the elements of the Canadian Sport For Life (CS4L) movement and be introduced to long-term athlete development (LTAD) as a developmental pathway model for sport.
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One of:
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SPMA 102 - Internship
Credits: 6 Total Hours: 300
Restricted to Sport Management students who have met the co-operative education participation requirements
This 4 month course gives students the opportunity to apply and extend academic knowledge while in a sport management work placement setting over one academic term. This internship provides the students with work experience which is facilitated and monitored by the College. Successful completion counts toward an Internship designation.
Prerequisites
All of:
- COM in CDEV WPS
- Successful completion of Semesters One and Two
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SPMA 102P - Parallel Internship
Credits: 6 Total Hours: 300
Restricted to Sport Management students who have met the co-operative education participation requirements
This 8 month part time work experience course gives students an opportunity to participate in cooperative educational experiences that are extended over two academic terms. Learning outcomes are tied to academic and career skill development and student learning is monitored and evaluated by Camosun College. Successful completion counts toward an Internship designation.
Prerequisites
All of:
- COM in CDEV WPS
- Successful completion of Semesters One and Two
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SPMA 135 - Sports Level 1
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 60
Restricted to students in Sport Management
Students will learn and practice the rules, and the skills and abilities involved in playing a variety of individual sports. Students will also learn about the equipment, the required facilities, safety procedures, group management, and the special requirements related to managing individual sport.
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SPMA 155 - The Business of Sport
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 45
Students will learn about the foundations of sport management as a profession. In addition, students examine a range of management functions and administrative practices within the sport management field.
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SPMA 220 - Sport Technology
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 60
Students will study and investigate leading edge technologies as they relate to sport and their impact on performance. Students will interact with a range of equipment technologies, software, and data tools and platforms. Students will also study and compare the impacts and ethics of current and emerging technologies.
Prerequisites
One of:
- C in BUS 140
- Bachelor degree from a recognized post-secondary institution
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SPMA 225 - Computer Applications in Sport
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 45
This course is designed for students to develop competencies in the areas of computer and data technology and information management in sport. The course provides education in the practice and theory of computers and computer data systems and software related to practical application in the sport industry.
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SPMA 234 - The Sport Coaching Process
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 60
Students will study the roles of a coach and the characteristics of effective coaching and athlete leadership. Students will study and practice the art and science of coaching.
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SPMA 245 - Sport and Fitness Facility Operations
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 60
Students will learn the fundamentals of facility operations for private and public sport and fitness facilities. Students will study essential systems and technology components of facility operations, and gain key skills in various operational planning functions.
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One of:
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SPMA 250 - Partnership/Stakeholder Mgmt
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 60
Students will gain knowledge and understanding of stakeholder management theory, interorganizational relationships and sport related partnerships. Students will examine concepts and practices in the management of stakeholders and for effective stakeholder engagement. Students will explore practical skills in grant and proposal preparation.
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SPMA 260 - Sport Event Management
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 60
Students will examine and implement a sport management project that integrates knowledge and understanding for sport events at the local, provincial, national or international level. Students will develop a range of planning and organizational skills for the delivery of a sport event.
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SPMA 291 - Applied Sport Management
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 135
Students will learn entry-level sport management practical knowledge and skills in this seminar and work experience based course. Students will gain knowledge of industry entry-level career readiness skills in the sport management field and be introduced to sport management professional competencies.
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SPMA 300 - Leadership in Sport & Fitness
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 60
Students will examine a range of leadership styles and examine, develop and understand their own leadership philosophy and potential. Students will review and analyze the various ethical issues and philosophical perspectives related to sport and fitness, and link to leadership in the field. Students will identify and describe the conceptual and technical competencies considered essential to providing effective leadership in sport and fitness.
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SPMA 340 - Long-Term Dev. Sport & Phys. Activity
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 45
Students will study the Long Term Development (LTD) movement including the overall system and its role, impacts and delivery for physical activity and sport in Canada. Students will study and apply the principles, components and underlying factors of LTD as they relate to the development of physical literacy, understanding the podium pathway, and the commitment to increase the degree to which all Canadians remain active for life. Students will gain an understanding of Indigenous sport development and its long-term development pathway, as well as long-term development for people with disabilities and the inclusion of new Canadians.
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SPMA 345 - Sport Developments and Trends
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 45
Students will examine the development, cultural influences, current trends and potential future directions for physical education and sport. Students study a range of events and influential individuals that has formed the foundation of sport both in Canada and internationally, including the evolution of Indigenous sport in Canada.
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SPMA 350 - Facilities Management
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 60
Students will learn about the key components of facility management for private and public facilities, including how to conduct a facility evaluation, risk management assessment, and other sport and fitness facility management functions.
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SPMA 402 - Internship
Credits: 6 Total Hours: 300
Restricted to students in Bachelor or Post-Degree Diploma of Sport Management who have met the co-operative education participation requirements
Students will have an opportunity to expand upon both applied and academic course work while working in a sport and fitness related leadership setting. This 4 month full-time internship will provide students with a practical work experience which is both facilitated and monitored by the College. Successful completion counts toward an Internship designation.
Prerequisites
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- Successful completion of 9 out of 10 courses in Bachelor of Sport Management Year 3 with a GPA of at least 3.0 (C+)
- Successful completion of a minimum of 9 courses in the Sport Management Post-Degree Diploma with a GPA of at least 3.0 (C+)
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SPMA 402P - Parallel Internship
Credits: 6 Total Hours: 300
Restricted to students in Bachelor or Post-Degree Diploma of Sport Management who have met the co-operative education participation requirements
Students will have an opportunity to expand upon both applied and academic course work while working in a sport and fitness related leadership setting. This 8 month part-time internship will provide students with a practical work experience which is both facilitated and monitored by the College. Depending on program requirements and availability, students may also take several academic courses at the same time. Successful completion counts toward an Internship designation.
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All of:
And one of:
- Successful completion of 9 out of 10 courses in Bachelor of Sport Management Year 3 with a GPA of at least 3.0 (C+)
- Successful completion of a minimum of 9 courses in the Sport Management Post-Degree Diploma with a GPA of at least 3.0 (C+)
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SPMA 415 - Sport Analytics
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 60
Students will gain knowledge and skills in the areas of sport data analysis. Students will develop and test sport analytical skills for player performance measurement, in-game decision making and player selection/team building.
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SPMA 420 - Sport and Fitness Law
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 45
Students will explore sport and fitness related legal issues and concepts. Students will be introduced to key areas of law that affect the sport and fitness environment and will address many of the strategies and techniques that would help the sport and fitness manager, and sport organization, avoid legal liability. Students will cover areas of negligence and liability, risk management, work relationships, violence, human rights and agency.
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SPMA 425 - Sport Organizational Behaviour
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 60
Students will study organizational behaviour as it applies to sport settings. Students will identify and critique internal aspects, functions and processes of sport organizations, with an emphasis on multisport, provincial and national sport organizations.
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SPMA 440 - Program Development & Delivery
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 45
Students will study the theory, principles, and methods used in planning of sport and physical activity programs. Students will develop their analytical skills for the purpose of identifying program needs that will prepare them for later stages of program design and evaluation. Students will apply knowledge relevant to a range of organizational, cultural, and Indigenous sport and physical activity settings.
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SPMA 460 - Media and Public Relations
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 60
Students will examine media and public relations for sport and fitness organizations in order to gain an understanding of how to work with different forms of media. Students will plan, manage, evaluate, and implement media and public relations programs. They will be given opportunity to practice these skills in order to become competent practitioners.
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One of:
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SPMA 465 - Events & Major Games
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 45
Students will explore the structure, functions, and challenges of sporting events and major games from a philosophical, strategic and operational perspective. Students will analyze and critique major multi-sport or mass participation events in relation to the effective delivery and impacts of sport.
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SPMA 485 - Sport Marketing and Project Management
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 67.5
Students will learn and develop sport management and marketing-related competencies using project management practices. Through these practices, students will design, develop, implement and monitor a service-learning project, using cross-functional thinking, teamwork, communication and cultural sensitivity. Students will have the opportunity to work as part of a sport management marketing team, engaging with a sport agency or community association to apply project management practices to a specific client oriented initiative (i.e. Right to Play Canada).
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SPMA 491 - Applied Sport Management
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 135
Students will learn in a seminar and work experience based course environment that provides an opportunity for guided, program-related learning in a workplace setting. Bi-weekly seminars will cover professional practices, industry research and professional readiness.
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STAT 116 - Elementary Statistics
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 67.5
This course is mainly for students in Criminal Justice, Dental Hygiene, Social Sciences and general arts. Topics include descriptive statistics, probability and probability models, one-and two-sample inferences for population means and proportions, simple linear correlation and regression, categorical data analyses.
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STAT 123 - Introduction to Data Science
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 67.5
Informed strategic decision making is based on data. Students will learn to apply a combination of statistical and programming foundations to summarize, visualize, analyze, and interpret real-world data to make data-driven decisions. The programming language R or alike will be used throughout the course to explore topics including visualizing data with graphs, estimating parameters with confidence intervals, and modelling relationships with regression analyses.
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One of:
Notes: An introductory statistics course such as Statistics 12, STAT 116, STAT 216, or STAT 218 is recommended
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STAT 216 - Applied Statistics
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 67.5
Students in first or second-year Biology, Business, Chemistry, Applied Chemistry and Biotechnology, Computer Science, and Environmental Technology will be prepared to conduct basic statistical analyses. Students will study descriptive statistics, probability, Bionomial, Poisson and Normal distributions, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, analysis of variance, correlation and linear regression, categorical data analysis. Students will also learn to use statistical software to perform statistical data analyses.
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One of:
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STAT 218 - Intro to Probability and Statistics 1
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 67.5
The field of statistics helps to understand and describe the world around us through the analysis and interpretation of data. Students will learn techniques and methods to help informed decision-making through an introduction to the mathematical foundations of statistical inference. After gaining a foundational understanding of descriptive statistics and probability theory, students will apply this framework to understand and make inferences from data using estimation, hypothesis testing, linear regression and categorical data analysis.
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STAT 219 - Probability and Statistics 2
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 67.5
Students will continue their exploration of the mathematical foundations of statistical inference by applying previously learned foundational techniques to a variety of real-world problems. Students will build modelling frameworks through the estimation and testing of hypotheses, analysis of variance, linear regression and correlation, and distribution-free methods. A laboratory component enables applied learning of theoretical techniques to relevant and current problems and data.
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STAT 254 - Probability and Statistics for Engineers
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 60
Restricted to students in Engineering Bridge
This calculus-based introductory statistics course includes counting techniques, introductory probability, Bayes’ theorem, measures of central tendency and variation, expected value, discrete and continuous distributions, point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing, correlation and linear regression. Applications to engineering are included throughout the course. Only open to Engineering Bridge students
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TECN 210 - Design Thinking
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 60
Restricted to students in Interactive Media Developer
Students will explore a real-world problem and be guided through the phases of design and testing of their solution through sound thinking, creative inquiry, and diverse modes of reasoning in discussions and writing.
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TECN 290 - Technology Symposium
Credits: 1.5 Total Hours: 30
Working as a class, students will plan and deliver a one-day symposium event. Each student team will demonstrate and present their final project to members of the community and Hi-Tech industry.
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TMGT 100 - Hospitality and Tourism Career Development
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 45
Students will be learning the practical skills and relevant knowledge that will enable them to apply prior work experience in the Canadian Tourism and Hospitality Industry environments. Students will be introduced to strategies that empower the development of long-term career planning, job search techniques, approaches to written and verbal communications, interviewing methods, workplace cultures, and personal brand development.
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TMGT 221 - Law & Risk Management in Tourism
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 60
This course will familiarize students with legal issues and risk management strategies most relevant to the tourism and hospitality industries. Students will learn to recognize, prevent, minimize, and resolve exposure to legal liability. Students will also be able to prepare a risk and disaster management plan.
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TMGT 240 - The Global Tourism System
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 60
As a strong economic driver, tourism is influenced by both local and global issues. This course examines social, political, and environmental impacts related to the international tourism system. Trends within the Canadian tourism system are examined with a focus on growth, development and integration of indigenous tourism for small and medium sized enterprises.
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TMGT 271 - Indigenous Tourism Perspectives
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 45
This course will examine the issues, impact and opportunities that Indigenous tourism presents within BC, as well as the cultural context in which it should operate. Awareness of Indigenous business practices, cultural diversity, protocols and what is acceptable and desired by Indigenous people will be covered in the context of tourism.
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TMGT 361 - Sustaining Tourism Performance
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 60
The embedding of sustainability into organizational practice is seen as vital to the operational success of tourism-based businesses. This course introduces students to the concepts of sustainability performance management including the development of strategic management frameworks, performance management systems, and decision-making tools. It also explores accounting and reporting methods used to measure, manage, and communicate the social, environmental, and economic impacts of business operations to stakeholders.
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TMGT 370 - Tourism Value Chain Management
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 60
Rapidly-growing technology, particularly the Internet, continues to profoundly alter the tourism and hospitality business model. This course will examine the relationships that a tourism and hospitality operator must maintain to successfully run their business. This includes interactions with wholesalers, online travel agents (OTA’s), service providers and customers.
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TMGT 401 - Internship Work Experience
Credits: 6 Total Hours: 490
Restricted to students in the Post Degree Diploma in Applied Tourism and Hospitality Management
This internship course gives students an opportunity to apply, extend and integrate academic or technical knowledge through relevant work experience with qualified organizations. Learning outcomes are tied to academic and career skill development and student learning is monitored and evaluated by Camosun College. Successful completion counts toward an Internship designation.
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TACC 109 - Trades Access Common Core
Credits: 0 Total Hours: 150
This course prepares students for entry into a specialized Trade Foundation program. Students are introduced to the terminology, safe work practice, skills, tools, materials, work environments, culture and occupational options of the various trades and industries.
Prerequisites
One of:
And one of:
- C in Apprenticeship and Workplace Math 11 or Foundations of Math 11 or Pre-calculus 11 or Applications of Math 11 or Principles of Math 11
- C in MATH 038
- C in MATH 073
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VIST 110 - Storytelling Layout
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 60
Page layout requires the creator to make critical decisions about the use and placement of text (captions, word balloons, and thought bubbles) and illustration, balancing the relationship of both into a harmonious whole. Students will learn to apply storytelling layout to comics, graphic novels, web comics, comic strips, edutainment comics, and storyboards.
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VIST 111 - Character Design
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 60
Restricted to students in Comics and Graphic Novels
In this course, students will design and create imaginary characters and costumes that can be used in comics, graphic novels, gaming, illustration, storyborards and animation. Through practical drawing exercises, students will learn to exaggerate, caricature, and cartoon to make their characters believable and give them personality.
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VIST 122 - Structural Drawing 1
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 60
Students will develop the skills needed to effectively draw the human figure. Gesture, action lines, basic anatomy, proportion, foreshortening, contour, light, and shadow will be practiced. Students will gain the confidence needed to visualize, and then draw, the human figure from life or from memory. These skills have a direct application to visual storytelling in comics and graphic novels.
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VIST 123 - Perspective Drawing
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 60
Students will study the rules of perspective as applied to illustration as an important tool for creators. Students will become familiar with the structural technique of one, two, and three-point perspective, and how and when to apply those techniques to backgrounds, structures, objects and figures. Students will also learn how other visual techniques can be applied to effectively achieve the sense of three dimensions on a two-dimensional surface, including overlap, scaling, and value modulation.
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VIST 125 - Structural Drawing 2
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 60
Restricted to students in Comics and Graphic Novels
Students will build upon the structural drawing skills learned in VIST 122 , focusing on drawing the draped figure from life. The emphasis is on how dramatic lighting informs the story’s mood in very specific ways.
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VIST 130 - Technique 1: Traditional Tools
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 60
Students will learn the practices of penciling, inking, lettering, and colouring as the foundation of visual storytelling technique. Students will practice sketching in pencil, from the initial thumbnails, through rough layouts, and to finished drawings ready for lettering and rendering in ink, and finally in colour.
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VIST 131 - Technique 2: Digital Tools
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 60
Restricted to students in Comics and Graphic Novels
Students will digitally process both their existing stories and create new narratives, then format them for publication in a multi-page full-colour comic. Students will also develop important production skills for final output for both print and web applications using industry standard software.
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VIST 151 - Comics Publishing & Promotion
Credits: 3 Total Hours: 60
Restricted to students in Comics and Graphic Novels
Students will understand the value of Intellectual Property and the importance of entrepreneurship to the success of visual storytellers. The ability to effectively communicate and do business with your audience and your clients, both online and in person, including at comic conventions, is the focus of this course. The capstone project involves organizing and participating in the Camosun Comic Arts Festival.
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