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Level 1
Course details
Career Discovery
CDEV1840
Description:
This course focuses on career exploration and decision making. Students will evaluate their interests, values, skills and abilities through assessment tools and explore the labour market to identify employment trends aligned to their strengths. Effective communication strategies to aid success in the workplace will be covered. By the end of this course, students will have created a personalized development plan to support their future career goals.
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
- Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.
College Reading & Writing Skills
COMM1085
Description:
This course introduces students to the reading, writing, and critical thinking skills needed for academic and workplace success. Students will analyse a variety of texts and apply the steps of planning, writing, and revising to produce writing that meets the expectations of selected audiences and purposes. The course prepares students for college-level writing tasks, research, and documentation by asking them to produce clear, informed, and purposeful documents relevant to both academic and professional contexts.
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
- Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.
Computer Use in the Modern World
COMP1618
Description:
Students will use Microsoft Office to create reports, electronic presentations, brochures, flyers, posters and create budgets. In addition, they will be using computer applications in the contexts of online platforms, online collaboration tools and social media. As students use their research skills in online environments, they will learn how to conduct searches in order to decipher accurate from inaccurate information.
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
- Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.
Conestoga 101
CON0101
Description:
This self-directed course focuses on introducing new students to the supports, services, and opportunities available at Conestoga College. By the end of this course, students will understand the academic expectations of the Conestoga learning environment, as well as the supports available to ensure their academic success. Students will also be able to identify on-campus services that support their health and wellness, and explore ways to get actively involved in the Conestoga community through co-curricular learning opportunities.
- Hours: 1
- Credits: 0
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
- Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.
Student Success for Higher Learning
LIBS1540
Description:
This course enables students to employ strategies and take advantage of resources and opportunities that will support their success in post-secondary environments. Students will identify their unique learning styles and develop strategies for achieving their academic, career and personal goals for reaching personal satisfaction. It provides a structured and supportive learning environment to help students define and develop the academic habits and skills for a successful transition to a Canadian post-secondary culture. The course will address the diverse issues facing students who are beginning their academic path in post-secondary studies.
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
- Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.
Critical Thinking
PHIL1000
Description:
This course examines the essential elements of both critical and design thinking, through problem solving. Students will explore the nature of evidence, sound arguments and valid conclusions, faulty reasoning, convergent and divergent thinking, and the creative process. The concepts of critical and creative thinking are then applied to problem solving frameworks where students will engage in the discussion of ideas and the presentation of information to an audience.
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
- Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.
Level 2
Course details
Foundations in Presentation Skills
COMM1665
Description:
This course will provide students an opportunity to develop and hone their presentation skills through a variety of practical scenarios. Students will begin to produce materials that will contribute to their personal portfolios. Both individual and group work will be utilized in the development of visual and verbal presentations
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
- Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.
Research and Writing
COMM2210
Description:
This course examines both the essentials of academic research and the general principles for effective writing of a research paper, along with the further development of communication and presentation skills. In practice-oriented activities, students will be guided through the incremental process of design and accomplishment of a research project. This includes selecting a research topic from the area of student’s academic and professional interests, drafting a literature review, formulating research questions and hypotheses, collecting data from diverse primary and secondary sources, basically analyzing and creatively interpreting data, and considering ethical issues. The rule of equal thirds, which are thinking, writing, and revising, will be implemented as an effective time management strategy. The course will culminate into the presentation of the research paper.
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
- Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: $24.50
Our Domain: Geography and Human Populations
LIBS1560
Description:
Through scientific inquiry, students will study the world’s geographic landscape, the global processes that shape planet earth, and their relationship to the location of climates and the natural resources required to sustain healthy societies. Challenges and opportunities related to demands for natural resources, energy, agricultural and economic productivity will be explored along with the ever increasing impact our accelerating population growth is having on shaping our planets future and the life that inhabits it.
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
- Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.
Conflict Resolution and Problem Solving
SOC1200
Description:
Conflict is a natural part of meaningful relationships, workplaces, and groups. While often seen negatively, it can strengthen bonds, boost self-awareness, and promote growth. This course explores theoretical frameworks for understanding and resolving conflict while taking a closer look at various societal experiences of conflict. Participants will delve into factors behind interpersonal, intrapersonal, and group conflicts and develop practical skills for effective conflict management, including how to engage in meaningful conversations to resolve disputes.
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
- Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: Not available at this time.
Electives: Program option
Student must pass 1 Course(s), selected in the Student Portal from available course options
Student must pass 1 Course(s), selected in the Student Portal from available course options
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Please note that all courses may not be offered in all semesters. Go to your student portal for full timetabling details under "My Courses".
General Arts & Science Program Exemption
GASPO1001
Description:
Program Exemption for GAS program 0791 & 0090
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
- Estimated resource cost: No resources required
General Arts & Science Program Exemption
GASPO1002
Description:
Program Exemption for GAS program 0791 & 0090
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
- Estimated resource cost: No resources required
General Arts & Science Program Exemption
GASPO1006
Description:
Program Exemption for GAS program 0791 & 0090
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
- Estimated resource cost: No resources required
General Arts & Science Program Exemption
GASPO1007
Description:
Program Exemption for GAS program 0791 & 0090
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
- Estimated resource cost: No resources required
Foundations in Math
MATH1095
Description:
Students will learn and apply strategies, skills, concepts, procedures, and representational methods to solve problems in pre-algebra, algebra, and geometry/trigonometry relevant to a broad range of careers.
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
- Estimated resource cost: No resources required
Understanding Science
SCIE1060
Description:
This lecture and demonstration course will introduce the student to the ways in which science and scientists function. In this context, the student will examine the history of science, the philosophy of science, the scientific process and the scientific establishment. At the end of this course, the student will be able to apply this knowledge to better distinguish between science and pseudoscience and to examine critically scientific claims made in the various media.
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
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- Estimated resource cost: No resources required
Please note:
Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs are based on the most recent available data through the Conestoga Campus Store.
Program outcomes
- Question cultural norms in order to develop a personal world view in relation to others, including in the workplace.
- Describe the development of western thought in a global context to categorize behaviours and relationships in the modern world.
- Develop flexibility and clarity of both thought and expression in order to communicate required by business and industry.
- Utilize critical thinking processes and problem solving techniques through logical experiences, mathematical practices, and laboratory applications.
- Develop personal and professional abilities, drawing from the subject areas of Health, Business, Engineering or Information Technology, in order to contribute to success in the workplace
- Develop interpersonal skills and implement strategies to enhance self-satisfaction and employability