Career Potential

Graduates of the Bachelor of Education program can continue their studies in a master or PHd program of work in a k-12 school system.

High School Matriculation: A minimum average of 60% and no mark lower than 50% in the following courses:

 1). English Language Arts 30-1
 2). Four other 30 Level courses (5 credits each) from the following list:

• Humanities: Social Studies 30-1, a 30-Level language other than English, Aboriginal Studies 30 (5 credits minimum)
• Fine Arts: Art 30, Art 31, Dance 35, Drama 30, Music 30 (10 credits maximum)
• Sciences: Biology 30, Chemistry 30, Science 30, Mathematics 30-1, Mathematics 30-2*, Mathematics 31 (courses may be pre-requisites for particular junior level science or mathematics university courses) *dependent on the program this course may not be accepted by other institutions as entrance requirements or pre-requisites
• Electives: Physical Education 30, World Geography 30, Advanced CTS subjects (5 credits maximum)

Mature Student: 19 years of age or older, out of high school for at least one full year, and a minimum average of 60% with at least 50% in English Language Arts 30-1 and one other five credit Grade 12 course.

Open Studies Admission: Successful completion of nine credits.

Documents: Complete high school transcripts and post-secondary transcripts, if any work completed at a post-secondary institution

Use this chart to check Provincial high school equivalencies accepted at Portage College. Note: This is just a guide.

Other: May be required to do an interview with the instructor or coordinator 

International Student Admission: Based on transcripts, students may need to complete and Grade 12 English proficiency exam and subject area proficiency exams based on the degree stream selection

Transferability:

Transfer agreements are in place with many different post-secondary institutions across the province and country including the University of Alberta, the University of Calgary, and MacEwan University. 

Students are encouraged to check out our partnership bachelor programs.

Certification:

Diploma

Program Start/End Dates
August 29, 2024 to December 20, 2024 (Fall Term)
January 6, 2025 to April 25, 2025 (Winter Term)
April 28, 2025 to June 20, 2025 (Spring Term)

Application Deadlines

Fall Term:
Domestic: August 15, 2024
International Student: June 30, 2024 (Applications will be considered if you can obtain a study permit and all the relevant documents before July 15, 2024)

Winter Term:
Domestic: December 12, 2024
International: October 15, 2024 (Applications will be considered if you can obtain a study permit and all the relevant documents before December 15, 2024)

Spring 2025 Term:
Domestic: April 17, 2025
International: February 15, 2025 (Applications will be considered if you can obtain a study permit and all the relevant documents before April 15, 2025)

Domestic Student Fees
Application Fee $53.50
Tuition Deposit - $100 (non-refundable for oversubscribed programs)

Fall Term
Fee payment deadline: August 15, 2023

Part-time Fees
Tuition is calculated using “cost-per-credit” one credit is $170. Calculate the cost by multiplying the number of credits per course by $170.

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Winter Term
Fee payment deadline: December 15, 2023

Part-time Fees
Tuition is calculated using “cost-per-credit” one credit is $170. Calculate the cost by multiplying the number of credits per course by $170.

Visit  Portage Bookstore for textbooks and supplies

Spring Term
Fee payment deadline: April 21, 2024

Spring tuition is calculated using “cost-per-credit” one credit is $170. Calculate the cost by multiplying the number of credits per course by $170.

Other mandatory fees per semester

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• INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF WESTERN ART I

  Course ID: ARTH101

  Name: INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF WESTERN ART I

  Hours: 45

  Credits: 3

  This course is an introduction to the history of visual arts and design from the earliest evidence to the fourteenth century. The concentration will be on the history of art in the Near East and Europe: Western Art. Since there has been contact between these areas and the Indian sub-continent and the Far East, and since these have been influences on the later history of Western Art, the art of Asian cultures during this period will also be briefly considered. 

   

  Prerequisites: 60% in ELA 30-1
• INTRODUCTION TO EARTH SCIENCES: GEOLOGY & GEOMORPHOLOGY

  Course ID: EASC101

  Name: INTRODUCTION TO EARTH SCIENCES: GEOLOGY & GEOMORPHOLOGY

  Hours: 84

  Credits: 3

  EASC101 introduces students to basic concepts of physical geology. Following an introduction to minerals as the basic building blocks of earth materials, igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks are examined. This is followed by a detailed look at the earth's internal structure and processes that occur within it. Students are acquainted with the theory of plate tectonics as a unifying concept in geology, after which crustal tectonics and resulting deformation structures are explored. Earth surface processes are also examined including weathering, mass movement, surface water movement, glaciations, wind action, and desert processes. The final part of the course introduces students to the application of remote sensing and GIS in the earth sciences.

   

  Prerequisite: Completion of first-year NRT or 60% in ELA 30-1 and BIO 30 or CHEM 30
• INTRODUCTION TO DRAMA AND TO POETRY

  Course ID: ENGL106

  Name: INTRODUCTION TO DRAMA AND TO POETRY

  Hours: 45

  Credits: 3

  English 106 is designed to teach critical writing, critical reading, and critical thinking while studying canonical literary texts from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries. This course combines the study of literary works with instructional texts to teach students to express themselves more clearly in writing and in speech. The creators of this course also hope that students develop an appreciation for fine literary works.  

   

  This course will present plays and poems from a variety of historical periods and from a variety of cultural contexts. Particular emphasis will be placed on the development of correct writing style, rhetorical skills, and thinking skills required for academic study.  

   

  A minimum of thirty percent of class time will be devoted to writing instruction, which may take any or all of the following forms: grammar and punctuation instruction, informal writing exercises, writing workshops, stylistic and rhetorical analysis, research skills, peer editing, and group writing projects. The total amount of writing will be no less than 3,000 words.  

   

  Prerequisite: 60% in ELA 30-1
• PERSONAL HEALTH & WELLNESS

  Course ID: HEED105

  Name: PERSONAL HEALTH & WELLNESS

  Hours: 45

  Credits: 3

  This course will introduce you to the physical, social, mental, occupational, emotional, environmental and spiritual dimensions of personal health and wellness. These dimensions are described within the context of the Canadian Health Care System and your own individual community. Topics include primary health care, nutrition, exercise, stress management, weight management, eating disorders, common health issues and their prevention. You will be expected to integrate knowledge of the seven dimensions of health and apply this knowledge to a self-analysis of your own health and physical fitness. Finally, you will incorporate change management theory to develop, implement and evaluate a personal wellness plan. The intent of this course is to promote a healthy lifestyle. By examining determinants of health, the current health care system, the seven dimensions of health and applying these concepts to your own lifestyle, you will be better equipped to function as role models and act as change agents for health promotion in your community. Prerequisite 60% in ELA 30-1

• HIGHER ARITHMETIC

  Course ID: MATH160

  Name: HIGHER ARITHMETIC

  Hours: 45

  Credits: 3

  Math 160 is required for elementary teachers (education majors), critical thinking and problem solving is stressed throughout the course. Conceptual understanding of elementary number theory, set theory, numeration systems and their operations algorithms is the subject of the study; as well as the preparation and presentation of Math Fair. Prerequisites: 60% in ELA 30-1 and Math 30

• ORGANISMS IN THEIR ENVIRONMENT

  Course ID: BIOL102

  Name: ORGANISMS IN THEIR ENVIRONMENT

  Hours: 84

  Credits: 3

  This course is designed for both Biology majors and non-majors, and explores the principal lineages of organisms on earth: bacteria and archaea, fungi, protists, plants and animals. The relationships of these organisms to their environment and their influence in shaping that environment are examined. Evolutionary pathways and their influence on the diversity of extinct and extant organisms and the classification schemes that we use to distinguish them are discussed. The role that organisms (including humans) have played in the development and maintenance of major ecosystem processes are also studied. This course includes a lab component. PREREQUISITES: 60% in ELA 30-1 and 60% in BIO 30

• INTRODUCTORY COMPOSITION

  Course ID: ENGL102

  Name: INTRODUCTORY COMPOSITION

  Hours: 45

  Credits: 3

  This course helps students to develop the academic writing skills they use throughout their university studies. Students learn to identify good writing, and develop needed research, analytical, and organizational skills. Starting with building good sentences and paragraphs, the research essay is the most important genre in this course. By analyzing, summarizing, synthesizing, and critiquing a variety of texts, students learn how to develop their own analyses and arguments with appropriate and correctly documented primary and secondary sources. Readings by or about indigenous and minority peoples form no less than 50% of the readings in this course. A review of grammar and sentence structure is a key component of this course.  Students are advised to choose a research topic in line with their career goals.  

   

  Prerequisite 60% in ELA 30-1
• INTRODUCTION TO THE NOVEL AND THE SHORT STORY

  Course ID: ENGL108

  Name: INTRODUCTION TO THE NOVEL AND THE SHORT STORY

  Hours: 45

  Credits: 3

  English 108 is designed to teach critical writing, critical reading, and critical thinking while studying canonical literary texts from the eighteenth to the twentieth-first centuries. This course combines the study of literary works with instructional texts to teach students to express themselves more clearly in writing and in speech. The creators of this course also hope that students develop an appreciation for fine literary works. This course will present novels and short stories from a variety of historical periods, and from a variety of cultural contexts. Particular emphasis will be place of the development of correct writing style, rhetorical skills, and thinking skills required for academic study. A minimum of thirty percent of class time will be devoted to writing instruction, which may take any or all of the following forms: formal written assignments, informal writing exercises, writing workshops, stylistic and rhetorical analysis, research skills, peer editing, group writing projects, and ungraded writing. Students will write two formal essays that will be graded, including an analytical and a research paper. The total amount of writing will be no less than 3,000 words. Prerequisites: ENGL 106 or other 3 credit junior English

• THE MODERN WORLD

  Course ID: HIST102

  Name: THE MODERN WORLD

  Hours: 45

  Credits: 3

  History 102 is intended to introduce students both to the content of modern world history and to the study of history at the university level. In content, the course traces the development of the modern world since around 1800. As with any history, the focus of the classes and readings is selective; we cannot hope to cover every society and nation in equal depth, but must attempt to negotiate a balance between specific historical detail and broad themes. In the process, students will be expected to develop and utilise skills needed for history as an academic discipline, such as the ability to remember when things happened and how they fit together, the ability to read historical texts carefully and to ask questions of those texts, and the ability to express themselves clearly and coherently in writing. Ideally, students should come away from this course not simply knowing “facts,” but equipped to think historically about the world in which we live, and armed with skills of critical analysis and expression that they will find applicable to many areas of endeavour aside from history. Prerequisites: 60% in ELA 30-1

• INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS & RESEARCH METHODS

  Course ID: STAT141

  Name: INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS & RESEARCH METHODS

  Hours: 45

  Credits: 3

  This introductory statistics course provides students in a variety of disciplines with basic knowledge regarding the theory and application of statistics. Prerequisites: 50% in MATH 30-1 or Math 30-2 at 60% and 60% in ELA 30-1

• DRAMATIC PROCESS I

  Course ID: DRMA101

  Name: DRAMATIC PROCESS I

  Hours: 45

  Credits: 3

  An introduction to the process of acting and dramatic form through the process of improvisation. This workshop-based course will explore speech and movement improvisation with an emphasis on imaginative development and introduction to the process of acting and to dramatic form. PREREQUISITE: 60% in ELA 30-1

• AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF CANADIAN HISTORY, 1500-1867

  Course ID: HIST210

  Name: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF CANADIAN HISTORY, 1500-1867

  Hours: 45

  Credits: 3

  This course will provide an introductory survey of Canadian history from roughly 1500 to 1867. Some of the major themes to be discussed will include: Aboriginal-European contact; the fur trade; New France; and the expansion of white settlements. In addition, key concepts and methods of history as a discipline will be reviewed. Prerequisites: 60% in ELA 30-1

• INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY

  Course ID: SOCI101

  Name: INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY

  Hours: 45

  Credits: 3

  This course is designed to introduce students to the discipline of Sociology and current sociological trends and issues. The course provides an overview of sociological concepts, perspectives, processes and institutions in a Canadian context with particular emphasis on various issues impacting Canadian society.

   

  Prerequisites: 60% in ELA 30-1
• CREE LANGUAGE

  Course ID: CREE101

  Name: CREE LANGUAGE

  Hours: 45

  Credits: 3

  Introductory Cree Part One provides instruction at the introductory level.  Students will learn basic Plains Cree (Y Dialect) conversational skills. This course is designed to focus on speaking and listening skills.  Students will learn conversational skills through online instruction, group activities and project work. The goal of this course is to expand vocabulary and increase the student's fluency in spoken Plains Cree. Situations at home, school or community will be used to engage learners. Cree culture and protocol will be discussed to enhance the accurate use of particular Cree words during a dialogue.  This course will prepare students for Intermediate levels of Cree language study at the university level.

  This course is a prerequisite for CREE102.

  Prerequisite – None

  *Course offering is based on public interest.

• PLAY ANALYSIS

  Course ID: DRMA102

  Name: PLAY ANALYSIS

  Hours: 45

  Credits: 3

  DRMA 102 is an in-depth look into the key elements and concepts of Play Analysis. This course introduces students to a variety of approaches when analyzing plays. It will focus on elements of genre, structure, style, character, theme, language, imagery, and dramatic action, among other topics pertinent to dramatic narrative and structure. PREREQUISITE: 60% in ELA 30-1

• EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY FOR TEACHING

  Course ID: EDPY200

  Name: EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY FOR TEACHING

  Hours: 45

  Credits: 3

  This course examines the psychology of learning and instruction. The theoretical basis of human development, learning, and teaching will each be explored, providing a comprehensive background to the art of education and effective teaching. PREREQUISITE: 60% in ELA 30-1

• INTRODUCTION TO THE MOVEMENT ACTIVITIES TO CHILDREN

  Course ID: PHED200

  Name: INTRODUCTION TO THE MOVEMENT ACTIVITIES TO CHILDREN

  Hours: 45

  Credits: 3

  This course explores the study of developmentally appropriate movement activities for children. Students participate in, and work with children in a variety of physical activities in recreational, educational and sport environments. Prerequisite: ELA 30-1.

• INTRODUCTORY PSYCHOLOGY

  Course ID: PSYC104

  Name: INTRODUCTORY PSYCHOLOGY

  Hours: 45

  Credits: 3

  This course is a prerequisite to other psychology courses at Portage College. This Introductory psychology course is intended to inspire an interest in, and an appreciation for, the field of psychology.  Topics in this course include the history of psychological science, psychological research methods, the structure and function of the brain and nervous system, learning, sensation, perception, memory, consciousness, thought, and language.

  Prerequisites: 60% in ELA 30-1

• INTRODUCTION TO THE MOVEMENT ACTIVITIES TO CHILDREN

  Course ID: PHED200

  Name: INTRODUCTION TO THE MOVEMENT ACTIVITIES TO CHILDREN

  Hours: 45

  Credits: 3

  This course explores the study of developmentally appropriate movement activities for children. Students participate in, and work with children in a variety of physical activities in recreational, educational and sport environments. Prerequisite: ELA 30-1.

• INTRODUCTION TO EARTH SCIENCES: GEOLOGY & GEOMORPHOLOGY

  Course ID: EASC101

  Name: INTRODUCTION TO EARTH SCIENCES: GEOLOGY & GEOMORPHOLOGY

  Hours: 84

  Credits: 3

  EASC101 introduces students to basic concepts of physical geology. Following an introduction to minerals as the basic building blocks of earth materials, igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks are examined. This is followed by a detailed look at the earth's internal structure and processes that occur within it. Students are acquainted with the theory of plate tectonics as a unifying concept in geology, after which crustal tectonics and resulting deformation structures are explored. Earth surface processes are also examined including weathering, mass movement, surface water movement, glaciations, wind action, and desert processes. The final part of the course introduces students to the application of remote sensing and GIS in the earth sciences.

   

  Prerequisite: Completion of first-year NRT or 60% in ELA 30-1 and BIO 30 or CHEM 30
• INTRODUCTION TO DRAMA AND TO POETRY

  Course ID: ENGL106

  Name: INTRODUCTION TO DRAMA AND TO POETRY

  Hours: 45

  Credits: 3

  English 106 is designed to teach critical writing, critical reading, and critical thinking while studying canonical literary texts from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries. This course combines the study of literary works with instructional texts to teach students to express themselves more clearly in writing and in speech. The creators of this course also hope that students develop an appreciation for fine literary works.  

   

  This course will present plays and poems from a variety of historical periods and from a variety of cultural contexts. Particular emphasis will be placed on the development of correct writing style, rhetorical skills, and thinking skills required for academic study.  

   

  A minimum of thirty percent of class time will be devoted to writing instruction, which may take any or all of the following forms: grammar and punctuation instruction, informal writing exercises, writing workshops, stylistic and rhetorical analysis, research skills, peer editing, and group writing projects. The total amount of writing will be no less than 3,000 words.  

   

  Prerequisite: 60% in ELA 30-1
• INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF WESTERN ART II

  Course ID: ARTH102

  Name: INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF WESTERN ART II

  Hours: 45

  Credits: 3

  This course provides an introduction to the history of visual arts and design from the 14th Century to the present day. While the course can be taken on its own, it also follows ARTH 101, which surveys the history of visual arts and design from the earliest times up to the 14th Century. ARTH 102 starts at a period that is academically considered to be the origin of our modern age and follows the development of the visual arts to the types of art, design, and architecture that are being created around us in our contemporary world.

   

  Prerequisites: 60% in ELA 30-1
• INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS & RESEARCH METHODS

  Course ID: STAT141

  Name: INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS & RESEARCH METHODS

  Hours: 45

  Credits: 3

  This introductory statistics course provides students in a variety of disciplines with basic knowledge regarding the theory and application of statistics. Prerequisites: 50% in MATH 30-1 or Math 30-2 at 60% and 60% in ELA 30-1

• INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF WESTERN ART II

  Course ID: ARTH102

  Name: INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF WESTERN ART II

  Hours: 45

  Credits: 3

  This course provides an introduction to the history of visual arts and design from the 14th Century to the present day. While the course can be taken on its own, it also follows ARTH 101, which surveys the history of visual arts and design from the earliest times up to the 14th Century. ARTH 102 starts at a period that is academically considered to be the origin of our modern age and follows the development of the visual arts to the types of art, design, and architecture that are being created around us in our contemporary world.

   

  Prerequisites: 60% in ELA 30-1
• ORGANISMS IN THEIR ENVIRONMENT

  Course ID: BIOL102

  Name: ORGANISMS IN THEIR ENVIRONMENT

  Hours: 84

  Credits: 3

  This course is designed for both Biology majors and non-majors, and explores the principal lineages of organisms on earth: bacteria and archaea, fungi, protists, plants and animals. The relationships of these organisms to their environment and their influence in shaping that environment are examined. Evolutionary pathways and their influence on the diversity of extinct and extant organisms and the classification schemes that we use to distinguish them are discussed. The role that organisms (including humans) have played in the development and maintenance of major ecosystem processes are also studied. This course includes a lab component. PREREQUISITES: 60% in ELA 30-1 and 60% in BIO 30

• INTRODUCTION TO THE NOVEL AND THE SHORT STORY

  Course ID: ENGL108

  Name: INTRODUCTION TO THE NOVEL AND THE SHORT STORY

  Hours: 45

  Credits: 3

  English 108 is designed to teach critical writing, critical reading, and critical thinking while studying canonical literary texts from the eighteenth to the twentieth-first centuries. This course combines the study of literary works with instructional texts to teach students to express themselves more clearly in writing and in speech. The creators of this course also hope that students develop an appreciation for fine literary works. This course will present novels and short stories from a variety of historical periods, and from a variety of cultural contexts. Particular emphasis will be place of the development of correct writing style, rhetorical skills, and thinking skills required for academic study. A minimum of thirty percent of class time will be devoted to writing instruction, which may take any or all of the following forms: formal written assignments, informal writing exercises, writing workshops, stylistic and rhetorical analysis, research skills, peer editing, group writing projects, and ungraded writing. Students will write two formal essays that will be graded, including an analytical and a research paper. The total amount of writing will be no less than 3,000 words. Prerequisites: ENGL 106 or other 3 credit junior English

• THE MODERN WORLD

  Course ID: HIST102

  Name: THE MODERN WORLD

  Hours: 45

  Credits: 3

  History 102 is intended to introduce students both to the content of modern world history and to the study of history at the university level. In content, the course traces the development of the modern world since around 1800. As with any history, the focus of the classes and readings is selective; we cannot hope to cover every society and nation in equal depth, but must attempt to negotiate a balance between specific historical detail and broad themes. In the process, students will be expected to develop and utilise skills needed for history as an academic discipline, such as the ability to remember when things happened and how they fit together, the ability to read historical texts carefully and to ask questions of those texts, and the ability to express themselves clearly and coherently in writing. Ideally, students should come away from this course not simply knowing “facts,” but equipped to think historically about the world in which we live, and armed with skills of critical analysis and expression that they will find applicable to many areas of endeavour aside from history. Prerequisites: 60% in ELA 30-1

• INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS & RESEARCH METHODS

  Course ID: STAT141

  Name: INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS & RESEARCH METHODS

  Hours: 45

  Credits: 3

  This introductory statistics course provides students in a variety of disciplines with basic knowledge regarding the theory and application of statistics. Prerequisites: 50% in MATH 30-1 or Math 30-2 at 60% and 60% in ELA 30-1

• INTRODUCTORY GENETICS

  Course ID: BIOL207

  Name: INTRODUCTORY GENETICS

  Hours: 84

  Credits: 3

  Introductory Genetics. How genes function at chromosomal, molecular, and evolutionary levels. How they are repaired, regulated, and transmitted. How they regulate development in prokaryotic and eukaryotic systems. Development of genetics from Mendelian transmission through gene mapping, molecular methods, isolation of individual genes, sequencing, genome projects, and beyond.

   

  Prerequisite: BIOL 101
• INTRODUCTORY COMPOSITION

  Course ID: ENGL102

  Name: INTRODUCTORY COMPOSITION

  Hours: 45

  Credits: 3

  This course helps students to develop the academic writing skills they use throughout their university studies. Students learn to identify good writing, and develop needed research, analytical, and organizational skills. Starting with building good sentences and paragraphs, the research essay is the most important genre in this course. By analyzing, summarizing, synthesizing, and critiquing a variety of texts, students learn how to develop their own analyses and arguments with appropriate and correctly documented primary and secondary sources. Readings by or about indigenous and minority peoples form no less than 50% of the readings in this course. A review of grammar and sentence structure is a key component of this course.  Students are advised to choose a research topic in line with their career goals.  

   

  Prerequisite 60% in ELA 30-1
• AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF CANADIAN HISTORY, 1500-1867

  Course ID: HIST210

  Name: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF CANADIAN HISTORY, 1500-1867

  Hours: 45

  Credits: 3

  This course will provide an introductory survey of Canadian history from roughly 1500 to 1867. Some of the major themes to be discussed will include: Aboriginal-European contact; the fur trade; New France; and the expansion of white settlements. In addition, key concepts and methods of history as a discipline will be reviewed. Prerequisites: 60% in ELA 30-1

• INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY

  Course ID: SOCI101

  Name: INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY

  Hours: 45

  Credits: 3

  This course is designed to introduce students to the discipline of Sociology and current sociological trends and issues. The course provides an overview of sociological concepts, perspectives, processes and institutions in a Canadian context with particular emphasis on various issues impacting Canadian society.

   

  Prerequisites: 60% in ELA 30-1
• PLAY ANALYSIS

  Course ID: DRMA102

  Name: PLAY ANALYSIS

  Hours: 45

  Credits: 3

  DRMA 102 is an in-depth look into the key elements and concepts of Play Analysis. This course introduces students to a variety of approaches when analyzing plays. It will focus on elements of genre, structure, style, character, theme, language, imagery, and dramatic action, among other topics pertinent to dramatic narrative and structure. PREREQUISITE: 60% in ELA 30-1

• INTRODUCTION TO THE MOVEMENT ACTIVITIES TO CHILDREN

  Course ID: PHED200

  Name: INTRODUCTION TO THE MOVEMENT ACTIVITIES TO CHILDREN

  Hours: 45

  Credits: 3

  This course explores the study of developmentally appropriate movement activities for children. Students participate in, and work with children in a variety of physical activities in recreational, educational and sport environments. Prerequisite: ELA 30-1.

• MYTH & FOLKLORE: CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

  Course ID: ENGL388

  Name: MYTH & FOLKLORE: CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

  Hours: 45

  Credits: 3

  Western English-speaking civilization has deeply imbedded in it myths and folklore drawn from a very wide range of cultures, from the ancient Greek and Roman, to Norse and Arabic legend, from Arthurian legend to pagan religion, from oral folk tales to superstitions and traditional songs. Much children’s literature, particularly novels in a children’s fantasy genre, draws heavily on these traditions, both consciously and unconsciously. Prerequisites: ENGL106 and ENGL108

• INTRODUCTORY PSYCHOLOGY

  Course ID: PSYC104

  Name: INTRODUCTORY PSYCHOLOGY

  Hours: 45

  Credits: 3

  This course is a prerequisite to other psychology courses at Portage College. This Introductory psychology course is intended to inspire an interest in, and an appreciation for, the field of psychology.  Topics in this course include the history of psychological science, psychological research methods, the structure and function of the brain and nervous system, learning, sensation, perception, memory, consciousness, thought, and language.

  Prerequisites: 60% in ELA 30-1

• CLASSICS OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

  Course ID: ENGL389

  Name: CLASSICS OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

  Hours: 45

  Credits: 3

  English 389 is a study of selected works written for children that have continued to be read and loved by successive generations of both children and adults. The main purpose of the course is to consider a central question: why have these works continued to appeal? What are the features and elements, beyond the immediately obvious, that have caused a children's book to become a classic when so many written at the same time have been long forgotten? (See calendar for course detail). Prerequisites: ENGL106 and ENGL108

• HISTORY OF THE NATIVE PEOPLES OF CANADA TO 1867

  Course ID: HIST368

  Name: HISTORY OF THE NATIVE PEOPLES OF CANADA TO 1867

  Hours: 45

  Credits: 3

  History 368 is a lecture and seminar course that examines the history of the indigenous peoples of Canada prior to and at the moment of first contact with European peoples. In order to gain a full perspective of this critical time period in the North American history, students examine a variety of oral and written documents produced by First Nations, Métis, Aboriginal, and Inuit peoples as well as European explorers, traders and settlers. A combination of lectures and seminar groups are used to examine the early relationship between existing native cultures and their later responses to European exploration and trade. The textbook readings and related articles will acquaint students not only with the indigenous history, but also with the different methodological approaches used by academics. A minimum of thirty percent of class time will be devoted to discussion of archival evidence (oral history, local history, family history, journals, records, letters, and so on), which may take any or all of the following forms: online discussion forums, in-class group discussion, and critical response essays. Prerequisites: 3 credits in a junior level history or ANTH250

• INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY

  Course ID: ANTH101

  Name: INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY

  Hours: 45

  Credits: 3

  This course provides a general introduction to anthropology through the study of central concepts and key issues in each of the four fields of anthropology: biological, cultural, and linguistic anthropology as well as archaeology. Human variation, both physical and cultural, will be examined in the context of adaptation and change.

   

  Prerequisite: 60% in ELA 30-1