Academic Calendar 2024-25
Academic Upgrading (Certificate)
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Certificate in Fundamental Academic Upgrading
Certificate in Intermediate Academic Upgrading
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FAU.CERT
IAU.CERT
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32.0000 |
Overview
Fundamental Upgrading
Students in Fundamental Academic Upgrading will work both independently and collaboratively to develop a range of skills and strategies to strengthen their basic reading, writing, and math skills. Students will accomplish life-long learning strategies and gain an understanding of Indigenous ways of knowing and world views. Upon completion of this certificate, students will be prepared for academic upgrading courses at the Intermediate level, and, in some cases, may directly enter into college programs.
This program is available full or part-time and varies in completion time.
Intermediate Upgrading
Students in Intermediate Academic Upgrading will further strengthen their math and English skills, as well as undertake career exploration. Upon completion, students will be prepared for courses at the Advanced and Provincial levels of math and English. The intermediate upgrading courses may act as prerequisites into other programs or 1st-year courses at the college.
This program is available full or part-time and varies in completion time.
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Admissions
Fundamental Upgrading and Intermediate Upgrading
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of Fundamental Upgrading, the learner will be able to:
- Critically discuss and respond to a variety of texts, genres and media
- Argue for or against ideas in written or oral assignments
- Composing own lyrics, poems, creative work on an identified theme
- Write 8-10 sentence paragraphs using abstract and academic forms (i.e. persuasive argument, formal summary, cause and effect, compare or contrast, advantages or disadvantages)
- Compose self-reflective writings that describe learning experiences
- Evaluate expressions using fractions, decimals and percent
- Represent proportion as a statement of equivalence between two ratios
- Write the relationship between two numbers or quantities as a rate
- Analyze data tables and graphs (bar, line, circle)
- Apply mathematical concepts and procedures to tasks of daily living
Upon successful completion of Intermediate Upgrading, the learner will be able to:
- Critically discuss and respond to a variety of texts, genres and media
- Argue for or against ideas in written or oral assignments
- Demonstrate effective listening and paraphrasing skills
- Use voice and body language effectively
- Deliver an effective oral presentation to inform or persuade
- Identify point of view, illogical argument, fallacies, stereotypes, bias and propaganda
- Use the steps of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing
- Adjust content and style of writing to suit purpose, audience and situation
- Revise and edit work to improve content, organization, word choice, phrasing, sentence and paragraph structure, spelling, punctuation, and mechanics
- Write effective paragraphs in a range of rhetorical modes (may include narrative, descriptive, process, compare/contrast, cause/effect, classification, expository, and persuasive)
- Use and cite variety of reference materials
- Review a book, movie, play, television program, documentary, piece of music, or other non-print material
- Use computer programs to create, edit, and publish
- Add, subtract, multiply, divide, and simplify decimals and fractions
- Graph rational numbers on the number line
- Calculate absolute value
- Convert between and within metric and Imperial or US Customary units using tables and/or calculators
- Use proportional reasoning for conversions
- Calculate perimeters, areas, surface areas, and volumes of triangles, squares, rectangles, parallelograms, trapezoids, circles and composite figures using formulas
- Use ratio and proportion to solve problems
- Evaluate algebraic expressions using substitution
- Solve word problems and formulae algebraically
- Solve and graph linear equations
- Apply laws of exponents to simplify expressions
- Convert between scientific and standard notation
- Add, subtract, multiply, and divide polynomials
- Factor polynomials by removing the largest common factor
- Calculate the side of a right triangle using the Pythagorean Theorem
- Evaluate the measure of an unknown side or angle of a right triangle using sine, cosine, or tangent ratios
Curriculum Fundamental Upgrading
Curriculum Intermediate Upgrading
Note:
To be eligible for the Certificate in Intermediate Academic Upgrading, you must complete:
- at least three (3) of the Intermediate courses (listed above), or,
- two (2) of the Intermediate courses* plus the Education and Career Planning Program (EDCP).
*One (1) MATH 053 , MATH 057 or equivalent.
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