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EDCP 49 Education and Career Planning – Intermediate level aims to enhance the life and employment readiness skills of adult learners. Students develop a set of core skills to help them meet their personal, career, and educational goals. Specifically, students will investigate and practice a variety of communications skills applied to workplace settings. Students will also explore personal skills

EDCP 50 College Success - Advanced Level. This course helps students to succeed by developing a set of core skills to help them meet their personal, career, and educational goals. Topics covered include communication, career exploration, educational planning, study skills, time & stress management, interpersonal/personal skills, job preparation, living skills, diversity and critical thinking

EDCP 60 Education and Career Planning - Provincial Level is intended to enhance skills for further education and employment. Topics covered include personal awareness, communication, cultural diversity, education and career exploration, job search, study skills, and financial management. This course qualifies for the BC Adult Graduation Diploma.

EDSS 60 Student Success, Provincial Level is for students to develop the learning skills, study strategies and self-awareness necessary for students to experience success as life-long learners. This course qualifies for the BC Adult Graduation Diploma.

EDSS 99 College Success workshops are recommended for all students entering college programs. Learners will develop skills and techniques in crucial study-skill areas, which usually include goal setting, motivation, memorization techniques, active listening, test taking, note taking, time management, building support systems, learning styles, and mindfulness.

ELW 102 Evaluation of Learning Workshop (ELW). The ELW examines the practices that support the assessment and evaluation strategies used in education and training. The workshop allows instructors to develop the skills to design and implement a comprehensive set of assessment and evaluative measures intended to inform teaching practice and guide students toward success. The workshop enables the

EMPS 13 Beginner Employment Skills provides students with learning opportunities for developing beginner employability skills. Students will practice valuable workplace skills in a variety of activities that match the student's abilities. Students will gain a better understanding of common employer expectations, communication techniques, and professionalism.

EMPS 15 Employability and Workplace Skills I provides students with hands-on learning opportunities for developing essential employability skills. Students will practice valuable workplace skills that are transferrable to any work place. Topics include: feedback reception, cooperative work habits, and asking for help.

EMPS 17 Employability and Workplace Skills II builds upon the skills developed in EMPS 15. This course continues exploring the hands-on learning opportunities for developing essential employability skills. Students will enhance workplace skills transferable to any work place. Topics include: behavioural expectations, following directions, feedback reception, positive work habits, and

ENGL 40 English – Intermediate Level focuses on development of reading skills in conjunction with critical thinking, writing, speaking, and listening skills. In this course, students practice reading to understand periodicals, reports, technical materials, and/or literature and build effective writing skills through the use of proper sentence skills and writing different paragraph types. Upon

ENGL 50 English - Advanced Level is for students to upgrade their English skills. Through reading and writing, students will focus on critical and creative thinking, demonstrate oral and written communication, and develop reading, research, and cooperative learning. This course is designed to help students become natural, confident communicators. Students will engage in discussions and activities

ENGL 50 English - Advanced Level is for students to upgrade their English skills. Through reading and writing, students will focus on critical and creative thinking, demonstrate oral and written communication, and develop reading, research, and cooperative learning. This course is designed to help students become natural, confident communicators. Students will engage in discussions and activities

ENGL 60 English - Provincial Level is for students to upgrade their English skills. Students will develop academic English reading, writing, research, critical thinking and communications skills through studying Canadian literature. Various works of short fiction, poetry, plays and a novel are explored through discussion and analysis, while academic essay skills are developed throughout the course

ENGL 60 English - Provincial Level is for students to upgrade their English skills. Students will develop academic English reading, writing, research, critical thinking and communications skills through studying Canadian literature. Various works of short fiction, poetry, plays and a novel are explored through discussion and analysis, while academic essay skills are developed throughout the course

ENGL 110 introduces students to the world of scholarly writing -- reading it, thinking about it, and producing it as academic researchers. Students will explore how professional and/or academic writers across disciplines communicate to a variety of audiences. Students will practice active reading, writing and critical thinking skills by conducting scholarly research on a topic. This course aims to

ENGL 110 introduces students to the world of scholarly writing -- reading it, thinking about it, and producing it as academic researchers. Students will explore how professional and/or academic writers across disciplines communicate to a variety of audiences. Students will practice active reading, writing and critical thinking skills by conducting scholarly research on a topic. This course aims to

ENGL 111 Introduction to Literature is about living more intensely. Rather than providing answers, literature prompts us to ask better questions of ourselves and each other. Drama, poetry, short stories, and novels will guide us in discussion, reflection, and writing about literature.

ENGL 111 Introduction to Literature is about living more intensely. Rather than providing answers, literature prompts us to ask better questions of ourselves and each other. Drama, poetry, short stories, and novels will guide us in discussion, reflection, and writing about literature.

ENGL 112 Introduction to Poetry and Drama asks us to be in the moment. In English 112, we will reflect on both literary and cultural issues in ways relevant to our lives. Students will be guided in a close reading of poetic and dramatic texts, and the development of a literary vocabulary. Students will interpret texts, develop arguments, and write academic essays based on those texts.

ENGL 114 Introduction to Prose Fiction celebrates the human imagination. We will explore provocative ideas as expressed through contemporary short stories and novels. Students will further develop their ability to interpret texts, develop arguments, and write academic essays about those texts.

ENGL 200 A Survey of English Literature I. ''In spring folk long to go on pilgrimage'' so begins Geoffrey Chaucerï's 14th century masterpiece of the English tradition, The Canterbury Tales. In English 200, we will set out on a pilgrimage which honours the living beauty of the English language and its greatest writers such as Spenser, Shakespeare and Donne, ending in the 17th century with Milton.

ENGL 201 A Survey of English Literature II. From the calm reason of the Enlightenment to the passion of the Romantics, we still live out the questions first asked by the brilliant writers of 18th and 19th Centuries. In the company of such authors as Pope, Swift, Wollstonecraft, Keats, Wordsworth, and Austen, we continue our pilgrimage into culture, belief, and literary achievement begun in the

ENGL 202 Canadian Literature I: Indigenous Voices. From the earliest narratives, Euro Canadian writing has framed our understanding of Indigenous peoples. We will examine the works of Indigenous writers from across Canada. Reading and discussion will give us an opportunity to understand First People's literature, including the response to colonialism, and to experience the vitality of First People

ENGL 203 Canadian Literature II: Contemporary Voices. In our multicultural society and globalized world, what is so Canadian about Canadian literature? In this course we trace the emergence of Canadian literature on the world stage and how such writers frame connections between literature, nation, identity and culture.

ENGL 204 Children's Literature I - From Rags to Riches and Worlds of Magic. From folktales and urban legends to traditional and literary fairy tales, particularly the collections of Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm as well as Hans Christian Andersen and others, this course explores the roots of children's literature, including modern fantasy, such as J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the