Bachelor of Science Community Studies
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The 120 credit Bachelor of Science Community Studies (BScCS) program requires the successful completion of 20 courses including eight core curriculum courses (48 credits), seven area of concentration courses (42 credits), and five elective courses (30 credits). Students must also complete two work placements (voluntary or paid and each at least 120 hours); these do not count as credit courses in the Bachelor of Science Community Studies (BScCS).
Admission Requirements for Bachelor of Science Community Studies
Admission Requirements
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Required: Five Grade 12 advanced or academic courses including English; two Sciences (one of which must be Biology, Chemistry, or Physics); and Mathematics or pre-calculus Mathematics with an overall average of at least 65%. Recommended: Pre-calculus Mathematics.
Students may substitute one open course for one advanced or academic course except where a particular course is specified. Environmental Science 12 may be used as the second science with Biology, Chemistry or Physics.
It is strongly recommended that students contact CBU’s Student Advisors to discuss their two work placements within the first year of their program.
CORE
Courses in the core must include the following Community Studies (COMS) courses:
COMS1100 Analysis and Decision Making (6 credits)
COMS2100 Applied Research (6 credits)
COMS3100 Community Intervention (6 credits)
Other courses in the core must satisfy the following topic and credit requirements:
1. Science and technology perspectives (6 credits)
Recommended: PHIL2222 or equivalent
2. World views and values (3 credits)
Recommended: PHIL2123 or equivalent
3. Aboriginal perspectives (3 credits)
Recommended MIKM at 1000 or 2000 level or equivalent
4. Business perspectives (3 credits)
Recommended: MGMT1601, MRKT1301 or equivalent
5. Public communication (3 credits)
Recommended: COMM1103 or COMM1105
6. Effective writing (6 credits)
Recommended: two of ENGL1104, ENGL1106, ENGL1107, ENGL1108 and ENGL1109 or equivalent.
7. Computer literacy (3 credits)
Recommended: PHIL1103, COMP1163, MGSC2101 or equivalent
8. Statistics (3 credits)
Recommended: MATH1109, MGSC1108, PSYC2101 or equivalent
Please contact either the Dean of Science and Technology or the Dean of Arts and Social Sciences for information on topic equivalents.
Area of Concentration
Courses in the area of concentration must include 18-24 credits from those deemed to be university sciences and six to eight term courses from those deemed to be technology. Overall, at least 15 credits must be at or beyond the 3000 level, including at least six at the 4000 level. The particular courses that make up an area of concentration are mandatory, with their identity varying according to the specific area of concentration in question.
Student’s Electives
The student’s electives allow a student to take courses that will customize his or her academic experience to best suit his or her particular interests upon graduation. Course possibilities include all academic offerings at CBU, but choices made by each student must be approved by a dean or designated faculty member to ensure they appropriately complement a student’s interests and/or program integrity. Five courses (30 credits) are required. Possibilities also exist for a student to receive a maximum of one year of accreditation for community college transfer or prior learning assessment (PLA), interested individuals should check with the Student Service Centre or Dean’s office.
Work Placements
The two required work placements must be arranged in consultation with a dean or a designated faculty member. These placements are over and above the 120 credits required to complete the program. CBU’s Student Advisors, located in the Student Life Centre, will help arrange work terms and co-op placements for other degree and diploma programs, and will also provide assistance.
Graduation Eligibility
A student requires an overall average of 60% to be eligible to graduate from the Bachelor of Science Community Studies.
Bachelor of Science Community Studies (BScCS) Concentration in Toqwa’tu’kl Kjijitaqnn/MSITIntegrative Science
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Students wishing to enroll in this program must consult the Academic Vice Principal of Unama’ki College, the Chair of the Department of Indigenous Studies, the Dean of Science and Technology, the Dean of Arts and Social Sciences or the Student Service Centre for detailed program information.
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Toqwa’tu’kl Kjijitaqnn requires successful completion of 120 credits plus two work placements in a science or science related environment. The overall degree structure consists of four parts and each part was designed to provide opportunities to learn science.
Toqwa’tu’kl Kjijitaqnn requires successful completion of the following courses:
1. Core (science via small group topic choice in Community Studies courses)
- COMS1100 Analysis and Decision Making (6 credits)
- COMS2100 Applied Research (6 credits)
- COMS3100 Community Intervention (6 credits)
- Other courses in the core must satisfy the following topic and credit requirements:
- Science and technology perspectives (6 credits) Recommended: PHIL2222, or equivalent
- World views and values (3 credits) Recommended: PHIL2123 or equivalent
- Aboriginal perspectives (3 credits) Recommended MIKM at 1000; 2000 or 3000 level
2. Concentration
Science – 24 credits
- MSIT1101/MSIT1103 Sense of Place, Emergence & Participation
- MSIT2101/MSIT2103 Ways of Knowing
- MSIT3101/MSIT3103 Cycles & Holism
- MSIT4101/MSIT4103 Wholeness
Technology 18 credits
- CHEM1104/CHEM1105
- 6 credits from MATH1107/MATH1208, or PHYS1102
- 3 credits from GEOL1103, PUBH2103, PUBH2105 OR
- 3 credits from PUBH3101, PUBH3103, PUBH4106, or PUBH4111.
3. Electives (science via student’s choice)
4. Work Placements (science via on-the-job experience)
Note: Changes to technology component are currently under review.
ELECTIVES in MSIT
MSIT courses may be used as electives within the Bachelor of Science (BSc), Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Arts of Community Studies (BACS) and Business Administration (BBA) degrees.
The Integrative Science courses were created for Toqwa’tu’kl Kjijitaqnn, to involve concurrent delivery of the Mi’kmaw world view and modern Western science, integrated at all levels. Their designation as MSIT (from the Mi’kmaw word MSIT, which means “everything together”) refers to the holistic pedagogy which underpinned their creation, namely that education must utilize the whole mind while emphasizing relationships among the different dimensions of a human, between humans and nature and in nature. The common ground throughout all courses is “relationship”, with attention paid to the understanding that a profound knowledge of relationships in nature was, and is, reflected in Mi’kmaw language and legends.
MSIT1101/MSIT1103 and MSIT2101/MSIT2103 are required in the first year. They provide students with the foundations needed to pursue further studies in modern science and to complement these foundations with understandings from the Aboriginal way of knowing. As such, they explore select aspects of the Mi’kmaw language and world view, current scientific thinking on consciousness, the major and unifying theories in natural science (cosmology, physics, chemistry, geology, biology), and the overall theoretical framework of modern natural science. MSIT1101/MSIT1103 emphasize the internal human environment, and MSIT2101/MSIT2103 the external human environment.
MSIT3101/MSIT3103 are required in third year; they explore cyclical and transformational dynamics of natural phenomena, both internal and external.
MSIT4101/MSIT4103 are required in fourth year; they explore wholeness and the health, disease, and healing dynamics of natural phenomena, both internal and external.
Additional, optional organism and ecosystem (biodiversity) MSIT courses exist at second and subsequent year levels. These are MSIT2505 and MSIT3105, and would be taken as student electives in the BScCS Toqwa’tu’kl Kjijitaqnn.
Note: MSIT courses are open to all students, regardless of program or ethnicity. For purposes other than the BScCS Toqwa’tu’kl Kjijitaqnn, MSIT1101, MSIT1103, MSIT2101, MSIT2103, MSIT3101, MSIT3103, MSIT4101, and MSIT4103 have been designated as science; MSIT2505, and MSIT3105 as Biology, and MSIT221 as Geology.