DUAL CREDIT - POST SECONDARY
Course Fees
Students are responsible to pay Camosun College course fees.
International Students are required to pay course fees for all Advanced Placement and Dual Credit courses. The course fees can be as much as $850.
Find what Post-Secondary Schools these courses can transfer to. www.bctransferguide.ca/
Link to Camosun College Dual Credit Program - South Island Partnership (SIP)
ACCOUNTING 110
Financial Accounting 110
“Financial Accounting 110” is a three-credit transfer course. Students will complete all the steps of the accounting cycle culminating in the preparation and analysis of financial statements for sole proprietorships and corporations. Topics include: accounting principles, cash, receivables, inventory, capital assets, current liabilities and shareholders' equity. Completion of a manual bookkeeping practice set.
The Accounting 110 Course:
Is offered to students in grade 12 who are prepared for College level coursework
Is for students with English 12 and Pre-Calculus Math 11 or Foundations of Math 12 at 60%+
Provides 4 high school and 3 College (transfer) credits and concurrent registration
This is not a self-paced course. Students should be prepared to encounter the rigor and demand of a first year College course.
Students need to be self-motivated, able to manage online course work along with their regular secondary school course work to successfully complete the course.
To achieve success in this course, it is highly recommended that students be successful in Accounting 11. Accounting 11 is a prerequisite to Accounting 110
Students will also receive credit for Financial Accounting 12
BUSINESS 140
Business Information Technology
Business Software Applications is a three-credit transfer course. This course provides an introduction to information systems, hardware, software, networks and communication technologies as they are applied in a business context. Word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and file management software will also be introduced as well as the use of the school's computer labs including policies, networks and printing.
Is offered to students in grade 12 who are prepared for college level coursework
Is for students who have completed English 11 with 60% or assessment
Provides 4 high school and 3 college (transfer) credits and concurrent registration (high school and college)
This is not a self-paced course. Students should be prepared to encounter the rigor and demand of a first year College course.
Students need to be self-motivated, able to manage online course work along with their regular secondary school course work to successfully complete the course.
Students will also receive credit for Business Information Management 12
BIOLOGY 103
Dual Credit Anatomy & Physiology 12
This course is a combination of Claremont Secondary’s (SD63) Anatomy and Physiology 12 and Camosun College’s Biology 103 (General Biology), that allows students to gain post-secondary credits and experience while still in high school. Students will complete the learning objectives for Anatomy and Physiology 12 including biochemistry, cell biology and human anatomy and physiology. The Biology 103 portion of the course is intended to enhance student understanding by delving deeper into the topics covered in Anatomy and Physiology 12 and provide a more comprehensive laboratory experience. A Camosun instructor will present 42 hours of lecture material during class time, deliver laboratory sessions and assess student work. Students will travel to Camosun (Landsdowne Campus, Fisher Building) one evening per week (dates TBD) for approximately 10 labs. A Claremont teacher will provide support for the Biology 103 curriculum, assignments and labs.
Since Bio 103 is a dual credit course, students will receive 8 high school credits and 4 college/university credits. Bio 103 credits are transferable to UVic (Biology 150B), UBC, SFU, VIU, UNBC and most other BC colleges and Canadian universities.
CRIMINOLOGY 12/ 154
Offered in partnership with Camosun College, Criminology 154 provides an examination of the Canadian criminal justice system from the perspective of a criminal. Criminology 154 counts for course credit at Camosun College and as an unassigned first year elective at other universities.
Students who complete Criminology 154 will also receive four high school credits for the locally developed course Criminology 12.
Upon completion of this course students will be able to, map the progress of an accused person through the criminal justice process and identify the various options the system has for holding offenders accountable for their crimes.
Topics include: policing, the court process, sentencing and corrections. Students must complete both components of the course for dual credit.
Law 12 is not a prerequisite, but highly recommended.
ECONOMICS 103
Principles of Microeconomics
This course introduces the principles of microeconomic analysis. Students will learn how markets function, how changes in consumer preference, production technology, and resource availability affect the prices and quantities of goods. This is an excellent course for those seeking a career in Business, Finance, Human Resources and Economics.
Is offered to students in Grade 12 who are prepared for college level coursework.
Pre or Co-requisites: English 12, or English 12 First Peoples
Prerequisites: Foundations of Math 11 or Pre-Calculus Math 11.
Provides 4 high school and 3 college (transfer) credits and concurrent registration.
This is not a self-paced course. Students should be prepared to encounter the rigor and demand of a first year college course.
Students need to be self-motivated, able to manage online course work along with their regular secondary school course work to successfully
Students will also receive credit for Economics 12
MARKETING 110
Introduction to Marketing
An informative introduction to marketing, this course provides a basic understanding of Canadian and international marketing structures and techniques including defining and segmenting target markets, using planning and forecasting techniques, analyzing costs and benefits of marketing mixes, interpreting market research data, consumers and consumerism, industrial market potentials.
Prerequisites: "C" or higher in Pre-Calculus Math 11, Foundations of Math 11, or Foundations of Math 12
Pre/ Co-requisites: English 12, or English 12 First Peoples
Provides 4 high school and 3 College (transfer) credits and concurrent registration
This is not a self-paced course. Students should be prepared to encounter the rigor and demand of a first year College course.
Students need to be self-motivated, able to manage online course work along with their regular secondary school course work to successfully complete the course.
Students will also receive credit for E_Commerce 12
MATH 100
Math 100 is a first semester calculus course that is offered in partnership with Camosun College. By successfully completing Math 100, students will earn a fully-transferable first year university credit in addition to high school credit for Calculus 12.
Students need to have completed Pre-Calculus 12 in their grade 11 (or earlier) year with at least a B prior to enrolling in this course.
Students who take Math 100 are required to pay a registration fee to Camosun College.
PSYCHOLOGY 12/
PSYCHOLOGY 130
Contemporary Issues
This course acquaints students with major contemporary issues in psychology and considers their historical antecedents. Topics include: the application of psychological knowledge on lifespan development, personality, abnormal behaviour, social cognition, social influence and social relations to a variety of contemporary social issues.
Topics include: Psychology and life, human development, motivation, emotion, stress and health, personality, social psychology, psychological disorders and therapies for psychological disorders. This course takes concepts from Psychology 11 and 12 and looks at them in greater detail. Psychology 130 counts for course credit at Camosun College and as credits for university transfer. Psychology 12 elective credit is earned concurrently with Psychology 130.
Psychology 11 is recommended, but not required.
WORLD HISTORY 12 / HISTORY 108:
World History Since 1945
Offered in partnership with Camosun College, History 108 looks at the decline of European colonialism. It examines world tensions generated by the Cold War and assesses the collapse of the Soviet bloc. It charts the emergence of the USA as a global economic, political, military and cultural power, and the worldwide response.
History 108 counts for course credit at Camosun College and is a direct transfer UVic as History 112B and UBC as History 103 Semester 2. Students will leave History 108 with all of the fundamental skills they will need to be successful in post secondary humanities.
Students who complete History 108 will also receive four high school credits for World History 12. Students must complete both components of the course for dual credit.