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UCW Courses and the British
Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer
University Canada West participates in the British
Columbia post-secondary system that facilitates student transfer between
institutions. The provincially established and funded British Columbia
Council on Admissions and Transfer (BCCAT) regulates this system.
This body coordinates articulation agreements between institutions,
regarding student transfer of credit courses from one post-secondary
institution to another.
BCCAT has two categories. The “receiving”
institutions are the provincially accredited degree-granting universities
and university colleges. The “sending” institutions are
primarily the accredited community colleges. UCW is formally recognized
by BCCAT as a “receiving” institution.
To ensure that credit courses taken at UCW are transferable
within the BC post-secondary system, and elsewhere, the following
two measures have been taken. First, UCW is negotiating a Transfer
Protocol with each of the BC “receiving” institutions
in relation to each degree program. This document, which has been
designed and recommended by BCCAT, affirms mutual willingness by “receiving”
institutions to assess respective courses, on a course-by-course basis,
for transfer credit.
The second measure taken to ensure transferability
of UCW courses lies in the design of courses themselves. In their
first three terms at UCW, all students are required to take the same
introductory arts and science courses, ranging from university writing
and biology to psychology and history. These introductory courses
are designed in conformity with transferable credit courses offered
by institutions in the BCCAT system The detailed outlines of the first
ten of these courses can be found below.
Course Outlines:
ENGL
100 English Language Writing Skills
MATH 101 Foundation
Mathematics
BIOL 102 Modern Biology
ECON 103 Principles
of Micro-Economics
GEOG 104 Physical
Geography
ENGL 105 Contemporary
Literature: Drama and Narrative
COMP 106 Computer
Applications
PSYC 107 Fundamentals
of Psychology
ECOL 108 Introduction
to Ecology
ECON 109 Principles
of Macro-Economics
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