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Gain an understanding of the basic daily care that clients require. Learn the knowledge and skills related to observing and reporting client care concerns and assisting with activities of daily living.

Improve your understanding of parts of speech, grammar, and writing. Enhance your reading comprehension and speed while exploring strategies and improving your ability to retain information. Focus on literature by Aboriginal authors.

Study a variety of forms of literature such as short stories, drama, poetry, and non-fiction at the pre-high school level. Learn the steps of the writing process including the use of correct grammar, and use the writing process to develop essays. Study a feature film. There is a strong focus on Aboriginal authors and perspective throughout the course. This course will prepare you for English Language Arts 10-1 or English 010-1.

Study a variety of literature, films, and novels with a focus on Aboriginal authors. Effective reading and writing will also be examined. This course will prepare you for English 10-2, English 010-2 or Employment Preparation programs.

Explore your career potential through investigation, workplace tours, and job shadowing opportunities. Receive mentorship and support from successful Aboriginal leaders in a variety of occupations including business, trades, and health services. Develop employment preparation and job maintenance strategies that maximize your employability, and identify personal and employment skills and competencies required for competing effectively in today’s job market. Study effective workplace communication skills and health and wellness management from an Aboriginal perspective. Earn certificates and/or permits that will enhance your marketability in the work force including First Aid, Job Safety, WHMIS, and a learner’s/driver’s licence.

Gain meaningful career-related experience in a chosen workplace environment, while receiving mentorship and support from successful Aboriginal leaders in a variety of occupations including business, trades, and health services. Acquire and develop practical hands-on employment skills customized towards your employment or career goals, while you add work history, references, and experience to your resume. Acquire on-the-job training that will enhance your self-confidence and marketability within the work force. During your employment practicum, you may be placed at more than one site to gain experience within a variety of employment situations. Successful completion of this practicum may lead to offers of employment.

This course is designed to enhance students’ listening and speaking skills (academic and functional) to prepare them to be successful in the Health Care Aide program.

Prerequisites: CLB 5/6; 10 years of formal education

TThis course is designed to enhance students’ reading and writing skills (academic and functional) to prepare them to be successful in the Health Care Aide program.

Prerequisites: CLB 5/6; 10 years of formal education

This course is designed to help participants develop basic intercultural awareness and later competence for working in a variety of Canadian health-care contexts.

Prerequisites: CLB 5/6; 10 years of formal education

This course focuses on medical terminology and the development of the communication skills needed in the health-care sector. Students will be assisted to improve their English language reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills in order to successfully meet the language requirements of the Health Care Aide program.

Prerequisites: CLB 5/6; 10 years of formal education

Study cell division, molecular biology, genetics, population dynamics, reproduction and development, and the nervous and endocrine systems. Examine the effects of technology on humans.

Focus on the principles of effective business communication, both written and spoken. Specific topics include the writing process, improving grammar, writing a research paper, documenting with APA style, and preparing for public speaking. The process of revising and editing is emphasized throughout the course.

BStudy specific forms of business and employment communication including business letters and memoranda, resumes, covering letters for job applications and interviewing, formal report writing, graphic design principles, and business meetings.

As well as examining the formulation of business plans, you will study the function of management concerned with organization, staffing, directing, and controlling. Explore the objectives for effective management, such as profit, service, personnel, and operation. Case analysis is used to integrate course material.

Explore a range of mathematical calculations used in business. You will be introduced to simple interest, compound interest, annuities, amortization, sinking funds, statistical methods, and probability theory. Practical applications are emphasized in this course.

Study the basics relating to the field of marketing. Learn the principles of product, price, promotion, and place, along with understanding customers’ needs.

Gain an introduction to accounting procedures and statements and their underlying concepts and principles. Within this framework, accounting practice is integrated with the development of accounting information for effective decision making.

Further examine accounting procedures and their underlying concepts and principles. Learn about additional standards and problems of valuation, income measurement, and disclosure.

Learn from this practical introduction to the software applications most commonly used in business. Develop a basic working knowledge of a desktop operating system and a suite of business software applications that includes file management, word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and database management.

The organization of human productive energy is the central focus of this introductory course. Themes include balancing task, relationship requirements, and the needs of the organization with those of the individual. Specific topics include perception, personality, values, attitudes, motivation, group behaviour, and teamwork.

Examine the nature of economic problems and systems in relation to the following: functions of money, commercial and central banking, national income analysis, monetary and fiscal policy, and pricing under competitive and monopolistic conditions. Study selected topics in analysis and policy. Current economic problems are discussed throughout the course.

Through a seminar approach, explore the many ethical dimensions of business. This course includes a major group project for which class time is allotted.

Focus on the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of advertising and sales promotion programs. Explore the practicalities of media selection, local resource availability, budgets, and measures of effectiveness.

Examine the objectives of financial management and the related role and responsibilities of the financial manager. The approach is practical in nature with references to the development of theories in finance. Using a corporate framework, explore the various sources of funds for a firm.

Become familiar with the principles, concepts, and terminology of personal selling. Examine the sales process, with particular attention to developing a relationship approach to the sales transaction. Participate in a marketing project that allows you to experience the process of prospecting, presenting, and closing the sale.

Examine the field of retailing and merchandising from a practitioner’s point of view. Through lectures, case studies, and the examination of existing retail sites, develop an understanding of the concepts of retailing, merchandising, and store layout and design. Discuss different approaches to retailing, customer services, and entrepreneurship. Guest lecturers will be scheduled where appropriate.

Using non-traditional methodology, student groups form businesses that research, implement, and carry out marketing activities for community charities. This ongoing term project emphasizes how various components of the marketing mix and the environment are integral to the process of strategic and operational planning. With a hands-on practitioner’s point of view, you will analyze strategic marketing planning, product strategies, and pricing objectives. You will learn to handle conflict and co-operation problems, work with distribution systems, and navigate the integrated promotional mix.

The solution to marketing problems rests in sound analysis of consumer behaviour. Using the case method, find a practical outlet for quantitative and qualitative consumer analysis tools. Cases explore both goods and services marketing in both industrial and consumer environments.

Examine financial accounting topics in depth. Explore recent developments in accounting valuation and income determination and the related disclosure practices and reporting procedures, as recommended by professional accounting associations and applied in business today. The primary focus is on a comprehensive treatment of assets and liabilities. Special topics are introduced where appropriate.

Continue the in-depth examination of financial accounting introduced in Intermediate Accounting I. Explore issues in accounting valuation and income determination and the related disclosure practices and reporting procedures, as recommended by professional accounting associations and applied in business today. Focus on the capitalization of Canadian corporations and the individual reporting problems associated with corporate income taxes, pensions, leases, and the statement of cash flow. Discuss the application of accounting concepts to these special areas.

This course is the first part of a two-part, in-depth examination of the concepts of cost and managerial accounting. Major topics include cost-volume profit-analysis, relevant costs and short-term decision making, responsibility accounting, standard costing and variance analysis, and product costing and cost flow.

This course is the second part of the two-part, in-depth examination of the concepts of cost and managerial accounting initiated in Cost Accounting I. Topics include cost-volume-profit analysis and relevant costing and short-term decision making.

Learn the basic principles of the Canadian income tax system, the structure of the Income Tax Act, and the application of rules and procedures surrounding the determination of tax liability. Both individual and corporate taxpayers are considered.

The solution to marketing problems rests in sound analysis of consumer behaviour. Using the case method, you will find a practical outlet for quantitative and qualitative consumer analysis tools. Cases will explore both goods and services marketing in both industrial and consumer environments.

Beginning with an introduction to the concept of market research, you will go on to study the ways in which companies use market research to make practical, cost-effective marketing decisions. In partnership with an organization, you will take a practical approach to learning the course material by designing and implementing a marketing research project. In addition, you will further develop teambuilding and leadership skills, as well as written and verbal communication skills.

Study the objectives of financial management and the related role and responsibilities of the financial manager. The approach is practical in nature with references to the development of theories in finance. The various applications of funds by the firm are explored in this sequential course using a corporate framework.

Explore software used for financial accounting. Through practical experience with accounting and tax software packages, become familiar with current programs and their capabilities. A review of relational database management systems reveals the technology behind the most widely used accounting applications and a brief look at XML introduces newly emerging accounting technologies.

Using popular business applications software, learn and apply the sound principles of visual design. Term projects include the production of promotional documents, e.g., web pages and brochures. In addition, learn the marketing applications of spreadsheet and database programs.

Learn how to develop computerbased accounting information systems and how such information systems support decision making at all levels of management.

Prepare to focus on customer service. Learn the principles of customer service and relationship building. Also learn how to develop a positive philosophy of selling as determined by customer service principles and how relationship building, customer service, and selling interrelate.

Learn how to market product, services, and ideas using the Internet. Particular emphasis is placed on understanding the online consumer (both business-to-business and business- to-customer) and on strategically using the 4Ps of the marketing mix to meet customer needs.

Gain a general overview of the Canadian legal system, with emphasis on underlying considerations of social policy. Analyze selected topics from the fields of tort and contract, while considering the nature, sources, philosophy, and policy objectives of the law.

Examine the role of the external auditor and financial reporting, the role of the internal auditor and internal control, and operational auditing.

Learn about the business aspects of owning and operating a day home, including keeping child-care and financial records, the advantages of working for a day home agency, and promoting your day home.

Study the language of medical terminology. Learn how to read and interpret commonly used medical terms, symbols, and abbreviations. Develop your understanding of rules, prefixes, suffixes, roots, combining forms, body systems, diagnostics, and drug classifications. Achieve fluency through practice sessions, quizzes, and exercises.

Learn about and practise processing medical orders in a hospital setting. Work with orders for admissions, transfers, diagnostics tests, medical treatments, medications, and pre- and post-operative treatments.

Develop the written and verbal communication skills required of a business professional. In this course, you will examine business writing and learn how to write various letters and memos in a business context. Using critical thinking, you will further practise and perfect your communication skills through critical analysis, persuasive writing, summaries, and oral presentations. APA format is taught and practised throughout the course.

This four-week work experience placement gives you hands-on practice in an active hospital unit or in a long-term care environment.

6 credits (45:45:0 hours)

Create a variety of professional business documents. Increase your proficeincy and competency by using Word features such as character and paragraph formatting, pag formatting, columns, editing, tables, styles, and mail merge. Develop your keyboarding technique and skills while learning to prepare business documents.

Learn to work with spreadsheets using MS Excel software. Learn how to organize, design, and edit worksheets. Create formulas and functions (statistical, financial, database, and logical) for a variety of business applications, and use footers, headers, formatting, and charts. Students must have a minimum grade of C to progress to BUSN 1180.

Develop skills in office procedures and organization. Study office ergonomics and customer service; learn how to process mail; carry out file-management procedures; learn to build travel itineraries, and develop skills in arranging and documenting meetings.

Develop the written and verbal communication skills required of a business professional. In this course, you will examine business writing and develop various letters and memos in a business context. Using critical thinking, you will further practise and perfect your communication skills through critical analysis, persuasive writing, summaries, and oral presentations. APA format is taught and practised throughout the course.

Learn to use the various functions of MS Access. Create queries, tables, forms, reports, and pivot tables. Learn to use MS PowerPoint, and create professional business presentations using the advanced features such as transitions, animations, and master slides. Continue to improve keyboarding speed and accuracy throughout the course.

Develop your employability skills in this course. Learn to prepare a professional resume and handle an interview situation. Develop work related skills in team work, conflict management, problem solving and business ethics.

This advanced course builds on the MS Excel course and provides you with the opportunity to enhance your skills and productivity. You will learn to use features such as Macros, Scenarios, PivotTables, and Solver to automate tasks, improve efficiencies, and collect and analyze data. In addition to Excel, you will also learn about MS Outlook. You will learn to send and receive mail, schedule appointments, set up meetings, organize your contacts, and create tasks and notes.

Practise your technical and employability skills in a real workplace situation.

Review and apply math concepts to solve business problems, and learn the basic skills required for financial applications, bookkeeping concepts, and procedures. Learn the basics of how financial transactions are recorded using manual and computerized bookkeeping systems.

Develop skills in business event planning. Learn how to plan, design, implement, and minimize the risks in planning a successful business event. Gain hands-on experience in designing and implementing an actual event.

This course examines the professional and interpersonal skills required by a unit clerk. As they develop critical-thinking, problem-solving, and conflict-resolution skills, students will more fully understand the roles and responsibilities of each member of the health-care team and the importance of each in a health-care setting.

Get a solid introduction to basic computer skills. Learn and practise skills in Word, Windows, Excel, Outlook, and Internet applications. Learn by instruction and practice in keyboarding skills. Increase your keyboarding speed and accuracy to meet industry standards.

Learn how to do payroll and scheduling, health-care billing, and medical transcription. Acquire skills that will enhance your employment opportunities in the medical administration field.

Build on the skills you learned in Business Communications I. Study specific forms of business and employment communications. Learn to do business research and to document your sources using APA citation style. Learn basic graphic design principles for business communications.

Explore a range of mathematical calculations used in business. Practical applications are emphasized in this course.

Develop skills in research, report writing, and preparation of business proposals and business cases.

The organization of human production energy is the central focus of this introductory course. Themes include balancing tasks, relationship requirements, and the needs of the organization with those of the individual. Specific topics include perception, personality, values, attitudes, motivation, group behaviour, and teamwork.

Consolidate the knowledge you have already gained in the program and apply this knowledge to a series of client projects. You are placed in a variety of consultant roles and must complete the projects using a variety of computer applications. Develop critical thinking skills while deciding the best approach to solve real-world business challenges.

Study the language of medical terminology. Learn how to read and interpret commonly used medical terms, symbols, and abbreviations. Develop your understanding of rules, prefixes, suffixes, roots, combining forms, body systems, diagnostics, and drug classifications. Achieve fluency through practice sessions, quizzes, and exercises.

In this introductory course, students will learn the basic process of keeping records of cash received and cash spent, sales and purchases, and other money-related activities.

This introductory course provides students with an excellent understanding of the project-management process. This course will cover initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing projects.

In this course, you will apply all of the skills needed to successfully initiate, plan, execute, control, and close a project.

Develop skills in supervising, managing, and leading a team. Polish your public presentation skills as you work through public speaking modules.

Learn skills with desktop publishing software and practise those skills by using the software to complete several projects.

This course covers introductory MS Project topics such as using Gantt charts, adding resources, and monitoring costs..

Gain a better understanding of the principles of customer service and relationship building. Develop a positive philosophy of selling as determined by customer service principles, and learn how relationship building, customer service, and selling interrelate.

Master the language of medical terminology including categories of medications, medical specialties, case reports, and the basic rules and standard practices used in medication administration. Learn the diagnostic procedures and laboratory tests used in medical settings along with how and where to book tests. Understand the organization of the body and the terminology associated with the divisions of the body.

This course continues to expand the bookkeeping principles, procedures, and concepts as applied to a merchandising business.

Explore software used for financial accounting. Through practical experience with accounting and tax software packages, become familiar with current programs and their capabilities.

This course prepares students for any of the Business Careers programs at NorQuest College. Topics covered include self-awareness, personal resources and business skills. Students will also learn the financial cycle and will work through the accounting cycle of a service business.