Cambrian's Degree Breadth Elective Roster

In order to satisfy the breadth requirements stipulated by the Post Secondary Education Quality Assessment Board, all Degree programs must include degree breadth elective courses. These elective courses are intended to encourage you to explore a broad range of personal and societal topics and to develop self-understanding as well as critical thinking, problem solving and communication skills. The degree breadth electives will help you in your future vocation in that they are intended to help you meet the changing demands of working and living in Canada’s ever-changing and diverse society. Anonymized copies of student work (essays, exams and other) submitted in courses may be made available to the External Expert Review Panel members as a part of the quality assurance process for academic degree programs in Ontario. 

Depending on the program, you may need to take a specific number of lower-level and upper-level courses, as well as a combination from the following categories: Humanities, Global Cultures, Sciences and Social Sciences.

See the Program of Study page for breadth elective requirements for your specific degree program.

Students enrolled in a degree program at Cambrian College can choose from the following roster of breadth electives.

Humanities

LOWER-LEVEL DEGREE BREADTH COURSES
COM 1901Business Communication3
ENG 1920Advanced Writing and Rhetoric3
ENG 1921Contemporary English Literature3
SOC 1901Introduction to Popular Culture 3
UPPER-LEVEL DEGREE BREADTH COURSES
SOC 3901Cultural Theory and Criticism3
SOC 3903Diversity in Canadian Society3

Global Culture

LOWER-LEVEL DEGREE BREADTH COURSES
IND 1901Intro to Indigenous Studies3
UPPER-LEVEL DEGREE BREADTH COURSES
IND 3901Bearing Witness Truth and Reconciliation3

Sciences

LOWER-LEVEL DEGREE BREADTH COURSES
ENV 1901Introduction to Environmental Science3
UPPER-LEVEL DEGREE BREADTH COURSES
BIO 3901The Human Brain3
SCI 3901Astronomy3

Social Sciences

LOWER-LEVEL DEGREE BREADTH COURSES
PSY 1901Principles of Psychology3
PSY 1902Developmental Psychology3
SOC 1902Principles of Sociology3
UPPER-LEVEL DEGREE BREADTH COURSES
PSY 3900Concurrent Disorders3
SOC 3902Dimensions of Social Inequality3
SOC 3904Social Psychology3

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