Metropolitan Community College
Abbotsford, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
http://www.metropolitancollege.ca/

Bridging Employment for First Nations Women (Certificate)

The New Horizons Program is an all-female Special Bridging Employment Program, specifically designed for Aboriginal / Metis women, who are on income assistance and are survivors of violence or abuse. They face multiple barriers to employment. The program will benefit other female survivors of violence or abuse, who also face multiple barriers to employment. The aim of the program is two-fol......
 

Students will learn that grief experience is unique to each individual, gender and grieving styles are important factors that can shape the experience of bereavement and its expression. Topics will include grieving styles to understand the meaning of the experience of the bereaved and to explore the range of emotional and practical coping strategies. A range of creative support methods will be ......
 

Through an exploration of contemporary theories, practices and debates surrounding restorative methods of guidance and counselling, students are expected to develop their own approaches to guidance and helping. The course will uncover contemporary therapeutic orientations, fundamental issues in guidance, and ethical issues in being a trained helper. Students will be encouraged to draw upon thei......
 

Although Thanatology students do not provide palliative care for patience, the scope of this course will endeavour to assist students to enable patients and families cope with palliative care and understand the issues of such care. Principles will include control of pain and symptoms, psychological, social, cultural and spiritual issues. Students will also learn how to respond to chronic illnes......
 

Students will be exposed to interview and counselling skills in both professional and non-professional settings. Key areas of focus are on improving communication and strengthening relationships by enhancing the skills required to carry out counselling fundamentals. Students will learn the bereavement process and special life problems associated with it, definitions of counselling, grief reacti......
 

The aim of this course is to enable students to develop and practise effective communication in their everyday practice. It begins with an examination of the nature of interpersonal relationships, individual differences and interpersonal communications. It delves into developing team skills, group decision-making and problem-solving, cross cultural relationships, issues of diversity, conflict r......
 

Mental health is about people - real people. It is with this spirit that this course explores the humanity underlying even the most outlandish of disordered behaviour. Students will critically examine behaviours termed anti-social, unproductive, abnormal, self-destructive and psychotic in a context of understanding, compassion and openness. Topics such as anxiety, mood disorders, traumatic diso......
 

This course focuses on the understanding of the concepts and approaches to cope with bereavement and grief. Students will learn about the effects of grief and how the treatment of it can lead to healing. Topics will include attachment theory, normal and complicated grief, factors influencing the grief reaction, bereavement following the death of a child/parent either due to illness, accident or......
 

This course introduces the student to the problem-solving approach to planning for care of those in need. Students will learn how to assess the needs of their clients, and how to deliver the proper care required. Topics will also include proper report writing and sourcing-out references and referral services for clients and their families. This course will explore various orientations to healin......
 

This course is designed to provide students with the different strategies used in report writing from a business and/or social science perspective. An introduction to research strategies in the social sciences/business context is followed by methods used in writing research proposal, project planning reports and forms of presenting report. Other research skills such as project planning, data co......
 

This course covers the complete accounting cycle for service and merchandising proprietorships including discounts, and merchandise returns. Topics include analyzing and recording business transactions; adjusting account balances for prepayments, accruals, amortization of Capital Assets (Straight-line); completing the worksheet; closing the books; and preparing financial statements in good form......
 

This course is designed to introduce students to the concepts and practices used by management in the planning and controlling of their company. Topics include Managerial Accounting Basics and Concepts, Manufacturing Costs in Financial Statements, Job Order Cost Accounting, Process Cost Accounting, Activity-Based Accounting, Decision-making process through Cost-Volume-Profit analysis, Net-Prese......
 

This course introduces students to the cultural diversity of British Columbians and explores some of the problems faced by people from different cultures as they negotiate social and human services. The course also examines the ethno-cultural sensitivity to racial, cultural, and spiritual concerns in British Columbia. The primary aim of the course is to enable students develop effective cross-c......
 

The aim of this course is to provide students with an appreciation of leadership skills required in providing assistance and guidance at a personal, social, and psychological level. It relies heavily on practical classroom exercises to enable students understand group dynamics, develop group facilitation skills, and device strategies for better planning and facilitation of a group. The course e......
 

The paralegal program is approved by the Public Service Commission of Canada (PSC), and students enrolled in the program (and have satisfied all the prescribed course requirements) may apply for co-op/co-op program with all Canadian Federal organizations. The curriculum has been prepared to reflect the proposed aim of the British Columbia Law Society’s Paralegal Task Force in raising the p......
 

This course will introduce the basic concepts, terminology, history and legislation regarding the practice of Criminal Law in Canada. Major emphasis will be put on the Criminal Code of Canada and its impact on society, as well as Criminal Law reform. Students will examine the criminal court system as it relates to adult and youth crime, as well as types of crime, defenses available to the accus......
 

This course will introduce students to social services and social work practice. It looks at the diversity of client needs at the local, provincial and federal level. Attention will be paid to the basic structure and function of social service agencies, ethical concerns in practice as well as the role played by both practitioners and paraprofessionals in the field. Students will be required to ......
 

This course focuses on the expansion of skills related to counselling the dying and their families. Students will learn the impact of perception, listening, self-acceptance, non-verbal messages, and listening skills. This course will encompass Inter-personal Communication and Inter-Cultural Communication. Inter-Cultural Communication focuses on cultural similarities and differences as they affe......
 

Thanatology (also known as grief or compassionate counselling) is the scientific study of how to cope with tragedies, death and dying, and associated practices. These practices include counselling of and/or care-giving to individuals and families in circumstances of tragedy such as death and dying, grief, post-traumatic disorder, health disorder of all sorts, just to mention a few. The word sci......
 

Intellectual property law offers a means through which individuals and businesses may protect their original works. This course covers the law, policy and practice relating to copyright, patents and trademarks, and the management and enforcement of intellectual property rights....
 

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