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The proposed Bachelor of Therapeutic Recreation (BTR) is a 4-year undergraduate degree that will prepare students to work with individuals with disabilities, illnesses and other limiting conditions to support them to achieve independence and full engagement in life activities through meaningful leisure involvement. These aims will be achieved through client-centered individual and/or group interventions designed to teach skills, improve functional capacities, support psychosocial adaptation and address underlying issues that impact or limit participation in life activities, particularly leisure. Specific objectives of the program include to:

1) prepare graduates to influence Therapeutic Recreation practice through immersion in specialized depth and breadth of knowledge;
2) enhance application of knowledge by emphasizing high-impact teaching practices such as experiential education opportunities and community partnerships that advocate interdisciplinarity within Niagara Region and beyond;
3) prepare graduates to be leaders in advocating for evidence-informed best practices;
4) advance the mission and strategic priorities of the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences and Brock University.

Brock University’s Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) degree is in the field of Integrated Engineering, which is not defined by the traditional engineering disciplines and programs. Integrated engineering combines the fundamental and core engineering principles (electrical, mechanical, software, etc.) through project-based delivery methods. The program will cover engineering science and engineering design and will also draw on courses from mathematics and natural sciences, and from across other Faculties at Brock. The program’s learning outcomes will align both with the University’s degree level expectations for undergraduate programs, and with the graduate attributes and indicators to meet accreditation requirements by the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board of Engineers Canada. The goal of the program is to produce graduates who are skilled in communication, instinctively collaborative and inherently trans-disciplinary in their approach to problems. Through the experiential component of their programs, students will be engaged in their local communities while developing an awareness of the global reach of the challenges the world is facing. A Brock engineering graduate will be imbued with an appreciation of both the context and the implications of their work and engaged in their local and global communities.

The 3-year Bachelor of Science-Medical Sciences (Pass) degree is based on the initial 3 years of the 4-year BSc Medical Sciences Honours degree. It offers students the opportunity to pursue an abbreviated, multidisciplinary curricular program in Health Sciences with a strong foundation in medical and basic sciences. The program has the required number of science courses to satisfy requirements for a BSc degree, meeting student demand for a 3-
year Science degree option. It will be available to: 1) students who want to complete a BSc degree in the Health Sciences but have been removed from other programs due to academic challenges with one or more mandated components of that degree; 2) students whose academic plans change during their undergraduate and wish to pursue a healthrelated degree in an abbreviated amount of time; 3) outstanding students who wish to ‘fast
track’ from a 4-year BSc Med Sci degree into a 3-year BSc degree to pursue a professional post-graduate program that does not require a 4-year degree, such as medicine; and 4) students who are interested in transferring from other Brock University programs into a Health Sciences BSc (as opposed to BA). This 3-year degree will contribute to student retention at Brock University by providing more students a way to gain a BSc degree related
to Health Science. It mirrors the 4-year BSc Med Sci degree and thus will allow students the flexibility to finish in either 3 or 4 years depending on their average and their personal choice.

he BA in Educational Studies was developed around a central theme: Education for a Changing World. The overarching primary goal of the program is to develop graduates who understand the potential of educational initiatives to foster personal and social change in a wide variety of settings, including some which may not typically be thought of as ‘educational’. The program includes collaborative projects and partnerships with community organizations and has a spiraling curriculum where each year of the four-year program builds upon the previous one, referencing and building on themes introduced earlier. Courses in the first two years of the program introduce the program outcomes in a variety of ways and in a variety of contexts. The courses in the third year of the program then reinforce the program learning outcomes learned during the first two years. In the final year of the program, students demonstrate their mastery of the program learning outcomes through more specialized elective courses and a capstone experience (i.e., a capstone project or thesis).

Brock’s new Bachelor of Arts and Science (BASc) program in Earth and Planetary Science Communication (EPSC) will provide students with a solid understanding of the geologic processes operating on the Earth and other planets, as well as of developments in planetary exploration. In addition, students will be provided with a strong background in Communication.

This program will differ from existing Earth Science programs in that its aim is not to prepare students for careers as practicing Professional Geoscientists. Instead, the aim is to provide graduates with the knowledge about Earth and Planetary Science concepts, coupled with strong communication skills which will enable them to pursue careers in Communication for government agencies, NGOs, private companies, and journalism. The proposal sees graduates receiving a BASc degree rather than a BSc degree because it will not prepare graduates for a “career in science,” rather it prepares them for a “career about science.”

The proposed Bachelor of Arts in Adult Education (Honours) transforms Brock University’s current Adult Education certificate and BEd in Adult Education into a 20-credit Bachelor of Arts honours program with the existing pathways of a certificate and 15-credit degree. The culminating program will address an emerging need in Canada – _undergraduate programming for educators in Adult and Postsecondary Education. An honours degree would also develop research capacity for those intending to continue studies at the graduate level. An increased number of pathways provide avenues for student mobility as they engage in learning through their lifespans, according to professional- and personal-goal variations. The flexibility of part-time, online studies can create multiple points for entry and engagement for students moving through certificates, into degree programs, and then on to other certificates as they wish.

Psychology has a long history in both the natural and social sciences. The Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Psychology will allow students with an interest in a career in natural sciences to distinguish themselves from BA Psychology majors, who generally focus on social sciences. This program will further increase the degree options for Brock’s current Psychology students, allowing them to decide between a BA. and a BSc.  Importantly, a BSc degree in Psychology will be of interest to new students with a stronger background in math and science. It will also promote retention of current students, providing an alternate degree path for those in the Neuroscience program at Brock who wish to pursue a degree with more of a focus on psychological science.

Brock’s BSc in Data Sciences and Analytics (Honours) program is the result of concerted efforts between the Faculty of Mathematics and Science (FMS) and the Goodman School of Business (GSB). The program aims at forming well-rounded data scientists with a firm grounding in the principles and the technical proficiencies in the core areas of computational sciences (computer science/mathematics/statistics) and business (business intelligence and analytics) in addition to advanced knowledge in specialization domains such as financial analytics (currently one of the primary business domain of application for the science of big data), or artificial intelligence, machine learning, or statistical learning and computational methods. The proposed bachelor program offers a ‘regular’ Honours option (4 Years) as well as a “co-op” Honours option (4.5 years).

The BAH degree is a three-year program that is broadly based and offers a unique opportunity for students to pursue either a focused or broad 3 multidisciplinary curricular program of health. It is not intended to serve as a direct-entry program, but rather provides a viable opportunity for students who have been removed from an existing FAHS four-year degree program as a result of challenges with one or more mandated components of that degree. This may include, for example, failure to successfully complete one or more required courses, failure to maintain the academic average required to remain in the program, or failure to successfully complete clinical requirements of the program. The BAH degree is designed to provide such students with the opportunity to successfully gain a degree in health sciences in spite of lack of progress or adjudication from an academic program. Thus it contributes to student retention at Brock University and within the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences.