2008-2009 Undergraduate Calendar

The Distinct and Diverse Communities program involves courses offered through Brock University and Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology. This four-year program combines either an Honours Bachelor of Arts (BA) Distinct and Diverse Communities or a BA With Major Distinct and Diverse Communities at Brock with training in a variety of applied social service settings at the colleges.

Students obtain both solid applied skills and a strong theoretical foundation in a variety of aspects of social services. The program leads to career opportunities in a wide variety of areas in the social services for Immigrants and Refugees in the Province of Ontario. At Brock, students complete an integrated series of courses from a wide variety of disciplines. At Seneca students complete the Social Service Worker - Immigrants and Refugees program. Obtaining both an Honours BA or BA with Major and a college diploma would ordinarily involve at least five years of study, but this Brock-Seneca program combines the two in a single integrated package that can be completed in four years. Enrolment is limited.

Requirement for graduation with a BA (Honours) Distinct and Diverse Communities degree is a minimum of 70 percent major average, a minimum 60 percent non-major average and a minimum 60 percent overall average. Requirement for graduation with a BA With Major Distinct and Diverse Communities degree is a minimum 60 percent major average and a minimum 60 percent overall average.

Further details concerning the Distinct and Diverse Communities program are available from the Office of the Dean of Social Sciences.

Program Notes

1.	Admission to year 4 (Honours) is by application and requires a minimum 75 percent overall average.
2.	Students must apply to the Office of the Dean of Social Sciences at the end of Year 1 for admittance to the college program(s). Admittance to these programs is limited to those students with a 70 percent overall average. Students who do not meet this entrance requirement will be required to change their major at the end of Year 1.
3.	No more than 5.0 credits may be taken from any one discipline.
4.	Language credit must be taken from the following list: FREN 1F00, 1F01, 1F90, ITAL 1F00, 1F01, 1F90, ARAB 1F00, GERM 1F00, 1F90, JAPA 1F00, 1F80, MAND 1P00, 1P01, 1P80, 1P81, PORT 1F00, 1F90, RUSS 1F00, SPAN 1F00, 1F90, SWAH 1F00.
5.	In the 20-credit Honours degree program, at least 12 credits must be numbered 2(alpha)00 or above, six of which must be numbered 2(alpha)90 or above and of these, three must be numbered 3(alpha)90 or above. In the 20-credit BA with Major program, at least 12 credits must be numbered 2(alpha)00 or above, six of which must be numbered 2(alpha)90 or above, and of these one and one-half must be numbered 3(alpha)90 or above.

Social Service Worker Program

Immigrants and Refugees stream - Seneca College

Year 1

	PSYC 1F90
	CHSC 1F90
	SOCI 1F90
	one POLI credit numbered 1(alpha)00 to 1(alpha)99 (POLI 1P93 recommended; see program note 5)
	one Humanities Context credit or Science Context credit

Year 2

	Three credits from the list of approved Distinct and Diverse Communities courses (see program note 5)
	one of one language credit, one APCO/COSC credit, MATH 1F92 (see program note 4)
	the Humanities context credit or Science context credit not taken in year 1