Last updated: December 11, 2008 @ 08:41AM

Distinct and Diverse Communities

Associate Dean
Dorothy Griffiths

Co-ordinator/Academic Adviser
Jo Stewart

General Information

Assistant to the Dean
Carol-Ann Farinacci

905-688-5550, extension 3425
Scotiabank Hall 324

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
Year 3
·   taken at Seneca College
Year 4
·   Four credits from the list of approved Distinct and Diverse Communities courses (see program note 5)
·   one elective credit (see program note 5)

Approved Distinct and Diverse Communities Courses offered by Other Departments/Centres

CHSC 2P15
Processes of Health and Wellness

CHSC 3P59
Diversity and Health

INTC 1P80
Introduction to Intercultural Studies

PHIL 2P08
Ethics: Foundations and Cases

PHIL 2P12
Indian Philosophy: An Introduction to Hindu Thought
(also offered as INTC 2P12)

PHIL 2P13
Indian Philosophy: An Introduction to Buddhist Thought
(also offered as INTC 2P13)

PHIL 2P17
Introduction to Chinese Philosophy
(also offered as INTC 2P17)

POLI 2F20
International Relations

POLI 2P42
The Rise of China

POLI 2P47
Rights Across Borders

POLI 2V40-49
Government and Politics of a Selected Nation State

POLI 2V70-79
Politics and Culture

POLI 3P02
Citizenship

POLI 3P18
Law and Politics

POLI 3P26
International Law and International Organization

POLI 3P43
Politics in the Developing World

POLI 3P52
Ethics in Government

POLI 4P20
Globalization and Global Governance

POLI 4P26
International Politics and National Security

POLI 4P27
Theories of International Relations

POLI 4P39
Elites and Power

PSYC 2P30
Fundamentals of Social Psychology

PSYC 3P28
Introduction to Abnormal Psychology

PSYC 3P33
Psychology of Intergroup Behaviour
(also offered as COMM 3P33)

PSYC 3P51
Health Psychology

PSYC 3P75
Stress

PSYC 4P71
Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination

PSYC 4P78
Topics in Clinical Psychology

PSYC 4P79
Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy

RECL 1P03
Introduction to Leisure in Canadian Society

RECL 3P23
Therapeutic Benefits of Humour

SOCI 2P58
Self and Society

SOCI 2P65
Liberties, Rights and Protections

SOCI 3P47
Racism and Anti-Racism

SOCI 4P70
Social Issues in the Community

WISE 2P99
Canadian Women in a Global Context
(also offered as INTC/SOCI 2P99)

Description of Courses

See relevant calendar entry for course descriptions.