Al0- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 28, 2001

Local college expands
second year courses

NORTHWEST COM-
MUNITY College is re-
storing science programs
cut four years ago.

The courses to be in
place for this fall will
mean students can: earn a
two-year associate degree,
allowing them a black
transfer to a university for
a fully-fledged four-year
degree program,

“We lost 50 [course] -

sections from the Terrace
campus, predominantly in

the - science area,” said~

college academic head
Rocque Berthiaume last
week of the cuts.

“What we're doing now
is restoring second year
science courses, Students
will be able -ta transfer
those courses in a block,”

he said.

“There may not be the
diversity there was in the
past, but students will be
able to get an associate of
science degree.”

Also being beefed up
are arts offerings to permit
students to obtain a two-
year associate of arts de-
gree.

Courses are not only
being boosted here toward
associate degrees but in
Prince Rupert as well.

“In Smithers, students
can earn a complete first
year and some second year
university transfer credit
courses,

The courses cover 20
subject areas, ranging from
anthropalogy to ecanomics
to biology to chemistry.

Focus on nursing

ONE BENEFIT of adding
more science courses at
Northwest Community
College here is to provide
transfer credits to nursing
programs elsewhere, says
college president Stepha-
nie Forsyth.

And while the college
does not yet have any for-
mal arrangement to offer
nursing training in can-

junction with a university, |
offering those science
courses is a start down #

that road, she said.

“We're doing what we |

can with what we have,”
Forsyth said last week.
She foresees a day

Stephanie Forsyth

when northwestern students won’t have to leave the area
to obtain a four-year nursing degree.

Toward that end, the college has been talking with
the University of Northern B.C. and the University of
British Columbia. UNBC and the College of New Cale-
donia in Prince George, for instance, have a joint pro-
gram whereby a student takes the first two years of a
Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree at the callege
and the final two years at the university. Nursing courses
are required at the second year level.

The situation is different at UBC where students
seeking nursing’ degrees begin their formal training at
year three, after two years of taking arts and sciences
courses. Students can take those first two years at UBC
or transfer -in. ‘To -be ‘accepted as ‘a’ transfer, a. student
must “have “aniassed:-48 “credits> “Among: ‘those credit
courses must be English and biology equivalents to what

4 person can take at UBC.

B.C.” ..

TERRACE ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

INVITATION TO LOCAL
HEFS AND PERFORMERS

The Terrace Community Facilities Society is
holding a gala evening at Heritage Park on
Thursday, May 31, 2001. This event is being
held in conjunction with the Minerals North
conference and will be attended by 100.
delegates in addition to local residents. The
theme of the evening is “A Taste of Northwest

College president Sre-
phanie Forsyth said the
changes fallow a series of
community meetings held
throughout the college re-
gion.

“Our decision to en-
hance this area reflects a
response to community

needs,” she said.

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