Course List - EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
AEC PROGRAMSession 1
322-703-RL - The Early Childhood Education Profession
Course description:
At the end of this course, students are able to describe and explain the job functions of an early childhood educator. Students will become familiar with the characteristics of the main types of educational childcare services in Québec and the specific features of each type. Students will also be able to identify the conditions of practice and the work activities specific to the job functions of an educator.
The course enables students to assess themselves with regard to the skills and behaviors required to practice the profession in the context of the different client groups they encounter. It introduces students to a process of developing their self-awareness and an understanding of their personal and professional skills while providing students with an overview of the Attestation of College Studies in Early Childhood Education program. The course also provides an overview of the educational process related to the tasks required to perform job functions.
322-713-RL - SAFETY IN CHILD CARE
Course description:
This course teaches students how to prevent situations presenting health risks in an early childcare setting. This requires the recognition of risk situations, the application of hygiene rules, the use of first-aid techniques, the supervision of children, and the application of measures designed to safeguard their physical and mental health and that of others. The course also trains students on the detection of indications of child abuse and neglect.
322-724-RL - Professional Communication Skills
Course description:
At the end of this course, students are able to receive and transmit information using conventional and electronic means of communication with various people (adults and children) in a childcare facility and observe the rules of the language of communication. They must actively participate on a regular basis in teamwork with their colleagues. To this end, they must develop their ability to communicate effectively and in a professional manner, both orally and in writing, and assess the quality of their communication. This job function requires a strong ability to create meaningful bonds with others and to assert oneself while remaining respectful of others. It also requires dynamism, openness, and a strong sense of professional ethics.
350-704-RL - OVERALL CHILD DEVELOPMENT FOR 0 TO 5 YEAR OLDS
Course description:
At the end of this course, students will know and understand children in terms of all the dimensions of their physical, motor, emotional, cognitive, language, social-emotional, moral, and sexual development.
The course focuses on the ability to observe, analyze and interpret the behaviors of children 0-5 years of age, in order to assess their needs with respect to their overall development. It also teaches methods to communicate one’s reflections in an appropriate and respectful manner in accordance with the rules of the profession.
322-843-RL - PEDAGOGICAL Aims
Course description:
At the end of this course, students are able to define the pedagogical model and approach to be applied in an educational childcare service. This implies that students are able to identify:
- The objectives and the basic principles of Québec’s Educational Program for Childcare Services (objectives, foundations, and basic principles)
- The characteristics of various types of pedagogical approaches taken with children
- The conditions for implementing such models
- The competencies required to apply these models and approaches
322-714-RL - OBSERVING CHILDREN
Course description:
At the end of this course, students are able to make observations of children in different age groups (0 to 12 years) using the appropriate methods and tools for observation. The gathering of information is based on knowledge of the subjects (parents, child, educator, educational program, environment) and on the observation content in educational childcare services as well as the available methods and tools.
The course focuses on recording observation information that is objective, meaningful, and precise. It requires analysis of this information (establishing connections between facts, identifying constants and variables) to formulate a logical explanation of an observed behavior. It also enables students to conduct a thorough critical analysis of the observation process for the purpose of making appropriate modifications. This competency is the cornerstone of the educational process in intervening with a child in one’s group.
Session 2
350-714-RL - Overall Child Development 5 to 12 years
Course description:
At the end of this course, students know and understand children in terms of all the dimensions of their physical, motor, emotional, cognitive, language, social-emotional, moral, and sexual development.
The course focuses on the ability to observe, analyze and interpret the behaviors of children 5-12 years of age, in order to assess their needs with respect to their overall development. It also teaches methods to communicate one’s reflections in an appropriate, respectful manner in accordance with the rules of the profession.
322-823-RL - Autonomy in Children
Course description:
At the end of this course, students are able to perceive and evaluate a child’s needs for support, intervene with the child, and evaluate the relevance of their interventions with the child.
The course teaches students to take into consideration the child’s stage of development and the specific characteristics of the situation in order to grasp the child’s expressed or unexpressed needs and to determine whether they can meet the child’s needs or establish the nature and degree of support to provide to the child.
Students must make choices about methods based on the type of support required to meet the child’s need for autonomy, use strategies that allow the child to take part in a problem-solving process, adopt supportive attitudes that foster a child’s development of self-esteem, and share information with colleagues and parents. It also teaches students to identify the observed results and reactions, review the methods used, and complete the consultations conducted with parents and colleagues, etc.
322-773-RL - Meaningful Relationships with Children
Course description:
At the end of this course, students are able to establish a meaningful emotional relationship with children. The course will enable students to understand and consider the emotional needs of children in order to create bonds that maintain an emotional relationship on a one-on-one basis and in a group.
The course focuses on social-emotional development and personality traits. Students will learn to choose strategies that take into account factors likely to promote or undermine the establishment of unconditional, equitable emotional bonds with each of the children.
Students will apply their course knowledge in a real context, which will enable them to observe, gather and analyze the strategies in place and to verify the relevance of the interventions undertaken with a child or a group of children.
322-734-RL - Educational Activities for Children 0 to 2 years of age
Course description:
At the end of the course, students are able to design, organize and lead a variety of life activities for children 0 to 2 years of age, taking into account their needs and interests and the orientations of the educational program.
322-793-RL - Child Health
Course description:
At the end of this course, students are able to evaluate the needs of children 0 to 12 years of age in terms of their physical health. Students will learn to use sound judgment in determining the interventions required with respect to children’s health and well-being (providing hygiene-related care, toilet training, providing care to meet children’s needs for comfort, relaxation, and sleep, administering medication, undertaking interventions with health agencies and services, recording information about a child’s state of health and interventions undertaken.) All such interventions are to be undertaken in collaboration with the appropriate persons and agencies as required in each case.
Session 3
322-709-RL - Stage I : Initiation
Course description:
Hours: 135
At the end of this course, students are able to confirm their choice of profession with respect to the requirements of the profession, to safeguard the safety of children and themselves, to establish emotional bonds with each of the children and with the group, to provide basic care to children and to demonstrate professional attitudes in the workplace.
322-744-RL Educational Activities for Children 2 to 5 years of age
Course description:
By the end of the course, students are able to design, organize and lead a variety of educational activities for children 2 to 5 years of age, taking into account their needs and interests and the orientations of the educational program.
322-813-RL Children With Special Needs
Course description:
At the end of this course, students are able to understand adaptive, behavioral, and developmental problems in children, along with difficulties associated with multi-ethnicity as well as with physical and intellectual disabilities.
Students will learn to take into account meaningful elements when analyzing situations involving a child’s special needs in order to allow the child to successfully integrate into the childcare service and to identify responses that meet their needs.
Lastly, students will learn how to observe and analyze situations involving children with special needs in order to determine the underlying reasons for behaviors as well as the needs necessarily associated with the developmental dimensions of these children.
Session 4
322-824-RL - Guidance Interventions
Course description:
In this course, students will learn to master a complex intervention process concerning a child’s (or children’s) behavior, in collaboration with a variety of partners. To do so, students will learn to take into account the special needs, the age, and the context of the social and family life of the child or the children.
In addition, students will learn how to plan a fair, strategic intervention that abides by professional ethics. They will then implement the chosen intervention strategies and methods and evaluate the quality of their interventions by identifying connections and gaps. They must also ensure to record and transmit information concerning the interventions undertaken in compliance with professional ethics.
322-754-RL Educational Activities for Children 5 to 12 years of age
Course description:
At the end of the course, students are able to design, organize and lead a variety of educational activities for children 5 to 12 years of age, taking into account their needs and interests as well as the orientations of the educational program.
322-833-RL - Professional Partnerships
Course description:
At the end of this course, students are able to establish a partnership, first of all with a child’s parents and then with the resource persons who intervene with the child. Students will learn how to adopt strategies, methods, and attitudes to facilitate the welcoming of new parents, establish cooperation with them and ensure educational coherence and continuity.
322-803-RL - Healthy Nutrition
Course description:
At the end of this course, students are able to create environments that foster healthy nutrition. Students learn to use educational strategies that promote the development of healthy eating habits and the pleasure of eating, providing an environment for meals conducive to healthy nutrition and the discovery of new foods, and preparing varied menus (snacks and meals) containing highly nutritional food in adequate quantity.
Students will also learn to identify and prevent situations that could undermine health and to process information concerning a child’s nutrition in order to facilitate follow-up with the family.
Session 5
322-70F-RL - Stage II : Workplace Integration
Course description:
Hours: 240
At the end of the course, students are able to demonstrate their ability to define the pedagogical model to be adopted and to design, organize and lead all life activities by implementing the educational process. In addition, they are able to demonstrate their ability to analyze the needs of a child or a group of children and to intervene to promote the children’s overall development in collaboration with the partners involved in the educational childcare service. They also demonstrate professional attitudes in the workplace.
Updated: March 11, 2022
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SEMESTER 1
202-NYA-05 GENERAL CHEMISTRY: MATTER
Course description:
Designed as an extension of concepts learned in high school, this course prepares students for the chemistry of solutions, organic chemistry, and biology courses while introducing them to laboratory work. The student is called upon to establish the relevant links between phenomena and fundamental concepts and verify them from data provided or observations obtained in the laboratory.
At the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Apply the probabilistic model of the atom to the analysis of the properties of elements
- Solve problems affecting the structure and states of matter in using modern theories of chemistry
- Apply the laws of stoichiometry to the study of chemical phenomena
- Experimentally verify the physical and chemical properties of matter
203-NYA-05 MECHANICS
Course description:
As an extension of the notions of mechanics already studied in high school, this course will teach students to develop a rigorous working method through the resolution of physical problems and the explanation of various phenomena of everyday life by verifying them experimentally.
This course uses the mathematical concepts and skills acquired in the Differential Calculus course as well as certain concepts addressed concurrently in the Integral Calculus course. The course helps to equip the student with knowledge and know-how specific to a rigorous scientific approach: observation, modeling, comparison of theoretical models with real behavior, and validation of hypotheses.
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Describe the translational and rotational movement of bodies
- Apply the concepts and laws of dynamics in the analysis of the movement of bodies
- Perform calculations of work and energy in simple situations
- Apply the principles of conservation of mechanics
- Experimentally verify the laws and principles related to mechanics
The concepts introduced in this course will subsequently be used in the Electricity and Magnetism and Waves and Modern Physics courses.
603-101-MQ INTRODUCTION TO COLLEGE ENGLISH
Course Description:
The objective of this course is to analyze and produce various forms of discourse.
Competencies to be developed are:
- To identify the characteristics and functions of the components of literary texts
- To determine the organizations of facts and arguments of a given literary text
- To prepare ideas and strategies for a projected discourse
- To explicate a discourse
- To edit the discourse
All competencies lead to the production of an approximately 750-word essay.
345-101-MQ KNOWLEDGE
Course Description:
The objective of this course is to apply a logical and analytical process of thinking to how knowledge is organized and used.
Competencies to be developed are:
- To recognize the basic elements of a field of knowledge
- To define the modes of organizations and utilization of a field of knowledge
- To situate a field of knowledge within its historical context
- To organize the main components into coherent patterns
- To produce a synthesis of the main components
602-100-MQ BASIC FRENCH
Course Description:
The objective of this course is to apply basic concepts for communicating in standard French.
Competencies to be developed include:
- Writing and revising a simple text
- Understanding the meaning of a simple text
- Conveying a simple oral message
- Understanding the meaning of a simple oral message
201-NYA-05 CAL I: Differential calculus
Course description:
This course establishes the foundations of differential calculus for its use in pure and applied sciences. It prepares students, in particular, for the courses, Mechanics, Modern Physics, and Integral Calculus. The course explains the conceptual bases of differential calculus, i.e. the notions of a function, variation of a function, and limit, and applies them to concrete situations.
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Recognize and describe the characteristics a function represented in the form of a symbolic expression or in graphic form
- Determine if a function has a limit, is continuous, is differentiable, at a point and over an interval
- Apply the rules and techniques of derivation
- Use the derivative and the concepts related to analyze the variations of a function and draw its graph
- Solve optimization and rate of change issues
SEMESTER 2
603-102-MQ LITERARY GENRES
Course Description:
The objective of this course is to apply a critical approach to literary genres.
Competencies to be developed are:
- To distinguish genres of literary texts
- To recognize the use of literary conventions within a specific genre
- To situate work within its historical and literary period
- To explicate a discourse and representative of a literary genre
- To edit the discourse
All competencies lead to the effective presentation of an approximately 1000 word integrated response to a text.
602-TVA-TV FRENCH FOR SPECIFIC PROGRAMS
Course Description:
The objective of this course is to apply basic concepts for communicating in the French language in relation to the student’s field of study.
Competencies to be developed include:
- Writing and revising a short text related to the student’s field of study
- Understanding the meaning and characteristics of a text related to the student’s field of study
- Conveying a simple oral message related to the student’s field of study
- Understanding the meaning of a simple oral message related to the student’s field of study
109-101-MQ PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND HEALTH
Course Description:
The objective of this course is to analyze one’s physical activity from the perspective of trends in health relating to lifestyle choices.
Competencies to be developed include:
- Establishing the relationship between one’s lifestyle habits and their health
- Being physically active in a manner that promotes good health
- Recognizing one’s needs, abilities, and motivational factors with respect to regular and sufficient physical activity
- To propose physical activities and nutritional guidance that promote a healthy lifestyle
201-NYB-05 CAL II - INTEGRAL CALCULUS
Course description:
This course establishes the bases of integral calculus with a view of its applications to concrete situations: calculation of the area under a curve, calculation of the area and volume of solids, calculation of the length of a portion of a curve. The course follows and relies heavily on the concepts developed in Differential Calculus by consisting of doing the reverse operation of the derivation.
At the end of this course, students will be able
- Determine the indefinite integral of a function
- Calculate the limits of functions with indeterminate forms
- Calculate definite integral and the improper integral of a function over an interval
- Translate concrete problems in the form of differential equations and solve simple differential equations
- Calculate volumes, areas, and lengths to construct graphic representations in the plane and in space
- Analyze the convergence of a series
202-NYB-05 CHEMISTRY OF SOLUTIONS
Course description:
This second chemistry course deepens understanding, more quantitatively, of the basic theories relating to the nature of matter in aqueous solutions through its physical and chemical properties. Students will establish links between fundamental phenomena and concepts using models of approximations.
Students will experimentally verify certain theoretical models, establish their limits, and analyze them in order to establish the causes of variation in the results obtained. The practical work thus makes students able to criticize their results and to estimate the degree of precision and reproducibility.
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Analyze the colligative properties of solutions
- Resolve problems related to the kinetics of reactions in solutions
- Resolve the problems related to chemical equilibrium
- Experimentally verify certain properties of solutions
- Experimentally determine certain characteristics of reactions in solutions
101-NYA-05 GENERAL BIOLOGY I
Course description:
This course is the first biology course in the program, which presents the organization of living things in a hierarchical fashion, from the most fundamental level of life, the cell, to its most global level, the maintenance and the complexity of life on Earth.
At the end of this course, students will be able:
- Distinguish the relationships between the structures and functions of certain levels of organization of living things
- Analyze the mechanisms responsible for the genetic variation of living things
- Appreciate the action of the mechanisms of evolution of diversity and life complexity
- Analyze the integration of living in a community
- Explain the transformation process of matter and of energy
Students will also be able to recognize the characteristics of a rigorous scientific approach in the originality of the approach of some biologists who have marked the evolution of this science and to hold a critical discourse on current technological applications in the domain.
SEMESTER 3
603-103-MQ LITERARY THEMES
Course Description:
The general objective of this course is to enable the student to apply a critical approach to a literary theme. The student will study various examples in English literature in order to understand how well-known authors unify their works around themes.
Further, the student will be able to read various selections of unfamiliar literature, either fiction or non-fiction, and discuss them intelligibly in writing through the understanding of their themes.
By the end of this course, the student will apply their understanding of the theme by writing an analysis of a literary text (an approximately 1000 word paper.)
345-102-MQ WORLD VIEWS
Course Description:
The objective of this course is to apply a critical thought process to world views.
Competencies to be developed are:
- To describe world views
- To explain the major ideas, values, and implications of a worldview
- To organize the ideas, values, and experiences of a worldview into coherent patterns
- To compare world views
- To convey the ideas, attitudes, and experiences of the societies or groups studied
109-102-MQ PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND EFFECTIVENESS
Course Description:
The objective of this course is to improve one’s effectiveness when practicing physical activity.
Competencies to be developed include:
- Planning an approach to improve one’s effectiveness when practicing a physical activity
- Using a planned approach to improve one’s physical health
420-TVB-TV USE OF MICROCOMPUTER SOFTWARE
Course Description:
This elective course approaches the novel technology of 3D printing with an interdisciplinary perspective and opens it up to all DEC program students at the College. The course aggregates several disciplines into one coherent learning experience by drawing on perspectives of:
- Mathematics
- Design
- Physics
- Computer science
- Engineering
- Biology
In today’s world, every field and every industry needs innovative thinkers that can make a difference. Inquiry-based learning is a 21st-century teaching and learning philosophy that requires students to not only be “problem solvers”, but “problem finders” as well. Instead of simply presenting established facts, teachers guide students to discover their worlds and how they could make it better. This is accomplished by posing questions, challenging the norm, and pushing the boundaries. Innovation is a keyword at the core of this philosophy.
No other technology, since the invention of the computer has the potential to positively impact education and learning as the 3D printer. 3D printers are now being used in practically every field. Learning how to use them is becoming as essential a skill as reading and writing.
From the medical field, automotive and aerospace industry, fashion, food, and architecture, 3D printers are becoming a regular on- the scene. Putting the world of 3D printing in the hands of students will help better prepare them to shape their world and be innovative in their field of choice.
This course, on the fundamentals of CAD design for rapid prototyping and 3D printing, provides all of the foundational knowledge necessary to bring the world of 3D printing to the students and start their journey to innovation in whichever field they choose to pursue.
201-NYC-05 LINEAR ALGEBRA AND VECTOR GEOMETRY
Course description:
This course introduces students to the notions of linear algebra and vector geometry and to develop tools that can be used in particular, in the physics course, Electricity and magnetism given in the 4th session, but concurrently in the context of applications specific to the natural sciences, mathematics, economics, and computer science, at the pre-university level. The main subjects of study are matrix calculus, geometric and algebraic vectors, the structure of vector space, and representations and equations of geometric loci in the plane and in space.
At the end of this course, students will be able:
- Translate concrete problems in the form of linear equations
- Solve systems of linear equations using matrix methods
- Establish links between geometry and algebra
- Establish the equation of geometric loci (lines and planes) and determine their intersections
- Calculate angles, lengths, areas, and volumes
- Demonstrate propositions
- Construct representations of geometric places in the plane and in space
203-NYB-05 ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM
Course description:
Using several notions seen in mechanics: kinematics, forces, potential and kinetic energies, the moment of force, etc. and using the concepts of mathematics acquired in the differential calculus and integral calculus courses, widely used in the analysis of a continuous distribution system of stationary or moving electric charges, this course is an introduction to electric and magnetic phenomena. Starting from the formulation of the laws of electromagnetism, students will be able to explain the overall functioning of the various devices and the mechanisms describing the electrical and magnetic phenomena and also to apply electromagnetism in situations of everyday life.
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Analyze physical situations related to electric charges at rest and to electric current
- Analyze physical situations related to magnetism and magnetic induction
- Apply the laws of electricity and magnetism
- Experimentally verify the laws of electricity and magnetism
420-PRA-TV INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAMMING
Course description:
In this course, students will learn the development of effective algorithmic solutions to simple problems following a correct analysis of the situation, the available data, the desired results, and the necessary treatments as well as the validation of it.
Students will also be able to use a programming language by correctly recognizing
- the characteristics and functionality of a computer and its network
- the correct use of a workstation in a development environment
- the correct translation of algorithms,
- the rigorous application of coding standards
- the efficient use of environmental functionality in tracking and correcting compilation errors
- the correct application of test sets necessary to verify the functioning of the environment program
- the appropriate debugging of the program according to the algorithm
- the basic concepts of object-oriented programming: class, object, method, and attribute.
SEMESTER 4
603-TVE-TV ENGLISH ADAPTED TO PROGRAM
Course Description:
The objective of this course is to communicate in the forms of discourse appropriate to one or more fields of study, focusing on citation styles and preparing the student for university-level writing.
Competencies to be developed include:
- Identifying the forms of discourse appropriate to given fields of study
- Recognizing the discursive frameworks appropriate to given fields of study
- Analyze and succinctly explain the main ideas of an oral and written discourse
109-103-MQ PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND AUTONOMY
Course Description:
The objective of this course is to demonstrate one’s ability to assume responsibility for maintaining a healthy lifestyle through the continued practice of physical activity.
Competencies to be developed include:
- Planning a personal physical activity program
- Combining the elements of a regular and sufficient practice of physical activity as part of a healthy lifestyle
- Manage a personal physical activity program
345-TVH-TV CRITICAL THOUGHT APPLIED TO WORLD ISSUES
Course description:
The objective of this course is to apply a critical thought process to ethical issues relevant to the field of study.
Competencies to be developed include:
- Situating significant ethical issues within appropriate world views and fields of knowledge
- explaining the major ideas, values, and social implications of ethical issues
- organizing the ethical questions and their implications into coherent patterns
- Debating ethical issues
203-NYC-05 WAVES, OPTICS AND MODERN PHYSICS
Course description:
In this third physics course in the program, students will have to use the notions of mathematics acquired in the Differential Calculus, Integral Calculus, and Mechanics courses. Students will use functions with several independent variables necessary for the description of waves and obtain certain characteristics of them, which have recourse to partial derivatives and to integrals.
From revolutionary discoveries on several aspects of the Universe and of matter, students will be introduced, in particular, to geometric and wave optics, to the structure of matter and to radioactivity, to mechanical waves and vibrations, to the electromagnetic spectrum and relativity, which are notions useful both for students of the health, pure and applied or computer sciences.
The approaches followed will address the history of the main discoveries and will stress the importance of the major fundamental questions in physics, relating to science, technology, and social progress.
At the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Apply the basic principles of physics to the description of vibrations, waves, and their propagation
- Apply the laws of geometrical optics
- Apply the characteristics of waves to light phenomena
- Analyze situations based on notions of modern physics
- Experimentally verify the laws and principles related to waves, optics, and modern physics
203-EPH-TV PROBLEM SOLVING IN ENGINEERING PHYSICS
Course description:
This course prepares students to apply an experimental/numerical analysis in order to solve physics and engineering problems using MATLAB/Octave.
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Represent various situations, drawing upon relevant concepts, laws, and principles of mechanics, electricity, magnetism, waves, and optics.
- Solve problems using numerical methods through MATLAB/Octave.
- Apply experimental/numerical analysis or validation specific to physics and engineering
360-200- TV INTEGRATION PROJECT
Course description:
This course is an extension of the comprehensive assessment that must be successfully completed in order to obtain a DEC in Science. By the end of the course, students will have demonstrated the integration of the general goals of the Science program.
Integration, in the context of this course, means to possess the ability to clearly make: connections between the elements of the student’s learning, to recombine knowledge in various ways, and to put them to use in order to adapt to new situations. To this end, students will be asked to propose, conduct and present a research project on a scientific theme of their choice.
The integration project is multidisciplinary in its approach and should take into account not only the specific components of the program but also, its components of general education as well.
The course is designed to support students throughout their independent projects by providing relevant theoretical guidance as the projects progress. The projects require students to draw on prior knowledge from previous courses as well as provide them with the opportunity to engage in personal, stimulating, and creative work in their chosen area of personal interest. The choice of a project should ultimately reflect the student’s learning goals throughout their DEC.