Grande

Prairie Regional College Course Descriptions

Program: Bachelor of Commerce University Transfer

EC1010 Introduction to Microeconomics
Description: Students will examine how markets and governments determine which products are produced
and how income is distributed in the Canadian economy. Topics include supply and demand, costs, and perfect
and imperfect competition.

EC1020 Introduction to Macroeconomics

Description: Employment, inflation, international payments, monetary policy, and fiscal policy, all in the
Canadian economy are topics explored in this course.

EN1201 Composition and Rhetoric

Description: This course will help students become more sophisticated users and producers of written texts.
Instruction will include basic academic essay writing skills and the various rhetorical approaches used when
addressing specific audiences. The main goals of the course are to help students integrate reading and writing
and to become familiar with the conventions of college- (and university-) level writing. This includes producing
coherent, logical texts that are relatively free of surface errors. To achieve these goals, the course encourages
students to think critically, to read closely and analytically, and to compose responses to a variety of texts,
both written and visual.

EN1230 Literature in Global Perspective

Description: This course involves studies in literatures in English from around the world. Instruction will
include essay writing skills.

MA1130 Elementary Calculus

Description: The course will include a review of analytic geometry; functions, limits, continuity; differentiation
of elementary functions; applications to maxima, minima and rates; introduction to integration; Fundamental
Theorem; numerical integration; and areas and other applications of the definite integral to areas.

PY1040 Basic Psychological Processes

Description: This first introductory course in psychology gives students an understanding of themselves and
other people through the study of basic concepts, principles, theories, and methods used in the scientific
study of behaviour. The course covers research methods in psychology, the biological bases of behaviour,
neurophysiology, sensation, perception, learning, states of consciousness, memory and cognition.

PY1050 Social and Individual Behaviour

Description: This second introductory course in psychology follows PY1040 and gives students an
understanding of themselves and other people through the study of basic concepts, principles, theories, and
methods used in the scientific study of behaviour. The course covers biological and cognitive development,
emotion and motivation, social psychology, personality theories, mental and behavioural disorders, treatment
of mental and behavioural disorders, and stress and health.

SO1000 Introductory Sociology

Description: This course examines the theory, methods, and substance of sociology. How societies and
individuals are shaped and modified by culture, socialization, deviance, stratification, group processes,
industrialization and social movements will be covered.

ST1510 Introduction to Applied Statistics

Description: The course includes data collection and presentation, descriptive statistics. Probability
distributions, sampling distributions, and the central limit theorem; point estimation and hypothesis testing;
correlation and regression analysis; goodness of fit and contingency table.

EC2810 Microeconomic Analysis

Description: The theory of consumer behavior; theory of production and cost, price and output determination
under competition, monopoly and other market structures are presented.

AC3110 Introductory Accounting

Description: Postulates, principles, the accounting cycle, capital and income measurement, financial statement
preparation and analysis; emphasis on reporting to shareholders, creditors and other external decision makers
are topics covered in this course.

AC3220 Managerial Information Control Systems

Description: This course includes corporate goals, planning and control concepts, cost accumulation for pricing
purposes and product costing.

MG3120 Applied Stats for Business and Economics

Description: Statistical inference for variance; statistical inference for the means; proportions and variances
from two populations; analysis of variance; non-parametric statistics; joint probability distributions; marginal
and conditional distributions; covariance; correlation and independence; contingency tables; simple linear
regression; multiple linear regression; nonlinear regression; and time series analysis are topics covered in the
course.

GRANDE PRAIRIE REGIONAL COLLEGE

GRADING CONVERSION CHART

A+

4-point
Equivalent
4.0

Percentage
Guidelines
95 100

A
A

4.0
3.7

85 94
80 84

B+
B

3.3
3.0

76 79
73 75

B
C+

2.7
2.3

70 72
67 69

2.0

63 66

C
D+

1.7
1.3

60 62
55 59

D
F

1.0
0.0

50 54
0 49

WF

0.0

Alpha Grade

Designation
EXCELLENT
FIRST CLASS STANDING
GOOD

SATISFACTORY

MINIMAL PASS
FAIL
FAIL, withdrawal after the deadline