Description: This exciting course is a partnership between Oak Bay Secondary (SD #61) and Camosun College. The purpose of this course is for students to gain post-secondary credits and experience while still in high school. This particular course is a combination of Oak Bay’s Physics 12 and Camosun College’s General College Physics 104. For the 2025/26 school year, the two courses will be run within the Oak Bay timetable like any other class. Most likely, this class will run during Block A of Semester 1.

This course will be team-taught with an instructor from Camosun College and a teacher from Oak Bay within one block of the timetable. Students explore kinematics, dynamics, work, energy and power, momentum, static equilibrium, thermal energy, fluids, circular motion and gravitation with the Camosun instructor, and then electrostatics, and electromagnetism with the Oak Bay teacher. Students will be responsible for purchasing a lab manual (Approximate cost $25).

A Camosun instructor will present lecture material during class time, deliver laboratory sessions and assess student work. Students will travel to Camosun (Lansdowne Campus, Fisher Building) one early morning per week during the first half of the school year for approximately 10 labs. Most likely this will be at 8:30 AM on Wednesdays. An Oak Bay teacher will provide support for the Physics 104 curriculum, assignments, and labs.

Phys 104 is a dual credit course. Students will receive 8 high school credits and 4 college/university credits. 

The Phys 104 credits are transferable to UVic, UBC, SFU, VIU, UNBC, and most other B.C. colleges and Canadian Universities. Check BC Transfer Guide website BC Transfer Guide. These 12 credits can be earned in the same length of time it takes to take a traditional 4 credit course at Oak Bay. Also, other than the potential cost of a lab manual and a small registration fee, the Camosun credits come at NO CHARGE! Camosun Tuition Fee: None; requires a Camosun College Application Fee; (approximately $42.00). International students have a course fee of $500. Students will be responsible for purchasing a lab manual. 

There is an application process.   NOTE: Students who wish to register for a dual credit course will need to meet with a Careers advisor for the application package. They will need to meet with an Academic Counselor to ensure their career choice aligns with the dual credit course transition pathway. Documentation will need to be provided in the application outlining that the dual credit course is required for the career that the student wishes to pursue.