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 1. For the 2020/21 school year, the two courses will be run within the Oak Bay timetable like any other class.
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 will complete learning outcomes for such as kinematics, Newton’s Laws, vectors, energy, and circuitry are covered in greater depth. Various new topics include circular motion, thermal energy, nuclear energy, fluids, electrostatics, and electromagnetism. Students will be responsible for purchasing the textbook.
A Camosun instructor will present 42 hours of lecture material during class time (twice a week at Oak Bay via PowerPoint; made available on Camosun’s D2L website), deliver laboratory sessions and assess student work. Students will travel to Camosun (Lansdowne Campus, Fisher Building) one early evening per week during the second half of the school year for approximately 6-8 labs. 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 textbook and a small registration fee, the Camosun credits come at NO CHARGE! Camosun Tuition Fee: None; requires a Camosun College Application Fee; (2019 application fee was $42.00). International students have a course fee of $500. Students will be responsible for purchasing a textbook.
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, and 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 student wishes to pursue.