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<\/a>Lyle says that the college has worked to make the transition smooth for those students who will be enrolled in the programs when they transition. He says students currently in the second year will, \u201cideally,\u201d finish up at the end of summer and graduate on the quarter system.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve worked really hard to try and keep all our students over the summer,\u201d he says. \u201cWe actually set up some additional instruction for students that were behind in some courses so they could stay caught up and not fall behind.\u201d<\/p>\n
He adds that students who are in their first year will have a slight change in their schedule in 2016.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe students that started this September will be switching over to the semester system in the fall of 2016, so they\u2019re going to be going through and finishing up until the end of June,\u201d he says. \u201cThen they\u2019ll be returning earlier than they would have if they had been on the quarter system; they\u2019ll be starting at the beginning of September as we move into the semester system.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lyle admits that with that earlier return comes a downside, at least for some students.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose students will actually be getting a shorter summer,\u201d he says, \u201cso that\u2019s going to have an impact\u0143it means they will not be able to get a regular co-op work term. They can get regular employment, but they won\u2019t be able to get co-op work experience. I\u2019m speaking specifically to Mechanical; I\u2019m not sure about the rest, how they\u2019re going to do. But I suspect it\u2019s the same.\u201d<\/p>\n
Along with the change to the semester system, more prerequisites have been added for certain programs (this won\u2019t impact students who are already in the programs).<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are some changes here that will impact students that are inquiring into our program in the future,\u201d says Ross. \u201cWe\u2019ve changed both Civil and Mechanical to have Chemistry 11 as a prerequisite. The other thing we\u2019ve done is in Mechanical, we\u2019ve changed Physics 11 to Physics 12; a large number of students coming into our program have that already, but it will impact some students who are coming into our program.\u201d<\/p>\n
Third-year Human Resources student Robin White is welcoming Interurban\u2019s switch to semesters, if for no other reason than a very practical one.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will make Camlink [on Camosun\u2019s website] easier to deal with. When I was first starting here, I was like, \u2018Am I a quarter or a semester? I don\u2019t know.\u2019 I think it will be a lot simpler for first-years,\u201d says White.<\/p>\n
There are pros and cons to any program modification, according to Electronics and Environmental Technology instructor Ian Browning.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, just from an educational point of view, you can argue that it\u2019s better to break things down into smaller chunks, to get the points across better, or you could say, \u2018Well, it\u2019s better to have a longer time to get more depth.\u2019 So it depends on your point of view,\u201d says Browning.<\/p>\n
Browning says that there shouldn\u2019t be implications to students other than the changing dates.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe current students, they shouldn\u2019t notice any difference,\u201d says Browning. \u201cThey\u2019ll see that the dates will change, they\u2019ll still complete the program as before. You won\u2019t even notice a difference, in that respect. It is a new program, but at the same time it\u2019s been redesigned to be improved. Really, that\u2019s the only difference. There shouldn\u2019t be any impact.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Technology programs at Camosun College\u2019s Interurban campus are switching to a semester system in September 2016. The programs are currently on a quarterly system, as opposed to programs at the Lansdowne campus, which are on the semester system. Redesigning the courses to fit into a semester system will allow for more co-op placement opportunities for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-november-4-2015"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11261,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11259\/revisions\/11261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}