Pre University Program - Education Profile in Social Science

The Education profile of the Social Science Program is intended for students considering a career in teaching or other fields related to education. This option offers students a firm grounding in several social science disciplines relevant to education specifically, anthropology, psychology and sociology.

The Education profile will offer you many different ways of looking at education. It will give you a behind the scenes look at schools, teaching and related concerns. You will examine education broadly to see how it fits with the rest of society and its connection with the labour force. You will look at schools from the perspective of the classroom and student-teacher interaction. You will gain an understanding of students psychological development. You will study various social problems such as racism and sexism, to determine their impact on students, schools and society. Feasible solutions will be discussed. This social science foundation will give you a formidable background from which to pursue your teaching training courses at university. You will get a preview of what learning to become a teacher may entail, which will also help you solidify or modify your goals.

applicants must possess a Quebec Secondary School Diploma or have completed a level of education that is deemed equivalent by the College. All applicants whose mother tongue or whose secondary school language of instruction was not English should submit the result of either: The TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language). The minimum accepted score is 75 for Internet-based, or 540 for Paper-based. Or The IELTS (International English Language Testing System). The minimum accepted score is 6.5 on the IELTS 9-band scale (or 6.0 with no component score under 5.5). Applicants from outside Canada are required to possess a high school diploma or equivalent from their country. International applicants may only apply for the winter semester if they have a student visa which is valid until the end of the winter semester. All applications will be evaluated according to the student's academic record.