This project sought to establish reciprocal pathways to help students enhance their skills in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and other areas including Law. Students already transition between both institutions and this project used existing data to develop new pathways and renew existing ones.
The project aimed to benefit the graduates of Algonquin College’s Law Clerk Diploma program to pathway into Carleton University’s Bachelor of Arts in Law, both at the General and Honours level. The pathway also worked in the other direction, whereby students who graduated from the Bachelor of Arts in Law at Carleton could move into Algonquin’s Law Clerk Diploma program. In addition, the existing pathway between Algonquin’s Social Service Worker Diploma and Carleton’s Bachelor of Social Work was renewed to continue to allow students to pathway with minimal barriers.
The project also aimed to benefit the graduates of Algonquin’s Mechanical Engineering Technology Advanced Diploma program to pathway into Carleton’s Bachelor of Engineering and vice versa. The work for the pathway from Carleton’s Bachelor of Engineering into Algonquin’s Mechanical Engineering Technology Advanced Diploma is near completion (see details below in section 4.0) and the institutions have agreed to continue work toward developing a pathway from Algonquin’s Mechanical Engineering Technology Advanced Diploma program into Carleton’s Bachelor of Engineering.