Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Work collaboratively with other built environment professionals to provide advice to clients which will result in the effective utilisation of their resources.
2. Demonstrate knowledge of real estate agency, the legal framework governing it along with the principles and practices of other built environment fields of study that complements the professional activities of real estate sales agents.
3. Demonstrate practical knowledge on how to measure and calculate the internal and external areas of buildings, the international real estate agency and brokerage standards and the Real Estate (Dealers and Developers) Act (Code of Ethics) Regulations.
4. Amalgamate their knowledge on real estate agency, the legal aspects of real estate agency, planning and development, property valuations, property inspections and measurement, and marketing to successfully promote, sell, lease, and rent different types of properties.

Module 1: Property Law (15 hours)

Module 2: Planning and Development (15 hours)

Module 3: Fundamentals of Construction (12 hours)

Module 4: Essentials of Property Valuations (9 hours)

Module 5: Property Inspection and Measurement (9 hours)

Module 6: Principles of Marketing (9 hours)

Module 7: Contract Law for Real Estate Agents (12 hours)

Module 8: Real Estate Agency and Code of Conduct (27 hours)

Live virtual lectures, pre-recorded lectures, independent study, practical demonstration, and community-based learning strategies will be used to deliver the course curriculum. In addition to the course lecture hours, students are being encouraged to conduct 15 hours of independent study in each week of the course (that is from the start date of the course to the date of your initial sitting of the pre-licensing examination).

Your success in this course is dependent on your full engagement and active participation. As such, you are expected to log into the learning management software that will be used for the course several times in each week to attend lectures and to study. It also your responsibility to check course updates that have been sent to you via to the learning management software. 

You are expected to attend at least eighty percent (80%) of the total teaching hours (i.e., at least eighty-six hours). If you are not present for at least 86 hours of classes due to illness or an extenuating circumstance such as the death of a family member and is able to provide a medical certificate in the case of illness or notarised documented proof of an extenuating circumstance, you will be given the opportunity to attend the classes you missed when they are next offered at no additional cost. If however, you would like to do make up classes for the hours you were absent before the modules have been scheduled to be offered, make up classes can be provided at an additional cost which will be calculated based on the number of class hours you have missed. 

If you have not fulfilled the attendance requirement and have not provided a medical certificate in the case of illness or notarised documented proof of an extenuating circumstance, you can request make up classes at an additional cost which will be calculated based on the number of class hours you have missed. Otherwise, in order to sit the pre-licensing examination, you must redo the entire course for the entire course fee. Additional details on the attendance policy are provided in the Student’s Handbook.

The Open EduCat learning management software will be used to host live virtual lectures and all learning materials on the course. In addition, all lectures will be recorded, and the transcripts of each session will be provided so that you may listen and read the content delivered outside of class hours. Therefore, to be fully engaged in the course you must have access to the internet to watch or hear lectures. No special software must be purchased to take this course. In the module Property Measurement and Inspection, free online GIS enabled tools such as Google Earth and iMap Jamaica will be used to teach students how to locate properties and describe their physical characteristics.

The PowerPoint lecture presentations, links to articles, podcasts, YouTube videos and practice exam questions are located on the Open EduCat website for the course. To ensure that you can participate in the learning activities on the course you will be required to have: 

• Access to a working computer that has a current operating system with updates installed, plus speakers or headphones to hear lecture presentations (transcripts provided).
• Reliable Internet access.
• A current Internet browser that is compatible with Open EduCat.
• Microsoft Word as your word processing programme.
• Reliable data storage such as a USB drive or Office 365 OneDrive cloud storage.
  
  

The only summative (i.e., graded) assessment that will be used in this course is the pre-licensing examination that consists of 100 multiple choice questions broken down into eight sections as follows:

• Section 1: Property Law: 14 questions
• Section 2: Planning and Development: 14 questions
• Section 3: Fundamentals of Construction: 11 questions
• Section 4: Property Valuations: 8 questions
• Section5: Property Inspection and Measurement: 8 questions
• Section 6: Principles of Marketing: 8 questions
• Section 7: Contract Law for Real Estate Agents 11 questions
• Section 8: Real Estate Agency and Code of Conduct: 26 questions

Students must achieve a grade of at least seventy percent (70%) to pass the pre-licensing exam and thereby successfully complete the course. In addition, please note that the evaluation and grading scale that will be used for this course is the Pass-Fail Grading Option. In practical terms, this means that when students receive their examination result, they will be advised on whether they passed or fail, the specific grade they received, and a breakdown of the marks obtained for each section of the examination, but they will not be provided with a letter grade. For example, A, B or C.

In addition to the pre-licensing examination, two types of formative (i.e., ungraded) assessments will be used to assess student learning:

1. practice multiple choice questions on the content covered in each module.
2. A group assignment in which students must apply their knowledge on real estate agency, the legal aspects of real estate agency, planning and development, property valuations, property inspections and measurement, marketing tools and concepts to successfully promote a residential property to a panel of built environment experts. 

The Real Estate Training Institute is a partner in your learning, and it is important to us that all assessments – formative and summative – be a true reflection of your learning and understanding. With the increasing presence of artificial intelligence options to complete presentations comes a limitation that jeopardizes the academic team’s ability to evaluate your knowledge on our course content and denies you of the ability to master the skill of effectively promoting/advertising real estate. Therefore, the suspicious use of artificial intelligence presentation makers will be regarded as cheating, which is defined as misleading others to think or believe that the academic work that have been produced is an accurate reflection of one’s knowledge, thinking and/or creativity on the subject matter of the academic work.

As a student at the Real Estate Training Institute, you are expected to practice the highest standards of academic integrity. Any departure from this expectation will result in you being required to: 

1. complete a pre-recorded lecture on the importance of adhering to principles of academic integrity and 
2. redo the course for the entire course fee at a future date when it is next offered.
   Additional details on Academic Integrity are provided in the Student’s Handbook.