Graduate Certificate in Business Management

at Canadore College - College Drive Campus Canada

Start an exciting career in the rapidly growing digital visual effects industry. Create dynamic and realistic visual effects for use in film, television, games, and architectural visualization. Learn to produce a concept sketch and storyboard, shape a model, stage a scene and represent movements in three dimensions. Gain professional skills through a practical, hands on approach in labs that are outfitted with the latest tools and industry-standard software with training focused on major trends in visual, digital, and special effects arts.

What You Learn:

• Editing, lighting, rendering, and matte painting
• Compositing
• Concept design
• Texturing
• Character modelling
• Animation

This program trains students to offer personal care and home management services to clients in community or institutional settings. Personal support workers provide services to clients with physical, cognitive, emotional and behavioural challenges. Learn hands-on in the classroom, on community placements and in the home environment simulation lab equipped with high-end fidelity audio/visual equipment and interactive mannequins. PSWs are highly sought after as health care providers, working collaboratively as part of the health care team or in a supported independent living environment.

What You Learn

• Nutritional menu planning
• Clinical and community care (hospital and long-term)
• Simulation and lab work
• Diseases and pharmacology
• Patient client home care

Healthcare is a changing environment and nurses are needed to provide primary care where new trends in technology, pharmacology, nursing medical management are critical tools when working with clients presenting with acute complex pathologies. The Nursing Preparation Licensing Program (NLP) for Internationally Educated Nurses is designed to develop nursing expertise to work in the Ontario health care system. Emphasis is placed on the application and evaluation of advanced theories and practice in acute and chronic care settings within an interprofessional model of care as part of the health care team. Through classroom instruction, simulated labs and practicum placements, students will develop the necessary competencies to be eligible to practice in Ontario. Graduates of the program will be eligible to apply to write the College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO) jurisprudence and regulatory examinations to be accredited as a Registered Nurse within the Ontario’s Healthcare system.

Learning Outcomes

• Provide patient care in accordance with the Professional Standards for Registered Nurses in Ontario, using critical thinking to make decisions based on research and theory.
• Practice within the legal, ethical and professional scope of practice of nursing for a diverse client population in the province of Ontario as a member of the health care team.
• Use appropriate technology to contribute to safe, effective and efficient nursing practice
• Incorporate reflective practice into the nursing process to identify future implications for the role of a nurse in patient-centered practice.
• Communicate effectively, and in a culturally competent manner, with clients, peers and other members of the interprofessional health care team at the level required of a health care professional in a therapeutic context.
• Contribute to the maintenance of health-related documentation and reports at the level required of a health care professional
• Practice Integrated Comprehensive Care within a variety of contexts and settings (for individuals, families, and groups) by evaluating and modifying individualized care plans to promote safe and optimal patient care.

This one-year Ontario College Graduate Certificate Program prepares graduates for a rewarding career in the field of Project Management. Project Management is a highly sought discipline that involves the application of knowledge, skills and techniques to execute projects effectively and efficiently. Project managers are in high demand across all industries. Graduates of the Project Management Graduate Certificate program will learn how to initiate, plan, monitor and control projects through to successful completion. They acquire the competencies to lead diverse project teams within a broad range of sectors in public, private and not-for-profit settings, while applying content-specific knowledge of their previous studies and experiences. Graduates work in leadership positions, developing and monitoring performance measures and adapting to project constraints, while managing communications within and among teams.

What You Learn

• Project planning
• Scheduling and cost management
• Communication management
• Leadership and human relations
• Procurement and contract management
• Quality management

People are a key resource in businesses, large and small. Learn how industry manages employees for better job satisfaction, staff development, and employee relations in this one-year program. Learn essential human resources functions within the domestic and international business environments like how to facilitate and guide staffing, performance management, training, and health and safety. Gain the skills needed to contribute to organizational development strategies and manage human resources activities of any organization.

What You Learn

• Human resources management and planning
• Corporate training and development
• Mediation skills/conflict resolution
• Labour relations
• Human rights and workplace investigation
• Finance

Start an exciting career that could take you across the globe. Work in a world-class resort or on a cruise ship, or go into business for yourself - the possibilities are limitless. You will be trained by highly skilled professors and chefs de cuisine, and will gain the culinary skills and management techniques necessary to make you highly sought-after in your field. Modern culinary skills and techniques will be practiced in a real-world setting, including liquid nitrogen applications, buffet work, pastry arts and restaurant food production; you will even learn the elegant art of ice carving.

What You Learn

• A la carte cooking
• International cuisine
• Wines
• Menu design/culinary display
• Buffet/quantity cooking
• Facilities design and equipment selection
• Baking and pastry arts
• Restaurant food production

Apply what you’ve learned working with a real organization for your final capstone project.
Prepare for an exciting career in one of the fastest growing fields. Data analytics is used in many different sectors including marketing, law enforcement, and community and social services. Gain the skills needed to interpret data and predictive models to successfully give direction to both private and government organizations. This training provides the foundation for a dynamic career in a number of disciplines including cyber security or artificial intelligence-the possibilities are endless.

What You Learn:

• Evidence-based decision-making
• Predictive Modeling of Analytics 
• Data collection and curation
• Data analysis tools
• Web analytics and social media data
• Data visualization

Learn to be your own boss and turn your idea into a thriving business. Develop and explore entrepreneurship opportunities in a variety of industries in this one-year program. Learn to develop comprehensive business plans, strategies to execute effective marketing plans and how to use market research to optimize the operation of a small business. Gain the versatile skills to be successful in a business or entrepreneurial setting.

What You Learn

• International business
• Leadership in entrepreneurship
• Business law and corporate taxation
• Marketing for managers
• Creating, building and sustaining a venture
• Advanced business procedures

Enhance and learn to evaluate, treat and manage the care of patients with cardiopulmonary abnormalities. Respiratory advisors are a necessary piece of the social insurance group giving ventilation and aviation route the board, cardiopulmonary revival, oxygen treatment, and helping with high-chance births and anesthesia in the working room. 

The third-year position incorporates the Hospital for Sick Children and Holland Bloor-see Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, enable understudies to increase down to earth involvement in neonatal and pediatric settings. Graduates enter this sought after, lifesaving field and discover work in an assortment of dynamic settings.

The program is designed to meet the core clinical competencies of the Respiratory Therapy practice framework. The Advanced Diploma in Respiratory Therapy program helps students to learn and enhance their knowledge on anatomy and physiology, patient assessment, cardiac and pulmonary diagnostics, airway and ventilation management, invasive vascular procedures, pathophysiology and pharmacology.  Upon completing the program successfully, understudies may seek their job opportunities in the areas of hospitals, home care, community clinics, education and research, diagnostic labs and others.

Start your career in the emerging field of genomics. This program integrates molecular and cellular-based strategies to study the structure, function and regulation of an individual's genomic legacy. Learn to apply techniques such as genotyping and next generation sequencing to unlock the power of the genome. An emphasis will be placed on understanding the pathogenesis of diseases and learning how genetic variation interacts with an individual's environment, nutrition, and lifestyle. Canadore’s new innovative genomics laboratory is equipped with some of the most leading-edge technology in Canada including two DNA sequencers that provide the capacity for research in areas such as pharmacology, addictions, and disease prevention.

What You Will Learn:

• Genetic Profiles/Signatures
• Next Generation Sequencing
• Applied Molecular Genetics
• Cellular Metabolism (Micronutrients)
• Nutrigenomics
• Pharmacogenetics and Toxicogenetics