Diploma in Liberal Arts to Trent University

at Centennial College - Morningside Campus Canada

Centennial College's Food Science Technology program will examine the many processes food undergoes as it travels from the field to your fork.

In the advanced diploma program, which the School of Engineering Technology and Applied Science facilitates, you'll gain theoretical, technical and practical training in the three fundamental disciplines of biology, chemistry and food science.

Courses in this college science program will teach you to integrate and apply knowledge within the disciplines of chemistry, engineering, physics, biology and nutrition to preserve, process, package and distribute foods that are healthy, affordable, desirable and safe to eat.

Program Highlights

• Comprehensive laboratory training helps you to take your skills from foundational to professional.
• Through practical Food Science Tech courses, hands-on experience is acquired with a wide range of instrumentation.
• The Biotechnology, Environmental Technology and Food Science Technology programs share a common first year, which provides the flexibility to transfer between these programs before entering the second year.

Centennial College's Biotechnology - Advanced Fast-Track program sees qualified college or university graduates gain direct admission into Year 2 (Semester 3) of the three-year Biotechnology program and receive their technologist advanced diploma in two years (four semesters).

In the Biotechnology - Advanced (Fast Track) courses, you'll learn the scientific principles, techniques and skills to work in industrial microbiology and chemistry. Specialized study in biotechnology applications, biochemistry, microbial genetics, and clinical and environmental microbiology will also be included.

Your opportunity to understand theory and gain technical practice will be combined with many opportunities for you to enhance your experience. Additionally, project work, in consultation with faculty, will help you to further develop your skills in research, laboratory techniques, report writing and presentation.

You'll learn to:

• Perfect your aseptic techniques;
• Isolate, enumerate and identify microorganisms from many types of samples (the human body, water, soil, air, food, and pharmaceutical and cosmetic products);
• Accurately calibrate and use a range of instruments such as pH and BOD meters, gas chromatographs, spectrophotometers (regular/IR/UV), HPLCs, centrifuges, PCR thermocyclers and gel electrophoresis equipment;
• Prepare microbiological media and reagents;
• Culture pathogenic microbes;
• Design and perform advanced microbiology and microbial genetics experiments;
• Use microorganisms to assay pharmaceutical products.

Centennial College’s Liberal Arts to Trent University program will teach you about a wide range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences as well as communications and research methods. More importantly, it will lay the foundation for future post-secondary education, letting you smoothly transfer into a program at Trent University.

This arts diploma program is for you if you're planning on:

• Applying to a Bachelor of Arts (honours) degree at Trent University;
• Applying to a Bachelor of Arts (general) in Communications and Critical Thinking at Trent University;
• Pursuing a college program in areas such as business administration, child studies and community services, hospitality and tourism, journalism, and media and design;
• Exploring your ultimate career goals and various educational opportunities.

Centennial College's Architectural Technician program will prepare you for a variety of careers in the building industry. For example, as an employee of an architectural firm, you may assist with preparing design and construction drawings and carry out contract administration tasks during the construction phase. You may also work in drafting, design or sales for a building material manufacturer or supplier.

This diploma program will place a strong emphasis on energy-efficient, sustainable design and construction strategies, and protecting the environment. You'll learn to use state-of-the-art computer technology as well as prepare designs and construction drawings for residential, industrial, commercial and institutional buildings. Knowledge of building materials, construction methods, structural design, mechanical and electrical services, building codes and zoning by-laws will round out your training.

Medical Laboratory Assistant/Technician are important members of the Medical Laboratory Science profession. Centennial College's Medical Laboratory Technician program will immerse you in the exciting and rewarding world of the medical laboratory, which offers a unique combination of technical employment and the satisfaction of working with a diverse client population.

This is a competency-based program. The program's curriculum is based on the national (CSMLS) standards and the provincial (MLPAO) standards of practice for entry-level medical laboratory assistants/technicians (MLA/T). Areas of focus to ensure students become proficient are; blood sample collection, performing ECGs, operating laboratory equipment, medical terminology and laboratory computer. Students will also develop the professional attitude and mannerism for close patient contact as excellent communication and good interpersonal skills are essential.

The theoretical and practical portions of this Centennial College program will be completed within a year. The third and final semester will be an unpaid clinical field placement with hospital and private laboratory partners that will offer real-work experience. The compressed delivery format makes the Medical Laboratory Technician program an ideal choice if you wish to enter the workforce quickly.

Medical laboratory assistant/technician work under the direction and supervision of a medical laboratory technologist. Their duties include specimen collection, performing ECGs, positioning Holter monitors, processing specimens and basic laboratory testing. With the MLA/T's role expanding, there are opportunities for employment in clinics, private laboratories and hospital laboratories as well as in government, research and veterinary laboratories.

Centennial College's Biotechnology program will prepare you to work as a laboratory technician (in quality control and quality assurance) in the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries.

Biotechnology courses will provide practical application in industrial microbiology as well as chemistry (analytical), organic chemistry and biochemistry. Laboratory techniques, including appropriate safety procedures, will be extensively highlighted.

A special feature of this applied science program is its project-based approach, with independently-designed microbiology projects that will enhance your problem-solving and research skills.

You'll learn to:

• Isolate, enumerate and identify microorganisms from many types of samples (water, soil, air, the body, food, and pharmaceutical and cosmetic products);
• Prepare specimens for staining and become an expert light-microscopist;
• Become proficient in aseptic handling of materials;
• Accurately calibrate and use a range of instruments such as pH and BOD meters, gas chromatographs, spectrophotometers (regular/IR/UV) and HPLCs;
• Prepare microbiological media and reagents and culture pathogenic microbes;
• Design and perform your own microbiology experiments;
• Use microorganisms to assay pharmaceutical products.

You may graduate in two years as a biotechnician or continue into a third year to study specialized topics such as advanced biotechnology and microbial genetics or systematic microbiology. With the third year of study, you'll graduate from the Biotechnology – Advanced offering.

The Massage Therapy program at Centennial College will provide you with both the fundamental and advanced massage therapy skills to become a successful massage therapist. The program will emphasize professionalism and teach an evidence-based approach to assessment, treatment planning and implementation.

Recognized as a distinctive and rigorous offering within the School of Community and Health Studies, this program will balance a combination of theory and practical application through in-class lectures, lab experience, an onsite public clinic and offsite outreach placements.

You'll learn the proper assessment tools and techniques to deal with a wide variety of conditions that involve lymph, muscle, nerve, fascia and joints of the body as well as a wellness focus that maintains physical health, function and mobility.

Program Highlights

• Programs at Centennial College are awarded Key Performance Indicator Awards based on student satisfaction survey statistics. The Massage Therapy program has received the President’s Academic Gold awards for Graduate Satisfaction and for Quality of Learning Experience.
• The Massage Therapy program will offer strong clinical components through onsite labs and clinics and offsite placements. 
• At Centennial’s Morningside Campus, you'll obtain hands-on practice in modern clinical spaces where you'll meet clients who experience injuries, dysfunction and disease. Your responsibility will be to offer assessment and treatment, under the supervision of experienced RMT faculty members, to help improve patients’ physical ability and quality of life.
• When you graduate, you'll be eligible to write the registration examinations administered by the College of Massage Therapists of Ontario (CMTO) to obtain the Registered Massage Therapist (RMT) designation. Centennial students have demonstrated an excellent success rate at the CMTO entry-to-practice examinations (see www.CMTO.com for results).

The Food Science Technology (Fast-Track) program will grant qualified college or university graduates direct admission into Year 2 (Semester 3) of this three-year advanced diploma program, allowing them to receive their advanced diploma in two years (four semesters).

The Centennial College Food Science Technology program will integrate and apply knowledge within the disciplines of microbiology, chemistry, engineering, biology and nutrition to preserve, process, package and distribute foods that are healthy, affordable, desirable and safe to eat.

This college science program will prepare you for food science careers in areas such as quality control/ assurance, laboratory analysis, product development and food safety.

Program Highlights

• In Centennial College's fully equipped labs, you receive comprehensive laboratory training that ranges from foundational to professional skills.
• You experience practical, hands-on activities with a wide range of instrumentation throughout the Food Science Technology (Fast Track) program.

Diploma in Pharmacy Technician program provides a dynamic curriculum that is based on the National Association of Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities competencies.  The program helps students to learn and enhance their knowledge of pharmacology and aseptic techniques as well, compounding, inventory control, community, and institution dispensing skills too. 

While concentrating on the Pharmacy Technician program, understudies will have the option to viably speak with patients, associates, and human services suppliers. Understudies will appreciate a blend of study hall and hands-on pragmatic research facility encounters at Centennial's Morningside Campus, which highlights three best-in-class labs that incorporate network administering, organization/long haul care, and sterile arrangements. 

This School of Community and Health Studies program will likewise concentrate on moving you to grasp the way of thinking of long-lasting learning by seeking after the Regulated Pharmacy Technician assignment. Because of the difficult idea of this calling, candidates ought to have solid basic reasoning, numerical and English relational abilities, and a promise to self-coordinated reasoning.

The Environmental Technician program will prepare you for work in the growing field of environmental technology. Courses will cover the three foundational disciplines of biology, chemistry and civil engineering while teaching you to understand and manage complex environmental problems. The program will include hands-on training as you'll learn to use the tools and equipment needed in water and soil quality analysis, ecological field sampling, analytical chemistry and surveying. Opportunities will exist for participation in local conservation and restoration activities.

A unique combination of technical skills will greatly increase your career options once you graduate from this applied science program, which is the recipient of the President's Academic Program Recognition Award for Quality of the Learning Experience.

Program Highlights

• Graduates are qualified to write the Ontario Ministry of the Environment Operator-in-Training exam.
• Program graduates may be eligible to apply credits towards university degree programs.
• Transfer credits/advanced standing may be awarded for previous science or engineering education.
• The Biotechnology, Environmental Technology, and Food Science Technology programs share a common first semester, which provides the flexibility to transfer between programs before starting the second semester.
• Opportunities exist for participation in local conservation and restoration activities.

Drinking Water Operators
If you successfully complete the entry-level course for drinking water operators, you'll meet the requirements of the Ministry of the Environment's entry-level course for drinking water operators. Centennial College delivers this course in partnership with the Ministry of the Environment and the Walkerton Clean Water Centre.