Diploma in Culinary Management

at Centennial College - Progress Campus Canada

Centennial College's Baking and Pastry Arts Management program will build on fundamental baking and pastry arts skills to prepare you for a management role within the baking sector. Whether it's menu design, purchasing, planning or execution, baking management is an essential skill to convert your passion into business success.

In the Baking and Pastry Arts Management courses, you'll work in baking and pastry labs, including Centennial College's one-of-a-kind commercial bakeshop as well as an on-campus cafe, restaurant and event centre. In these real-world environments, you'll hone your skills before beginning a 14-week work-integrated learning opportunity with one of the College's industry partners.

You'll graduate with important industry certifications such as Smart Serve, Safe Food Handlers and CPR, making you job-ready. Many graduates from this Baking and Pastry Arts program have secured employment within major hospitality brands in the hotel, resort and restaurant industries as well as within large-scale commercial baking companies.

A successful organization is only as good as its people, and human resources management (HRM) plays a critical role in ensuring an organization has the right people for success. With training from Centennial College's Human Resources Management (Optional Co-op) program, you'll be responsible for ensuring that happens.

Thanks to this offering, you'll have the necessary foundational training and education to enter into occupations in human resources — either as a generalist or as a specialist — across a range of industries and organizations. By doing so, you'll become a vital strategic partner in the organizational world, the business community and your own community, and in turn, the Ontario economy.

During your time in this business graduate certificate program, you'll be exposed to what is necessary to align HR practices and policies with overall organizational strategies. You'll also gain the knowledge to carry out duties in various areas, which will include:

• Staffing
• Compensation
• Performance management
• Training and development
• Occupational health and safety
• Industrial relations
• Alternative dispute resolution
• Human resource management systems

When you successfully complete this professional program's in-depth HRM courses, which the Human Resource Professionals Association (HRPA) accredits, you'll be prepared to confidently launch your career.

Co-op Option

• The co-op option in this program will provide you with the opportunity to gain hands-on experience while you complete one work term as an employee in the field. This experience not only allows you to put classroom learning into practice, but will also provide valuable contacts for your future career.
• To participate in this co-op option, you will need to complete an application process in the first semester. If academically qualified, you may be admitted to the co-op program

Through collaboration with industry, the Software Engineering Technology – Artificial Intelligence (AI) program will provide our students with skills in state of art design and AI application development technologies. Software is taking the planet by storm and AI-driven technologies are at the center of it. AI’s global economic impact is expected to reach trillions by 2025. AI is set to become the new database for next-generation applications.

Our Software Engineering Technology – Artificial Intelligence program aligns well with the newest technology trends in the software industry, namely “Augmented Analytics,” “AI-Driven Development,” and “Autonomous Things.” The coursework emphasizes modern software design and AI frameworks, machine learning, data visualization, big data fundamentals, natural language processing, image recognition, recommender systems, software bots, digital ethics and privacy guidelines within AI solutions.

To round out the technical focus of the curriculum, the Software Engineering Technology – Artificial Intelligence program includes two software development projects. For these real-world business applications, you put into action all the technical, systems and business skills acquired during your courses to build AI-enhanced software solutions for automating, classifying, predicting, recommending, and understanding processes and data.

Throughout the world, humans congregate, gather and collaborate to learn, celebrate and meet. This program will cover a wide overview of the event industry. You’ll participate in defining, understanding and applying the elements involved in planning and staging corporate, social/life cycle, festivals and conferences, and the types of organizations that produce and present them.

By connecting with professors and fellow peers and through the use of independent research, group work, discussions, and experiential work-integrated learning, you’ll examine management practices, including how events are designed, funded, staffed and promoted. You can expect exposure to the planning and development of sustainability, creativity, sales and marketing, and budgeting along with the understanding of volunteer and team building.

Instructors will guide and direct you to real-world learning opportunities, which will require you to reflect on how the experiences connect to course content. During these experiences, you’ll participate in work-integrated learning assignments, projects or experiential learning opportunities.

The Paralegal- Court and Tribunal Agent diploma program is intended to provide students with the training required to become licensed paralegals in Ontario pursuant to the requirements of the Law Society Act. Upon completion of this program, students will gain theoretical knowledge and practical experience in the areas of law in which licensed paralegals may practice. The program emphasizes the development of written and oral advocacy skills in all areas of authorized paralegal practice,  ethics and practice management. In semester four, classroom instruction is enhanced by a field placement in a law-related setting.

Centennial College's Mechanical Engineering Technology – Design program will offer courses that combine engineering theory and practice, focusing on the design and development of various mechanical devices and equipment. You'll gain a thorough grounding in engineering sciences and skills, including computer-assisted drafting and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) as used in the industry.

About one quarter of the time in this advanced diploma engineering program will be spent on project work. The projects will simulate workplace assignments while relating classroom theory to the actual design, manufacture and testing of projects.

Program Highlights

• In the Mechanical Engineering Technology – Design program, you learn through machine shop operation, tool design and computer numerical control programming.
• The program, which offers a 60-40 balance between theory and practice, includes instruction in industry-current computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) and computer-adided analysis (CAE) software as AutoCAD, Inventor, SolidWorks, ANSYS and Mastercam.
• The project-driven program simulates actual workplace assignments and even gives you practical experience in designing, building and testing an original piece of equipment.
• State-of-the-art mechanical engineering lab includes CAD/CAM equipment, thermodynamic fluid power testing modules, and tensile, hardness and impact testers.

Centennial College's Project Management program will provide you with the solid fundamental knowledge to manage projects in a timely and cost-effective manner.

The Business School graduate certificate program is intended for applicants who previously completed a post-secondary education in any discipline and wish to increase their employability by working towards a globally-recognized certification in project management. It's also ideal for experienced project managers seeking to bring a new dimension of leadership to their work.

The Project Management courses in this college business program will follow A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, (PMBOK® Guide). Enhancing the use of this guide will be a curriculum that will include hands-on integration of technological tools such as Microsoft Project and leading-edge industry case studies with a focus on organizational leadership.

In the third semester, if you're an eligible candidate, you'll be able to participate in a full-time 14-week experiential learning opportunity (internship) with a participating organization that will allow you to gain valuable project management experience. During this time, you'll be required to participate in an online course and prepare assignments related to the experiential learning opportunity. You'll then be able to use the experience towards work requirements for the PMP®  and CAPM®  designations.

Centennial College's Office Administration – General program will offer you the administrative support knowledge to succeed in today's office environment.

While you gain a wide range of administrative skills, you'll also polish your communication and human relations techniques. In small classes, experienced professors will lead you through The Business School offering, which will employ practical application of topics such as:

• Word processing
• Document production
• Office procedures
• Computer applications
• Keyboarding and Transcription
• Communications
• Cloud computing
• Desktop technologies
• Career planning and networking

The resulting Office Administration - General program credential will ensure you're career-ready for a variety of administrative assistant positions.

Centennial College's Health Informatics Technology (Fast-Track) program will concede you into Semester 3 of the three-year propelled recognition offering so you can get the certification in four semesters, in case you're a certified school or college graduate with a foundation in programming. 

This school wellbeing innovation program's emphasis will be on consolidating programming building and medicinal services frameworks as you'll figure out how to configuration, create, change and test programming for human services applications. 

As a student of this School of Engineering Technology and Applied Science program, you'll have the option to dissect and demonstrate information, create social insurance databases and apply present-day programming improvement philosophies. You'll additionally have the expertise to utilize wellbeing informatics strategies and programming instruments for emergency clinics, medicinal services offices and general wellbeing offices. 

Program Highlights

• The Health Informatics Technology (Fast-Track) courses incorporate cutting-edge technology geared to industry standards.
• You learn through a project-based approach.
• Knowledgeable and approachable School of Engineering Technology and Applied Science faculty members have diverse business experience and academic credentials.
• Graduates from the program may apply for certified membership to either the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS) or their provincial engineering technology association.

This Computer Systems Technology – Networking (Fast-Track) program is for understudies who recently finished an applicable school or college program and wish to get their recognition in two years (four semesters) by entering the second year of the three-year Networking advertising. 

This school building project prides itself on encouraging a perfect harmony between hands-on involvement and hypothesis in its Computer Systems Technology courses. In that capacity, you'll learn by utilizing cutting edge testing and estimation gear in reason constructed labs to build up a strong establishment in system plan and testing just as venture the board. 

Hands-on exercises will incorporate diving inside PC equipment and learning the complexities of working frameworks, investigating current PC frameworks and systems innovation, and collecting and keeping up frameworks that will engage clients in imaginative, business and correspondence exercises.