Advanced Diploma in Applied Music - (Contemporary Brass and Winds)

at Mohawk College of Applied Arts and Technology - Fennel Campus Canada

Develop accounting skills in advanced financial accounting, management control, corporate taxation and audit.

Program Highlights

• Learn from faculty with professional designations including members of the Chartered Professional Accountants (CPA) of Ontario, who bring their real-life experiences to the classroom.

What you'll learn

• Accounting theory and practical applications with integrated computer technologies.
• Specialize in financial accounting, cost and management accounting, taxation, business finance and applied accounting systems.
• Business management techniques such as strategic planning, project management and professional ethics.
• Analyze financial statements to assess the financial position of a company.
• Case analysis course will allow you to apply your accounting and management skills to make sound business decisions.

Monetize your creativity by developing and exploring ways to fund, brand, launch, market, manage and maintain a financially viable creative arts business.

Program Highlights

• Arts and business focused program.
• Join a diverse group of students including musicians, artisans, videographers, photographers, graphic designers and dancers.
• Participate in showcase presentations and multimedia based assignments.
• Learn from industry leaders.
• Master Class structured classes.
• Program is open to both domestic and international students.

What you'll learn

• Develop and implement a promotion plan that includes: web-based marketing and consideration of audio-visual branding.
• Explore audio-visual branding.
• Create a realistic business plan for a creative arts profession or company.
• Legal principles, government legislation and regulations, copyright and contract requirements, and professional and industry codes.
• Engage in accounting practices for your business, including interpretation of financial statements.
• Source capital to support your business plans, such as crowdfunding and other methods to generate revenue.
• Project management tools, strategies and principles of marketing a creative product or service.
• Analyze industry-specific trends for decision making.
• Professional communications, contracts for creative arts, and sales and service presentations.

Experience the full animation process of character performance stories with a focus on creating finished animation productions.

Program Highlights

• Taught by industry professionals.
• Bring stories and characters to life through cinematic animation.

What you'll learn

• Industry standard hardware and software.
• Transferable skills to entertainment, gaming, virtual reality (VR), commercial and industrial productions.
• Develop real-world industry production work practices.
• Business of art for profit.
• Pre-production skills:
  • Writing skills to develop character and story structure.
  • Figure drawing to develop strong drawing skills.
  • Traditional drawing skills used for visual design of environments, characters, storyboards/animatics.
• Production skills:
  • Laptop computer skills for digital construction, rigging and animating characters.
  • Construction of props and environments with texture and lighting to complete the scene.
  • Camera, rendering and editing techniques to create a finished production.

Orchestrate your musical future with practical and theoretical training in classical, jazz and contemporary genres.

Program Highlights

• Personalized instruction by passionate professional musicians.
• Perform at the 1,000 seat McIntyre Performing Arts Centre at Fennell Campus.
• Clinics and workshops with world-renowned musicians.

What you'll learn

• Perform in a variety of ensembles, coached by faculty.
• Use the latest music technology in a state-of-the-art facility.
• Compose your own arrangements and works and have them performed by student groups under your direction.
• Participate in professional recording studio experiences.
• Write musical scores for various productions.
• Explore the business side of the music profession
• Gain the advice of industry experts.

Learn intervention, protection and rehabilitation skills to help victims of crime, at-risk youth and incarcerated adult offenders.

Program Highlights

• Upon completion of a common first year, you may choose to transfer into second year of one of the following programs:
  • Police Foundations (218-258)
  • Protection, Security and Investigation (293-294)
• Focus on physical fitness will prepare you for the fitness testing required for a career in corrections, Canada border security and/or policing.

What you'll learn

• Explore both the community and institutional sectors of the criminal justice system.
• Work toward rehabilitation of those in conflict with the law.
• Intervene with clients to address and manage problems constructively to change behaviour.
• Obtain public protection skills and learn to secure staff and clients in institutional, residential, community correction and group home settings.
• Train in the legal aspects of crime and behaviour, security measures and techniques including interviewing and intervention skills for young offenders, adult offenders and victims.
• Understand issues related to female and Indigenous offenders, addiction, group dynamics, behaviour management and victims within the criminal justice system.
• Explore community programs, restorative justice initiatives and preventative measures.
• Receive specialized training in correction systems enforcement, safety restraints and rehabilitation strategies including tactical communication.

Program Highlights

• Use your unique skills and talents to discover how you can best serve your community as a helper.

What you'll learn

• Enhance important fundamental skills necessary to pursue future postsecondary studies.
• Learn about social issues such as human rights, community building and inclusion.
• Increase self-awareness, experience personal growth and other competencies required for a profession in the community services field.
• How to work effectively as a team member in the community services field.
• Importance of a healthy communities, and it’s impact on individuals, families and groups.

The Human Services Foundation program lets students gain exposure to various study options within the Human Services field including working with children, youth, families and persons with special needs.

Students in Human Services Foundation will also learn about community issues such as poverty, homelessness and mental illness through unique and flexible learning opportunities including on-line learning, community based visits, labs and role-playing.

Orchestrate your musical future with practical and theoretical training in classical, jazz and contemporary genres.

Program Highlights

• Personalized instruction by passionate professional musicians.
• Perform at the 1,000 seat McIntyre Performing Arts Centre at Fennell Campus.
• Clinics and workshops with world-renowned musicians.

What you'll learn

• Perform in a variety of ensembles, coached by faculty.
• Use the latest music technology in a state-of-the-art facility.
• Compose your own arrangements and works and have them performed by student groups under your direction.
• Participate in professional recording studio experiences.
• Write musical scores for various productions.
• Explore the business side of the music profession
• Gain the advice of industry experts.

Program Highlights

• Complete 600 hours of supervised field placement.
• Advocate for and get involved in social justice opportunities and become an anti-oppressive practitioner
• Meet like-minded people and network with current professionals.

What you'll learn

• Current theories, models and interventions used in social service agencies to build healthy, positive relationships and connections within communities.
• Value of self-reflection and how to engage in critical self-awareness to increase your ability to help others and respect the uniqueness and dignity of all people.
• Develop core values of helping others such as the right to choose, the right to equality, justice and access to services.
• Acquire helping skills such as interviewing, assessing the needs of others, working effectively with groups and assisting communities to change.
• Understand how to document and work within legal, ethical and professional frameworks.

Program Highlights

• High graduate and co-op placement rates.
• State-of-the-art lab equipment and facilities.
• Excellent reputation among major chemical industries and government agencies.

What you'll learn

• Industry-standard lab practices and sampling techniques.
• Chemical process unit operations and modeling.
• Instrumental analysis methods.
• Quality assessment and control protocols.
• Unit operations including distillation, evaporation and drying.
• Process control and automation using programmable logic controllers.

Mohawk’s Chemical Engineering Technology program prepares students for the workplace. Graduates have the theoretical and practical skills required to work in laboratories, chemical manufacturing plants, agriculture, refineries, pharmaceutical plants, food and beverage industries, municipal water and wastewater facilities.
Mohawk’s Chemical Engineering Technology program is recognized for its depth of hands-on laboratory experience and wide range of co-op placement opportunities.
 
Experiential Learning

• How you’ll gain skills
  • Through 600 hours of practical hands-on laboratory experience.
  • By completing collaborative projects in conjunction with industrial partners.
  • Through 16 months of co-operative work experience.
  • To learn more, please visit the Centre for Experiential Learning.

Co-op Format (Fall Intake)

Co-op Format (Winter Intake)

Gain specialized knowledge in data analytics to become a skilled data professional, and an essential contributor to business decision-making processes.

Program Highlights

• Executive course delivery model.
• Experiential learning with real data sets in an Analytics Lab.
• Applied skills development with industry-standard techniques and software.
• Potential to work with real businesses using their data.
• Program is open to both domestic and international students.
• Work on individual and team-based projects.
• Multidisciplinary education applicable to many industries.
• Opportunity to compete in a case competition.
• Computer-based exercises and training.
• Case studies and competition.
• Face-to-face workshops and industry networking.

What you'll learn

• Analyze and interpret digital information.
• Case study problem solving and analysis.
• Understand key analytical, modeling, statistical and programming tools.
• Use of business intelligence and data analytics software with a focus on data identification, consolidation, communication, reporting, manipulation and trending.
• Management techniques for data analytics projects.
• Presentation and communication skills.
• How to become a Certified Analytics Professional.