Diploma in Business - Accounting (Co-op)

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

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.
• Upon completion of a common first semester, you may choose to transfer into second semester of one of the following programs:
  • Business Administration (632)
  • Business Administration - Accounting (364)
  • Business Administration - Human Resources (363)
  • Business Administration - Marketing (non co-op 362 or co-op 366)
  • Business - Financial Services (303)
  • Business (General) (320)
  • Business - Marketing (319)
  • Insurance (non co-op 318 or co-op 368)

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.
• Progress towards a professional accounting certificate or designation.
• Analyze the financial information produced in financial statements in order to assess the financial position of a company.

This program is designed to offer transfer pathways to additional college and university programs.

Program Highlights

• Develop essential employability skills such as strong communication, critical thinking, and socio-cultural awareness.
• Customize your schedule with a wide range of electives chosen from your areas of interest delivered in blended and online learning environments.
• Cost-effective and efficient pathway into university studies with up to two years of direct and non-specified university transfer credit into a humanities and social sciences field of study.
• Get a fresh start by upgrading and achieving the entrance-level requirements needed for other competitive college and university programs.
• Earn transfer credits at the university level.

What you'll learn

• Introduction to a wide variety of course options in the humanities and social science disciplines to broaden your understanding of the world around you.
• Critically evaluate global and social issues and topics by demonstrating an understanding of interdisciplinary connections between society, culture, environment, politics, history, etc.
• Gain essential employability skills that will be applicable in both your future career and post-secondary educational aspirations.
• Develop communications competence to a level required by business and a wide variety of other careers/employment.

Program Highlights
This program is a combination of in-class facilitated discussions, and practical hands-on experiences offered through Mohawk College’s Centre for Entrepreneurship including mentorship, speaker series, and the opportunity to participate in a live Pitch competition.

What you'll learn

• Learn to effectively manage a small business throughout the 5 stages of small business growth.
• Learn the fundamentals of operating a lean, agile business that can respond to external factors forcing change.
• Graduate with a comprehensive business plan that gives you a head start in obtaining funding and launching your own business.

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.

Develop interactive media expertise through the first graduate certificate exclusively focused on Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR).

Program Highlights

• You will have access to emerging XR hardware such as VR headsets and controllers, AR headsets and glasses, 3D scanners, and more.
• You will use the latest software for programming, 3D modelling, animation and software development.
• You will be able to deploy applications to a large range of platforms including PC, iOS, Android, VR headsets, AR headsets and the web.
• You will learn how to overcome the challenges of deployment to any platform or device.
• You will learn critical product and project management skills specific to emerging XR industries.
• You will understand every aspect of the XR software development lifecycle and be career ready once you complete the program.

What you'll learn

• How to effectively plan and execute an XR project of any scale with a team of any size.
• How to adapt to emerging technologies in the rapidly changing landscape of XR.
• Design high quality 3D models using the latest modelling software and tools such as 3dsMax and Blender.
• Write clean and efficient code to help users navigate, interact, play and learn in XR environments.
• Write scripts for game engines using languages such as C#(Unity), C++(Unreal) and JavaScript(web).
• Build and deploy mobile applications for Android and iOS with an emphasis on innovative Augmented Reality application.
• Create beautiful 3D environments optimized for system performance.
• Develop engaging stories and scenarios specifically for XR media.
• Establish a career plan to take advantage of your skillset.

Master the skills of effective, fact-based communication through experience in print, radio, television, and the ever-expanding opportunities on the web.

Program Highlights

• Canada's first journalism program to incorporate accessible media production as part of the core curriculum.
• Cutting-edge multimedia tools and skills that will uniquely position you in the content creation job market after graduation.

What you'll learn

• Principles and practices of professional journalism.
• Professional story telling and communication skills.
• Research and data evaluation techniques.
• How to effectively use social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook to engage an audience.
• Content production for real organizations

Mohawk's Journalism program has the highest overall student satisfaction rate of any 3-year journalism program in Ontario.
Mohawk's Journalism program gives you the practical skills and knowledge to succeed as a journalist or communications professional in today's multimedia news environment.

Whether you want to be a print or television reporter, an on-air host, or work behind the scenes, you'll receive the hands-on training and experience you need to enter the exciting world of journalism. You will practice the craft of reporting with state-of-the-art digital equipment, under the guidance of industry professionals.

Learn about marketing and its role in the business environment. Enhance your skills in advanced digital marketing, solve marketing problems for real clients and practice your knowledge with an optional co-op placement.

Program Highlights

• Study with professors who have worked as marketing professionals and bring their expertise to the classroom.
• Upon completion of a common first semester, you may choose to transfer into the second semester of one of the following programs:
  • Business - Accounting (non co-op 316 or co-op 356)
  • Business - Administration (632)
  • Business Administration-Accounting (364)
  • Business Administration - Human Resources (363)
  • Business - Marketing (319)
  • Business - Financial Services (303)
  • Business - General (320)
  • Insurance (318) (non co-op 318 or co-op 368)

What you’ll learn

• How to conduct market research and create marketing strategies for real clients.
• Verbal and written communication skills as you prepare reports and presentations.
• Web marketing strategies and tools.
• Use computer simulation to model an international product launch.
• Ethics and sustainability practices.
• Project management techniques.
• Adobe Creative Suite for Business, graphic and web design.
• Business-to-business marketing.
• Prepare a comprehensive marketing plan for an external business start-up..

Develop prevention, intervention and treatment strategies to facilitate a positive change in children, youth and their families who experience a range of social, emotional and behavioural challenges.

Program Highlights

• Mohawk secures diverse field placement opportunities for students in a variety of agencies and provides one-on-one field placement support.
• Over 1,000 hours of practical field placement experiences.
• Mohawk’s Child and Youth Care Program has earned national accreditation by the Child and Youth Care Educational Accreditation Board of Canada (CYCEAB).

What you'll learn

• Specialize in supporting change with children, youth and their families experiencing a range of social, emotional and behavioural challenges.
• Implement a range of prevention, intervention and treatment strategies for children, youth and their families, including crisis intervention, conflict management, problem solving, counselling, activity programming and group work.
• How to work with client challenges including difficult home situations, substance abuse, behavioural problems and conflicts with the law.
• Advocate for the rights of children and youth.

Elevate your reading, writing, listening and speaking in English to a higher academic level in as little as 7 weeks depending on your skill level. English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at Mohawk is a series of 8 levels of 7-week courses designed to develop students’ language skills from pre-beginner to college level English. Each level is 21 hours in length. The continuous intake program accommodates students arriving at different times throughout the year and is also for those who wish only a short-term academic language experience. At the higher levels of EAP, students have the opportunity to earn two post-secondary credits toward their diploma program. This program is intended for learners whose first language is not English and who want to pursue college level programs requiring English language proficiency.

Program Highlights

• Select courses to meet students’ needs with the help of a coordinator
• Great preparation for a college program
• Improves skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing
• Successful completion of Level 8 will waive the English Language Proficiency Requirements for selected Mohawk College career programs
• Postsecondary credits

Fulfil your entrepreneurial vision with a career in the residential and light commercial renovation sector.

Program Highlights

• Award-winning faculty.
• Community construction projects.
• Provincial leader in student success.
• Blended theory classes that are face-to-face and on-line.

What you'll learn

• Develop skills and training required to join the entrepreneurial trend of home and commercial renovation.
• Explore design and architectural styles, interior and exterior finishes, cabinetry, and millwork.
• Acquire specialized training in carpentry hand and power tools, construction materials, wood and wood products, and workplace safety.
• Apply construction and project management principles to renovation projects including project scheduling, materials resourcing, cost estimating, risk analysis, sub-contracting, cost control strategies and project closeout.
• Understand the importance of waste management and incorporate the 3R’s (reduce, reuse, recycle) into renovation projects.
• Experience an intensive hands-on education consisting of various lab and practical projects; participate in a local community renovation project.
• Acquire practical knowledge and skills needed to operate a small business.