Diploma in Horticultural Technician

at Niagara College - Niagara on the Lake Campus Canada

Are you interested in turning your green thumb and passion for gardening into a blooming career?
As a Landscape Horticulture Techniques graduate you are in high demand from a $7-billion industry with a growth rate of 14 per cent per year and a serious shortage of horticulturalists.

Program Highlights

• The 125-acre Niagara-on-the-Lake Campus serves as a living lab including Ontario’s largest training greenhouse, newly renovated landscape design studio and computer lab, and a heated landscape workshop.
• Hands-on experiential learning and pride of work; Niagara College is Ontario’s only college where students are responsible for maintaining the campus landscape.
• Graduates may have an opportunity to earn a co-op diploma in landscape, greenhouse or horticultural fields with an additional year of study at Niagara College.

Do you have a flair for baking and pastry arts and want to turn your talent into a successful career?
As a Baking and Pastry Chef you will be a patient and detail-oriented visionary who creates breads, cakes, cookies and pastries and is ready to meet the demand for qualified bakers in Canada’s thriving hospitality industry.

Program Highlights

• The 125-acre Daniel J. Patterson Campus in Niagara-on-the-Lake is located in the heart of Ontario’s thriving hospitality industry and serves as a living lab for students including, leading-edge baking facilities, a 40-acre on-site vineyard, Teaching Brewery, Teaching Winery, Teaching Distillery, Teaching Spa, Greenhouse/Nursery, hop yard, and apiary. 
• Learning environment includes state-of-the-art equipment.
• Environmentally controlled chocolate and sugar lab.
• Program is housed at Niagara College’s Canadian Food and Wine and Institute and taught by world-class chef faculty.
• Access on-site training and employment opportunities at Benchmark, NC’s student-led restaurant, Bench-to-Go and the Bench-on-the-Go food truck.
• Community engagement through not-for-profit and catered events, recipe competitions, industry research and innovation

Are you interested in a career managing an organization’s greatest asset – its people?
As a human resources (HR) professional in the private, public or not-for-profit sector, you support, plan and execute your organization’s HR initiatives from a strategic and tactical perspective.

Program Highlights

• Build a comprehensive, professional portfolio through the HR@NC student club.
• Engage with industry leaders via guest speakers, alumni, industry events and associations including the Human Resources Professionals Association (HRPA) and the Human Resources Professional Association of Niagara (HRPAN).
• Engage in course-based applied research.
• International opportunities to work/study abroad.
• Courses prepare you for the Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP) and/or Certified Human Resources Leader (CHRL) designations.
   

Are you looking for a dynamic and rewarding career that enables you to contribute to the management of global supply chains?
As a Supply Chain Management graduate you will be working in an industry that influences the purchasing, production, warehousing and distribution of goods.

Program Highlights

• A focused curriculum provides students with a comprehensive understanding of supply chains, logistics management, related technology, and business processes.
• Students partner with organizations, using course competencies to address real world problems.
• Applied research is present throughout the program, culminating with a capstone course in the final term.
• Software-based simulations provide learners with competencies in team based, real time, competitive business scenarios.
• Program is a member of the SAP University Alliance, a global business provider of integrated enterprise resource planning software.

Do you have previous experience working in the environmental sector and want to further your skills to contribute to more sustainable world?
As a graduate of the Environmental Management and Assessment program, you will have the specialized skills required to work in several environmental fields, including pollution prevention and control, environmental assessment, and risk management.

Program Highlights

• First program of its kind in Canada; faculty team has over 60 years of collective environmental experience.
• Graduates have marketable skills from the perspective of business, industry, government, consultants and environmental associations.
• Nationally accredited by ECO Canada for excellence in curriculum in compliance with the Canadian National Occupational Standards.
• The 125-acre Niagara-on-the-Lake Campus offers access to ecological living labs in addition to hands-on learning opportunities via industry internships/projects that provide practical experience one day a week, for 12 weeks.
• Graduates with relevant experience can seek Environmental Professional certification through ECO Canada.

Are you looking to boost your gastronomic creativity in pursuit of a rewarding career in the culinary industry?
As a Culinary Skills graduate you will have the culinary confidence and competence needed to create world-class entrées.

Program Highlights

• The Canadian Food and Wine Institute at Niagara College is renowned for its outstanding reputation with graduates, employers and industry partners.
• Unmatched hands-on learning environment with leading-edge facilities and world-class chef faculty.
• Industry and community engagement through not-for-profit and catered events, recipe competitions, and industry research and innovation.
• Upon successful completion, enhance your baking skills by applying to NC’s Baking and Pastry Arts program.
   

Do you want to contribute to the growth and maintenance of a sustainable environment?
As a Horticultural Technician graduate, you are focused on sustainable growing techniques, care and maintenance and committed to protecting biodiversity in nature

Program Highlights

• The 125-acre Daniel J. Patterson Campus in Niagara-on-the-Lake serves as a living lab with the NC Greenhouse Nursery, Ontario’s largest training greenhouse, newly renovated landscape design studio and computer lab, and a heated landscape workshop.
• Study and research new technologies for generating flowers, fruits, turf and trees.
• Gain practical experience exploring sustainable growth techniques in the campus landscape, gardens and greenhouse.
• Hands-on learning of plant health to protect biodiversity in nature.
• Graduates can earn a diploma in landscaping or greenhouse fields with an additional year of study.

Are you passionate about the environment with a desire to help establish an ecologically healthy relationship between nature and our highly industrialized world?
As an Ecosystem Restoration graduate you will be skilled in the restoration and management of disturbed ecosystems and will be prepared to play a leading role in the environmental labour market.

Program Highlights

• Centred on ‘hands-on, boots-on’ learning opportunities via community-based, year-long ecological restoration projects.
• The 125-acre Daniel J. Patterson Campus in Niagara-on-the-Lake includes restored wetlands, The Wetland Ridge Trail, and is part of the Niagara Escarpment.
• Supports bio-monitoring, bio-engineering and plant material management training via the Greenhouse/Nursery, community nurseries and a full complement of field equipment.
• Restoration-oriented certifications and training provide graduates competitive advantages in the environmental labour market.
• Engaged Program Advisory Committee with representatives from sectors involved in the planning, implementation, regulation and promotion of ecological restoration activities.
• Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) has reviewed program curriculum and successful graduates of this program will be immediately eligible for certification designation as a CERPIT (Certified Ecological Restoration Practitioner in Training).

Do you dream of working outdoors while contributing to the sustainability of one of the most important parts of our natural food system – the pollinator?
As a commercial beekeeper you will help meet the expected demand for pollination services by various agricultural crops in Canada and around the world.

Program Highlights

• Reflects Niagara College’s holistic approach to agri-food and commitment to helping meet the global demand for thousands of commercial beekeepers over the next decade including the need for over 3,000 commercial beekeepers across Canada by 2023.
• Eastern Canada’s first-ever Commercial Beekeeping program.
• Applied learning experiences via an on-campus apiary with 30 actively managed hives.
• Three-semester program coincides with the normal annual lifecycle of a honey bee.
• Reflective of a provincial focus on pollinator health strategies with an aim to create a highly skilled labour force to care for managed pollinators as wild pollinators continue to decline globally.
• Engaged Program Advisory Committee with representatives from sectors involved in the planning, implementation, regulation and promotion of ecological restoration activities.

Do you have a knack for crunching numbers and want to gain program-related industry experience to help jumpstart your career?
As a Business Administration – Accounting (Co-op) graduate you will have the knowledge and industry experience required to open doors to a successful professional accounting or financial management career.

Program Highlights

• Hands-on, experiential learning via case studies, computer applications and role-playing.
• Individualized support from professionally designated (CPA, CA, CMA or CGA, CGA) accounting faculty.
• Network with industry leaders while working on course projects.
• Option to acquire a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) designation via diploma articulation to a qualifying degree program recognized by CPA Ontario.