Diploma in Interior Decorating

at Bow Valley College Canada

As a financial professional, this program prepares you in the areas of financial planning, principles and industry standards, financial products and services, tax and legal implications, managing risks, and building customer service expertise. Graduates typically find employment in financial institutions, entering positions such as customer service representative; banking, credit or other investment management positions; finance and insurance clerks; insurance and real estate clerks; supervisors in sales and services; or investment professionals.

Time commitment

• This is a two-year (four term) diploma program. A full course load is five courses per term. Students may elect to take fewer courses each term; however, it will take longer to complete the program.

Learning options

• The Business Administration diploma program consists of core business courses and major specific courses. Core courses are available both in class and online. All major courses are available in class with only some courses available online.

Co-operative Education Program (Optional)

• Co-op provides eligible Business Administration Diploma students with an opportunity to gain work-related experience for one term through an assisted job search. Co-op offers students relevant experience to boost employment opportunities, develop professional skills and experience, network with employers, and earn money.  
• The Co-op Work Term process aligns with the competitive nature of job search. To be accepted into the Co-op Program, applicants must meet all eligibility criteria and follow the application process. Candidates are responsible for demonstrating a high level of professional and program expectations. Not all students accepted into the Co-op Program are guaranteed a Co-op Work Term position. 

Students gain a broad understanding of an event's behind-the-scenes aspects, and plan and produce outstanding events. With a focus on exceeding client and attendee expectations, this program covers research, planning, coordinating, and managing successful events. Graduates typically find employment as event coordinators with special event/entertainment companies, in hotels or convention centres, as wedding planners, and with a variety of not-for-profit and corporate businesses.

Co-operative Education Program (Optional)
Co-op provides eligible Business Administration Diploma students with an opportunity to gain work-related experience for one term through an assisted job search. Co-op offers students relevant experience to boost employment opportunities, develop professional skills and experience, network with employers, and earn money.  

The Co-op Work Term process aligns with the competitive nature of job search. To be accepted into the Co-op Program, applicants must meet all eligibility criteria and follow the application process. Candidates are responsible for demonstrating a high level of professional and program expectations. Not all students accepted into the Co-op Program are guaranteed a Co-op Work Term position. 

The Data Management and Analytics Post-diploma Certificate prepares learners to uncover insights from unstructured data sets to inform data-driven decision making. Learners will determine data requirements, plan for the data life cycle, model data, and use information technology tools to gather data and interpret results. Graduates of the program will have experience with relational database systems, data warehousing, data quality improvement, and visual analytics, along with an introduction to working with big data. Graduates will be able to design data analytics projects to help organizations across sectors make informed and actionable decisions. Resolving real-life business and organizational challenges will be central to project work.

The role of the administrative assistant is changing and growing. Get the practical skills and knowledge to take on many responsibilities in an office. Learn software applications, keyboarding, administrative procedures, and communications. As well, build interpersonal skills to be a more effective and skilled member in any office environment.

Education assistants work in a classroom and support children with diverse learning needs. In this program, you'll train to be an education assistant through classroom learning and practicum experience in a school.

You can also take the Education Assistant Certificate part-time, online. If you take the program online, you can only take online courses. Learners in the face-to-face full-time program write the Test of Workplace Essential Skills (TOWES) in semester one.

Do you plan on extending your education? Transfer your courses and complete the Disability Studies Diploma in over a year.

Through a variety of delivery options, you can earn a Bow Valley College/Government of Alberta Health Care Aide Certificate. 

The Health Care Aide Certificate is available in three delivery options:

• Full-time, on-campus study over a eight-month period.
• Part-Time,online and on-campus over a five term period. 
• Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR): you may be eligible to challenge the courses in the Health Care Aide (HCA) program if you have work experience as a health care aide or caregiver and wish to meet provincial health care aide certification requirements. 

This program focuses on developing the core skills needed to care for individuals with various health care needs. Topics include personal care, assisting with mobility and nutrition, communication, assisting with medication delivery, and clinical skills. 

Dental Business Assistant Certificate prepares the students to manage and maintain the workflow in the office of a dental practitioner smoothly. The graduates learn about business communication, billing, bookkeeping, computer skills, financial management, dental science, maintaining patient records and charting. 

The one year (thirty weeks) certificate program provides the graduates excellent employment opportunities with a high recruitment rate at the end of the course. 
 

You will attain knowledge and skills required to pursue a career in the various fields of law enforcement where every day offers unique and exciting challenges.

These skills provide a sound foundation for your career in public and private sector law enforcement. Your instructors will include currently serving and recently retired police officers. They are exemplary instructors committed to learner success.

Advanced Game Development is a full-time, two-year program comprised of industry-level courses covering game development’s core disciplines: art, design, programming, and production. Students will create various assignments, projects and games that will be assembled into a portfolio that is fit for working in the games industry.

Complete junior and industry-quality live action and full computer graphic (CG) shots. Apply practical lighting techniques within a full CG environment, film practical footage using industry-standard data acquisition, green screen, cinematography techniques, and fundamentals. Integrate student-crafted CG assets and animation into live-action plates and games. Design mechanics produce beautiful art and program functionality for over a dozen games and prototypes. Work under tight creative and time constraints to make your ideas into reality by producing engaging and interactive games.

Software and hardware taught and provided to students during this program:

• Unity Engine
• Unreal Engine
• Visual Studio
• C#
• Machinations
• Maya
• Houdini
• Marmoset Toolbag 3
• Substance Painter
• Substance Designer
• Sketchfab
• Adobe Creative Cloud
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe XD
• Git
• Perforce
• Confluence
• Jira
• MS Office

This program combines the field of business, marketing, technology, and digital media communications and prepares learners to market an organization or product using the latest digital marketing tools and techniques. The program focuses on user experience design practice, marketing analytics, integrated media strategies, and web development techniques.

Co-operative Education Program (Optional)
Co-op provides eligible Business Administration Diploma students with an opportunity to gain work-related experience for one term through an assisted job search. Co-op offers students relevant experience to boost employment opportunities, develop professional skills and experience, network with employers, and earn money.  

The Co-op Work Term process aligns with the competitive nature of job search. To be accepted into the Co-op Program, applicants must meet all eligibility criteria and follow the application process. Candidates are responsible for demonstrating a high level of professional and program expectations. Not all students accepted into the Co-op Program are guaranteed a Co-op Work Term position.