Advanced Diploma in Food Science Technology (Optional Co-op)

at Centennial College - Morningside Campus Canada

Centennial College's Bachelor of Science Nursing is offered in partnership with Ryerson University and George Brown College. To complete this degree program, you'll spend your first two years at Centennial and the final two years at Ryerson.
The goal of this Nursing program is to help you become a nursing leader who is highly competent, knowledgeable and committed to playing an integral role in shaping the future of health care.

The curriculum, taught by faculty members from both the college and university, has five themes that will be reflected in all program years at varying levels. These themes are:

• Primary health care/health promotion
• Reflective practice/critical thinking
• Meaningful relationships/caring/communication
• Political/social justice
• Personal/professional development

You'll be required to complete professionally-related courses in areas such as anatomy and physiology, nutrition, ethics, psychology and sociology. Also included in Nursing (BScN) will be a series of required and elective courses, selected from other disciplines, to enhance and support the broad knowledge base required of professional nurses.

At Centennial's Morningside Campus, you'll benefit from small classes, state-of-the-art medical facilities and individualized attention.
When you complete this offering, you'll be prepared to work with persons and communities of diverse backgrounds, ages, and degrees of health and illness, in a variety of contexts.

Program Highlights

• A mentorship program and peer tutoring will help you to fulfill your potential.
• Starting in the first semester of the Nursing (BScN) program, opportunity will exist for small group instruction in clinical and laboratory settings.
• State-of-the-art nursing labs outfitted with highly realistic computerized "patients" will be available for independent and scheduled practice. These labs recreate a hospital floor with a nursing station and operating room facilities.
• When engaging in serious and highly realistic patient care scenarios, you'll get teamed up with front-line professionals.
• You'll partake in hands-on application in a clinical simulation facility where the School of Community and Health Studies hosts large-scale disaster simulation exercises involving major health care services from around the city and beyond.
• The experienced and caring faculty members are professionals with years of expertise.
• Clinical placement will give you the advantage of being able to network and make employment contacts.

Centennial College's Biotechnology - Advanced Fast-Track program sees qualified college or university graduates gain direct admission into Year 2 (Semester 3) of the three-year Biotechnology program and receive their technologist advanced diploma in two years (four semesters).

In the Biotechnology - Advanced (Fast Track) courses, you'll learn the scientific principles, techniques and skills to work in industrial microbiology and chemistry. Specialized study in biotechnology applications, biochemistry, microbial genetics, and clinical and environmental microbiology will also be included.

Your opportunity to understand theory and gain technical practice will be combined with many opportunities for you to enhance your experience. Additionally, project work, in consultation with faculty, will help you to further develop your skills in research, laboratory techniques, report writing and presentation.

You'll learn to:

• Perfect your aseptic techniques;
• Isolate, enumerate and identify microorganisms from many types of samples (the human body, water, soil, air, food, and pharmaceutical and cosmetic products);
• Accurately calibrate and use a range of instruments such as pH and BOD meters, gas chromatographs, spectrophotometers (regular/IR/UV), HPLCs, centrifuges, PCR thermocyclers and gel electrophoresis equipment;
• Prepare microbiological media and reagents;
• Culture pathogenic microbes;
• Design and perform advanced microbiology and microbial genetics experiments;
• Use microorganisms to assay pharmaceutical products.

Courses in this college science program will cover the three foundational disciplines of biology, chemistry and civil engineering — and teach you to understand and manage complex environmental problems. To balance theory, you'll gain hands-on experience using technology and equipment in water and soil quality analysis, ecological field sampling, analytical chemistry, hazardous material management, surveying, municipal engineering, AutoCAD drawing and geographic information systems (GIS) mapping. You'll also acquire the skills to analyze and remidate the urban environment through laboratory practice in water quality testing, groundwater movement, computer aided environmental audits and the chemistry of pollutants.

Program Highlights:-

• You can participate in local conservation and restoration activities.
• Graduates can apply to register with the Ontario Association of Certified Engineering Technicians and Technologists (OACETT).
• After you complete Semester 4 courses, you can write the Ontario Ministry of the Environment Operator-in-Training (OIT) and Water Quality Analyst (WQA) exams.
• Environmental Technology (and its co-op version) is the recipient of the President's Academic Program Recognition Award for Outstanding Student Satisfaction.
• The Biotechnology, Environmental Technology and Food Science Technology programs share a common first semester, which provides the flexibility to transfer between programs before starting the second semester.
• The unique combination of technical skills in this advanced diploma program will greatly increase your career options.

Co-op Option:-
This program offers an optional co-op component. During this opportunity, academically-qualified students can put classroom learning into practice and make valuable contacts for future careers.
To participate in programs with optional co-op, you'll typically complete an application process in the second semester of your studies. If you qualify academically, you'll be admitted to the co-op program. When you graduate, your diploma will highlight the co-op credential.

This Biotechnology - Advanced program will prepare you with the scientific principles, techniques and skills required in industrial microbiology and chemistry. In this applied science program, you'll also study biotechnology applications, biochemistry, microbial genetics, and clinical and environmental microbiology.

Your Biotechnology - Advanced courses will teach you to: 

• Isolate, enumerate and identify microorganisms from many types of samples;
• Accurately calibrate and use instruments such as pH and BOD meters, gas chromatographs, spectrophotometers, HPLCs, centrifuges, PCR thermocyclers and gel electrophoresis equipment;
• Prepare media and reagents to culture pathogenic microbes;
• Design and perform advanced microbiology and microbial genetics experiments;
• Isolate DNA and perform gel electrophoresis and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) on samples.

The Diploma in Liberal Arts has established an old-style relic where you will be acquainted with a moderately wide scope of subjects so as to obtain information and scholarly limits that are general to varying backgrounds, instead of explicit to a specific calling or exchange. Certificate in Liberal Arts program at Centennial College - Morningside Campus covers a scope of themes in humanities and sociologies and furthermore correspondence and research techniques. 

The Liberal Arts program is for understudies, who are anxious to apply to a Bachelor of Arts program at a perceived college or are quick to investigate definitive profession objectives and other instructive open doors also. Examining humanities creates general learning and explicit scholarly aptitudes identifying with human ideas and relations, for example, the manner in which we conveyor how the past has influenced the present. Sociology investigations and clarifies social orders and the connections of people inside those social orders. 

Upon effective finishing of this course it is normal that you will have the option to: exhibit the scholarly abilities innate in the translation of wellsprings of learning relating to the scholastic control, build up a comprehension of the world perspective on the field of study, and show the limit with respect to examination, scrutinize and imaginative intuition in the order.

Centennial College’s Liberal Arts to Trent University program will teach you about a wide range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences as well as communications and research methods. More importantly, it will lay the foundation for future post-secondary education, letting you smoothly transfer into a program at Trent University.

This arts diploma program is for you if you're planning on:

• Applying to a Bachelor of Arts (honours) degree at Trent University;
• Applying to a Bachelor of Arts (general) in Communications and Critical Thinking at Trent University;
• Pursuing a college program in areas such as business administration, child studies and community services, hospitality and tourism, journalism, and media and design;
• Exploring your ultimate career goals and various educational opportunities.

If you’re looking to get a practical college education but also want the theory found in a university degree, Centennial College's Liberal Arts to University of Toronto Scarborough Campus (UTSC) program can make it happen.

This offering will start by teaching you a wide range of subjects, including communications, research methods, humanities and social sciences, before setting you up to transition to the University of Toronto. This arts diploma program is for you if you're:

• Interested in applying to an honours degree program at the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus;
• Considering college programs in areas such as business administration, child studies and community services, hospitality and tourism, journalism, and media and design;
• Exploring your ultimate career goals and different educational opportunities.

This special combined Liberal Arts program will teach you a wide range of subjects at Centennial College, among which will be the humanities and social sciences as well as communications and research methods. Then the program will set you up to transition to further education at York University.

This arts diploma program is for you if you're:-

• Interested in applying for an honours bachelor’s degree at York University;
• Considering college programs in areas of study such as business administration, child studies and community services, hospitality and tourism, journalism, and media and design;
• Exploring your ultimate career goals and various educational opportunities.

The Environmental Technology (Fast-Track) program is for qualified college or university graduates who wish to gain direct admission into Year 2 (Semester 3) of this three-year advanced diploma program in preparation for the constantly evolving field of environmental technology.

Through courses that will cover the three foundational disciplines of biology, chemistry and civil engineering, and teach you to understand and manage complex environmental problems, this college technology program will provide you with theoretical and practical knowledge for career success.

Courses will feature hands-on experience using technology and equipment in water and soil quality analysis, ecological field sampling, analytical chemistry, hazardous material management, surveying, municipal engineering, AutoCAD drawing and geographic information systems (GIS) mapping. Meanwhile, laboratory practice in water quality testing, groundwater movement, computer aided environmental audits and the chemistry of pollutants will provide you with the skills to analyze and remediate the urban environment.

Program Highlights

• You take part in a program that is the recipient of Centennial College's President's Academic Program Recognition Award for Outstanding Student Satisfaction.
• Opportunities exist for participation in local conservation and restoration activities.
• Graduates can apply to register with the Ontario Association of Certified Engineering Technicians and Technologist (OACETT).
• After semester four courses are completed, you can write

Drinking Water Operators
If you successfully complete the entry-level course for drinking water operators, you'll meet the requirements of the Ministry of the Environment's entry-level course for drinking water operators.

Co-op Option
The co-op option in this program will provide you with the opportunity to gain hands-on experience while you complete three work terms as an employee in the field. This experience will not only allow you to put classroom learning into practice but it will also provide valuable contacts for your future career.

To participate in programs with optional co-op, you'll typically complete an application process in the second semester of your studies, and if academically qualified, will be admitted to the co-op program. When you graduate, your diploma will highlight the co-op credential.

Centennial College's Architectural Technology program will prepare you for a variety of careers in the building industry. Among the various options will be working in an architectural firm where you'll apply your technical knowledge and skills to create building designs, analyze building code requirements, prepare construction drawings and carry out contract administration tasks during the construction phase. Alternatively, where permitted by legislation, you may directly offer building design and drawing services to clients on small building projects.

This diploma program will emphasize energy-efficient, sustainable design and construction strategies as well as protecting the environment. Using state-of-the-art computer technology, you'll learn to prepare designs and construction drawings for residential, industrial, commercial and institutional buildings. You'll also become familiar with building materials, construction methods, structural design, mechanical and electrical services, building codes and zoning by-laws, contracts, specifications, and the business environment for providing design and construction services.

Program Highlights

• The Architectural Technology program's project-based curriculum, which focuses on a different building type each semester, and a strong foundation in technical knowledge, ensures you are industry-ready.
• There is a strong emphasis on energy-efficient, sustainable design and construction strategies, and protecting the environment.
• Program faculty members include many current industry practitioners who have advanced degrees, licenses and credentials in architecture and related fields.
• All students are strongly encouraged to complete the full, three-year, Architectural Technology program. However, students who successfully complete the first two years of this program may apply to graduate from the two-year Architectural Technician program.