Diploma in Healthcare Environmental Services Management

at Centennial College - Morningside Campus Canada

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 Workplace and Wellness Health Promotion program, facilitated by Centennial College's School of Community and Health Studies, is one of the first graduate certificate programs of its kind in Canada. As such, it enjoys a respected national and international reputation and is recognized by leading employers.

The Workplace and Wellness Health Promotion courses will prepare you to promote the total well-being of individuals and groups within corporate and community contexts.

To do so effectively, in this college health program you'll:

• Benefit from acquiring essential program management and communication skills to become an effective manager of wellness and health promotion programs;
• Gain knowledge in providing wellness coaching, designing, implementing and evaluating effective health promotion strategies and programs, as well as managing programs in accordance with organizational policies and procedures;
• Focus on assessing health risk factors and developing health and wellness plans and strategies to promote individual and organizational well-being;
• Learn to utilize a variety of presentation techniques and strategies, develop a business case for wellness and market, and promote wellness programs.

As a Workplace Wellness and Health Promotion graduate skilled in program design and management, psychosocial and physical health issues, mental health management, program planning and health promotion theory, you'll bring a holistic and interprofessional approach to the field.

Program Highlights

• Program content will include program planning and management, mental health management, health promotion theory, organizational development, environmental health, coaching, business foundations and community health.
• You'll develop leadership skills through assessing individual and group health and wellness needs.
• You'll have the opportunity to design and implement workplace wellness projects.
• Faculty members have current and relevant industry experience.
• During the final semester, you'll strengthen your skills and explore career opportunities with a field placement and relevant experiential learning. The placement component will provide you with valuable and relevant work experience and networking opportunities.
• Credit for past educational experience will be considered through the PLAR process as stated on the official course outline.

Once you complete the Workplace and Wellness Health Promotion program, you'll be able to:

• Assess wellness needs of individuals, groups, organizations and communities;
• Apply best practices to design, implement, evaluate and manage effective individual and agency intervention strategies and wellness programs to achieve goals mutually determined through consultation;
• Effectively communicate verbally and in writing (e.g., presenting workshops, seminars, speeches and facilitating groups, writing reports and proposals, and developing promotional materials);
• Identify risk factors that influence human behaviour, health and wellness;
• Implement strategies that facilitate personal, organizational culture and community wellness;
• Analyze trends and issues in the political, social and economic environment and effectively deliver contemporary wellness programs that address these factors;
• Work in team settings and apply leadership and organizational skills to a variety of populations and settings;
• Provide appropriate referral information to assist individuals, groups and organizations;
• Advocate wellness concepts and philosophies in community and employment settings;
• Maintain professional helping and working relationships that adhere to legal and ethical standards;
• Apply principles of health promotion to a variety of diverse individuals, organizations and communities;
• Apply research design and methods to workplace wellness and health promotion projects;
• Examine the strategic approach to human resource management;
• Develop global citizenship and equity knowledge, skills and experience as it relates to sustainability of resources, individual and community identities, critical social analysis, and enhanced personal and social responsibility.

Centennial College's Architectural Technician program will prepare you for a variety of careers in the building industry. For example, as an employee of an architectural firm, you may assist with preparing design and construction drawings and carry out contract administration tasks during the construction phase. You may also work in drafting, design or sales for a building material manufacturer or supplier.

This diploma program will place a strong emphasis on energy-efficient, sustainable design and construction strategies, and protecting the environment. You'll learn to use state-of-the-art computer technology as well as prepare designs and construction drawings for residential, industrial, commercial and institutional buildings. Knowledge of building materials, construction methods, structural design, mechanical and electrical services, building codes and zoning by-laws will round out your training.

The Environmental Technician program will prepare you for work in the growing field of environmental technology. Courses will cover the three foundational disciplines of biology, chemistry and civil engineering while teaching you to understand and manage complex environmental problems. The program will include hands-on training as you'll learn to use the tools and equipment needed in water and soil quality analysis, ecological field sampling, analytical chemistry and surveying. Opportunities will exist for participation in local conservation and restoration activities.

A unique combination of technical skills will greatly increase your career options once you graduate from this applied science program, which is the recipient of the President's Academic Program Recognition Award for Quality of the Learning Experience.

Program Highlights

• Graduates are qualified to write the Ontario Ministry of the Environment Operator-in-Training exam.
• Program graduates may be eligible to apply credits towards university degree programs.
• Transfer credits/advanced standing may be awarded for previous science or engineering education.
• 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.
• Opportunities exist for participation in local conservation and restoration activities.

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. Centennial College delivers this course in partnership with the Ministry of the Environment and the Walkerton Clean Water Centre.

Diploma in Pharmacy Technician program provides a dynamic curriculum that is based on the National Association of Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities competencies.  The program helps students to learn and enhance their knowledge of pharmacology and aseptic techniques as well, compounding, inventory control, community, and institution dispensing skills too. 

While concentrating on the Pharmacy Technician program, understudies will have the option to viably speak with patients, associates, and human services suppliers. Understudies will appreciate a blend of study hall and hands-on pragmatic research facility encounters at Centennial's Morningside Campus, which highlights three best-in-class labs that incorporate network administering, organization/long haul care, and sterile arrangements. 

This School of Community and Health Studies program will likewise concentrate on moving you to grasp the way of thinking of long-lasting learning by seeking after the Regulated Pharmacy Technician assignment. Because of the difficult idea of this calling, candidates ought to have solid basic reasoning, numerical and English relational abilities, and a promise to self-coordinated reasoning.

Centennial College's Biotechnology Fast-Track program was created for qualified college or university graduates wishing to receive a diploma in one year (two semesters). By gaining direct admission into the second year (third semester) of the two-year Biotechnology program, you'll be trained to work as a laboratory technician for the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries.

This program will offer detailed practical training in microbiology and chemistry (analytical, organic and biochemistry). Laboratory techniques including aseptic technique and appropriate safety procedures will be extensively highlighted. A special feature of this diploma program is its project-focused approach, with independently designed microbiology projects that will enhance your problem-solving and research skills.

You'll learn to:

• Isolate, enumerate and identify microorganisms from many types of samples (water, soil, air, the human body, food, and pharmaceutical and cosmetic products);
• Prepare specimens for staining, becoming an expert light-microscopist;
• Become proficient in aseptic handling of materials;
• Accurately calibrate and use a range of instruments such as pH and BOD meters, gas chromatographs, spectrophotometers (regular/IR/UV) and HPLCs;
• Prepare microbiological media and reagents, and culture pathogenic microbes;
• Design and perform your own microbiology experiments;
• Use microorganisms to assay pharmaceutical products;

You'll have the option of graduating as a biotechnician in one year or continuing for a second year to study specialized topics such as microbial genetics, systematic microbiology and environmental microbiology to graduate with an Advanced Biotechnology diploma.

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.

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.

Centennial College's Food Science Technology program will examine the many processes food undergoes as it travels from the field to your fork.

In the advanced diploma program, which the School of Engineering Technology and Applied Science facilitates, you'll gain theoretical, technical and practical training in the three fundamental disciplines of biology, chemistry and food science.

Courses in this college science program will teach you to integrate and apply knowledge within the disciplines of chemistry, engineering, physics, biology and nutrition to preserve, process, package and distribute foods that are healthy, affordable, desirable and safe to eat.

Program Highlights

• Comprehensive laboratory training helps you to take your skills from foundational to professional.
• Through practical Food Science Tech courses, hands-on experience is acquired with a wide range of instrumentation.
• The Biotechnology, Environmental Technology and Food Science Technology programs share a common first year, which provides the flexibility to transfer between these programs before entering the second year.