Diploma in Liberal Arts

at Centennial College - Morningside Campus Canada

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.

The Personal Support Worker program will prepare you with the knowledge and skills to provide compassionate care when assisting patients, clients and residents with broad-spectrum conditions and health care needs. Your help will enable them to lead active and fulfilling lives in the community and institutions, both here and abroad.

The Personal Support Worker courses will focus on the full range of home and health-related services required by individuals with physical disabilities, cognitive impairments, and chronic and acute illnesses. The skills and knowledge you receive will give you the flexibility to adapt to a variety of settings such as hospitals, homes, schools, community residential agencies, and long-term or chronic care facilities.

During your time in the Personal Support Worker program you'll learn through a hands-on approach facilitated by hospital and community health care-experienced faculty members. Additionally, clinical and community setting learning opportunities will allow you to offer direct care to patients, clients and residents. You'll gain experience caring for persons across their lifespan and learn to effectively communicate and collaborate with members of an interprofessional health care team.

Program Highlights

• This Personal Support Worker program reflects the latest practices and policies in the field.
• You'll spend 14 weeks gaining extensive practical experience by working with teams in hospitals, long-term care institutions and the community. Many students have been offered employment in the agencies in which they completed their placements.
• With one instructor to each small group of clinical placement students, you'll have the support necessary to learn, grow and practice your newly acquired skills.
• Faculty members are experienced, caring and supportive.
• Community agencies and clinical settings recognize the certificate you'll earn.

In accordance with the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities (2014) program standards, once you complete the Personal Support Worker program, you'll have the ability to:

• Work within the personal support worker role and participate as a member of the interprofessional care/service team and maintain collaborative working relationships in the provision of supportive care in the community, retirement homes, long-term care homes and/or hospital care settings in accordance with all applicable legislation as well as your employer's job description, policies, procedures and guidelines;
• Act responsibly and be accountable for your actions while recognizing the boundaries of knowledge and skills within the personal support worker role that require collaboration with the individuals, families, supervisors and/or other members of the interprofessional care/service team;
• Provide person-centred and person-directed care that's based on ethical principles, sensitive to personal values and family values, beliefs and needs, and which follows the direction of the plan of care or service plan;
• Establish and maintain helping relationships with individuals and their families reflecting open communication, professional boundaries and employer's policies, and adhering to confidentiality and privacy legislation;
• Identify relevant client information using basic assessment and communication skills and report and document findings in accordance with the requirements of employer policies and procedures and all applicable legislation;
• Promote and maintain a safe and comfortable environment for individuals, their families, self and others, including the implementation of infection prevention, control measures and emergency first aid procedures that are in keeping with the plan of care/service plan, employer policies and procedures, and all applicable legislation;
• Assist individuals across their lifespan with routine activities of daily living by applying basic knowledge of growth and development, common alterations in functioning, disease prevention, health promotion and maintenance, rehabilitation and restorative care;
• Assist individuals with medication, keeping with the direction of the plan of care or service plan, under the direction and monitoring of a regulated health professional or most accountable person and in accordance with all applicable legislation and employer's policies;
• Assist with household management tasks and instrumental activities of daily living in accordance with the plan of care or service plan, considering the preferences, comfort and safety of patients, clients, residents, families and significant others;
• Assist individuals who are caring for dependent individuals, considering client and family choices, professional boundaries and the direction of the plan of care or service plan;
• Identify and report situations of neglect, potential, alleged or witnessed/actual incidents of abuse, and respond in accordance with all applicable legislation and employer's policies and procedures;
• Assist in the provision of culturally relevant palliative and end-of-life care to patients, clients and residents experiencing a life-threatening illness and to their families and significant others, from diagnosis through death and bereavement, in accordance with personal decisions and the plan of care/service plan;
• Use identified approaches and best practices to support positive strategies and safe responses for people experiencing cognitive impairment, mental health challenges and/or responsive behaviours.

At Centennial College's Occupational Therapist Assistant & Physiotherapist Assistant (OTA & PTA) program, you'll learn to support people whose ability to function and adapt has been impaired or compromised due to injury, illness, or conditions affecting participation in daily activities.

Through training in this health care diploma program, which will consist of current theoretical knowledge and practical experiences, you'll develop competencies to become a compassionate, client-centred and reflective rehabilitation practitioner who will be prepared with the knowledge and skills to work in the dynamic health care field.

The faculty members of this college health care program are experienced occupational therapists and physiotherapists working in their field of expertise, and will ensure you'll have the educational tools, training and hands-on experience necessary to meet career challenges with enthusiasm, professionalism, and current evidence-based industry knowledge and skills. High academic standards and personal attention are two standout features of this program.

Once you complete the Occupational Therapist Assistant & Physiotherapist Assistant program, you'll have the knowledge, skills and ability to work under supervised practice with registered occupational therapists and physiotherapists to provide rehabilitation services to improve people's quality of life.
 
Program Highlights

• Additional areas of instruction and development will include respect and caring for the uniqueness of individuals, effective communication, critical thinking and decision-making.
• You'll participate in several fieldwork experiences that will provide opportunities for the supervised application of skills in clinical settings with a range of client populations. The facilities at which you'll be able to complete placement vary, and when combined, offer diverse experiences in both occupational therapy and physiotherapy disciplines.
• The diversity of your placements will allow you to experience what your career can entail and help you to discover your areas of interest.
• As a graduate of the OTA & PTA program, you'll achieve vocational learning outcomes by demonstrating the ability to:

Appropriately and effectively communicate through verbal, nonverbal, written and electronic means with clients, their families, significant others, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and other health care providers;

• Participate in the effective functioning of interprofessional health care teams;
• Establish, develop, maintain and bring closure to client-centred therapeutic relationships;
• Ensure personal safety and contribute to the safety of others within the role of the therapist assistant;
• Competently practice in a legal, ethical and professional manner within the role of the therapist assistant;
• Document and complete client records in a thorough, objective and accurate manner;
• Develop and implement strategies to maintain, improve and promote professional competence;
• Effectively perform through the application of relevant knowledge of health sciences, psycho-sociological sciences and health conditions;
• Perform functions common to both physiotherapy and occupational therapy practices that contribute to the development, implementation and modification of intervention/treatment plans under the supervision of, and in collaboration with, the occupational therapist or physiotherapist;
• Enable the clients' occupational performance and optimal function by contributing to the development, implementation and modification of intervention/treatment plans under the supervision of, and in collaboration with, the occupational therapist and physiotherapist, respectively.

Centennial College's Esthetician program is the only undertaking of its sort in Toronto to offer both clinic and placement components. It will provide you with the knowledge and skills for spa applications, medical esthetics and business operations.
During your time in this college health program, you'll learn from qualified instructors who have many years of experience in the industry and explore a comprehensive curriculum that will incorporate:

• Anatomy
• Physiology
• Pathology
• Histology
• Chemistry
• Infection control
• Practical applications
• Product knowledge
• Sales techniques
• Business practice

As a Centennial College Esthetician student, you'll have the advantage of developing your skills in esthetician lab facilities using cutting-edge equipment that is common in today's wellness and medical spas. The lab facilities, located at Morningside Campus, also serve as the faculty-supervised Censation Esthetics Student Clinic, in which you'll gain real-world experience. Each semester, new services will be added to the curriculum to prepare you for applying your knowledge.

To round out your training in this college diploma program, you'll apply your skills to field placement experiences in both industry clinics and established businesses. This aspect of the offering will allow you to learn in an atmosphere that will build the confidence and skills to enter this challenging and exciting career.
Upon graduation, you'll be able to provide the entire range of professional services offered in today's spas, medi-spas and doctor's offices and have the skills required to successfully operate a private business.

Program Highlights

• A strong curriculum will emphasize preparing you for the current workplace by providing the latest knowledge.
• Medical esthetics embedded in semesters 3 and 4 will include:
  • Microdermabrasion
  • Micro current lifting
  • Photobiostimulation
  • Low level coherent light and ultrasound
  • Laser/IPL (55 hours of theoretical and practical training)
  • Chemical peels
• Among specialized body equipment you'll become familiar with will be:
  • Vichi capsule/showers
  • Body contouring, drainage
  • Ultrasound
  • Non-invasive meso therapy
• You'll learn to effectively use computer software commonly utilized in spas.
• Your education will allow you to apply knowledge of business operations, exceptional customer service and diverse population needs to the daily operations of an esthetic business in a professionally managed salon or spa environment.
• Faculty members who have extensive experience and knowledge are all accomplished and well respected in the field.
• Many placement sites hire Esthetician program students upon completion of the program/placement. Up to 95 per cent of the placement sites have hired grads.
• The Esthetician program receives high Key Performance Indicator satisfaction rates from students, graduates and employers. It has received 100 per cent employer satisfaction and 100 per cent student satisfaction for program quality, learning experience, clinical experience and quality of teachers with current industry skills.

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.

The Food Science Technology (Fast-Track) program will grant qualified college or university graduates direct admission into Year 2 (Semester 3) of this three-year advanced diploma program, allowing them to receive their advanced diploma in two years (four semesters).

The Centennial College Food Science Technology program will integrate and apply knowledge within the disciplines of microbiology, chemistry, engineering, biology and nutrition to preserve, process, package and distribute foods that are healthy, affordable, desirable and safe to eat.

This college science program will prepare you for food science careers in areas such as quality control/ assurance, laboratory analysis, product development and food safety.

Program Highlights

• In Centennial College's fully equipped labs, you receive comprehensive laboratory training that ranges from foundational to professional skills.
• You experience practical, hands-on activities with a wide range of instrumentation throughout the Food Science Technology (Fast Track) program.

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.

The Massage Therapy program at Centennial College will provide you with both the fundamental and advanced massage therapy skills to become a successful massage therapist. This advanced diploma health program will emphasize professionalism and teach an evidence-based approach to assessment, treatment planning and implementation.

Recognized as a distinctive and rigorous offering within the School of Community and Health Studies, this college health program will balance a combination of theory and practical application through in-class lectures, lab experience, an onsite public clinic and off-site outreach placements.

You'll learn the proper assessment tools and techniques to deal with a wide variety of conditions that involve lymph, muscle, nerve, fascia and joints of the body, as well as a wellness focus that maintains physical health, function and mobility.

Program Highlights

• Programs at Centennial College are awarded Key Performance Indicator Awards based on student satisfaction survey statistics. The Massage Therapy program has received the President’s Academic Gold Award for Graduate Satisfaction and the President’s Academic Gold Award for Quality of Learning Experience.
• The Massage Therapy program offers strong clinical components through on-site labs, clinics, and off-site placements. At Centennial College’s Morningside Campus, you obtain hands-on practice within modern clinical spaces where you meet clients who experience injuries, dysfunction and disease. Your responsibility is to offer assessment and treatment under the supervision of experienced RMT faculty members to help improve patients’ physical ability and quality of life.
• Graduates are eligible to write the registration examinations administered by the College of Massage Therapists of Ontario (CMTO) to obtain the Registered Massage Therapist (RMT) designation.
• Centennial College students have demonstrated an excellent success rate at the CMTO entry-to-practice examinations (see www.CMTO.com for results.)

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.

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.