Diploma in Interior Design Technology

at Lakeland College - Vermilion Campus Canada

You’ll start by learning a wide range of environmental concepts related to water, soil and plants. You start in the classroom, but you’ll be in outdoor labs within your first month.

Your training is fun, hands-on and useful. You'll apply and practice what you’ve learned using real-life situations. These are the same skills you’ll use throughout your career; skills that employers will notice. They include:

• Aquatic habitat assessments
• Wetlands & soil classification
• Water monitoring and sampling
• Environmental site assessment
• Plant identification

Environmental monitoring and protection emphasizes water quality protection, a growing area of employment and environmental concern.  You'll learn how to protect and sustainably manage both water and land resources through field procedures and best practices such as protecting surface water and riparian habitats. 

Whether on a field trip or in a lab, your hands-on training uses modern field equipment to learn how to do full environmental monitoring, field surveys and protection programs for water and soilsstudents measure water flow.  You’ll be job ready on two fronts: practical job skills and industry-required safety certification. That includes safe ATV and boat operation.

You’ll develop employable skills in environmental sampling, site assessment and waste management. They include:

• Surface water, ground water, air, vegetation and soil monitoring & sampling techniques
• Field techniques in biomonitoring and habitat assessment
• Phase I and II site assessments in upstream oil and gas, commercial and industrial settings

Our innovative program bridges agricultural and environmental science. As well, it merges the concerns of both the public and producers. Consumers want to know where and how their food is grown. Farmers and ranchers care about conservation and productivity.
 
Through the program, you’ll be at the forefront of best practices and certified production.

You’ll spend time in field labs honing skills related to:

• Soil science
• Water management
• Grasslands
• Livestock production
• Crop production

You’ll apply that soil, water and plant knowledge to create solutions for sustainable food production.You'll also learn through an industry practicum.

Your skill set will be sought after by:

• Producer associations
• Certified value chains
• Conservation groups
• Municipalities

Support school-aged children on their educational journeys.

In our educational assistant program, you’ll learn to work with children:

• With different abilities
• One-on-one and in small groups
• In a variety of settings

You’ll learn:

• Positive behaviour supports
• Human development
• Sensory development
• How to support students with exceptionalities

Put what you earn to practice with a 4-week practicum each semester.

You’ll graduate with the skills you need to find a career in:

• Before and after school care
• Kindergartens
• Recreation and community centres
• Elementary, middle and high schools
• Respite care for special needs children
• Classroom as a teaching assistant

You’ll develop essential skills such as:  

• Observing, reporting and assessing skills in case management situations  
• Building therapeutic relationships  
• Helping children and youth who have behavioural or learning difficulties  
• Supporting family interventions  
• Recognizing symptoms of abuse & addiction  
• Building resiliency  
• Working with children and youth in diverse setting

Go beyond the classroom with our new post-bachelor commercial agriculture production certificate. This certificate is designed for ag degree holders who want to build their practical skills.

There’s no substitute for putting your knowledge into action. You’ll do that through hands-on learning with:

• Crops
• Livestock
• Equipment
• Technology

You'll boost both your real-world and critical-thinking skills by working and learning on our Student-Managed Farm - powered by New Holland/ It's Canada's only student-managed farm.
Choose a crops or livestock stream. No matter your choice, you’ll gain insight and experience about typical agricultural production in Western Canada. And, ultimately be better prepared for your career.

Focus on the beef industry with Lakeland’s new animal science major
In the beef science major you’ll study both commercial and purebred cow/calf operations as well as feedlots. You’ll start at calving and go through the complete production cycle. You’ll finish with beef products – one of your courses is meat science.

Hands-on and student-led experiences are the bedrock of this program. You’ll grow both knowledge and skills related to:

• Herd health
• Nutrition
• Animal handling
• Finance
• Marketing

Your Student-Managed Farm (SMF) powered by New Holland choices include purebred, commercial or livestock research units. Or, you may choose a student-led practicum.
Through labs and student-managed opportunities you’ll have a thorough and practical understanding of the beef industry. You’ll be ready to start your career in any industry sector, or on your own farm or ranch.

• Take the next step in your environmental career with Lakeland's applied degree.
• Choose to major in either reclamation and remediation or monitoring and environmental protection. Get equipped to be a project manager, inspector, or specialist.
• Whether you come from a diploma or degree program, this applied degree will build on and add to your practical skills
• In the first year you’ll build advanced technical and field skills. You’ll also connect with industry on field trips.
• In the second year you’ll put your knowledge to work in an 8-month placement.
• You complete the program with a capstone presentation about your practicum.

Through our program you’ll gain skills and experience to ensure industry and the environment can coexist. This means either reclaiming disturbed lands or minimizing industry’s effects on natural habitats

You’ll learn how to

• Classify, manage and conserve soils
• Recognize and understand a variety of ecosystems
• Do detailed site assessments
• Apply reclamation regulations, guidelines and techniques to disturbed lands

You’ll visit and study forested, mined and cultivated lands as well as native and reclaimed areas.

On field trips , you’ll see current industry practices and technologies. In hands-on field labs you’ll develop and practice more than 20 applied skills industry wants.

Lakeland's Bachelor of Agriculture Technology prepares you to take on the challenges of this rapidly evolving sector.

Integrating computer technologies and the Internet of Things has transformed agriculture. At Lakeland, you'll be immersed in those kinds of hands-on, real world experiences--experiences that bring together ag tech with production and business management. You'll use the latest in:

• Ag equipment and its tech
• Software
• Hardware
• Digital devices

 You'll learn:

• On our Student-Managed Farm–powered by New Holland
• In your lab, the new ag tech centre
• From your industry practicum

 Graduate with expertise and technical skills including:

• Precision data systems
• Machinery learning
• Artificial intelligence
• Robotics
• Bioengineering