Diploma in Customs Border Services

at Loyalist College - Belleville Campus Canada

This program will prepare you to create engaging content and deliver it through any medium. Earn a full spectrum of skills — ranging from television production and digital filmmaking to web streaming and interactive content creation. No BYOD costs. We provide digital camera, audio, lighting and grip equipment. No fully loaded MacBook Pro requirements either. Loyalist College offers the use of Mac and PC labs with relevant software to help you complete your work.

Experiential learning
No textbooks! Just great teachers and technology to:

• Provide well-rounded skills by performing all production and crew functions in studio, field and post-production environments.
• Specialize with crew rotations in your area of interest and choose specific roles in digital filmmaking, remote event production and content creation for clients.
• Produce creative, interactive content on multiple platforms, broadcasting across Canada and to the world.
• Participate in studio tours and seminars such as the TIFF Bell Lightbox Series.
• Scripts written in the first year and developed in the second come to life on the big screen in the final year with a public screening

Gain the knowledge and in-demand skills needed to become an industry-ready IT security professional. Graduates of this two-year post-graduate program will be equipped to help organizations prevent fraud, data breaches and other vulnerabilities. As a graduate of Loyalist's full-time Cyber Security post-graduate program, you may be eligible to advance your profession through the following certification pathways: CompTIA Security+, Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) Cyber Security, Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) and Certified Associate in Python Programming (PCAP).

How You'll Learn
Experiential Learning, including a semester-long co-op experience

• With this hands-on program, gain the knowledge and skills needed to protect and support organizations’ cyber security needs:
  • Learn how to develop, implement and evaluate cyber security solutions to protect organizations from internal and external threats.
  • Practise assessing defensive programming and cyber security strategies, and gain experience recommending security controls for the effective maintenance and deployment of cyber security solutions to protect systems and information.
  • Acquire skills for designing and implementing cyber security polices and strategies using project management principles.
  • Develop strategies for optimizing the effectiveness of the information security in a business environment through risk mitigation and information systems auditing.
  • Explore designing and implementing vulnerability assessment procedures to identify and solve existing network security issues.
  • Get first-hand workplace experience during a co-op in semester four.

While completing this program, students will have the opportunity to acquire in-demand industry certifications concurrently with their studies.

Loyalist College offers the only specialized program for survey technicians in Ontario. Using instruments and computer software, survey engineering technicians conduct field measurements and analyze data to determine the precise locations of natural features, structures and property boundaries. Survey technicians are in demand in many industries, including construction, land development, government agencies, and mining and natural resource exploration.

Experiential learning
Learning combines classroom instruction with computer lab and practical field exercises:

• Gain extensive hands-on experience using current satellite positioning equipment (GPS), total stations and data collectors during practical survey projects in small groups.
• Using current versions of industry software including MicroSurvey, AutoCAD and AutoCAD Civil 3D, create a registered plan of a subdivision and engineering drawings for land development applications and highway design according to provincial and municipal standards.
• Graduates are eligible for certification with the Ontario Association of Certified Engineering Technicians and Technologists (OACETT).

Organizations depend on the efficient and successful completion of projects to remain competitive in a global economy. Project management professionals have the expertise to oversee project timelines, costs and resources, ensuring organizations meet their objectives and get results.

How You'll Learn
Prepare for a career in effective project management across various industries:

• Learn to manage project goals, constraints, deliverables, quality control and resource requirements as defined by stakeholders.
• Explore different leadership styles to effectively manage issues and resolve conflicts.
• Gain knowledge on facilitating communication, negotiation and collaboration with stakeholders to ensure project success.
• Demonstrate the development of a comprehensive project plan to meet stakeholder requirements.
• Learn to analyze financial information to promote operational effectiveness and to support and monitor the scope, planning, procurement, risk and budget of projects.

Create engaging content and deliver it through any medium. In this hands-on program, you’ll earn a full spectrum of skills ranging from television production and digital filmmaking to web streaming and interactive content creation. With access to digital cameras, audio, lighting, and grip equipment we enable Loyalist College students to tell stories with impressive production values and create meaningful work for their portfolios.

You will learn how to meet the needs of the television and digital media broadcast industry by applying industry-standard production equipment, using strategies that enhance work performance an:d

• Operate industry standard production equipment, in-studio and on location, to create television, video, and/or web content for multiple platforms
• Keep current with the needs of the television and digital media broadcast industry using strategies that enhance work performance and guide professional development
• Plan and prepare interviews, scripts, and reporting content for use in television, video, or digital media productions
• Participate in marketing activities to promote independent productions and/or a station’s brand and products
• Evaluate the artistic and technical success of filmmaking and multimedia projects to build a toolkit of strategies to meet client and audience needs
• Conduct work safely in accordance with all applicable acts, regulations, legislation, and codes to ensure personal and public safety

Experiential learning

• Participate in the planning and preparation of television, mobile, and/or web productions
• Monitor and maintain the technical quality of productions during recording and broadcasts using resources, equipment, and protocols
• Use business skills and accepted industry practices in the creation of television, video, and/or web productions
• Deliver television, video, and digital or web content via multiple platforms in formats that meet current broadcast industry standards
• Use creative solutions in filmmaking and multimedia projects to complete projects to client and audience expectations

This program prepares participants to monitor and control radiation exposure and to implement safety measures. Radiation safety technicians and specialists work together with physicists, occupational safety and health specialists and public health officials in various nuclear, health care and natural environments.

How You'll Learn
The Radiation Safety program will include instruction in the following:

• Radiation physics
• Environmental radioactivity
• Radiological instrumentation
• Electronics of radiation detection equipment
• Radioactive waste management and control
• Safety and handling procedures
• Decontamination procedures
• Radioactivity testing and analysis
• Communication skills

Apply the principles of entrepreneurship to develop a scalable, repeatable and successful business model with guidance from experienced faculty and a powerful network of expert advisors and community partners. Graduate with the skills to launch and grow your own start-up in less than a year.

Experiential learning

• Beginning with a two-week start-up boot camp, move your ideas forward through flexible scheduling that fits your already busy life. 
• Work in teams to nurture high-growth ideas or existing early-stage start-ups and be guided through the building process.
• Create and deliver executive-style presentations before an audience of prospective customers, employees and investors during industry showcase and pitch competitions.
• Participate in monthly educational “pit stops,” providing tailored, rigorous training on strategic entrepreneurship issues.
• Utilize the Business Model Canvas to develop the nine key components of your business.
• Meet regularly with, and be mentored by, seasoned entrepreneurs and top industry executives.
• Apply current and emerging research, systems and technologies to effectively manage and accelerate the growth of your new venture.

There has been such rapid growth in the fields of public and private safety that industry training can’t keep up with the demand for qualified professionals. Extensive hands-on training will prepare you for a wide range of careers in security, enforcement, investigations, inspection, risk assessment and emergency planning.

Experiential learning
Protection, security and investigation (PSI) is all about being prepared – learning how to deal with any situation and then practising these scenarios so you’re ready to face them in the real world:

• Two four-week on-the-job placements, which can be completed locally or from coast to coast. The program coordinator organizes placements.
• Receive hands-on training in surveillance, arrest and restraint techniques, managing conflict, emergency planning and incident response to serious situations.
• Conduct your own crime scene investigation, gathering evidence, conducting interviews, taking statements, and sharpening your skills in critical thinking and problem solving.
• Prepare to secure the job you want with panel interviews, résumé writing, portfolio development and justice job testing.
• Participate in field trips that allow you to network with industry professionals and leaders as well as gain experience with the latest security technology on the market.

Our busy days are often highly scheduled, making it essential that quality wellness and recreation services are available within our community. Recreation and sports professionals help build healthy communities and develop programs for individuals of all ages.

Experiential Learning
This hands-on program produces recreation and sport professionals with the skills and knowledge to help people of all ages and abilities combine wellness and physical activity in their daily lives:

• Engage in outdoor recreation activities such as stand-up paddle boarding, canoeing, slacklining and skiing.
• Work directly with children and youth with a variety of exceptionalities and abilities within an adaptive recreation setting.  
• Prepare for self-employment through an independent research project in the final semester. Design an original program or business that can be showcased to employers and investors upon graduation.
• Pursue opportunities to complete aquatic and outdoor recreation qualifications.
• Gain important public relations, marketing, financial, and research and proposal writing skills.
• Hear from industry professional guest speakers in recreation and outdoor education.
• Gain 320 hours of on-the-job experience in two field placements within a variety of settings: municipal health and wellness centres, military recreation, resort destinations, outdoor education centres, retirement and therapeutic recreation facilities, and international programs

Not sure which career path to choose? Find the right fit before you commit. Sample a wide range of programs. Discover your strengths and new possibilities while developing practical skills you can apply to further your studies.

Experiential learning
Get a hands-on, creative introduction to media that will lead you to a career you will love:

• Balance your time between the lab and the classroom, working on a range of media-based projects.
• Get practical experience in design, visual and oral storytelling, media writing and presentation.
• Observe, practise and implement new skills each week, sampling a buffet of media and design-related activities.
• Work with cutting-edge technology in Loyalist’s Digital Media Centre.
• Get hands-on practise with video recording, Photoshop and state-of-the-art editing equipment.
• Learn from industry guest speakers and faculty in various programs

A certificate in Media Experience will prepare you for further studies at Loyalist. Explore your options while learning skills that can be applied in your chosen diploma program:-

• Broadcasting – Radio
• Interactive Media Development – Animation and Game Development
• Interactive Media Development – Film and Television Production
• Journalism – Communications
• Photojournalism