Certificate in Office Administration - General

at Mohawk College of Applied Arts and Technology - Fennel Campus Canada

Supply Chain Management
Learn the fundamentals of supply chain and advance your skill set in this complex and fast-paced business environment.

Program Highlights

• Partnership with Hamilton Oshawa Port Authority.
• Program is offered in the Golden Horseshoe, home to the largest port in Ontario, the Welland Canal and the John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport.
• Build a capstone project that supports industry challenges.

What you'll learn

• How companies build competitive advantages using a supply chain.
• The processes and requirements to acquire goods and services.
• How functional areas within an organization interact to design, make, buy and deliver goods and services for consumers.
• Examine supply chain within the goods and services sectors to help companies build a competitive advantage.
• Classroom instruction using real supply chain examples

Human Resources Management 
Develop strategic skills to effectively manage a diverse workforce in today’s ever-changing business environment.

Program Highlights

• Seven-week, full-time work placement provides you with valuable hands on-experience working in a human resources department in municipal governments, hospitals, not-for-profit organizations, manufacturing firms and in the service sector.

What you'll learn

• Theoretical and practical knowledge and skills required to become a successful human resources management practitioner in the areas of recruitment, training, performance management, compensation, health and safety and labour relations.

Orchestrate your musical future with practical and theoretical training in classical, jazz and contemporary genres.

Program Highlights

• Personalized instruction by passionate professional musicians.
• Perform at the 1,000 seat McIntyre Performing Arts Centre at Fennell Campus.
• Clinics and workshops with world-renowned musicians.

What you'll learn

• Perform in a variety of ensembles, coached by faculty.
• Use the latest music technology in a state-of-the-art facility.
• Compose your own arrangements and works and have them performed by student groups under your direction.
• Participate in professional recording studio experiences.
• Write musical scores for various productions.
• Explore the business side of the music profession
• Gain the advice of industry experts.

Orchestrate your musical future with practical and theoretical training in classical, jazz and contemporary genres.

Program Highlights

• Personalized instruction by passionate professional musicians.
• Perform at the 1,000 seat McIntyre Performing Arts Centre at Fennell Campus.
• Clinics and workshops with world-renowned musicians.

What you'll learn

• Perform in a variety of ensembles, coached by faculty.
• Use the latest music technology in a state-of-the-art facility.
• Compose your own arrangements and works and have them performed by student groups under your direction.
• Participate in professional recording studio experiences.
• Write musical scores for various productions.
• Explore the business side of the music profession
• Gain the advice of industry experts.

Program Highlights

• Courses span all of the functional areas of business.
• Ideal for future entrepreneurs.
• Upon completion of a common first semester, you may choose to transfer into second semester of one of the following programs:
  • Business - Accounting (non co-op 316 or co-op 356)
  • Business Administration (632)
  • Business Administration - Accounting (364)
  • Business Administration - Human Resources (363)
  • Business Administration - Marketing (non co-op 362 or co-op 366)
  • Business - Financial Services (303)
  • Business - Marketing (319)
  • Insurance (non co-op 318 or co-op 368)

What you’ll learn

• Solid foundation for success in decision making.
• Master fundamental skills in the core business processes:
• Accounting and finance
• Marketing
• Operations and distribution
• Human resources and labour
• Business information systems and technology
• Project management

Learn intervention, protection and rehabilitation skills to help victims of crime, at-risk youth and incarcerated adult offenders.

Program Highlights

• Upon completion of a common first year, you may choose to transfer into second year of one of the following programs:
  • Police Foundations (218-258)
  • Protection, Security and Investigation (293-294)
• Focus on physical fitness will prepare you for the fitness testing required for a career in corrections, Canada border security and/or policing.

What you'll learn

• Explore both the community and institutional sectors of the criminal justice system.
• Work toward rehabilitation of those in conflict with the law.
• Intervene with clients to address and manage problems constructively to change behaviour.
• Obtain public protection skills and learn to secure staff and clients in institutional, residential, community correction and group home settings.
• Train in the legal aspects of crime and behaviour, security measures and techniques including interviewing and intervention skills for young offenders, adult offenders and victims.
• Understand issues related to female and Indigenous offenders, addiction, group dynamics, behaviour management and victims within the criminal justice system.
• Explore community programs, restorative justice initiatives and preventative measures.
• Receive specialized training in correction systems enforcement, safety restraints and rehabilitation strategies including tactical communication.

Program Highlights

• Learn from faculty with professional designations including members of the Chartered Professional Accountants (CPA) of Ontario who bring their real-life experiences to the classroom.
• Upon completion of a common first semester, you may choose to transfer into second semester of one of the following programs:
  • Business Administration (632)
  • Business Administration - Accounting (364)
  • Business Administration - Human Resources (363)
  • Business Administration - Marketing (non co-op 362 or co-op 366)
  • Business - Financial Services (303)
  • Business (General) (320)
  • Business - Marketing (319)
  • Insurance (non co-op 318 or co-op 368)

What you'll learn

• Accounting theory and practical applications with integrated computer technologies.
• Specialize in financial accounting, cost and management accounting, taxation, business finance and applied accounting systems.
• Progress towards a professional accounting certificate or designation.
• Analyze the financial information produced in financial statements in order to assess the financial position of a company.

Acquire the specialized procedural and administrative skills necessary to become an integral member of a dynamic legal team.

Program Highlights

• Up-to-date career-related class materials and resources.
• Training in the Teraview web-based environment for property searching and registration services.
• Common semester 1 and 2 with Office Administration - General (380)

What you'll learn

• Administrative procedures, real estate, litigation, family law, wills and estates, and corporate law.
• Develop professionalism, effective handling of confidential information and client files, and advanced administrative skills for the legal environment.
• Acquire specialized skills to prepare legal documents, correspondence, accounts, and memoranda using a variety of computer applications, digital transcription, and specialized legal software.

Experience the full animation process of character performance stories with a focus on creating finished animation productions.

Program Highlights

• Taught by industry professionals.
• Bring stories and characters to life through cinematic animation.

What you'll learn

• Industry standard hardware and software.
• Transferable skills to entertainment, gaming, virtual reality (VR), commercial and industrial productions.
• Develop real-world industry production work practices.
• Business of art for profit.
• Pre-production skills:
  • Writing skills to develop character and story structure.
  • Figure drawing to develop strong drawing skills.
  • Traditional drawing skills used for visual design of environments, characters, storyboards/animatics.
• Production skills:
  • Laptop computer skills for digital construction, rigging and animating characters.
  • Construction of props and environments with texture and lighting to complete the scene.
  • Camera, rendering and editing techniques to create a finished production.

Support clients with brain disorders across the lifespan through the use of intervention strategies, research, or policy development.

What you'll learn

• Learn about the neuroscience of conditions across the lifespan as well as treatments that support cognitive and physical rehabilitation.
• Engage in simulation exercises that build awareness and empathy.
• Gain understanding about community supports as well as cutting-edge research about the brain.
• Develop knowledge translation skills to successfully work as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Work directly with clients or behind the scenes through research or policy development.

Program Highlights
This program is a combination of in-class facilitated discussions, and practical hands-on experiences offered through Mohawk College’s Centre for Entrepreneurship including mentorship, speaker series, and the opportunity to participate in a live Pitch competition.

What you'll learn

• Learn to effectively manage a small business throughout the 5 stages of small business growth.
• Learn the fundamentals of operating a lean, agile business that can respond to external factors forcing change.
• Graduate with a comprehensive business plan that gives you a head start in obtaining funding and launching your own business.