Certificate in Pre-Media and Entertainment

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

Program Highlights

• Complete 600 hours of supervised field placement.
• Advocate for and get involved in social justice opportunities and become an anti-oppressive practitioner
• Meet like-minded people and network with current professionals.

What you'll learn

• Current theories, models and interventions used in social service agencies to build healthy, positive relationships and connections within communities.
• Value of self-reflection and how to engage in critical self-awareness to increase your ability to help others and respect the uniqueness and dignity of all people.
• Develop core values of helping others such as the right to choose, the right to equality, justice and access to services.
• Acquire helping skills such as interviewing, assessing the needs of others, working effectively with groups and assisting communities to change.
• Understand how to document and work within legal, ethical and professional frameworks.

Explore the technology and science geared toward protecting the environment and human health.

Program Highlights

• State-of-the-art lab equipment and facilities.
• Excellent reputation among environmental stakeholders and government agencies.
• High graduate and co-op placement rates.
• Studying with professional faculty experts in environmental technology.

What you'll learn

• Characterization of pollutants and their impacts on health and the environment.
• Standardized analytical methods for analyzing air, water and soil samples.
• Quality assessment and control protocols.
• Water and wastewater treatment processes.
• Brownfield remediation methods, including site assessment, monitoring, mitigation and remediation.
• Air pollution monitoring and control

Master the skills of effective, fact-based communication through experience in print, radio, television, and the ever-expanding opportunities on the web.

Program Highlights

• Canada's first journalism program to incorporate accessible media production as part of the core curriculum.
• Cutting-edge multimedia tools and skills that will uniquely position you in the content creation job market after graduation.

What you'll learn

• Principles and practices of professional journalism.
• Professional story telling and communication skills.
• Research and data evaluation techniques.
• How to effectively use social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook to engage an audience.
• Content production for real organizations

Mohawk's Journalism program has the highest overall student satisfaction rate of any 3-year journalism program in Ontario.
Mohawk's Journalism program gives you the practical skills and knowledge to succeed as a journalist or communications professional in today's multimedia news environment.

Whether you want to be a print or television reporter, an on-air host, or work behind the scenes, you'll receive the hands-on training and experience you need to enter the exciting world of journalism. You will practice the craft of reporting with state-of-the-art digital equipment, under the guidance of industry professionals.

International Business Management program is designed to provide, the essential product management skills required to support the strategic development of products and services for domestic and international markets.

Program Highlights

• Forms product managers by strengthening tactical and strategic business skills needed to develop and introduce products and services in the global marketplace.
• Product Management is one of the seven career fields representing the highest demand areas for talent with tech companies (Breaking into Tech Report).
• Benefits from entrepreneurial perspectives and other industry insights from professionals who work in international trade, investment, and product management.
• Mohawk College is located in the midst of the Toronto - Waterloo Innovation Corridor, home to more than 15,000 technology companies and thousands of start-ups that require talented people to help them turn their research strength into global commercial success.

What you'll learn

• Understand customer needs and gather product/business requirements
• Research potential opportunities considering cultural, financial, legal and distribution issues
• Develop the roadmap of a product or service that includes outlining Its features and target market to help meet global company goals
• Manage projects using more flexible project management methods that are becoming industry standard for making technology-based products and services
• Bring the product to market, that includes launching the product, communicating product features to the company and potential customers and driving global demand for the product
• Gather the body of knowledge required to attempt the New Product Development Professional Certification

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.

Delve into the processes and technologies used for modern, sustainable urban and regional land use planning and development.

Program Highlights:

• From looking up planning policies to establishing graphic layouts in CAD, you will be involved with real-life planning processes.

What you'll learn:

• Learn land use planning principles, planning law, process and documentation necessary to create active and sustainable communities.
• Acquire CAD, plan reading, graphics and visualization skills needed to create plans for today's modern infrastructure.
• Develop surveying skills and geographic information systems (GIS) applications.
• Explore subdivision development and design, site planning and detailed design.
• Understand official plans, zoning by-laws, and provincial legislation.
• Produce planning reports and make public presentations.

This program is designed to offer transfer pathways to additional college and university programs.

Program Highlights

• Develop essential employability skills such as strong communication, critical thinking, and socio-cultural awareness.
• Customize your schedule with a wide range of electives chosen from your areas of interest delivered in blended and online learning environments.
• Cost-effective and efficient pathway into university studies with up to two years of direct and non-specified university transfer credit into a humanities and social sciences field of study.
• Get a fresh start by upgrading and achieving the entrance-level requirements needed for other competitive college and university programs.
• Earn transfer credits at the university level.

What you'll learn

• Introduction to a wide variety of course options in the humanities and social science disciplines to broaden your understanding of the world around you.
• Critically evaluate global and social issues and topics by demonstrating an understanding of interdisciplinary connections between society, culture, environment, politics, history, etc.
• Gain essential employability skills that will be applicable in both your future career and post-secondary educational aspirations.
• Develop communications competence to a level required by business and a wide variety of other careers/employment.

Work with real clients to gain valuable skills that will prepare you for a role in the expanding visual communications industry.

Program Highlights

• Work on real-world projects with actual clients.
• Attain your Avid Learning Partner – Media Composer Certification.
• Produce sports content with Ontario Colleges Athletic Association, Ontario University Athletics, and Ontario Hockey League partners.

What you'll learn

• Content creation and distribution for traditional and new media platforms.
• Sport and event production skills with professional HD mobile facilities.
• Camera, lighting and sound techniques for location production.
• Live and scripted studio production operations.
• Production management and direction.
• Edit video, sound and graphics.

International Business Management program is designed to provide, the essential product management skills required to support the strategic development of products and services for domestic and international markets.

Program Highlights

• Forms product managers by strengthening tactical and strategic business skills needed to develop and introduce products and services in the global marketplace.
• Product Management is one of the seven career fields representing the highest demand areas for talent with tech companies (Breaking into Tech Report).
• Benefits from entrepreneurial perspectives and other industry insights from professionals who work in international trade, investment, and product management.
• Mohawk College is located in the midst of the Toronto - Waterloo Innovation Corridor, home to more than 15,000 technology companies and thousands of start-ups that require talented people to help them turn their research strength into global commercial success.

What you'll learn

• Understand customer needs and gather product/business requirements
• Research potential opportunities considering cultural, financial, legal and distribution issues
• Develop the roadmap of a product or service that includes outlining Its features and target market to help meet global company goals
• Manage projects using more flexible project management methods that are becoming industry standard for making technology-based products and services
• Bring the product to market, that includes launching the product, communicating product features to the company and potential customers and driving global demand for the product
• Gather the body of knowledge required to attempt the New Product Development Professional Certification

Analytics for Business Decision Making program is designed to Gain specialized knowledge in data analytics to become a skilled data professional, and an essential contributor to business decision-making processes.

Program Highlights

• Executive course delivery (afternoons/evenings) with a mix of face-to-face, self-directed, and live online courses.
• Diverse class cohort that integrates domestic and international students.
• No prior programming or statistics experience necessary, the program starts with the foundations.
• Industry-agnostic education means skills are applicable to any industry.
• Applied skills development with industry-standard techniques and software including Cognos Analytics, SPSS Modeler, OpenRefine, Tableau, R, Python, and more.
• Potential to work with real businesses using their data on individual and team-based projects.
• Free registration in Higher Education Analytics Data (HEAD) Competition.
• Capstone Project to integrate program courses.
• Work as part of a team in our own data analytics competition.
• Face-to-face workshops and industry networking opportunities.

What you'll learn

• Analyze and interpret digital information.
• Case study problem solving and analysis.
• Understand key analytical, modeling, statistical and programming tools.
• Use of business intelligence and data analytics software with a focus on data identification, consolidation, communication, reporting, manipulation and trending.
• Management techniques for data analytics projects.
• Presentation and communication skills.
• How to become a Certified Analytics Professional.

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.

Experience the rewarding challenges of operating and maintaining of facility equipment related to steam and power generation.

This program is accredited Power (Operating) Engineer by the Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA), providing an opportunity for reduced operator time towards certification.

Gain the academic and practical experiences necessary to succeed as a Power Engineer, from real-life experiences taught by certified Operating Engineers.

There is a high demand for operating engineers at all levels and 4th Class Power Engineers may decide to pursue higher certification, up to and including, 1st Class.

What you'll learn

• Explore the use of steam and hot water boilers, air compressors, refrigeration, air conditioning, and auxiliary equipment.
• Understand the use of prime movers, turbines, and co-generation processes. 
• Importance of electrotechnology, instrumentation, combustion and the environmental impacts in a steam plant.
• Prepare for the Technical Standards and Safety Authority 4th Class Power Operating Engineering exams, both 4A and 4B.
• View the Exceptions Calendar for start dates and semester break information.