Certificate in Pre-Technology

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

Program Highlights

• Field placements in a variety of settings such as recreational therapy centres, varsity teams, physiotherapy clinics, school boards, retirement residences, large corporate gyms, small private businesses and more.
• Experiential learning and events in collaboration with industry partners including Fit to Pitch and Wellness Expo.
• Experience a cadaver lab tour at McMaster University
• Students may challenge fitness certifications
• Many pathways to further education
• Get involved in special events and volunteer opportunities.

What you'll learn

• Strategies to improve quality of life for people of various ages and abilities.
• Work with specialists of specific populations such as emergency service personnel, children, older adults, pregnant women or those with increased medical risk factors such as diabetes and high blood pressure.
• Study topics such as athletic injury management, sport psychology and exercise physiology, anatomy, biomechanics, wellness management strategies and many more.

Develop prevention, intervention and treatment strategies to facilitate a positive change in children, youth and their families who experience a range of social, emotional and behavioural challenges.

Program Highlights

• Mohawk secures diverse field placement opportunities for students in a variety of agencies and provides one-on-one field placement support.
• Over 1,000 hours of practical field placement experiences.
• Mohawk’s Child and Youth Care Program has earned national accreditation by the Child and Youth Care Educational Accreditation Board of Canada (CYCEAB).

What you'll learn

• Specialize in supporting change with children, youth and their families experiencing a range of social, emotional and behavioural challenges.
• Implement a range of prevention, intervention and treatment strategies for children, youth and their families, including crisis intervention, conflict management, problem solving, counselling, activity programming and group work.
• How to work with client challenges including difficult home situations, substance abuse, behavioural problems and conflicts with the law.
• Advocate for the rights of children and youth.

Recently, there has been increasing recognition of the unique needs of people who live with concurrent disorders in the helping professions. Co-occurring substance use and mental health problems present challenges for people in accessing comprehensive support and services. Most promising practices in social and health service agencies include integrated treatment approaches that are based on processes of empowerment that complement a person-centred model of wellness and health. Similarly, stakeholders locally and provincially, have acknowledged the need for employees with an understanding of people who live with concurrent disorders as well as supports, resources, and evidence based approaches.

Program Highlights

• Building on your previous academic work, you will incorporate specialized knowledge and skills to provide support to individuals with concurrent mental health and substance abuse issues.

What you'll learn

• Understand concurrent disorders and their impact on individuals and families.
• Gain an understanding of treatment modalities utilized in treating concurrent disorders.
• Develop an understanding of substance abuse, mental illness and the use of drugs.
• Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Training (NVCI)
• Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)

Program Highlights

• Mohawk is the only college in Canada providing this highly specialized training in transportation engineering technology. Graduates are working across the country in planning, design and operations positions and have excellent opportunities for career advancement within this unique engineering field. 

What you'll learn

• Understand transportation networks, public transportation systems, walking and cycling infrastructure and their roles in society.
• Develop planning skills to make decisions about present and future mobility needs.
• Apply current standards and practices to design roadways, intersections and other transportation facilities with safety as a key consideration.
• Acquire surveying, CAD, plan reading and visualization skills needed to create today’s modern infrastructure.
• Explore traffic data collection methods, traffic control devices and management strategies.
• Analyze operational performance, capacity and level of service (LOS) on streets, highways, public and transportation infrastructure, and walking and cycling infrastructure.

Experiential Learning

• After three semesters, a student will have enough knowledge to do the following (Usually in time for a Winter co-op):
  • Organize, conduct and analyze traffic field studies
  • Prepare a signage and pavement marking plan to local guidelines (e.g. the Ontario Traffic Manual)
  • Research various sources of information. Prepare detailed inventories in the form of maps, charts, graphs and spreadsheets
  • Do analyses of information such as:
    • Capacity of uninterrupted flow facilities
    • Parking activities
    • Public transit operations on a limited basis
    • Produce a simple roadway geometric design task
    • Evaluate transit planning decisions in relation to bus stops and network design
• After four semesters, and experience from the first work term, a student will be able to do more extensive assignments (Usually in time for a Fall co-op):
  • Analysis of information such as:
    • Capacity of interrupted flow facilities using leading industry software (Synchro and PTV Vistro)
    • Design pedestrian and cycling facilities to local guidelines (e.g. The Ontario Traffic Manual and the Transportation Association of Canada Geometric Design Guide for Canadian Roads)
    • Interpret the Ontario Planning Act as related to transportation engineering technology
    • Produce a roadway geometric design in computer-aided drafting software (both AutoCAD and Civil3D)
    • Understand the basics of construction management for a simple project
    • Prepare minor reports presenting a problem, alternative solutions, and recommended course action
• After five semesters, a student will have enough knowledge and skill for the following (Usually in time for a Summer co-op):
  • Make a functional design of an intersection and a roundabout
  • Perform advanced spreadsheet functions, including the use of macros
  • Determine the transportation impacts of a proposed development:
  • Write a report on findings and suggest remedial measures
  • Avoid degradation in the level of service (LOS)
  • Use traffic capacity analysis software (Synchro or PTV Vistro)
  • Perform limited GIS queries and analysis
  • Research a technical transportation topic. Make a confident oral presentation in front of a large audience

Co-op Format

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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.

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.

Autism and Behavioural Science
Use behaviour analysis to teach socially significant skills to improve quality of life for individuals with autism and their families.

Program Highlights

• Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neuro-developmental disorder that affects 1 in 66 individual in Canada. ASD can affect an individual’s ability to communicate, socially interact and will often engage in repetitive/ restricted behaviours. ASD is a spectrum therefore the degree to which an individual experiences these challenges will vary.

What you'll learn

• Apply evidence-based treatments and how they are used to teach individuals with autism.
• Design, implement and evaluate treatment plans using behavioural strategies.
• Comprehend and respond to needs of family members.
• Train caregivers to implement techniques with their children.
• Develop an understanding of the field of Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA), in the intensive behaviour intervention application with children with autism.

A two-semester program that prepares you for the working world with valuable office skills.

Program Highlights

• Gain the office training that companies are looking for in just two semesters.

What you'll learn

• Become skilled in the performance of essential office tasks such as digital content creation with Microsoft Office, document preparation, and keyboarding.
• Basic understanding of financial concepts and accounting.
• Explore a variety of digital techniques for research and communication.
• Developing soft skills such as customer service, human relations, effective problem solving, and delivering presentations.

Program Highlights

• Specialize in Building Design or Construction by choosing a preferred path in third year.

What you'll learn

• Residential design and Industrial, Commercial and Institutional (ICI) design and construction, green building fundamentals and sustainability concepts.
• How buildings work by learning the science of their design, function, materials, construction techniques and building services.
• AutoCAD, Revit, plan reading and 3D visualization skills needed to create drawings, contracts and specifications for today’s modern structures.
• Explore building and construction materials, interior and exterior finishes, building services and mechanical systems.
• Design in steel, timber, masonry and concrete.
• Construction surveying skills, estimating, building code applications and regulations.

Experiential Learning

• How you’ll gain skills
  • Attend industry events and field trips.
  • Participate in department research.
  • Explore applications for new technology including AR/VR, drones and laser scanning.
  • Create capstone projects involving industry experts.
  • Gain valuable experience during co-op work terms.

Co-op Content

• Architectural Technology - Design
• Architectural Technology - Construction

Learn about marketing and its role in the business environment. Enhance your skills in advanced digital marketing, solve marketing problems for real clients and practice your knowledge.

Program Highlights

• Co-op option offers a full year of work term placement (three consecutive four-month placements).
• Study with professors who have worked as marketing professionals and bring their expertise 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 - Accounting (non co-op 316 or co-op 356)
  • Business - Administration (632)
  • Business Administration - Accounting (364)
  • Business Administration - Human Resources (363)
  • Business - Marketing (319)
  • Business - Financial Services (303)
  • Business - General (320)
  • Insurance (318) (non co-op 318 or co-op 368)

What you’ll learn

• How to conduct market research and create marketing strategies for real clients.
• Verbal and written communication skills as you prepare reports and presentations.
• Web marketing strategies and tools.
• Use computer simulation to model an international product launch.
• Ethics and sustainability practices.
• Project management techniques.
• Adobe Creative Suite for Business, graphic and web design.
• Business-to-business marketing.
• Prepare a comprehensive marketing plan for an external business start-up.

Computer engineering technology ties together automation and robotics with networking and data handling.

What you'll learn

• Acquire competence in Computer Engineering with both hardware and software skills.
• Explore automation and programmable logic controllers, computer networking, and web applications through theory and hands-on practice.
• Study curriculum and contents from organizations including IEEE, CompTIA and Cisco Academy, Altera, Siemens and other industrial partners.
• Learn about computer hardware and interfacing, Arduino and embedded systems, CAD Systems and internet technologies, electronics and electrical systems, instrumentation and industrial automation.
• Robotics and systems integration have become the hot topics on all management’s strategic discussions – in all industries. Whether it is a discussion about the telephone systems in an insurance office or the manufacturing of a widget on the shop floor, smart systems integration changes the capabilities and efficiencies of the work environment.

Increasingly, individuals and organizations look to computers, be they stand-alone or networked, to optimize workflow, establish a presence in global markets and improve communication. This pervasive integration of computers and their associated technologies has led to an emergence of job opportunities in the creation, integration and support of technology systems and infrastructures. Computer Engineering Technician will merge together computer networking and electrical engineering to create a Smart Systems Integration hybrid engineering model.