Graduate Certificate in Expressive Arts

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

Program Highlights

• Mohawk is approved by both the FP Canada and Moody’s/Canadian Securities Institute (CSI) as an educational provider for students pursuing the Certified Financial Planner (CFP®) and Personal Financial Planner (PFP) designations.
• Upon completion of a common first semester, you may choose to transfer into second semester of one of the following programs:
  • Business - Accounting (316) 
  • Business Administration (632)
  • Business Administration - Accounting (364)
  • Business Administration - Human Resources (363)
  • Business Administration - Marketing (non co-op 362 or co-op 366)
  • Business (General) (320)
  • Business - Marketing (319)
  • Insurance (non co-op 318 or co-op 368)

Note:- An additional requirement based on overall grades may be required to proceed into some programs.

What you'll learn

• How to build your career in the financial services sector, personal banking and life insurance field.
• Understanding what is required to be a mutual fund representative.
• Pursue your mutual fund license by completing the Canadian Investment Funds Course (CIFC) Exam which meets the proficiency requirement set by the provincial securities commission. Additional fees apply.
• You will have the opportunity to complete the LLQP (Life License Qualification Program)*

Monetize your creativity by developing and exploring ways to fund, brand, launch, market, manage and maintain a financially viable creative arts business.

Program Highlights

• Arts and business focused program.
• Join a diverse group of students including musicians, artisans, videographers, photographers, graphic designers and dancers.
• Participate in showcase presentations and multimedia based assignments.
• Learn from industry leaders.
• Master Class structured classes.
• Program is open to both domestic and international students.

What you'll learn

• Develop and implement a promotion plan that includes: web-based marketing and consideration of audio-visual branding.
• Explore audio-visual branding.
• Create a realistic business plan for a creative arts profession or company.
• Legal principles, government legislation and regulations, copyright and contract requirements, and professional and industry codes.
• Engage in accounting practices for your business, including interpretation of financial statements.
• Source capital to support your business plans, such as crowdfunding and other methods to generate revenue.
• Project management tools, strategies and principles of marketing a creative product or service.
• Analyze industry-specific trends for decision making.
• Professional communications, contracts for creative arts, and sales and service presentations.

The Preparatory Music program is designed to provide the foundation for successful advanced studies in music.

Students successfully completing our preparatory music program have repeatedly demonstrated greater success in their future studies in our Applied Music program, and other music programs across North America. Several successful musicians and even faculty members at Colleges and Universities across North America are graduates of our preparatory music program.

What you'll learn

• Develop strong basic knowledge of music theory.
• Develop ear-training foundations.
• Keyboard skills and improvisation.  
• Social and historical context in music.   
• Music technology and recording.
• Develop your instrumental/vocal skills on an instrument of your choosing.
• Basic improvisational skills on an instrument of your choosing.

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.

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.

Gain the knowledge, skills and qualification to deliver IT services in various healthcare settings.

Program Highlights

• Learn and apply information technology principles including software development, networking, operating systems, user interface design and databases to the field of digital health.
• Integrate and leverage digital health devices to provide and improve patient care.
• Utilize information technology to provide efficiency improvements to the health system.
• Apply digital health principles to the Canadian Healthcare system with an emphasis on the systems, supports, and tools used in the province of Ontario.
• Focus on patient safety, personalized health delivery, self-management and behaviour modification.
• Apply research methods and statistics in a final-year applied research capstone project.

What you will learn: 

• Design and development of health informatics solutions.
• Application of technology to the design and implementation of digital health systems.
• Measurement tracking and improvement of health through devices, sensors and wearables.
• Use of data analytics principles to produce data visualizations and build predictive models of disease transmission and treatment outcomes to inform decision making.
• Policies pertaining to privacy and security of personal health information and records including the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA), and The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).
• Cloud computing and the processing of large health-related datasets.
• Health system standards, integration and interoperability.
• Telehealth and virtual care systems for safe and efficient remote patient monitoring and interactions.
• Utilization of digital health technologies for remote care, health delivery and patient self-management.
• Management of healthcare records, systems and processes.

The Mechanical Technician – Elevating Devices diploma program covers all three levels of in-class apprenticeship curriculum for students who may be looking to complete their apprenticeship. The diploma program focuses primarily on:

• Installation, maintenance and servicing elevating devices
• Regulatory and industry best practices
• Build an understanding of elevating device electrical, mechanical and hydraulics systems
• Graduates of this integrated technician-apprenticeship program are exempt with the Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development, from all three levels of the in-school training portion of the Elevating Devices Mechanic apprenticeship program (636E).  
• Blended theory classes that are face-to-face and on-line.

What you will learn

• History of elevating devices
• Mechanical and electrical systems
• Operation, installation, maintenance and procedures for traction elevators, elevators and moving walkways
• Hydraulic systems
• Reading and interpreting engineering drawings. e.g. AutoCAD
• Machines and circuits including single phase circuits, transformers, 3-phase electrical systems, elementary control systems and electric machines
• Elevator hydraulic systems and installation
• Motors, generators, controls and AC drives
• Lifting devices for individuals with physical disabilities
• Circuit tracing
• Modernization and alterations for elevating devices

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.

Make concepts come to life by learning to design and produce projects with a critical eye.

Program Highlights

• Develop your skills in one of the most advanced digital print learning centre in Canada.
• Gain professional experience through our unique living lab experience.
• Create motion graphics for web and mobile devices.

What you'll learn

• Practical and theoretical design skills.
• Professional techniques in digital design composition.
• Technical skills for design, print and web production.
• Compose digital photographic images for design, print and web production.
• Develop a professional web and print portfolio.
• How to build your own successful creative business.

Become an important member of the health services industry with a specialized understanding of medical office practices, terminology, electronic medical records and more.

Program Highlights

• Program is well recognized by local and extended community of hospitals and medical offices.
• Common semester 1 and 2 with Office Administration - General (380)
• Complete our highly respected Medical Terminology 1 and 2 courses.

What you'll learn

• Provide administrative support to any health office/unit.
• Discover the challenge of a private medical practice including Electronic Medical Records (EMR).
• Become skilled in specialized areas of medical transcription and Ministry of Health OHIP billing.
• Attend presentations from McMaster Department of Surgery.