Diploma in Winery and Viticulture Technician

at Niagara College - Niagara on the Lake Campus Canada

Do you have a flair for baking and pastry arts and want to turn your talent into a successful career?
As a Baking and Pastry Chef you will be a patient and detail-oriented visionary who creates breads, cakes, cookies and pastries and is ready to meet the demand for qualified bakers in Canada’s thriving hospitality industry.

Program Highlights

• The 125-acre Daniel J. Patterson Campus in Niagara-on-the-Lake is located in the heart of Ontario’s thriving hospitality industry and serves as a living lab for students including, leading-edge baking facilities, a 40-acre on-site vineyard, Teaching Brewery, Teaching Winery, Teaching Distillery, Teaching Spa, Greenhouse/Nursery, hop yard, and apiary. 
• Learning environment includes state-of-the-art equipment.
• Environmentally controlled chocolate and sugar lab.
• Program is housed at Niagara College’s Canadian Food and Wine and Institute and taught by world-class chef faculty.
• Access on-site training and employment opportunities at Benchmark, NC’s student-led restaurant, Bench-to-Go and the Bench-on-the-Go food truck.
• Community engagement through not-for-profit and catered events, recipe competitions, industry research and innovation

Are you a scientifically inclined person with good problem-solving skills and a passion for the environment?
Consider a technical career that emphasizes collection, documentation and analysis of water, air and soil samples in the context of local watersheds and relevant policies and regulations. As an Environmental Technician, you enjoy the variety of working both outdoors and in lab settings, and you have the flexibility and skills to work in industry, government or conservation; monitoring and treating waste streams, documenting ecosystem processes, and conducting environmental site assessments.

Program Highlights

• Enjoy hands-on experiential training on a 125-acre campus and throughout the Niagara Region.
• Gain practical experience via a 350 hour paid summer co-op work term.
• Acquire additional credentials: Drinking Water Operation Class 1 (OWWCO), Ontario Association of Certified Engineering Technicians and Technologists (OACETT) and Canadian Environmental Practitioners in Training (CEPIT).
• Graduates can pursue a Niagara College graduate certificate in Ecosystem Restoration or Environmental Management and Assessment, or follow educational pathways to partner institutions that grant credit for the Environmental Technician diploma towards a University degree.

Are you interested in turning your green thumb and passion for gardening into a blooming career?
As a Landscape Horticulture Techniques graduate you are in high demand from a $7-billion industry with a growth rate of 14 per cent per year and a serious shortage of horticulturalists.

Program Highlights

• The 125-acre Niagara-on-the-Lake Campus serves as a living lab including Ontario’s largest training greenhouse, newly renovated landscape design studio and computer lab, and a heated landscape workshop.
• Hands-on experiential learning and pride of work; Niagara College is Ontario’s only college where students are responsible for maintaining the campus landscape.
• Graduates may have an opportunity to earn a co-op diploma in landscape, greenhouse or horticultural fields with an additional year of study at Niagara College.

Do you have a knack for crunching numbers and want to gain program-related industry experience to help jumpstart your career?
As a Business Administration – Accounting (Co-op) graduate you will have the knowledge and industry experience required to open doors to a successful professional accounting or financial management career.

Program Highlights

• Hands-on, experiential learning via case studies, computer applications and role-playing.
• Individualized support from professionally designated (CPA, CA, CMA or CGA, CGA) accounting faculty.
• Network with industry leaders while working on course projects.
• Option to acquire a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) designation via diploma articulation to a qualifying degree program recognized by CPA Ontario.

Are you a people person obsessed with quality service and interested in a career in one of the world’s largest and most successful industries?
As a leader in the fast-paced and complex hospitality industry, Honours Bachelor of Business Administration (Hospitality) graduates apply critical thinking and leadership skills to streamline hospitality operations, improve efficiencies and create competitive service models.

Program Highlights

• Experiential learning on campus via the NC learning enterprises, computer models and operational simulators.
• Engage with top industry professionals and gain market-ready, practical experience via two co-op work terms.
• Focus on finance, market research and operations management.
• Opportunities to participate in academic exchange programs with University of Florida/Walt Disney World®.
   

Do you have an interest in health care and want to be part of the fast-growing area of medical office administration?
As a graduate of the Office Administration – Health Services program you will support patient relations and effectively handle medical office practices in community health-care and hospital settings

Program Highlights

• Gain practical experience using a simulated clinical management system for patient scheduling, electronic health records, and OHIP billing.
• Learn to accurately transcribe medical correspondence and reports, including a comprehensive study of anatomy and medical terminology.
• Practicum experience provides hands-on, experiential learning in the field.

Are you interested in a career that combines food science with culinary skills to ensure the development of safe and delicious food from farm to table?
As a Culinary Innovation and Food Technology graduate you will be a culinary innovator with the unique ability to develop and improve foods, products and operations; reduce food safety risks and ensure regulations are met; and provide nutritional labelling and analysis.

Program Highlights

• State-of-the-art facilities and equipment.
• Strong commitment to the CFWI Research and Innovation Centre provides experiential learning opportunities to students.
• The Canadian Food and Wine Institute at Niagara College is renowned for its outstanding reputation with graduates, employers and industry partners.
• Co-op work term offers applied research experience in product development and food science.
   

Are you process-oriented and interested in a career where you can maintain a high administrative standard within an organization?
As a graduate of the Office Administration – General program you will have the technical and administrative skills required to be a successful administrator in today’s fast-paced business environment.

Program Highlights

• Highly regarded curriculum meets current industry needs.
• Comprehensive computer training prepares students for the Microsoft Application Specialist certification.
• Simulated in-course office projects enable you to gain market-ready experience and administrative knowledge.
   

Do you dream of working outdoors while contributing to the sustainability of one of the most important parts of our natural food system – the pollinator?
As a commercial beekeeper you will help meet the expected demand for pollination services by various agricultural crops in Canada and around the world.

Program Highlights

• Reflects Niagara College’s holistic approach to agri-food and commitment to helping meet the global demand for thousands of commercial beekeepers over the next decade including the need for over 3,000 commercial beekeepers across Canada by 2023.
• Eastern Canada’s first-ever Commercial Beekeeping program.
• Applied learning experiences via an on-campus apiary with 30 actively managed hives.
• Three-semester program coincides with the normal annual lifecycle of a honey bee.
• Reflective of a provincial focus on pollinator health strategies with an aim to create a highly skilled labour force to care for managed pollinators as wild pollinators continue to decline globally.
• Engaged Program Advisory Committee with representatives from sectors involved in the planning, implementation, regulation and promotion of ecological restoration activities.

Are you looking to tap into brewery operations management and want to become a certified brewmaster?
As a graduate of Canada’s first Brewmaster and Brewery Operations Management program you will be at the forefront of the ever-expanding brewery, microbrewery and brewpub industries.

Program Highlights

• ince the inception of the program in 2010, NC students and faculty have been awarded more than 30 awards at national and international industry competitions, including 9 gold medals and the title of North America’s Best Brewing Program.
• Specialized education in brewing technology, sensory evaluation, quality control, brewery operations, sales management, and advanced business applications.
• Hands-on, experiential learning in NC’s on-campus Teaching Brewery led by award-winning Brewmaster faculty.
• Housed at the Canadian Food and Wine Institute, where students compete for the best brew/wine and food pairings and compete and manage events such as Caps, Corks and Forks and the Project Brew Craft Beer Festival competition.
• On-site hop yard and local farm products enable students to brew a full range of beer styles with students eligible to obtain Institute of Brewing and Distilling (IBD) certification.