Graduate Certificate in Beverage Business Management

at Niagara College - Niagara on the Lake Campus Canada

Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment and have communication skills and attention to detail that would make you an asset to any organization?
As a graduate of the Office Administration – Executive (Co-op) program you will have advanced administrative skills and will be market-ready to assist top executives at today’s leading organizations.

Program Highlights

• Highly regarded curriculum meets current industry needs.
• Comprehensive computer training prepares students for the Microsoft Application Specialist certification.
• Extensive hands-on industry experience gained via two co-op work terms.
• Graduates may pursue the Certified Administrative Professional (CAP) designation through the International Association of Administrative Professionals (IAAP)

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 have a keen eye for detail and a passion for taking special events from idea to execution and want to build on your previous work experience?
From scouting locations to booking suppliers, as an Event Manager you have the organizational and logistical skills needed to plan and manage small- and large-scale events.

Program Highlights

• Award-winning program provides comprehensive training, builds professional competencies and develops project management techniques for the multi-faceted event industry.
• Gain skills in planning and logistics, public relations (PR), marketing and sponsorship strategies, and volunteer and risk management procedures via an experiential learning environment that includes field placements and live-event execution.
• Graduates can seek professional recognition from key national organizations.
• Graduates well-connected to the industry through valuable networking opportunities.
• Access to scholarships and awards, including an exclusive event management scholarship funded by the Many Hands Project.
• Growing use of events as a marketing approach.
• Training and Certifications in the digital marketing landscape.
• Discover the business of events and how to evolve with virtual and hybrid planning techniques.
• Integrated project management principles with event management.

Do you have previous experience working in the environmental sector and want to further your skills to contribute to more sustainable world?
As a graduate of the Environmental Management and Assessment program, you will have the specialized skills required to work in several environmental fields, including pollution prevention and control, environmental assessment, and risk management.

Program Highlights

• First program of its kind in Canada; faculty team has over 60 years of collective environmental experience.
• Graduates have marketable skills from the perspective of business, industry, government, consultants and environmental associations.
• Nationally accredited by ECO Canada for excellence in curriculum in compliance with the Canadian National Occupational Standards.
• The 125-acre Niagara-on-the-Lake Campus offers access to ecological living labs in addition to hands-on learning opportunities via industry internships/projects that provide practical experience one day a week, for 12 weeks.
• Graduates with relevant experience can seek Environmental Professional certification through ECO Canada.

Do you have a passion for science combined with a keen desire to work with, and for, nature?
As a Greenhouse Technician graduate, you have a strong understanding of balanced plant environment, pest management technology and labour management policies and the ability to successfully manage greenhouse or nursery production.

Program Highlights

• The 125-acre Daniel J. Patterson Campus in Niagara-on-the-Lake is located in the heart of Canada’s expanding greenhouse industry and serves as a living lab for students including Ontario’s largest training greenhouse, container and field nursery operations, and on-site greenhouse equipment.
• Gain practical greenhouse experience working with an integrated pest management system.
• Connect with greenhouse leaders via extensive field trips to local ornamental and vegetable greenhouses and industry trade shows.

Are you a service-oriented professional looking to increase your managerial and leadership skills in preparation for a larger hospitality or tourism role in Canada or across the globe?
As a graduate of the Hospitality and Tourism Management program you will have the specialized training needed to take on increasingly senior roles in the global hospitality and tourism marketplace.

Program Highlights

• Gain managerial, communication and leadership skills critical to your success.
• The 125-acre Daniel J. Patterson Campus in Niagara-on-the-Lake is located in the heart of Canada’s growing hospitality and tourism industry with full-service living labs including the NC Teaching Spa and Benchmark, a student-led restaurant.
• Strong focus on developing leadership through technology and teamwork with a program outline shaped by industry professionals.
• Gain hands-on learning through service learning that offers specific niche experience in hospitality and tourism, or research opportunities.
   

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.

Are you a globally-minded individual with a desire to contribute to the growth and development of the world’s economy?
As a skilled graduate with expertise in international business and global development skills, you are well equipped for success as an international commerce specialist in the public or private sector or manager, project officer or development officer working in international development.

Program Highlights

• Highly marketable business degree.
• Proximity to one of the world’s busiest international borders provides opportunities to participate in co-op and applied research projects.
• Hands-on global education opportunities through study exchanges and International Field Studies.
• Nationally recognized co-op program for excellence.

Are you passionate about the environment with a desire to help establish an ecologically healthy relationship between nature and our highly industrialized world?
As an Ecosystem Restoration graduate you will be skilled in the restoration and management of disturbed ecosystems and will be prepared to play a leading role in the environmental labour market.

Program Highlights

• Centred on ‘hands-on, boots-on’ learning opportunities via community-based, year-long ecological restoration projects.
• The 125-acre Daniel J. Patterson Campus in Niagara-on-the-Lake includes restored wetlands, The Wetland Ridge Trail, and is part of the Niagara Escarpment.
• Supports bio-monitoring, bio-engineering and plant material management training via the Greenhouse/Nursery, community nurseries and a full complement of field equipment.
• Restoration-oriented certifications and training provide graduates competitive advantages in the environmental labour market.
• Engaged Program Advisory Committee with representatives from sectors involved in the planning, implementation, regulation and promotion of ecological restoration activities.
• Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) has reviewed program curriculum and successful graduates of this program will be immediately eligible for certification designation as a CERPIT (Certified Ecological Restoration Practitioner in Training).