Graduate Certificate in Commercial Beekeeping

at Niagara College - Niagara on the Lake Campus Canada

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.

This flexible, eight-month post-graduate program prepares learners for high-demand data management roles.

Graduates will be able to pull meaningful insights from large, complex data sets to support data driven decision making. Students will collect and analyze data and create visualizations to solve current and future problems. The ability to work with data and predict patterns will continue to be a critical management skill.

Program Highlights

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of ethical data management, predictive analytics, and visualizations.
• Suitable for individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds, looking to add a layer of applied, analytical problem solving to their area of expertise.
• Work through case studies and interactive labs, using course competencies.
• Hybrid course delivery allows for greater flexibility.
• Applied research is present throughout the program, culminating with a capstone course in the final term.
• Software-based simulations provide competencies in team-based, real-time, competitive business scenarios.

Are you ready to develop your business career in the fast-paced and thriving tourism industry?
As a Tourism Management-Business Development graduate you will have the skills needed to manage tourism operations and develop innovative marketing initiatives to ensure your organization stands out from the crowd.

Program Highlights

• Unique curriculum focused on business development, attraction operations processes, sales practices, and conference operations is taught by industry experts.
• Build supervision skills based on the industry standard from the American Hotel and Lodging Association.

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 believe that an organization’s greatest asset is its people and have a keen interest in cultivating and supporting human resources to ensure organizational success?
Learn how human resource professionals are essential team members in planning strategic programs focused on human capital and organizational development to maintain competitiveness, improved employee commitment and build a positive workplace culture.

Program Highlights

• High graduate employment rate resulting from experience gained via applied opportunities through co-op work terms and industry-related projects.
• Experienced faculty with more than 50 years of collective teaching and industry experience.
• Career development workshops, networking and industry events.
• Digital and project management skills development.
• Opportunities to work/study aboard.
• Connections to professional associations such as HRPA, Occupational Heath & Safety, and Performance and Learning.
• Courses required to write the Comprehensive Knowledge Examination (CKE) for the Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP) designation must have an overall average of 70 percent with no course mark below 65 percent.

Do you enjoy working outdoors, have an eye for design, and want to improve your community’s landscape?
As a Landscape Technician graduate you will be well-equipped to plan, design and develop beautiful and sustainable landscapes for residential and commercial clients

Program Highlights

• Campus serves as an outdoor living lab, providing unique practical learning opportunities.
• Indoor heated workshop plus horticultural yard including safe equipment training on large and small power equipment.
• Design studio provides an optimal learning environment to gain a theoretical understanding of landscape design.
• Gain experience through community landscape design/construction projects.
• Graduates are in high demand.
• Graduates can earn a diploma in greenhouse or horticulture fields with an additional year of study.

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 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 looking for a dynamic and rewarding career that enables you to contribute to the management of global supply chains?
As a Supply Chain Management graduate you will be working in an industry that influences the purchasing, production, warehousing and distribution of goods.

Program Highlights

• A focused curriculum provides students with a comprehensive understanding of supply chains, logistics management, related technology, and business processes.
• Students partner with organizations, using course competencies to address real world problems.
• Applied research is present throughout the program, culminating with a capstone course in the final term.
• Software-based simulations provide learners with competencies in team based, real time, competitive business scenarios.
• Program is a member of the SAP University Alliance, a global business provider of integrated enterprise resource planning software.

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.