Advanced Diploma in Broadcasting - Radio, Television and Film (Radio and TV Presentation)

at Niagara College - Welland Campus Canada

Are you fascinated by the scope of infrastructure development and envision a career where you can help design and build your community?
As a Civil Engineering Technician graduate you will play an important role in the design and construction of buildings, bridges, highways, dams, drainage and irrigation systems, streets, parks, subdivisions, and water supply and sewer systems.

Program Highlights:

• Gain broad knowledge and hands-on, experiential learning in computer-aided drafting applications, lab testing, structural design, geotechnical analysis, project management, and more.
• Graduates are eligible to write the house component of the Ontario Building Code exam.
• Immediate associate member status, upon application, with the Ontario Association of Certified Engineering Technicians and Technologists (OACETT) post-graduation.
• Program is nationally accredited by Technology Accreditation Canada.
• Graduates can choose between workforce entry and progression into Niagara’s College’s Construction Engineering Technology program.

Do you want to gain the skills needed to help high-performance athletes reach their performance goals or design programs for individuals with health challenges that enable them to lead healthier lives?
As an Exercise Science for Health and Performance graduate you will assess, counsel and prescribe programs for athletes and individuals with high blood pressure, diabetes, heart conditions, obesity issues and other chronic conditions.

Program Highlights:

• Hands-on learning opportunities offered through new athletic and fitness facilities including assessment and weight training labs, and new state-of-the-art testing and training equipment for high-performance athletes and clients with chronic conditions.
• Combines theoretical classroom learning with two work placements.
• Gain the knowledge and skills required to challenge the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology (CSEP) – Certified Exercise Physiologist (CEP) performance specialization certification exam, the highest level of certification in the Canadian fitness industry.
• Graduates can seek a variety of other professional certifications including the CSEP Certified Personal Trainer,
• Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (NSCA), Level 1 Weight Lifting Certificate from the National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP), and the Registered Kinesiologist Exam (College of Kinesiologists of Ontario).

Do you like the news? Music? Sports? Do you enjoy being in the spotlight?
As a Radio or Television Broadcaster, you are as versatile as the evolving media industry platforms that you report from.

Program Highlights

• Introduction to the radio, television, and film industries including hands-on learning in music, talk and news radio, electronic news gathering (ENGs), and in-studio hosting.
• Broadcast 24/7 on CRNC The Heat available LIVE online at crnc.ca.
• Facilities include a radio production training lab, fully HD television studio, digital radio broadcast studio and a $1-million high-definition (HD) production truck.
• LIVE weekly TV magazine show broadcasted and streamed in conjunction with Television Production students.
• Immersive seven-week broadcast industry field placement.
• Students apply to Broadcasting – Radio, Television and Film and select a program concentration during the first year of their program.

Are you interested in a high-impact career at the forefront of leading computer systems technology?
As a computer systems technician in network and cloud technologies you will have the advanced skills needed to combine hardware, software, and network technology to improve business operations using conventional and cloud-based models.

Program Highlights:

• Students learn to provide support for databases and websites as well as a variety of computer hardware, operating systems, application software and network architectures.
• The CST lab has dedicated high speed Internet access and provides student access to wired, wireless and fiber optic media for lab work.
• Faculty dedicated to helping students explore new technologies.
• Industry advisors from small to large employers assist in determining industry trends and enhancements to program content such as Cloud computing, mobile device management and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL).

Do you enjoy working with your hands and have a desire to help meet the demand for skilled electrical workers in Ontario?
As an Electrical Techniques graduate you will have the fundamental electrical skills and advanced knowledge necessary for workforce entry, as well as a strong foundation for further study in the electrical field.

Program Highlights:

• Learn from highly experienced and supportive faculty who are experts in their fields.
• Modern equipment and spacious lab facilities provide an optimal, applied learning experience.
• Demand for graduates is high in the Niagara Region and throughout Ontario.

Are you detail oriented with a desire to provide excellent patient care and customer service?
As a community pharmacy assistant, working alongside a registered pharmacist and/or pharmacy technician, you are an integral part of the health care team that provides community pharmaceutical services.

Program Highlights

• Enhanced learning experience in a simulated community pharmacy.
• Hands-on, applied learning gained through labs and field placement completed concurrently with academic studies.
• Build knowledge of the latest pharmaceutical products, practices and drug distribution systems.

Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of individuals with special needs and ensuring everyone reaches their full potential?
As an educational assistant or developmental support worker, you will be skilled and compassionate about supporting students and adults with special needs in a community or educational setting.

Program Highlights:

• Benefit from this unique college program and develop the knowledge, skills and abilities to work in educational and community settings.
• 400 hours of practical field placement experience in both educational and community settings.
• Graduates receive vocationally relevant certifications in Non Violent Crisis Intervention & Person Centred Training.
• Students have many professional networking opportunities through school boards and community agencies.

Do you have a strong background in math and science and want to explore a career creating advanced equipment using light?
As a Photonics Engineering Technician graduate you will possess the skills to build, install, test and maintain optical or fibre-optic equipment, including lasers, to create innovative devices for use in the manufacturing, medicine, and telecommunications industries.

Program Highlights:

• Niagara College offers Ontario’s only Photonics Engineering Technician program, with graduates in high demand.
• Hands-on experiential learning in Canada’s largest undergraduate photonic labs and teaching clean-room facility.
• Gain advanced skills in precision optics, electro-optics, fibre-optics and laser technologies.
• Graduates may opt for direct workforce entry or complete Niagara College’s Photonics Engineering Technology program with an additional year of study.

Are you interested in a career where you support individuals in enjoying an improved quality of life? As a recreation therapy professional, you will use meaningful recreation and leisure education, counselling and experiences to promote, restore, rehabilitate, and/or maintain quality of life and well-being. Therapeutic recreation supports the development of strengths while addressing social, emotional, physical, spiritual and cognitive needs.

Program Highlights:
All the benefits of the Recreation Therapy program, plus:

• Students complete term 1 through term 4 as a continual program with no term off. Graduates will have a 1 term head start on securing employment or potentially continuing their studies in other programs, while still receiving the same Ontario College Diploma as 2 year Recreation Therapy students.
• The program is OSAP eligible.
• Content and learning outcomes are the same for the traditional delivery and fast-track streams.
• Provides a great option for any applicant who is not relying on summer income to support their finances.
• Residence is open during the summer.

Design your own interdisciplinary program to help you determine which post-secondary path to pursue and ready yourself for further post-secondary education as you prepare to enter the workforce with marketable skills.

Program Highlights:

• Flexibility to explore academic courses of interest before committing to a specific field of study.
• Work closely with an academic student advisor to determine your educational and career goals.
• Gain marketable skills with the possibility of receiving transferable credits to other college or university programs.
• Graduates are ready to pursue further postsecondary studies or enter the workforce.
• Explore common subjects of interest, including psychology; counselling; health and life sciences; sociology; global studies and current events; history; health and wellness; fitness; film; music; forensic sciences; and languages.