Certificate in Personal Support Worker

at Niagara College - Welland Campus Canada

Are you passionate about leading a healthy and active lifestyle and want to motivate others to join your movement?

Become a leader in the Fitness and Health Promotion industry. A combination of classroom, hands-on and placement experiences allow opportunity to develop skills to counsel, motivate and educate others on various components of a healthy lifestyle. Specific course work will prepare you to challenge industry certifications required to assess, prescribe and evaluate exercise programs for individuals and groups.

Program Highlights:

• 150 hours of practical work experience during two field placement opportunities.
• Experiential learning opportunities implementing health and wellness initiatives for community partners, Niagara College staff and students.
• Graduates may challenge nationally and internationally recognized industry specific certifications to become group exercise leaders and certified personal trainers.
• Upon graduation, pathways to further education through articulation agreements.

Are you a detail-oriented story-teller who excels at relationship building and boasts a strong range of skills including writing and research and strategic communications and analysis?
As a Public Relations (PR) Practitioner, you are a strong written and verbal communicator with an understanding of the importance of effective communication between an organization and its publics.

Program Highlights:

• Develop the public relations and strategic communication skills needed to succeed in the fast-paced and diverse world of PR.
• Gain hands-on learning experience via a 152-hour field placement and applied learning projects involving industry clients in the second term.
• Curriculum, including an emphasis on social media, is informed by a program advisory committee to ensure industry relevance and exceeds current provincial PR program standards.
• Program runs three days a week in both terms.
• Provides multiple networking opportunities for the students to meet industry professionals.

Internationally trained are eligible to register for this intensive 1 year program, which awards an Ontario College Graduate Certificate.

The Healthcare Leadership and Management program helps students to develop their leadership ability and capacity to manage the multiple factors influencing healthcare at the organizational and system levels.

Program Highlights:

• Unique interprofessional education experience with other nursing and allied health programs.
• Access to Co-Curricular Record program in which individuals gain recognition for student engagement, leadership and co-curricular activities pursued outside of the classroom.
• Experiential learning including a capstone project.
• Access to international student specific advisement and transition supports through the International Division.

Do you enjoy working with robotics and automation and want to make a career out of improving manufacturing processes?

Do you enjoy 3D modeling and 3D printing? Mechanical Engineering Technicians typically setup and program automation equipment, prepare and present technical reports and drawings, use precision instruments for inspection and material testing, and plan, implement and evaluate quality control and quality assurance procedures. The program combines face-to-face learning with industry professionals and hands-on labs with real industrial equipment to give you exactly what successful manufacturers are looking for.

Program Highlights:

• Industrial Automation – robotics, CNC, and PLC programming, and the interconnectivity of these devices.
• 3D modeling and 3D printing – Autodesk Inventor software is used on laptops.
• Manufacturing process design and support – machining, metal forming process, hydraulics, pneumatics, other processes, lean manufacturing.
• Quality inspection and analysis of data.
• Graduates may enter the workforce directly or enter Niagara College’s Mechanical Engineering Technology (Co-op) program with advanced standing after completing bridge courses.

Do you imagine being a professional actor and entrepreneur in today’s ever-changing film and television sector?

As an actor, you are a highly versatile and authentic storyteller who understands the importance of a meaningful connection with your audience and the value of creating your own opportunities for success in the entertainment industry.

Toronto – sometimes called Hollywood North – and the surrounding region known as “The Golden Horseshoe” ranks third in film and television production in North America and ranks second as an exporter of television programming in North America.

Our focus continues to be superior actor training with courses in voice, speech, movement, scene study and auditioning for film and television. We are also one of the few Canadian post-secondary institutions that offer direct instruction in The Meisner Technique, one of the foremost acting techniques taught today. But in light of the changing nature of the industry you will also study film editing, screenwriting, stunt training, voiceover acting, self-marketing and acting with technology (eg. Green Screen), with an emphasis on creating your own work.

Program Highlights:

• Extensive hands-on experience taking scene study and short film projects from script to screen using the latest technology.
• Establish a professional portfolio including a resume, headshots, demo reels, and voiceover demo that reflects your individual style and acting technique.
• Collaborate with future directors and producers in Niagara College’s renowned Broadcasting – Radio, Television and Film program on short films, commercials and music videos.
• One of few Canadian programs to offer direct instruction in The Meisner Technique—one of the most popular techniques of modern acting.
• Recognized by the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) with graduates granted immediate ACTRA apprentice status.
• Interact with working industry professionals (our instructors as well as directors, actors and producers) through our ‘Up Close and Personal’ series.

Are you interested in pursuing a rewarding career that enables you to gain teaching experience, travel the world and immerse yourself in new cultures and traditions?

As an English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher, you are a global citizen with the skill set required to help individuals of all ages – from young children to business professionals – develop their English language skills in sectors including education, business and politics.

Program Highlights:

• Niagara College’s educational partners around the world offer employment opportunities for new graduates.
• Gain the knowledge and insight needed to teach in Canada or abroad.
• Professional-level program offers a practical focus that requires the use of a personal iPad to access iBooks and applications that support classroom learning and practicum teaching.
• Applied learning offered through a practicum that provides real-world classroom teaching experience.

Do you have what it takes to become a leader in the emerging world of social media management? Are you creative, analytical, detail-oriented and digitally adept?

As a social media professional, you will plan, execute and analyze social media campaigns for a variety of organizations and clients, in both for-profit and non-profit sectors. You will create engaging communications using images, video and text to enhance brands and improve online engagement.

Program Highlights:

• Program is delivered over two semesters, four days a week.
• Hands-on learning in client-focused courses.
• Gain and improve collaboration and leadership skills required in industry.
• In-depth training in social media management platforms such as Hootsuite.
• Training in web site hosting, LMS management and social media analytics dashboards.
• Network among industry professionals to access the freelance market.
• Plan and lead a social media campaign for a community client in a capstone course.
• Gain business and marketing skills.
• Learn creativity techniques and develop an entrepreneurial mindset.

Do you enjoy working with the latest technology to create eye-catching, original designs?
As a graphic designer you will be an integral part of the communications team who thrives on transforming a concept or idea into an organization’s identity or brand.

Program Highlights:

• Hands-on, experiential learning in state-of-the-art design studios and computer labs equipped with iMacs and Wacom tablets.
• Emphasis on the theoretical and practical application of design principles.
• Over 1,800 hours of practical design studio and production experience.
• Graduates find employment in one of Canada’s largest industries in studios, ad agencies and in-house design departments working with photographers, illustrators, writers, marketing strategists, typographers and printers.
• Our new maker space houses traditional printing presses, metal and wood type, bookbinding equipment, silkscreen setup, laser cutter, 3D printer, large format printer/vinyl cutter—everything you need to bring your ideas to life.

Do you have a passion for capturing the perfect moment and want to combine your eye for photography with a career in the digital world?
As a photographer you will take portrait, commercial, fine art and event images and use the latest in digital imaging software to edit and retouch images as needed.

Program Highlights:

• Students train their artistic eye and master digital imaging technologies to develop their individual style and a cutting-edge portfolio.
• Study practical entrepreneurial and business principles for a hands-on, real-life project approach to a diverse range of applied photography situations.
• Curriculum integrates leading-edge digital editing software.
• Extensive practical experience in the studio, digital darkroom, and on location.
• Award-winning program with multiple winners at the internationally recognized Applied Arts Magazine Student Photography Competition.

Are you fascinated by current trends in web development, the latest software, or your favorite mobile phone app?
As a computer programmer, you will be adept at databases, interactive multimedia, and software development, and will be poised for success in the digital world.

Program Highlights:

• Unique mix of business, multimedia, and software development courses.
• Hundreds of hours of hands-on lab work combined with in-course community sponsored projects and applied research opportunities.
• Graduates choose between entering into the workforce or progression into NC’s Computer Programming and Analysis (Co-op) program.