Diploma in Digital Arts

at Selkirk College - Tenth Street Campus (Nelson) Canada

Chefs, food and beverage managers and restaurant owners today need business, leadership and human resource skills in addition to a strong culinary foundation. This program provides both the fundamental culinary and management skills for students with no previous culinary backgrounds looking to manage, own or operate a food and beverage business in the future.

The Contemporary Music & Technology program at Selkirk College is a two-year diploma program developed to train musicians for the commercial music and entertainment industry. It’s the only program in Canada based on the world renowned Berklee College of Music curriculum and its guiding principle that the best way to prepare students for careers in music is through the study and practice of contemporary music. For graduates of jazz and classical programs, Selkirk College can offer the technology training and popular music concepts they might be missing in order to become more employable.

Develop Your Skills

• Performance
• Improvisation
• Songwriting
• Composition
• Film Scoring
• Recording
• Live Sound Mixing

Bring your creativity and our dedicated faculty will encourage you to explore and define your technical and artistic potential. Get the skills you need to take your work from the creative design process and conception to the presentation of your finished product. Launch your career in the fast-paced digital media industry. 

Our Digital Arts program helps you work in graphic design, illustration, animation, visual and special effects, web design, and interactive application development. Our intensive program provides you with hands-on experience in:

• Graphic Design
• Digital Photography
• Digital Video and Audio Editing
• Mobile Application Development
• Motion Graphics
• 2d and 3d Animation
• Web Design and Programming

The Web Development Program prepares students with skills and knowledge required to start a career as a Full Stack Web Application Developer. Students will learn how coding skills and agile web development business practices can be applied to solve real-world problems and support organizations to meet the demands of the ever-changing digital landscape.

Over a series of ten courses students will present, implement and maintain emerging web-based technologies – learning by doing to solve problems individually and collaboratively. Methodical, concise and communicative development practices are encouraged throughout the program.

Applying Your Knowledge
Being a Full Stack Developer means you will have experience in both the front-end and back-end of web development. You will use HTML, CSS and JavaScript to control how content looks on the front end while developing server-side applications, servers and databases that drive the back end. You will write lean, elegant and efficient loading code, follow best practices when using web-based technologies, and install, configure, secure and maintain web-based environments.

Our intensive program provides you with hands-on experience in:

• HTML & CSS
• Agile Project Management
• JavaScript and other Scripting Languages
• REST, API, SOAP API
• Virtual host, sandboxes
• Version control
• Relational and non-relation database management systems, and frameworks
• Web security
• Performance analysis

With an emphasis on technologies and strategies, the Digital Fabrication & Design Program prepares students for employment or further education in the emerging fields of digital fabrication and advanced manufacturing. 

Design and manufacturing are evolving industries. In Selkirk College's new Digital Fabrication & Design Program, gain broad entry-level skills or take your trade, craft or digital prowess in a new digital direction. This field combines the artistry of digital design with the skilled trades of making the physical form. Our training ensures your value in the increasingly digitally driven world of design, fabrication and manufacturing. 

The Digital Fabrication & Design Program teaches emerging hands-on computer skills for a wide variety of production facilities - from large-scale industrial operations to inventors needing prototypes. Learn how to design and build products from the bottom up. Or, create parts for a larger assembly. Learn more about career pathways...

Digital manufacturing skills are in demand as industries embrace improved technology allowing for more design choice, increased accuracy and a shorter design to manufacturing process. Among sectors, manufacturing recorded the highest rate of adoption of advanced design and fabrication technologies, with nearly six in 10 manufacturing enterprises using at least one such technology. 

Applied Skills and Experiential Learning
Our program instruction is primarily delivered in workgroups, with peers, mentors, and machines. Delivery uses a problem-solving based learning approach which reflects standard industry practice in the field of advanced manufacturing.

Giving students a full spectrum of digital fabrication implementations and opportunities, learning includes but is not limited to:

• 2D and 3D Design for Advanced Manufacturing (CAD/CAM)
• 3D Scanning and Reverse Engineering
• Additive Manufacturing (3D printing)
• Subtractive Manufacturing (CNC machining)
• Entrepreneurial Studies
• Automation and Robotics for Advanced Manufacturing
• Emerging Technologies

The successful chef or food and beverage entrepreneur of today requires more than just great culinary skills to excel in the hospitality industry.

Chefs, food and beverage managers in the hospitality industry, and restaurant owners today need business, leadership and human resource skills in addition to a strong culinary foundation. This program provides professional cook training and fundamental management skills for students with culinary backgrounds looking to manage, own or operate a food and beverage business.

Take Your Career to the Next Level 
The Culinary Management diploma is developed for chefs and hospitality program graduates from programs outside of Canada. International students who have a culinary or hospitality credential are welcome to apply for this program.  Students will be fast-tracked through a curriculum similar to the Professional Cook courses Level 1 and 2. Additionally, students will gain hands on industry experience during a paid four-month work term. Alongside the culinary focused course students will also complete two semesters of management level courses.

Labour market research predicts a shortage in this sector and foresees an increase in need for higher level credentialing, as reported in the Canadian Tourism Human Resource Council’s The Future of Canada’s Tourism Sector, Economic Recession only a Temporary Reprieve from Labour Shortages.

The objective of the program, through classroom instruction, practical lab training and work experience, is to enable students to develop the abilities to work in the fast paced culinary world with the skills and attitudes to analyze situations objectively and to make effective management decisions.

Studies begin with an understanding of where tourism originates and encompass the supervision of hospitality facilities. Knowledge, skills and practices pertaining to the industry, such as the reception of guests, food and beverage services, recreation and convention planning, accounting, maintenance, supervisory and overall management techniques are topics covered. Communications and human relations are emphasized.

The objective of the program, through classroom instruction, practical lab training and work experience, is to enable students to develop the abilities, skills and attitudes to analyze situations objectively and to then make effective management decisions.

The guiding principle of the Resort and Hotel Management program is student centered involvement through both classroom and project based learning. During the school year our students are involved in organizing and supporting Selkirk College as a host institution for special events and conferences. Students participate in a professional internship program consisting of five months in the summer and fall between the first and second year of the program.

The two-year Post Graduate Diploma in Hospitality Management will provide you with the knowledge and skills necessary to be successful in the ever-changing and competitive business world in Canada, specifically the hospitality industry.

The Post Graduate Diploma in Hospitality Management includes a paid 4-month work term from May or September. Students will be given the opportunity to interview for positions in the hospitality industry either locally, in larger cities, or in resort areas. The work term is a required component of the Post Graduate Diploma and offers an opportunity to take your education abroad.