Bachelor of Creative Writing and Publishing (Honours)

at Sheridan College - Hazel McCallion Campus Canada

A General Arts and Science diploma is perfect for you if:

• You're not sure you're ready for university
• You want to build a strong foundation for a university degree
• You need a fresh start in small classroom settings
• You want holistic, personalized advising
• You’d like to enhance your social and cultural awareness

What will you learn?
Our General Arts and Science diploma program will allow you to:

• Experience a multidisciplinary program
• Adjust to post-secondary learning environments
• Develop confidence and build strong academic, communication and research skills
• Define your academic, career and personal goals

Our Business Administration – Accounting program provides a balance of theoretical studies, hands-on learning and specialized courses.

Learn how accounting supports business
Businesses rely on accountants to monitor their performance, compliance and financial health. Your first year will involve common curriculum shared by all business administration students, providing you with an understanding of how companies work. Topics of study include communications, finance, human resources and marketing — all areas of business you’ll impact as an accountant.

Specialize your skills through electives
Study advanced accounting principles that aren’t covered in our two-year Business Accounting program! In your final year, you can master skills essential for employment in the field’s more demanding positions. Choose from a broad selection of electives, including courses in tax, auditing, budgeting, business analysis and financial statement preparation.

Optional accounting co-op placement
Enjoy the opportunity to earn while you learn! All advanced diploma students have the option of gaining more than 1,000 hours of work experience through a co-op work term. Co-op is a competitive program and you’ll need to meet certain academic requirements to participate. Connections you build during your work term may lead to employment opportunities after you graduate.

Learn from industry experts
Sheridan’s accounting professors are actively involved in the industry, presenting at conferences and contributing to publications of accounting textbooks and articles. Many also hold the Chartered Professional Accountants (CPA) designation and maintain strong ties with the business community, which may assist you with obtaining a co-op work term.

In just two years, you can acquire the core skills necessary to work in the exciting field of human resources! First, you'll build a strong base of general business knowledge that helps you understand the many ways human resources contribute to organizational success. You'll then focus on fundamental HR specialities, including talent recruitment, health and safety, performance management and more.

Learning Outcomes
The graduate has reliably demonstrated the ability to:

• Participate in the recruitment, selection, and retention of employees.
• Participate in performance management processes.
• Participate in the planning, delivery, and evaluation of employee orientation, training, and development programs.
• Contribute to an organization’s success through effective employee relations.
• Assist with the administration and communication of the organization’s total compensation plan.
• Participate in organizational health and safety policies and practices.
• Apply current and emerging information technologies to support the human resources function.
• Implement organizational development strategies aimed at promoting organizational effectiveness.
• Communicate human resources information accurately and credibly in oral, written, and graphic form.
• Plan and act on personal professional development plans to achieve ongoing competence in human resources professional practice.
• Identify the human resources component of a business plan.
• Assist in the collection and analysis of human resources data.

Develop skills for a visual merchandising career, and build your communication and leadership skills.
A progressive and constantly evolving curriculum:-
Progressive and constantly evolving is the best way to describe Sheridan's merchandising program because we're continuously updating and improving the curriculum to stay on top of the latest trends. We're also committed to ensuring that your training utilizes current technology and software that the industry works with each day – so you achieve the highest level of training.

Field placements with exciting brands!:-
You'll have a chance to learn from the best in the business with two field placements during the second year of the merchandising program. The placements are a great way to gain hands-on experience in a number of areas in the industry and make some important professional contacts. Your placements will help you better choose the direction of your merchandising career path.

Benefits of our program

• Work in a professional studio environment.
• Get trained on industry-standard software.
• Have full access to finishes, paints and samples in our decorating and design resource room.
• Take periodic excursions to local design and product showrooms.
• Participate in a three-week work placement.

A full professional skill set

• Plan and decorate residential and small commercial environments, from programming to final presentation drawings.
• Draft using professional standards to visually communicate details and design concepts.
• Freehand draw, sketch and apply mixed media to presentations.
• Design and implement marketing and sales strategies.

Project Management
This program prepares you to initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control a project to ensure its success. That's true whether your area of interest is the arts, community or social services, business or government administration. If you're a seasoned professional, this program provides the opportunity to learn new skills to advance your career faster.

Things you'll learn to do

• Identify clear project objectives and detailed project requirements.
• Develop and monitor performance measures.
• Create valuable project management plans.
• Manage communication with all team members and project stakeholders.
• Arrange and control finances.
• Manage project constraints including scope, quality, cost and time

Marketing Management
The Marketing Management program at Sheridan provides students with the digital marketing expertise that employers are looking for. During this course, students will learn how to:

• Apply search engine marketing, social media promotion and marketing analytics principles to optimize your organization's marketing efforts.
• Learn basic marketing graphics skills to create support materials such as brochures, newsletters and web page updates.
• Write marketing and communications plans.

This program may lead to career paths in an HR department in a business, non-profit organization or governmental agency

Things you'll learn to do

• Attract and retain outstanding employees.
• Compensate employees correctly.
• Manage workplace health and safety issues.
• Provide valuable training programs and coaching for employees.
• Handle an organization's downsizing or workforce reassignment.

Critical training
This program offers the opportunity to build foundational skills needed in any business administration career, and delivers hands-on training in vital HR skills through case studies, guest speakers, simulated negotiation situations and group work. You'll learn about the latest trends in organizational behaviour, human resources planning and employment law.

This program equips you with the skills you need to enhance the efficiency of a busy professional office
Critical training
Using your laptop in our Internet-connected classrooms, you'll complete interactive assignments and learn the skills most in demand by today's employers. The two-year program focuses on the higher-level technical and professional skills required if you wish to work in an executive office.

Things you'll learn

• Advanced administrative functions such as arranging travel and taking minutes.
• Executive support skills such as banking and payroll.
• Advanced Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access).
• Business writing, Internet research and report writing skills.

In this program, you’ll get the fundamental skills you need to find finance jobs. You’ll learn to process financial records, analyze reports and network in business. You’ll also get hands-on experience as you study investing, financial statement analysis and more. With your well-rounded knowledge, you’ll be prepared to work at a financial institution or in a finance department by graduation.

Learn from faculty who work in the financial field
Our business professors are seasoned educators and experienced professionals who are involved and respected in the business community. They teach with years of business experience to give you knowledge about the real-world workings of the finance industry. This practical approach and their industry connections have helped generate great employment opportunities for our students and graduates.

The role of the HR manager has grown steadily in importance. Today's HR management professionals contribute on a strategic level, dealing with talent acquisition, total rewards management, training and employee development, employment law, health and safety, labour relations, change management and HR metrics. At Sheridan, you'll learn to navigate the complexities of this role.

Co-op experience
You'll take part in one term (three to four months) of co-op placement, which may be paid or unpaid. This opportunity for real-world experience in an HR environment can be an invaluable asset to your career.