Diploma in Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) and Building Information Modelling (BIM) Civil/Structural Technician

at Vancouver Community College - Downtown Campus Canada

Expand your creative and technical skills for the fashion and apparel industry by gaining hands-on experience in conception, design, production, and sales through a self-directed garment project.

What you will learn

• Fashion production
• Technical illustration (Illustrator, Photoshop)
• Pattern drafting
• Computer aided drafting (CAD) and digitization with Gerber
• Draping
• Knit garments
• Lined dresses
• Office attire
• Pattern grading and size ranges
• Niche body types
• Fabric properties, testing, and sourcing
• Textile industry ethics
• Fashion industry issues and trends
• Fashion history and culture
• Precision drawing
• Professional hand and machine sewing
• Textile print and dye techniques
• Garment construction
• Creative vision
• Branding and marketing
• Final runway collection or product line
• Manufacturing specifications
• Business skills
• Overseas production
• Website design and e-commerce
• Professional communication

What to expect

• Mandatory attendance
• Practical labs and demonstrations
• Team activities
• Computer work
• Field trips
• Independent learning
• Student presentations
• Individual and group projects
• Written exams
• Research assignments
• Self-assessments
• Portfolio creation
• Lectures, seminars, videos
• 120-hour industry practicum

Learn top strategies and processes for planning, executing, and monitoring projects in a Canadian business environment. Understand the difference between Agile and Waterfall project management, and know how to plan to get a PMI® Project Management Professional (PMP)®, Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)®, and other project management designations.

What you will learn
Upon successful completion of the program, graduates will be able to:

• Apply strategies and processes in initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing projects.
• Manage risks to reduce project uncertainties.
• Demonstrate project management skills to optimize project outcomes.
• Adapt project management approaches to meet the specific needs of organizations.
• Apply strategies for managing stakeholders’ needs and expectations throughout the project lifecycle.
• Construct comprehensive project plans that address the goals and objectives of organizations.
• Apply critical thinking and problem-solving techniques to make sound business management decisions and recommendations.
• Implement effective communication plans to ensure project success.
• Utilize change management strategies to support project implementation.
•  Demonstrate ethical and professional behaviours as a project team member.
• Communicate and contribute as a project team member to the overall success of projects.
• Apply reflective practices to identify professional development opportunities and enhance lifelong learning.

The Accounting Diploma provides students with a solid foundation in business management in the first year of the program and an opportunity for more advanced, specialized study of accounting in the second year.

Develop professional skills for artisanal bread and pastry production including foundational baking, gluten-free, savoury, and international products.

What you will learn

• Health, sanitation, and safety
• Use of bakery equipment including scales, mixers, proofers, and ovens
• Knife skills
• Theoretical baking principles and processes
• Ingredients and methodology
• Biscuits and muffins
• Pie dough and straight dough
• Aeration and emulsification
• Cookies, pies, tarts
• Croissant, Danish, and puff dough lamination
• Cakes, cookies, sponges
• Buttercreams, glazes, ganaches
• Dessert plating and presentation
• Composition, use of colours and textures
• Pastries, slices, and squares
• Quickbreads and loaf cakes
• Deep-fat frying
• Yeast doughnuts, cake doughnuts, French crullers
• Fermentation, leavening, gluten development
• Wild yeast, sourdough starters, biga, poolish
• Hearth baking
• Grains and flours
• Shaping and molding
• Mixing and portioning
• Gluten-free baking and ingredients
• Meat and vegetable pies
• Sausage rolls, Cornish pasties, calzones
• Asian buns and tarts
• Pita breads and flatbreads
• Sandwiches
• Consistency and accuracy
• Environmental conditions
• Daily production planning
• Standard math functions
• Retail bakeshop management
• Professional etiquette and personal hygiene
• Troubleshooting and problem solving
• Ingredient and equipment suppliers
• Merchandising, inventory, and cost control
• Waste management
• Catering
• Effective communication

What to expect

• Eleven months of full-time study over four terms:    
• Introduction to Baking
  • Applied Baking
  • Artisan Baking
  • Capstone
• Classes Monday to Friday 7 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (subject to change)
• Purchase of textbooks and baking tools (available at the VCC Bookstore)
• Purchase of closed-top, non-slip footwear
• A fully operational kitchen and bakeshop environment
• Direct instruction
• Interactive instruction
• Demonstrations
• Problem-solving
• Cooperative learning
• Active participation
• Self-directed learning
• Three weeks of industry work experience
• Capstone project
• Opportunity to take exams for ITA Level 1 certification

The Early Childhood Care and Education Diploma includes three components: the Basic ECCE, and the integrated Post-Basic Infant Toddler and Special Needs. Each course in the post-basic ECCE program will cover integrated competencies from both specialty areas (Infant Toddler and Special Needs), which will result in an advanced level of professional competence for graduates of the program.

This program provides graduates with an enriched and comprehensive knowledge of typical and atypical child development and inclusive practices in working with children from age 0 to 6. 

Get a comprehensive understanding of business practices in the hospitality industry. Learn to manage guest services for hotels, cruise ships, convention centres, and fine dining establishments.

What you will learn

• Top hospitality business and management practices
• Planning, design, and implementation of hospitality initiatives
• Business and community impact evaluation
• Financial and operations management
• Research and statistical analysis
• E-business and social media marketing
• Current events and change management
• Effective communication in the local, national, and global hospitality market
• Formal and informal meeting procedures
• Labour relations, ethics, and hospitality-related law
• Cultural diversity in British Columbia and Canada
• Community leadership and issue resolution
• Entrepreneurship

What to expect

• Lectures, seminars, and group discussions
• Oral presentations
• Reflective writing
• Research papers and case studies
• Individual and group projects
• Computer simulations
• Quizzes
• Homework
• Final exams

Students who graduate from the program will be able to: 

• Design, implement, maintain, and monitor a networked virtual environment using Windows and Linux operating systems
• Implement IT system security 
• Operate and maintain IT system performance and security
• Identify vulnerabilities of a computer network infrastructure
• Investigate cyber events and digital evidence and engage in computer forensic investigation
• Collect and evaluate cybersecurity information for operations planning
• Conduct tests and perform security and quality controls
• Assess physical and technical security risks/threats to data, software and hardware
• Develop policies, procedures and back up plans to minimize the effects of security breaches

What you will learn
This program is designed for individuals who wish to obtain employment in the Information Technology Industry as Mobile Applications Programmer, Computer Programmer, and Network Administrator.

• Upon completion of this program, graduates will be able to:
• Design, install and manage local area networks
• Develop and design computer programs in various programming languages
• Develop and design interactive web pages with multimedia components
• Design and develop interactive mobile application for mobile devices
• Install and configure computer hardware and software
• Perform systems analysis and design
• Program apps for mobile devices
• Provide end-user technical support services
• Troubleshoot and repair hardware problems

What to expect

• This program is delivered face-to-face and in blended learning modes.  Instructional strategies include classroom lectures, demonstrations, group discussions, computer lab and hands-on practical work.

Learn traditional and digital technologies used in the design and fabrication of dental restorative prostheses, orthodontic appliances, and implant-supported restorations.

What you will learn
The graduate of the VCC Dental Technology Sciences program will have the skills and abilities to:

• Design, fabricate, modify and repair removable oral/dental prostheses;
• Design, fabricate, modify and repair fixed oral/dental prostheses;
• Design, fabricate, modify and repair oral/dental appliances used in orthodontics,  and other dental treatments;
• Integrate general knowledge of dental laboratory procedures, physics and chemistry principles, associated with the fabrication of oral appliances and dental restorations;
• Assess the characteristics and properties of dental materials associated with the fabrication of oral appliances and dental restorations and make decisions about their appropriate application in practice;
• Assess the characteristics and operation of equipment and special instrumentation associated with the fabrication of oral appliances and dental restorations and make decisions about their appropriate application in practice;
• Assess the fundamental elements of dental anatomy, dental physiology, dental morphology and basic elements of oral pathological conditions and apply relevant knowledge to dental technology practice;
• Practice current workplace health and safety standards including dental laboratory asepsis, and infection control;
• Apply essential elements and skills of behavioral sciences, communications, professional ethics, legal obligations and business management to dental technology practice;
• Make decisions that reflect critical thinking and problem solving; integrate pertinent theoretical knowledge and empirical data and information literacy skills to justify and/or revise services.

What to expect

• The Dental Technology Sciences program is competency based and utilizes a variety of teaching and learning activities to enable students to achieve core professional competencies. Theory and authentic laboratory practical experiences are provided throughout. More than 55% of the program is designed for competency based practical experiences. Skills and abilities are based on the National Dental Laboratory Technology competencies (May 2012) (currently under revision) and Provincial Standards of Practice.
• Learning is fostered through classroom theory (lecture), demonstrations, simulations, seminars, group work, case studies, project work, laboratory practice and practicum.
• Throughout the program communication and other interpersonal skills, teamwork strategies, self and peer evaluation, critical thinking, decision-making and problem solving are reinforced. Quality practice skills are learned such as time and self-management.

Get expert industry training in facial treatments, manicure, pedicure, gel application, hair removal, makeup, and body massage while serving real clients at VCC's state-of-the-art salon and spa.

What you will learn
Upon successful completion of the Esthetics & Spa Therapy Certificate Program students will be able to:

• Practice skin and body therapies in accordance with safety, hygiene, and sanitation standards and regulations.
• Describe human anatomy, physiology and chemical composition specific to concerns relating to nail, skin, body, and hair removal treatments.
• Perform spa treatments based on client consultation, skin analysis and nutritional needs.
• Apply the principles of colour and design to lash, brow and specialized makeup techniques.
• Perform in an ethical and professional manner conducive to spa environments.
• Apply retail business administration practices and marketing techniques for operating a spa.

What to expect

• The Esthetics & Spa Therapy Certificate Program provides a wide range of student learning opportunities in the classroom, spa and workplace settings. Students will gain hands-on practical experience working with clients in the VCC Salon and Spa. Industry work experience provides students with additional opportunities to apply their knowledge and technical skills in a workplace setting. Classroom instruction is designed for students to develop theoretical knowledge and practical skills which will be applied for success in the VCC Salon and Spa.
• Participation is integral to the development of practical skills in this program; therefore, students assume the role of client, therapist and spa coordinator.
• Work practicum offers students spa industry work experience, opportunities to practice knowledge and skills learned at the college and potential for employment.