Windsor (South) Campus
Fall courses will run 15 weeks on Thursdays from Oct 3 to Jan 24
Course name: Anatomy & Physiology for the Personal Support Worker
Course description: The Personal Support Worker program prepares graduates with the knowledge and skills to provide compassionate, safe, and supportive care to individuals across their lifespan including clients experiencing cognitive impairment, physical disability, age, and mental health challenges. Students will develop assessment and communications skills to identify and document pertinent information about their client’s health status. Students will learn to provide client-centered and client-directed care based on ethical principles, sensitivity to diverse client and family values, beliefs, and needs, and follow the direction of the care plan.
Course name: Applied Automotive Operation
Course description: In this course students select, use, maintain and calibrate shop equipment and hand tools, including specialized testing devices. Students operate diagnostic scan tools and interpret scan data to develop a diagnostic repair strategy. Proper procedures for handling hazardous waste and pollution control are practiced.
Course name: Basic Welding Process & Fabricating
Course description: An introductory course designed to provide general knowledge of commonly used thermal metalworking processes like welding and cutting. This course also has a practical element to develop competencies in shielded metal arc welding in the flat position, oxy-fuel welding, brazing, and cutting. Theory and shop demonstrations will also provide a basic understanding of G.T.A.W. and G.M.A.W. processes and equipment. Interpretation of welding symbols, metal preparation and forming, layout, fitting, and finishing skills will also be introduced.
Course name: Business of Event Management
Course description: This course will provide background information about the event planning industry and the entrepreneurial aspect of this business. Topics will cover the aspects of building a client base, managing finances, charging clients, budget planning, and managing an event. Students will be introduced to the importance of maintaining supplier relationships.
Course name: Conflict Management
Course description: Crisis Intervention is designed to foster confidence and competence when dealing with potentially violent situations. The student learns to recognize behavioral responses to crises and respond with non-violent resolutions through verbal and non-verbal intervention. Areas explored will be suicide, domestic violence, addiction, bereavement, violent behavior in institutions and children's reaction to crises.
Course name: Construction Applications
Course description: (FORMERLY HOME RENOVATION TRADE SKILLS) This course enables the student to plan and execute a series of interior and exterior current day building techniques involved in residential and commercial building construction. This includes wall construction, gypsum wallboard, flooring, siding, and roofing installation. In addition, the student - will execute plumbing techniques and learn electrical wiring codes and wiring schematics.
Course name: Cuisine & Culture
Course description: The aim of this course is to create an awareness and understanding of the interrelationship between food and culture. Students will examine how food, its availability and history have impacted society and strengthened the bonds between individuals, families, communities, and countries. The goal is an improved appreciation and recognition of the role food has played in fostering cultural differences and similarities.
Course name: Introduction to Layout & Design
Course description: This introductory course applies the basic elements of design and its principles to solve hypothetical design situations. Instruction will explore the stages involved in producing strategic solutions for the advertising, marketing, and communications industry. Students learn the creative process involved in creating ideas with a focus on the strong understanding of the role of illustration, typography, and layout.
Course name: The Child & Youth Care Worker as a Professional
Course description: Students will engage in a detailed study of professional roles in residential and community settings designed for children and youth and their families. Emphasis will be on the unique professional role of the Child and Youth Care Practitioner, the person most directly in contact with the child and the primary person within the treatment setting.
Course name: The Incredible Human Mind
Course description: The human mind can do extraordinary things, and it can also make incredible mistakes. In this course we will figure out what is going on in both cases. What is involved when we have a 'hunch' about something based on little evidence? How can two people witness the same event and walk away with two completely different interpretations? Why do some people believe in conspiracy theories? We will also look at the incentives that influence our behavior, sometimes in strange ways and we will conclude the course with a look at the factors that affect our own happiness, and how we tend to confuse those factors in ways that make happiness difficult for us to achieve.
Chatham Campus
Fall Classes will run 15 weeks - Thursdays from September 29 to January 19
Course name: Building Responsive Relationships
Course description: This course is designed to support students in developing an understanding of social-emotional learning in children. It includes the impact of various environments and interactions on children's abilities to regulate and develop efficient coping mechanisms in early childhood. Evidence-based strategies to promote children's sense of self, appropriate social interactions and sense of well-being will support students on their paths to becoming Registered Early Childhood Educators.
Course name: Digital Photography
Course description: This course will cover the basics of the exciting world of digital photography. This foundational course covers the basics of photography: the art of seeing, composition, lighting, understanding resolution, printing/output for best results, and distribution methods. The curriculum will also cover the significant role played by the photographer in the design process.
Course name: Community Service & Volunteerism
Course description: This course is designed to promote the development of a personal value system that respects the merits of civic engagement through volunteerism. Students will reflect upon the development of their own Essential Employability Skills because of volunteer service in a community-based organization or agency.
Course name: Electrical, Raceway Installations
Course description: Course description: In this "hands-on" practical course students will develop their knowledge and skills pertaining to commercial Wiring installation procedures., Students will demonstrate proper tool selection and usage, circuit testing, and correct selection of materials for proper electrical circuit installations required for commercial environments. Students will learn proper installation and bending techniques for Rigid and Poly Vinyl Chloride (PVC) conduit and Electrical Metallic Tubing, incorporating various types of benders.
Course name: Powerline Trade Awareness & Safety
Course description: This course introduces the regulations and safety rules that apply to the daily routines of a powerline technician. Students gain theoretical training to operate and maintain a variety of specialized live line tools required to work on or near live power lines, including specialized hand tools for specific tasks. They will learn about the care, use, selection and assembly of their personal climbing and protective equipment. They will be given the theory of pole and ladder climbing along with the appropriate rescue techniques. Students will be prepared to safely perform practical skills required in the powerline field.