A diploma in International Development from Okanagan College will teach you a great deal about political deficiency, racial, gender and other forms of discrimination, environmental degradation, poverty, lack or financial and economic transparency and outright corruption. It will give you a distinctly multidisciplinary perspective on these issues and others facing international development efforts, and will teach you how to analyse these issues in a modern, global context.
This program has two distinct streams, each leading to a different specialty.
The International Development Governance stream will see you becoming familiar with the challenges that governance specialists face in this context. You’ll also have the opportunity to further specialise in Sustainable International Development, Environment and International Development or Women and International Development.
The International Development Management stream is much more commercially focused, and features Business as well as Arts content.
Note that all Arts content credits are transferrable into Baccalaureate level programs at Okanagan, though business credits must be approved individually.
Okanagan College’s Diploma in Communications, Culture, and Journalism Studies is delivered primarily by its Department of Communications, though it is actually a highly interdisciplinary program. Individual modules will be delivered by the faculty of many departments – such as Women’s Studies, Sociology, Political Science, Geography, Philosophy, History and Anthropology. This program is designed to prepare students for higher level studies in the realms of communications and the social sciences, though many graduates go directly into work.
In this program, you’ll gain the tools you need to make a comprehensive critical analysis of mass media, in the context of culture, politics and activism. You’ll look at communications media and especially the news affect economic, political and social movements. You’ll see how it propagates and alters social constructs like nationality, sexuality, class, race and gender, and addresses social justice concerns.
You’ll also study the public policies which guide and regulate journalism, both in the modern context and historically.
Seneca College offers an 8 month graduate certificate in Project Management geared for the Environmental and Civil Engineering Technology fields. It is designed for recent graduates with a baccalaureate degree or 3-year diploma holder in a science or environmental field, as well as for professionals with at least 3 years of experience in a closely related field.
You’ll study project management generally, as well as in the specific context of civil or environmental engineering projects. As you learn, you’ll gain important skills in leadership, teamwork and collaboration, scheduling and risk management. You’ll also learn how to manage and close projects of all kinds.
In the latter part of this program, you’ll gain real world working experience working an engineering project in a managerial capacity, under the close supervision of an on-site mentor. This kind of hands-on experience will set you apart from other graduates, and help you build a professional contact network.
Seneca College offers a 3 year Advanced Diploma in Biotechnology. In addition to allowing you access to a wide range of biotechnology careers, this diploma will also qualify you to work as a research technologist in nearly any life sciences field.
You’ll learn about many topics, such as Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Statistics, Computers, Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Histology, Biochemical Techniques, Virology, Tissue Culture, Immunology, Molecular Genetics and more. You’ll also have access to two work-integrated learning terms which will give you real world experience.
As this program includes a ‘core’ first semester with several of Seneca College’s other science based diplomas, it is possible to transfer between any two of these programs before you begin your second semester. That list includes the Chemical Laboratory Technology – Pharmaceutical, Chemical Laboratory Technician and Chemical Engineering Technology programs.
Note that you’ll have to maintain a GPA of at least 2.5 to continue on to the third year (Advanced) portion of this program.
Seneca College offers a 2 year Diploma in Accounting and Financial Services (ACF). It delivers a wide range of professional and employment skills, as well as the fundamentals of business, facility with relevant technologies and a deep understanding of business accounting practices.
You’ll learn to use the tools of the trade as well. These include Access relational database management software, Microsoft Excel and others. You’ll be in an excellent position to begin your job search.
In the latter part of this program, you’ll have access to a series of 5 ‘bridging courses’. Once these and the remainder of your diploma requirements are met, you will be able to transfer directly into Seneca College’s Honours Bachelor of Commerce in International Accounting and Finance program, assuming your GPA remains high. In addition, you can transfer any relevant academic credits you have earned in the last ten years into this program, possibly shortening your study time dramatically.
The public may overlook the role of the writer in the media that they consume every day, but the industry does not! No feature films, television programs or even video games could be produced today without the skills of an expert writer.
VFS’s Writing for Film, Television and Games diploma program lets you chose one main specialisation – writing for games, writing for television or writing for the film industry – and create a final project within that specialty which they can use to show employers their skill and potential.
Note that like most of the Vancouver Film School’s course offerings, this is arranged as an intensive 1 year program. In addition to graduating with a professional diploma in your chosen field, you’ll gain important industry contacts and experience producing projects and assets in a realistic developmental schedule. You’ll also have created an extensive portfolio of your own work, which will be key to winning a good position upon graduating.
Visual Media is a somewhat misleading name, as almost all of the visual media depend on an extensive audible content component, and it is a rare visual media piece which can succeed without a highly skilled sound designer on the team.
VFS’s Sound Design for Visual media diploma program includes becoming familiar with industry standard audio tools, as well as their application to background sounds, dialogue, sound effects and Foley. You’ll also study sound design for games and mobile media.
Note that like most of the Vancouver Film School’s course offerings, this is arranged as an intensive 1 year program. In addition to graduating with a professional diploma in your chosen field, you’ll gain important industry contacts and experience producing projects and assets in a realistic developmental schedule. You’ll also have created an extensive portfolio of your own work, which will be key to winning the most sought-after position upon graduating.
Games development for web-based and mobile platforms is an incredibly lucrative field right now, and one in which established companies and start-up entrepreneurs alike struggle to recruit all of the trained programmers they need. That makes it a great way to improve your employability dramatically in just a single year!
VFS’s Programming for Games, Web and Mobile diploma program includes game design and production content, as well as experience using the most advanced programming languages. It allows you to specialise in either Web Development or Game Development.
Note that like most of the Vancouver Film School’s course offerings, this is arranged as an intensive 1 year program. In addition to graduating with a professional diploma in your chosen field, you’ll gain important industry contacts and experience producing projects and assets in a realistic developmental schedule. You’ll also have created an extensive portfolio of your own work, which will be key to winning the most sought-after position upon graduating.
The Vancouver Film School is committed to providing career training in many fields ancillary to actual film production, and one of the most important such fields is Makeup Design. Over the program, you’ll learn at each of the school’s three specialist makeup campuses.
VFS’s Makeup Design for Film and Television program will teach you the finer points of beauty makeup, wound and injury simulation, character defining makeup techniques, the creating of three dimensional prosthetics, masks and latex appliances as well as wigs and hairpieces.
Note that like most of the Vancouver Film School’s course offerings, this is arranged as an intensive 1 year program. In addition to graduating with a professional diploma in your chosen field, you’ll gain important industry contacts and experience producing projects and assets in a realistic developmental schedule. You’ll also have created an extensive portfolio of your own work, which will be key to winning the most sought-after position upon graduating.
The Vancouver Film School (the VFS) offers a unique, intensive, Game Design program which will teach you to conceive, plan and actually create a high quality interactive game and give you the opportunity to display it before the industry.
This program will see you establishing basic game theory and design skills, learning to use industry standard coding tools to create full games, including design documentation and front-end interfaces. You’ll even come to understand play testing and the process of fixing bugs and glitches.
Note that like most of the Vancouver Film School’s course offerings, this is arranged as an intensive 1 year program. In addition to graduating with a professional diploma in your chosen field, you’ll gain important industry contacts and experience producing projects and assets in a realistic developmental schedule. You’ll also have created an extensive portfolio of your own work, which will be key to winning the most sought-after position upon graduating.
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