This program is perfect for those who want to learn more than the basics of carpentry. Energy efficiency, environmental concerns, business skills, and entrepreneurship are integral components of the program. This program is designed to meet the needs of employers looking for carpenters with a firm practical skill base across a wide range of applications. You learn everything from construction safety and the use of power tools and shop equipment, to building science, floor and wall framing, exterior finishing, and much more.
Cabinetmaking begins with a love of wood and an eye for detail. Modern cabinetmaking combines the accumulated knowledge of hundreds of years of traditional woodworking, with cutting edge modern tools and technology.
This program gives you great skills in both baking and pastry (including cakes, tortes, cookies, frozen and cream-based desserts), and provides the basis for a career as a head baker or pastry chef. You challenge your inner artist learning how to design and create chocolate/sugar showpieces, create classic European pastries, and perform plated dessert presentations for all types of dining. You work in a real kitchen environment where you learn at a production level and speed that is consistent with industry standards.
This is a challenging and rewarding program that prepares you with the knowledge and skills to assist in assessing, designing, implementing, monitoring, and modifying behavioural interventions to meet a variety of client needs including, but not limited to, those on the autism spectrum.
Nova Scotia's demand for experts who understand, respect, and create traditional breads of many cultures continues to grow. In this program you go from France to Scandinavia, Sweden, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, several countries of the Middle East, and even San Francisco through bread.
Bricklayers prepare and lay bricks, concrete blocks, stone, and other masonry units to construct, erect, and repair structures such as walls, partitions, patios, arches, paving, fireplaces, smokestacks, and chimneys. Their work also encompasses the laying of fire brick and other refractory materials used in the construction of industrial furnaces, retorts, and boilers. In this program, you learn to safely construct decorative and load-bearing walls using a variety of tools and equipment.
Are you excited by working in an organization, building a business, or helping a non-profit organization? Supported by strong faculty, this program provides innovative business training that prepares you for a wide variety of careers while continuing to recognize the needs of the Nova Scotia business community.
This concentration builds on the skills and business knowledge that you develop in your 1st year, teaching you how accounting fits within the business process, and how it affects, and is affected by, all the other areas. You learn how to do the day-to-day manual and computerized functions of accounting. You learn how to analyze the numbers and make strategic business recommendations based on that information. To round out your business perspective, you also study finance, taxation, principles of management and business ethics.
This concentration provides you with skills in project management, advanced software applications and business management. Graduates are prepared to be leaders and power users in technology, information and management.
