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Wine 102 brings focus on understanding the components of food & wine, exploring the "why" and "how" as well as the do's and don'ts of food and wine pairing.

This course is intended to teach students how to effectively respond to clients who are exposed to stress and to uncertainty in a helping profession environment. In this interactive course, participants will practice effective strategies and techniques for the management of conflict and for communication in stressful situations. Best practices in care-giving situations will be studied along with...

Students will examine models and elements of addiction including the addiction spiral, terminology and theoretical approaches to explaining and understanding addiction. Age, gender, ethnicity, culture, and geography will be examined in relation to cycles and forms of addiction. The course will provide students with an introduction to the use of assessment tools, client communication, interviewing...

The focus of this course is to provide students with information on current treatment approaches and practices. Students will examine a selected range of treatment models, including Harm Reduction, the Matrix Model, Brief Solution Focused and Cognitive Models, as well as those approaches currently in use within the province. Relapse and relapse prevention will also be examined as part of this unit...

The four units in this course will provide the students with an overview of the theory and skills related to the helping relationship process. The course will provide a theoretical framework for examining key concepts related to counselling activities and their application. The course will focus in the nature of the counselling relationship key issues and concerns, techniques for effective...

This course will provide an overview of Palliative Care and coping with death and dying and grief. The focus is to provide you with a review of the concepts of Palliative Care, the multidisciplinary team, hospice, current approaches to care, roles, issues and expectations. The learner will be able to identify what resources are available and will be able to distinguish options of home care vs...

This course will explore the connections between mental health and substance use disorders. Students will be introduced to risk factors and symptoms associated with concurrent disorders, and will consider a range of recovery strategies applicable to diverse populations. Through key assessment elements, risk factor analysis, and self-care techniques, students will develop sound approaches to...

This course explores the various functional areas of business in Canada and demonstrates the interrelationship among these areas. Students are introduced to many concepts, including major business trends, the role of government in business, marketing, operations, employee-management issues, financial resources management, business ethics and social responsibility.

Understanding people and being able to work with them is one of the major keys to management and life success. In this course you will learn to identify and cope with some of the most difficult behaviours you may encounter. Topics include: personality styles, establishing rapport, body language, matching and mirroring techniques and the skills necessary to feel totally connected with individuals.

The major purpose of this course is to prepare students to assume a role as entrepreneur, acting as a general manager, as opposed to an accounting technician or a financial specialist. The emphasis is on developing a broad understanding of those accounting and financial management concepts and terminologies which will serve them in the course of starting and operating a small business.