Find Your Career Path at Seneca College

Seneca College offers programs that provide many different pathways for students to gain real-world experience before graduation.

Traditionally, hands-on experience in college meant a co-op placement or internship. Now, it can mean a number of different things, including getting work experience without having to leave campus. This can make it easier for students to manage their course load, extra-curricular activities and part-time jobs while still building their resumes for the future.

At Seneca, a number of programs provide this opportunity, including:

- Journalism and Broadcasting: Students prepare for careers in journalism, broadcasting, and video production in the new state-of-the-art HD robotic television newsroom and studio at the Seneca@York campus.

- Environmental Technician: Students learn in the field using Seneca’s 700-acre living laboratory at the King Campus, which allows for extensive monitoring and sampling of soil, air, and water, as part of real environmental projects.

- Early Childhood Education and Bachelor of Child Development: Students learn on the job in lab schools at the Newnham and King campuses. The lab schools are child care centres that provide observation and programming opportunities for students.

- Esthetics: Seneca's Esthetic Clinic and Cosmetics Store gives students the chance to provide services such as manicures, pedicures, facials, hair removal and body treatments to the public in a professional clinic.

- Fashion Business: The Boutique@Seneca allows students to practice skills for the retail industry including buying, inventory, balancing books, serving customers and preparing advertising. The Boutique@Seneca is a fully functioning, student-run store which offers the latest fashions to students, staff and the community.

- Opticianry: The Seneca Vision Clinic is a retail learning lab that provides the convenience of a campus clinic for Seneca’s students, employees and the general public as well as the opportunity for students to fulfil field placement requirements of the Opticianry Program. Students practice their skills on state-of-the-art equipment and benefit from the expertise of the supervising optician/manager.

- Tourism and Travel: Working with Merit Travel Group Inc., Seneca offers a full-service travel agency/tourism lab at the Seneca Markham Campus. From this on-campus location, the Merit Travel Agency acts as a valuable learning resource for students who research and book air, hotel, and tour packages.

- Veterinary Technician: Students perform the functions of Veterinary Technicians during medical and surgical procedures in on-campus medical facilities, including birthing, assisting with spaying/neutering and dentistry.

Seneca College also offers a wide range of programs with mandatory or optional field-placement, internship or co-op components, giving students the opportunity to integrate academic learning with practical work experience.

To find out more about the types of co-ops and the programs that offer them, visit www.senecac.on.ca/fulltime/stuserv/coop.html.
To see the full list of Seneca’s programs, visit http://www.senecac.on.ca/program/index.html.

Find out more at www.senecacollege.ca
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