Your program curriculum is designed to ensure graduates acquire the essential skills, knowledge, and attitudes appropriate and relevant to both the needs of students and employers.

Program Vocational Learning Outcomes

Program vocational learning outcomes describe what graduates of the program have demonstrated they can do with the knowledge and skills they have achieved during their studies. The outcomes are closely tied to the needs of the workplace. Through assessment (e.g., assignments and tests), students verify their ability to reliably perform these outcomes before graduating.

The program vocational learning outcomes for this program are:

1. Assess wellness needs of individuals, groups, organizations and communities;
2. Apply best practices to design, implement, evaluate and manage effective individual and agency intervention strategies and wellness programs to achieve goals mutually determined through consultation;
3. Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing (i.e. presenting workshops, seminars, speeches and facilitating groups; writing reports and proposals and developing promotional materials);
4. Identify risk factors that influence human behaviour, health and wellness and implement strategies that facilitate personal, organizational culture and community wellness;
5. Analyze the trends and issues in the political, social and economic environment and effectively deliver contemporary wellness programs that address these factors;
6. Work in team settings and apply leadership and organizational skills to a variety of populations and settings;
7. Provide appropriate referral information to assist individuals, groups and organizations;
8. Advocate wellness concepts and philosophies in community and employment settings;
9. Maintain professional helping and working relationships which adhere to legal and ethical standards;
10. Apply principles of health promotion to a variety of diverse individuals, organizations and communities;
11. Apply research design and methods to Workplace Wellness and Health Promotion projects;
12. Examine the strategic approach to human resource management;
13. Develop global citizenship through valuing diversity, promoting equity and inclusion with the goal of enabling that all voices are heard and respected, to strengthen community and society.

Essential Employability Skills Outcomes

Essential Employable Skills (EES) are skills that, regardless of a student’s program or discipline, are critical for success in the workplace, in day-to-day living, and for lifelong learning. Graduates will reliably demonstrate abilities in six skill categories:

Global Citizenship and Equity Learning Outcomes

There are six Global Citizenship and Equity (GCE) learning outcomes integrated into Diploma and Advanced Diploma programs as a component of Centennial’s Signature Learning Experience (SLE). The SLE reflects the College’s promise to provide students with a distinctive and inclusive educational experience that builds on a foundation of global citizenship, equity, and social justice. Certificate and Graduate Certificates also include at least two GCE learning outcomes. The GCE learning outcomes are:

1. Identify one’s role and responsibilities as a global citizen in personal and professional life.
2. Identify beliefs, values and behaviours that form individual and community identities and the basis for respectful relationships.
3. Analyze issues of equity at the personal, professional, and global level.
4. Analyze the use of the world’s resources to achieve sustainability and equitable distribution at the personal, professional, and global level.
5. Identify and challenge unjust practices in local and global systems.
6. Support personal and social responsibility initiatives at the local, national, and global level.