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Continuing Education

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If you're looking for part-time studies for professional development or personal interest, consider continuing education. These courses will expand your knowledge and build your skills in a way that can be integrated with your other life commitments.

Ridgetown Campus Certificate Programs

A certificate is a one-year program that provides practical training to prepare students to enter into the workforce with relevant and focused knowledge. The following certificate programs are available through OAC's Ridgetown Campus:

  • Performance Horse Handler [1]
  • Veterinary Office Administration [2]

Open-Ed Programs

As well as a broad range of individual courses, the University of Guelph's Centre for Open Learning and Educational Support delivers certificate programs in:

  • Communication Process [3]
  • Equine Science [4]
  • Environmental Studies [5]
  • Food Science [6]
  • Horticulture [7]
  • Landscape Design [8]
  • Maintaining Golf Courses [9]
  • Sustainable Urban Agriculture [10]
  • Sustainable Urban Horticulture [11]

These programs are designed to meet the needs of distance and open learners. Many are delivered in on-line format. For more information, contact OpenEd [12].

About

The Ontario Agricultural College (OAC) of the University of Guelph is internationally renowned for its research, teaching and knowledge extension. Our community has a strong sense of shared purpose: To Improve Life by inspiring leaders, generating knowledge and creating innovative solutions for food, agriculture, communities and the environment.

Ontario Agricultural College
University of Guelph
50 Stone Road East
Guelph, Ontario, Canada, N1G 2W1
519-824-4120

Academic Units

  • Department of Animal Biosciences
  • Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics
  • Department of Food Science
  • School of Environmental Design and Rural Development
  • School of Environmental Sciences
  • Department of Plant Agriculture

Campuses

  • Guelph
  • Ridgetown

Centres and Institutes

  • The Arboretum
  • Aquaculture Centre
  • Bioproducts Discovery and Development Centre
  • Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare
  • Canadian Research Institute for Food Safety
  • Centre for Agricultural Renewable Energy and Sustainability
  • Centre for Genetic Improvement of Livestock
  • Controlled Environment Systems Research Facility
  • Gosling Research Institute for Plant Preservation
  • Guelph Centre for Urban Organic Farming
  • Guelph Turfgrass Institute
  • Honey Bee Research Centre
  • Institute for the Advanced Study of Food and Agricultural Policy

Source URL: https://www.uoguelph.ca/oac/continuing-education

Links
[1] http://www.ridgetownc.uoguelph.ca/future/programs_cphh.cfm
[2] http://www.ridgetownc.uoguelph.ca/future/programs_cvmoa.cfm
[3] https://courses.opened.uoguelph.ca/public/category/courseCategoryCertificateProfile.do?method=load&certificateId=624053
[4] https://courses.opened.uoguelph.ca/contentManagement.do?method=load&code=CM000020
[5] https://courses.opened.uoguelph.ca/contentManagement.do?method=load&code=CM000026
[6] https://courses.opened.uoguelph.ca/public/category/courseCategoryCertificateProfile.do?method=load&certificateId=655668
[7] https://courses.opened.uoguelph.ca/public/category/courseCategoryCertificateProfile.do?method=load&certificateId=15952899&selectedProgramAreaId=16989&selectedProgramStreamId=
[8] https://courses.opened.uoguelph.ca/public/category/courseCategoryCertificateProfile.do?method=load&certificateId=18143158&selectedProgramAreaId=16989&selectedProgramStreamId=
[9] https://courses.opened.uoguelph.ca/public/category/courseCategoryCertificateProfile.do?method=load&certificateId=701097
[10] https://courses.opened.uoguelph.ca/public/category/courseCategoryCertificateProfile.do?method=load&certificateId=615989
[11] https://courses.opened.uoguelph.ca/public/category/courseCategoryCertificateProfile.do?method=load&certificateId=702165
[12] https://opened.uoguelph.ca/