CERTIFICATES & DIPLOMAS (VOCATIONAL PROGRAMS)
Burnaby Community & Continuing Education offers a wide variety of specialized certificates, diplomas and apprenticeship programs for adult students. With official certification to verify the skills and knowledge you have learned, these programs give you an important advantage in today’s competitive job market.
- Accounting and Payroll Administration Diploma
- Administrative Assistant Certificate
- Arborist ISA
- BC Certified Pesticide Applicators
- Building Caretaker Certificate
- Building Service Worker Certificate
- Dental Receptionist Certificate
- Early Childhood Education – Basic Certificate
- Early Childhood Education – Post Basic Diploma
- Education Assistant Diploma
- Floristry Design Diploma
- Good Beginnings – Professional Development for Child Care Providers
- Hardscape Installation Certificate
- Landscape Horticulturist Apprenticeship
- Medical Office Assistant Diploma
- Occupational Health and Safety
- Online Courses with U Got Class
- Permaculture Design Certificate
- Plant Identification Certificate
- Introduction to Plant Placement and Installation
- Pruning for Landscapers and Gardeners
- Reiki – Practitioner and Teacher Certification
- Residential Landscape Technician Diploma
- Sustainable Landscape Design Certificate
- TESOL – ELL Teacher Training
- Therapeutic Recreation Assistant Diploma (Gerontology)
HORTICULTURE PROGRAMS
Burnaby Community & Continuing Education offers a number of Horticulture programs – many with a cutting edge, organic focus. These programs will appeal to professional landscapers who want to provide environmentally sound services to their clients. They will also appeal to home gardeners who would like to focus on health plants and healthy gardens. Many of our programs offer a certificate or diploma to those who successfully complete the program.
- Arborist Courses
- BC Certified Pesticide Applicators
- Hardscape Installation Certificate
- Landscape Horticulturist Apprenticeship
- Restoring Soil Health on Farms, Gardens and Cities
- Permaculture Design Certificate
- Plant Identification Certificate
- Gardening with Native Plants
- Introduction to Plant Placement and Installation
- Pruning for Landscapers and Gardeners
- Residential Landscape Technician Diploma
- Sustainable Landscape Design Certificate
ONLINE PROGRAMS – with ‘U Got Class’
It is easy to participate in your online course. After you register, you will be given a web address to go to get into your online classroom. You will have a password and use your email address and password to gain access. Online learning is a fun, enjoyable and very productive way to learn. Millions of people are learning online each year. You will engage with the instructor and other participants. It’s easy. It’s fun.
Our online offerings change each semester. Examples are; Introduction to Social Media, Introduction to Game Desgin, and Introduction to Data Analysis.
COURSES
Burnaby Community & Continuing Education offers a wide variety of credit and non-credit courses for adults. Earn a certificate, learn a new language, update your computer skills, take an exercise class, or try a new hobby!
ALL PROGRAMS AND COURSES (A-Z)
- Accounting and Payroll Administration Diploma
- Administrative Assistant Certificate
- Arborist Courses
- BC Certified Pesticide Applicators
- Bookkeeping, Payroll and Business courses
- Building Caretaker Certificate
- Building Service Worker Certificate
- Computer Courses
- Dental Receptionist Certificate
- Early Childhood Education – Basic Certificate
- Early Childhood Education – Post Basic Diploma
- Education Assistant Diploma
- Fitness and Yoga Courses
- Floristry Design Diploma
- Gardening with native plants
- Good Beginnings – Professional Development for Child Care Providers
- Growing Food in the City Certificate
- Hairstyling & Makeup Artistry
- Hardscape Installation Certificate
- Interior Decorating
- Introduction to Plant Placement & Installation
- Landscape Horticulturist Apprenticeship
- Language Courses
- Make Your Own Natural Beauty Products
- Medical Office Assistant Diploma
- Microsoft Office Courses
- Occupational Health & Safety
- Online Programs – with ‘U Got Class’ (LERN)
- Organic Gardening Certificate
- Organic Horticulture Specialist Certificate
- Organic Master Gardener Certificate
- Permaculture Design Certificate
- Photography Courses
- Plant Identification Certificate
- Pruning for Landscapers & Gardeners
- Reiki – Practitioner and Teacher Certification
- Residential Landscape Technician Diploma
- Restoring Soil Health on Farms, Gardens and Cities
- Sewing Courses
- Sustainable Landscape Design Certificate
- TESOL – ELL Teacher Training
- Therapeutic Recreation Assistant Diploma (Gerontology)
- Voice Over Announcing (Radio & TV)