📖Introduction

Conestoga College is a public college located in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. It offers more than 200 programs in various fields such as Engineering, Business, Health Sciences, Information Technology, Media and Design, and Community Services.

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📚About the Program

Technical communicators are vital to companies that employ exceptional writers, editors, researchers, and information designers to make technical information accessible. This Ontario College Graduate Certificate will provide you with the skills to design, create, illustrate, and produce content while using authoring tools to manage technical documents on multiple platforms. You will have access to cutting-edge software, and you will study at Conestoga’s newly renovated Waterloo campus in the heart of what CBRE (Coldwell Banker Richard Ellis) research has identified as Canada’s fastest-growing tech sector. The optional co-op stream includes one co-op work term. Our partnership with the Adobe Technical Communication University Outreach Program grants our students free use of Adobe Technical Communication Suite. Show less
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📖Program Curriculum

Courses
NON CO-OP
CO-OP
Level 1
Course details
Career Management
CDEV8132

Technical Communication I
COMM8300

Document Design and Illustration
COMM8310

User Experience
COMM8320

Authoring Tools in Technical Communication
COMM8335

Editing and Publications in Technical Communication
COMM8340

Conestoga 101
CON0101

Research and Information Design
RSCH8070

Level 2
Course details
Technical Communication II
COMM8350

Technical Training and Tutorials
COMM8360

Document Management and Production
COMM8370

Major Project - Technical Communication
MGMT8700

Web Design and Applications
PROG8530

Program outcomes
Compose messages that are clear, concise, and error free to address the needs of a specified audience and purpose.
Produce print and electronic media that apply industry-led principles of style, design, layout, and format to address client goals and user needs.
Employ requisite levels of the editing process to craft content across a variety of media formats for purpose, concision, clarity, and usability.
Produce text that applies appropriate and stylistic conventions of genre, logic, and rhetoric for a variety of audience types and communication needs.
Integrate credible sources with appropriate industry and/or academic citation styles, to create documents that demonstrate professional rigour.
Address user needs by providing a range of complementary documents in a project cycle.
Apply key functions of leadership and team-orientation to ethically manage the life-cycle of writing projects appropriate to a given medium.
Employ entrepreneurial strategies to identify and respond to new opportunities across the technical communication field.
Combine end-user needs with sound environmental and cost-efficient principles to promote active stewardship in documentation and publication design.

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🏫About Conestoga College

Conestoga College is a public college located in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. It was established in 1967 as the Conestoga College of Applied Arts and Technology and currently offers over 200 certificate, diploma, degree, and post-graduate programs to over 16,500 full-time students and 30,000 part-time students. The college is known for its programs in engineering technology, health sciences, information technology, media, design, and community services. Conestoga College has several campuses in the Waterloo Region, including the Doon (Kitchener), Cambridge, and Waterloo campuses, as well as satellite locations in Stratford, Ingersoll, Guelph, and Brantford. The college also offers online courses and distance education programs. The college has a strong focus on applied learning and hands-on training, with state-of-the-art facilities and equipment to support experiential learning. Conestoga College has partnerships with various organizations, including local businesses and industries, to provide students with co-op and internship opportunities, allowing them to gain practical work experience and develop industry connections. The college has also received recognition for its commitment to sustainability and environmental stewardship.

🏠 Accommodation

You will need to book the accommodation after you have been accepted.

You can choose to live on campus or off campus in private accommodation.

How to book:

  • Make a booking online after you have been accepted (in this case please let us know your choice when you apply).
  • Register when you arrive - its not possible to reserve a room before arriving. You can arrive a few days before and book it
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💰 Fees

Application Fee:

570 RMB

Tuition fee:

18,259 USD per year

18,259 USD in total

Entry Requirements

You are not eligible to apply to this program because:

The minimum age is 18.

English fluency is required.
You need to be either:
- A native English speaker
- Studied a degree in English before
- Can demonstrate a high level of English
- Having an English certificate such as IELTS level 6 or TOEFL 95 and above is an advantage.

Minimum education level: High School.

The program is competitive, you need to have a high grades of Average A, 70%, or a high GPA.

All students from all countries are eligible to apply to this program.

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📬 Admissions Process

3 Steps to Apply to a University

Application step 1

Application step 2

Application step 3

Please choose the programs here , "You are advised to select 2-3 programs to increase your chances of getting accepted.

Required Documents:

  • English Language Certificate
  • Your Highest Academic Transcript (in English)
  • Your Photograph
  • Your Graduation Certificate (in English)
  • Your Passport Copy

Preparing documents:

You can start your application now and send the application documents during your application. Some documents you can send later if you don’t have them right away. Some more info about preparing application documents is here

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Application process:

Applying Online is simple in just a few steps. More information is available here.

The first steps are to choose the programs, pay the application fee and upload the application documents.

Once submitted to Global Admissions, we will review your application within 2-3 days and proceed to the university or ask you for further clarification

After it has been processed to the university you will receive your unique application ID from each university.

The university may contact you directly for further questions.

We will then follow up each week with the university for updates. As soon as there is any update we will let you know. If you have made other plans, decide to withdraw / change address at any time please let us know.

After you have been accepted you will receive your admissions letter electronically and asked to pay the non-refundable deposit to the university.

Once you have paid the deposit the university will issue you the admissions letter and visa form to your home country.

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Here is some more information about the enrollment process after you have been accepted.

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