About
Founded in 1967, Sheridan has grown from a local college of 400 students to one of Ontario’s leading postsecondary institutions, educating approximately 22,500 full-time studies students every year on three campuses in three Ontario cities – Oakville, Brampton, and Mississauga. An award-winning institution, Sheridan attracts students from across Canada and around the world. Sheridan’s 175,000 alumni play a critical role in shaping the future of society in the fields of arts, business, community service, health, technology, and the skilled trades.
Grand and gorgeous, the Hazel McCallion Campus (HMC) is home to the Pilon School of Business. Built to LEED gold standards, this campus is tucked right in the heart of Mississauga, Ontario — Canada’s sixth-largest city. In 2017, HMC officially opened a brand new wing, increasing enrolment capacity to over 5,500 students. The new wing offers additional state-of-the-art classrooms, studios, labs and production spaces, a Centre for Creative Thinking, and a gallery space to showcase students’ creativity and innovation. Programs offered in the new building include a grouping related to sustainable built environments, including Architectural Technology, Interior Design and Interior Decorating. Programs in Advertising, Marketing and Visual Merchandising complement the business diploma, degree and graduate certificate programs that have been offered at HMC since its opening in 2011.
Why Sheridan College - Hazel McCallion
- Campus life: Students can join a club or association, attend events put on by the Sheridan Student Union, stay active at the gym or participate in fitness classes, or a recreational sports league then fuel themselves with a variety of dining options.
- Facilities: The bookstore has all a student’s course material requirements plus apparel, gifts and snacks; ample parking and locker space is available; printing services; early childhood centres; conference services; a career centre; health services; library services; tutoring and so much more to help students be success in their studies.
- Inspiring creativity: Sheridan’s Creative Campus means student’s courses are designed to give them problem solving and critical thinking tools throughout their program, top to bottom. They’re the first undergraduate school to offer a creativity course available to any student in any faculty. A Creative Campus also means increasing collaboration between students and professors within programs and across faculties. Through creative collaboration students develop awareness of new possibilities and gain the ability to solve old problems with new thinking.
- Location: Located on the shores of Lake Ontario, Mississauga is Canada’s sixth-largest city and offers beaches, marinas, parks and trails for all kinds of outdoor fun. It’s also a great place for arts, with galleries including the Gallery for Emerging Young Artists. Other highlights include free concerts in Celebration Square and the Festival of Cultures, which is the largest multicultural festival in Ontario.
College Diploma - Advertising and Marketing Communications
The Advertising and Marketing Communications – Management program prepares students to hit the ground running in this fast-paced industry. This 2-year advertising and marketing diploma is designed to teach students everything they need to find communications jobs in Canada. Students will get foundational knowledge of the advertising business as they learn media development, creative management and account management. Students will also learn how to develop campaign proposals and determine budgets, getting creative in every aspect of their coursework. Students will work with technology that’s vital to the modern advertising and marketing communications workplace. They will use the same professional software employed by many advertising agencies to plan and create ad campaigns. Students will also learn search engine optimization (SEO), social media optimization (SMO), and how to work with popular social media platforms and their analytics tools.
College Diploma - Visual Merchandising Arts
This college diploma in Visual Merchandising Arts perfect for a creative hands-on learner that loves to collaborate with like-minded individuals. In this dynamic two-year diploma program, students will learn how to develop exciting and memorable installations for big and small brands both online and in-store. Students will also develop a greater understanding of how brands attract consumers, maximize their engagement, and motivate them to buy.
Get ready for a career in visual merchandising with hands-on experience:
- • Collaborate on installations from concept to creation including retail windows, pop-up shops, and interior retail environments
- • Use visual storytelling for social, digital, and physical branding and marketing
- • Style for fashion, products, and interiors for use in both media and physical retail environments
- • Engage in hands-on fabrication of sustainable prop and fixture design
- • Learn in dedicated visual merchandising studios
At Sheridan’s LEED-certified Hazel McCallion Campus in the heart of Mississauga, students will have access to a dedicated visual merchandising studio and prop room; window display environments; a material resource room; Sheridan’s cutting-edge sustainable Material Connexions Library (one of only two in Canada!); a wood shop; fabrication facilities; and a large-format printing centre.
Working in state-of-the-art facilities under the guidance of practicing professors who are well-connected to industry, students will be on their way to a successful professional career in visual merchandising.
Students will also have the opportunity to select from a curated list of leading industry partners to complete their 160 hours of field placement. During this placement students will be able to apply the skills they learnt and build their professional network. Field placement hosts offer experiences in retail merchandising, styling, fabrications, marketing, branding, events and digital marketing.
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