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Choose from certificates, diplomas, apprenticeships, and full degrees to launch your career. View individual courses or the Academic Calendar.

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Level the playing field by promoting empathy and tolerance. By using understanding, knowledge, interpersonal and practical skills, you can support students with exceptional needs in one-on-one and small group settings.

Careers

Educational assistants are often part of multidisciplinary support teams in kindergarten through 12th grade classrooms, daycares, preschools, and private schools.

Department

Department of Education

Timing

Varies

Fall, Winter, Spring Semester Start

Location

Grande Prairie Campus

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Narrate your own career story, and nurture a fulfilling career with the practical skills to support children's development in speaking, listening, reading and writing.

Careers

Educational assistants are often part of multidisciplinary support teams in kindergarten through 12th grade classrooms, daycares, preschools, and private schools.

Department

Department of Education

Timing

Varies

Fall, Winter, Spring Semester Start

Location

Grande Prairie Campus

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Leave a lasting mark in the classroom. With several combined degree options and the northern community-focused TEN program, you can master the skills to guide and shape future leaders

Careers

After completing the Bachelor of Education degree program, students are eligible to apply for their teaching certificates at the Teachers’ Certification Branch, Alberta Education.

Department

Department of Education

Timing

2 Years Maximum

Fall Semester Start

Location

Grande Prairie Campus

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Choose a playful career path. Utilize play as a tool for learning and allow children to explore, experiment, and discover new things in a fun and engaging way.

Careers

Graduates qualify as Level Three Educators through Alberta Children and Youth Services and develop rewarding careers in child care centres, family day homes, nursery schools, kindergartens, inclusive child care programs, and out of school programs.

Department

Department of Education

Timing

2 Years

Fall, Winter, Spring Semester Start

Location

Grande Prairie Campus

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Form strong, positive relationships and help shape futures. Nurture an environment for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and school-aged children that makes them feel safe, valued, and encouraged to learn and grow.

Careers

Graduates qualify as Level Two Educators through Alberta Children and Youth Services and develop rewarding careers in child care centres, family day homes, nursery schools, kindergartens, inclusive child care programs, and out of school programs.

Department

Department of Education

Timing

1 Year

Fall, Winter, Semester Start

Location

Grande Prairie Campus

Emergency Services

Transport your education toward a rewarding career providing emergency medical care to the sick and injured.

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Luke Umble, emergency services instructor posing in front of an ambulance
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Assess your future with a qualification that provides basic emergency care to patients in crisis. Use these skills to ladder into other rewarding healthcare professions.

Careers

Use the essential skills you learn to ladder into other rewarding healthcare professions.

Department

Emergency Services

Timing

15 Weeks

Spring Start

Location

Grande Prairie Regional Hospital

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Help those when they need it most, and stabilize your career as an emergency medical care professional. Learn critical and basic life support skills through hands-on clinical exposure and placements.

Careers

Graduates of this program can expect to find career opportunities with provincial, private, and industrial ambulance services.

Department

Emergency Services

Timing

1 year

Fall Semester Start

Location

Grande Prairie Campus

Fine Arts

Paint your future by making your artistic dreams come to life through one-on-one instruction in an unmatched creative environment.

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Fine Arts instructor, Laura Marotta shares a laugh while displaying an art installation
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Use your creative spirit to sketch out a career path in the visual arts. Learn the history of art and the fundamentals of drawing, art media, and design with hands-on studio and lecture courses.

Careers

A fine arts degree sets the stage for a career immersed in the arts. Whether as an art instructor, creative arts therapist, industrial designer, sculptor or curator, you will always have the creative license to pursue your artistic passion.

Department

Fine Arts

Timing

2 Years Maximum

Fall Semester Start

Location

Grande Prairie Campus

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Build your creative assets with drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, and design skills. Work towards a colourful career as an artist, educator, art therapist or animator.

Careers

Many graduates go on to create careers as artists, graphic designers, illustrators, art educators, animators, and web designers, as well as curators, educators and installation preparators in public and private galleries.

Department

Fine Arts

Timing

2 Years

Fall Semester Start

Location

Grande Prairie Campus

Humanities & Social Sciences

Challenge your perspective, interpret complex questions, and explore values and beliefs while engaging with larger social and cultural issues of our time.

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Dr Sally Jones, Instructor in the Humanities and Social Science department at NWP
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Study the past, present and future. Challenge your perspectives and interpret complex questions in preparation for a career in the humanities or social sciences.

Careers

This program is designed to transfer to the Faculty of Science at the University of Alberta. For further specifics, students are encouraged to refer to the faculty information in the University's calendar.

Department

Humanities and Social Sciences

Timing

2 Years Maximum

Fall Semester Start

Location

Grande Prairie Campus

Be the positive change-maker in rural, northern, and Indigenous communities by supporting individuals and families through compassionate care.

Careers

A diploma in social work paves the way for a career as a social worker in various fields, including government departments, mental health clinics, correctional services, family and social service agencies, school boards, and employee assistance programs.

Department

Humanities and Social Sciences

Timing

2 Years

Fall Semester Start

Location

Grande Prairie Campus

Fulfill your pursuit of social justice and promote well-being in communities, families or individuals. Put your empathy, patience and integrity to work.

Department

Humanities and Social Sciences

Timing

Maximum 2 Years

Location

Grande Prairie Campus

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Focus on English, psychology, communications and more with a diploma that leads to an impactful career or ladders into a specialist degree.

Department

Humanities and Social Sciences

Timing

2 years

Fall Semester Start

Location

Grande Prairie Campus

Kinesiology & Health Sciences

Increase the fitness of your career future with knowledge in health promotion, injury prevention and rehabilitation, and sports performance.

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Exercise your curiosity about human performance, health promotion and chronic disease prevention by focusing on the high-level science behind human movement.

Careers

A science degree in kinesiology opens up career opportunities in sport and recreation facility programming. After completing this program, students can pursue further education in rehabilitation medicine, including chiropractic and physical therapy.

Department

Kinesiology and Health Sciences

Timing

2 Years Maximum

Fall Semester Start

Location

Grande Prairie Campus

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Activate an occupation in recreation programming or coaching. Learn to assess fitness levels by understanding the fundamental movement concepts that underpin all physical activity.

Careers

Graduates typically forge introductory careers in sport and recreation administration, therapeutic and rehabilitation services, as well as coaching and training environments.

Department

Kinesiology and Health Sciences

Timing

2 Years

Fall Semester Start

Location

Grande Prairie Campus

Move your career forward in health promotion with the skills to help improve health outcomes. Focus on human movement and the factors that influence its performance.

Careers

Graduates of this program typically seek careers as educators or administrators in fitness centres, leisure centres, and retirement complexes, as well as in personal training and rehabilitation services.

Department

Kinesiology and Health Sciences

Timing

Maximum 2 Years

Location

Grande Prairie Campus

Nursing & Health Studies

We are prescribing future healthcare professionals with the compassion, empathy, and know-how to meet patient care and comfort needs.

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Student nurse posing in the simulation lab
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Pursue a rewarding career in nursing. Learn how to coordinate care, operate medical equipment, administer medicine, check vital signs and assess patient healthcare needs.

Careers

Registered nurses typically find employment opportunities with regional health authorities, clinics, primary care settings, and nursing homes.

Department

Nursing Education & Health Studies

Timing

4 years

Fall Semester Start

Location

Grande Prairie Campus

Practical Nurse & Health Care Aide

Prescribing future health care professionals with the vital skills to pursue caring careers.

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Instructor Tia Hudson posing in the Health Education Centre
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Tend to your future as a caregiver in the community, hospital or a long-term care facility. Use your compassionate nature and learn how to provide daily living support to patients, clients and residents.

Careers

Care, assistance and support in continuing care facilities, hospitals, private home care, acute care hospitals, retirement and group home settings

Department

Practical Nurse and Health Care Aide

Timing

1 year in length

Fall, Winter & Spring Start

Location

Fairview Campus
Grande Prairie Campus

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Choose a caring career path with the power to heal, comfort, and inspire. Develop critical thinking skills as you evaluate patient progress, interact with other professionals and deliver nursing care to clients and their families.

Careers

Graduates of this program are eligible to write the Canadian Practical Nurse Registration Exam (CPNRE) and work in several areas of healthcare, including acute care hospitals, continuing care facilities, primary care clinics and physician's offices.

Department

Practical Nurse and Health Care Aide

Timing

2 Years

Fall (FV) and, Winter (GP) Semester Start

Location

Fairview Campus
Grande Prairie Regional Hospital

School of Business

Are you eager to lead – a business venture, classroom full of bright minds, or your individual improvement? Northwestern Polytechnic’s School of Business is the...

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Get down to business and start on your path to success. Let your entrepreneurial spirit soar as you study accounting, human resource management, economics, marketing and more.

Careers

This degree is designed to prepare students for a career in business focusing on entrepreneurial skills and priorities

Department

Business & Office Administration
School of Business

Timing

4 Years

Fall Semester Start

Location

Grande Prairie Campus