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POST GRADUATE CERTIFICATE - QUALITY MANAGEMENT
PROGRAM ENTRY
Please refer to the Admissions Section of this Calendar.
PROGRAM STRUCTURE
This Web-based program consists of four courses: one core and
three electives. Learning online will allow you to interact with a
virtual community consisting of other quality professionals and
your instructor.
Required Course:
• MIPG 4100M - Quality Management
Elective Courses:
• MIPG 4101M - Technical Communication for Quality
Management
• MIPG 4102M - Food Safety Systems
• MIPG 4103M - Technical Problem Solving
• MIPG 4104M - Quality Assurance in the Food Industry
• MIPG 4105M - Introduction to Process Control
• MIPG 4106M - Project Management Fundamentals
• MIPG 4107M - European Food Law
• MIPG 4108M - ISO Management Systems
The elective course selection will expand to include a wide range
of disciplines as the program progresses.
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
MIPG 4100M - Quality Management - Practitioners in corporate
settings will find the course a useful guide in understanding
and implementing total quality in existing organizations. The
course focuses primarily on the theories, principles, and various
elements within the total quality approach to quality management.
Total Quality Approach to Quality Management; Quality and
Global Competitiveness; Strategic Management; Planning and
Execution for Competitive Advantage; Quality Management,
Ethics & Corporate Social Responsibility; Partnering and
Strategic Alliances; Quality Culture; Leadership and Change;
Customer Satisfaction, Retention, and Loyalty; Employee
Empowerment; Team Building and Teamwork; Effective
Communication; Education and Training; ISO 9000 and Total
Quality; The Relationship; Overview of Total Quality Tools;
Continual Improvement; Implementing Total Quality
Schedule - Web-based instruction: 39 hours
MIPG 4101M - Technical Communication for Quality
Management - This course is intended to enable students to
enhance their technical communication skills.
Students will apply technical communication fundamentals to the
development of technical proposals, reports, presentations and
documents, preferably related to quality management, if possible.
Technical Communication; Technical Research; Technical
Proposals; Technical Applications; Technical Reports; Technical
Graphics; Technical Presentations
Schedule - Web-based instruction: 39 hours
MIPG 4102M - Food Safety Systems - This course is designed
to provide participants with an understanding of the various food
safety systems that exist within the Canadian food industry.
Food Law; Food Plant Sanitation; Hazard Analysis Critical
Control Point; Food Safety Enhancement Program; Quality
Management Program; Food Recalls; Food Security; Food
Traceability
Schedule - Web-based instruction: 39 hours
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
This is a post-graduate-level program designed to broaden
your understanding of quality management practices and how
they apply to your industry. The courses within the program
are delivered online in a semester-based format, and allow for
flexibility around work committees.
MIPG 4103M - Technical Problem Solving - The course is
designed to provide participants with various creative problemsolving
techniques that are used to analyze and solve technical
problems that occur in industry. It fosters both the use of
creativity and technical knowledge to increase an individual’s
problem solving skills.
Problem Solving and People; Problem Definition; Generating
Solutions; Decision Making; Implementation; Evaluation; Crisis
Management and Crisis Leadership
Schedule - Web-based instruction: 39 hours.
MIPG 4104M - Quality Assurance in the Food Industry
- This course is designed to provide participants with an
understanding of the various elements necessary in the design
and implementation of a quality assurance program for the food
industry.
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