This certificate consists of four core fashion courses that explore entrepreneurial opportunities in the fashion industry. Topics include an introduction to the fashion industry, the creation of visual displays, retail buying, and development of a business plan. Students also choose 6 units from courses that include advertising, selling professionally, and fashion photography.
This certificate prepares students to become an entrepreneur in the fashion industry. It addresses the creation of a fashion-oriented business. Career opportunities exist in visual merchandising, retail buying, Internet-based businesses, and small boutiques.

Student Learning Outcomes
✔ research various entrepreneurial opportunities in the fashion industry.
✔ plan and coordinate promotional activities through a visual display.
✔ research current trends, formulate stock plans, and calculate market purchases.
✔ formulate a business plan that relates to a specific fashion business.
✔ compare and analyze the technical, economic, and global influences on fashion marketing.

This certificate includes an introduction to the fashion industry and its job opportunities. It also provides the necessary background in fabrics, design elements, and sewing skills needed to enter the job market.
This certificate prepares students for entry-level jobs in apparel production companies, designer workrooms, and custom sewing workrooms.

Student Learning Outcomes
✔ identify names and characteristics of various fibers and how they relate to the finished fabric.
✔ choose appropriate fabrics, notions, and tools for individual projects.
✔ create sample constructions utilizing basic and advanced sewing techniques.
✔ assemble and sew a garment using a commercial pattern.
✔ apply basic alterations to commercial patterns.
✔ utilize the elements and principles of design as they relate to fashion.

This certificate offers the skills necessary for jobs in the retail market. Course work concentrates on fashion coordination, promotion, visual presentation, management, merchandising, retail buying, and entrepreneurial opportunities.
This certificate prepares students for entry-level jobs in retail merchandising, such as department store buyers, boutique buyers, visual merchandisers, sales associates, management trainees, product developers and wholesalers. It also prepares students for self-employment or entrepreneurship.

Student Learning Outcomes
✔ compare and contrast historical garment design to contemporary dress.
✔ conceive and produce a fashion show.
✔ develop visual displays for a window presentation.
✔ draft a six-month retail buying plan.
✔ assess characteristics of various fibers and how they relate to the finished fabric.
✔ draw a flat working sketch and a fashion illustration.
✔ apply principles of time management, cost control, and decision making to managerial responsibilities.
✔ develop a business plan for a fashion related business.
✔ create portfolios of fashion, wedding, and portrait photographs.
✔ analyze and demonstrate the steps of professional selling, including approach, needs assessment, presentation, overcoming objections and negotiating, closing, and servicing of the sale.
✔ describe how the advertising industry operates and produces advertising through the work of advertisers, agencies, media, and suppliers.
✔ explain how retailers use merchandise management decisions to implement their retail strategy, including planning, buying, pricing, branding, and promoting their merchandise.
✔ critique customer buying behavior and how it relates to fashion choices.

This certificate provides the skills necessary to coordinate original design concepts with manufacturing, marketing, and merchandising practices. Course work concentrates on apparel construction techniques, pattern drafting, historic and current fashion trends, hand and computer illustration, textiles, and entrepreneurial opportunities as they relate to the fashion industry.
This certificate prepares students for entry-level jobs in apparel production companies, apparel manufacturing plants, designer workrooms, and custom sewing workrooms. Examples of careers in Fashion Design include Assistant Designer, Customer Services, Designer, Design Room Assistant, Fashion Illustrator, Fashion Stylist, First Pattern Maker, Manufacturer's Sales Representative, Piece Goods Buyer, Product Specialist, Quality Controller, Sample Maker, Sewing Room Supervisor, Tailor, Textile Colorist, Textile Croquis Painter, Textile Designer, and Trim Buyer.

Student Learning Outcomes
✔ identify and evaluate opportunities to start a design business in the fashion industry.
✔ analyze fashion fundamentals, fashion trends, fashion marketing, and global influences, as they relate to changes within the fashion industry.
✔ identify characteristics of various fibers, yarns, finishes, and fabrics as they relate to garments.
✔ communicate an idea or concept through a flat sketch or illustration utilizing free-hand and computer-generated techniques.
✔ utilize draping techniques to create original garment designs.
✔ construct patterns by computer generation and the flat pattern method.
✔ conceive designs, construct patterns, and sew garments to be shown in a fashion show.
✔ describe fashion and style features of historical and contemporary periods.
✔ create sample constructions utilizing basic apparel sewing skills.
✔ construct a garment with appropriate embellishment applications.
✔ research and identify apparel details, styles, and elements of design.

This certificate recognizes attainment of English language abilities to an intermediate-mid level in listening, speaking, reading, writing, and grammar.
This certificate can be used to indicate knowledge of English and abilities for use at an intermediate level. Students with this certificate can interact in English in different workplaces and within a range of familiar community interactions.

Student Learning Outcomes
✔ communicate orally in grammatical English in everyday social and work situations.
✔ demonstrate comprehension of written and spoken English in work and social contexts.
✔ write comprehensible, grammatical English on everyday topics.

This certificate recognizes attainment of English language abilities at an intermediate-low level in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
This certificate can be used to indicate knowledge and abilities in English at a basic level with everyday topics. Students with this certificate can interact in familiar community events.

Student Learning Outcomes
✔ communicate orally in basic English in common social and work situations.
✔ demonstrate comprehension of written and spoken English in familiar contexts.
✔ write basic, comprehensible English on familiar topics.

This certificate recognizes attainment of English language abilities at an intermediate-high level in listening, speaking, reading, writing, and grammar.
This certificate can be used to indicate knowledge of English and abilities in listening, speaking, reading and writing for multilingual use in a variety of workplaces and within a diverse range of environments in communities. In the classroom, students can read and write about a wide range of subjects and explain viewpoints on issues.

Student Learning Outcomes
✔ identify the central message and key supporting details of intermediate-high listening passages.
✔ apply oral skills to convey meaning clearly in brief oral presentations.
✔ analyze a text closely and recognize patterns of organization.
✔ outline, paraphrase, and summarize basic concepts from readings.
✔ write soundly structured, unified essays in response to prompts.
✔ demonstrate competency in using the 12 verb tenses.

The Guided Pathways Milestone Certificate for Multilingual Speakers: Pathway to Health Sciences recognizes English as a Second Language students' milestones in completing both advanced academic ESL course work and introductory coursework in several health science fields. It incentivizes them to continue taking courses in this discipline after completing higher level ESL courses and to obtain a Certificate of Achievement or an Associate degree for use in a workplace.
Students who complete this Pathway to Health Sciences certificate will have gained knowledge in academic English and introductory skills in several health sciences fields, such as Healthcare Interpreting, Nutrition, and Allied Health.

Student Learning Outcomes
✔ analyze, compose, and organize oral and written communication into effective documents and/or academic compositions.
✔ employ reading strategies.
✔ participate in in-depth discussions effectively.
✔ take clear notes.
✔ give oral presentations in a business/work environment.
✔ convey intended meaning and formulate and use a variety of interactive strategies effectively such as clarification, polite interruption, and agreement/disagreement strategies.
✔ research and critically evaluate information to create informed responses to issues and problems and design messages that adapt to target audiences in order to maximize communication effectiveness.
✔ demonstrate basic knowledge of introductory healthcare or scientific terms.
✔ employ effective communication in professional healthcare settings.

This Guided Pathways Milestone Certificate for Multilingual Speakers: Pathway to Early Childhood Education offers advanced reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills at a post secondary level for English learners combined with introductory early childhood education skills. The combination of these skills can be used along their pathways to degrees, certificates, or transfer, and for use in multilingual work environments.
This certificate supports course work in the early childhood education profession, including in multilingual work environments.

Student Learning Outcomes
✔ write formal academic essays as well as apply techniques of written communication, sentence structure, word usage, punctuation, and spelling.
✔ employ reading strategies, such as summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting and integrating outside sources into writing.
✔ analyze written communication and compose and organize paragraphs into effective documents.
✔ convey intended meaning, including accuracy in sound production, syllabification, and intonation.
✔ formulate and use a variety of interactive strategies effectively such as clarification, polite interruption, and agreement/disagreement strategies.
✔ participate in in-depth discussions effectively, take clear notes, and give oral presentations in a business/work environment.
✔ discuss the history of early childhood education, evolution of professional practices and ethics, educational principles that support child development from birth through the school-age years.
✔ execute the teaching practices based on observation, documentation, and interpretation of children’s behavior.
✔ discuss the growth and development of children from the prenatal stage through adolescence. For each stage of development, describe the physical, cognitive, linguistic, social-moral, and emotional aspects of development.
✔ apply research methods and utilize data collection approaches as applied to early childhood education.
✔ explain the influences of culture, family, and the interaction of maturational and environmental factors in early childhood education.
✔ exhibit foundation knowledge for early child care and education, teaching, and parenting.

This Guided Pathways Milestone Certificate for Multilingual Speakers: Pathway to Culinary Arts offers advanced reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills at a post secondary level for English learners combined with introductory hospitality management skills. The combination of these skills can be used along their pathways to degrees, certificates, or transfer, and for use in multilingual work environments.
This certificate supports course work in the hospitality management profession, including in multilingual work environments.

Student Learning Outcomes
✔ write formal academic essays as well as apply techniques of written communication, sentence structure, word usage, punctuation, and spelling.
✔ employ reading strategies, such as summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting and integrating outside sources into writing.
✔ analyze written communication and compose and organize paragraphs into effective documents.
✔ convey intended meaning, including accuracy in sound production, syllabification, and intonation.
✔ formulate and use a variety of interactive strategies effectively such as clarification, polite interruption, and agreement/disagreement strategies.
✔ participate in in-depth discussions effectively, take clear notes, and give oral presentations in a business/work environment.
✔ employ skills required for all entry-level food preparation courses.
✔ demonstrate skills in equipment utilization, weights, measurements, knife cut identification, speed and accuracy, as well as kitchen product identification and utilization.
✔ convey the history of the hospitality and culinary professions, explore the numerous avenues of opportunity, and study the advantages of continuing education in the field.
✔ demonstrate background knowledge of and approaches of successful chefs and restaurateurs.