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FOUR YEAR OPERATION Busy Oakville South campus is bursting at the seams The Oakville South Campus has Just entered Its fourth year of operation It opened its doors in March with a Nurses Aid class and a Sales Orientation All students at that time were under Manpower a retraining program Since then various courses have been offered in cooperation with local Canada Manpower Centres to train persons for Jobs that are available In the area TellerCashier Finance Clerk Protection Services and Security for example sent graduates into waiting Jobs In At the present time there are SO students enrolled in South programs Because of the size of the campus old public library English as a second language course was moved up to the Main Campus along with Its modem language lab Academic Upgrading had Its beginning in 1971 and started to fill he need Tor an educational gap that was preventing students entering the regular programs at Sheridan College Students enter academic upgrading at various levels depending on their abilities and previous education They wont toward their Grade or Grade equivalency With the latter they may apply to any community college Again because of the demand for this program students have outnumbered spaces at the small campus on Road In downtown Oakville This summer Academic Upgrading will move to the main campus of Sheridan although registrations and testing will still take place at South The largest program running at South is the commercial course Students are sent from Canada Manpower Into one of three streams clerk typist commercial stenographic or commercial refresher The demand for these students on the Job market is always there Judging from the classified columns of the newspapers A majority of women in the commercial class are back at school after many years of raising families find it refreshing and stimulating after years of being at home all day and most of them look forward to working in an office once again Sometimes a woman who has worked at another trade has had an Illness or Injury that prevents her from continuing in her skilled trade Workmen Compensation occasionally sends a client to Oakville South to train her as a typist stenographer or bookkeeper With English as a Second Language and Academic Upgrading moved to the main campus he Commercial class now looks forward to expansion More typewriters will be added and as of April 1 Commercial Accountancy will also be offered for students who want more emphasis on accounting than on typing skills Also the campus will be able to accept feepaying students on a fulltime or parttime basis Night classes South is almost as full during the evening as it Is during the daytime Academic Upgrading Is offered three nights In the name three basic subjects communications math and science A commercial class offers training in a variety of skills basic typing Intermediate typing advanced typing or Pitman Shorthand for beginning stenographers and refresher courses for all other types of shorthand Should a student a shorthand transcriptions show a weakness in English he or she will get extra tutoring in spelling punctuation and grammar If a student wants to go to medical or legal secre tarial work his or her program will be slanted in that direction He she can then take the Legal or Medical Office Practice program at the main campus upon completion of the course at Oakville South Plans are now under way to accept commercial students on a monthly basis so they would not have to wait for a new course to begin Because of Its downtown location and its proximity to the Transit bus depot South Is one of the easiest campuses to reach by public transportation For this reason Its role has become that of a dropIn centre for information to downtown shoppers and passersby In contrast to the students at the main campus who can gaze out a window onto many acres of beautiful scenery South students have a westerly view of a gas station and an easterly view of a restaurant with corresponding odours at various times But few would change this convenient location of their school And most are learning to live with their overactive parking meter man Here students observe and participate In loading and transportation of heavy equipment- Mississauga welcomes Sheridan In September Coordinator Bill Brydon discovered some classrooms In Park Secondary School were empty during the evening He immediately got the wheels turning with the result that Park is now humming with Sheridan students every Monday Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday evening Many of the courses offered at were completely new to the area and even to the province Home Garden Pest Control takes a look at the new regulations regarding pesticides and bow the homeowner can effectively use them Home Owner Pool Care shows pool owners how to prepare their pool for the summer and how to close it down for winter with emphasis on maintenance and repair Another course of Interest to homeowners is Interior Of Your Home which delves into designs patterns and colours in the home Theatre II is a workshop designed to help and encourage both the inexperienced and those who have already performed in amateur theatre with particular focus on the actor Music Is More Than Notes is an unusual program for music enthusiasts To give a touch of reality students listen to the actual bugle call which signalled the Infamous Charge of the Light Brigade and a recording of Brahms playing one of his own Hungarian dances Apart from Interest courses many courses offered at Park Secondary School are for those who wanted to pursue new careers or upgrade present Jobs A program called Genera Contractors Field Operation examines the responsibilities of the general contractor in the coordinating and scheduling of his own work and that of the subtrades French Shorthand is being offered for bilingual secretaries Interviewing for those engaged in personnel work For The Professional which leads to a Ministry of Environment licence Courses for private pilots both business and pleasure are proving popular because of the fast- growing aviation Industry Air Traffic Control is designed to acquaint pilots and owners of small aircraft with Air Traffic Control procedures Private Pilots Ground School prepares beginners for their MOT Ground School examination Advanced Ground School concentrates on instruction for flight regulations plane performance weather situations navigation and the physiological and psychological effects of Dying A course In Personal Law shows how not to run afoulofthelaw and what to do If one does Itlooksinto areas such as capital punishment sex offences pollution consumer protection automobile speeding etc Because of the response in Mississauga Sheridan now plana to offer night courses at the Credit Valley School of Nursing on Highway Some of these courses will be similar to those in p at other campuses others will be entirely different