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This course will provide beginner-level learners planning to travel to Spanish-speaking countries with words, expressions, questions, sentences, and tips needed for specific situations. This includes greeting and addressing people, checking into a hotel, getting around town, eating out, shopping, and obtaining information.

Join us for fun interactive evenings learning a new language to prepare you for your future travel adventure.

• Dates: October 9 – November 20 (8 weeks)
• Day: Wednesday evenings
• Time: 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
• Instructor: D. Lima
• Location: Thunder Bay Campus
• Building: Shuniah
• Room: C242

Textbook: Spanish At A Glance: Foreign Language Phrasebook & Dictionary (Paperback — Illustrated, May 15, 2018).

At the time of publication not all courses were available. Please contact the Continuing Education department to find out what other courses are running this fall.

This is the first part of Level l American Sign Language (ASL) course using a conversational method following the Signing Naturally Curriculum. Through model dialogues with the instructor and other students, games, exercises and home study, students learn to ask and answer questions, talk about surroundings, tell where they live, talk about their family and talk about activities.
Interpreter assisting for first class.
Participants must be able to use their arms and hands for communication.

• Note: This course is graded.
• Dates: September 18 – December 18
• Day: Wednesday
• Time: 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
• Instructor: S. Francis
• Location: Thunder Bay Campus
• Building: Shuniah
• Room: 234

Contact Continuing Education for information on textbook and fees.

Do you have an important event coming up?

• Job Interview
• Work or School Presentation
• Wedding Toast
• Public Speaking Event
• Toastmasters can help you overcome the stress of social anxiety or fear of public speaking and help anyone want to become a better leader, public speaker, and have more confidence in yourself.

Challenge yourself to present more comfortably in public! The Toastmasters International Speechcraft program provides the opportunity to learn, practice, share, and have fun. This is a “hands-on” improve-by-doing program, run in conjunction with a regular Toastmasters meeting. People come to our classes because they are afraid to speak and stay because they discover it’s fun!

$10 digital access to manual/workbook online through https://2090.toastmastersclubs.org/

• Dates: October 8 – December 10 (10 weeks)
• Day: Tuesdays
• Times: 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
• Location: Thunder Bay Campus
• Building: Shuniah
• Room: C240

This is an at-your-own-pace workshop in a fully equipped woodworking shop with a patient, fun, knowledgeable woodworking instructor to answer your questions. Safety and project review will be discussed at first class. You are required to bring your own project idea and materials to class. Some woodworking knowledge would be an asset.

Learn how to set up your own shop with portable power tools. Classes will include design, joinery and power techniques. You get to design, plan, and construct your own project from start to finish.

• Dates: September 26 – December 4 (10 weeks)
• Day: Thursdays
• Time: 6:30 – 10:30 p.m.
• Location: Thunder Bay Campus
• Building: Dorion
• Room: 169
• Instructor: T. Charlton

Have you always wanted to try your hand at woodworking and can’t commit to a lengthy course? Do you have an idea for a small project that you need help with? We will supply the expert, shop, tools and the plans (upon approval and consultation with the instructor), you supply the materials to create your own project. Safety, project review and materials list will be discussed at first class. Come out and learn a new skill in a safe and encouraging environment while creating a one-of-a-kind piece. Some woodworking knowledge would be an asset.

Two session dates to choose from:

• Dates: September 26 – October 24 (5 weeks)
• Day: Thursdays
• Time: 6:30 – 10:30 p.m.
• Location: Thunder Bay Campus
• Building: Dorion
• Room: 169
• Instructor: T. Charlton

OR

• Dates: November 7 – December 4 (5 weeks)
• Day: Thursdays
• Time: 6:30 – 10:30 p.m.
• Location: Thunder Bay Campus
• Building: Dorion
• Room: 169
• Instructor: T. Charlton

Canada’s Ozone Layer Protection Awareness Training Program is based on Environment Canada’s “Code of Practice for Elimination of Fluorocarbon Emissions in Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Systems”. This course will deal with environmentally correct equipment design, proper handling of refrigerants, and will prepare participants for complying with provincial regulations covering refrigeration and air conditioning systems. Each attendee will receive the Participant Manual to refer to in class and take home. Participants who achieve a mark of 75% or better on the exam will receive an Ozone Depletion Prevention (ODP) card. This card must be renewed every five years for those who purchase or handle refrigerants across Canada. Note: this course is strictly theory and does not incorporate hands-on training. Anyone in residential, commercial, industrial, domestic, automotive and mobile cooling applications would benefit from taking this course. This course is offered via distance education where the students and instructor in Thunder Bay are joined by students through Blackboard. Students attend class at home/office through Blackboard.