Hope College is getting ready for the fall semester.
The college had their first graduating class this spring, and is ready to start taking registration for fall on Tuesday, September 8.
The college has announced its programs for the Fall semester and will begin classes on Wednesday, September 9.
The programs being offered this fall include: Business, Tourism, Justice, Nutrition, Massage, Personal Training and Herbal Health.
The classes are offered in both evening and daytime classes.
“It is a mix. There are some daytime classes and some evening classes,” Hope College President Jon Ohlhauser said.
He mentioned the programs offered this year are the same as previous years, but the college is hoping to add new programs, such as nursing, in years to come.
The programs are offered on a part-time and full-time basis to allow for students to study while still working.
“There are some courses that cross over,” he said. “A writing course shows up in all of the programs, except massage.”
Ohlhauser said if there is a course someone might be interested in, they aren’t required to take the entire program, but just the course of interest.
“If someone says ‘oh I’d just like to take that one course, I don’t want to take the whole program’, that’s possible as well,” he said. “It’s not really part time, it is special interest.
“If you (want to take) a communications course or an English course, accounting, business ethics, anything like that you can take as an individual course,” he said.
Hope College also offers a Community Referral Bursary.
“The community referral bursary is designed to get the word out there about the college,” he told inSide Drumheller.
He said the idea behind the bursary is to help encourage people such as grandparents, parents and even neighbours to recommend people they think should go to college.
“There might be a grandma out there or a parent who says ‘you know, my grandson or granddaughter or my neighbour’s kid should go to college’ and they give us their name and we call them, and if they end up enrolling they will get a $500 Community Bursary in honour of their grandmother or whomever referred them,” he explained. “These are relevant programs taught by local instructors,” he said. “It is not done via the internet or through distance education it is hands on with local experts.”
For more information on which courses are offered contact Hope College at 403-856-8108.
