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Current and former students, please see the AVC Planning site
”Planning means the scientific, aesthetic, and orderly disposition of land, resources, facilities and services with a view to securing the physical, economic and social efficiency, health and well-being of urban and rural communities”.
As Canada’s population continues the shift from rural to urban areas, planners must increasingly deal with urbanization issues, such as:
“Land Information technologists specialize in analyzing and minimizing adverse impacts of man's development on our natural environment...”.
Land Information Technologists specialize in solving problems involving:
Completion of the GIS Technician Certificate or a Cartography: Digital Mapping Diploma, or equivalent training in an undergraduate degree.
GIS or Geographic Information Systems are becoming one of the principal tools in Land Information Technology. Land Information Technologists learn how to use GIS to manage, model and analyze spatial and attribute data.
GIS Technician Certificate, Cartography: Digital Mapping Diploma, or equivalent training in an undergraduate degree
Depending on your background, there are several career opportunities with a Diploma in Planning: Land Information Technology:
“I got my dream job in just two years thanks to NSCC.”
Erin MacIntyre, Development Technician
Halifax Regional Municipality
“The training and work ethic given and instilled upon me as part of the Planning Program at the Centre gave me the confidence, skills and marketability to get where I am today”
Kevin Riles, Vice-President
United Gulf Developments Ltd.
“University was an experience. COGS was career training”
Angela Curri
“My only regret about the Planning: Land Information Technology course is that I did not find it a couple of years earlier.”
Felix McCarthy, GIS Technician
City of Fredericton