Program learning outcomes outline what Mohawk's graduates need to know and be able to do after they complete this program.

Initially, most program learning outcomes were developed by the Ministry of Training, Colleges, and Universities (MTCU) in consultation with employers and educators. Now, they are reviewed and updated during program review, in consultation with employers, graduates, and current students.

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Vocational Standards

The graduate has reliably demonstrated the ability to:

1. Extract, clean, transform and load data from a variety of sources to more efficiently support problem solving and decision-making processes in business.
2. Manage transactional data sets to support data warehousing by applying principles of database management.
3. Apply advanced data mining, techniques such as machine learning to support business decision-making.
4. Apply business intelligence tools to develop classification and predictive models to improve business processes and make more informed decisions.
5. Prepare and communicate complex materials related to data sets, analytics and models verbally, in writing, and digitally for a variety of audiences, purposes and levels of detail.
6. Manage and document a client’s business information requirements.
7. Analyse and interpret data sets from various aspects of business organization by applying relevant descriptive and differential statistics.
8. Generate reliable benchmarks and indicators to support business decision-making and corporate strategic planning.
9. Apply relevant business foundational knowledge to inform recommendations or propose analytical observations.
10. Plan, implement and coordinate business analytics projects to achieve timely deliverables.
11. Adhere to legal, ethical and regulatory compliance issues regarding data use and management.
12. Apply and recommend information, privacy and data security practices for an organization.
13. Apply programming techniques to implement data cleaning and analysis algorithms.
14. Apply research methods to propose and design solutions for data analytics and management.
15. Develop discipline-specific practices that contribute to the local and global community through social responsibility, economic commitment and environmental stewardship.

Essential Employability Skills

All graduates with the following Ontario College credentials, Ontario College Certificate, Ontario College Diploma and Ontario College Advanced Diploma, must be able to reliably demonstrate Essential Employability Skills in a combination of the following 11 skill areas:

1. Communicate clearly, concisely and correctly in the written, spoken and visual form that fulfills the purpose and meets the needs of the audience.
2. Respond to written, spoken or visual messages in a manner that ensures effective communication.
3. Execute mathematical operations accurately.
4. Apply a systematic approach to solve problems.
5. Use a variety of thinking skills to anticipate and solve problems.
6. Locate, select, organize and document information using appropriate technology and information systems.
7. Analyze, evaluate and apply relevant information from a variety of sources.
8. Show respect for diverse opinions, values, belief systems and contributions of others.
9. Interact with others in groups or teams in ways that contribute to effective working relationships and the achievement of goals.
10. Manage the use of time and other resources to complete projects.
11. Take responsibility for one's own actions, decisions and consequences.

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