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Human ServicesEducational Support Concentration

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Concentration Overview

Do you love learning? Would you like to share your love of learning with those who may find learning a challenge? Are you willing to practice patience and nurture creativity in yourself and others? These are some of the most important qualities needed and valued in educational assistants (EAs). EA’s help preschoolers, school-aged children and adults learn in ways that appeal to their unique abilities and circumstances.

Choose NSCC


  • This program is recognized as a prototype for education in this field in Nova Scotia and outside the province. Our graduates are head and shoulders above the crowd and, in an educational climate that requires EAs, employers are choosing them first.

  • As an Educational Support student, engaging with experienced faculty, excelling in your course work and practicing what you learn will be your formula for success—but this program takes you one step further. You’ll study the theory and scientific terminology that other professionals use in the workplace. And that knowledge will deliver the confidence you will need to stand on an equal footing with other members of the professional support team.

Employment Opportunities


  • Most graduates work in schools and adult learning programs, but some go on to pursue advanced education, speech therapy, even interpreting for the deaf and hard of hearing. Although experience with disabilities and personal experience with overcoming learning challenges are assets to students of this program; they are not requirements.

Admission Requirements

Courses May Include

Course descriptions
Code Course
HSES 2020  
HSES 2030  
HSES 3015  
HSES 3020  
HSES 3050  
HSES 4002  
HSES 4050  
HSRV 2002  
HSRV 2010  
HSRV 3001  
HSRV 3002  
HUSV 3004  
SAFE 1000  
SAFE 1001  
 
 
 

Additional Graduation Requirements

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