Hi Roy,
I see you did not get any replies. I have looked at a few of the courses offered by Continuing Ed in Delta but they looked very elementary, although I have not teken any of them.
What worked very well for me, both for photography and photo finishing were the cd's and books available from this website in the Education Forum. I bought both of A. Morris's Art of Bird Photography, as well as Digital Basicis and APTAT's by R. O'Toole. Certainly all money well spent and saved me a ton of time to get up and running with sensible technigues and ideas.
Also, I am sure you know that posting photos on this website gets lots of helpful advice.
Good Luck, Dave