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The Community Education department at Danville Area Community College is a department dedicated to enhancing and enriching the quality of life of area residents and the surrounding communities through courses, workshops, seminars, tours, conferences and other activities. Community Education is focused on providing experiences, knowledge, and information to the general public at an affordable cost. The goal of Community Education is to provide opportunities for individuals to explore new areas of interest, brush up on skills, and to develop employable skills that are needed and desired by employers located within the general college district area.

Community Education Programs and Courses

The courses are offered as a community service to the residents of our service area. As no state funding is received for these courses, they must be self-supporting from the fees charged to the participants.

Complete and current Community Education listings are included in the Fall and Spring Corporate and Community Education Program announcements and can be found at http://www.dacc.edu/cce/

There is a great deal of flexibility in the offerings in these courses. Some of the courses that are currently being offered include:

CAKE DECORATING

Cake Decorating-Course I
Thousands of people just like you have experienced the excitement of decorating their first cake. Your instructor will guide you as you see how easy and rewarding it is to decorate wonderful cakes and other desserts that will delight your family and friends. Course I is the perfect place to start. Your instructor will show you the right way to decorate, step by step. You will share the fun with other students, who encourage you along the way. As you learn each new decorating skill you will gain a sense of pride in your accomplishments. Plus you will be able to share your delicious results with family and friends!

Flowers and More!-Course II
Master elegant new borders featuring rosettes, reverse shells and rope designs. Give your cakes incredible dimension with the addition of bold color flow decorations. Create lovely new flowers like rosebuds, daisies, daffodils, mums and more. Use these flowers in a grand finale-an impressive flower basket cake using the interwoven basketweave technique.

Fondant and Tired Cakes-Course III
Reach a new level of decorating sophistication with the beautiful flowers and techniques in Course III. Begin with intricate accents such as embroidery and lace, stringwork, garland and ruffle borders. Discover the beauty of decorating with rolled fondant, great for covering cakes with an immaculate smooth surface and shaping fun figures and elegant flowers. Add several new icing flowers to your repertoire, including lovely holiday blooms like poinsettias and Easter lilies. Complete your course by assembling and decorating a tower tiered cake with beautiful stringwork, flowers and borders.

Fondant Cookies
More than just a cookie! Learn to use rolled fondant to create beautiful cookies-GREAT Bake Sale Item! Be the hit of your next gathering with friends and relatives.

Fondant and Gumpaste
Reach a new level of decorating sophistication with the beautiful flowers and techniques learned in this class. Discover the beauty of decorating with rolled fondant-for covering cakes with an immaculate smooth surface and making intriguing gumpaste flowers. Complete your course by assembling and decorating a tower tiered cake with gumpaste flower swags.

COOKING

Chopsticks
How to use Chopsticks. In this class we will practice; holding Chopsticks in the proper manner, picking up items, A brief Asian background of styles and materials of Chopsticks, and Etiquette. Each participant will be given their own set of Chopsticks.

Hawaiian
Hawaiian luau menus with ingredients adapted for the Danville kitchen. Recipes include: Kailua pig (roast), chicken ala king, (chicken with yam noodles/vegetables), Lau-Lau (spinach with coconut sauce), and Haupia (coconut pudding). Also included: a mini Hula lesson!

Tea
Learn what tea is and its many flavors. We will brew tea for a maximum flavor and sample teas, from white, green Oolong to black in the Chinese, Indian, and Moroccan style. The science of tea as a strong cancer fighting antioxidant and the cultures of tea from comfort drink to ritual will be explored. Enjoy a healthful cup with me.

Sushi
Explore Japanese food and culture with preparing heart healthy California rolls (rice rolls, no raw seafood), inari rolls, tofu miso soup, and salad.

Wrap and Roll
Learn to make Chinese and southeast Asian rolls with wheat and rice noodle wrappers, Moo shu pork, eggrolls, and Thai spring rolls, all served with authentic sauces.

CREATIVE ARTS & CRAFTS

Art History
Impressionism and Post Impressionism--We will look at the different styles of Art, what shaped their perspectives, and what benefits they brought to the Social, Economic, and Politics of their time. Learn about them and their Masterpieces.

Comic/Manga/Fantasy/Cartoon Style Art
The student will be taught from the basics of how to draw in this style as well as develop their existing skills. Learn techniques on roughing out your picture, storytelling, costume design, as well as many other skills for this type of artwork.

Dream Catchers
Learn the History and Lore of Dream Catchers and their uses, then learn how to make your own! Materials Included: outer ring, covering, beads, feathers, string, and more.

Origami
The Art of Japanese Paper Folding. Learn a brief background of both the Japanese culture and Origami. Learn how to fold in the traditional Japanese style and other developed styles.

Pottery
Hand Building or Wheel Throwing--Beginner, intermediate and advanced students all WELCOME! Throw functional pots, throw bowls, plates and cups. Clay, and some glazes provided.

Scrapbooking/Photo Album Making
Have a photo or ticket to a concert that means a lot to you? Want to show it off in a way that you and others will enjoy? Learn how to share these. Have more than memories, have fun! Items needed: photo-album or scrap book, photos, tickets, newspaper clipping, scissors, or anything you want to share. Don't forget the glue.

Valentine
Discover the Histories of St. Valentines, how that translates into the modern world we live in, and explore ideas to make this Valentine's Day one worth remembering for yourself, the Special Someone, or the Entire Family.

CERTIFICATION/OCCUPATIONAL SKILLS

Food Service
This course is designed to prepare food service employees to meet the Illinois certification requirement. Topics include: foodborne disease, facilities, equipment, personal hygiene, and inspection techniques. Exam will be given at last class meeting. Attendance is a must!

Food Service Renewal
State guidelines requires 5 hours of continuing education credit to renew licenses prior to expiration. A copy of your current license MUST be brought to class with you.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE/AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE

American Sign Language
This class builds students' receptive and expressive skills in ASL and fingerspelling, as well as their knowledge of Deaf culture, since a language cannot be separated from its culture. It is designed for the student or professional who is interested in working and/or interacting with deaf people. Active participation is essential.

Say it with Spanish!
Are you ready to speak Spanish? Get ready, because you'll be speaking it as you leave on the first day! Learn basic conversation skills and other important parts of the language and culture with plenty of fun mixed in. By the end, we will be conversing in Spanish only.--No ingles!--And you'll understand it all!

Swahali
An introduction to the Swahili. This first class will teach the alphabet, numbers, and some basic words. Included is a brief history of Swahili, South Africa, and more.

GARDENING, FLORAL DESIGN & LANDSCAPING

Floral Gardening
Ever drive by homes that make you want to stop the car and take a closer look? Come and find out how to make your yard a colorful masterpiece that all will admire. Learn how to plan, plant, and care for your garden. You will be able to enjoy color and variety all season long.

Vegetable Gardening
Learn how to plant and care for your garden. You will learn when is the best time to plant your vegetables and when you should start reaping what you sowed. Learn how to keep pests from invading your garden. Enjoy your own home grown produce.

Landscaping Your Home
Bring in an overhead sketch of your property. You will learn about plants, color, line, and design strategies. You will leave this course with a plan custom designed to your liking, created by you with help from your instructor. Create your own unique garden.

Spring Floral Design
Tired of the Winter Blues? Ready for Spring? If you answered yes...then this is the class you will want to take. Learn how to design with spring flowers, make bows, identify varieties of spring flowers, make a silk spring flowered wreath and much more!!

HISTORY

A History of Christmas
Learn the history of our holiday traditions and how Christmas as we know it came to be celebrated.

All About Gravestones
The countless gravestones and monuments in our nation’s cemeteries are an amazing historic and artistic treasure. Using slides, this course will explore gravestone art and symbolism from the late 1600’s to the present, and show how the burying grounds of Colonial America have evolved into today’s cemeteries. Learn how history, genealogy, technology, transportation, disease, and ethnicity can all be studied in your local cemetery.

Secret Societies
With all the popularity of the “DaVinci Code” and all the Books about Secret Societies, let's learn what they really are, what they do, and even how you can join. From literature to movies, to tombstones; have fun exploring the Culture, History, and the good (and bad) works of Secret Societies in the past and present!

Native American
An Introduction to the Native American peoples, including information on the Illiniwek, alphabets, and traditional stories from various Nations.

Women in History
This class looks at Women in different Roles throughout History and what impact this had on Society. We look at standards and double standards for women and the effects. As the saying goes; “Bad Girls Make History!”

MUSIC

Music Appreciation
Music appreciation delves into the History of Music and its many forms. Learn how to appreciate different types of music and discuss what we like and why. We will listen to Classical, Modern Classical, Popular Music and a little in-between. Students have access to computers away from the class room.

Music: Classical
Classical music has been shown in studies to relax the brain and improve test scores! Make the time to relax, learn about Classical Composers, and enjoy the music. Composers include but not limited to: Bach, Bach (yes, there is more than one) Beethoven, Corelli, Pachelbel, Paganni, Schubert, Mozart, and more!

PETS

Dog Obedience:
Beginners, 6 months and up—An obedient dog is a part of the family. Dog obedience training will consist of: proper leash handling, heeling, sit, sit stay, down stay, recall, and stand for examination commands. Please bring water and drinking dish and up to date shot records. You will need (preferably) a 6 foot leather leash and a chain choke collar or nylon training collar.

Puppy Session:
8 to 20 weeks—Puppies will cover socialization, leash handling, and some obedience to fit their attention spans. Please bring water and drinking dish and up to date shot records. See above description for leash and collar requirements.

Therapy Dogs International — TDI/CGC Testing
After completion of Dog Obedience class, you can have your pet tested. Testing areas focus on: Accepting a friendly stranger, Sitting politely, Appearance & grooming, Out for a walk, Walk through a crowd, Sit/Down/Stay, Come when called, Reaction to other dogs, Reaction to distractions, Reaction to medical equipment, Being left alone, Acclamation to infirmities, Supervised separation, Say hello, & Reaction to children.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Black & White Photography
Discover how to produce, develop, and present traditional black and white photographs. This workshop will teach black and white photographic techniques, demonstrate use of filters, different films and camera formats, B&W zone system skills, demonstrate how to develop B&W film, produce archival B&W prints, and how to mount museum quality finished photographs.

Digital Photography
Traditional film is almost a thing of the past. This workshop will emphasize digital photography techniques, explain digital photography terms, camera operations and settings, basic photo manipulations, and file management of digital images.

Photography “The Basics”
This course of study introduces the student to: The use and handling of a camera; a working knowledge of film and digital imaging; the basic elements of a photograph; an understanding of lighting, both natural and artificial (flash); basic portrait lighting and posing; and the care, storage, and display of printed photographs as well as digital images.

Photoshop
This class will introduce you to the basics of working with Photoshop for retouching images and drawing. Students will be able to use various techniques for selecting in order to edit and retouch images. Students will be able to prepare images for including in a website or for including in printed documents. Students will be able to edit images using the painting tools, clone stamp and drawing tools. Students will be able to create new images using the pen tool and the drawing and painting tools. Students will be able to create and edit images using layers.

Understanding Old Photographs & Postcards
Now over 150 years old, the invention of photography was one of mankind’s greatest accomplishments. Practically every family has a box of old photos or postcards carefully stored away, preserving the likenesses of ancestors or old homes or farms. Using slides from historic photos, this class will give insight to understanding the many common types of photos, and will show how the information recorded in them offers wonderful details about the customs, clothing, work, and recreation of long ago. If desired, techniques for proper care and storage will be presented.

RECREATION & FITNESS

Adult Golf
This a great opportunity for beginning and intermediate golfers who want to learn and improve several areas of their game. The class will include instruction on problem areas the golfer might have as well as the basics in: grip, stance, back swing, down swing, follow-through, and finish position. Each participant will have the opportunity to have his/her golf swing analyzed. Rules of the game and golf etiquette will also be covered.

RELIGION

Biblical History
This class will involve the movement of historical biblical events and the consequent reasons for the existent world conditions. This class is non-denominational.

Exploring World Religions: Judaism
Learn the Jewish Holidays, how they are celebrated and even some Hebrew Terminology / Vocabulary. Learn about the different branches and “levels” of Judaism, the basic rules of Kashrut (what's Kosher and what's not), what are some Kosher symbols, and a little more.

Exploring World Religions: Buddhism
Learn basic Holidays, how they are celebrated and some Terminology / Vocabulary. Learn the Tenets, History,and Culture surrounding this peaceful religion. We will also listen to some modern Buddhist music. This is an introductory course.

Passover Seder
A traditional Jewish Passover Seder. This includes the the reading from the Haggadah, the Festive Meal, and answers to many questions. All meals are Kosher for Passover, come and enjoy the tradition!

SCIENCE

Gemology
There is more than Diamonds and Pearls! There is Amethyst – Zircon! Learn Birthstones, where gems are from, color, hardness, specific gravity, and history. Learn traditional usage, legends, and why we find these so valuable to our society.

Mars Geography
Learn about Mars, the Red Planet! Learn about different Geographic features and how they compare in our Solar System. Find out what role Mars has played in our History and what is currently being explored.

Lunar Moon
Learn about the Moon. Explore the Lunar calendar. Look at various moon maps, learn the different phases of the moon (from waxing and waning and everything in-between. Discover what effects this has on the different tides, theories on hunting and fishing, and more.

SEWING

Basic Sewing for Beginners/Learning Your Machines
Learn the basics of how to use your machine and what your machine can do. Create simple projects.

Rag Quilt Class
Creative, fun and easy quilt to make for holiday gifts or for yourself. Make a soft raggy seamed lap quilt to snuggle with while reading or in front of the TV. Need to supply your own fabrics that ravel and fray well. Flannels, jeans, or “homespun” fabrics work best.

SPECIAL INTEREST

Anime
In this introductory course, learn the History, Terminology, Character Design, Genres and more. Everything from books, to videos, role-playing games, and even e-mail clients. Find out about the influence Anime is having here; in libraries, bookstores, and what it is all about anyways. A brief introduction to Japan is included.

eBay Way Buying and Selling
eBay is one of the top ways to buy and sell items without having to wait until you have accumulated enough “stuff” to have a bargain sell. Also, this allows you to reach virtually anyone from your own home. Using eBay to buy and sell is easy and you will learn some of the easy tricks to making your buying and selling successful. You will learn how to bid, buy, and pay for items that you purchase, as well as learn how to sell items. Join in on the craze!

8 Weeks to Optimum Health
A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body’s Natural Healing Power. Based on the #1 NY Times Best-seller By Andrew Weil, M.D. A week by week, step -by-step program for enhancing and protecting present and lifelong health. Build a life-style that protects you from premature illness and disability. Fine-tune your current eating habits so that your diet is more nutritious. Walk and stretch in regimens that satisfy weekly exercise requirements. Safeguard your healing by adding four antioxidant supplements-vitamins C and E, selenium, and mixed carotenes to your diet. Incorporate five basic breathing exercises for greater relaxation and energy. Benefit from visualization, overcome sleeping problems, and test and filter your water supply. Make art, music and the natural world more important aspects of your life.

Get the 411 on Relationships & Communication
Ever wonder why communication in a relationship seems so difficult? Come and get the 411 on how to increase your communication skills and how to relate to your significant other effectively. You will learn things about yourself and others that will demystify irritating barriers that have stood in the way of successfully communicating with others. The skills you will learn will help you successfully communicate and relate to others in personal relationships, parenting, and dealing with co-workers and employees. Take the day and find out what makes you tick!

LITERATURE & WRITING

Dream Diary
Keep a journal of your dreams. Write down what goes on inside your mind while you sleep. Learn about R.E.M., some causes of sleep disorders, and more. Learn archetypes of Dream Interpretation and some more modern meanings, the concepts of Focused dreaming and have fun discovering yourself! Bring a Diary!

Finding Your Voice - Telling Your Story
Have you thought of writing down your memories for your children or grandchildren? This workshop will help you get started on your memoirs. The instructor will define “memoir,” present professional examples of this popular genre, and prompt you to do several focused freewritings based on your own memories. You will be invited to share drafts in progress with the group for constructive feedback.

Popular Children’s Literature
Many Children and Youth Readers are coming back to Books. Find out what the excitement is all about and discover new authors! This course will review several popular Children’s book series and we will discuss them. Find time to read with or to your kids again or maybe even for the first time!

War Poetry
Poetry has often been used as a way of self expression. In this class we look at Poems from different Wars and examine subject, theme, and events in them. We will identify and relate them to those that have been written about horror, love, and everything in-between.

Tolkien Literature
Lord of the Rings was just one of the many books written by Tolkien. Discover other Tolkien’s works spanning from 1910 – 2007! A look at Fairies, Dogs, Father Christmas, Hobbits, Knights and more. A suggested reading list will be given.

Tolkien Terminology
Discover the root meanings to words in our own Language and understand them. This makes understanding Tolkien even easier and more enjoyable! This is a great class for any one who enjoys language and word play.

Women in Literature
This class looks at women authors, women in stories, and leadership roles throughout history and their influence. Together we will discover what makes a strong female role model in society. A list of suggested reading materials will be given.

Writing Successful Grant Proposals
In this workshop, you will be introduced to the vocabulary of the field and will learn many of the tips for influencing judges positively through format and language use. You will receive a list of funding sources in addition to opportunities to work individually and as a group to judge (and score) submitted proposals. The process will be discussed; time will also be devoted to reading the requests for proposals (RFPs) and responding to them effectively. This will provide you with strategies to prepare yourself effectively for writing and submitting grant proposals

KIDS CLASSES

Bunny Hutch Gingerbread House (8 yrs & up)
Enjoy a cute bunny home to display with the other Easter decorations. Simple and easy to make.

Cookie Blossom—New!! (8 yrs & up)
Make a cute potted flower bouquet using decorated cookies and on lollipop sticks. Great centerpiece or as a gift.

Sweet Treats: Cookies & Cupcakes—(8 yrs & up)
Treat your kids to a fun and creative experience! Enroll your kids today in our Sweet Treats Project Class. In one fun-filled session your child will learn basic decorating skills. It’s fun and it’s easy.

Sweet Treats: Giant Cookie—(8 yrs & up)
Have fun and learn the basic uses of Cake Decorating while decorating (1) Giant Cookie....give your cookie to that special someone for Valentine’s Day!

Mom & Me...Jewelry in a Jiffy—(8 yrs & up)
Sign up for one or for all four. Different jewelry designs will be taught at each class. This is a wonderful opportunity for you and your daughter to enjoy time together and create beautiful jewelry. Material Included in cost.

PRE-K CLASSES

Your Youngster & YOU!
Come and learn how to help your child get a head start on their education. Classes are for parents and kids ages 2-5yrs. Spend time with your child as you learn fun and exciting ways to do easy projects at home for little or no cost! Classes will include topics like: potty training, Math, Science, Reading, Language, Art, and much more. Don’t Miss Out!

COLLEGE FOR KIDS

College for Kids is a program that is offered to youth ranging in age from 2-16. The courses offered are developed to enhance and expose our youth to areas that will build character, enhance skills, and develop a broad range of knowledge that will help them transform into productive, educated citizens within out community. College for Kids provides:

COMPUTER/TECHNOLOGY
Classes held at Village Mall or on DACC Campus

For Beginners Only
If you have little or no computer experience this is the course for you. Topics include: terminology, (learning the lingo) and components of a computer system. Hands-on labs give students experience with basic window system operations such as creating and saving files. Basic word processing, email and surfing the web are included. Hands-on demo include digital photos, burning CD’s, and flash drives.

Word Level I
The course will give students a thorough understanding of the features of Microsoft Word. Students will be able to create, edit, format, and print Word documents that include outlines, tables, styles, and sections. Other essential topics including printing, saving, and retrieving files are also covered. Students will create a newsletter that uses columns, drawings, and object linking and embedding. Students will learn how to use the Workgroups features of Word, how to create Forms, Master Documents, and Macros.

Word Level II
Students will practice working with graphics, using advanced formatting options, using headers and footers, working with columns, using styles, creating and formatting tables, using basic collaboration features, and working with charts, diagrams, and organizational charts.

Excel Level I
This course will give students a working knowledge of electronic spreadsheets, what they are and how to use them. Students will be able to create and format Excel spreadsheets that include charts and multiple worksheets. Students will be able to create and execute formulas and use the Excel functions. Data sorting and manipulation are also covered. Students will learn to work with the workgroup features of Excel. Students will learn to import data into an Excel spreadsheet and will work with the data using the data management functions of Excel.

Excel Level II
Students will practice using multiple worksheets, manipulating screen display, working with advanced functions, using advanced formatting features, using advanced print options, filtering lists using AutoFilter, working with names, protecting data, using basic integration and web features, using comments, and working with charts.

Keyboarding
This class walks you through the process of learning each key and proper hand/finger placement to aid you in becoming a successful typist on the keyboard. You will learn to identify numbers and letters and build skills in typing and speed. This class is for all levels and is delivered in a self-paced atmosphere.

Access Level I
This course will give students a working knowledge of databases, what they are and how to use them. Students will learn to view data in a database and change the view by sorting and filtering the data. Students will create a database and learn to define forms for inputs and reports for summarizing the data. Students will learn to create queries to view a subset of data in the database. Students will create charts to display data and a switchboard to manage their database application. Students will create relational databases and learn to create forms, queries, and reports that use relational databases. Students will learn to build macros in Access.

Access Level II
Students will practice creating relational databases, working with related tables, using subforms, maintaining data integrity, using advanced form features, using advanced report features, using advanced query features, creating advanced queries, using data access pages, and importing and exporting data.

PowerPoint Level I
This class will give students a working knowledge of creating presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint. Students will learn to work with the various PowerPoint views to create and view their presentations. Students will learn to give slide shows using PowerPoint and use PowerPoint to create web-based presentations. Students will learn to incorporate Excel data, charts and animations into their presentations.

PowerPoint Level II
Students will practice working with outlines, creating charts and tables, working with data from other sources, adding multimedia elements, working with templates, adding customization, linking slides, preparing presentations, delivering presentations, and working with workgroup collaboration.

Microsoft Publisher
Microsoft Publisher allows you to design documents from calendars to business cards, newsletters to brochures. In this course you will learn to create documents using templates and learn to add and format text images. Students will learn design techniques as well as how to use publisher.

Internet/World Wide Web Basics
In this course you will learn about the opportunities available with the internet. Topics include: connection to the Internet, Internet Explorer search tools, how to use the World Wide Web, and E-mail address.

Web Page Design/FrontPage
In this workshop, participants will discover how easy it is to produce a web page. Participants learn how to set up a website, make links to other pages and web sites, insert graphics, tables, backgrounds and E-mail links. This workshop is taught using FrontPage.

Dreamweaver
Learn how to make a basic website using one of the most powerful web authoring programs available. In this workshop, you will learn how to construct basic web pages, using templates and graphics, make links and publish the web site.

Flash Workshop
Flash can get your website noticed and remembered by your web site visitor. Learn how to produce flash animation and graphics and then be able to add them to your web site.

Photoshop Introduction
Learn the basics of working with Photoshop for retouching images and drawing. Use various techniques for selecting in order to edit and retouch images. Prepare images for websites or for print. Learn to edit images using the painting tools, clone stamp and drawing tools. Create new images using the pen tool and other drawing and painting tools. Also learn to create and edit images using layers.

Digital Media
This class is designed to teach you how to use: a digital camera, scanner, zip drive and CD Burner. Transfer photos from a digital camera or scanner to floppy disk, zip disk or CD. Copy music CD’s or create your own music CD’s. Save documents or files to CD. If you have a digital camera and may or may not know how to operate it, bring it to class.

COMPUTER CLASSES FOR SENIORS

Computer Understanding for Seniors Level I
If you have little or no computer experience, but want to learn, this is the class for you. It’s easy! In fact it’s a lot of fun! Topics include: components and terminology of a computer system, keyboard and mouse usage, care and handling of diskettes, and an overview of software applications.

Computer Understanding for Seniors Level II
This class is for beginners who need more help with creating file folders, transferring photos to the hard drive, and backing up data. More advanced window system operations will be covered. Basics in spreadsheets, database management, and presentation software will be included in hands-on lab experiences. Topics will include how to send files and pictures through email accounts, Ebay auctions, and advanced search tools in surfing the World Wide Web.

Senior Internet
Learn about the opportunities available with the Internet. Topics include: connection to the Internet, Explorer, search tools, how to use the World Wide Web and E-mail access.

ON-LINE COMPUTER COURSES

To view a complete list of courses, syllabus, and required software and text, Visit our website at: dacc.continuetolearn.com

COMPUTERS AND TECHNOLOGY

Adobe Acrobat (32 hours)
Learn to create and manage PDF files. Add navigation aids to files and prepare documents for review. Add security features to documents and learn to create forms for users to complete electronically. Students need a copy of Adobe Acrobat Standard.

Adobe GoLive (32 hours)
Learn the basics of web design using Adobe GoLive. Add text and graphics to web pages and create page layouts using tables and frames. Learn how to add interactive links, smart objects, and actions. Add formatting using cascading style sheets. A copy of GoLive is required.

Adobe Illustrator (32 hours)
Create artwork using the various tools including the pencil and pen tools. Learn the various ways to apply color to artwork. Work with layers, the 3D effects, and symbols. Students need a copy of Illustrator.

Adobe Premiere (32 hours)
Add transitions, special effects, graphics, titles, and music to Premiere projects. Learn how to adjust the image quality of the video and edit and mix the sound track. Build picture-in-picture effects, create animated titles, record voice-overs, add motion effects, and publish the results to a variety of formats. Create streaming video for playback on a web site. Students must have a copy of Adobe Premiere.

ASP.Net Using C# (32 hours)
Collect information from a form and process it. Read and write records to a database. Learn to track user state, using session, server variables, and create a secure web application. Learn to work server controls, validation controls and create user controls. Students will need a copy of Visual Studio.NET and access to a web server that supports ASP.NET.

ASP.Net Using Visual Basic.Net (32 hours)
Learn to track user state, using session, and server variables and create a secure web application. Learn to work server controls, validation controls and create user controls. Students will need access to a web server that supports ASP.

Building Accessible Web Pages (8 hours)
Create pages that are section 508 compliant. Learn about page layout, HTML options, tag attributes, and other requirements to make pages accessible. Students will need to download a screen reader to experience how pages are “viewed” by the visually impaired.

C# Introduction (32 hours)
Create applications that use variables, conditional statements, looping statements, arrays and function. No programming background is required for this course. Students will need a C# compiler.

C# Advanced (32 hours)
Learn to define classes and how to build new ones by inheriting from existing classes. Create C# applications that read and write to a database. Create C# to read and write binary files and to work XML data. Students will need a C# compiler.

C++ Introduction (32 hours)
Define variables and arrays that use if statements, switch/case statements, for loops and while loops. Create functions and pass information into functions by value and by reference using pointers. Build applications made up of several files.

C++ Advanced (32 hours)
Define classes and use those classes for building applications. The classes will include overloaded operators, friend functions, constructors and destructors. Create new classes from existing classes using inheritance and polymorphism. In addition, learn to read and write data to files. Students will need access to a C++ compiler.

ColdFusion Introduction (32 hours) Create pages that display a requested set of records from the database. Create forms that allow users to add, edit or delete records from the database. Create data-driven applications using application, client and session variables. Students will need access to a ColdFusion server.

ColdFusion Advanced (32 hours)
Improve the processing of data-driven web sites by creating user-defined functions and reusable components. Send email from ColdFusion applications. Create applications that recover from errors and packages data as XML for sending to other applications. Students will need access to a ColdFusion server.

Cool Web Pages with CSS and Layers (8 hours)
Learn the latest tricks in web page design. Use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and the layer tags to create page layouts. Position objects on the page and combine text and graphics for stylish layouts. Students should have a basic understanding of HTML.

Dreamweaver Introduction (32 hours)
Create and manage web sites using Macromedia Dreamweaver. Learn how to insert pictures, and Flash text and buttons into web pages. Use Cascading Style Sheets to format web pages. Use frames, layers and tables for designing layouts. Manage sites using Dreamweaver’s site management tools and templates. Design data driven sites using Dreamweaver’s Server Behaviors. Students will need a copy of Dreamweaver.

Dreamweaver Advanced (32 hours)
Students will manage sites using Dreamweaver’s site management tools and templates. Design data driven sites using Dreamweaver’s Server Behaviors. Learn to customize Dreamweaver’s Interface. Students will need a copy of Dreamweaver.

Fireworks (32 hours)
Learn how to work with Bitmap images, use Vector drawing tools, create buttons, and optimize images for web page. Students will need a copy of Fireworks.

Flash (32 hours)
Create vector graphics using drawing tools. Create basic animations using motion, shape between, and interactive projects using ActionScripting. Create a web-based application that reads from files and links to other pages. Create accessible content. Import sound and video into animations.

Flash ActionScripting (32 hours)
Learn how to use ActionScripting to create content, manipulate components, detect browsers, load movies, and animate and process data. Students will need a copy of Flash.

Flash: Creating Cool Buttons (8 hours)
Create cool buttons for web pages. Learn to create movie clips, buttons, and combine them to create animation. Use basic ActionScript commands to create menus. Students will need a copy of Flash.

Freehand (32 hours)
Learn how to use Freehand’s tools to design a logo. Organize and manage complex illustrations, and create animation. Students will need a copy of Freehand.

Game Programming with Flash MX (32 hours)
Create a basic game and add scripts, sound, and the physics of games. Save data and create 3D interactive games. Students need Flash MX 2004.

Getting Started with Blogging (8 hours)
Learn to start blogs and to write for audiences. Topics to be discussed include telling others about you, getting others to contribute, hosting blogs and getting the word out about blogs.

HTML: Jumpstart (8 hours)
Learn the basics of creating HTML documents by hand coding HTML. Create web pages that contain text and formatting. Add graphic images, as well as add images to backgrounds. Learn the basics of using tables for page layout.

HTML/XHTML (32 hours)
All web pages are built using HTML. Create web pages by hand by typing HTML code to add structure and formatting to web pages. Add graphics, formatting using Cascading Style Sheets, and interactivity using JavaScript.

Java Introduction (32 hours)
Create text-based Java applications that define variables and arrays, use if statements, switch/case statements, for loops and while loops. Define classes and create applications. Learn to create new classes based on existing classes using inheritance. Create graphical applications and applets. Students will need a Java compiler.

Java Advanced (32 hours)
Create applications that read and write to files, handle exceptions, and use threads. Create applications that make use of the Java Collection classes. Learn the basics of working with JavaBeans, databases and networking. Students will need a Java compiler.

Java Server Pages (32 hours)
Receive instruction on arrays; how to develop sort routines and menus; and manipulate string data. Learn how to add, delete and change a string field; as well as build, manipulate, and maintain sequential files; direct-access files; and keyed-index files. Students need Apache Tomcat

JavaScript (32 hours)
Create JavaScript functions that define variables and arrays and that use if statements, switch/case statements, for and while loops. Work with the Document Object Model (DOM) for manipulating web pages and testing user input in forms. Write scripts that create and read cookies and respond to user interaction through mouseovers and clicks.

Java Web Services (32 hours)
The course will start with a short introduction to XML and then cover the XML technologies that support web services, include WSDL and SOAP. Write Java code to process the XML messages and create the WSDL and SOAP messages for the web service. Students will need a Java compiler and web server for developing the applications.

Linux: Installation and Overview (8 hours)
Install RedHat Linux Fedora Core on computer. Learn the basics of command prompt and the graphical user environment. Be introduced to some basic system administration. Prepare and perform installation of Linux workstation, explore the X environment and applications, use the command prompt to perform basic Linux file maintenance commands, and perform basic system administration commands.

Microsoft Access for Beginners (16 hours)
Learn to view data in a database and change the view by sorting and filtering the data. Create databases and define forms for input and reports for summarizing the data. Learn to create queries to view a subset of data, charts to display data and a switchboard to manage applications. Students will need a copy of Office.

Microsoft Access for Professional Users (16 hours)
Create relational databases and learn to create forms, queries, and reports that use relational databases. Learn to build macros and use to expand the capabilities of the switchboard. Be introduced to the basics of creating VCA applications. Students need MS Office.

Microsoft Access Comprehensive (32 hours)
Learn to view data in a database and change the view by sorting and filtering. Create a database and learn to define forms for input and reports for summarizing the data. Create queries to view a subset of data and create charts to display data and a switchboard to manage applications. Build macros and use macros to expand the capabilities of the switchboard. Students need a copy of Office.

Microsoft Excel for Beginners (16 hours)
This course gives a working knowledge of electronic spreadsheets. Create and format a basic spreadsheet that includes multiple worksheets. Ranges and simple formulas are also covered. Create spreadsheets for evaluation and “hands on” experience. Students will need a copy of Office.

Microsoft Excel for Professional Users (16 hours)
Learn to create three-dimensional workbooks, and links. Create financial forecast spreadsheets using financial functions. Learn to work with the workgroup features, import data into a spreadsheet, and work with the data management functions. Create macros and learn the basics of VBA. Students will need a copy of Office.

Microsoft Excel Comprehensive (32 hours)
Create and format spreadsheets that include charts and multiple worksheets. Create and execute formulas and use the functions. Data sorting and manipulation are also covered. Learn to work with the workgroup features and learn to import data into spreadsheet and work with the data management functions. Create macros and learn the basics of VBA. Students will need a copy of Office.

Microsoft Excel: Financial Management (8 hours)
Create spreadsheets to manage money from balancing a checkbook to financial analysis. Create spreadsheets that use financial functions for calculating a return on investment or calculating payments on a loan. Students will need a copy of Excel.

Microsoft Expressions Web (32 hours)
Create web pages that contain text, graphics, tables and lists. Learn how to use hyperlinks and hotspots. Create styles and layouts with CSS and create interactive behaviors and forms. Students need Expression Web.

Microsoft FrontPage (32 hours)
Learn to create web pages that contain text, graphics, tables and lists. Learn to layout pages with frames and tables, create forms and collect form data. Students will need a copy of FrontPage.

Microsoft Office for Beginners (32 hours)
Create and edit Word documents that include outlines, tables, styles and sections. Create and edit spreadsheets that include charts and “what-if” analysis. Create and edit PowerPoint presentations. Learn to create databases that include tables, forms, queries and reports. Students will need a copy of Office.

Microsoft Office 2007 Upgrade (16 hours)
Get an overview of the new Ribbon interface that is common in new Office applications. You will explore the basic features of each of the Office applications and get accustomed to the new Office 2007 interface.

Microsoft Office for Professional Users (32 hours)
In Word, create newsletters, web pages and macros. In Excel, create 3-D workbooks and link files, formulas using the financial functions, manage worksheets that contain databases and macros. In Access, create relational databases, queries, forms and reports that use relational databases. Be introduced to Access macros and VBA. Students need a copy of Office.

Microsoft Outlook (16 hours)
Create emails, schedule events, and define contacts and tasks. Learn to organize email, add formatting and how to personalize email. Learn to share calendars across the Internet. Students will need a copy of Outlook.

Microsoft PowerPoint (16 hours)
Learn to work with the various views to create and view presentations. Learn to give slideshows and to create web-based presentations. Learn to incorporate Excel data, charts and animations into their presentations. Students will need a copy of Office.

Microsoft Project for Beginners (16 hours)
Learn the basics of project management. Build project plans that includes tasks and resources. Learn to manage projects as tasks are completed. Use various reporting tools to print and view the project status. Students will need a copy of Project.

Microsoft Project for Professional Users (16 hours)
Track the progress of a project and troubleshoot problems with schedules and resource usage. Customize the Project environment and publish the information using various reports, charts and web page options. Pool resources and link multiple projects together. Students will need a copy of Project.

Microsoft Project Comprehensive (32 hours)
Build a project plan that includes tasks and resources. Use various reporting tools to print and view the project status. Customize Project environment and publish information using various reports, charts, and web page options. Pool resources and link multiple projects together. Students will need a copy of Project.

Microsoft Publisher (32 hours)
Microsoft Publisher allows you to design documents from calendars to business cards, newsletters to brochures. Learn to create documents using templates and learn to add and format text and images. Learn design techniques. Students will need a copy of Microsoft Publisher.

Microsoft Visio (16 hours)
Learn to use Visio by creating and formatting diagrams and connection shapes. Design a project schedule, organizational chart, office layout, and a network diagram. Learn to integrate Visio with the Office applications and customize templates. Students will need a copy of Visio.

Microsoft Windows Vista Upgrade (8 hours)
Explore the new Vista interface and learn to use the redesigned Explorer. Vista features updated Entertainment and Media features as well as some new Accessories. Explore the internet using the enhanced internet features and keep up with correspondence using the windows mail feature.

Microsoft Word for Beginners (16 hours)
Create, edit, format and print documents that include outlines, tables, styles and sections. Other topics include printing, saving, and retrieving files. Create documents for evaluation and “hands on” experience. Students will need a copy of Office.

Microsoft Word for Professional Users (16 hours)
Create a newsletter that uses columns, drawings, and object linking and embedding. Create web pages and a website. Learn how to use Workgroups features, create Forms, Master Documents and Macros. Students will need a copy of Office.

Microsoft Word Comprehensive (32 hours)
Create, edit, format, and print documents that include outlines, tables, styles, and sections. Other topics include printing, saving, and retrieving files. Create a newsletter that uses columns, drawings, and object linking and embedding. Create web pages and websites. Learn how to use Workgroups features, create Forms, Master Documents, and Macros. Students will need a copy of Office.

Microsoft Word: Long Document Tools (8 hours)
Learn to create professional-looking papers and proposals. Add headers and footers, set page layout, create title pages, and tables of contents and indices. Create outlines and use them for organizing and managing documents. Create references for automatically generating tables of illustrations. An introduction to end- and foot- notes will also be provided. Create a master document for combining multiple files into one. Students will need a copy of Word.

MySQL Introduction (8 hours)
Learn the basics of designing a relational database and use SQL statements to create databases, tables and manage data in tables. Create a MySQL database and identify the types of data that can be stored in tables. Use the PHPMyAdmin tool to view and manage MySQL databases. Learn to write applications in MySQL databases.

Overview of Linux Shells (32 hours)
Learn about the various shells, compare features and scripting language. Students will need access to a computer running Linux.

PageMaker Introduction (32 hours)
Create flyers, letterhead, proposals, booklets, newsletters and catalogues. Learn to insert text and graphics into documents and format text using styles. Learn to create master page layouts and templates. Learn to generate a table of contents and an index for long publications. Students will need a copy of PageMaker.

PERL Scripting for the Web (32 hours)
PERL is the scripting language most used in developing web-based applications. Learn the syntax and structure of PERL and how to read and write to files. Learn to create functions and classes in PERL. Learn to read and write to a database and generate output. Learn to collect data from a web-based form and generate custom web pages. Students will need access to a web-server that uses PERL.

Photoshop Introduction (32 hours)
Learn to use various techniques to select, edit, and retouch images. Prepare images for web site use or for printed documents. Edit images using the painting tools, clone stamp and drawing tools. Create new images using the pen tool and the drawing and painting tools. Create and edit images using layers. Students will need a copy of Photoshop.

Photoshop Intermediate (32 hours)
Learn how to correct, change and improve the color of an image, get rid of stains and scratches, combine images, add special effects and filters and create images using Photoshop’s artistic tools. Students need a copy of Photoshop.

Photoshop Jumpstart (8 hours)
Learn to correct the overall appearance of the image by improving contrast, color and composition. Learn to save images to be used on web pages. Students will need a copy of Photoshop.

Photoshop: Digital Scrapbooking (8 hours)
Create scrapbook pages using your digital photos! Use Photoshop to touch up images and to create scrapbook pages. Learn to create patterned backgrounds, add text and embellishments to pages. Students will need a copy of Photoshop.

Photoshop: Text Effects (8 hours)
Create cool text for web pages or other projects. Create and edit text objects in Photoshop. Work with layer effects and filters to create text that looks like it is made of wood, metal, plastic, or marble. Students need Photoshop.

PHP Web Programming (32 hours)
Learn to create classes in PHP, read and write to files, and read and write to databases. Learn to collect data from a web-based form and use it to create web pages. Students need access to a web server that supports PHP.

PHP Web Programming Advanced (32 hours)
Explore the object-oriented side of PHP. Design and use objects in PHP applications. Cover security, networking, PEAR, XML and Ajax. Work with databases and techniques for developing web-based applications. Students will need access to a webserver that supports PHP and a database.

Programming Introduction (32 hours)
Learn about the concepts of looping, functions, conditional statements and program design. Enter introductory level courses in any programming language.

RSS Basics (8 hours)
RDF Site Summary (RSS) is a tool that allows web site developers to share information about sites with other sites or include information from other sites in their own. It can be used to show weblogs or newsfeeds. Explore the XML code behind RSS and create and use syndicated text in web sites.

Setting Up LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) (32 hours)
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) provides a set of tools that web developers can use to design, develop, test and deliver web-based applications. Install and configure a Linux operating system, the Apache web server, the MySQL database application and the PHP server scripting language. The course also covers how to maintain and trouble-shoot the system. Get a quick introduction to using PHP to create data-driven web applications. Students will need a computer on which they can install the LAMP applications.

SQL Programming (32 hours)
Create, edit and delete data tables. Learn how to use views, functions, and stored procedures. Students need access to a database that uses SQL commands.

UML Fundamentals (32 hours)
Create UML and use case diagrams, activity diagrams, and sequence diagrams. Create UML class, object and package diagrams and use the show composite structures and component diagrams. Create State Machine and Deployment diagrams.

Using SSH – the Secure Shell (8 hours)
Learn to configure SSH on Linux computers and connect through SSH and use the SSH commands to control Linux computers. Students will need access to a computer running Linux and the SSH.

Using the BASH Shell (16 hours)
This course will introduce the users to the commands that are available in the BASH shell. Learn to do file maintenance, system administration and create shell scripts. Students will need access to a computer running Linux.

Using the Emacs Editor (16 hours)
Create or edit configuration files and use to create scripts or programs. Learn to navigate in documents, edit text and to customize the environment. Students will need access to Linux with a copy of Emacs installed.

Using the Vi Editor (16 hours)
Create or edit configuration files and use to create scripts or programs. Learn to navigate in documents, edit text in a file and customize the environment. Students will need access to Linux with a copy of Vi installed.

VBA Programming (32 hours)
Learn to define variables, create loops, branching statements, define functions, get user input and interface with the application of choice. Students will need a copy of Microsoft Word, Excel or Access.

Visual Basic.Net Introduction (32 hours)
Create Visual Basic programs that define variables and arrays, use if statements, select case statements, and for and while loops. Interact with objects on Visual Basic forms. Students need Visual Studio.

Visual Basic.Net Advanced (32 hours)
Create classes and objects to create new classes and objects using inheritance and polymorphism. Create graphics, read and write data to files and work with databases. Students will need a copy of Visual Studio.

Visual C++ 6.0 (32 hours)
Students will use Visual Studio 6.0 to develop graphical applications using the Visual C++ programming language.

Web Development with Dreamweaver and ASP.Net (32 hours)
Learn to use Dreamweaver to design a web sites and the basics of ASP. Net programming including: language, SQL language, database design with Access and SQL Server. Students will need a copy of Dreamweaver and a web server that supports ASP .Net.

Web Development with Dreamweaver and ColdFusion (32 hours)
Learn the basics of the ColdFusion programming language, SQL language, database design with Access and SQL Server and how to use Dreamweaver to design a web site. Students will need a copy of Dreamweaver and a web server that supports ColdFusion.

Web Development with Dreamweaver, PHP and MySQL (32 hours)
Learn the basics of the PHP programming language, SQL language, database design with MySQL and how to use Dreamweaver to design a web site. Students will need a copy of Dreamweaver and a web server that supports PHP.

Web Graphics (8 hours)
Learn about image formats that can be used on web pages and their advantages. Add images, background images, bullets, and graphics to pages. Students should have a basic understanding of building web pages.

X/Motif (32 hours)
Learn the fundamentals of writing programs in Motif for the Windows environment. Create programs using widgets and learn to create them. Applications will include menus, dialog boxes and will be able to display and format text and graphics.

XML Introduction (32 hours)
Create well-formed and valid XML documents. Create Document Type Definitions (DTD) and Schemas for validating their XML documents. Create style sheets using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and the Extensible Style sheet Language with Transforms (XLST). Identify XML-based applications. Students will need to download and install some free applications to complete some exercises.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Basic Management Skills (32 hours)
This course provides tools for moving into a management position and staying there. Learn how to navigate through the ‘management minefield’ with ease, deal with peer and upper management, methods for dealing with unruly employees, understand office politics and listening techniques for knowing what your boss is really saying. Be empowered in dealing with all aspects of a position at the management level.

Becoming an Extraordinary Problem-Solver (8 hours)
Learn the skills that take you beyond ordinary problem solving. Tools and techniques that give you step-by-step guidance for solving most challenging problems.

Brain Boosters (8 hours)
Sharpen your learning, remembering, and thinking skills through stimulating and practical experiences. Explore your current strategies for learning and remembering as you map out techniques for dealing with new information and skills. Hands-on practice with concentration boosters and learning techniques. Develop strategies for meeting critical challenges.

Business and the Media: I (8 hours)
Learn how to build relationships with reporters as well as learn techniques used when dealing with media. Also learn how and when to address the media, which includes reporters’ deadlines and varying focuses of certain trade publications, newspapers, and broadcast media.

Business and the Media: II (8 hours)
Gain a better understanding of working with the media. Get a clear understanding of how and why efforts to answer, or at least respond to questions from them, even when it is not necessarily positive should be made.

Business Writing for Busy Professionals – Part 1 (8 hours)
Learn strategies to write documents faster and better. Learn how to customize documents for a specific reader and to accomplish a writing purpose. Discover ways to create documents when time is limited. Master models to organize and format letters, emails, and reports to make them clear, direct, and reader friendly. Conversational writing style and parallel structure will also be covered.

Business Writing for Busy Professionals – Part 2 (8 hours)
Practice using different writing styles and determine which is most appropriate for a specific reader and purpose. Learn to properly manage active and passive verbs, transitions, and words with a positive or negative connotation. Acquire techniques to simplify documents and make more concise. Recognize common surface errors that undermine professional written images and understand how to fix them.

Dealing Positively with Conflict (8 hours)
Explore your preferred approaches to conflict resolution and learn new strategies for resolving workplace conflict. Apply conflict resolution skills using practice scenarios and real situations. Prepare for anticipated conflict and lay the groundwork for positive interactions using the practical tools provided in this course.

Editing and Proofreading for Business Writers – Part 1 (8 hours)
This class gives a working knowledge of the quality standards required of all business correspondence. Standard procedures to follow before sending and professional techniques to spot errors. Construct complete sentences and punctuate clauses, phrases, and appositives. Learn how to correctly use quotation marks, dashes, parentheses, colons, and semicolons. Avoid confusing common look-alike and sound-alike words. Locate and correct surface errors in a variety of documents.

Editing and Proofreading for Business Writers – Part 2 (8 hours)
Learn to match subjects and verbs, use correct verb tenses, use pronouns, and make headings, bullets, and sentences parallel. Recognize when to use active verbs instead of the passive, and avoid shifting between them. Locate and correct surface errors in documents.

Introduction to Project Management (8 hours)
Learn the art and science of leading a project and the importance of being an active sponsor. Learn the different phases in a project’s life cycle and the key steps to leading and managing a successful project. How to manage “scope creep” and how to use structured tools such as work breakdown structure, PERT diagrams, and GANTT charts will also be covered.

Envisioning Your Desired Future (8 hours)
This course will give the student a new recognition that they are able to construct a large part of their own future. Through a process designed to ask tough questions, you will examine your current life, values and beliefs, and chose a better future in your career and family life. Review their past to create a sense of history. Clarify the underlying values and beliefs that determined actions and the values and beliefs that they want in the future. Link vision to actionable steps.

Essentials of Managing Successful Meetings (8 hours)
This class will cover guidelines to plan and organize a meeting, create an agenda, keep a meeting on-track, conduct a discussion, maintain control, and close a meeting on time. Learn how to deal with problem meeting participants and review the roles and responsibilities of both meeting leaders and participants. Discover common frustrations people have with meetings and how to avoid them. Improve future meetings through evaluation and feedback.

Fundamentals of Instructional Design (16 hours)
Explore ways courses can be designed. Introduced the ADDIE design model and other models that work. Write instructional objectives and design a unit of instruction and assessments that support the instructional objects. Plan and evaluate instructional materials.

Fundamentals of Project Management (32 hours)
Only about one-quarter of all business projects are successful. The discipline of Project Management aims to improve those dismal results with a systematic approach to the unique tasks that abound in an enterprise. This hands-on course will acquaint the student with world-recognized methodologies used to produce more successful projects.

Improving What We Do: Process Improvement Fundamentals (8 hours)
Learn to identify process issues, problems, and opportunities, and how the customer affects process improvement. Learn the steps that lead to improving a process and the importance of a process improvement team and their roles. Learn the tools for understanding and accessing the current process and what is happening now. The difference between process improvement and redesign will also be covered.

Introduction to Six Sigma (8 hours)
Six Sigma methodologies are fast becoming a model for doing business in our global economy. Learn the basic concepts of Six Sigma and instructs the student in performing some basic calculation and analysis.

Introduction to Successful Grant Writing (16 hours)
Learn how to prepare effective grant applications to develop new services, support existing programs, and strengthen operating budgets. Learn a step-by-step approach to identify funding needs, research sources, preparing a winning proposals, and laying the groundwork for successfully completing the projects. Develop ideas and research resources, write a need statement, define goals and objectives, develop methods, work plans, develop budgets, and evaluate and leverage future funding strategies.

Leading Change (8 hours)
This course helps managers and supervisors explore their role as change managers. Practical scenarios and real examples will help you understand the predictable phases of change management and develop strategies for managing them. Checklists and tools provide the practical link you need to stabilize and re-energize your workforce.

Learning Styles in the Classroom (16 hours)
Every person brings their own learning style to the classroom. By learning about your own learning style and others, you will learn ways to reach all of your students and help them to learn.

Moving a Course From the Classroom to Cyberspace (8 hours)
This course introduces the process of instructional design for online learning and walks through the process of building one unit of study for a course. Learn how to build online interactions and make courses more student-centered.

Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom (16 hours)
Learn to teach to a student’s intelligences and allow them to express themselves using their preferred intelligence. Explore the Multiple Intelligence theories and learn to design lesson plans that appeal to various types.

Overcoming Chaos (8 hours)
Refocus energy and regain control over your workday and life. Explore your personal preferences for organizing and thinking. Develop a personal mission statement to guide and improve skills. Worksheets and questionnaires provide tangible tools to help plan, manage, and track responsibilities while managing multiple priorities.

Personality Types Among Us (8 hours)
Explore personality theories and discover your own personality and how that affects the way you think and work. Explore how other personalities think and work and some communication and motivational tools to use to work better with them.

Planning to Succeed: Fundamentals of Strategic Planning (8 hours)
Learn the importance of strategic planning and who should be involved. Learn how to build a model for strategic plans and a methodology for creating a strategic plan. Also learn how to evaluate the external and internal environment of organizations as well as how to ensure that they follow the plan. The differences between business, corporate, and functional level strategies will also be covered.

Preventive Stress Management (8 hours)
Learn about stress and its relationship to a healthy lifestyle and productivity. Examine methods of dealing with stress and personal stress reactions. Students will be given instruction on practical coping skills to reduce the negative impacts of stress and how to convert stress into energy. This course offers a historical perspective of stress and provides tools to be stronger, healthier and more productive.

Principles of Management (8 hours)
Learn basic management concepts and terminology as well as the history of management theory. Also learn how organizations are structured and why managers are important. The different roles and skills of a manager must have in today’s organizations will also be covered.

Professional Communication (8 hours)
Learn what communication is and ways to improve skills. Topics include defining communication, understanding the two major communications theories, discussion of current communication tools and how to use them. Discuss what makes for good communication and how best to communicate with others.

QuickBooks Introduction (16 hours)
Learn step-by-step, how to set-up QuickBooks, track customer information and handle all of the day-to-day accounting needs of a business. Learn to create estimates, track job costs and progress, track inventory, invoice customers, track receivables, pay bills including sales tax, handle payroll, track employees’ time worked, write form letters in Microsoft Word, create reports in Microsoft Excel, and create financial statements. Students will need to have a copy of QuickBooks.

Teaching Online Successfully (8 hours)
Get insight in how to make the move from “stage on the stage” to “guide on the side” as you move your classroom into cyberspace. This course will introduce you to the tools used in online classrooms, concepts of student-centered learning; get ideas on how to encourage student participation.

Telephone Techniques for Excellent Customer Service (8 hours)
Explore ways to develop an appropriate telephone personality and convey information clearly, tactfully, and professionally. Learn the real sources of customer satisfaction and analyze the tension between the need to handle many calls and the need to satisfy each caller. Techniques to manage angry and other difficult callers will be offered.

Thriving on Change (8 hours)
Explore personal and professional reactions to change as you manage the transition. Reviewing the psychology of change through a self-discovery and planning process. Develop a plan to help prepare for and handle a wide range of transitions. Strategies for managing reactions at all stages of change are also offered.

Understanding and Solving Performance Issues (8 hours)
Understand the true nature of performance problems and take positive action to solve them. A wide range of performance issues will be addressed, including low productivity, unacceptable quality, tardiness, and poor attendance. A step-by-step tool kit will help analyze performance problems and identify the best strategies for solving them and carry out solutions. The techniques empower both managers and employees to take control of their work performance.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

An Expedition to Aztlán – the Treasures of Mexico (32 hours)
Use an innovative mix of tips, language, music, links and anecdotes to provide travelers and people a unique insight into the beauty of the “enigma” that is the US’ neighbor to the South.

Basic Church Administration (32 hours)
This course provides an overview of church administration functions and skills necessary for planning, organizing, staffing, budgeting and coordinating work of a church. Understand how a minister: relates to organization and to people; performs administrative functions; and develops leadership and ministry skills.

GED Math Review (32 hours)
Review the skills necessary to pass the Mathematics portion of the GED. Topics covered include: whole numbers, decimals, fractions, Statistics, Data, Percents, Probability, Algebra and Geometry.

GED Reading Review (16 hours)
Review the skills necessary to pass the Reading portion of the GED. Topics covered include: interpreting fiction, poetry, drama and nonfiction.

GED Science Review (16 hours)
Review the skills necessary to pass the Science portion of the GED. Topics covered include: Biology, Earth and Space Science and Physical Science.

GED Social Studies Review (16 hours)
Review the skills necessary to pass the Social Studies portion of the GED. Topics covered include: World History, US History, Civics and Government, Economics, and Geography.

GED Writing Review (16 hours)
Review skills necessary to pass the Writing portion of the GED. Topics covered include: basic English usage, sentence structure, grammar, and organization.

GED Review (64 hours)
Review the skills necessary to pass each of the five tests: Reading, Writing, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies included on the GED.

History of Christianity (32 hours)
This course provides an overview of Christian history from the time of Jesus Christ to modern times. Three major periods are examined: Christian Beginnings; The Reformation; The Modern Period. Readings and class discussions present major persons, events, and movements in Christianity.

Intro to Genealogy - Building Your Family Tree (16 hours)
Learn to trace your family’s roots and start your own family tree. Learn how to begin your hunt, introducing you to the resources available for performing genealogical research. Learn how to find online databases, obtain vital (birth, marriage, and death) records, and discover the resources available at Family History Library branches across the US.

Positive Parenting (16 hours)
Learn to use Positive Discipline to encourage self-respect, self-discipline, cooperation, good behavior and problem-solving skills in children. Topics covered include: create natural and logical consequences, effectively encourage children, and the four mistaken goals of behavior.

Old Testament Survey I (32 hours)
Overview of Old Testament history on Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy) and Former Prophets (Joshua, Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel, and 1 & 2 Kings). Student will have: an understanding of Old Testament history, familiarity with the development and study of text, knowledge of outline/contents of the books comprising the Pentateuch and Former Prophets, and insight into the message of the Old Testament as it applies to today.

Old Testament Survey II (32 hours)
Overview of Old Testament history on Prophets (Isaiah - Malachi), Hebrew Poetry, and Wisdom literature (Job - Song of Songs). Student will have: an understanding of Old Testament history, familiarity with the Hebrew prophets and the origin and usage of prophecy in the Old Testament, a knowledge of the setting, outline and contents of the books comprising the Prophets and Poetry and Wisdom literature, and insight into the message of the Old Testament as it applies to today.

Who Are the Women of the Bible? (32 hours)
This course provides a history of women in the Bible (Esther, Ruth, Debra, Mary and Mary Magdalene). Gain knowledge of: how women affected the makeup of the early church with their teachings, what the roles of women were in the Old Testament compared to the New Testament, women who authored books of the Bible, and how these earlier pioneers in the Bible affect the church today.

Women in Christian Leadership Today (32 hours)
Explore the ministries of women in modern days and what affect they had on the church of today. Students will have: an understanding of the relationship women have with the church, knowledge of what the Bible says about female leaders in ministry and why, what Paul said about women in the church, and what was the significance of his teachings, and if the early guidelines in the Bible to the early church apply to the church today.

Tracing your Civil War Ancestors (16 hours)
Trace ancestors who served in the Civil War through a large variety of sources of material. Learn to assemble as much information about veterans from County Histories, family records and recollections of the older members of the family.

Online Research Using Search Engines and Directories (16 hours)
Learn about directories like DMOZ and popular search engines such as Google, metasearch, specialty search engines and online directories that are making it easier to find useful information in less time. Understanding the search tools available and mastering general and advanced search tips can make online research efforts much easier.

Understanding Search Engines and Online Directories (16 hours)
Learn more about how to find the websites you are searching for in less time by learning more about these valuable sources of online information.

User-Friendly Web Design (16 hours)
Learn how to create: easy to follow and user friendly navigation links, check your site regularly and develop a quality site map used to find pages in a web site.

FOR THE SENIOR LEARNER

Microsoft Excel for Seniors (16 hours)
Gain a working knowledge of electronic spreadsheets, what they are and how to use them. Learn to create and format a basic spreadsheet that includes multiple worksheets. Ranges and simple formulas are also covered. Create spreadsheets for evaluation and “hands on” experience. Students will need a copy of Office.

Microsoft Office for Seniors (32 hours)
Create Word documents that include outlines, tables, styles and sections. Create Excel spreadsheets that include charts and “what-if” analysis. Create PowerPoint presentations. Create Access databases that include tables, forms, queries and reports. Students will need a copy of Office.

Microsoft Outlook for Seniors (16 hours)
Use Outlook to create email, schedule events, and define contacts and tasks. Learn to organize email, add formatting and personalize emails. Learn to share calendars across the Internet. Students will need a copy of Outlook.

Microsoft PowerPoint for Seniors (16 hours)
Learn to work with PowerPoint to create and view presentations. Create slideshows and use PowerPoint to create web-based presentations. Learn to incorporate Excel data, charts, and animations into presentations. Students will need a copy of Office.

Microsoft Word for Seniors (16 hours)
Create, edit, format and print documents that include outlines, tables, styles and sections. Other topics include: printing, saving, and retrieving files. Create documents for evaluation and “hands on” experience. Students will need a copy of Office.

Photoshop Introduction for Seniors (32 hours)
Learn the basics of Photoshop for retouching images and drawing. Use various techniques to edit and retouch images. Prepare images for a web site or for printed documents. Edit images using painting tools, clone stamp and drawing tools. Create new images using the pen, drawing, and painting tools. Create and edit images using layers. Students will need a copy of Photoshop.

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