Description: The Electric Power Technology program was developed jointly with the Electric Providers Coalition for Education (EPCE), which is a partnership of electric utility companies, associations and unions that have contributed to the development of curriculum and marketing of this program. Specialty courses include:

• Line Construction
• Generation
• Substation
• System Design
• System Operations
• Metering

Description: Community College of Denver’s Online Advanced Placement Nursing Program can be applied to community colleges that wish to increase their capacity to educate nurses through flexible delivery formats. The program is targeted at Licensed Practical Nurses currently working in the community who wish to advance themselves to Registered Nurse status. Didactic instructional components of the Advanced Placement AAS degree are available online, while clinical components must be scheduled and delivered locally. The program provides 28 credits of nursing specific content, in both online and clinical settings to include:

• Nursing Assessment & Diagnosis
• OB/Pediatric/Family-Centered Nursing
• Principles of Psychiatric Nursing
• Nursing Care of the Hospitalized Client (Medical/Surgical)
• Leadership & Management in Nursing

Description: This 40-hour instructional series is designed to help students meet job search challenges in today’s uncertain economy. The series includes an online/computer-based job search training program targeting employment enrichment through the following four modules:

• Self-Skill Assessment and Resume Preparation
• Interviewing Skills
• Financial Planning
• Stress Management

Description: Active management professionals lead this course and demonstrate the skills and insight needed to manage effectively in a quality-conscious work environment. The curriculum focuses on the philosophies of Deming, Juran, Crosby, Shainin, Taguchi, and includes statistical problem solving techniques.

Description: Active management professionals present effective planning and implementation of quality systems, while demonstrating the relationship to distinct functions in an organization. The curriculum focuses on the study of the Quality Function and its applications to service, business, and industry.

Description: Focuses on the fundamentals of engineering materials and manufacturing processes, and their interrelationship in product design.

Description: Introduces concepts of materials selection and specification for products and structural development. This course presents and demonstrates standard methods to characterize physical and mechanical properties of metal, ceramics, polymers, and composite materials, with specific lab activities focused on microscopy, heat treatments, phase transformation studies, and mechanical property measurements.

Description: This program prepares students to succeed in exciting careers in the travel industry. The program offers hands-on experience with internships in Walt Disney World, airlines, resorts, agencies, etc. Course objectives prepare graduates to:

• Demonstrate knowledge of all travel agency functions
• Perform all front-office functions for a resort or hotel
• Demonstrate proficiency on Amadeus Airline Reservation System
• Describe key marketing and promotion techniques for tourism
• Research and demonstrate an understanding of domestic and international destinations
• Demonstrate understanding of airline ticketing
• Complete one or more practicum's within the industry

Description: The Paralegal Program prepares students for positions in law offices, banks, real estate firms, brokerage houses, federal, state and local government agencies and other institutions requiring employees with legal training. Responsibilities include assisting an attorney in legal research, the preparation of documents for hearings or trial and other support services. Course objectives prepare graduates to:

• Interview a client and gather a case history
• Conduct both independent and directed legal research and fact gathering activities
• Draft pleadings, bills of particulars, motions, wills, memorandums of law and other commonly encountered legal documents
• Perform standard filing and recording procedures
• Summarize documents in a case file

Description: This certificate will upgrade skills and knowledge in Corrections, including probation and parole. It is designed for those currently employed in the criminal justice field and for those who wish to develop skills necessary to work in entry-level positions in Corrections. Course objectives prepares graduates to:

• Effectively work in the areas of detention, supervision, administration and rehabilitation
• Supervise the treatment and custodial care of inmates
• Guide and assist adult and juvenile inmates in adjusting to their new environment
• Guide inmates on their preparation for and adjustment to community life
• Interview inmates, complete social and criminal histories and recommend rehabilitation strategies

Description: An eight-week, non-credit course designed to provide those in instructional roles (teachers, trainers, and others) with the theory and skills needed to add asynchronous components to classroom-based courses. Emphasis will be placed on pedagogy appropriate to providing college level content, interaction and written assignments to adolescent and adult learners. Participants will learn how to add asynchronous components to their classroom-based course(s). Because this course is 100% asynchronous, the pedagogy used by the instructor will model the pedagogy being taught. Course objectives prepare graduates to teach courses partially or totally online. Course topics include:

• What are your web-based options?
• Getting past the technology
• Presenting content: 50 ways to leave your lecture!
• Orchestrating effective interaction
• Creating online assignments
• Authentic online assessment

Description: An eight-week, non-credit course designed to provide the knowledge and skills needed to plan, design, create, administer, analyze and report the results of online surveys. Course topics include:

• Planning an online survey
• Core statistical concepts
• Designing and creating the survey
• Administering the survey
• Analyzing the survey data
• Reporting the survey results

Description: This Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning Refrigeration Program (HVACR) can be applied to a community college, technical center or workforce training environment. There are several program models allowing a flexible approach to fit the needs of the institution. The online HVACR program provides the theory courses and supports the lab skills required for a HVACR technical certificate level program. This technical certificate program provides 24 to 27 semester credits of HVACR specific technical content referenced below:

• HVACR Fundamentals
• HVACR Electrical
• HVACR Systems
• Boiler Systems
• Refrigeration

More information can be found at http://www.hvacreducation.net or http://www.vcampus.com/hvacr.

National Certification, NATE (North American Technician Excellence) Recognized Training.

Description: The Hazardous Materials and Training Research Institute (HMTRI) was established in 1987 and has long been active in environmental health and safety education and training. This program is a self-paced, open entry, open exit, waste site worker program that meets all the requirements of 29 CFR 1910.120, OSHA’s Hazardous Waste Site Worker and Emergency Response Standard. The program consists of an online text, interactive exercises, web links, self-grading quizzes, and final exam. There are two days of face-to face training required to complete the 40-hours for Hazwoper Certification or as a stand-alone course to enhance your skills. Topics include exercises on PPE, Regulations, Site Characterization, Confined Space, Decon, and others. Sample this course at http://www.et-online.org/et_sample.html.

More information can be found at http://www.hmtri.org/.

HMTRI is recognized as one of a select number of national centers of excellence by several federal agencies, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).

Description: An HMTRI program that includes instruction in water pollution control, preliminary and primary treatment, fixed film processes, and suspended growth systems. Along with reading assignments from the online text is enhanced with up-to-date photographs, audio, interactive exercises, and online links. Sample this course at http://www.et-et-online.org/et_sample.html.

More information can be found at http://www.hmtri.org/.

Description: An HMTRI program that includes instruction and working knowledge of potable water distribution systems. The topics of this course include water storage facilities, operation and maintenance of water mains, water quality issues, disinfections, and safety. Along with reading assignments from the text, the course is enhanced with audio, up-to-date photographs, interactive exercises, and online links. Sample this course at http://www.et-online.org/et_sample.html.

More information can be found at http://www.hmtri.org/.

Description: An HMTRI program that includes topics and interactive instruction for Waste Decomposition, Geology and Hydrology, Landfill Design and Construction, General Operations, End-use, and Regulations. The course is also enhanced with up-to-date photographs, audio, related online links, and video allowing students to obtain the skills and knowledge to work in a variety of landfill and composting facilities. Sample this course at http://www.et-online.org/et_sample.html.

More information can be found at http://www.hmtri.org/.

Description: This program is designed to provide students with an understanding of the golf industry, as well as the etiquette, definitions and rules that govern the game of golf. The program objectives include working knowledge of golf facility operations of a golf facility, and the development of policies and procedures for operating a golf facility. Job responsibilities and management strategies will be explored, as well as the planning, organization, and implementation of golf events.

Description: This program prepares individuals for employment as specialists in the translation of diagnoses and procedures into number designations (coding) using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9-CM) and Current Procedural Terminology (CPT_4). The program involves coding, classifying, and indexing diagnoses and procedures for standardization, retrieval, and statistical analysis. Students will also learn to prepare and file medical insurance claim forms for reimbursement, and electronic claims transmission training is included with a special emphasis on ethical and legal responsibilities, data quality, financial reimbursement, Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) and Ambulatory Patient Classifications (APCs). High School Diploma or equivalent is required.

Description: The Chemical Dependency Program at Rio Salado College is designed to train practitioners in the field of chemical dependency. The program's focus is on offering education to persons seeking to become chemical dependency professionals or paraprofessionals. The program offers two levels of chemical dependency counseling certificates as well as an Associate of Applied Science (AAS).

The Associate of Applied Science is designed to meet the needs of students seeking to become certified with state and/or national chemical dependency counseling certification boards.

More information can be found online.

Description: The Purchasing and Supply Chain Management program is a unique and highly regarded program designed both for those entering the field and professionals seeking to upgrade their skills. The curriculum focuses on many aspects of purchasing including source selection, pricing theory, quality and quality assurance, logistics, supply chain management, specifications and standardization, purchase timing, value engineering, make-or-buy concepts and capital purchasing.

Students learn related business and accounting practices such as standard policies and operating procedures, negotiation techniques, planning, organizing, traffic concepts and inventory control theory. In addition, students gain an understanding of the legal aspects of purchasing and the Uniform Commercial Code.

Graduates are qualified for employment in purchasing positions in a variety of business settings including manufacturing and construction companies, retail operations, educational institutions and government offices.

More information can be found online.

Description: The SCC Accounting Certificate prepares students for a variety of accounting occupations in the public and private sector. With the aid of improved and simplified software applications, many of these tasks are now performed and stored in computer files. Automation has expanded opportunities for managing financial information. In this accounting program, students use current software and develop skills in the creative process of organizing, analyzing and interpreting financial information.

More information can be found at http://oscar.ctc.edu/shoreline/account.html.

Description: These courses, in sequence, introduce students to the basic conflict-free theory for writing on the stenotype machine to speed building of literary, testing, and jury charge material with emphasis on accurate transcription. Students will build speed to 120 wpm on testimony, 110 wpm on jury charge, and 90 wpm on literary with a prerequisite typing speed of 30 wpm.

Description: This course teaches students the meaning of legal and Latin terms, and covers instruction in civil and criminal law, the judicial system (including discovery, trial, and appellate processes), the legislative process, hearings, and arbitrations, research, and citations, and the notary public law.

Description: This course is designed to familiarize students with root words, prefixes, and suffixes used to describe the systems of the body in normal and abnormal conditions. Emphasis is placed on the formation, definition, and pronunciation of the words used in the practice of medicine.

Description: This certificate teaches students the basic, theory, and application of the spoken word to real time, instantaneous translation used for television broadcast captioning. The program also includes courses designed to teach students the necessary research skills in preparing captioning for news, weather, sports, and a variety of television shows.

Description: This series of courses introduces students to the criminal justice system and the study of criminal, common, and statutory law within the context of enforcement. This series concludes with investigation, including specific crimes against persons and property, the process of fact-gathering and problems of legally admissible proof.

Description: This certificate program prepares students for licensure as a funeral director and entry-level employment in a funeral establishment in several states. Funeral Directing curriculum focuses on the implications of grief and bereavement and the role of funeral director in counseling the bereaved. Areas of concentration include the social role of the funeral director in the dynamics of grief, and tan investigation into the changing attitudes toward death.

Description: This physical science course introduces the reasons why we have weather and the forces which create specific weather patterns and phenomena. Topics range from global wind and radiation patterns on the macroscale, to thunderstorms and tornadoes on the microscale. Students regularly participate in weather forecasting using daily public weather information. This course has been used to assist with certificates in the field of Naturalist, skills based on requirements with the U.S. Navy, and certificate renewal for high school science teachers.

Description: The practices and procedures of establishing a funeral home are covered including personnel management, vital statistics, records, and forms. Government regulations of OSHA, FTC, and ADA are studied. An in-depth study of merchandising funeral goods including caskets and vaults is covered.

Description: This course identifies the methods of disposing of human remains and the legal responsibilities of the funeral director. Principles of both mortuary and business law are covered from the local, state, and federal level. Cemetery regulations, liability, and pre-need are also studied.