Continuing Education Non-Credit Courses
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* Brand New Pharmacy Technician and Pilot Certification Courses Beginning September 2011!
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ACE-320 Private Pilot Certification - 45 hours
Through a partnership with Delaware State University, Sussex Tech is offering a Private Pilot Certification training course. This course, (FAA certified Part 141) is designed to prepare students for the experience of flying and preparation for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) written and oral examinations for the Private Pilot Certification. The curriculum includes basic aerodynamics, elementary aircraft systems, aviation navigation, safety, weather, aviation physiology, and FAA Regulations.
Notes:
1. Students are required to purchase a DSU Private Pilot Kit prior to the start of class at DSU's bookstore or online at mypilotstore.com.
2. Certification provided by the FAA upon successful course completion and passing the FAA exam.
Course Fee: $375
Private Pilot Certification Sessions:
September 1, 2011 - January 12, 2012 / Thursdays / 6:00pm - 9:00pm / Sussex Tech / WPP911
ACE-936 Pharmacy Technician Course
The Pharmacy Technician Training Program has been designed based on the model curriculum created by the American Society of Health -System Pharmacists (ASHP) and is ideal for the career-minded, working adult. The course is designed to prepare students to successfully pass the PTCB Exam one of the two national pharmacy technician board exams and directly enter the field of pharmacy as Certified Paraprofessionals. Our program includes a combination of classroom learning, in-class laboratory activities, audio-visual presentations and hands-on experience within local retail and hospital pharmacy settings. Instruction is provided by experienced, Certified Technicians and proctored by Licensed Pharmacists who currently practice pharmacy professionally.
This 16-week program will prepare you for an exciting career in pharmacy. Subjects covered in the course include pharmacology, pharmacy law, inventory management, prescription translation, dosage calculations, sterile compounding and much more. Classes meet four times a week, for five hours each session. Within the 16-week course students will complete a retail and hospital externship as well as Career Path components that include but are not limited to Resume Writing, Mock Interviewing and Job Preparedness.
This course is a 300 hour course, 200 classroom hours and 100 externship hours. Please note that attendance at a Course Overview Session is required in order to register for this course.
Course Fee: $2750 (includes all course materials and a one time registration for the PCTB exam)
Course Overview Sessions:
Rx Tech Course Sessions:
ACE-405 LSAT Exam Preparatory Course
The LSAT exam prep course is designed to provide you with complete preparation for your graduate school entrance examination. Course components are inclusive of a thorough subject review, problem solving, timed quizzes, practice tests, skill review exercises and actual test simulation. Each course is designed based on a six step comprehensive approach.
1) Diagnostic Testing and Assessment, 2) Basic Skills Review, 3) In-Class Problem Solving, Concepts and Strategies, 4) Practice Test Reinforcement, 5) Final Exam, Assessment Report and Review, 6) Personal Study Plan.
Course Fee: $525
LSAT Sessions: COMING SOON
ACE-404 GRE Test Prep Course
The GRE prep course is designed to provide you with complete preparation for your graduate school entrance examination. Course components are inclusive of a thorough subject review, problem solving, timed quizzes, practice tests, skill review exercises and actual test simulation. Each course is designed based on a six step comprehensive approach.
1) Diagnostic Testing and Assessment, 2) Basic Skills Review, 3) In-Class Problem Solving, Concepts and Strategies, 4) Practice Test Reinforcement, 5) Final Exam, Assessment Report and Review, 6) Personal Study Plan.
Course Fee: $425
GRE Sessions: COMING SOON
ACE-403 GMAT Exam Preparatory Course
The GMAT exam prep course is designed to provide you with complete preparation for your graduate school entrance examination. Course components are inclusive of a thorough subject review, problem solving, timed quizzes, practice tests, skill review exercises and actual test simulation. Each course is designed based on a six step comprehensive approach.
1) Diagnostic Testing and Assessment, 2) Basic Skills Review, 3) In-Class Problem Solving, Concepts and Strategies, 4) Practice Test Reinforcement, 5) Final Exam, Assessment Report and Review, 6) Personal Study Plan.
Course Fee: $425
GMAT Sessions: COMING SOON
ACE-001 MCAT Exam Preparatory Course
The MCAT exam prep course is designed to provide you with complete preparation for your graduate school entrance examination. Course components are inclusive of a thorough subject review, problem solving, timed quizzes, practice tests, skill review exercises and actual test simulation. Each course is designed based on a six step comprehensive approach.
1) Diagnostic Testing and Assessment, 2) Basic Skills Review, 3) In-Class Problem Solving, Concepts and Strategies, 4) Practice Test Reinforcement, 5) Final Exam, Assessment Report and Review, 6) Personal Study Plan.
Course Fee: $525
MCAT Sessions: COMING SOON
ACE-104 Information & Technology (IT) Essentials
This is a current and comprehensive 64 hour course on configuring, diagnosing, and repairing microcomputers and associated technologies. Topics covered include how computers work, how software and hardware work together, the systems board, understanding and managing memory, floppy disk and hard disk drives, installing and supporting disk drives, troubleshooting fundamentals, supporting I/O devices, and multimedia technology. Completion of this course will assist the student in preparing to pass the A+ certification exams and succeed in the PC repair industry. No electronic experience is assumed or required.
Course Fee: $1500
IT Sessions:
Coming Summer 2012
ACE-106 Paralegal Studies
This intensive, nationally acclaimed program is designed for beginning as well as advanced legal workers. Students will be trained to interview witnesses, investigate complex fact patterns, research the law, prepare legal documents, and assist in preparing cases for courtroom litigation. The instruction is practice-oriented and relates to those areas of law in which paralegals are in most demand.
Course Fee: $1189
Paralegal Sessions:
March 3,10,17,24,31, 2012/Saturday/9:00am-5:00pm(7hrs)/Wilmington Site/Registration Closes February27th
April 14,21,28, 2012/Saturday9:00am-5:00pm/Wilmington Site/Registration Closes April 9th
May 5,12,19,26, 2012/Saturday/9:00am-5:00pm/Wilmington Site/Registration Closes April 30th
Summer 2012
June 2,9,16,23,30,2012/Saturday/9:00am-5:00pm(7hrs)/Dover Campus/Registration Closes May 28th
July 7,14,21,2, 2012/Saturday/9:00am-5:00pm/Dover Campus/Registration Closes July 2nd
August 4,11,18,2012/Saturdays/9:00am-5:00pm/Dover Campus/Registration Closes July30th
ACE-107 CPR/First Aid
The course is modular and teaches rescuer skills in CPR and relief of choking (foreign-body airway obstruction). It presents information about the American Heart Association Adult Chain of Survival and signs of heart attack, cardiac arrest, stroke and choking in adults. The course also presents information on the American Heart Association pediatric infant and child Chain of Survival, signs of choking in infants and children, how to reduce risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), and prevention of the most common fatal injuries in infants and children.
Course Fee: $65 DSU Students
$85 Community
CPR/First AID Sessions:
November 19, 2011/ Saturday / 9:30am - 4:00pm / Main Campus / Registration Closes November 10th
January 28, 2012 / Saturday / 9:30am - 4:00pm / Main Campus / Registration Closes January 19th
February 18, 2012 / Saturday / 9:30am - 4:00pm / Main Campus / Registration Closes February 9th
March 24, 2012 / Saturday / 9:30am - 4:00pm / Main Campus / Registration Closes March 15th
April 21, 2012 / Saturday / 9:30am - 4:00pm / Main Campus / Registration Closes April 12th
May12, 2012 / Saturday / 9:30am - 4:00pm / Main Campus / Registration Closes May 3rd
ACE-110 Healthy You
This course will discuss 13 habits to improve your life. A Balanced Life Is Nothing More Than a Series of Choices That Move You Toward Better Health. It's time to slow down, regroup and look at your priorities. There was a time when the boundaries between work and home were fairly clear. Today, however, work is likely to invade your personal life, and maintaining work-life balance is no simple task. Still, work-life balance isn't out of reach. Start by evaluating your relationship to work, exercise, family and self. Then, apply specific strategies to help you strike a healthier balance.
Course Fee: $50
Healthy You Sessions:
Contact ACE Office: 302-857-6820
ACE-109 Leadership for Women
Gain respect through your words, actions, and judicious "use of power", improve your decision-making and problem-solving skills, shatter the old cliché of the "aggressive" woman (compared to the "assertive" man), motivate and mentor. You and your team will reap the benefits, tap into the realities of power, politics and leadership to cultivate and use your influence, lead in times of crisis by keeping your cool and seeing that others keep theirs, and establish your leadership image by coming across as authoritative, self-possessed and in control. Design your professional/personal development plan.
Course Fee: $250
Leadership for Women Sessions:
Contact ACE Office: 302-857-6820
ACE-108 Quality Service for Professionals
At this Quality Service Etiquette for the Business Professional training, participants will focus their efforts on learning tasks that help them to best meet their customers' needs. Customer service skills include determining what to do and how to manage the customer interchange. This course is activity driven, and through the use of practical self-management skills, exercises and games, each participant will learn to solve their customer service challenges.
Course Fee: $250
Quality Service for Professionals Sessions:
Contact ACE Office: 302-857-6820
ACE-111 Strategic Planning and Development
Strategy is a major focus in the quest for higher revenues and profits. With help from a proven strategic planning and development process and our strategist Helen Gladney, companies are pursuing ways to expand their organizations. Our strategic planning development course provides a format for developing strategies through the business process and establishing measurable goals. The participant will not only learn how to determine where their organizations are going, but also how it is going to get there.
Course Fee: $250
Quality Service for Professionals Sessions:
Contact ACE Office: 302-857-6820
ACE-206 Network Security - Main Campus
Network Security will teach students to design and implement security solutions that will reduce the risk of revenue loss and vulnerability. As with existing courses offered by the Cisco Networking Academy, the focus of the course will combine hands-on experience, instructor-led and e-learning for students. This 70-hour course will be an introduction to network security and overall security processes. There will be particular emphasis on:
Security policy design and management, security technologies, products and solutions, firewall and secure router design, installation, configuration and maintenance, AAA implementation using routers and firewalls, VPN implementation using routers and firewalls.
Course Fee: $1500
Network Security Sessions:
Summer 2012
ACE-203 Computer Networking CCNA II
The Cisco CCNA Exploration curriculum provides a comprehensive overview of networking, from fundamentals to advanced applications and services. This course is the second of a four-part series that prepares students for the Cisco CCNA network associated certification exam. CCNA is the industry standard, foundational certification for networking careers. Students need to complete all four courses of CCNA Exploration to fully prepare for the CCNA exam.
Course Fee:
CCNA II Sessions:
October 24, 2011 - December 16, 2011 / Mondays & Thursdays / 6:00pm - 9:00pm / Main Campus / Registration Closes October 17th
PMP* Certification
PMP* Certification from the Project Management Institute is the industry standard for demonstrating competence and a solid foundation for project management skills. This workshop provides strategies to condense your study efforts and methods you can use for the multiple answer questions that achieve a higher score on the exam.
Professionals who lead and direct cross-functional teams to deliver projects within the constraints of schedule, budget, and scope. And those who want to prepare to write the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification exam from the Project Management Institute. Workshop also provides the 35-hour education credits required for new applicants.
Course participants will learn –
Understand terminology, key concepts, and ideas for planning and scheduling the project.
Prepare for Project Management Professional (PMP®) Exam. (See www.pmi.org for details)
Assess projects, manage costs, time, scope, risk, and quality of the projects.
Gain the management skills and tools needed to successfully lead a project team.
Course Prerequisite: High School Diploma or equivalent + 5 years of Project Management experience or Graduate or equivalent + 3 years of Project Management experience.
Course Fee: $1850 (Includes all course materials and one practice test)
PMP* Certification Sessions:
Online Professional Development Courses
Course Registration:
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