Get oriented to the college environment by combining conceptual knowledge with practical strategies and skills. Since this course applies these concepts to real-world situations, it is particularly helpful for first-generation students and anyone who wants to be sure they are prepared, academically or otherwise, for college.
Learn how to perfect your professional writing skills to promote clear, organized, and engaging messages for print, social media, and digital environments.
Explore word processing skills by learning the basics of Microsoft Word and Google Docs, then see those skills applied to creating common business documents. This course is for people with little or no word processing experience.
Get a comprehensive introduction to spreadsheets in this course that covers everything first-time users need to know.
Learn how to format spreadsheets to make them easy to read, apply conditional formatting to draw attention to critical data, use formulas and functions, build multi-page spreadsheets, and add 3-dimensional formulas and functions across multiple worksheets and workbooks.
Learn how to create spreadsheets in collaboration with others to present data using charts, plots, graphics, and tables. Also, explore tools for formatting charts and adding graphics to better present and organize information.
Explore the elements that contribute to preparing for and successfully delivering presentations, such as audience analysis, methods for crafting your message, planning for careful and effective oral presentation, and creating supportive material and presentation aids.
Explore how to write a coherent, persuasive grant proposal to obtain funding for a project or initiative by focusing on topics like the basics of nonprofit organizations, how to interpret RFPs, the elements of a grant proposal, and how to find funding sources and build relationships with funders.
Develop a criteria framework for finding, evaluating, analyzing, and using information ethically by determining currency, relevancy, authority, accuracy, and purpose, and ultimately integrating sources into your writing to support your argument.
Explore the basics of financial literacy, personal money management, financial planning, and investment strategies. Applications in personal finance include creating financial goals, budgeting and saving, consumer credit, loans and debt, personal bankruptcy, insurance, investment and retirement, mutual funds, the stock market, taxes, fraud, and sustainability.
Develop the application materials you need for today's job market by honing your resume writing skills, learning how to create an impressive resume or improve the one you already have, and getting suggestions for writing an effective cover letter.
Prepare to ace professional job interviews by learning about interview preparation, interview methods, and how to effectively showcase your qualifications and leave a lasting impression on employers.
Learn about typical workplace etiquette protocols, communication standards, and cultural awareness strategies in order to navigate common workplace obstacles as smoothly as possible.
Apply crisis communication principles to protect and defend a company or organization facing a crisis or a challenge that threatens to harm its brand or reputation.
Explore the fundamental concepts behind Bitcoin and how everyone can use this open-source, strictly limited digital money that operates on a peer-to-peer network.
Get a competitive edge in the marketplace by understanding data visualization, performing quantitative and qualitative data analysis, crafting data visualizations, and presenting results.
Learn fundamental communication theories and practices necessary for becoming a critical consumer and producer of messages by focusing on the concepts of messages, audience, medium, and cultural context.
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Discover the competencies, stages, settings, roles, and ethical considerations in small-group communication for practical application.
Explore the tools and strategies needed to foster a positive and productive communication culture in the workplace.
Learn the importance of setting goals, delegating tasks, and prioritizing your work to help you manage your time and enhance workplace productivity.
Explore mass communication and earn practical skills for effective communication across various media platforms.
Examine the importance of creating honest and ethical sales relationships, communicating with customers, making a sales presentation, and using your leadership skills to motivate your sales team.
Explore management by investigating what management is and the role managers play in fulfilling an organization's objectives.
Explore historical theories of management, the effect of globalization on management, and how firms conduct international business.
Explore aspects that are important to the climate of a company – organizational culture, diversity, and business ethics – and why they are important.
Explore topics including the leadership and management skills necessary in the different stages of group development, how to create an effective team, and how to harness a team's strengths.
Explore the broad field of Human Resource Management and learn about the importance of strategic employee recruitment, selection, and retention.
Explore the planning functions of managers, including management strategy frameworks, components of business strategy, and setting and achieving goals and objectives.
Learn about the decision-making process, including basic decision types, tools, methods, and the insights that help you realize how decision-making involves both logic and emotion.
Explore organizational structures and how traditional management practices are making way for more modern approaches.
Learn how to identify appropriate workplace strategies for discouraging dysfunctional conflict (often based on misunderstanding, personalities that clash, negative stereotypes, and bias), and promote respectful functional conflict to foster creative thinking, problem-solving techniques, and innovation. Explore different methods of conflict resolution, including negotiation, mediation, arbitration, litigation, and other remedies.
Study how our culture views and values the ideas, qualities, and ideals of ethical leadership. Consider the essential qualities of good leadership: honesty, moral courage and moral vision, compassion, fairness, intellectual excellence and willingness to listen to others, creative thinking, aesthetic sensitivity, good timing, and selflessness.
Explore how raw materials are selected, obtained, and then distributed to the customer as a finished product – the supply chain. Learn how every step in the process can be affected by changes in distribution, resource availability, and other external factors.
Learn fundamental programming concepts using JavaScript to produce code for browser-based interactive experiences using conditions and events.
Learn JavaScript programming with objects, data structures, and functions to create interactive JavaScript with event handlers and forms.
Learn the basics of object-oriented (OO) programming, a paradigm that uses objects that contain data in the form of instance variables and methods that control the behavior of the objects. This course is suitable for anyone and uses Java to demonstrate key OO concepts.
Learn the basics of data manipulation and visualization in R – the world’s most popular language for statistical computing – even if you do not have prior programming experience.
