USI Offering Winter 2019 Non-Credit Lifelong Learning Enrichment Courses

USI Offering Winter 2019 Non-Credit Lifelong Learning Enrichment Courses

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Jump-start your 2019 New Year's Resolutions with a Lifelong Learning noncredit course. No formal admission to the University is required. Find your course online, click register and proceed with your purchase online.

Lifelong Learning allows adults, professionals, teachers, children and students to unleash their potential by expanding their knowledge.

Lifelong Learners can explore a wide variety of courses including continuing education for various professions, courses that assist in career advancement, fitness courses, and leisure and recreational courses. Courses are intended for adults, unless specified for youth. USI also offers consulting services and customized training to area businesses and organizations.

 

Classes Offered Winter 2019

Customized Consulting and Training
View a list of options

 

Arts and Design
Advanced Study of Herbs and Their Uses
Contemporary Spanish Theater Conference
Global Crossroads Multicultural Festival
Herbs-Not Just for Cooking
Hula Evansville
Introduction to the Stock Market
MAGIC! Multi-Ability, Multi-Generational, Inclusive, Communities
Planning an Herb Garden for Culinary and Medical Uses
Soapmaking 101

Personal Finance
Healthcare in Retirement
Passport to Retirement
Social Security for Boomers

Software Skills
Basics of 3D Modeling
NEW Introduction to Coding
Microsoft Excel Level I
Microsoft Excel Level II
Microsoft Excel Level III
Microsoft Excel Level IV
Using Your iPad
Using Your Smartphone
Social Media 101
Social Media Marketing
NEW Tableau Training

Fitness and Recreation
Beginning Golf
Belly Dance Fitness for Mature Women
CPR/AED Certification
Introduction to Yoga
Sailing School
Yin Yoga

Youth

Building Reading Skills (Grades K-5)
College Achievement Program (High school students)
Girls Who Code
Bro Code
Saturday Art Workshop

Online Noncredit Courses

Learn from home or your desk at work, on your schedule. All you need is an e-mail address and a computer with a reliable Internet connection to get started. We offer courses and certificate programs from several providers to meet a wide variety of educational needs and goals. The list below is just a sampling of the many opportunities available.

Education to Go ®

  • Accounting and Finance
  • Business
  • College Readiness
  • Computer Applications
  • Design and Composition
  • Language and Arts
  • Law and Legal
  • Teaching and Education*
  • Technology
  • Test Prep
    • GRE
    • GMAT
    • Writing and Publishing

Education to Go ® (Career Training)

  • Business and Professional
  • Career Online High School
  • Hospitality and Service Industry
  • IT and Software Development
  • Management and Corporate
  • Media and Design
  • Skilled Trades and Industrial
  • Sustainable Energy and Going Green

JER Online Continuing Workforce Education:

  • Build Apps
  • Green Ed
  • Industrial Training
  • Information Technology
  • Microsoft Bundles and Individual Courses
  • Non-Profit Training
  • Professions, Trades
  • Project Management Certificate Prep (PMI)
  • Travel Agency Certificates
  • Workplace Training

JER Technical Writing Certification

  • Advanced Certificate Course in Structured Writing for Technical Documentation
  • Basic Certificate in Technical Writing
  • Certificate Course in Writing for a Global Market
  • Certificate Course in Technical Business Writing for Engineers
  • Certificate in Technical Communication with Emphasis in Project Management
  • Certificate in Technical Writing for Current Technical Writers
  • Technical Communication Industry Certificate - Mastery Level
  • Workplace Experience Certificate (Learning Assessment Service)
  • Writers at Work Technical Certificate Program

Online continuing education for K-12 educators

*Ed2go for educators

Now educators can enroll in short online courses tailored to their needs and available 24 hours a day.  New courses begin every month, most at a cost of $115, and consist of two lessons and two quizzes each week.  Upon completion of the final exam, participants can print a certificate of completion.  Access to each lesson expires after 2 weeks, meaning courses can take up to eight weeks to complete.  Topics include technology integration, SMART Boards, creating a classroom web site, working with ESL/EFL students, classroom Spanish, Singapore Math Strategies, reading and writing strategies for working with students with autism or ADHD.  To view current offerings, visit www.ed2go.com/usi and select Teaching and Education. Call Outreach and Engagement at 812-464-1989 with questions.

VESi

The University of Southern Indiana (USI) is proud to announce a new partnership with Virtual Education Software, Inc. (VESi) to offer online noncredit courses targeted toward the needs of K-12 educators.

Topics include:

  • Advanced Classroom Management
  • Attention Deficit Disorder
  • Autism and Asperger's Disorder
  • Child Abuse
  • Early Childhood
  • Inclusion
  • Differentiation
  • Reading Strategies

VESi and the University of Southern Indiana strongly encourage you to check with your school district and/or licensing agency to verify these course offerings will meet your district and/or state requirements for salary advancement and/or state certificate re-licensure before registering.

-University of Southern Indiana

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