Continuing Education Programs
UTRGV Continuing Education provides professional development and personal enrichment opportunities with the aim of serving the diverse population of the RGV. Whether you are simply a lifelong learner in pursuit of new knowledge or a working professional hoping to enhance your skills, UTRGV Continuing Education has something for you.
Our courses and programs arm you with the critical skills and knowledge essential for today’s diverse globalized job market. Our courses feature personalized small class sizes that ensure individual attention and support, experienced instructors with real-world knowledge, and year-round opportunities.
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Certificate Program Courses
Update your skills and stay competitive with one of UTRGV Continuing Educations immersive certificate programs. These programs are the ideal resource for people wanting to change careers, learn new skills or boost their earning potential. Each of our non-credit certificate programs are co-designed and taught by industry experts and UTRGV faculty, with convenient scheduling to fit your busy lifestyle.
This is a five-day course to prepare students in becoming Apple Certified Mac Technicians (ACMT).
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The Bereavement Coordinator Certificate Program is designed to equip professionals with the skills to guide grieving families to proper avenues of support. Tragic events such as accidents, active shootings, suicide or natural disasters, as well as the natural causes of death, may leave individuals, families and communities to face the challenge of healing from the effects of devastating grief.
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This certificate program in digital photography includes two levels, the basic and the advanced, to suit the needs of individuals who are interested in advancing their career in digital photography.
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This 30-hour hands-on program is designed for those interested in learning about event planning and the event industry. Students will acquire in-depth knowledge about event planning and develop a customized toolkit they can apply for every event they will manage in the future.
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This series of workshops are built in succession to provide the participant with the resources, expert guided practice and mentoring to be able to write a competitive and fundable grant proposal by the end of the series.
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This curriculum is designed to prepare participants to become effective business owners and executive managers within their medical practices and focuses on the critical components of business ownership not taught within the traditional medical education programs.
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This course is designed to provide an overview of HR functions and the stages of the employee life cycle. Participants will gain practical skills needed to manage critical HR functions on a daily basis and avoid legal pitfalls.
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One important element of a paralegal’s job, which is of ultimate importance to the firm—is his or her writing. Whether organizing records, preparing legal documents, or communicating with experts for trial, paralegals must become skilled communicators when representing their legal team and employer.
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This eight-module certificate program is designed to enhance the existing skills and develop new ones for dealing with "real-world" challenges and situations in the nonprofit sector.
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In an increasingly digital world, social media has changed relationships between organizations and their audiences. Whether you’re interested in lead generation, social influence, or creative marketing, improving your social media skills will always pay off in the long run.
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Videos are now becoming excellent communication tools and are increasingly utilized in social media and e-marketing strategies. This is a must-attend course for businesses that want to grab audience’s attention and keep them engaged.
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These days with social media and the almost endless avenues to market yourself, simple static images don’t grab the attention of your audience quite the same way as before. So what is the next step in making sure you stay relevant and in the eye of your consumers? Video!
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This Introductory Certificate Program is designed to give you the working knowledge of Photoshop to be applied to your own images and designs. HTML5, CSS3 and Dreamweaver.
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Web development skills are becoming even more valuable in a competitive global workforce that increasingly requires strong coding and technical skills. In this course, participants will learn best practices and the latest industry standards to design, create, publish and maintain web pages using HTML and associated technologies.
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The program is designed to enhance and develop the skills of the participants to deal with “real-world” challenges and situations. All tracks are developed from a “practitioner’s” point of view utilizing knowledge based skill sets that can be incorporated within your career path.
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This program is intended for students who want to prepare for an exciting, challenging and rewarding career in healthcare.
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With the rise of social media, small business owners and social influencers have gained a powerful platform that makes digital marketing skills essential. This course is primarily designed to help individuals build their brand image using the Adobe Creative Suite programs: Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator.
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The Dental Assistant Program prepares students for entry level positions in one of the fastest growing health care positions - Dental Assistant.
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This curriculum is designed to prepare participants to become effective business owners and executive managers within their medical practices and focuses on the critical components of business ownership not taught within the traditional medical education programs.
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Learn the fundamentals and best practices of project management methodology as applied to IT initiatives, and practice and master the skills you need to deliver IT projects on time, within budget, and to specification.
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Medical administrative assistants, medical secretaries, and medical records clerks are all positions in great demand, in a field that is expected to grow by an impressive 34% through 2018.
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This combined 80 hour billing and coding course offers the skills needed to solve insurance billing problems, how to manually file claims (using the CPT and ICD-9 manual), complete common insurance forms, trace delinquent claims, appeal denied claims and use generic forms to streamline billing procedures.
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Medication Therapy Management (MTM) Services certificate training program is an active learning seminar in which participants practice a variety of communication techniques to elicit patient’s medication experience and identify medication-related problems, using cases based on real-life experiences of MTM providers.
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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.
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This course provides participants with the most current, foundational knowledge, training and competency testing to certify them to practice as professional certified fitness trainers. UTRGV Continuing Education has partnered with World Instructor Training Schools (W.I.T.S.) to offer a comprehensive Personal Trainer Certification program that offers students the latest knowledge in a range of topics.
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This comprehensive 50-hour program will prepare students to work as a pharmacy technician in a retail or other pharmacy setting and to take the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board’s PTCB exam.
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This 90 hour Phlebotomy Technician Program prepares professionals to collect blood specimens from clients for the purpose of laboratory analysis.
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This program is designed for people interested in earning a Texas Real Estate License which requires you complete six qualifying education courses of study.
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This training program is based on the Registered Behavior Technician Task List and is designed to meet the 40-hour training requirement for the RBT credential.
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Students will experience performance in a fully produced opera while learning how they, as an individual, bring to life the sense of “the people” and the “culture” in the world of Carmen.
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This certificate program, offered through the Academy for Entrepreneurs, incorporates a highly selective admission process which is intended to identify the best early-stage entrepreneurs in the Rio Grande Valley. It is designed to provide the right level of coaching and support necessary to help entrepreneurs find success within their first year. This 8-week long program will be offered in a blended learning format that will include online and in-class sessions.
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Hybrid Courses
Digital Marketing has become an essential skill in a world driven by technology and innovative communication. This course will help you gain the knowledge and skills required to successfully execute effective digital marketing campaigns. You will learn how to promote and sell products and services through online marketing methods such as social media messaging, website ads, Facebook marketing campaigns, Google Adwords, and more.
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K-12 Programs
Club Code UTRGV is an innovative technology program launched by UTRGV Continuing Education in 2015 to build a strong pipeline of technologically oriented youth in the Rio Grande Valley that are better prepared to enter the workforce or higher education with an in-depth understanding of the coding and programming languages and thrive in the 21st century workforce.
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The JSTEM (Journalism, Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math) Project Based Inquiry (PBI) is an innovative summer enrichment program offered by UTRGV Continuing Education in partnership with College of Education & P-16 Integration. This program is an opportunity for high school students to learn STEM in an authentically situated research setting at UTRGV. Journalism PBI takes place in tandem with STEM PBI and is designed to provide an opportunity for students interested in mass communication and marketing to gain hands-on experience under the guidance of experts in the fields. The journalism group will apply what they learned during the camp by chronicling the activities of the STEM students.
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This summer camp brings together students from high schools across the Rio Grande Valley for a week of fun and learning at The College of Education & P16 Integration at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. During that week, students explore the teaching profession by defining teaching excellence. To achieve this, they use mobile technologies and collaborate with students from their school and other schools in the Valley, College of Education faculty, students from the teacher preparation program, and others members of the teaching community.
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Teachers Preparation for Student Learning: Training teachers within an authentic K-12 classroom experience hold tremendous promise in effectively preparing them to adopt a solution-based frame of thinking with a focus on student learning outcomes. The key to developing this mindset is receiving strong mentorship and support during this process. UTRGV PREP-A employs university-affiliated experts and experienced teachers to serve teaching candidates with a high level of support as they progress through the program and develop as professional educators.
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These innovative workshops are designed to help find new ways to teach biology, chemistry, physics, computer science, or engineering topics to high school and middle school students. UTRGV science and engineering faculty will utilize research activities that are locally relevant, to train secondary STEM educators and district coordinators in developing TEKS-aligned lessons and labs that can be replicated in school settings. Workshop participants will be involved in hands-on or project-based lessons that are engaging and designed to increase students’ understanding of concepts, while getting them excited about STEM.
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Online Programs
Our online courses are designed with convenience and flexibility in mind. They provide rich content and interactive learning experience to prepare you to succeed in the current marketplace.
This introductory-level course helps learners craft a resume that is targeted, elegant, and effective.
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The courses included in this certificate program will provide managers the basic foundation they need to become competent Agile practitioners.
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This certificate offers instruction on crafting many of the most common business communication formats: memos, reports, brochures, proposals, presentations, catalogs, and websites.
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This certificate program will first help you become re-acquainted with your own stores of creativity and innovation. Next, you are given a set of tools that allow you to leverage your creativity to identify and solve organizational problems.
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This certificate in data analytics provides an overview of topics in statistics and their applications in a variety of fields. This certificate will present the basics of quantitative analysis and its increasing use in today's professional landscape.
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This Certificate in Digital Marketing covers the strategic issues, marketing methods and tactics, industry terminology, and best practices.
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This certificate will teach you how to assess your organization's financial health by reviewing balance sheets, income statements, and statements of cash flow, and you will discover how finance and accounting tools can be used to support informed decision making within organizations.
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This suite of courses will teach you the basics of managing the benefits and policies that support an effective staff.
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The courses in this suite offer advice on leadership that can help you stand out as a leader among your peers.
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This Certificate in Managing Change and Resolving Conflict covers the key issues and best practices for managers dealing with contentious situations in the workplace.
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This online certificate program introduces learners to key current management issues for nonprofit organizations.
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Sustainability refers to the use of ecosystems and their resources in a manner that satisfies current needs without compromising the needs or options of future generations.
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This bundle combines four online, self-paced courses into this Leadership PDU Bundle, to provide practitioners with many of the PDUs they need to fulfill requirements in this important skill area!
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The Manager's Toolbox is a suite of online courses designed for the new manager. New managers face challenges every day that they have likely never encountered before.
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This course explores the fundamental concepts and theories practitioners will need to successfully guide operations in manufacturing and service organizations.
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This course provides a comprehensive preparation for the Program Management Professional (PgMP)® certification exam including exam-taking tips, comprehensive module quizzes, and over 200 practice questions covering the areas of knowledge as described in PMI's Program Management Professional Exam Content Specification.
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This bundle has combined four online, self-paced courses into this Strategic PDU Bundle, to provide practitioners with many of the PDUs they need to fulfill requirements in this important skill area!
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This course introduces the core concepts and components of supply chain management, including supplier evaluation, logistics, inventory management, and other supply chain practices.
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Professional Development Courses
Professional development is more than a luxury, it is a necessity. Designed specifically for working professionals to maintain licensure, update skills, and advance their careers, we offer a range of innovative courses including certificate programs, continuing professional education (CPEs), seminars, and professional development workshops.
This summer academy program at UTRGV offers talented students the resources to present strong credentials for success in the Physician Assistant curriculum by providing a solid foundation in the basic sciences in anatomy and physiology and learning skills.
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The Active Leadership for IT Professionals program provides the concepts, tools and practices to help overcome these challenges and to help IT leaders effectively coach, empower and lead individuals and teams to higher levels of performance.
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In this course, you will gain the knowledge and skills to administer and maintain database applications using the SQL Server 2012 product features and tools.
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This course is part two of a series of three courses. Through this series you will gain the skills and knowledge necessary to implement a core Windows Server 2012 infrastructure in an existing enterprise environment.
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This course introduces participants to the use of Adobe Lightroom CC in editing professional-grade photographs. This course is designed to help first time users learn the basic tools in Lightroom and apply them to their own images and projects.
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This is an advanced Spanish course that builds upon existing oral proficiencies of heritage speakers of Spanish. Enhances abilities in the home-based language by developing a full range of registers including public speaking and formal written discourse.
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This is a beginning Spanish course designated for non-Spanish speakers. This course is designated to develop basic Spanish language skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing within a cultural framework.
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While fluency and decoding skills are a part of good reading, the ultimate goal of reading is comprehension. Good readers create meaning from texts using a variety of comprehension skills. In this workshop, participants will learn a variety of teaching strategies that will improve comprehension skills, especially for below-grade level readers.
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The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine’s Office of Counseling and Wellness was awarded a 3 year grant in the amount of $304,490.00 by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to implement a Campus Suicide Prevention Program (CSPP) in collaboration with the UTRGV Counseling Center (CC) and the Office of Continuing Education.
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UTRGV Continuing Education and the Department of Social Work have partnered to offer professionals in the social services sector the chance to continue building their skills with this new Clinical Intervention Series. During each workshop, participants will gain hands on experience in a range of mental health topics including techniques for counseling children with anxiety, helping others deal with the effects of terminal illness, and understanding how shame and guilt drives human behavior.
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College application essays can be the make-it-or-break-it point in the application process. Submitting an application essay that is boring, under-developed, and with grammatical errors will send the wrong message, and can be the reason a student does not get accepted into their college of choice.
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This course is part three of a series of three courses. Through this series you will gain the skills and knowledge necessary to implement a core Windows Server 2012 Infrastructure in an existing enterprise environment.
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Students who are eager and excited about reading find it easier to build the repertoire of skills that make great readers. In this workshop, participants will learn why some readers are disengaged and how this attitude affects learning to read. Participants will also learn a variety of teaching techniques that will help these reluctant readers become motivated and engaged, thus leading towards greater reading achievement.
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Each of these introductory survey courses is designed to give you a developing understanding and facility with a genre of creative writing so that you may apply the craft and technique of writing to your own projects.
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The workshop will involve and engage professionals how to apply the use of healing art activities to conduct grief work with bereaved families who lost a loved one to an opioid overdose.
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In collaboration with School of Social Work, the Ethics for Professionals workshop seeks to arm social workers, counselors, and other healthcare professionals with the tools they need to navigate the complex field of therapy.
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This course is designed to help emerging, aspiring, and professional photographers address, and overcome challenges presented while shooting food photography in-house.
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Bereavement and grief are difficult for everyone. For individuals with autism, it is often even more difficult to understand emotional reactions.
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In this course, you will learn how to install, operate, configure, and verify a basic IPv4 and IPv6 network, including configuring a LAN switch, configuring an IP router, managing network devices, and identifying basic security threats. The goal of the course is to provide you with the knowledge and skills necessary to install, configure, and operate a small- to medium-sized network.
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Take photography to the next level in this fast-paced digital photography workshop designed for those who want to move past the basics, and build on their existing technical and creative skills.
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This is an intermediate Spanish course designed for non-Spanish speakers. This course is a review and application of skills in listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing.
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Keeping up with the ever-evolving digital marketing landscape is a challenge for companies that rely on digital marketing for their services and products. This introductory level certificate program is designed for novices who wish to gain a solid understanding of the basics of digital marketing techniques.
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The invention of smart phones and photo filters has turned almost everyone into a photographer. However, good photography requires a strong sense of creativity and aesthetics, coupled with a range of technical skills.
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Videos are now becoming excellent communication tools and are increasingly utilized in social media and e-marketing strategies. This is a must-attend course for businesses that want to grab audience’s attention and keep them engaged.
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In this exciting and dynamic course, you will get an introduction to the lifecycle of managing IT services to deliver to business expectations.
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Through the use of group discussions and hands-on activities, this stress-reduction workshop will explore the sources and consequences of stress and focus on ways to both minimize and manage stress.
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This course is designed to strengthen students’ performance on the essay portion of STAAR writing exams.
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The course will substantially improve the ability to interpret effectively on behalf of Spanish-speaking patients. It will cover linguistic and culture aspects of medical interpreting that if not executed correctly could lead to loss of vital information and dire patient consequences.
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This 3-hour course is designed for those who desire to gain the necessary skills to create, edit, format and print basic Microsoft Excel 2016 worksheets.
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In today's market, more than 80 percent of jobs require digital skills and programs like Excel are becoming a vital tool for many careers. Learning how to use Excel can increase your productivity at your current job and make you a more marketable candidate. Our intermediate-level course will have you on the way to becoming a tech-savvy Excel user.
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CompTIA's Network+ is the premier vendor-neutral networking certification. Our Network+ Prep Course is designed to provide the foundation you need not only to be productive on the job but also to be successful in more specialized topics and in your pursuit of vendor-specific certifications.
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UTRGV Continuing Education, in partnership with the Office of Community Relations, is offering a three part workshop series this Spring, designed specifically for non-profit leaders.
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UTRGV Continuing Education and the Office of Community Relations are hosting a series of workshops this spring providing up-to-date resources and information for leaders in the nonprofit industry.
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This introductory professional development course is designed to give first time users and overview of Adobe Photoshop CC, the world’s most popular graphics and photo editing software.
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This course has been designed to provide training in soft skills competence that is expected in higher education and employment settings but rarely taught directly. The courses are taught by UTRGV instructors, professors, and administrators with expertise in their modules. They are offered in seminar-style, with an emphasis on interaction and constructive peer and instructor feedback.
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The Project Management 101 course is designed as a starting point for any individual who must lead and manage projects, but has not been trained as a formal project manager.
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This course relates to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and is designed for IT professionals without previous Linux administration experience.
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This course is for individuals who have completed Red Hat® System Administration I (RH124).
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CompTIA's Security+ is the premier vendor-neutral security certification and demonstrates your knowledge of security concepts, tools, and procedures. It confirms your ability to react to security incidents, and it validates your skill in anticipating security risks and guarding against them.
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This course is designed to enable the attendee to learn practical and commonly used skills inherent in a general practice and/or surgical environment.
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If you are a Physician Assistant or a Nurse Practitioner, be sure to reserve your place today to increase your knowledge on suturing. 3 hours of AAPA approved CMEs included.
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Participants will be introduced to trauma-informed and specific care and will explore the ethics surrounding the best practices. This workshop will explore trauma basics and trauma-specific methods through skill-building exercises.
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In this course, you will learn how to implement and configure new features and functionality in Windows Server 2016. This course is designed for IT professionals who want to upgrade their technical skills from Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server 2016.
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This authorized VMware training course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere 6.7, which includes VMware ESXi 6.7 and VMware vCenter Server 6.7.
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This is an 8-hour public education program which introduces participants to the unique risk factors and warning signs of mental health problems in adolescents, builds understanding of the importance of early intervention, and teaches individuals how to help an adolescent in crisis or experiencing a mental health challenge.
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Professional Development Series for STEM Educators
These innovative workshops are designed to help find new ways to teach biology, chemistry, physics, computer science, or engineering topics to high school and middle school students.
Workshop participants will be involved in hands-on or project-based lessons that are engaging and designed to increase students’ understanding of concepts, while getting them excited about STEM.
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Teacher Training Programs
UTRGV Continuing Education teacher training programs are specifically designed to provide educators with the tools needed to maximize classroom learning and student success. With an emphasis in subjects and methods such as STEM courses and active learning strategies, these trainings afford teachers of all levels the opportunity to get students excited about learning.
This three-day face-to-face engaging and research-based training is required for teacher appraisers and will teach them to recognize the relationship between the seven strands of school leadership and five conceptual themes.
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With increasing consumer and professional interest in alternative and complementary care, Registered Nurses (RNs) are incorporating alternative/complementary modalities into their practices.
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While fluency and decoding skills are a part of good reading, the ultimate goal of reading is comprehension.
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The following series of workshops will provide participants the necessary background for supporting standards associated with the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) in Chemistry.
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Students who are eager and excited about reading find it easier to build the repertoire of skills that make great readers.
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This workshop is designed to provide practical and research-based resources and strategies to teach math and science to English Language Learners (ELLs). Participants will be exposed to the theoretical basis, skills and competencies needed to meet the needs of ELLs in the classroom. Participants will also experience at least four strategies for differentiating content instruction for these students.
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In this workshop, teachers will examine ways to put engagement and motivation back into reading language arts, especially given constraints with accountability testing preparation.
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Children learn to read more easily when school learning is connected with home literacy practices.
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Research in the era of Google and Bing create both an interesting and frustrating element for ELA teachers who want to understand how to teach students to be discerning readers of information, as well as keen synthesizers of content.
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Help kids of all ages love reading while addressing the reading TEKS and fostering critical thinking.
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This course is designed to strengthen students’ performance on the essay portion of STAAR writing exams.
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This interactive workshop will focus on special education process, procedures and services for students in high school classrooms. In first part of the workshop the instructor will discuss the basics of teaching students with special educational needs in inclusive classroom including special educational laws.
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The Texas Teacher Evaluation and Support System (T-TESS) is the Texas recommended appraisal process created to evaluate teachers and establish a system of support. T-TESS is directly correlated to the Texas Teacher Standards.
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Test Preparation Courses
Whether you are applying to college, graduate school, or any other professional program, test scores are a vital part of the college admissions process. Our test preparation courses will help you understand course content and objectives, while learning proven strategies to help you increase your test scores. Study programs include the GRE, GMAT, LSAT, and SAT preparation courses in addition to professional licensing exam prep courses designed specifically for busy professionals.
The Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) is the number one method of admission criteria for some of the world's top business programs.
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This course is a complete preparation for the GRE that goes beyond great classroom instruction and includes realistic practice exams, personalized score analysis, detailed individualized score reports, adaptable course materials, and personalized assignments.
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This course helps students develop the skills to navigate the LSAT successfully. The LSAT Curriculum emphasizes strategic methods and helps students learn to analyze the test methodically and efficiently.
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In this course, you'll gain the essential preparation needed to pass the PMP and CAPM® exams.
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This course offers complete SAT preparation that goes beyond great classroom instruction and includes realistic practice exams, personalized score analysis, detailed individualized score reports, adaptable course materials, and personalized assignments.
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This course is designed to help individuals who are preparing to take the licensing exams at the bachelors and masters level.
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