Professional Development Courses

COURSE FEE:  $79

This course is designed for workers in construction, building development, repairs/alterations, and other fields. Topics include:

• Fall protection
• Personal protective equipment (PPE)
• Electrocution
• OSHA inspection procedures

COURSE FEE:  $159

Excellent service does not simply come from a friendly transaction or helpful technology.  It is the result of truly understanding your customer’s expectations and putting the right guidelines and service standards in place to exceed them.  When an organizational framework properly unites its people, place and processes by putting the customer at its core, exceptional service becomes possible across customer touch points.  With more than 90 years of world-renowned customer service, no one understands this better than Disney.

COURSE FEE:  $159

It is critical that today’s organizations go beyond just the legal aspects of sexual harassment.  This program addresses both the legal and behavioral aspects of sexual harassment to ensure an inclusive, highly productive work environment.

COURSE FEE:  $159

The ultimate success or failure of a project is directly related to the quality of the planning process for the project.  Organizations are using project management skills to provide a structure for dealing with increasingly competitive markets, financial pressures to improve performance, restructuring, acquisitions and globalization.  This course provides participants with an overview of the essential elements of project management and the project management life cycle.

COURSE FEE:  $159

A goal-oriented strategic planning process that focuses on meshing your organization’s vision with your strategic direction can set you apart.  The process determines not only WHERE your organization is going, but also HOW it is going to get there.  Participants will gain an in-depth assessment of their organization as compared with the marketplace, develop core values and a succinct vision that will guide the future of their business.

COURSE FEE:  $50

TIPS^® is the global leader in education and training for the responsible service, sale, and consumption of alcohol. Proven effective by third-party studies, TIPS is a skills-based training program that is designed to prevent intoxication, underage drinking, and drunk driving.

The insurance industry discounts liquor liability premiums up to 25% for TIPS-certified clients. Courts recognize TIPS as the standard for server training programs. Liquor boards mitigate fines and penalties for violators who incorporate TIPS training at their establishments. Hotels, restaurants, and bars across the country reap the benefits of more professional wait staff and more satisfied customers.

Join the thousands of businesses and organizations that already enjoy the benefits of TIPS.

Course fee:  $500

Gain knowledge of everyday computer skills needed to perform workplace tasks. This course is designed to present solid computer skills in Microsoft Office. Students become proficient in MS Word, Excel PowerPoint, and Access.

Textbook available at the RVCC Bookstore.

Course fee: $125

Create powerful presentations using the new features of Microsoft Office PowerPoint. Learn with hands-on activities. Topics include building new presentations, formatting and proofing, using drawing tools, enhancing and delivering presentations using WordArt and clip art.

Prerequisite: MS Windows or equivalent knowledge and keyboard proficiency.
Textbook available at the RVCC Bookstore. 

Course fee: $167

Learn how to plan and create a PowerPoint presentation that speaks to the audience.  Successful presentations should deliver the critical information in a natural and engaging way.  See how clickable items, interesting transition and animation schemes, and segmenting the presentation into logical chunks make it compelling for the audience, while keeping it easy for the presenter to deliver.

COURSE FEE: $125

Excel is an easy-to-use spreadsheet program. All Excel courses are taught using MOS approved courseware. Topics include:  entering and editing data and creating charts; modifying a worksheet; using functions and formatting worksheets and alternative user input.

Prerequisites: MS Windows or equivalent knowledge and keyboard proficiency.
Textbook available at the RVCC Bookstore. 

COURSE FEE: $167

In this advanced level of Excel, you will learn how to create pivot tables and turn them into beautiful reports. Learn to use power viewer to make your queries captivating. Use slicers to query your data or charts and use them in your spreadsheets outside of pivot tables.

Prerequisite: Experience using MS Excel is required.
Textbook available at the RVCC Bookstore.

Course fee: $142

This course will build on the basics of MS Word.  Learn to add new features to create enhanced charts. Topics include: working with sections and columns; formatting tables and importing data; using styles and auto text; headers and footers and templates.

Prerequisites: MS Basic Word or equivalent experience.
Textbook available at the RVCC Bookstore.

COURSE FEE: $269

Transform how you initiate, execute, monitor, and close projects leading to faster completion times. Learn to create and define projects, work with invested parties, set estimations, and manage multiple task calendars. Gain the knowledge and skills to build, maintain, and control focused project plans.

Textbook available at the RVCC Bookstore.

Course fee: $1,640

This program teaches the fundamental skills for HTML, CSS, SEO, JavaScript, JQuery, MySQL and PHP and how they are used to build websites.  The program includes a subscription to online content with new updates that you can access during and after the program.

Course fee: $500

This course teaches the JavaScript programming language used for making web pages interactive.  You will learn the technical aspects of programming such as variables, data type, expressions, arrays, objects, built-in libraries, looping flows:  for, while, logic flows; if and switch and functions.  You will learn programming tools already built into your web browser to help in both learning but also debugging programs.  The course also includes JQuery, an essential-to-know JavaScript library that makes the JavaScript more versatile for interacting with web page HTML and CSS.  JavaScript and JQuery together are used when interacting with web page form fields and buttons.  Includes access to online lessons from the instructor.

Prerequisites:  HTML and CSS Skills for Creating Web Pages or equivalent.
Textbook available at the RVCC Bookstore.

Course fee: $230

This course is an introduction to basic 3D CAD (Computer-Aided Design) techniques using AutoCAD software and provides a guided, hands-on environment to learn the basics of solid modeling.  Fundamentals of 3D drawing, 3D editing, and introduction to 3D printing are presented.

Prerequisites: AutoCAD I or equivalent knowledge and keyboard proficiency.
Textbook available at the RVCC Bookstore.

Course fee: $252

This courses offers a study skills review and classroom instruction of the subject areas needed to pass the High School Equivalency Exam.  Practice exams, pre-testing, and post-testing evaluations are provided.  For an additional charge you may take the High School Equivalency exam at RVCC in Branchburg.

Textbook available at the RVCC Bookstore.

Math and Language Arts/Writing Prep may also be take separately.

Language Arts and Writing Prep & Review

Course fee: $126

Math Prep & Review

Course fee: $126

Course fee: $199

If you’re planning to apply to graduate school, you’ll likely have to take the GRE.  This series is here to help you prepare for the verbal reasoning, analytical writing, and math section of the GRE.  Topics include reading comprehension, text completion, sentence equivalence questions, and both essay tasks as well as quantitative comparison, data interpretation, and standard math questions. 

This course is fully online through ed2go.  To register go to:  https://www.ed2go.com/rvcc/online-courses/gmat-preparation?tab=detail

Course fee: $336

Everyone is capable of speaking English with clarity and proper pronunciation.  There is no trick to it.  Studying accent reduction involves learning the sounds and intonation of the target language.  This is split into 4 parts:  vowel sounds, consonant sounds, stress and tone.  This course is designed to make second language speakers’ English clearer and reduce the influence of a mother tongue.