Professional Development Courses

Course fee: $336
RVCC offers basic instruction for individuals with little or limited knowledge of English. Textbook is available at the RVCC Bookstore.

Basic ESL (36 hours)
Instructor: Laurie Reynolds

ESL Level 1A
Instructor: Helen Fazio

ESL Level 1A
Instructor: Maria Chiara

ESL Level 1B
Instructor: Helen Fazio

ESL Level 1B
Instructor: Marie Chiara

ESL Level 2A
Instructor: Catherine Barrier

ESL Level 2B
Instructor: Catherine Barrier

ESL Discussion & Presentation I

Course fee: $336
Instructor: Catherine Barrier

For English language learners, building confidence to speak at work, in meetings, and in the community, etc. often comes as a result of lots of (guided) practice. This course is designed to increase the student’s vocabulary in general, to provide the students a “safe environment” in which to discuss a variety of topics, and a forum to practice delivering short presentations, with feedback, all to help the student feel more comfortable and be prepared to speak more confidently in day-to-day situations.

Pronunciation & Accent Reduction

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.

Course fee: $252
Instructor: Marsha Atkinson

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:  $159
Instructor: Leonard Diliberto

In this course, students will learn about privacy and security concerns when using the internet and social media applications.

Key topics include how to recognize and help to protect your computer from cyber-threats or unauthorized access, how to practice safe social networking, how to secure your computer and data, how to protect your mobile devices, and how to minimize the risks of identity theft and malware attacks.

COURSE FEE:  $159
Instructor: Georgann Occhipinti

Understanding and performing well in each step of the Sales Life Cycle is essential to success in sales. No matter what you are selling, every sale follows roughly the same pattern to advance the sales process. This program focuses on ways to strengthen each stage in the life cycle, improve planning during the sales process, enhance the action steps, and improve the ability to close the sale.

COURSE FEE:  $159
Instructor: Georgann Occhipinti

Public relations demands an integrated approach to effectively communicate your story and message.  It is important to access the best channels for your goal.  This program focuses on the fundamentals of public relations and will help participants to identify PR options to consider for their plan.

COURSE FEE:  $336
Instructor: Catherine Barrier

This course will introduce the students to different kinds of business writing, such as standard business letters, internal memos, cover letters (for resumes), public service announcements (PSAs), letters-to-the-editor, etc. Different writing samples will be studied and written assignments given.  Students’ work will be discussed in class & feedback given, all in an effort to improve the student’s readiness to handle different writing tasks in both business and everyday life.

Course fee:  $500
Instructor: Vince Carnevale

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
Instructor: Vince Carnevale

Access is a powerful and versatile data management system. In this course, you will navigate within the Microsoft Access application environment. You will learn to create a simple database, manage data, construct tables, design forms and reports, and create queries to join, filter, and sort data.

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

COURSE FEE: $125
Instructor: Vince Carnevale

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
Instructor: Anne Marie DelPrincipe

Master the tools needed for today’s demanding job market.  Topics include advanced functions in statistics and finance, lookup and data tables, conditional formatting, pivot tables, and exporting and importing.

Prerequisite: MS Intermediate Excel or equivalent experience.  Textbook included.

COURSE FEE: $75
Instructor: Anne Marie DelPrincipe

Learn how to use Microsoft Excel to its full power using the following tools:

• Power Query is an Excel add-in that can be used for data discovery, reshaping the data and combining data coming from different sources.
• Power Map is a 3D data visualization tool for Excel that provides an immersive experience for making discoveries in data that might have never been seen in traditional 2D tables and charts.
• Spreadsheet Inquiry compares versions of a workbook, analyzes a workbook for problems or inconsistencies, and sees links between workbooks and worksheets.
• Power View is a data visualization technology that lets you create interactive charts, graphs, maps, and other visuals that bring your data to life.

COURSE FEE: $167
Instructor: Anne Marie DelPrincipe

You’ve created slides for your presentation and now you are thinking about slide design: the background design, font styles, colors, and layouts. You want the slides to have a bit more visual pop. PowerPoint is full of features, which allow you to present information in a concise and exciting format. Most presenters, however, only scratch the surface of all that is available when creating a PowerPoint presentation. This course will help you create professional and captivating PowerPoint presentations by incorporating new fonts, exciting animations, self-run presentations with menus that help the viewer to navigate, and more.

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

Course fee: $142
Instructor: Vince Carnevale

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.