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: Marsha Atkinson

ESL Level 1A
Instructor: Helen Fazio

ESL Level 1B
Instructor: Helen Fazio

ESL Level 2A
Instructor: Marie Chiara

Instructor: Catherine Barrier

Instructor: Marie Chiara

ESL Level 2B
Instructor: Marie Chiara

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:  $87
Instructor: Georgann Occhipinti
4 hours

Understanding the connection between emotions and actions enhances empathy and maximizes workplace effectiveness. Optimize your professional performance and working relationships by applying the Emotional Intelligence competency framework.

COURSE FEE:  $159
Instructor: Georgann Occhipinti
8 hours

Enhance the key skills related to performance feedback and coaching process, developing employee skills, setting clear goals, delegating responsibilities and motivating others.  Understand the importance of goal setting, streamline performance feedback & coaching processes, enhance communication skills and decision-making and tap into strategies to effectively influence the skills of others.

COURSE FEE:  $159
Instructor: Georgann Occhipinti
8 hours

Women face unique challenges in the workplace while adding value and perspective. They improve communication dynamics and reinvigorate companies in ways that make them more competitive. Research shows companies with a critical mass of top-team gender diversity enjoy significantly better financial performance.

This interactive session will enhance women’s leadership behaviors by building awareness of decision-making biases, learning how to create high-performing teams, negotiating win-win outcomes, managing crises, driving innovation, and fostering an authentic leadership style.

COURSE FEE:  $159
Instructor: Georgann Occhipinti
8 hours

Unconscious (or implicit) biases are the views and opinions that we are unaware of as they are automatically activated outside our conscious awareness but affect our everyday behavior and decision making. Gain a greater understanding of unconscious bias and learn about ways to raise your awareness and continue leveraging diversity in the workplace.

Course fee:  $159
Instructor: Georgann Occhipinti
8 hours

This program helps team leaders or members strengthen teamwork throughout rapidly changing business environments. Explore the behaviors evident within high-performing teams, learn how to critically assess the current operating structures, and provide ideas for leveraging individual strengths within a team-dynamic.

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:  $500
Instructor: Leonard Diliberto
24 hours

Participants will learn the essential skills needed to create and manage simple Word documents, use Excel to perform calculations and sort data, create presentations using PowerPoint, create a simple database using Microsoft Access, as well as how to use Microsoft Outlook for email, task management, and contact management.

Topics include Windows, Mac OS, file management, the internet, social networking and blogs, internet security and privacy.

COURSE FEE:  $60
Instructor: Laura DePrado
2 hours

People respond to plants. Plants respond to people.  People respond to the seasons and life cycles. The seasons in turn respond to our care.  Come and join in engaging your 5 senses with plants in a sensory awakening session and learn about the history and benefits of plants through Horticultural Therapy.  This is a highly interactive, engaging, hands on program using plant materials while creating an individualized take-home project with the guidance of Horticultural Therapist and columnist Laura DePrado of Final Touch Plantscaping, LLC.  No green thumb is required!  Just bring your curiosity!

Call 908-800-7721 for registration.

COURSE FEE:  $426
Instructor: Vince Carnevale
18 hours

This course is for office professionals who have a basic working knowledge of Microsoft Office and are looking to improve current skills. Students will receive an in-depth training on PowerPoint, Word, and Excel.

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of MS PowerPoint, Word, Excel, or equivalent experience.

Intermediate courses may be taken separately as listed below:

Microsoft Intermediate PowerPoint

Microsoft Intermediate Word

Microsoft Intermediate Excel

Course fee: $230
Instructor: John Pulsinelle
15 hours

This course is an introduction to basic 2D CAD (Computer-Aided Design) techniques using AutoCAD software and provides a guided, hands-on environment to learn the basics of AutoCAD. Fundamentals of drawing and editing are presented and practiced.

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.

COURSE FEE: $167
Instructor: Anne Marie DelPrincipe
6 hours

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
3 hours

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: $142
Instructor: Vince Carnevale

This course will build on the basics of PowerPoint and go in depth into template creation and advance features when delivering presentations.

Prerequisites:  MS Basic PowerPoint or equivalent experience.

Course fee: $125
Instructor: Vince Carnevale

Master the most widely used word processing software in the world. Learn to create and edit documents, move and copy text, special formatting, and more.

Prerequisites: MS Windows or equivalent knowledge and keyboard proficiency.

COURSE FEE: $167
Instructor: Anne Marie DelPrincipe
6 hours

Microsoft Word’s infamous styles can eliminate hours of frustration by moving your ideas and thoughts within your document with ease, create a table of contents in nanoseconds using headings and sub-headings and build hyperlinks for website usage. Master the tricks of creating leaders for your agendas as well as menus and get to know Screen Shot, a.k.a, your new best friend. With all of these new tools, creating newsletters, brochures and any other documents will be easy and fun.

Course fee: $241
Instructor: Lon Hosford
12 hours

Students learn the basics of search engine optimization (SEO). SEO is the act of optimizing internal and external aspects of a website to increase visitor’s traffic from search engines. Consumers use sites like Google, Yahoo, Bing and BYDU to guide their decisions online, and its no secret webpages at the top are usually selected first. Understanding the basics of SEO can improve your website’s landing page rankings to convert visitors to consumers. At the end of this course, students will understand the best practices, strategies, and techniques for ensuring increased search engine rankings.

COURSE FEE:  FREE
Registration is required.
2 hours

You literally sit and hold hands with your clients—how great is that? Nail services are in hot demand, and nail techs love providing clients with the quick and profound boost that comes with a beautiful manicure and pedicure. Employment of manicurists and pedicurists is projected to grow 10 percent from 2018 to 2028, faster than the average for all occupations. A career as a nail tech, provides flexible schedules and opportunities to work in luxury spas to full service salons.

Join us! Meet with employers and professional nail artists to see and hear more about this creative field!