Professional Development Courses

Course fee: $159

In this level Microsoft Word, you will learn advanced techniques to make your documents stand out.

Topics include:

• Styles to create automatic table of contents in conjunction with the navigation pane
• Quick parts and autocorrect
• Mail merge to create standard letters, envelops and labels
• Advanced headers and footers using section breaks in your document
• Convert a document into a newsletter and into a brochure

Prerequisites: Microsoft Word Intermediate or equivalent experience. Textbook available at the RVCC Bookstore.

Course fee: $118

Looking to wow the team at your next presentation, but don’t know how to get your complicated point across? Excited to speak at an upcoming conference but nervous about capturing the crowd’s attention? Fear not. Learn the skills to blow them away with hands-on training in Microsoft PowerPoint’s suite of tools.

Topics include:

• Building new presentations
• Formatting and proofing
• Drawing tools
• Enhancing and delivering presentations
• WordArt and clip art

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

Course fee: $256

Successful project managers, editors, executives, and foremen all have one thing in common - they get the job done efficiently - and Microsoft Office is the tool they use most. Take a task from the drawing board to the showroom floor faster with training on how to initiate, execute, monitor, and finish projects faster with MS Office.

Learn to:

• Manage multiple task calendars
• Create and define projects
• Work with invested parties
• Set estimations

Textbook available at the RVCC Bookstore.

Course fee: $219

This course continues where AutoCAD I leaves off with AutoCAD techniques like layering and advanced editing with even more hands-on practice. This class will improve on your design fundamentals and efficiency through continued software practice.

Prerequisite:  AutoCAD I or similar experience. Textbook available at the RVCC Bookstore.

Course fee: $320

This basic ESL class is designed for individuals with little knowledge of English. It is intended for students who want to improve communication at work, with family, or for personal contacts. 

Textbook is available at the RVCC Bookstore.

Course fee: $320

This is the second of a two-part program (A&B) series of ESL courses designed to prepare students with limited experience in the English language. Grammar, reading, writing, speaking and listening are taught as integrated skills of equal importance. Basic pronunciation and vocabulary are introduced. Students study basic grammar structures and learn to write basic sentences and simple narrative paragraphs.

Textbook is available at the RVCC Bookstore.

Course fee: $320

This course is designed to prepare students with limited experience for further study of the English language at the college level. Grammar, reading, writing, speaking and listening are taught as integrated skills of equal importance. Basic pronunciation and vocabulary are presented. Students continue study of basic grammar structures; write simple narrative and non-narrative descriptive paragraphs. 

Textbook is available at the RVCC Bookstore.

Course fee:  $475

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: $320

This class addresses the workplace language needs of people to have mastered the major verb tenses (simple present and past, present and past continuous, future with “will” and “going to” and present and past perfect, irregular verbs, sentence structure, advanced vocabulary development).  The “Transition” class will train Email, Job Aid, SOP, Protocol and Report writing as well as interpersonal and meeting speaking styles.  This class will move students beyond classic ESL and into workplace writing and speaking in English.

Textbook is available at the RVCC Bookstore.

Course fee: $329

This course teaches the JavaScript programming language used for make web pages interactive.  No previous programming experience is required making this a great opportunity to learn programming for the first time.  This course teaches you 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 make the JavaScript more versatile for interacting with web page HTML and CSS.  JavaScript JQuery together are used when you interact with web page from fields and buttons.  The course includes AJAX which is how data is sent to a web server such as when you login or hit the like button as well as receiving data back such as getting your profile information.  This is a continuation of our courses on web page skills includes access to online lessons from the instructor. 

Prerequisites:  HTML and CDD Skills for Creating Web Pages or equivalent.