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Teaching Transferable Skills in College Courses: Developing Career Readiness and Cultural Fluency

Customizable
Learn to teach communication, teamwork, critical thinking and self-motivated learning – four transferable skills strongly linked to student success. College educators and administrators gain a strong foundation in the theory, research and practical applications of these crucial skills.
Upcoming Dates
  • April 22, 2024–June 7, 2024
    $385 through March 31, $549 after
    $275 through March 31, $439 after, each for a Group 3+
    Group-paced

French 1

Subject Area: LanguagesFrench
This beginning-level class helps you master the basics of French with a proven communicative approach that emphasizes speaking competency while also building skills in listening, reading and writing. This practical course will quickly have you talking about family, work, cities and food. Students will need to purchase access to an online resource.
Upcoming Dates
  • April 23, 2024–July 9, 2024
    $269
    Live online
  • April 23, 2024–July 9, 2024
    $269
    Live online
  • June 5, 2024–Aug. 14, 2024
    $269
    Live online

Cultural Humility to Cultural Reverence: Foundational Application to Practice

Subject Area: Behavioral HealthHuman Services
This 4-hour course is instructed fully live online via Zoom. The goal of this course is to enhance your ability to serve increasingly diverse client populations and work with increasingly diverse teams. In this highly interactive course, we will explore in dedicated conversations the four principles of Cultural Humility: Self-Reflection and Lifelong Learning, Client as Expert, Community as Expert and Institutional Self-Reflection and Investment + Modeling. As an individual practitioner, ensure you are providing services respectful of the person's self-ascribed identity; as a leader, address quiet quitting, turnover and enhance your culture of inclusivity and belonging. 4 CE Hours | Instructors: Share Collaborative facilitators Noor Jawad & Shawn Smith | Audience: helping professionals, workplace leaders, and others
Upcoming Dates
  • April 24, 2024
    $129
    Live online

Spanish 2

Subject Area: LanguagesSpanish
We have made this practical high-beginner's course (A1.2) better with a new curriculum. Explore the cultural richness of the Spanish-speaking world while taking your skills to the next level. Improve your ability to converse about a wider range of common topics in the present tense, take your first steps in conversing with past tenses, and grow your comprehension, reading and writing skills, all in the context of real-life situations.
Upcoming Dates
  • April 24, 2024–July 10, 2024
    $279
    Live online
  • June 5, 2024–Aug. 21, 2024
    $279
    Live online
  • June 18, 2024–Aug. 27, 2024
    $279
    Live online

Managing Time, Multiple Priorities and Interruptions

Identify behaviors, create strategies that help you manage multiple priorities and handle interruptions so you are more effective at work. Cover the myth of multitasking, how daily goals and objectives lead to success, strategies and best practices in putting out fires and doing more than one job.
Upcoming Dates
  • May 1, 2024
    $339; gov't/nonprofit $239
    Live online
  • Sep. 18, 2024
    $360; gov't/nonprofit $260
    Live online
  • Nov. 6, 2024
    $360; gov't/nonprofit $260
    Live online

Fundamentals of Project Management

Gain foundational knowledge and explore best practices in project management to build the personal knowledge, skill and confidence you need to effectively lead projects. Whether you're leading your first project or looking for strategies to ensure project success, you will benefit from this class.
Upcoming Dates
  • May 2–9, 2024
    $589; gov't/nonprofit $489
    Live online
  • June 13–20, 2024
    $589; gov't/nonprofit $489
    Live online

French 2

Subject Area: LanguagesFrench
Build your confidence as you improve your ability to converse in the present tense and become familiar with past tenses.
Upcoming Dates
  • May 3, 2024–July 19, 2024
    $269
    Live online
  • May 28, 2024–Aug. 6, 2024
    $269
    Live online

Spanish 3

Subject Area: LanguagesSpanish
We have made this practical low-intermediate course (A2.1) even better with a new curriculum designed for adult language learners. Explore the cultural richness of the Spanish-speaking world through the voices and experiences of speakers from over 10 different countries.
Upcoming Dates
  • May 6, 2024–July 22, 2024
    $279
    Live online
  • May 6, 2024–July 22, 2024
    $279
    Live online

Cultural Reverence: Dialogue vs. Debate

Subject Area: Behavioral HealthHuman Services
New Course: This 4-hour course is instructed fully live online via Zoom by facilitators from Share Collaborative. If you've already taken the Cultural Humility To Cultural Reverence course with Continuing Studies, or have had similar training in the past, this intermediate to advanced course will help you further explore frameworks for engaging in dialogue and avoid debating. This course is designed for individuals or teams of human services practitioners who desire to build on their existing skills to enter into healthy discussions regarding culture, identity and related topics. 4 CE Hours | Instructors: Share Collaborative facilitators Adesola Oni & Shawn Smith | Audience: helping professionals, workplace leaders, and others
Upcoming Dates
  • May 7, 2024
    $129
    Live online

Dementia: Exploring Grief and Loss

Subject Area: Behavioral HealthGrief and Loss
Coping with loss is a major aspect of the experience of living with dementia, and of providing care, support or companionship to someone with dementia. In this course, we will explore the loss and grief experience of those impacted by dementia, including the person with dementia, family, friends and healthcare professionals, and those who are bereaved. You will gain an understanding of loss and grief that is uniquely associated with dementia, as well as effective, evidenced-based grief coping approaches. 2 CE Hours | Zoom | Instructor: Dr. Erica Srinivasan | Audience: health and human services providers, those who work with an aging population in memory care units, nursing homes, etc.
Upcoming Dates
  • May 8, 2024
    $59
    Live online

Ethics and Boundaries: Legal Issues Part I and Biological Foundations

This two–part, 4–hour course is offered online via Zoom with instructor David Mays, MD, PhD and meets Wisconsin licensure renewal requirements for ethics/boundaries continuing education. Day one of the course is about the relationship between legislative and professional ethical and practice standards. We will investigate the following legal principles in this context: informed consent, the right to refuse and involuntary treatment. Day two will address the complexities of human behavior, including evidence that learning about what we believe and why can give us more control over our moral behavior, allowing us to become better more ethical people.
Upcoming Dates
  • May 8–9, 2024
    $148
    Live online

Language Reading Knowledge Exam

These translation exams test reading knowledge of French, German, Italian or Spanish and meet the requirements of UW–Madison graduate programs. Register at least one week prior to your chosen exam date. No refunds after registration. Honorlock will proctor these exams.
Upcoming Dates
  • May 9, 2024
    $65
    Self-paced

Etiology of Suicide and Provider Self Care

Subject Area: Behavioral HealthMental Health
In this 6-hour course is instructed fully live online via Zoom. In this course, learners will discuss the common etiology of suicidal behavior, as well as risk assessment, intervention, safety planning and prevention. We also review the importance of self-care in relation to compassion fatigue and grief. 6 CE Hours | Instructor: Megan Henderson, MSSW, LCSW | Audience: helping professionals, social workers, psychologists
Upcoming Dates
  • May 14–15, 2024
    $169
    Live online

Italian 2

Subject Area: LanguagesItalian
Continue exploring the richness of Italian culture while enhancing your ability to have everyday conversations about travel, holidays and daily routines in the present tense. We also introduce the past tense. Increase your vocabulary and communication skills with an integrated teaching approach.
Upcoming Dates
  • May 14, 2024–July 30, 2024
    $269
    Live online

Beyond the Basics of Project Management: Managing Risks, Resources, and Post Project Reviews

Advance your project management skills by diving deep into some of the critical components of managing a project. Going beyond the basics of project management creates a culture of learning, accountability, transparency, high performance and successful delivery.
Upcoming Dates
  • May 15–17, 2024
    $589; govt./nonprofit $489
    Live online

French for Reading and Translation

Subject Area: LanguagesFrench
We cover essential grammar and vocabulary that are especially useful for students preparing for the French graduate-level reading knowledge exam.
Upcoming Dates
  • May 15, 2024–Aug. 28, 2024
    $475; Graduate students $375
    Group-paced
  • Aug. 28, 2024–Dec. 11, 2024
    $475; Graduate students $375
    Group-paced

German for Reading and Translation

Subject Area: LanguagesGerman
You will develop the skills you need to read and accurately translate German texts to English. Using relevant scholarly texts and excerpts from modern literature, you learn the fundamentals of the German language and German-to-English translation.
Upcoming Dates
  • May 15, 2024–Aug. 28, 2024
    $475; Graduate students $375
    Group-paced
  • Aug. 28, 2024–Dec. 11, 2024
    $475; Graduate students $375
    Group-paced

Italian for Reading and Translation

Subject Area: LanguagesItalian
This course on Italian reading and translation covers the essential grammar and vocabulary to prepare you for your Italian graduate-level translation exam or other research. When you have completed this course, you will have a solid foundation in the Italian language.
Upcoming Dates
  • May 15, 2024–Aug. 28, 2024
    $475; Graduate students $375
    Group-paced
  • Aug. 28, 2024–Dec. 11, 2024
    $475; Graduate students $375
    Group-paced