Advance your career into fire department management with this officer training certificate. Develop oral communication, training, management and leadership skills as they apply to fire departments.
Gain the skills tested for Firefighter I and II certification and hazardous materials (hazmat) training along with driving, hydraulics, health and instructional methodologies. Learn how to anticipate fire behavior, analyze conditions and determine the safest course of action, hone quick thinking and effective response and make fire service a more valuable community resource.
Learn how to speak conversational French and interpret and present the language and integrate your ability with an understanding of French culture. Develop intercultural communication strategies across disciplines. This is a liberal arts degree with designation (DWD).
Learn to develop and design websites and web content. Build your skills in programming, web presentation, client-side and server-side scripting and web content management systems.
Get experience in private pilot flight training and instrument rating, which teaches you to fly in more difficult weather conditions. Learn the fundamentals of commercial small aircraft or multi-engine aircraft flight and build the communication and professional skills that will help you launch your career in aviation.
This degree is unique because the field of study is determined by the student in consultation with a faculty advisor. Each student must develop a written statement of goals and objectives and specific courses needed to satisfy those objectives and will also complete general education courses.
Learn about the relationship between environments and human societies, the principles of topography, climate, natural resources, patterns of population and settlement, religion, ethnicity, language and economic development. Study globalization and the geopolitical and economic relationships between more developed and less developed regions. This is a liberal arts degree with designation (DWD).
Combine lecture courses with hands-on laboratory time to study Earth’s materials, structure, and surface landforms, geologic time and the geologic processes responsible for Earth’s internal and external features. Learn about the development of Earth through geologic time along with an investigation and interpretation of sedimentary rocks and features, the record of ancient environments, fossil life forms and physical events in Earth’s history within the framework of plate tectonics. This is a liberal arts degree with designation (DWD).
Develop and hone your skills with a GIS certificate. Students will survey the development, application and use of geographic information systems and then go on to work with advanced analytical tools and develop skills in spatial problem solving.