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  • Advanced Manufacturing and Workplace Preparation
  • Fee: $450.00
    Dates: 2/3/2025 - 4/4/2025
    Meeting Place: Online
    Instructor: Mark Yoss

    The student will learn the 'soft skills' required by industry, such as leadership, interactive communication, and collaboration/teamwork skills, utilizing team exercises and team activities. The course also provides an introduction to Advanced Manufacturing and an overview of the Advanced Manufacturing Sciences (AMS) degree concentration's fit and associated employment potential with Advanced Manufacturing Industries.

    This course is 100% online and Self Paced. Students are expected to complete the course within the scheduled course dates. Students will access the course via the MSU Denver Canvas platform.
 

  • Aerospace Project Analysis Fundamentals
  • Fee: $450.00
    Dates: 2/3/2025 - 4/4/2025
    Meeting Place: Online
    Instructor: Michael Botyarov

    Students in this course develop a basic understanding of project management and how it is used in the aerospace industry by analyzing project management knowledge areas and processes in context of aerospace applications. Previous aerospace projects will be analyzed from a project management perspective, so students learn how to utilize project management principles in real world applications.

    This course is 100% online and Self Paced. Students are expected to complete the course within the scheduled course dates. Students will access the course via the MSU Denver Canvas platform.
 

  • Aging Services
  • Fee: $450.00
    Dates: 2/3/2025 - 4/4/2025
    Meeting Place: Online
    Instructor: Amy Dore

    In this course, students explore support systems, services and policy considerations designed to meet the needs of older adults. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to identify characteristics of older adults, assess demographic changes, describe shifts in population aging, recognize stereotypes and myths surrounding ageism, investigate common health disparities, evaluate programs and services, and explore workforce development and career options.

    This course is 100% online and Self Paced. Students are expected to complete the course within the scheduled course dates. Students will access the course via the MSU Denver Canvas platform.
 

  • Changing the World Through Social Work
  • Fee: $450.00
    Dates: 2/3/2025 - 4/4/2025
    Meeting Place: Online
    Instructor: Jessica Ritter

    Operating from human rights and social justice frameworks, this course is an introduction to how to address some of our most pressing social problems. A range of topics will be covered such as environmental and food justice, healthcare, children?s rights, racial justice, immigration, gender, LGBTQ+ rights, criminal justice, poverty, and income inequality. The class will include social science content on theories and methods of social and political change such as political advocacy, activism, research, social movements, and civic engagement. Students will hone their critical thinking skillsby studying and posing solutions to our nation?s complex social challenges.

    This course is 100% online and Self Paced. Students are expected to complete the course within the scheduled course dates. Students will access the course via the MSU Denver Canvas platform.
 

  • Community Health Worker
  • Fee: $450.00
    Dates: 2/3/2025 - 4/4/2025
    Meeting Place: Online
    Instructor: Allison Draayer

    Students in this course will learn the basic concepts of community health work and the patient-centric concept of assisting patients along the health care continuum. Students will develop skills necessary to effectively communicate and build relationships with patients within the complex systems they live in. Students will also learn how to evaluate and locate health care resources and support systems in relation to an individual's health. Consideration of varying stages of care, social determinants that impact physical health, and reducing disparities in access and treatment will be reviewed. Barriers to care, problem solving, and managing information and resources will also be discussed.

    This course is 100% online and Self Paced. Students are expected to complete the course within the scheduled course dates. Students will access the course via the MSU Denver Canvas platform.
 

  • Computer Forensics
  • Fee: $450.00
    Dates: 2/3/2025 - 4/4/2025
    Meeting Place: Online
    Instructor: Jesse Schulman

    Once a cybersecurity incident has occurred, it must be investigated and reported so that an organization can learn from the incident. This course discusses the various types of evidence, how to analyze that evidence, and when to involve law enforcement. This course includes low-leveldevice analysis including filesystems, flash memory, and mobile devices. The concepts of chain of custody and the protection of evidence while performing effective forensics are covered.

    This course is 100% online and Self Paced. Students are expected to complete the course within the scheduled course dates. Students will access the course via the MSU Denver Canvas platform.
 

  • Event Planning
  • Fee: $450.00
    Dates: 2/3/2025 - 4/4/2025
    Meeting Place: Online
    Instructor: Wendie Bass

    This course presents an overview of the major segments of the events industry such as meetings, exhibitions, special events, and conventions. Students review the roles and responsibilities of destination marketing organizations and destination management companies and examine/evaluate the relationship between official service contractors and professional event planners in the context of their specific functions. This course will highlight the role of the event planner, whose responsibilities include planning, organizing, directing, and controlling various types of meetings and special events.

    This course is 100% online and Self Paced. Students are expected to complete the course within the scheduled course dates. Students will access the course via the MSU Denver Canvas platform.
 

  • Facilities Management
  • Fee: $450.00
    Dates: 2/3/2025 - 4/4/2025
    Meeting Place: Online
    Instructor: Carolyn McGary

    In this course, students are introduced to the basic concepts that describe the field of facility management and how it can be of value to an organization. In this course, students review a leaders role in tactical planning for how to schedule and accomplish daily facility management tasks that support the operation of an organization?s facilities.

    This course is 100% online and Self Paced. Students are expected to complete the course within the scheduled course dates. Students will access the course via the MSU Denver Canvas platform.
 

  • Foundations of Instructional Design
  • Fee: $450.00
    Dates: 2/3/2025 - 4/4/2025
    Meeting Place: Online
    Instructor: Alex McDaniel

    This course serves as an introduction to instructional design theories and practices. It introduces different instructional design models, management, assessment, curriculum design & development, and instructional design pathways. Design thinking process is integrated throughout the course. It also includes intensive study of both practical instructional design processes and applications in order to solve real world instructional challenges.

    This course is 100% online and Self Paced. Students are expected to complete the course within the scheduled course dates. Students will access the course via the MSU Denver Canvas platform.
 

  • Foundations of Translation and Interpretation
  • Fee: $450.00
    Dates: 2/3/2025 - 4/4/2025
    Meeting Place: Online
    Instructor: Giovanna Carriero-Conteras

    How is AI-fueled machine translation shaping the contemporary profession of translator/interpreter? Both novice and advancedlanguage learners will find the answer in this course. The fields of Translation and Interpreting are introduced within the broaderframework of Language Services - one of the fastest growing industries worldwide. Learners will gain deeper insight into the buildingof professional grade language services and will discover the wide spectrum of opportunities to apply their language skills, in additionto the traditional roles of translator/interpreter. Hands-on practices are designed within the framework of cultural competence andeffective communication. Case studies are drawn from a variety of source languages, including French, German, Italian, Korean,Russian, and Spanish among others. The examples represent a broad spectrum of texts, and include excerpts from sacred scriptures,world literature, policy documents, marketing materials, lifestyle publications, and the translations of Harry Potter. The course is taughtin English.

    This course is 100% online and Self Paced. Students are expected to complete the course within the scheduled course dates. Students will access the course via the MSU Denver Canvas platform.
 

  • Fundamentals of Oral Communication
  • Fee: $450.00
    Dates: 2/3/2025 - 4/4/2025
    Meeting Place: Online
    Instructor: Dwight Podgurski

    This is an introductory course in the art and process of communicating with people in a variety of environments and contexts. This class provides students with insight and tools from communication research to analyze communication situations and develop effective, ethical messages appropriate to purpose, audience, context and medium. The course emphasizes developing basic communication skills in listening, assertive communication, self-analysis, presentations, and managing conflict.

    This course is 100% online and Self Paced. Students are expected to complete the course within the scheduled course dates. Students will access the course via the MSU Denver Canvas platform.
 

  • Human Trafficking
  • Fee: $450.00
    Dates: 2/3/2025 - 4/4/2025
    Meeting Place: Online
    Instructor: Kara Napolitano

    This course explores global human trafficking with focus on efforts in Colorado. A review of multidisciplinary perspectives on labor and sex traffickingprovides comprehensive understanding of this human rights issue. Students examine the tactics used by traffickers to recruit and control victims and the effects of abuse on victims. This course provides an overview of U.S. federal and local laws to curb trafficking, including the federal TraffickingVictims Protection Act. Finally, students evaluate global and local efforts of the current anti-trafficking movement, including ways to be involved.

    This course is 100% online and Self Paced. Students are expected to complete the course within the scheduled course dates. Students will access the course via the MSU Denver Canvas platform.
 

  • Introduction to Addictions Counseling
  • Fee: $450.00
    Dates: 2/3/2025 - 4/4/2025
    Meeting Place: Online
    Instructor: Patrick Griswold

    Participants review the required knowledge, skills, and attitudes to be effective counselors. In addition, participants will examine the etiology, assessment and treatment of substance use disorders. Participants also examine ethical and multicultural issues, trauma and informed care and clinician self-care.

    This course is 100% online and Self Paced. Students are expected to complete the course within the scheduled course dates. Students will access the course via the MSU Denver Canvas platform.
 

  • Introduction to Business
  • Fee: $450.00
    Dates: 2/3/2025 - 4/4/2025
    Meeting Place: Online
    Instructor: Robert Farmer

    This course presents an introduction to business concepts that are further developed in the business core and in other courses pursued by business and economic majors. Also discussed are contemporary issues facing business. This course allows business students to develop a context for their studies and gives non-business student insights into the world of business that surrounds all of us.

    This course is 100% online and Self Paced. Students are expected to complete the course within the scheduled course dates. Students will access the course via the MSU Denver Canvas platform.
 

  • Introduction to Construction Project Management
  • Fee: $450.00
    Dates: 2/3/2025 - 4/4/2025
    Meeting Place: Online
    Instructor: Anthony Oyewole

    A study of the full life-cycle concepts that describe the built environment from programming and design to operations and ultimately disposal. This includes the project management life cycle, and then what happens after you hand off the project.

    This course is 100% online and Self Paced. Students are expected to complete the course within the scheduled course dates. Students will access the course via the MSU Denver Canvas platform.
 

  • Introduction to Cybersecurity
  • Fee: $450.00
    Dates: 2/3/2025 - 4/4/2025
    Meeting Place: Online
    Instructor: Jesse Schulman

    This course provides a broad overview of cybersecurity. The terminology, approaches, and underlying technologiesused in cybersecurity are covered. How computers and networks are attacked, how the attackers? benefit, and how tomitigate attack. Social engineering, cryptography, and application security are introduced.

    This course is 100% online and Self Paced. Students are expected to complete the course within the scheduled course dates. Students will access the course via the MSU Denver Canvas platform.
 

  • Introduction to Journalism and Mass Media
  • Fee: $450.00
    Dates: 2/3/2025 - 4/4/2025
    Meeting Place: Online
    Instructor: Alfredo Sanchez

    This course emphasizes writing using Associated Press style guidelines, proper composition of a news story, history of
    Journalism, media ethics, and the basic skills required of journalists. The course introduces students to the ethical and
    legal considerations for journalists with a special emphasis on libel and sunshine laws. Students are regularly tested on
    use of Associated Press guidelines, news writing style and LEDES.

    This course is 100% online and Self Paced. Students are expected to complete the course within the scheduled course dates. Students will access the course via the MSU Denver Canvas platform.
 

  • Pharmacology of Drugs and Alcohol
  • Fee: $450.00
    Dates: 2/3/2025 - 4/4/2025
    Meeting Place: Online
    Instructor: Patrick Griswold

    This is a course in the composition, classification, effects, uses, and abuses of drugs and alcohol. Students learn the ways that psychoactive substances impact the central nervous and immune systems. Related social and political issues are integrated into the course content.

    This course is 100% online and Self Paced. Students are expected to complete the course within the scheduled course dates. Students will access the course via the MSU Denver Canvas platform.
 

  • Principles of Public Health
  • Fee: $450.00
    Dates: 2/3/2025 - 4/4/2025
    Meeting Place: Online
    Instructor: Shane Walker

    This course will introduce the field of public health. Students will explore the role of public health professionals to prevent disease and promote health in populations and our environment through scientific research, policy development, and health education.

    This course is 100% online and Self Paced. Students are expected to complete the course within the scheduled course dates. Students will access the course via the MSU Denver Canvas platform.
 

  • Space Flight Operations Fundamentals
  • Fee: $450.00
    Dates: 2/3/2025 - 4/4/2025
    Meeting Place: Online
    Instructor: Michael Botyarov

    Students review the history of space exploration and related issues motivating human inquiry and travel in space. Topics focus on identifying andunderstanding elements and systems comprising modern space vehicles and missions. Students analyze various national policies, treaties, andinternational laws affecting space operations. Fundamentals of interplanetary travel, orbit prediction, and launch and reentry operations are alsoinvestigated.

    This course is 100% online and Self Paced. Students are expected to complete the course within the scheduled course dates. Students will access the course via the MSU Denver Canvas platform.
 

  • Wedding Planning
  • Fee: $450.00
    Dates: 2/3/2025 - 4/4/2025
    Meeting Place: Online
    Instructor: Wendie Bass

    This course introduces students to the basic concepts involved in becoming a professional wedding planner. It covers the various details of planning the wedding and the basics of managing an independent wedding planning business.

    This course is 100% online and Self Paced. Students are expected to complete the course within the scheduled course dates. Students will access the course via the MSU Denver Canvas platform.
 

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