It is no wonder why employers consistently list communication as the top ability they look for in hiring and promoting employees. In fact, Indeed ranks communication skills as the number one most sought-after employability skill.
If you want to learn more about career opportunities, job growth, and average salaries for those with advanced communication skills, check out My Next Move.
Noncredit Training
Technical Communication for the Sciences
Connecticut has become a nucleus of bioscience advances, with one of America's highest concentrations of scientists and engineers – from groundbreaking research and personalized medicine to device manufacturing of the latest metal technology. As one of the nation’s fastest growing hubs in bioscience, there are more than 23,000 science professionals across more than 500 companies in Connecticut.
Technical communication is the art and science of dissecting, clarifying, and condensing complex data and information into readable, accessible material for a specific audience.
Southern's Technical Communication for the Sciences certificate is designed to prepare students and mid-career professionals to produce effective, instructive, and concise communication for the science workplace. Students will learn best practices in communication and presentation for end-users who may include a variety of professional, technical, consumer, and specialized audiences.
Certificates
Online, self-paced training in partnership with MindEdge. Register and start learning today.
Certificate in Business Communications
Communicating clearly and concisely in written and oral formats is critical to your professional success. From clarifying and structuring your ideas to designing the PowerPoint slides that will best complement them, the techniques, interactive exercises, and checklists in this certificate program will help you create presentations and workplace documents that inform and persuade.
Fast Company Certificate: Collaborating for Success
Successful collaboration requires effective communication. As more teams and organizations shift to remote environments, many have been forced to adapt their practices to bolster collaboration. Through the courses in this bundle, learners will identify key components of communication and examine remote collaboration from multiple perspectives, including as team members, individual contributors, and leaders and managers. Learners will gain new strategies and skills for fostering collaboration with others, regardless of distance or physical location.
Communication
Choose from a large variety of specific communication skill training courses, including grammar, proofreading, effective presentations, public speaking, effective email, and more.
Are you looking to make your creative mark in the world? Are you a problem solver who can turn ideas into reality? A career in graphic design can be the right career for you!
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Noncredit Training
Online, self-paced training in partnership with MindEdge. Register and start learning today.
The American Institute of Graphic Art (AIGA) brings design to the world, and the world to designers. As the profession’s oldest and largest professional membership organization for design, we advance design as a professional craft, strategic advantage, and vital cultural force.
AIGA Certificates
AIGA Professional Design Certificate
The AIGA Professional Design Certification represents a commitment to the design profession and to lifelong learning. This online design certification program is open to design practitioners at every level who are committed to expanding their careers and the profession. Practitioners in graphic design, visual communications, interactive and web design, UI/UX, and all design modalities can benefit from the AIGA Professional Design Certification.
Design - Short-term Training Courses
Individual training courses include AIGA for Business Owners, AIGA Design Foundations, AIGA Law for Designers, and AIGA Standards of Professional Practice.
Certificate in Web Design
A well-designed website is essential for any organization today, with so many people consuming much of their information online. This suite of courses will teach you the skills you'll need to build a website of your own. Building a website involves a lot more than just writing code. Before you start on that, you need to understand what you want your website to do, how it will look, who you want it to reach, and what message it should send. The first five courses in the suite will introduce you to the basics of designing a functional and attractive site, the HTML and CSS languages you'll need to execute your design, and best practices for designing and building a website that responds intelligently to the needs of users.
For Credit SCSU Certificate Program
Participating in credit-level programs requires formal admission to SCSU.
Undergraduate Certificate Programs
Post Baccalaureate Program for Certification in Art Education
This program is designed for students already holding a bachelor’s degree who seek certification to teach art in public schools.
Drone photographer, agricultural surveyor, 3-D modeler, power line inspector, rooftop inspector, search and rescue team member, drone flight instructor – with a career in drones, the sky is the limit!
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Drone Academy
The Drone Academy is a five-module, non-credit program geared towards enthusiastic hobbyists and working professionals who are interested in gaining the knowledge and skills needed for drone operation, aerial photography and videography, FAA certification exam preparation, and computational photography and 3D mapping.
Each module can be completed as a stand-alone option, and participants can customize the program depending on their specific areas of interest. Participants who complete all five modules will gain a strong understanding of safe drone aviation, will be prepared to successfully pass the FAA exam, will learn the best practices for making quality aerial stills and videos using Photoshop and Final Cut Pro, and learn how to use Px4d software for landscape mapping and 3D modeling.
Are you looking to expand your knowledge of American, European, or non-western history? The Department of History’s comprehensive curriculum focuses on a deep understanding of the myriad forces creating our modern world and develops students’ analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills. Faculty are nationally recognized researchers whose broad expertise allows students to gain an understanding of American, European, and non-Western history. If you want to learn more about career opportunities, job growth, and average salaries for those who earn a graduate certificate in history, check out My Next Move.
For Credit Certificate Programs
Choose from a variety of credit-level certificate programs. Participating in credit-level programs requires formal admission to SCSU.
Graduate Certificate Programs
American History, Graduate Certificate
A 9-credit, graduate certificate program.
European History, Graduate Certificate
A 9-credit, graduate certificate program.
Non-Western History, Graduate Certificate
A 9-credit, graduate certificate program.
Learn how to design, implement, and manage library and information services in academic, public, school, and special libraries, as well as related information agencies and settings. If you want to learn more about career opportunities, job growth, and average salaries in library science, check out My Next Move.
For Credit Certificate Programs
Choose from a variety of credit-level certificate programs. Participating in credit-level programs requires formal admission to SCSU.
Graduate Certificate Programs
School Library Media Specialist, Graduate Certificate - Cross Endorsement
A 30-credit graduate-level certificate that prepares currently certified Connecticut teachers for cross endorsement as school library media specialists. School library media specialists manage libraries, as well as technology and media integration in their schools. The teacher certification may be combined with dual enrollment in the Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) program, with the completion of the additional requirements.
School Library Media Specialist, Graduate Certificate - Initial Certification
A 30-credit graduate level certificate that offers the opportunity to gain certification as a K-12 teacher in Connecticut. This program welcomes both mid-career professionals seeking a career change and recent graduates with an interest in teaching and school libraries. As the only program of its kind in Connecticut, with nationally recognized faculty and a statewide network of professional support, we welcome inquiries and interest from potential students with all types of undergraduate degrees and professional backgrounds.
Women's Studies is an interdisciplinary program of study consisting of courses taught in various departments throughout SCSU. A course identified as Women's Studies focuses on the study of gender roles, the social construction of gender, women's issues, achievements, and/or women's place in societies both past and present. If you want to learn more about career opportunities, job growth, and average salaries for those working in Women’s and Gender studies, check out My Next Move.
For Credit Certificate Programs
Participating in credit-level programs requires formal admission to SCSU.
Graduate Certificate Programs
Women's & Gender Studies, Graduate Certificate (Fully Online or On Campus Options)
A nine to 12 credit graduate certificate which can be completed online or at Southern.
Foreign language skills are essential to some of today’s promising global fields, including tourism, translation, language interpretation, and international relations. Opportunities exist in education, business, government, social services, and more. If you want to learn more about career opportunities, job growth, and average salaries for those individuals who are fluent in more than one language, check out My Next Move.
Noncredit Training
Spanish Language and Culture for Healthcare Professionals - Coming Soon
For Credit SCSU Certificate Programs
Choose from a variety of credit-level certificate programs. Participating in credit-level programs requires formal admission to SCSU.
Undergraduate Certificate Programs
Spanish and Latino Cultures for Health Professionals
The certificate in Spanish and Latino Cultures for Health Professionals is a 12-credit sequence of courses designed to prepare future professionals to serve Spanish-speaking clients in a healthcare setting by developing functional and technical Spanish language skills and cultural awareness about US Latinos. Students may earn 3 waiver credits by proving an intermediate-low proficiency level on STAMP test and 6 waiver credits by proving an intermediate-mid proficiency level on STAMP test. An exit exam proving an intermediate-high level proficiency is required to earn the certificate.