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Click on the name of an online course offered at UC Berkeley Extension Online to view the detailed information; you can also find out about the college or university offering the course by clicking on "School's Profile". |
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Crafting the Internet Business Model (X488.5) |
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Information Technology |
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This is a required course in the Internet Business and Technology Certificate Program.
This course will no longer be offered online after 2003. Click here to see the 2003 online schedule of courses. Please refer to Extension's online catalog for scheduling details on classroom courses.
The traditional rules of success have changed. Today, the success of internet business strategies depends on having the right business model. It's all about reinventing and continually regenerating the company's business model.
During this course, you analyze and rethink existing business models. You also build new models that produce quantifiable results to grow defensible businesses. This course focuses on internet business strategies. You are confronted with the challenging issues that companies face when creating an e-business or moving an existing business into the internet business world. Using examples of highly successful companies and of notable failures, you discuss different types of internet business models available today to high-tech companies and learn how to combine them to build specific internet commerce strategies. |
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Creating Web Sites with HTML (X453.1) |
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Information Technology |
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The exploding growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web has created a niche for people who can understand and interact with the Internet through the creation and publication of Web pages. HTML, or Hypertext Markup Language, is the universal language for publishing Web pages and is the underpinning of every page displayed on the Web. Using a simple HTML editor and a straightforward, stepped approach, students build Web pages of increasing sophistication and design. By course's end, students have a sound working knowledge of HTML and Web design. |
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Creating Web Sites with HTML (X453.1) |
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The exploding growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web has created a niche for people who can understand and interact with the Internet through the creation and publication of Web pages. HTML, or Hypertext Markup Language, is the universal language for publishing Web pages and is the underpinning of every page displayed on the Web. Using a simple HTML editor and a straightforward, stepped approach, students build Web pages of increasing sophistication and design. By course's end, students have a sound working knowledge of HTML and Web design. |
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Creative Nonfiction Workshop (X140) |
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Humanities & Liberal Arts |
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This workshop provides an opportunity for writers who have mastered the basics of good writing and are interested in applying the techniques of storytelling to nonfiction prose pieces, including personal essays, features, commentary, reviews, reports, journal entries, and memoirs. The workshop also addresses broader concerns: how to become a critical and productive reader of your own and other writers' works, how to get started on a piece, how to maintain momentum, and how to revise after the first draft is complete. |
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Crime and Society (X435) |
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Law & Criminal Justice |
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This course examines the major types of violent crime and the responses of our institutions to them. Also included is a discussion of the negative impact of the media, as well as the positive roles of personal and social ethics, victims' rights organizations, and independent social activism against hate and violence. |
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Critical Incident Stress Management (X416) |
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Healthcare |
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Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) is a comprehensive psycho-educational program designed to help people cope with traumatic events. Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD), the primary focus of this course, is part of CISM and is an intervention used to help people following exposure to a traumatic event. CISD accelerates the normal recovery process by lessening the impact of a distressing event. This course provides basic training for persons interested in providing CISD or developing a CISD team.
Participants learn about stress management interventions with the community and emergency service workers, the nature of critical incidents, critical incident stress response, and emergency service-worker personality characteristics. You are also introduced to services offered in critical incident stress management programs, such as pre-incident education, on-scene support, demobilization debriefings, defusings, and specialty debriefings. |
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Critical Thinking (X23) |
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Humanities & Liberal Arts |
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This course teaches strategies for learning how to learn and for critical and creative thinking, including complex problem solving, and examines from a psychological standpoint why people think the way they do. It helps you identify the strengths and weaknesses in your thinking, avoid common errors in thinking, and develop higher-order thinking skills for your personal and professional development. |
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Developing Internet-Based Instruction (X331.6) |
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Information Technology |
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This course provides an overview of Internet-based instructional theory and a hands-on introduction to the art of instructional Web site design, production, and publishing. It is appropriate for anyone who wants to learn to use the Internet to teach at a distance or as a classroom resource.
Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:
- Conduct a task analysis
- Conduct a target population analysis
- Derive objectives from their analyses
- Learn what tools are available for producing Internet-based instruction
- Evaluate the effectiveness of Internet-based tools to teach their objectives
- Design, produce, post, and revise Web pages |
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Developing the Novel (X125.1) |
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Humanities & Liberal Arts |
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Designed for writers who are interested in developing ideas and characters for a novel, this course explores the craft of longer fiction and ways of meeting its creative challenges. You learn how to develop characters, language, voice, pace, tone, theme, and setting, and participate in posting critiques of other students' work.
At the conclusion of this course, you will have:
- gained a brief history and structural overview of the novel;
- produced an outline and opening chapter of a novel;
- developed the discipline of regular writing; understand the importance of revision and developed the ability to revise;
- received feedback on your work; developed critical skills through giving feedback to others that they can then apply to their own work;
- gained a strong sense of future direction with your novels.
There are no prerequisites, but some previous creative writing experience and an idea for a novel are recommended. |
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Developing the Novel (X125.1) |
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Designed for writers who are interested in developing ideas and characters for a novel, this course explores the craft of longer fiction and ways of meeting its creative challenges. You learn how to develop characters, language, voice, pace, tone, theme, and setting, and participate in posting critiques of other students' work.
At the conclusion of this course, you will have:
- gained a brief history and structural overview of the novel;
- produced an outline and opening chapter of a novel;
- developed the discipline of regular writing; understand the importance of revision and developed the ability to revise;
- received feedback on your work; developed critical skills through giving feedback to others that they can then apply to their own work;
- gained a strong sense of future direction with your novels.
There are no prerequisites, but some previous creative writing experience and an idea for a novel are recommended. |
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Developing Wireless Web Applications (X442.6) |
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Information Technology |
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By 2004, 1.3 billion people will access the Net using Web-enabled phones, compared to just 700 million people with PCs, according to IDC. "Top PC industry executive predicted the death of the desktop computers the leading method of accessing the Internet saying a variety of wireless handheld devices will soon rule the day," said CNETnews.com.
This course provides a survey of technologies for developing Web applications for wireless devices like the Palm VII and Web-enabled cell phones. You learn what technologies are in use today, and what are the most promising next-generation technologies. By the end of this course, you should be able to build real-world applications using Wireless Access Protocol, Wireless Markup Language, and Web Clipping. |
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Digital Telecommunications (X472) |
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Information Technology |
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This course acquaints you with the fundamental concepts and principles of digital telecommunication networks. The course emphasis is on digital techniques used in such integrated digital networks for processing user information. Supervised final examination. |
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Earthquakes: Their Geology and Human Impact (X25) |
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Earthquake activity, focusing on California, is considered, including an overview of plate tectonics as the theory relates to earthquakes; the nature of faults; the causes, characteristics, and effects of earthquakes; and issues of public safety.
Upon completing this course, students will understand: the general concepts of plate tectonics as they relate to seismic activity; the nature of faults, especially the major faults in California; the causes, characteristics, and effects of earthquakes; issues of public safety related to seismic activity
Access to a VCR is required. The course package includes the video When the Bay Area Quakes. |
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Economic Indicators: Making Sense of Market Data (X408.4) |
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Economics |
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This course introduces you to economic indicator analysis. You focus on several ?key? economic indicators that are monitored closely by financial analysts, economists, and governments around the world. Examination of the business cycle will be conducted in order to place each indicator in a context which will allow you to better understand seemingly contradictory market reactions to newly released indicators. After completing this course you should have the ability to critically analyze news and data from financial/economic news sources (e.g., CNNfn, WSJ, BusinessWeek, etc.) and assess what, if any, impact a market reaction to a newly released indicator will have on a particular situation. |
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Economic Indicators: Making Sense of Market Data (X408.4) |
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This course introduces you to economic indicator analysis. You focus on several ?key? economic indicators that are monitored closely by financial analysts, economists, and governments around the world. Examination of the business cycle will be conducted in order to place each indicator in a context which will allow you to better understand seemingly contradictory market reactions to newly released indicators. After completing this course you should have the ability to critically analyze news and data from financial/economic news sources (e.g., CNNfn, WSJ, BusinessWeek, etc.) and assess what, if any, impact a market reaction to a newly released indicator will have on a particular situation. |
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Economics for Managers (X432.9) |
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This course provides an overview of general economic issues, principles, and concepts in both microeconomics and macroeconomics. Topics include supply and demand, externalities, elasticity, unemployment, inflation, gross national product, and gross domestic product. The focus is on money and monetary policies. Students are taught to understand the relationship between price level and inflation and will evaluate the various market structures, market concentration ratios, and antitrust laws in the United States. International trade is emphasized.
This course was formerly titled "Essentials of Economics." |
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Economics for Managers (X432.9) |
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This course provides an overview of general economic issues, principles, and concepts in both microeconomics and macroeconomics. Topics include supply and demand, externalities, elasticity, unemployment, inflation, gross national product, and gross domestic product. The focus is on money and monetary policies. Students are taught to understand the relationship between price level and inflation and will evaluate the various market structures, market concentration ratios, and antitrust laws in the United States. International trade is emphasized. |
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Editorial Workshop (X413) |
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Humanities & Liberal Arts |
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This course teaches the fundamentals of copyediting and explains the copyeditors role in the publishing cycle. It develops your skill in copyediting books, magazines, newspapers, reports, manuals, newsletters, and other nonfiction. Both mechanical and substantive editing are covered, with attention to various stylistic conventions and typical usage problems. The course is designed for beginning editors, more experienced editors needing structured review, and publications managers, newsletter writers, desktop publishers, word processors, and proofreaders who want to acquire editorial skills.
Prerequisite: Mastery of English language usage and grammar equivalent to successful completion of English X2A and X2B. |
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Employee Benefit Plans (X450) |
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This course is a general introduction to employee benefit plans: what they include and how they are designed, administered, and evaluated. You study the most common types of discretionary benefits and learn how they are selected and administered.
The instructor outlines legal requirements, administrative problems, and options available, as well as government-mandated plans such as workers' compensation and Social Security. Important policy issues on sick leave, vacation, jury duty, and leaves of absence are described and related to organizational culture and policy. Special attention is given to the effects of tax reform and to other emerging developments in benefits planning. |
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Environmental Issues (XB10) |
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Environmental Science |
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This course studies the relationship between human society and the natural environment and examines cases of ecosystem maintenance and disruption. Issues discussed include economic development, population, energy, resources, technology, and alternative systems. The course identifies our principal environmental problems, analyzes the social and physical concepts that connect them, and uses these concepts to identify possible solutions. Supervised final examination. |
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