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Click on the name of an online business certificate courses to view the detailed information; you can also find out about the college or university offering the category by clicking on "School's Profile". |
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Real Estate Investment Analysis (Online) (X 477.9) |
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University of California, Los Angeles Extension |
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This online course examines residential, multiresidential, commercial, industrial, and special-purpose real estate investments, as well as reviews application of investment ratios to expense factors, mortgage loan constants, and equity yields before and after income and capital gains taxes. Other topics include capitalization; negative vs. positive leverage; depreciation methods and recapture; simplification of actuarial tables and mathematical formulae; internal rates of return; net present value; related yield measurement techniques; senior, junior, and inclusive trust deeds; fee, leasehold, and subordination alternatives and combinations; explanation and calculation of financial provisions of commercial leases; and prevailing rental rates and operating expenses. |
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Real Estate Market Analysis (Online) (X 476.8) |
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University of California, Los Angeles Extension |
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This course explores the sources of data used in economic studies and provides an in-depth analysis of trends, market activity, sales, lending, leasing, and how research studies are conducted. Other topics include land-use studies and city planning, traffic studies, population behavior and mobility, and consumer spending and trade area. Students learn through case studies, demonstrations, and class participation in the analysis of shopping center development, tract development (sales, projections, and surveys), service station location, population projections, employment trends, urban renewal projects, and community reuse studies. |
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Real Estate Principles (Online) (X 475.1) |
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University of California, Los Angeles Extension |
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This practical online study of the basic principles, economic aspects, and laws of real estate covers the information needed to obtain a real estate license and/or for better management of personal investments. Topics include legal descriptions and estates; encumbrances, liens, and homesteads; agencies; contracts; mathematics; financing and lenders; appraisals; escrows; title insurance; leases, landlords, and tenants; urban economics and planning; taxation; and careers in real estate. |
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Recruitment, Interviewing, and Selection (Online) (X 450.2) |
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University of California, Los Angeles Extension |
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A high-quality workforce is essential to the success of businesses today. This online course provides the strategies, concepts, and practices essential to the effective selection of personnel to accomplish a business objective, with an emphasis on recruiting, promoting, and retraining employees. The course also covers budget development, job descriptions, interviewing techniques, assessment, testing, background investigations, legal requirements, reporting of results to management, employee orientation, outplacement, and ethnic diversity issues. |
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Selling Vacation Packages and Tours (TRAV 606) |
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Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning |
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Earn great commissions by booking vacation packages and tours, one of the fastest growing segments of the travel industry. Learn the basics of the tour product, components of tours, tour destinations, types of vacation packages and tours, print and electronic resources and non-automated tour booking procedures. Understand the function of tour operators and wholesalers. Identify your clients' needs and preferences, and book the right vacation package for any given client. |
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Small Business Management (X105) |
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UC Berkeley Extension Online |
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This course focuses on a dominant sector of U.S. industry, small business. It deals with important financial questions and with the decisions that every prospective businessperson needs to understand. It includes the analysis of such unique problems as succession planning, use of computerization and online techniques, the intrusion of family issues in the workplace, and buying an existing business or franchise. Each of these issues is presented from the perspective of the entrepreneur. The course is structured around a series of plans or documents that are important to the various facets of small business venture. Some of these are used for coordinated operations, others to describe the business to outside interests such as bankers or investors.
This course is designed primarily to help those who are considering starting or operating a small business of their own. It will also be useful to anyone considering investing in working for a small firm or those in large companies that may be dependent on new or small business as either suppliers or customers. |
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Supervisory Skills (MLCP 101) |
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Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning |
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Today, effective supervision is very challenging. The successful supervisor needs a wide range of specialized skills: you must manage time well, communicate effectively, handle customer relations, measure work appropriately, and ensure compliance with complex government legislation. This course will help you develop these skills and an awareness of the multi-faceted approach to leadership demanded in the modern business environment. The course fee includes a manual. There is no final exam. This course is a credit in the Manufacturing Leadership Certificate program. |
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Taking off in Travel (TRAV 601) |
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Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning |
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This course provides an overview of the basics of the travel industry and career opportunities available. Enjoy a fun, realistic presentation of air travel, car rentals, hotel accommodations, rail travel, tours, and cruises. Group travel, incentive travel, meetings and conventions, in-bound tourism, international travel and niche travel are also discussed. There will be opportunities for learning activities, as well as exercises and thought-provoking case studies to aid in applying the principles presented. |
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Technical Communication II (X466) |
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UC Berkeley Extension Online |
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This course covers the process of producing a complete documentation set using various media. Issues covered include the roles of team members in a publications group; the research process; defining an audience; interviewing; file transmission and document control systems; editorial and technical review cycles; and graphic design, foreign translation, and production issues. Supervised final examination. |
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Technical Writing: Analysis & Design (CCL. 205) |
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Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning |
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For students that registered in the program prior to fall 2004. This course builds on the fundamentals of technical writing and focuses on the elements associated with the research, design and preparation of technical documentation. You will develop the necessary skills to compile a complete technical documentation project for a prescribed product or process. Course activities will include the methods and strategies for preparing audience analysis, task analysis, document outlines, layouts, style guides, standards, types of documents and document elements. |
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Technical Writing: HTML Introduction (CCL. 209) |
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Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning |
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Ever wonder how you create the web pages you see on the World Wide Web? This course will introduce you to the basics of creating an HTML web page. Students will begin by using a text editor to enter code and then graduate to using the WYSIWYG editor, Netscape Composer. Basic topics such as text formatting, graphics, links, lists, tables and frames will be covered in this course. This course has eight lessons involving readings, web page creation assignments, bulletin board postings, chats, and online quizzes. Students will be given a solid grounding in the basics of HTML code. |
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Technical Writing: Introduction (CCL. 213) |
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Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning |
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This course provides the fundamental tools required to be a technical writer. You will develop and use the various tools that a technical writer uses on the job, such as an audience analysis and a task matrix. Learn effective interview techniques that will assist you in information gathering, and also how to write well-constructed procedures that conform to industry standards. Be able to differentiate between procedural, task, concept, and overview information, and how to organize the content in a document so that it meets your user's needs. |
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Technical Writing: Marketing Technical Writing Services (CCL. 208) |
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Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning |
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The purpose of this course is to assist the participants to become proficient in marketing their technical writing skills. The course will include information on the concepts of marketing, the development of marketing materials, including portfolios, brochures and a website, and the basics of selling and promoting. You will learn the skills related to customer service and contract work and have an opportunity to explore the issues associated with running a small consulting business in Ontario. |
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Technical Writing: Principles of Project Management (CCL. 207) |
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Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning |
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Keeping projects on track and within budget are key skills for technical writers. Learn effective project management skills that will help you deliver successful projects to clients and to your company. You will learn how to create a budget for technical writing projects, assign resources, schedule a project, and monitor change using a Gantt chart. You will also create standard project management documents such as a change control form and wrap-up report. You will increase your understanding of team dynamics and how to evaluate team success. |
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Technical Writing: Print and Online Design (CCL. 214) |
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Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning |
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Have you ever read a print or online document that had poor navigation, layout, and content, but couldn't describe why? This course teaches you the critical differences between print and online documents, and how to select a proper medium and structure that will meet your user's needs. You will also learn how to efficiently transform a print document into an online document, which is an increasingly important technical writing function. Various types of documents such as training material, user manuals, and online help will be reviewed throughout the course to provide you with essential design and writing knowledge.
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Technical Writing: Quality & Production (CCL. 206) |
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Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning |
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Quality can make the difference between a usable document, and one your users struggle to read. Transform your documents into high-quality, professional documents by paying attention to quality issues such as standards, style guides, and usability. You will also learn about the issues many companies face in print production, working with vendors, and translation and localization, and how to overcome these issues. |
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Testing/Career Assessment (Online) (X 314.90) |
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University of California, Los Angeles Extension |
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College-bound students encounter a series of standardized examinations as they progress toward college admission. The PSAT/NMSQT, SAT I and II, ACT, and Advanced Placement Tests are the most widely known and given. This online course describes what each exam tests for, the validity of test results, and issues of bias. The effect of coaching also is addressed. In the realm of career planning, there are numerous career inventories that can help students--both college-bound and otherwise--identify their career interests and propensities; some of the more widely used career instruments are highlighted. |
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The Cruise Market (TRAV 605) |
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Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning |
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Earn great commissions by booking cruises, one of the fastest growing segments of the travel industry. Learn the basics of the cruise product, cruise classifications, destinations, types of cruises, print resources and non-automated reservations procedures. Identify your clients' needs and preferences, learn the variables that are available in cruising and select and book the right cruise for any given client. |
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Travel Sales and Trends (TRAV 602) |
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Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning |
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Enjoy expected, as well as surprising sales techniques and new approaches as you explore and practice them. Included you will find telephone business manners, listening skills, and tools for targeting the traveler. Discover successful sales steps for telephone reservations agents as well as for the travel professional working with clients one on one. Trends in the industry include the use of the web for a variety of travel resources as well as current information on possible careers in the industry. This is an excellent introduction to the program. |
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Turf Management (BPGM 506) |
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Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning |
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