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Project Managers are in high demand. In this free information session, our project management instructor will discuss the project management industry, the project management profession and Green River’s newly revised Project Management Certificate Program. If you have been thinking about taking courses to formalize your PM understanding, making a career change or learning tangible skills to help you stand out in your current role, join us for this informational session. Registration is required in order to attend this FREE information session.

A Zoom link will be sent to your email on file no less than 24 hours before the start of the course. Please check your spam & junk folders or call us at 206 934 5339 for assistance.

This course is offered in partnership with Green River College Continuing Education.

Organize, calculate, analyze, revise, update, and present your data in ways that help the decision makers in your organization! This course provides you with a foundation for Excel knowledge and skills, which you can build upon to eventually become an expert in data analysis.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Familiarize yourself with Excel's layout, its various parts, its commands, and its terminology.
• Outline Excel's abilities to quickly, efficiently, and accurately calculate data.
• Update worksheets without throwing away all of the valuable work you've already done.
• Format a worksheet and organize your data.
• Print workbooks.
• Manage the overall structure of your workbooks.

Pre-requisite: Basic computer skills

Course fee includes physical textbook.

Please note: lunch will be held 12pm-12:30pm; bring a sack lunch or check out our on-campus dining options, the Alki Café or Culinary Convenience Store.

Acquire the skills to manage projects in a variety of industries. Our seven required courses give you the tools and techniques to deliver projects on time and within budget. In Part A, you’ll get a broad overview of project management and then delve deeper into the five project management processes: Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling and Closing. Courses include team activities, insightful discussion and a toolkit you can immediately utilize. 

Part A includes the first three of seven required courses. Project Management Part A is offered each Fall & Spring quarter. This can be a stand-alone class or students can apply it toward a full Project Management Certificate by also enrolling in and completing Project Management Part B (offered in Winter quarter).

Project Management Part A includes (51 total hours)

• Project Management Basics: Initiating the Project– 15 hours
• Project Planning and Scheduling Essentials– 21 hours
• Project Execution to Closing– 15 hours

To earn the Project Management Certificate, you must take all seven required courses; attend 80 percent of the first six courses (based on number of sessions in each course) and 100 percent of the Capstone course; and participate in class. Please note: Saturday sessions over four hours in length count as two sessions.

Click on this link for details about the complete Project Management Certificate offered in partnership with Green River College. South Seattle College will open enrollment for Part B approximately two months prior to the start date. 

Recommended textbook: The PMBOK® Guide - 7th Edition, Project Management Institute, Inc., 2021, ISBN-13: 978-1628256642

PMBOK® is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

A Zoom link will be sent to your email on file no less than 24 hours before the start of the course. Please check your spam & junk folders or call us at 206 934 5339 for assistance.

This course is offered in partnership with Green River College Continuing Education.

This course builds upon the foundational knowledge presented in the Excel 365 Level 1 course and will help start you down the road to creating advanced workbooks and worksheets that can help deepen your understanding of organizational intelligence.

The ability to analyze massive amounts of data, extract actionable information from it, and present that information to decision makers is at the foundation of a successful organization that can compete at a high level. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Work with functions.
• Work with lists.
• Analyze data.
• Visualize data with charts.
• Use PivotTables and PivotCharts.

Pre-requisite: Excel 365 Level 1 or equivalent 

Course fee includes physical textbook.

Please note: lunch will be held 12pm-12:30pm; bring a sack lunch or check out our on-campus dining options, the Alki Café or Culinary Convenience Store.

How do you grab and maintain an audience's focus when you're asked to present important information? By being clear, organized, and engaging. Today's audiences are tech savvy, accustomed to high-impact multimedia content, and stretched for time.

By learning how to use the vast array of features and functionality contained within PowerPoint 365, you will gain the ability to organize your content, enhance it with high-impact visuals, and deliver it with a punch.

In this course, you will use PowerPoint 365 to begin creating engaging, dynamic multimedia presentations. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Identify the basic features and functions of PowerPoint.
• Develop a PowerPoint presentation.
• Perform text formatting.
• Add and arrange graphical elements.
• Modify graphical elements.
• Prepare to deliver your presentation.

Pre-requisite: Basic computer skills

Course fee includes physical textbook.

Tired to your bones? Knees creaking like attic stairs, neck aching every time you move? This course aims to reimagine the movements, techniques, and physical expectations surrounding manual labor, empowering students to take confident control of their own body in the workplace.

All too often, physically taxing jobs expect constant athletic prowess and repetitive motion, often in inclement situations, with very little recovery time. Simply stretching for a few minutes every day is just not enough, and a 'can-do' mentality with a side of Gatorade only gets you so far.

In Labor In Motion, students will learn basic physiology, study a wide and global range of movement and strength-building techniques, reexamine what it means to protect one's body in the labor field, and create and learn to uphold their own individual safety plan. We'll learn new ways to balance weight, new ways to lift and move, and study everything from which boots to wear for what feet, to how we can wear head protection without annoyance and pain.

This class is best for: construction workers / nurses and CNAs / plumbers / massage therapists / traffic flaggers / electricians / and more