Office of Adult & Continuing Education

Maurice Thomasson Building
Hours: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
302.857.6820 Telephone
302.857.6823 Fax

Adult & Continuing Education

Please click here for a printable Spring/Summer 2016 Course Guide.

Continuing Education Non-Credit Courses

TEST PREPARATION

Praxis I Preparatory Course

The Praxis I is used for licensure as well as to qualify candidates for entry into a teacher education programs. The tests measure basic skills and are broken into three separate exams:

Praxis I Reading Test: Measures a candidate’s ability to analyze and comprehend texts.

Praxis I Mathematical Test: Measures a candidate’s basic skills in math.

Praxis I Writing Test : Measures a candidate’s ability to articulate thoughts and communicate effectively through writing.

This course prepares teaching credentials candidates for all question types on the Praxis I Exam only.

Dates: Rolling Registration-Call For Details

Mondays

6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. (Instructor-Led)

Student Tuition: $80

SAT Test Preparatory Course

This course prepares students for all question types on the SAT Test and each of the test question areas will be analyzed with special consideration given to math and verbal skills. Lessons will cover techniques for approaching the reading comprehension passages that appear on the test. Students will practice on actual SAT tests.

Dates: Rolling Registration-Call For Details

5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. (Instructor-Led)

Tuesdays and Thursdays

Student Tuition: $150

GRE Test Preparatory Course

The GRE exam prep course is designed to provide you with complete preparation for your graduate school entrance examination. Course components are inclusive of a thorough subject review, problem solving, timed quizzes, practice tests, skill review exercises and actual test simulation. This course is designed based on a step comprehensive approach. 1) Diagnostic Testing and Assessment, 2) Basic skills review, 3) In-class problem solving, concepts and strategies, 4) Practice test reinforcement, 5) Final exam, assessment report and review, 6) Personal study plan.

Dates: Rolling Registration-Call For Details

5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Mondays

Student Tuition: $250

*Ask About the DSU Student Discount

LSAT Test Preparatory Course

The Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) is the mandatory assessment used by nearly all law schools as an indicator of eligibility requirement. This course will familiarize the student with the LSAT exam and its format. In addition, the course will introduce test-taking strategies that students can employ both in studying for the exam and in taking the actual test. In addition, the course is designed to assist the student in performing at his/her maximum potential on the LSAT. The instructor and the students will dissect each section of the LSAT during each class. Lastly, the students will take practice exams to determine performance improvement.

Dates: Rolling Registration-Call For Details

5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. (Instructor-Led)

Tuesdays

Student Tuition: $325

GED Test Preparatory Course

This class aids in preparing students to take the General Education Development (GED) test through review of the five GED content areas (writing, mathematics, literature and the arts, social studies, and science) with particular emphasis on writing and math. This class is also appropriate for students interested in improving their basic skills before entering credit classes. Prerequisite: Placement by Assessment.

Prerequisite: Placement by Assessment

Dates: Rolling Registration-Call For Details

5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. (Instructor-Led)

Tuesdays & Thursdays

Student Tuition: $265 (includes all materials)

LEGAL STUDIES

Paralegal Certificate Course

This nationally acclaimed program is designed for beginning as well as advanced legal workers. Students will be trained to interview witnesses, investigate complex fact patterns, research the law, prepare legal documents, and assist in preparing cases for courtroom litigation. The instruction is practice-oriented and relates to those areas in which paralegals are in most demand. Topics include legal terminology, introduction to evidentiary predicate, identifying relevant authority, introduction to legal research, and legal writing and appellate procedure.

Dates: August 15 - October 24, 2016

5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. (Instructor-Led)

Mondays

Student Tuition: $1599

*DSU Students Will Receive A Discount

HEALTHCARE PROGRAMS

Pharmacy Technician Comprehensive Program

This comprehensive 80 hour program will prepare students to work as a pharmacy technician in retail or other pharmacy setting and to take the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board’s PTCB exam. Course content includes: pharmacy medical terminology, the history of pharmacy, the pharmacy practice in multiple environments, pharmacy calculations and measurements, reading and interpreting prescriptions and defining drugs by generic and brand names. Through classroom lecture and hands-on labs, students will review dosage calculations, drug classifications, the “top 200 drugs”, I.V. flow rates, sterile compounding, dose conversions, aseptic technique, the handling of sterile products, total parental nutrition (TPN), dispensing of prescriptions, inventory control and billing and reimbursement.

Dates: March 8 - May 12, 2016 OR June 7 - August 11, 2016

5:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

Tuesdays and Thursdays

Student Tuition: $1,499 (Textbooks Included)

Course Contact Hours: 80 hrs

Clinical Medical Assistant Program – 140 Classroom Hours w/ a Clinical Externship

This program is intended for students who want to prepare for an exciting, challenging and rewarding career in healthcare. This program will train students to assist physicians by performing functions related to the clinical responsibilities of a medical office. Instruction includes among other things preparing patients for examination and treatment, routine laboratory procedures, diagnostic testing, technical aspects of phlebotomy and the cardiac life cycle. Students will review important topics including phlebotomy, pharmacology, the proper use and administration of medications, taking and documenting vital signs, cardiology including proper lead placements, a professional workplace behavior, ethics and the legal aspects of healthcare. This program includes 140 hours of classroom lecture and hands on labs and a clinical externship opportunity at a local healthcare provider. To be eligible for the clinical rotation, students must successfully complete the 140 hour program, submit to a thorough background check, drug screening and meet other requirements.

Note: Upon successful completion of this program, students would be eligible to sit for the National Healthcareer Association (NHA) Certified Clinical Medical Assistant (CCMA) national examination.

Dates: March 7 - June 13, 2016 OR June 6 - September 14, 2016

6:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

Mondays and Wednesdays

9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Saturdays

Student Tuition: $2,599 (includes all textbooks)

Course Contact Hours: 140 hours + Clinical Externship

Clinical Externship Hours: 160 hours

Medical Billing and Coding Program

This combined 80 hour billing and coding course offers the skills needed to solve insurance billing problems, how to manually file claims (using the CPT and ICD-9 manual), complete common insurance forms, trace delinquent claims, appeal denied claims and use generic forms to streamline billing procedures. The course covers the following areas: CPT (Introduction, Guidelines, Evaluation and Management), specialty fields (such as surgery, radiology and laboratory), ICD-9 (Introduction and Guidelines) and basic claims processes for medical insurance and third party reimbursements. Students will learn how to find the service and codes using manuals, (CPT, ICD-9 and HCPCS). After obtaining the practical work experience (6 months to 2 years), students who complete this course could be qualified to sit for the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC) - Certified Professional Coder Exam (CPC or CPC-H Apprentice); the American Health Information Association (AHIMA) Certified Coding Associate (CCA) exam; and/or other National Certification Exams.

Dates: March 12 - May 14, 2016

9:00 am -3:00 pm

Saturdays

Course Contact Hours: 80 hrs.

Student Tuition: $1,799 (Textbooks Included)

Medical Administrative Assistant Program

This 50-hour course prepares students to function effectively in many of the administrative and clerical positions in the health care industry. Medical Administrative Assistants, Medical Secretary, and Medical Records Clerks are all positions in great demand. This program covers important background information on the medical assisting profession and interpersonal skills, medical ethics and law, medical terminology, basics of insurance billing and coding, telephone techniques, scheduling appointments, medical records management and management of practice finances. This program is intended to provide students with a well-rounded introduction to medical administration so that a student can gain the necessary skills required to obtain a medical administrative assistant position in the health care field.

Note: This program meets the necessary requirements to take the National Healthcareer Association (NHA) - Certified Medical Administrative Assistant (CMAA) exam.

Dates: March 15 - May 3, 2016 OR June 14 - August 2, 2016

6:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Tuesdays and Thursdays

Course Contact Hours: 50 hrs.

Student Tuition: $999 (Textbooks included)

Home Healthcare Aide Online

This program focuses on teaching students to assist patients in their homes by focusing on specific health and personal needs. Emphasis is on personal care in a client's home, communications, working with ill persons, basic human needs, eldercare, nutrition, special diets, and home management. Detailed course topics include the role of a home health aide, client relationships, infection control, hospice care, anatomy and physiology, medical terminology, dressing and personal grooming and more. This is an Online course.

Dates: Call For Details

Mondays & Wednesdays

Student Tuition: $1,499

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

Social Media "Making Connections" For All Ages

Do you want to learn how to text, tweet, blog, send and receive photos electronically, connect with family and friends by Facebook? You are in luck! Those of all ages will be introduced to the basics in texting, tweeting, blogging, web/internet exploration, getting the most use of your cell phone, how to send and receive pictures, video clips and to communicate with others using these media.

Dates: March 12, 2016 OR May 28, 2016

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Saturdays

Workshop Fee: $40 (One Day Session)

Quality Customer Service

The Quality Customer Service workshop is designed to provide participants with value-added skills to enhance the customer’s experience. This impact-learning oriented course will allow students to develop a framework that supports professional and organizational quality service. Through engagement and role-playing students will simulate best practices via varied customer-focused scenarios in an effort to build as well as retain thriving business relationships.

Dates: Call For Details

6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Thursday

Workshop Fee: $89.00 (One Day Sessions)

Couponing by Crystal

This workshop is an opportunity for people to learn how to cut back on spending and do more saving via Extreme Couponing.

Do you look at the deals and wonder what it all means?
Do you see weekly savings posts and feel like you can never manage to save that?
Does CVS baffle you? My goal is for you to leave feeling like an expert!!
Learning how to save money you already have is amazing!!
Crystal’s family went from spending $550 a month on groceries to only spending $250 a month. What would you do with an extra $300 each month?
Come to a workshop and learn how to drastically cut your budget on shopping expenses.

Dates: June 4, 2016

10:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m.

Saturday

Workshop Fee: $25.00 (One Day Session)

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

PROPERTY & CASUALTY TRAINING

This class is formulated to aid students who desire to obtain a property and casualty insurance license for the State of Delaware. This class will cover all pertinent materials and information needed to assist students in successfully complete the state licensing exam by teaching product knowledge, terms, concepts, statutes, rules, and regulations for both property and casualty insurance. The State of Delaware Insurance Licensing Candidate Handbook is included in the total fee for the class. Students are responsible for initiating a test and background check after the completion of course.

Dates: August 22 - September 26, 2016

5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Tuesdays and Thursdays

Student Tuition: $555

Note: In addition to a class on our Dover campus, this class will also be held at our Kirkwood location in Wilmington, DE.

Project Management I-Fundamentals

This course if Part I of a III part series of Project Management courses. All project management preparation topic areas are covered,including the PMI knowledge areas. The PMBOK and many other reference texts. Participants evaluate their existing knowledge, determine what knowledge is missing, and create a study plan to fill the gap. Multiple exam questions on every topic are provided, including a complete exam simulation along with a review of answers and references. Workshop includes: five days of instructions, workshop reference material, project management certificate, PMP study kit, and inclusive Boot Camps before exam.

Dates: May 11 - June 29, 2016

5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Wednesdays

Student Tuition: $1899

Project Management (Online Courses)

Please visit: http://www.iil.com/dsu/

Certified Administrative Professional (CAP-OM)

Learn to master the concepts of management and organizational planning, managerial communications, business etiquette protocols, and finance and economic applications. Get the tools and prep you need for the CAP-OM Exams. Each section is designed based on five discussion items. 1) Management and Organizational Planning - apply the skills of being effective and efficient in the workplace. 2) Administrative Management - understanding the various forms, importance, and applications of written communications. 3) Managerial Communications - the key ingredient in all management functions. 4) Professional Protocols - business etiquette and protocols. 5) Economics and Financial Application - the way business is influenced by world economics and politics.

Dates: February 23 - April 12, 2016 OR June 21 - August 16, 2016

5:30 p.m.- 8:30 p.m.

Workshop Fee: $489 General Public/$444 IAAP Members

*CAP-OM Boot Camp (Included)

Saturday, April 16, 2016 OR Saturday, August 27, 2016

9:00 am – 3:00 pm

THE BENEFITS OF NON-PROFIT MANAGEMENT

Managers in nonprofit organizations often have a plethora of responsibilities. The aforementioned includes but is not limited to- chief executive to marketer, fundraiser and grant writer. As a result, management within the non-profit sector require a combination of skills, passion and innovation to move through today’s nonprofit arena. This course will aid in demonstrating one’s ability to solve problems, contribute ideas, and offer solutions via attending this facilitation. If you are interested in learning more about the fundamentals of nonprofit management please contact us.

For More Info: Please Call 302.857-6822 or Email- sellis@desu.edu

ENTREPRENEURSHIP CLASSES

Startup Basics:

All businesses begin with just an idea. You may have dreamed of a business idea for years or have been hit unexpectedly with an idea. Either way that idea is worthless until it is executed on. Many people come up with great ideas, but very few attempt to make those ideas a reality. This workshop will give you the basics of starting a business and help you determine if you have what it takes to make the dream a reality.

Dates: Call For Details

6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Courses would run concurrently--call for details.

MICROSOFT OFFICE 2013

Microsoft Office Word 2013 - Beginner

Learn how to modify and create your documents using Microsoft Word 2013. Learn how to change the size and appearance of text; change margins and tab settings; automatically center, right align, justify, and indent text; run integrated grammar and spelling checker; save, retrieve, copy, organize and print your documents. At the end of the course, you'll be able to use Word confidently at home or on the job.

Dates: April 5, 2016 OR June 7, 2016

6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Tuesdays