Discover a world of short, affordable, and fun learning experiences with our Mini-Courses! We're excited to tailor our offerings to your interests—share your ideas and help us create a community-driven curriculum that brings people together. Join us and explore new hobbies, skills, and passions in a vibrant, engaging environment!
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Mindfulness and Wellness Workshop
- Delivery Format: In-Person
- Cost: $69
- Credits: n/a
- Start Date: April 1
- End Date: April 8
- Meeting Time(s): Tuesdays, 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
Course Overview: Practicing mindfulness in everyday life has the power to reduce stress and enhance focus, improving both your physical and mental well-being. This workshop also explores wellness, which goes hand in hand with mindfulness, as it prioritizes nutrition and relationships and will greatly improve your wellbeing. Learn more today!
Healthy Aging
- Delivery Format: Online
- Instruction Type: Self-Guided or Instructor-Moderated
- Cost: $79
- Self-Guided Start: Instant
- Self-Guided Access: 3 Months
- Instuctor-Mod Start: Monthly
- Instuctor-Mod Access: 6 Weeks
Course Overview: If you are in the healthcare field, interested in healthy aging, working with the aging population, or wishing to prepare for careers in aging services or gerontology, then this course is for you. Topics include nutrition and healthy aging, the healthy aging brain, physical activity and healthy aging, the role of intimacy and sexuality in healthy aging, keys to longevity in the centenarian population, and important behavioral and mental health issues in the aging adult.
Photographing Nature with Your Digital Camera
- Delivery Format: Online
- Instruction Type: Self-Guided or Instructor-Moderated
- Cost: $119
- Self-Guided Start: Instant
- Self-Guided Access: 3 Months
- Instuctor-Mod Start: Monthly
- Instuctor-Mod Access: 6 Weeks
Course Overview: Nature photography can be a fun, relaxing, and exciting hobby! In this course, you'll explore composition and lighting issues and find out how to take beautiful photos of landscapes, flowers, trees, and water. Along the way, you'll delve into your camera's shutter speed and aperture controls so that you'll be able to capture the photos you really want. By the end of this course, you'll have become the nature photographer you always wanted to be!
Discover Sign Language
- Delivery Format: Online
- Instruction Type: Self-Guided or Instructor-Moderated
- Cost: $119
- Self-Guided Start: Instant
- Self-Guided Access: 3 Months
- Instuctor-Mod Start: Monthly
- Instuctor-Mod Access: 6 Weeks
Course Overview: Throughout your online sign language training course, you will learn to fingerspell the alphabet, sign colors, numbers, objects, and family members. By the end of this sign language course, you will be confident and ready to participate in a conversation using the power of sign language.
Write Fiction Like a Pro
- Delivery Format: Online
- Instruction Type: Self-Guided or Instructor-Moderated
- Cost: $115
- Self-Guided Start: Instant
- Self-Guided Access: 3 Months
- Instuctor-Mod Start: Monthly
- Instuctor-Mod Access: 6 Weeks
Course Overview: In this course, you will understand how your passion, theme, premise, and characters help you create the structure of your story, and discover how viewpoint, dialogue, pacing, and many other techniques are used to build scenes and move your story from beginning to end. Before you know it, you will be prepared to write fiction like a pro.
Citizen Journalism (Concluded)
- Delivery Format: Hybrid
- Cost: $29 w/ Scholarship, $149 regular
- Credits: n/a
- Start Date: Jan. 28
- End Date: Mar. 4
- Meeting Time(s): Tuesdays, 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
Course Overview: Do you love writing stories and researching interesting topics? Then this course is for you! Beginners are more than welcome, because no matter your level of experience, by the end of this mini-course you will know how to publish quality works of writing. Learn more today!
Short Term Rental Management and Investing
- Delivery Format: Online
- Cost: $49
- Credits: n/a
- Start Date: April 2
- End Date: April 9
- Meeting Time(s): Wednesdays, 6 p.m.-7 p.m.
Course Overview: Have you ever wanted to learn more about platforms like Airbnb and VRBO? This course will guide you through every step of the short-term rental management process, including how to predict income and how to make your home stand out. Learn more today!
Retirement Planning Fundamentals
- Delivery Format: Online
- Cost: $99
- Credits: n/a
- Start Date: April 16
- End Date: April 30
- Meeting Time(s): Wednesdays, 6:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
Course Overview: Prepare for a comfortable retirement in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere where your participation and questions are encouraged. The material is taught in a way that is easy to understand, using real-life examples that are useful for developing a personalized retirement plan. Learn more today!
Retirement Planning Fundamentals
- Delivery Format: Online
- Cost: $99
- Credits: n/a
- Start Date: Sep. 10
- End Date: Sep. 24
- Meeting Time(s): Wednesdays, 6:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
Course Overview: Prepare for a comfortable retirement in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere where your participation and questions are encouraged. The material is taught in a way that is easy to understand, using real-life examples that are useful for developing a personalized retirement plan. Learn more today!
Start Your Own Small Business
- Delivery Format: Online
- Instruction Type: Self-Guided or Instructor-Moderated
- Cost: $129
- Self-Guided Start: Instant
- Self-Guided Access: 3 Months
- Instuctor-Mod Start: Monthly
- Instuctor-Mod Access: 6 Weeks
Course Overview: Turn your business dream into reality with this comprehensive course on launching and managing a successful venture. Learn how to choose the right opportunity, market effectively, secure financing, manage employees, and master time management techniques tailored for entrepreneurs.
Food, Nutrition, and Health
- Delivery Format: Online
- Instruction Type: Self-Guided or Instructor-Moderated
- Cost: $105
- Self-Guided Start: Instant
- Self-Guided Access: 3 Months
- Instuctor-Mod Start: Monthly
- Instuctor-Mod Access: 6 Weeks
Course Overview: Learn how food interacts with your body and discover how to make healthy nutritional choices that will impact your well-being. This course provides an overview of current food and nutrition issues, including obesity, nutrition and stress, food labels, botanicals and herbs, genetically modified foods, and how your food choices affect your physical, social, emotional, and spiritual health.
Aromatherapy: The Healing Power of Scent
- Delivery Format: Online
- Instruction Type: Self-Guided or Instructor-Moderated
- Cost: $44
- Self-Guided Start: Instant
- Self-Guided Access: 3 Months
- Instuctor-Mod Start: Monthly
- Instuctor-Mod Access: 6 Weeks
Course Overview: Explore the healing power of aromatherapy and its role in modern healthcare. This course covers essential oil applications, clinical effects, safety considerations, and evidence-based uses for holistic well-being.