Online and Remote Learning

This course is ideal for learners with a foundational understanding of accounting who are ready to deepen their knowledge and strengthen their practical skills. Through hands-on learning and applied analysis, learners will gain experience preparing financial reports and interpreting key financial data, including financial statements and their underlying components. Building on prior coursework in the accounting program, this course completes the intermediate-level foundation and prepares learners for roles in financial reporting and analysis. Key topics include liabilities, equity, taxable income, leases, and pension accounting—critical areas for those pursuing a career in accounting or finance. Understand Generally Accepted Accounting Principles; concepts, assumptions and guidelines; recording and interpretation of financial statements. Acquire knowledge of the use of analytical tools such as financial-ratio analysis, and the interpretation of financial information.

Healthcare professionals are exposed to others’ suffering on a regular basis through the very nature of their work. Empathic distress can be experienced as a normal consequence of empathic connection with those who are suffering. Compassion, rather than leading to fatigue and burnout, is a way of responding to others’ suffering that can strengthen our fortitude and benevolence. Drawing upon research and various models of compassion, you will discover mindfulness and compassion based practices that promote greater positive affect, connection, and resilience, even in the face of suffering. Through transformational meditative practices you will learn to activate your natural capacity for compassionate presence while strengthening your inner resources, ultimately improving the quality of care for yourself and others. Understand the evolutionary basis of compassion and the neuroscience supporting the efficacy of mindfulness and compassion for improving wellbeing and reducing the risk of burnout. Experience mindfulness and compassion meditative practices aimed at cultivating self-awareness, attunement to others, empathic concern and resilience. Learn to detect signs of empathic distress and the barriers to compassionate presence with yourself and others. Discover various methods of transforming empathy into compassion to enhance our response to suffering. Increase and maintain satisfaction and fulfillment in your life and career, while remaining in your healthcare occupation.

This introductory 12 weeks course provides the skills you need to begin front-end development in today’s ever changing IT landscape. Angular 16 and TypeScript which is now considered one of the most popular JavaScript framework for front-end development. Skills in Angular 16 and Restful Web Services are regarded essential for full-stack developer in today’s competitive IT world. Learn the fundamental concepts of front-end web development using HTML, CSS, TypeScript and Angular 16. The course covers beginning to advance topics in the Angular 16 framework such as the concepts of one-way vs two-way data binding, AngularJS Services and Single Page Application development. In addition, students will learn how to create Restful Web Services using the SpringBoot (Spring framework) and calling Restful web services through Angular 16 client. Finally, you will learn how to deploy your Angular 16 and Restful Web Services application work on Amazon Web Service, to demonstrate your skills to potential employers Design and produce a simple web application using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Angular 16. Learn fundamental Angular 16 concepts such as One-Way vs Two-Way data binding, Services, Dependency Injection, Inversion of Control and Single Page Application Development.  Learn how to code and debug Angular 16 using Microsoft Visual Code and Google Chrome Learn how to deploy and showcase Angular 16 and Restful Web Services application on Amazon Web Service, on Tomcat 9. 

This online self-study course is your starting point for the Certificate in Translation in order to work as a full or part-time translator. Using modern translation theory, you'll acquire essential tools and develop a strong awareness of the issues that Arabic translators face. You'll learn how to preserve the meaning, style, syntax and tone of the original text, without being literal, and become proficient in analyzing, understanding and correctly translating complex real-world documents. Learn translation in the fields of law, commerce and literature. All course materials are available electronically. You communicate with your instructor electronically and share at least three webinars with the whole class.  Acquire introductory tools for translation. Understand the principles and goals of a high-quality translation. Prepare for upper-level translation courses.  

To work as an English-Arabic translator, you must be able to render complex ideas from the fields of law, commerce and literature. This livestream course will build your qualifications and skills. You'll learn to critically analyze and accurately translate documents and get feedback on your written translations. All materials are provided in PDF format and you communicate with your instructor by email and webinar.  Handle common yet difficult translations. Avoid anglicisms and awkward syntax. Translate subtle and nuanced thoughts into written form. Make complex material accessible.

To work as an English-Arabic translator, you must be able to handle complex business and cultural demands. With this self-study Level III course, you're well on your way. Continue to build your analysis and translation skills and qualifications. Get supportive feedback on your oral and written translations. All materials are provided in PDF format and you communicate with your instructor by email.  Handle common yet difficult translations. Avoid anglicisms and awkward syntax. Render subtle and nuanced thoughts into written form. Translate more complex material.

In this course you explore how mindfulness and mindfulness meditation can impact on pain and pain management by changing our perspective on the experience of pain and suffering. You will also explore western and eastern views that can inform how we live with pain and suffering, the research into neuro-plasticity and pain, as well as the idea that we can change our brain and thereby change our mind and our experience with pain. Research has shown both that mindfulness meditation enhances the effectiveness of medication, and that pharma-care is more effective when it is accompanied by a therapeutic relationship. Social neuroscience suggests there are no single brains yet people who are suffering often feel quite alone. These pieces of research indicate that we should not underestimate the power of relationships, especially in end of life care situations. Outline the traditional view of pain and how neuroscience is informing a change to that understanding Explore attitudinal approaches to “knowing” that can shift perceptions of pain and suffering Outline the mindfulness pain management literature within the context of several author’s work Identify the qualitative and qualitative language of conveying pain (including pain scale, pain adjectives, art therapy) Learn mindfulness informed practices to reduce or resolve pain and suffering

There are many strategies of care within the scaffolding of end of life care counseling. This includes grief and bereavement theory, narrative work, brief solution focused therapy, dignity therapy, expressive arts, and existential counseling to name a few. In this course you will explore the integration of mindfulness and mindfulness meditation into these traditional therapeutic modalities. The new sciences of quantum physics and neuroscience are challenging scientific materialism, which is a new way of approaching health care and health care systems. As a part of this,  you will also explore how the new sciences are supporting a shift towards holism. Consider how the new sciences can inform our practices in health and end of life care, Identify the four foundational philosophies that support mindfulness meditation practices Explore ways to integrate mindfulness meditation into traditional models of counseling in end of life care Identify the shift from scientific materialism to holism Reflect on a new model of end of life counseling which is based on personhood and is existential by nature of its subjective practices and inquiry

This workshop will build and broaden upon the use of mindfulness and mindfulness meditation as a means of beginning to prepare for our dying. The “practice of dying” can be used daily in our living and our dying.  It can also be used as a decision- making model to determine our plans for health and end of life care. We will explore how mindfulness can inform the subjective experience of dying which can present as altered states of consciousness or as the dying brain. We will consider what the life after death, out of body and resuscitation literatures suggest about the nature of personhood and consciousness. In our final session, we will also explore how to embody mindfulness and mindful awareness so as to become what a mindful leader means to you.  To explore “a practice of dying” and its application in life and end of life care To practice three mindful ways of knowing (Siegel) that cultivating mindful awareness and can be helpful in decision making in end of life care To identify the concept and experience of altered states of consciousness and how they can inform end of life care. To encourage embodied mindfulness as behaviors or qualities of mind applied to leadership, community and organizational roles

The foundation of any good story is… a good story. This 8-week session led by novelist and screenwriter Barbara Radecki focuses on the fundamentals of effective storytelling for fiction, memoir, and screenplay. Discussions will include real-world experience, with an emphasis on essential writing tools, examples, and checklists. The course is designed to help learners at every stage in their writing journey, from those with only a fledgling idea to those looking to take a fully-realized project to the next level. You will receive written and/or verbal feedback on your developing story structure. This course is applicable to the Certificate in Creative Writing.  How to structure a story in the most effective way.       How to build compelling character arcs. How to build and invigorate each scene. How to create a workable template that will enhance your story and your writing experience.