Enhance, Change, or Explore Careers
Want to learn about operating your own business, other career options, fine tuning your job skills, or gaining a degree?
From the privacy of your own home, you can take an online course with WebU. If you want to take a course, but find it too difficult to find the time, WebU may be an excellent alternative. Choose from courses on Accounting, Entertainment and Industry Careers, Grant Writing and Nonprofit Management or Sales and Marketing to name only a few of the business-oriented courses.
Go a different route and explore digital photography or desktop publishing, learn another language, take an ESL course, gain more knowledge about computers, take an art history class. If you are considering a MBA, grad school, or law school, take a Test Prep course. You can even sign up for an advanced notification service for new classes.
Sponsored by the Division of Public Service and Continuing Education, these courses normally run for 6 weeks, and require that you have online access to a server. It is school, so you will have quizzes at the end of each lesson and a final. There may be some hands-on activities that are required as well. Still have questions? Find out more about the courses on the FAQ page or contact the Continuing Studies Coordinator at (910) 962-7074.
Professional Development: CEU and Certificate Programs
UNCW's faculty and staff represent a wealth of expertise in diverse subject areas. This knowledge and experience can be parlayed into customized programs that meet your company's specific needs. These can take the form of formal courses, workshops, panel discussions, role play or retreats and can be designed to satifsy CEU or certificate program requirements.
Please contact Allison Rankin at rankina@uncw.edu or at 910-962-7194 to discuss your professional development needs.
Teaching as a Second Career
If you already have a career, but are looking for a new challenge, consider teaching. The Coalition for Transition to Teaching Program (CT3), based in the Watson School of Education, is a teacher preparation program to enable mid-career professionals, especially military personnel, to become educators through an alternative pathway to licensure (sometimes referred to as lateral entry).
Funded through a U.S. Department of Education grant, the CT3 program provides participants a scholarship to help defray costs of tuition and expenses, as well as a the use of a laptop computer if they agree to maintain employment as a teacher in one of the participating school systems in Southeastern North Carolina for a minimum of three years.
For more information, call (910) 962-3508.
