Content repository collections skill advancement

Courses in the skill advancement collection

The Skill Advancement Collection comprises a selection of self-paced ASU CareerCatalyst courses available at no cost to the Cintana Alliance members. The courses provide job-relevant skills education and talent transformation that empowers learners and employers to thrive in the future of work.

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A Sustainable Earth

Explains the science behind global climate change, and how energy consumption, solid waste disposal and urban issues impact our natural environment.

Microbiology-based Technologies for Water and Wastewater Sustainability

In this course, you will explore the vast abilities of microorganisms and how we can establish a valuable partnership with them to produce renewable energy through microbiology-based technologies for water and wastewater treatment.

GEO 104

Urban Climate: Keeping Cities Livable with Climate Research

The course introduces the fundamental physical mechanisms that need to be considered to predict urban climate, explains the connections between urban climate and energy, water, air quality, and human health and well-being, and presents several strategies for mitigating urban climate, and explains advantages and disadvantages of each approach.

Cars in Cities: Challenges and Alternatives

In this course you’ll learn how cities in the United States and around the world differ in terms of their dependence on cars for transportation, as well as learning how cities have fostered transit, walking and biking as alternatives to the single occupant vehicle.

Planning for Healthy and Happy Communities

What do neighborhoods with happy residents look like? How can bicyclists act as ‘citizen scientists’ to help cities gather valuable data? This course explores two innovative research initiatives on how a community’s residents can use technology to create data valuable to improving the community.

Fundamentals of GRI Reporting

This course covers an overview of GRI sustainability reporting, if it’s right for your organization, the types of GRI reports, GRI Standards overview, key terms, case examples, and the certification process.

Intermediate CDP Reporting

How can organizations make CDP reporting progress and advance through the assessment levels? This course covers management of greenhouse gasses, risks and opportunities, business strategy, emissions data and supply chains, and reporting timeline.

Advanced CDP Reporting

How can organizations continuously improve their reporting to CDP? This course covers scoring levels, gap analysis, how to boost your score, maximizing points via foundational questions and emissions and supplier engagement questions.

Fundamentals of Circular Economy

This course covers circular economy benefits and opportunities, real world examples, steps to get started, and companies taking circular economy action.

Fundamentals of Organizational Sustainability

This course covers definitions of sustainability, perceptions and realities, the challenges of sustainability ideas, the business imperative, the seeds of a sustainability strategy, and how to get started in your organization.

Fundamentals of Sustainable Supply Chains

This course covers definitions of sustainable supply chains, roadmaps, data and measurement, smart vendors, and how to get started creating a sustainable supply chain for a company or organization.

Getting to Know Earth

This course explores the atmosphere and hydrosphere to discover how air and water molecules are cycled, digs into the pedosphere to learn how soil is formed, and investigates the diversity of life in Earth’s biosphere.

Physical Geography: From Weather to Rocks

Did you ever admire a dramatic rock outcrop, or wonder what was the worst hurricane ever? Take this short course to learn how geographers see natural phenomena like these.

The Process and Lifetime of a Space Mission

Learn the process and lifetime of a NASA space mission, from ideation to flight. The only prerequisite is an interest in space exploration and the behind-the-scenes planning for a space mission.

Design and Arts Corps: Community Engaged Practices in Arts and Design

In the DAC modules you will learn the basics of self care, ethics, democracy, equitable communication, process, product, and participatory publics, values clarification, being a guest and a host, and most importantly, what are community engaged practices in the context of your life, work, and community relationships?

Inclusive Mindset: Tools for Building Positive Team Culture

In this course, students will learn about team culture, strategies for working as part of a diverse team, and techniques for developing a positive, collaborative inclusive mindset.

Delivering Service Excellence

This course is all about building trust with your customers, and creating an excellent service experience for them. Students will learn to identify those important moments of truth with your customers and actively listen to their needs.

Empower Postsecondary Planning: Training for Supportive Adults of Foster Youth

Supportive adults will understand and be able to apply skills, concepts, and activities that promote future thinking and educational planning in youth who experienced foster care. They will learn to use information, tools and resources that engage youth in taking the steps to apply for postsecondary education, access financial aid, and complete the enrollment process.

Foundations for Excellence in Teaching Online

This self-paced learning experience is designed to share strategies for designing and teaching online courses. Participants will complete activities as students, using technologies and pedagogy designed to enhance online learning.

Teaching and Learning with Generative AI

As the advancement of generative AI technology continues to transform the landscapes of work and learning, fostering literacy among our students that enables them to navigate and succeed in this evolving world becomes imperative. This course takes an interactive, hands-on approach so that participants will not just learn about generative AI but also have opportunities to apply it in real-world scenarios through the “guided practice” and “create an artifact” exercises.

Principles of Programming Languages

Programming languages are one of the most important and direct tools for the construction of a computer system: in a modern computer different languages are routinely used for different levels of abstraction. In this course, students will understand the salient features in the landscape of programming languages, and understand the essence of defining concepts of programming languages, so to allow critical choice about the level of abstraction.

CSE230

Computer Organization and assembly language programming

Computer scientists should understand Program Execution, Assembly Language, Procedures in Assembly, CPU Design Choices, Data Representation for understanding how each instruction is executed at the micro level. Learning assembly gives computer scientist an intuitive sense of how high-level code will be transformed.

Understanding Data Sources

This course will discuss where the data that CyberSecurity analysts review actually comes from. Students who take this course will learn how data is obtained, what formats it comes in, what it takes to monitor it and how to understand what it is telling you.

Basic Python Programming for Business Analytics

This is a fully-online, hands-on, self-paced workshop that covers the fundamentals of Python as a Programming Language. The workshop consists of approximately 10 hours of recorded content, 7 exercise sets and 5 (multiple-choice) quizzes. Students should expect to spend 5-10 hours per week for 4 weeks to fully benefit from the course material

Advanced Python Packages for Business Analytics

This is a hands-on, fully-online, self-paced workshop that covers advanced Python for data analysis and machine learning. This workshop consists of approximately 15 hours of recorded content, 7 exercise sets and 4 (multiple-choice) quizzes. Students should expect to spend 5-10 hours per week for 4 weeks to fully benefit from the course material.

Introduction to Adult ICU Nursing and Mechanical Ventilation

This course offers nursing-specific content and new interactive modules to meet course objectives. While this course focuses on care of the mechanically ventilated patient, care of the critically ill patient also requires basic knowledge of a number of other areas including: electrocardiogram interpretation and management, hemodynamic monitoring, management of shock, titratable IV drips and others. This course intends to introduce non-ICU nurses to the ICU setting.

Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment for Risky Substance Use

Participants will learn the rationale for universal screening for risky substance use, how to administer validated brief screening instruments, methods for enhancing motivation to make reductions in one’s substance use, as well as successful methods for referring to a higher level of care when needed.

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