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Innovation and Creativity

SBCC School of Extended Learning, Career Skills Institute
Prepare to enter or re-enter the workforce and learn how to create and innovate culture and techniques to promote workplace creativity.
You may elect to take this course independent of a Career Skills Institute digital badge or apply it to the Project Management Certificate. Participants who earn this certificate will be enabled to develop the additional planning, idea generation and implementation skills to open up additional work and advancement opportunities. This certificate is also a gateway into other noncredit and credit programs, helping students develop workplace skills and training that will qualify them for even more work opportunities.
To obtain the Project Management Certificate, participants must complete a total of four required courses:
Required:
(1) Building High-Performance Teams
(2) Process Improvement
(3) Project Management for non-project manager
(4) Innovation and Creativity

Innovation and Creativity takes place on Thursday, April 8. This class will be held 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM.
Course number: PROW NC039 (CRN 67093)
Date: Thursday, April 8
Time: 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Location: Online live video using Zoom
Class cost: Free
Contact: Register online at https://www.sbcc.edu/ExtendedLearning. For assistance with registration, call (805) 683-8205.
About SBCC School of Extended Learning

The School of Extended Learning responds to the diverse learning needs of the adult population in the Santa Barbara community by advancing career and life skills, and building bridges to credit.
SBCC Career Skills Institute is part of the programs offered through the School of Extended Learning. The innovative program is endorsed by LinkedIn® and serves job seekers, employers and employees with a tuition–free, noncredit certificate program to provide career training for employees and job seekers. Participants can earn certificates and digital badges demonstrating knowledge and skills in over 60 areas of business, design, technology, and career education. For more information, visit www.sbcc.edu/ExtendedLearning.

As part of their annual Speaker Series, Marymount of Santa Barbara is bringing in New York Times best-selling author and expert on helping children and adolescents manage stress and anxiety, Dr. Lisa Damour on April 8th. 

Microsoft Word 3

SBCC School of Extended Learning, Career Skills Institute

Prepare to enter or re-enter the workforce, or improve your personal or academic skills with new computer skills. Microsoft Word, Level 3 covers creating, managing and formatting tables in Microsoft Word and using Microsoft Word mail merge to create letters, labels and envelopes.

You may elect to take this course independent of a Career Skills Institute digital badge or apply it to the Microsoft Office Skills, Level 3 Noncredit Certificate. This Certificate prepares students for entry-level office clerk jobs and provides a basis for more advanced college training and career laddering. You will learn to format and navigate long documents, work with large and multiple worksheets and workbooks in Excel and modify an existing PowerPoint presentation to improve its overall appearance. Utilizing one of the elective MS Office Suite applications will enhance employability skills

To obtain the Microsoft Office Skills, Level 3 Noncredit Certificate, participants must complete a total of three required courses and one elective course:

Required:
(1) Microsoft Word 3
(2) Microsoft Excel 3
(3) Microsoft Powerpoint 3

Electives:
(1) Microsoft Outlook 3
(2) Microsoft Publisher 3
(3) Microsoft Access 3

Microsoft Word 3 takes place on Tuesdays and Thursdays starting March 30 through April 8. Classes will be held 12:00 PM – 2:15 PM.
Course number: CMPW NC51C (CRN 66829)
Date: Tuesdays and Thursdays, March 30 – April 8
Time: 12:00 PM – 2:15 PM
Location: Online live video using Zoom
Class cost: Free
Contact: Register online at https://www.sbcc.edu/ExtendedLearning. For assistance with registration, call (805) 683-8205.
About SBCC School of Extended Learning
The School of Extended Learning responds to the diverse learning needs of the adult population in the Santa Barbara community by advancing career and life skills, and building bridges to credit.
SBCC Career Skills Institute is part of the programs offered through the School of Extended Learning. The innovative program is endorsed by LinkedIn® and serves job seekers, employers and employees with a tuition–free, noncredit certificate program to provide career training for employees and job seekers. Participants can earn certificates and digital badges demonstrating knowledge and skills in over 60 areas of business, design, technology, and career education. For more information, visit www.sbcc.edu/ExtendedLearning.

United Way of Ventura County is excited to announce its United to End Homelessness Virtual Symposium on Friday, April 9, at 9 a.m. PST. The symposium will feature Matthew Desmond, author of Pulitzer Prize winning bestseller “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” as its keynote speaker. Following Desmond’s address, there will be an opportunity for a Q&A session with the author, which will then lead into a panel discussion with local experts — moderated by Henry Dubroff, editor of the Pacific Coast Business Times — on addressing homelessness.

As part of the Corwin Chair Series, composer Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin will give a lecture titled "Using the Creative Process as a Computational Framework for Unfolding Complex Systems" on Friday, April 9, 2021 at 11 am PDT via Zoom. Kuchera-Morin will discuss how we can apply the creative compositional process in building computational languages and computational platforms in order to represent very complex information through our senses, namely visual, audio, and interactive representations.

For more information visit https://music.ucsb.edu/news/event/2191

Join Dr. Stephen Aizenstat for Out of the Pandemic Underworld: into the Light of Renewal on Saturday, April 10th from 9 am – 12 pm.

The Spiritual Power of Music ONLINE

SBCC School of Extended Learning, Fee-Based Life Enhancement

Join UCSB Arts & Lectures as they present Founder of The Jane Goodall Institute and a UN Messenger of Peace, Jane Goodall for Hope Fuels a Better World in Conversation with Catherine Remak, career broadcaster and co-host of Mornings with Gary and Catherine on on Saturday, April 10 at 11:00 a.m. Pacific. (note new time)

Join the Buellton Library Writers' Workshop for a virtual discussion on the craft with guest author Lidia Yuknavitch.

Introduction to Microsoft Windows

SBCC School of Extended Learning, Career Skills Institute

Prepare to enter or re-enter the workforce with the computer skills needed for entry-level office jobs with high employment potential jobs in Santa Barbara County and California. SBCC Career Skills Institute’s Introduction to Windows course helps you explore Help, windows navigation and management, file management, desktop customization, and other Windows Operating System and applications.
You may elect to take this course independent of a Career Skills Institute digital badge or apply it to the Beginning Computer Skills Certificate. Participants who earn this certificate will have developed the basic knowledge of computer functions in the Microsoft Windows environment. All Career Skills Institute classes are tuition-free.
To obtain the Beginning Computer Skills Certificate, participants must complete a total of two required courses and two elective courses:

Required:
(1) Computers for Beginners
(2) Introduction to Windows

Electives:
(1) Learn to Type
(2) How to Use a Computer Keyboard and Mouse for Beginners
(3) Windows Basics

Introduction to Windows takes place on Mondays starting March 29 through April 19. Classes will be held 4:00 PM – 6:20 PM.
Course number: CMPW NC024 (CRN 66814)
Date: Mondays, March 29 – April 19
Time: 4:00 PM – 6:20 PM
Location: Online live video using Zoom
Class cost: Free
Contact: Register online at https://www.sbcc.edu/ExtendedLearning. For assistance with registration, call (805) 683-8205.
About SBCC School of Extended Learning
The School of Extended Learning responds to the diverse learning needs of the adult population in the Santa Barbara community by advancing career and life skills, and building bridges to credit.
SBCC Career Skills Institute is part of the programs offered through the School of Extended Learning. The innovative program is endorsed by LinkedIn® and serves job seekers, employers and employees with a tuition–free, noncredit certificate program to provide career training for employees and job seekers. Participants can earn certificates and digital badges demonstrating knowledge and skills in over 60 areas of business, design, technology, and career education. For more information, visit www.sbcc.edu/ExtendedLearning.