Hospitality and Gaming Certificate Courses

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Categories of Certificate Courses and Sample Courses

Hospitality and Gaming

3ds max

The objectives of the 3ds max certificate program are:
· To facilitate your professional growth into the world of video game development as an Animator.
· To facilitate your professional growth into the world of video game development as a 3D modeler.
· To equip the student with the technical knowledge and skills vital for success in vocational endeavors.

Advanced Personal Fitness Trainer

By completing the Advanced Certificate in Personal Fitness Training, students will:
• Prepare or receive advanced education for a career as a personal trainer or fitness professional.
• Learn to network and partner in a team approach with Registered Dieticians to develop healthy eating plans for your clients.
• Design educationally- based resistance training programs.
• Learn how to implement a medically-based fitness model and the ACSM Risk Stratification process for clients.
• Understand the process to conduct a detailed health and fitness assessment.
• Identify the business fundamentals of administration, marketing, and management in personal training.
• Gain information regarding nutrition, exercise science, kinesiology, exercise physiology, biomechanics, neurology, client testing and assessment, functional anatomy, and exercise programming.
• Explore the profession as a potential career choice with the optional field internship experience.
• Prepare to take personal training certification exams from ACE, ACSM, and other national organizations.
• Prepare to work as a personal trainer in the health and fitness industry.

Casino Baccarat Dealer

The objectives of the Casino Baccarat Dealer course are:

* To become familiar with the rules and regulations of the game of Baccarat

* To achieve a heightened level of physical and professional dexterity relating to the necessary nuances associated with the physical skills of becoming a casino Baccarat dealer. (i.e. shuffling, dealing hands, managing wagers and choosing winners.)

* To provide the proper knowledge necessary to achieve a level of professionalism associated with the courtesies and mannerisms required within a casino card room.

* To give students the opportunity of interacting with other students and professors in real time and managed group environments.

* To provide students with the opportunity of asking and responding to general and specific questions posed by both professors and fellow students relating to problems and questions encountered within the curriculum.

For a student to visually demonstrate to an instructor the learned ability of the skills necessary to competently adhere to the requirements and standards set for a professional casino card room dealer.

* To facilitate the career process by giving each student the tools, the industry contacts and the confidence necessary to land rewarding casino employment.

Casino Blackjack Dealer

After completing this course, students should:

* Become familiar with the rules and regulations of the game of Blackjack

* Achieve a heightened level of physical and professional dexterity relating to the necessary nuances associated with the physical skills of becoming a casino Blackjack dealer. (i.e. shuffling, dealing hands, managing wagers and choosing winners.)

* Acquire the proper knowledge necessary to achieve a level of professionalism associated with the courtesies and mannerisms required within a casino card room.

Interact with other students and professors in real time and managed group environments.

* Be able to ask and respond to general and specific questions posed by both professors and fellow students relating to problems and questions encountered within the curriculum.

* Visually demonstrate to an instructor the learned ability of the skills necessary to * competently adhere to the requirements and standards set for a professional casino card room dealer.

* Facilitate the career process by giving each student the tools, the industry contacts and the confidence necessary to land rewarding casino employment.

Casino Poker Dealer

Upon successful completion of this program, students will:

* Be familiar with the rules and regulations of the game of Poker

* Achieve a heightened level of physical and professional dexterity relating to the necessary nuances associated with the physical skills of becoming a casino poker room dealer. (i.e. shuffling, dealing hands, managing wagers and choosing winners.)

* Gain the proper knowledge necessary to achieve a level of professionalism required within a casino card room.

* Be given the opportunity to interact with other students and professors in real time, managed group environments.

* Visually demonstrate to an instructor the skills necessary to adhere to the requirements and standards set for a professional casino card room dealer.

* Receive the tools, industry contacts, and confidence necessary to land rewarding casino employment.

Certified Global Business Professional

After completing this course, students will have covered material included in The North American Small Business International Trade Educators (NASBITE) Certified Global Business Professional (CGBP) examination, including:

· The management challenge of international trade.
· Aspects of the global business planning process.
· Factors affecting management of international trade.
· Information sources for global business planning.
· Sources of assistance for global business planning.
· Practical tools for international trade.
· The management context of global business.
· Evaluating the internal and external environment to identify potential marketing threats and opportunities.
· Developing and implementing the global marketing plan.
· Coordinating the marketing mix of goods and services.
· Optimizing supply-chain solutions to meet the requirements of the international business plan including evaluation of all modes of transportation, inventory, time to market, landed costs, and customer requirements.
· Evaluating and selecting potential intermediaries necessary to support the international business plan.
· Completing documents required for international movement of product and services.
· Coordinating with other departments to calculate the true cost, benefits, and risks of proposed transactions in order to implement risk management policies.
· Facilitating the offshore procurement process.
· Assessing political and economic risks and cultural issues of the target country to establish the financial costs and viability.
· Evaluating foreign currency exchange risk and selecting, implementing, and managing risk mitigation techniques to protect the company against fluctuation of foreign exchange.
· Researching and analyzing credit history and payment capacity of the potential buyers/partners to assess the commercial risk of the buyer.
· Establishing the most appropriate methods and terms of payment.
· Selecting appropriate methods, terms, and currency of payment to agents, sales representatives, distributors, suppliers, and international joint ventures.
· Developing a short, medium and long-term financial plan

Certified Wedding Planner

Upon successful completion of the Certified Wedding Planner program, students will:

Understand the role of a professional wedding planner.
Gain a basic understanding of the wedding industry.
Create business contracts, pricing, packages and presentation tools.
Identify the formula/method to structure and set-up a wedding planning business and operations.
Be proficient in skills such as budget planning, vendor selection and wedding design.
Be familiar with industry specific terminology, communication, telephone techniques, organization and project management.
Have knowledge of vendor contracts and what to look for.
Be familiar with wedding design elements, fabrics and styles.
Understand how to market as an expert in the industry to gain PR attention.
Understand online marketing and how it applies to a wedding planners business.
Have knowledge of different wedding traditions and cultures and how to implement a couple’s ethnic background into the celebration.
Have knowledge of traditional and non-traditional etiquette.
Understand the Event Planning Process necessary to design and deliver a successful wedding/social event.
Understand the Six Stages of Event Experience and ways to implement them.
Be fully prepared to take on his/her first bridal client.

Emergency Management Training

Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to:

• Assess the pre-impact conditions that produce disaster vulnerability within communities.
• React effectively to threats from the environment.
• Write a professional emergency plan, understanding the components of the plan, the principles that guide the planning process, and resources that can be used in the planning process.
• Assemble an emergency planning team, motivate the team members, and train the team.
• Balance local needs with federal laws and requirements.
• Protect lives in the initial steps of hazard detection, warning, evacuation, and sheltering.
• Best care for those who have been affected by disasters.
• Manage public relations, donations, and volunteers during a disaster.
• Explore the role of technology in the support of emergency planning, response, recovery, and mitigation efforts.
• Identify the major categories of disasters.
• Assess risk and vulnerability and identify hazards.
• Follow the process for hazard mitigation planning.
• Apply appropriate mitigation tools and techniques to reduce vulnerability.

Fine Arts Training

Upon successful completion of this program, students will:

o Develop an understanding of the materials and techniques used in drawings, paintings, prints, and sculptures.
o Identify and discuss key turning points in the history of art and their impact on styles and techniques.
o Knowledgably analyze and discuss art with different historical periods and art movements including Classical Greece and Rome, Renaissance, Baroque, Romanticism, Impressionism, and early 20th century styles.
o Build a foundation in drawing skills by creating and submitting for feedback more than twenty still life drawings.
o Set up a drawing studio for still life work and handle drawing materials appropriately (pencil, drawing board), developing a good basic drawing technique.
o Identify and represent in drawing the basic elements of form (line, plane, mass) and the fundamental geometrical shapes of subjects.
o Build a foundation in life drawing skills by creating and submitting for feedback more than twenty figure drawings.
o See and apply in your drawing the standard measurements and proportions of the human figure.
o See and apply in your figure drawing the characteristic shapes and proportions of the human skeleton.
o Learn a step by step method for oil painting that will provide a foundation for all your future work.
o Use basic drawing skills as effective preparation for oil painting compositions.
o Create preparatory pencil sketches demonstrating perspective, shading, and contour.

Fitness Business Management

This certificate program includes:
● Examination of the planning process for starting a new venture
● Review common approaches to develop a strategic business plan for specific types of health and fitness-related facilities
● An introduction to financial and managerial accounting concepts
● Exploration of how successful marketing and branding guides a company’s business strategy
● Examination of the organization and administration of for profit and not-for-profit health/fitness facilities
● Optional Field Internship Course: Students that enter the program may complete an optional internship course that is 6 weeks/60 hours in length
● On-going guidance, instruction, and interaction from instructors that hold either a Master’s, MBA, or Ph.D. degree in business administration, finance, exercise physiology, kinesiology, or an exercise science-related degree.
● The program is offered in partnership with IDEA Health & Fitness Association and Health Club Managers, Inc. IDEA has provided content/curriculum in the program; in addition, students receive a complimentary 6-month membership to the digital edition of IDEA Fitness Journal.
Health Club Managers, a Health Club Staff/Management Training company, is providing graduating certificate students a preferred discount on their services.

Personal Fitness Trainer

By completing the Certificate in Personal Fitness Training, students will:
• Prepare or receive advanced education for a career as a personal trainer or fitness professional.
• Learn how to implement a medically-based fitness model and the ACSM Risk Stratification process for clients.
• Understand the process to conduct a detailed health and fitness assessment.
• Identify the business fundamentals of administration, marketing, and management in personal training.
• Gain information regarding exercise science, kinesiology, exercise physiology, biomechanics, neurology, client testing and assessment, functional anatomy, and exercise programming.
• Explore the profession as a potential career choice with the optional field internship experience.
• Prepare to take personal training certification exams from ACE, ACSM, and other national organizations.
• Prepare to work as a personal trainer in the health and fitness industry.

Personal Training and Group Exercise Training for Older Adults

By completing the Personal Training and Group Exercise Training for Older Adults program, students will:
● Identify and define predictors of successful aging and demographic characteristics that relate to individual participation in physical activity programs
● Identify factors influencing physical activity participation among older adults, including barriers, motivators, regular involvement in physical activity, and behavior modification
● Understand how to design exercise programs for preventive health
● Understand how spending power, the anti-aging movement, the focus on preventative health and other factors have converged to make the 50+ market extremely desirable for the fitness industry
● Understand how to conduct an in-depth health history interview that yields important information in the development of a safe and effective exercise program
● Identify signs and symptoms associated with medication-related negative interactions during physical activity and refer back to health professional
● Explore the profession as a potential career choice with the optional field internship experience
● Prepare to work as a fitness trainer or facility manager/owner in the older adult market.

Travel Agent Training

By completing this course the student will:
· Learn the basic history and future of the travel industry.
· Learn to identify the various types of travelers and match them to the correct travel products.
· Learn how airline computer reservation systems operate.
· Learn the basics of travel geography.
· Learn how domestic and international airfares are determined.
· Learn the proper documentation needed to travel internationally and how to obtain it.
· Study how the ground transportation system works including rail, cars, and bus tours.
· Learn how hotels are rated, priced, as well as the different between a hotel and a resort.
· Learn about cruises - how to read and understand brochures, match the client to the proper ship, and explain the value of cruising.
· Learn the various types of tours from escorted to independent.
· Learn about marketing.
· Learn the basic formats used by the airlines to book flights, price tickets, build the passenger name record (PNR).
· Learn how to change or cancel records.
· Learn how to book cars and hotels in the reservation system.

Video Game Art

Game Art program gives you a head start in your game art or design career by providing you with insight into every aspect of how today's video games are created. You'll learn about the business model, the technology platform, the production process, and the genres that define the medium, developing an understanding of the people and processes that drive development.

A major goal of the course is to help you understand the different roles in game art and design departments. You'll explore the inner workings of the game development team, finding out how art, programming, audio, design, and QA work together to create a killing product.

To prepare you for a professional game development environment, papers, tests, and projects will challenge you to develop the analytical and written skills you'll need for communicating with other game industry pros. You will focus on helping you define your influences, interests, and ambitions as a game artist or designer while learning how to analyze and criticize video games, identify key elements in a game, and make intelligent judgments about whether the game succeeded or failed.

This course uses Autodesk Maya, which combines powerful tools for the major areas in 3D content creation: modeling, animation, texturing, lighting, and rendering. Game Art will also focus exclusively on developing tiling textures for 3D environments – how to gather reference photos and turn source imagery into texture tiles and texture sets.

Get ready to study important issues that every aspiring developer should understand, such as what business factors led to the rise and fall of the first consoles, and how Nintendo's approach to licensing set the stage for today's system of third party software development. This instructor-led, project-based program is completed at your own pace. Expert Faculty members provide critique and feedback on projects within 1-2 business days, helping you build a design portfolio for prospective employers.

Video Game Design and Development

The objectives of the Video Game Design and Development online program are:
· To provide students with the core programming language skills
· To provide students with a sufficient level of proficiency in the areas
· To provide students with a thorough understanding of the main concepts involved in real-time 3D graphics programming.

Women's Exercise Training and Wellness

This certificate program includes:
● Examination of the musculoskeletal and functional anatomy of the female pelvis
● Understand how to establish exercise programs/prescriptions, exercise-related goals and objectives, appropriate training modifications, and program evaluation strategies
● Learn about the different health considerations women face at different stages of their lives and how to appropriately adapt exercise and wellness programs to meet their needs
● Gain an understanding of how to design exercise programs for special populations of women
● Understand key terminology in medicine, health promotion, and fitness.
● Understand the roles of medical and fitness professionals
● Learn how to develop a medically-based fitness model
● On-going guidance, instruction, and interaction from instructors that hold either a Master’s, MBA, or Ph.D. degree in business administration, finance, exercise physiology, kinesiology, or an exercise science-related degree.

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