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page 6 MGT Winter-Spring Quarter 1994 Continuing Education classes offered for spring Students registering before March 31, 1994 for any Continuing Education spring quarter class (March - June) will receive an early bird discount of $lO off the listed course fee. CE 501 COMPUTER BASICS Starts 4/16/94, ends 4/16/94. Saturday, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., S4B. An exploratory basic computer course for beginners who would like to feel more comfortable about computers and applica tions for personal use. Topics include: cre ating, saving, recalling, inserting, deleting and printing word-processing files. Guar anteed to be fun and enlightening. Disk and all materials are included in the fee. CE 502 COMPUTER LITERACY USING MICROSOFT WORKS Starts 4/12/94, ends 6/7/94. Tuesday and Thursday, 7:15-9:45 p.m., SIOB. Designed especially for the first-time user, this 40-hour course is an introduction to the basic operations of IBM and IBM compatible computer systems using the word-processing, database and spreadsheet portions of the integrated program Mi crosoft Works. No prior computer knowl edge required. Textbook required. CE 504 INTRODUCTION TO MS-DOS Starts 4/12/94, ends 6/7/94. Tuesday and Thursday, 7:15-9:45 p.m., SIOB. This 40-hour course is designed to orient the user to the MS-DOS computer operation system. The computer user will learn to do ba sic file housekeeping by deleting, copying, and backing up files. Without this skill, the us er risks losing file information. Textbook re quired. CE 505 INTRODUCTION TO WINDOWS 3.1 Starts 4/11/94, ends 6/8/94. Monday and Wednesday, 7:15-9:45 p.m., SIOB. This 40-hour course will add to and ex pand the use of DOS. It gives users an eas ier way to work with a microcomputer sys tem by replacing the sometimes obscure, clumsy, and intimidating text-based envi ronment with an intuitive, graceful, and friendly graphical user interface. Topics in clude the basics of navigating in the Win dows environment, components of Win dows, program manager, transferring infor mation between programs, printing, and customizing Windows to suit individual needs and taste. CE 507 INTRODUCTION TO WORDPERFECT 5.1 (BASIC WORD PROCESSING I) Starts 4/12/94, ends 6/7/94. Tuesday and Thursday, 7:15-9:45 p.m., SIOB. Designed especially for the first-time user of Word Perfect 5.1. Learn to use Word Perfect 5.1 to create, save, retrieve, revise, and print documents. No prior com puter knowledge required. Textbook re quired. CE 509 INTRODUCTION TO LOTUS 1-2-3 Starts 4/11/94, ends 6/8/94. Monday and Wednesday, 7:15-9:45 p.m., SIOB. Lotus contains a large, advanced elec tronic worksheet with graphics and an in formation management capacity. This in troduction to Lotus includes the following: creating and revising; using the Lotus com mand line; entering formulas, text and numbers; manipulating data; printing; and saving spreadsheet files. Textbook re quired. CE 512 COMPUTER LITERACY FOR HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS Starts 4/18/94, ends 5/9/94. Monday and Wednesday, 6:30-9 p.m., SSB. Allied health professionals are becom ing increasingly dependent on computer applications in practically all phases of their work. Computers are used today in hospital and clinical business applications, patient care applications, and in diagnos tics and research. Health care practitioners are therefore challenged to learn computer skills. The intent of the course is to intro duce basic computer applications to per sons entering the health care field for the first time and/or to practitioners who are in need of becoming computer literate. CE 701 DENTAL ASSISTING Starts 3/7/94, ends 6/8/94. Monday and Wednesday, 6:30-9 p.m., $219. Discount through February 25, 1994. This course will provide information needed to form a basic understanding of the role and responsibilities of a dental as sistant. Lab classes will be held at various points during the course at a local dental office so that hands-on experience may be obtained. These labs will include chairside assisting and instrument transfer, alginate impressions, temporary fabrication, cus tom-tray fabrication, x-ray procedures and infection control. Textbook, workbook and lab fees are included in the tuition. CE 702 NURSING ASSISTANT Starts 5/16/94, ends 8/17/94. Monday and Wednesday, 6-9:30 p.m., $l3B. CE 702 A NURSING ASSISTANT Starts 5/17/94, ends 8/18/94. Tuesday and Thursday, 6-9:30 p.m., $l3B. This course provides learning experi ences through classroom work, lab work, and on-the-job training at Houston Medical Center. Students will be required to show proof of liability insurance prior to attend ing clinical instruction. Student insurance can be purchased through MGT for $17.00 per student. Upon successful completion, students will be state certified and will qualify for entry-level employment at any state-approved nursing home. Require ments include textbook and workbook, watch with second hand, stethoscope, oral thermometer, navy/black skirt or pants, white top and white shoes. Instructors are Catherine Arcand and Jennie Hoover. CE 703 MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY Starts 4/11/94, ends 6/8/94. Monday and Wednesday, 6:30-9 p.m., $97. This course is designed for people either employed or preparing for employment in health care areas. Medical assistants, med ical secretaries, admitting personnel and insurance clerks will benefit from this course. It is an excellent course for high school graduates planning to pursue a ca reer in the health care field. The course will provide an understanding of the need and reason for technical language, demon strate how terms came to be, explore how terms are formed, and build a background vocabulary in medical terminology. In structor is Jamie Thompson. Textbook re quired. CE 705 BASIC EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN (EMT) Starts 7/12/94, ends 1/17/95. Tuesday and Thursday, 6-10 p.m., $319. Students are required to take the school’s placement test prior to registra 1 - tion. This course provides entry-level training for persons desiring a profession in the EMT field. This 240-hour course is designed to prepare the student for a future in Emergency Medical Services, which usually means working with an ambulance service as a driver or attendant. This course has two components: 208 hours of class room time and 32 hours of clinical time spent on an ambulance route and at the hospital emergency department. Textbook and Liability Insurance required. Liability insurance may be purchased after the mid term examination through MGT for $61.00 per student. The clinical uniform is white shirt/blouse, blue/black pants, black shoes. Instructor is Alfonzo Ford. CE 707 CREATIVE MATH FOR CHILD-CARE PROVIDERS Starts 4/5/94, ends 4/7/94. Tuesday and Thursday, 6:30-9:30 p.m., $36. Starts 5/3/94, ends 5/5/94. Tuesday and Thursday, 6:30-9:30 p.m., $36. This math workshop will help child-care providers develop the knowledge and skills to effectively teach basic math concepts to young children by using items around the house that most consider junk, such as lids, bottle caps, pine cones, bolts, nuts, shells, etc. You will learn to use these and other re al materials from the child’s everyday life. Activities are presented in a developmental sequence that supports young children’s construction of the concepts and skills es sential to understanding math. No textbook required. CE 708 CHILD CARE FOR NEW EMPLOYEES I Starts 4/12/94, ends 4/21/94. Tuesday and Thursday, 6:30-9:30 p.m., $36. Starts 5/17/94, ends 5/26/94. Tuesday and Thursday, 6:30-9:30 p.m., $36. This course is designed to meet entry level .child-care training requirements for working day care center employees as es tablished by the Department of Human Re sources. Instructor is Louise Mcßride. No textbook required. CE 708 A CHILD CARE FOR NEW EMPLOYEES II Starts 5/31/94, ends 6/9/94. Tuesday and Thursday, 6:30-9:30 p.m., $36. This course is designed to meet child care continuing education training require ments for working day care center employ ees as established by the Department of Human Resources. Instructor is Louise Mcßride. No textbook required. CE 900 BASIC MATH REVIEW Starts 4/16/94, ends 4/16/94. Saturday, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., $37. This course is for adults who are either in school or wish to return to school. It will provide hours of practice using whole numbers, fractions, decimals, and percent ages. CE 901 BEGINNING ALGEBRA Starts 4/5/94, ends 4/28/94. Tuesday and Thursday, 7 -9 p.m, $43. This course will teach the basic con cepts and skills of Algebra. CE 904 INVESTMENT STRATEGIES Starts TBA, ends TBA. Tuesday, 7 -9:30 p.m., s3l. This course will cover money market and savings accounts, tax free investments, IRAs, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, real es tate and life insurance. It concentrates on the needs of the conservative investor who may not have a lot of money but is seeking safe ty with a higher rate of return or better growth. Instructor is Eric Jansson. Textbook required. CE 905 BEGINNING SIGN LANGUAGE Starts 4/5/94, ends 5/28/94. Tuesday and Thursday, 7 -9:30 p.m., SSB. This course is designed to increase vo cabulary for one-on-one sign communica tions. Instructor is A 1 Sanders. Textbook re quired. CE 906 SUPERWRITE Starts 4/4/94, ends 6/8/94. Monday and Wednesday, 6:30-9 p.m., S6B. Superwrite is a quick, easy-to-learn writing system. It does not require memo rizing a new alphabet or changing one’s normal writing style. Instructor is Rose Mary Marsalis. Textbook required. CE 909 REAL ESTATE SALESPERSONS PRE-LICENSE COURSE Starts 8/2/94, ends 11/10/94. Monday and Wednesday, 6:30-9:30 p.m., $197. The Georgia Real Estate Commission has approved this 75-hour curriculum, cer tifying the course as satisfying all current Georgia laws. The class will cover funda mentals of real estate contracts, instru ments and conveyances, laws of agency, pricing real property, financing, taxation, city and urban development, fair housing, anti-trust laws, safety precautions, and Georgia’s real estate license laws. Instruc tor is Ann-Marie Armstrong. Textbooks re quired. CE 910 REAL ESTATE SALES POST LICENSE COURSE Starts 11/17/94, ends 12/20/94. Monday and Wednesday, 6:30-9:30 p.m., $157. This 25-hour course is approved by the Georgia Real Estate Commission as satis fying license renewal requirements. CE 911 FREON RECOVERY & RECLAIM Starts 3/9/94, ends 3/10/94. Tuesday and Wednesday, 5-10 p.m., S9B. Must register by February 16, 1994 to be in this class. Starts 5/9/94, ends 5/10/94. Monday and Tuesday, 5 -10 p.m., S9B. Must register by April 20, 1994 to be in this class. This 10-hour course is designed for con ditioned air contractors and is certified by the Air Conditioning Contractors of Amer ica. It satisfies the State training require ments for the purpose of re-licensing.