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Whether you’re returning to school after deployment, looking to build your skill set to enter the workforce, or needing continuing education units to grow your career, you'll get personalized attention and support from the professional and continuing education (PACE) team at Westminster University.

Take advantage of professional and continuing education opportunities at any stage of your career. Westminster's interactive, online programs, professional development certificates, and continuing education courses give you the critical skills you need to start, grow, or transition your career.

As a professional and continuing education student, you'll benefit from Westminster's commitment to community, inclusivity, and experiential learning. At Westminster, you'll join a robust learning community that encourages strong, lasting relationships with faculty, peers, and industry professionals. Your lived experiences and knowledge are appreciated in all professional and continuing education courses and enhance your learning community's education.

Offerings

Advanced Project Management Certificate

The Advanced Project Management Certificate is taught by instructors who hold a PMP certification, have advanced educational credentials, and are PMI Registered Education Providers. Curriculum consists of basic, intermediate, and advanced sections.

Guiding Organizational Change Simulation

The Guiding Organizational Change Simulation requires project managers to:

  1. Exercise the complete range of project management tools and techniques while managing a significant corporate project
  2. Develop a valuable new set of leadership skills held by a select few—guiding others through the unsettling distress of major changes to their organization.

The course will develop and assess your ability to guide a team through actual, real-time projects with multiple, simultaneous, overlapping, organizational changes. You will learn practical skills that will help you and your project team get through changes faster, with less pain, and with better outcomes. This course is a requirement towards the Advanced Project Management Certificate.

Project Management Training Camp Simulation

This project management simulation course places real project managers in real-time situations. You will work in a team-based environment using computer simulations to solve real problems, while practicing and applying various project management techniques. The course provides critical, fundamental skills for project managers who may or may not be at a senior level but spend most of their time managing projects, including those who manage large and complex projects or multiple projects. Technical or non-technical managers, line or staff, individual contributors, or project leaders all find this course equally valuable. This course is a requirement towards the Advanced Project Management Certificate.

PMP Exam Preparation Course

The PMP prep course teaches you project management terminology and principles that are accepted worldwide. You will learn the 5 project management process groups and receive detailed instruction in a variety of knowledge areas. This course is a requirement towards the Advanced Project Management Certificate.

Basic and Advanced Construction Management Certificates

The Basic Construction Management and Advanced Construction Management certificates are offered through a partnership with the National Association of Construction Professionals. The curriculum for the certificates prepares you for examinations to earn credentials.

Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) Exam Preparation Course

The CAPM prep course teaches you project management terminology and principles that are accepted worldwide. You will learn about the 5 project management process groups and receive detailed instruction in a variety of knowledge areas. This course is a requirement towards the Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM).

Project Management and Leadership Certificate

The Project Management and Leadership Certificate introduces project managers to the necessary management and leadership skills to help them and their teams deliver successful project results. Certificate curriculum begins with an online project management fundamentals course, followed by 2 team-based simulation courses. The program also provides in-depth instruction on project management processes and knowledge areas. Courses are taught by instructors who hold a PMP® certification, have advanced educational credentials, and are PMI® Registered Education Providers or PMI® Authorized Training Partners. Required coursework can be completed the in less than 1 year. Upon successful completion of all sections and courses, you will be awarded the Project Management and Leadership Certificate.

Westminster offers a variety of continuing education credit courses that help you meet the continuing education requirements in your career.

Arts Education Continuing Education Program

The Arts Education Continuing Education program (part of Westminster's ArtsConnect initiative) focuses on the progressive pedagogical approach of arts integration, offering select courses that can be taken independently or used to meet the requirements for categories 3 and 4 of the Utah State Board of Education’s Elementary Arts Integration Endorsement. The courses also qualify for lane-change credit in most school districts (approved by your LEA beforehand). Completing of some of the courses results in receiving funds for classroom art supplies, and completing the Elementary Arts Integration Endorsement results in additional funding.

These courses are most beneficial for elementary classroom teachers; however, any adult seeking to advance their knowledge of arts-integrated curriculum design can enroll.

Courses include:

  • AED 01: Arts Integration Methods
  • AED 02: Content Methods (in either Dance, Music, Visual Arts, or Drama)
  • AED 03: Arts Connect International Rwanda

A scholarship opportunity is available for AED 01 and 02.

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