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Find your way forward. Whether you’re upskilling to advance your career, improve client/patient outcomes, pursuing a new passion or something in between, our flexible online, in-person and hybrid classes are designed to work with your schedule, here on the UW–Madison campus or wherever you are in the world. Use the search filters to find the class, badge or certificate that works best for you.

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Data Analytics Bootcamp

Offered through UW Extended Campus, this intensive 24-week online program is fast-paced and focused on the technical skills needed to solve data problems inspired by the real world. Throughout the course, you will gain proficiency in numerous in-demand technologies, including Excel, Python, JavaScript, SQL Databases, Tableau, machine learning and more.
Upcoming Dates
  • Sep. 25, 2023–March 26, 2024
    $11,995
    Live online

Spanish 4

Subject Area: LanguagesSpanish
Customizable
In this highly practical intermediate course (A2.2), you will deepen your ability to discuss past events, learn the future and conditional tenses and become familiar with Spanish command forms. Polish your skills as we discuss education, the workplace and the diverse cultures of the Spanish-speaking world.
Upcoming Dates
  • Sep. 26, 2023–Dec. 5, 2023
    $269
    Live online
  • Sep. 26, 2023–Dec. 5, 2023
    $269
    Live online
  • Sep. 27, 2023–Dec. 13, 2023
    $269
    Live online

Spanish 2

Subject Area: LanguagesSpanish
Customizable
We have made this practical high-beginner's course (A1.2) better with a new curriculum. Explore the cultural richness of the Spanish-speaking world while taking your skills to the next level. Improve your ability to converse about a wider range of common topics in the present tense, take your first steps in conversing with past tenses, and grow your comprehension, reading and writing skills, all in the context of real-life situations.
Upcoming Dates
  • Sep. 27, 2023–Dec. 13, 2023
    $269
    Live online
  • Sep. 27, 2023–Dec. 13, 2023
    $269
    Live online

Spanish 1

Subject Area: LanguagesSpanish
Customizable
This beginning-level language class (A1.1) explores the cultural richness of the Spanish-speaking world while helping you master the basics of Spanish with a proven communicative approach that emphasizes speaking competency while also building skills in listening, reading and writing. This practical course will quickly have you talking about life, family, work and travel.
Upcoming Dates
  • Sep. 30, 2023–Dec. 16, 2023
    $269
    Live online
  • Oct. 3, 2023–Dec. 12, 2023
    $269
    Live online
  • Oct. 10, 2023–Dec. 19, 2023
    $269
    Live online

Management Assessment for Personal Planning and Development

This class will use the DiSC® assessment instrument to build self-awareness and explore the many facets that shape the way we see our world and function at work. By incorporating neuroscience and the DiSC® framework, we will learn to better understand our perspectives, identify and adapt to the perspectives of others, and to capture insightful synergies. We will discuss how to use tools and strategies to make this process easier so we can discover more options and solutions in our teams and projects.
Upcoming Dates
  • Oct. 4–5, 2023
    $459; $359 gov't/nonprofit; $359 TIC
    Live online

The Manager's Role in Work Satisfaction and Engagement

There are many myths about what managers can and should do to support employee work performance, satisfaction and engagement. Learn what decades of real-world management experience reveal about best practices and tools, plus gain insights into today's diverse and fast-moving environments.
Upcoming Dates
  • Oct. 5–13, 2023
    $579; gov't/nonprofit $469
    Live online

Grief Support Specialist Certificate

Subject Area: Behavioral HealthGrief and Loss
One-of-a-kind, practical educational online program. You'll get to know the instructor — an expert who understands the complexity of personal loss. Acquire knowledge and skills to enhance or create a professional specialty that focuses on supporting people who have suffered a major loss. 40 CE Hours | Canvas LMS | Instructor: Erica Srinivasan | Audience: Helping Professionals, funeral home directors, clergy and other religious leaders
Upcoming Dates
  • Oct. 11, 2023–Dec. 1, 2023
    $1,249 through September 27; $1,449 after
    Group-paced

Mindfulness for Clinicians: An 8-Week Intensive Course

Subject Area: Behavioral HealthMental Health
This 8-week intensive course is for clinicians who want to incorporate mindfulness into their own lives to be more present, effective and stable in their work as well as develop more confidence in applying mindfulness principles and tools with their patients (clients, students and staff). The course is appropriate for experienced practitioners as well as those with no experience in mindfulness or meditation. 20 CE Hours | Zoom and Canvas LMS | Instructor: Mare Chapman | Audience: Helping Professionals
Upcoming Dates
  • Oct. 12, 2023–Dec. 7, 2023
    $469
    Live online

Spanish Advanced Conversation

Subject Area: LanguagesSpanish
In this advanced Spanish conversation class, participants will listen to podcast episodes from Latin America and Spain related to a weekly theme, such as diversity, learning, current events,  humor, and human relationships.
Upcoming Dates
  • Oct. 12, 2023–Nov. 16, 2023
    $149
    Live online

French House Conversation

Subject Area: LanguagesFrench
Continue to refine your French conversational skills, practice your pronunciation, and brush up on grammar with a convivial group and an experienced instructor at the French House on UW–Madison's campus.
Upcoming Dates
  • Oct. 18, 2023–Nov. 15, 2023
    $249
    In-person

Servant Leadership Certificate

Examine the core aspects of servant leadership. Topics for the five-day program are: Servant Leadership Foundations, Personal and Organizational Challenges of Servant Leadership, Serving Customers/Clients/Citizens, Servant Leadership at the Team and Organizational Level and Connecting Servant Leadership to Community and the World.
Upcoming Dates
  • Oct. 18, 2023–Nov. 9, 2023
    $2,150; govt./nonprofit $1,650
    Live online

Managing Your Brain for Managers: The Neuroscience of Leading Self and Others

Learn of the recent neuroscience discoveries that reveal how our brain triggers stress and poor interpersonal reactions. Exploration and practice of multiple methods for managing your brain will greatly improve your ability to lead others in today's organizations.
Upcoming Dates
  • Oct. 19, 2023–Nov. 9, 2023
    $579; gov't/nonprofit $469
    Live online

Conflict in the Workplace: Crafting and Adapting Your Role in Resolution

This class is three mornings, offered in a participatory live online format with brief prework and learning exercises between sessions. Conflict in the workplace is normal, even inevitable. We tend to avoid it despite the many benefits of resolving conflict effectively. Managing conflict can improve decision-making, strengthen professional relationships, increase employee retention and significantly contribute to organizational success. In this interactive workshop, you'll learn about your own conflict styles and examine the pros and cons of each as they apply to varying conflicts in the workplace. We'll review the 5 approaches to resolving conflict and how to strategize which approach best fits a situation. Learn how conflict can change from dysfunctional to a factor in growth and success. You will understand your role in working toward a resolution with others.
Upcoming Dates
  • Oct. 25, 2023–Nov. 2, 2023
    $469; gov't/nonprofit $369
    Live online

A Coach Approach to Work Performance Feedback

This specially designed class will focus on the how-tos of adopting a coaching style for giving work performance feedback. This is a class for leaders and managers who are ready to learn this approach and who want to understand and practice the key elements to utilize them right away.
Upcoming Dates
  • Oct. 27, 2023–Nov. 10, 2023
    $469; $369 Gov't/nonprofit
    Live online
  • Jan. 25, 2024–Feb. 8, 2024
    $469; $369 Gov't/nonprofit
    Live online

Spanish 0

Subject Area: LanguagesSpanish
Customizable
This newly-revised mini-course sets you up for success in Spanish 1 with a slow introduction to the fundamentals of Spanish with proven strategies for learning a new language.
Upcoming Dates
  • Oct. 31, 2023–Dec. 5, 2023
    $139
    Live online
  • Oct. 31, 2023–Dec. 5, 2023
    $139
    Live online

E.I. for Groups: A Leader's Toolkit for Building Emotionally Intelligent Teams

This class will focus on the proactive approaches and tools for creating an EI culture that enables respectful, effective and creative collaboration even when the going gets tough. For this class, it will be assumed that participants are familiar with EI and want to lead or influence a team to become an extraordinary one. Participants will have the advantage of completing the EQi 2.0 self-assessment in advance of the class. The cost is included in the class fee.
Upcoming Dates
  • Nov. 7–8, 2023
    $479; $379 gov't/nonprofit
    Live online

Workplace Neurodiversity: Creating Spaces Where All Minds Can Thrive

Diversity drives innovative thinking and creative solutions in the workplace. Neurodiversity reflects the natural variation in human minds and how people interact with the world differently as a result. Companies that embrace neurodiversity, gain competitive advantages and facilitate an inclusive workplace allowing all talent to thrive. Improving systems and spaces to be more flexible and inclusive is key to maintaining an engaged and successful workforce. Before an organization can embrace neurodiversity, it must first understand how neurodivergence appears within it, and examine the workplace culture around it. Create a culture of appreciation, accountability, and trust by addressing some of the most common recruitment, selection and career development obstacles for neurodivergent employees. Leverage the talents of all employees through greater sensitivity to individual needs. Although there is no one-size-fits-all approach to neurodiversity, simple adjustments and accommodations (often at little cost to the employer) allow every team member to feel safe, supported and able to showcase their unique talents.
Upcoming Dates
  • Nov. 7–8, 2023
    $429; gov't/nonprofit $329
    Live online

Cultural Humility to Cultural Reverence: Foundational Application to Practice

Subject Area: Behavioral HealthHuman Services
The goal of this course is to enhance your ability to serve increasingly diverse client populations and work with increasingly diverse teams. We will explore in dedicated conversations the four principles of Cultural Humility: Self-Reflection and Lifelong Learning, Client as Expert, Community as Expert and Institutional Self-Reflection, Investment + Modeling. As an individual practitioner, ensure you are providing services respectful of the person's self-ascribed identity; as a leader, address quiet quitting, turnover and enhance your culture of inclusivity and belonging. 4 Continuing Education Hours
Upcoming Dates
  • Nov. 9, 2023
    $129
    Live online