By Zachary Connell | Observer Contributor
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MWCC offers many non-credit courses on campus. It’s not only for students at MWCC but it’s for everyone around the community. Rachel Frick Cardelle, Assistant Vice President of Contract Development and Client Training and Deborah Fnine, Manager of Personal Enrichment Programming, are the two women are behind these non-credit courses.
Non-Credit courses are usually run all year round. Some of these courses in fact could help someone in their career. For example, serve safe alcohol is one of the non-credit courses. If a Bartender needed a certificate in serve safe, they could take that course at MWCC.
Ms. Cardelle explains how these courses are a tremendous benefit to those who want to improve their knowledge and skill sets. For example, Introduction to Microsoft Excel course, is a great way to help someone learn more about MS spreadsheet technology. Someone may take this non-credit course for their career or just take it to help them better understand the technology.
Non-credit courses range from computer and technology, music and dance, arts and crafts, a favorite of senior citizens as well as fitness and wellness. There are many more of different types of these courses for people of all ages. “Usually I’ve been seeing more of the senior citizens take computer courses or sign up for arts and crafts,” said Ms. Cardelle. “Then I usually see the young kids sign up for fitness and wellness classes.”
MWCC has been providing high quality educational non-credit courses for people in the community for well over forty years. “Our middle name is community and we deal with people from one to one hundred,” said Ms. Cardelle. The goal is to help those who want to learn something new or help them advance their skills for their career. It can even be sometimes fun to go back to a classroom if you are older.
Non-credit courses provide the opportunity for people to learn different things. Ms. Cardelle thinks it’s great to see when people take a course to just learn something new. She believes it will help someone expand their minds and potentially help them somewhere down the road. MWCC provides these non-credit courses in addition to credited courses. “We put the lifelong in lifelong learning,” said Ms. Cardelle.
These non-credit courses can usually be taught by anyone. People who want to teach a course would have to apply online. “It’s like applying for a job,” said Ms. Fnine. “We would contact you, set up an interview to see if you are capable of teaching the course then we let you know if we approve the course.” If someone wants to advance their skill set or just take a course to learn something new, they would register for a non-credit course by going to mwcc.edu/noncredit.
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