You can choose from more than 130 UW Extension certificate programs. The programs listed below are new for 2008-2009. Apply or register today!

Arts & Writing Biotechnology & Biomedical Building Construction, Design & Real Estate

Business Computing & IT Health, Medicine & Social Work Nonprofit & Public Sector

Arts & Writing

• Arts and Creativity for Children and Youth
  Enhance your creative potential for sparking creativity in children and older youth. This program will provide you with tools to develop your unique talents and style for the children's arts and performance market.
  
  
• Developing an Independent Fashion Line
  Refine your fashion voice and create a plan for reaching your target audience with your unique fashion line. This certificate program will help you understand the contemporary fashion market and the ways that a designer can find a niche within it, and yet stand out by creating a personal design voice.
  
  
• Editing (Autumn-start/Downtown Seattle) and Editing (Autumn-start/Bellevue)
  A career in editing can be both lucrative and rewarding. In this program, you will explore the editing process, gain basic skills to edit a wide variety of manuscripts including books, magazines and online material, and get a thorough grounding in copyediting.
  
  
• Independent Musician: Production, Presentation, and Marketing
  Take advantage of the latest technologies while developing your musical skills. Musicians will learn about the music industry, contract and band negotiations, touring, distribution, and marketing using online platforms like YouTube and MySpace. You will receive professional critiques on your musical projects and produce a polished recording.
  
• Professional Dance Instruction
  Improve your dance teaching methods for children through the Professional Dance Instruction certificate program. Class dynamics, as well as anatomical and somatic practices necessary for effective dance instruction, will be covered by professional dance instructors and choreographers.
  
  

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Biotechnology & Biomedical

• Basic Bioscience
  Be a part of the explosion in biotechnology. This program introduces you to the core disciplines in drug discovery and development. Topics cover an introduction to pharmaceutics, molecular biology, experimental design, statistics, biochemistry, molecular genetics, drug discovery and translational science.
  
  

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Building Construction, Design & Real Estate

• Community Development
  Build your skills in community organizing, neighborhood assessment, and organizational development. This nine-month UW Community Development Certificate program will familiarize you with the history, purpose and breadth of community organizations and how they interrelate.
  
  
• Critical Infrastructures Protection (online)
  In this program, you will gain a working knowledge of the systems underpinning our nation's defense, economic prosperity and quality of life. You will study their vulnerabilities, examine the hazards confronting them, and learn preventive measures to reduce and respond to risks.
  
  

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Business

• Business Intelligence: Techniques for Decision-Making
  Business intelligence is the key to bringing together information, people and technology. This program will show you how to create a robust data and technical architecture, and a well-designed data warehouse system, to improve the use, flow, and sharing of information.
  
  
• Fundraising Management, Advanced
  Are you a nonprofit business professionals seeking to optimize fundraising efforts for your organization? In this program you will focus on fundraising trends, effective strategies for securing major gifts, implementing special campaigns, handling individual donors, and using alternative business models, technologies and databases for fundraising.
  
  
• Marketing, Advanced Interactive (online + classroom combined)
  Learn to create and execute effective online marketing plans in this dynamic new program for marketing and web business management professionals. You will focus on how to measure and analyze web marketing performance, and assess the effectiveness of existing online campaigns. The program includes information on current technologies like search engine optimization (SEO), blogs, virtual communities, email, viral marketing, and more.
  
  
• Marketing Research and Decision Making
  If you're a business professionals with a background in mathematics and quantitative analysis, this program will show you how to apply your knowledge to marketing research. You will learn to define market problems, design market research, construct questionnaires, acquire accurate samples and use SPSS software to analyze data.
  
  
• Sports Management
  Like to catch all the action at the 50-yard line without getting tackled? Cash in on the exciting world of sports from a business standpoint. In this new program, you will gain the business skills needed to work in sports management, including how to build a business plan, market sports team events and products, and work with the community and corporate partners..
  
  

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Computing & IT

• Agile Development
  Learn how to apply the principles and practices of agile management and software development practices such as Scrum and eXtreme programming. Courses are structured with a combination of activities, exercises, simulations, lectures, and discussions.
  
  
• AJAX Development Frameworks
  Build a new breed of dynamic Web applications on Web 2.0 using AJAX, (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML). You will focus on gaining skills for developing rich Web 2.0 front ends with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and AJAX, and for using direct, component and server-driven AJAX frameworks in Web application development.
  
  
• Business Intelligence: Techniques for Decision-Making
  Business intelligence is the key to bringing together information, people and technology. This program will show you how to create a robust data and technical architecture, and a well-designed data warehouse system, to improve the use, flow, and sharing of information.
  
  
• Information Systems Security
  This program provides comprehensive protective strategies to information professionals responsible for the reliable and secure operation of information systems and communication networks. You will learn to apply protective measures to businesses reliant on data processing. Security skills gained can be used to prepare for the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam.
  
  
• Natural Language Technology (online + classroom combined)
  In this exciting new program, you will learn how speech and language processing can be applied to machine translation and information retrieval for companies like Amazon, Google and Nuance. Predictive text messaging, spell check, and context-sensitive advertising are all applications of natural language processing, a subfield of computational linguistics.
  
  
• .NET Development
  Learn to develop applications in the Microsoft .NET environment in this dynamic new certificate program. If you're a technology professional or application developer with limited exposure to programming, you will learn to develop applications for web, Windows and console environments, providing the foundation for specializing in advanced web and Windows application development.
  
  
• Software Test Automation
  Take a hands-on approach using C# to design and develop automated tests. From fundamental concepts such as programming structures outside of a GUI application to learning to manipulate an application under test (AUT) to web-client and performance testing, testers who want to learn a robust programming paradigm will benefit from this certificate program.
  
  
• Virtual Worlds (online + classroom combined)
  Learn to build, interact and manage programs in virtual environments through this new program for professionals in a wide variety of fields, including education, business, and information management. You will focus on subjects relevant to Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) and other cyberspace environments in a regular classroom setting. You will finish the course within a virtual world like Second Life.
  

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Health, Medicine & Social Work

• Guardianship (online + classroom combined)
  Be a part of the growing field of Certified Professional Guardians. In this program, you will gain a comprehensive overview of guardianship in Washington state that meets the initial educational requirement of the Washington State CPG Board. You will develop skills necessary to navigate the social and health service system on behalf of adults who have been declared 'incapicitated' by Washington State courts.
  
  
• Medical Imaging
  Learn about the potential of medical imaging as the bridge between research/development, manufacturing, and sales/marketing in the medical industry. If you are responsible for the development, manufacturing or sales of medical imaging products, this certificate program is designed for you.

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Nonprofit & Public Sector

• Community Development
  Build your skills in community organizing, neighborhood assessment, and organizational development. This nine-month UW Community Development Certificate program will familiarize you with the history, purpose and breadth of community organizations and how they interrelate.
  
  
• Fundraising Management, Advanced
  Are you a nonprofit and business professional seeking to optimize fundraising efforts for your organization? In this new program, you will focus on fundraising trends, effective strategies for securing major gifts, implementing special campaigns, handling individual donors, and using alternative business models, technologies and databases for fundraising.
  
  
• Guardianship (online + classroom combined)
  The need for Certified Professional Guardians is growing. In this new program you will gain a comprehensive overview of guardianship in Washington state that meets the initial educational requirement of the Washington State CPG Board. You will develop skills necessary to navigate the social and health service system on behalf of adults who have been declared 'incapicitated' by Washington State courts.
  
  

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