UWM School of Continuing Education

Get to know SQL in this three-day, beginner-level course. This course, which leads to data analysis certification, gives participants the tools they need to query databases and get accurate answers. Specific course topics include relational database management, statement selections, column manipulation, conditional and logical operations, expressions, nulls, outer, inner, self, and mixed joins, function aggregation, and slicing data.

Take your SQL database skills up a level in this two-day intermediate course. Participants with a working knowledge of SQL usually benefit most from this course. Specific topics include outer and inner data joins, conditional subqueries, sorting columns, testing, and linking data.

Optimize your daily workflow with the skills you acquire in this two-day Microsoft Excel introductory course. Participants become proficient in some everyday Excel tasks. Specific course topics include an Excel overview, performing basic calculations, and creating, modifying, formatting, managing, and printing worksheets.

Advance your Microsoft Excel skills in this two-day intermediate course. The curriculum focuses on data manipulation and analytical applications. Specific course topics include customizing Excel spreadsheets, advanced formulas, conditional formats and functions, data organization and visualization, and using charts to analyze information.

This two-day Microsoft Excel advanced course enables participants to tackle almost any business data problem. The sophisticated skills participants develop are applicable in a wide variety of commercial and personal areas. Specific course topics include managing multiple workbooks, protecting, sharing, and automating workbooks, conditional formulas, data audits, automated analysis, and data presentation.

Jumpstart your project management career in this four-day Agile project management introductory course. Participants learn to design projects that rapidly generate positive results. Specific course topics include adaptive/iterative development and design, Agile fundamentals, Scrum basics, Kanban applications, and project management tips.

Build a strong foundation as a business project manager professional in this four-day introductory course. This class, which could lead to a project management or business analysis certificate, helps participants develop the techniques and tools they need for every phase of a project’s life cycle. Specific course topics include defining a project, building a team, scheduling the work, designating resources, managing stakeholders, and minimizing risk.

Create powerful business documents with the skills you acquire in this two-day introductory business writing course. The curriculum focuses on email, the preferred business communication tool in almost every enterprise. Specific course topics include email conventions, commercial communications etiquette, optimizing email content, communications syntax, formatting, and structuring, and refining emails through word choice, clarity, style and tone.

Take the mystery out of Microsoft Power BI with this two-day introductory course which leads to a data analysis certificate. This platform converts raw information into effective data visualizations. Specific course topics include extracting, modeling, visualizing, and sharing data and reports.

Begin your journey to a Data Analysis Certificate with this two-day Python introductory course. This simple and powerful program enables users to work smarter instead of harder. Specific class topics include a Python overview, essential capabilities and commands, installing and using packages, and importing and manipulating data in order to empower decision makers.

Learn to create stunning print and digital vector graphics during this one-day introductory Adobe Illustrator course. This class lays the groundwork for a Digital Marketing or Managing Digital Content certificate. Specific course topics include an Illustrator overview, creating documents, custom path graphics, graphical/text combinations, and objects with photographs, customizing objects and shapes, and deploying your creation.

This two-day, beginner-level course introduces participants to Adobe InDesign. This course, which focuses on print and digital layouts and designs, leads to certification as a digital marketer or content manager. Specific topics include an InDesign overview, designing and customizing a document, working with page elements, building tables, and delivering documents.

Become proficient in Adobe Photoshop during this one-day introductory course. Participants learn how to re-touch, customize, and upgrade digital images. Specific topics in this course, which leads to a digital marketing or content manager certificate, include the Photoshop environment, selecting and resizing images, file formats and sizes, working with layers, adjusting images, and publishing finished images.

Reach your customer base more efficiently with this two-day email marketing introductory course. This class, which leads to a content manager or digital marketing certificate, empowers participants to create a wide range of direct marketing campaigns, Specific topics include email service providers, program structures, email newsletters, drip sequences, ensuring deliverability, raising open rates, drafting copy, measuring results, and personalized campaigns.

Enhance your digital marketing skills with this four-week intermediate course. This class, which leads to a digital marketing certificate, focuses on integrated digital marketing campaigns. Specific course topics include digital marketing principles, market targeting and segmenting, content, keywords, SEO, SEM, social media and email marketing, and promoting brand identity.

Design more efficient digital marketing campaigns with this two-day marketing analytics introductory course. Participants learn to use data effectively while they work toward a digital marketing or digital content certificate. Specific course topics include an overview of Google Analytics and related tools, metrics, dimensions, conversion, and Google Analytics navigation.

Build a solid project management foundation with this three-day Project Management Analytics introductory class. This course, which focuses on real-world problem solving, leads to a project management certificate. Specific topics include setting project parameters, task scheduling, resource management, risk management, project adjustments, creating a project dashboard, and generating reports.

This three-day Microsoft Project introductory course helps participants become proficient in a variety of project-related tasks. This course leads to a project management basic or advanced certificate. Specific topics include a Project overview, project configuration, resource allocation, estimating, scheduling, control features, and project customization.

Develop some advanced Microsoft Project skills in this three-day intermediate course. Participants work with sophisticated Project tools while they work toward a project management basic or advanced certificate. Specific course topics include schedule standards, resource management, estimates, task types, project milestones, task assignment, leveraging schedule data, and custom Project features, such as maps, macros, data exporting, and data filtering.

Prepare for success on the Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® or Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam in this five-day bootcamp. Instruction focuses on specific parts of the exam as well as general test-taking skills. Specific topics include taking the exam, a project management outline, project environments, managerial roles, process, and planning, monitoring, controlling, and closing a project.