2025 Winter Tuition-Free Certificates & Classes
Here are the Tuition-Free certificates and classes Riverside City College will offer this Winter!
Look below for details on Noncredit Certificates:
Business Administration
BUS-814 Business Skills
This short course provides practical, professional business communication skills and can be used as a skills refresher. The focus of the content is professional oral, written, and online communication skills. Effective communications with clients and customers.
Section #40693
Instructor: E. Singer
Online 01/20 – 02/01/25
BUS-815 Business Skills
This short course is designed to assist students with the development of a professional online persona/brand. Includes personal brand and reputation management for web and social media for business and professional networking with clients and customers.
Section #40694
Instructor: E. Singer
Online 01/20 – 02/01/25
BUS-816 Business Skills
This short course is designed to assist students with the development of the customer experience for business. Includes identification of elements, and planning designing the customer experience for business.
Section #40695
Instructor: E. Singer
Online 02/03 – 02/13/25
BUS-817 Business Skills
Professional Self-Management Prerequisite: None Description: This short course provides practical, professional self-management skills for the twenty first century professional and as a skills refresher. The focus of the content is image and self-management skills for professionals.
Section #40696
Instructor: E. Singer
Online 02/03 - 02/13/25
Computer Applications/Office
CAT-841 Mosprep (Two Sections)
Preparation structured to meet the guidelines established by Microsoft for the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Word Expert exam. Software and training tools will be utilized to provide computer-based preparation and practice for the MOS Word Expert exam. Course provides students, educators, project managers, business information workers, and educators to apply the necessary skills to use the advanced features of Word for document and content management, and advanced formatting to documents such as business plans, research papers, books, specialized brochures, and mass mailings. A single, free Microsoft Office Word Expert Exam will be administered at the end of the course.
Section #41072
Saturday 01/11 – 02/08/25
Lecture 9 – 10:30 am
Lab 10:45 am – 12:15 pm
Room: CIS – A208
Section #41073
Online 01/11 -02/08/25
CAT-842 Mosprep (Two Sections)
Certification exam preparation structured to meet the guidelines established by Microsoft for the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Excel Expert exam. Software and training tools will be utilized to provide computer-based preparation and practice for the MOS Excel Expert exam. The course provides students, educators, accountants, financial analysts, data analysts, and business information workers training and practice to apply skills to the advanced features of Excel for enhanced productivity, data analysis, financial charts, tables, and inventory schedules. A single, free Microsoft Office Excel Expert Exam will be administered at the end of the course.
Section #41074
Saturday 01/11 – 02/08/25
Lecture 12:30 – 2 pm
Lab 2:15 – 3:45 pm
Room: CIS- A208
Section #41705
Online 01/11 – 02/08/25
Computer Information Systems
CIS-825 Cyber Skills
The Cyber Skills - Introduction to Cybersecurity is designed for students who are considering IT as career with specialization in cybersecurity. This exploratory course provides the students an introduction to cybersecurity. The course will explore ways to be safe online. Students will learn the different types of malware and attacks and measures used by organizations to mitigate the attacks.
Section #40715
Instructor: J. Berry
Online 01/06 – 02/13/25
CIS-826 Cyber Skills Intro to Virtualization
The Cyber Skills - Introduction to Virtualization is designed for students who are considering IT as career with specialization in cybersecurity. Virtualization skills are necessary to the cybersecurity professional due to its ubiquitous use in the IT field. Cybersecurity professionals need to understand how virtualization works to analyze the threats within the virtual environment as well as use virtualization for isolating systems for malware analysis and testing. This exploratory course provides the students an introduction to virtualization.
Section #40716
Instructor: J. Berry
Online 01/06 – 02/13/25
CIS-827 Cyber Skills-Intro to Protocol Analysis
The Cyber Skills - Introduction to Protocol Analysis is designed for students who are considering IT as career with specialization in cybersecurity. Within the cybersecurity career path, protocol analysis is used to perform ongoing attacks as well as post attack analysis of network logs and data. This exploratory course provides the students an introduction to protocol analysis. The course will explore ways that protocol analysis can be used to detect and investigate different types of malware and attacks within an organizations network for incident response.
Section #40717
Instructor: J. Berry
Online 01/06 – 02/13/25
CIS-830 Introduction to Python Programming
Introduction to the Python programming language by covering the basics of programming in Python to develop business, gaming, scientific and mathematical applications.
Section #40718
Online 01/06 – 02/13/25
Professional Development Studies
PDS-808 Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making
In today's workplace, it is everyone's job to solve problems and make decisions. Analytical thinking, decision making and problem solving involve breaking things down into their component parts, applying deductive reasoning and then applying judgment and insight. Learn hands-on techniques to generate breakthrough ideas, make decisions, and solve your most pressing problems.
Section #40751
Instructor: D. Judon
Online 01/20 – 02/13/25
PDS-809 Business Writing in a Technological World Prerequisite
Participants will develop effective and professional business writing skills using business tone, organization and formatting, word choice and persuasion. Matching the delivery channel (email, letter, memo, or text) to the message type and situation will be covered, as well as the best methods to deliver bad news.
Section #40752
Instructor: D. Judon
Online 01/20 – 2/13/25
PDS-810 Time Management
Participants explore time management strategies and tools for effectively managing expanding workloads, shifting priorities and increasing demands. Practice prioritizing "important" versus "urgent" activities. Emphasis on analyzing current use of time; identifying organizational goals, roles and priorities; discovering gaps to achieving goals; and applying time management tools to the gaps to complete important priorities first.
Section #40753
Instructor: D. Judon
Online 02/03 – 02/13/25
PDS-812 Workplace Communication Strategies
Participants assess and optimize current workplace communication skills. Differentiate content, emotions, perceptions, and intentions in a communication exchange. Build an advanced communication toolkit to forward your career. Illustrate clear and congruent verbal and nonverbal messages tailored to the personalities involved, the desired outcomes, and the context.
Section #40754
Instructor: D. Judon
Online 02/03 – 02/13/25
PDS-816 Personal Finance Prerequisite
Overview of personal financial management skills, positive banking relations, and achieving financial security. Topics include: Personal budgeting; saving; credit; appropriate use of credit cards; banking services; consumer installment loans; and buying real estate.
Section #40755
Instructor: B. Rochin
Online 01/06 – 01/25/25
PDS-817 Financial Future
Students will learn to review an individual financial situation, develop financial goals for retirement and identify appropriate means to achieve these goals. Topics will include: Financial goal setting; life insurance; different types of retirement accounts; and investment options.
Section #40753
Instructor: B. Rochin
Online 01/27 – 02/13/25