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Social Media Strategies

In this course, learners explore social media marketing and determine how these media are revolutionizing the marketing landscape today. Learners integrate social media to increase brand awareness, identify key audiences, and generate leads. Upon successful completion of the course, learners will be able to use social media strategies to build meaningful relationships with customers.

Digital Marketing

In this course, learners investigate marketing through digital channels. Using electronic devices, learners investigate mobile applications, email, and web applications. They examine how web design, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and reputation management are applied to digital promotion. Upon completion of the course, learners will be able to initiate, manage, and evaluate digital marketing strategies for a business.

Entrepreneurship

Can your idea be turned into a profitable business? Will power and hard work are not enough to guarantee success. You must first determine the feasibility of your idea. Before you quit your job, invest your life savings or dedicate time to complete a business plan, wouldn't it be nice to know whether business ownership is right for you? In this class, you'll examine your business idea from every angle. Not only will it help you make a decision about starting your business, you will discover whether the life of an entrepreneur is right for you.

Intrapreneurial Mindset

In this course, learners evaluate the underlying beliefs and assumptions that drive the behavior enabling entrepreneurs to succeed. Learners apply these techniques in three settings, entrepreneurial, enterprise, and personal. This gives the learner a formula to apply these foundations to enact change in all aspects of their life. Upon the completion of the course, learners will take that knowledge and apply it to the creation, implementation, and evaluation of a self-directed project with a topic of their choosing.

Supervision

In Supervision, the learner applies the skills and tools necessary to perform the functions of a frontline leader. Each learner will demonstrate the application of strategies and transition to a contemporary supervisory role, including day-to- day operations, analysis, delegation, controlling, staffing, leadership, problem-solving, team skills, motivation, and training.

Computers for Professionals

This course introduces students to the use of a PC through hands-on practice. Students explore the fundamentals of using digital technologies to connect, learn, and engage. Students will use the version of Microsoft Office software (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint) in use at Gateway Technical College. Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to use MS Office applications.

English Composition 1

This course is designed for learners to develop knowledge and skills in all aspects of the writing process. Planning, organizing, writing, editing and revising are applied through a variety of activities. Students will analyze audience and purpose, use elements of research, and format documents using standard guidelines. Individuals will develop critical reading skills through analysis of various written documents.

Gateway to Success

In this course, students explore the Gateway Technical College community. They examine college resources and services, investigate skills that lead to academic success, and identify strategies for achieving educational and personal goals.

Employee Relations and Engagement

In this course, students explore employee relations and engagement concepts. They identify regulations and policies that govern and practices that guide workplace rules and conduct. Students examine tools of employee engagement and processes to measure and evaluate levels of engagement. They relate employee attitudes and engagement to the quality of the organizational culture. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to explain the engagement practices that successfully connect an organization and its employees.