This is an online course.  This class can be taken anytime, anywhere during the class dates specified.

Registration can be done up to a week after class starts.

Gain insights into your data using business intelligence software – Power Business Intelligence. Power BI is a widely used business analytics service offered by Microsoft. Power BI Desktop is a complete data analysis and report creation tool that you install for free. Discover the process of creating interactive reports. Integrate financial, marketing, or any other source data in your accounting system, Excel, or on the Web. Streamline the data to what is needed using Power Query. Create charts, maps, and other visuals to see your data in real-time. Delve further into Power Query to ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) your data. Build the Data Model using relationships and DAX (Data Analysis Expressions). Utilize Time Intelligence functions to view YoY or YTD reports. Add user-friendly features to enhance your reports and analyze your results. This certificate will enhance your skills in data analysis, giving you greater insight into your organization’s performance and allowing you to make more informed decisions. 

This includes three classes which may be taken individually or grouped as a certificate:

          Introduction to Power BI - $195

          Intermediate Power BI - $195

          Advanced Power BI - $195

For full details, see:  https://www.yougotclass.org/index.cfm/Sanford

Class runs:  May 5, 2025, through July 4, 2025

Class runs:  June 2, 2025, through August 29, 2025

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact SCAE at AdultEd@sanford.org

This is an online course.  This class can be taken anytime, anywhere during the class dates specified.

Registration can be done up to a week after class starts.

Structured Query Language (SQL) is the industry standard database programming language. It is one of the most in-demand skills in occupations that require interaction with data and analyzing data. Through your knowledge of Structured Query Language, you will become more marketable in computer-related career fields that pertain to database administration. Learning SQL can also lead to a job that is specific to analyzing data such as a data analyst, a quality assurance analyst, or a business analyst.   You’ll first learn about relational database structures, the history and uses of Structured Query Language, and how to use Structured Query Language to create a database, add records to database tables, and to use SQL queries to extract meaningful data from database tables.  You will quickly progress from creating simple SQL queries that query a single table to querying multiple tables simultaneously. You’ll also learn how to alter data in a database and how to gather significant statistics from data stored in a database. Finally, you'll learn techniques that will enable you to write powerful queries that perform complicated searches and sorts on your data. This certificate will enhance your competitiveness in the field of database administration and data analyst jobs.

This includes three classes which may be taken individually or grouped as a certificate:

          Introduction to SQL - $245

          Intermediate SQL - $245

          Advanced SQL - $245

For full details, see:  https://www.yougotclass.org/index.cfm/Sanford

Classes for May 5 run through Aug 1, 2024

Classes for June 2 run through Aug 29, 2024

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact SCAE at AdultEd@sanford.org

This is an online course.  This class can be taken anytime, anywhere during the class dates specified.

These advanced topics build upon the nationally acclaimed Paralegal Certificate Course© offered by over 100 colleges and universities nationwide. These classes are available to students who wish to extensively build upon their knowledge of law and paralegal studies with classes in specialized facets of contemporary law. Your study and concentration on substantively specific materials will enable you to gain a strong competitive edge over other paralegals. The additional training gained through participation in these advanced classes will embellish your legal knowledge and skills, which in turn should increase your salary and marketability.

*Those who complete at least six advanced topics will be awarded a Certificate of Completion.

Completing both the Core Requirements and the Advanced Requirements of the Paralegal Certificate Program provides comprehensive training and skills that should enable graduates to work in the quickly growing paralegal profession. The two parts in combination have been designed to meet the requirements of the California Business and Professional Code §6450, legislation that took effect in California on 1/1/01.

Books Approximate Cost: $200 + topics

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact SCAE at AdultEd@sanford.org

This is an online course.  This class can be taken anytime, anywhere during the class dates specified.

Become a mediator.  Review the growth and applications of settlement options in the United States.  Learn both traditional and non-traditional dispute resolution options.  Mediation is geared for all professionals who are focused on "interest-based bargaining."  Take the mystery out of settlement processes, focus on reaching reasonable solutions for government, business, and personal disputes, and divorce settlement mediation.

Books Approximate Cost: $225

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact SCAE at AdultEd@sanford.org

This is an online course.  This class can be taken anytime, anywhere.  You can work at your own pace.

Become a victim advocate for domestic violence shelters, crisis centers, and hotlines, and assist crime victims in the criminal justice system. Learn legal terminology, legal process, victims’ rights, jurisdiction and venue, ethics, effects on the victim, victim advocacy skills, guardianships, and crisis intervention. We’ll also cover counseling skills for victims of assault, battery, robbery, domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, murder, and homicide.

Books: Approximate Cost - $100

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact SCAE at AdultEd@sanford.org

This is an online course.  This class can be taken anytime, anywhere.  You can work at your own pace.

This introductory 7-week course is for those entering the eDiscovery field, as well as professionals wanting to broaden their knowledge of the eDiscovery process. Course covers the entire eDiscovery process, from preparation to collection, to review of Electronically Stored Information (ESI). Learners will progress through the basics of eDiscovery prep, best practices for ESI collection, and the review process. 

Books Approximate Cost: $150

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact SCAE at AdultEd@sanford.org

This class is an online course.  This can be taken anytime, anywhere.  You can work at your own pace.

Employment law is a branch of contract law that deals with relationships between employers and employees.  This course will cover statutes such as the National Labor Relations Act, the Railway Labor Act, and other various statutes dealing with public employees.  Topics to be included are master and servant, wages and hours, anti-discrimination in employment, and minimum wages and maximum hours, as well as regulation of working conditions. 

Books Approximate Cost: $250

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact SCAE at AdultEd@sanford.org

This is an online course.  This class can be taken anytime, anywhere.  You can work at your own pace.

This exciting program prepares medical professionals for a career in the legal field as legal nurse consultants. Building on your medical education and possible clinical experience, this course provides nurses with the fundamental skills necessary to advise law firms, health care providers, insurance companies, and governmental agencies regarding medically related issues and to appear in court as expert witnesses. The course teaches legal concepts related to the healthcare industry, as well as the role a legal nurse consultant might play in litigation areas such as medical malpractice, toxic torts, product liability, personal injury, wrongful death, criminal law, and workers’ compensation. Any nurse interested in entering the legal field can benefit from the education provided by this course. The course is also open to anyone interested in the field of forensic testimony and medical-legal issues, but participants without a nursing background might not be able to take the LNCC exam after graduation. Legal Nurse Consultant Certified (LNCC) is a discretionary test separate from this training course that experienced registered nurses graduating from this course may decide to sit for. LNCC test eligibility requirements are discussed during this training course; however, nurses graduating from this course need not take the LNCC to practice as legal nurse consultants.

This nurse continuing professional development activity was approved by the Colorado Nurses Association, an accredited approved by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. 

Successful graduates will receive a certificate for 42 contact hours of nursing continuing professional development from CLS by Barbri that they may be able to use to fulfill continuing education requirements.

Books Approximate Cost: $275

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact SCAE at AdultEd@sanford.org