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January 30, 2006

Courses Offered for Both Credit and Noncredit Increase

Departments are finding additional revenues by offering noncredit versions of credit courses.

Spring 06 courses offered for credit and noncredit
Partnering with Parents - HD FS 493B/593B
Horticulture Gardening series - Hort 493A, Hort 493B, Hort 493C, Hort 493D
Identify Theft - Pol S 487X
Introduction to Medical Interpreting - Span 353X

Making course content available for both credit-seeking and noncredit students has worked well for Kim Greder, instructor and developer of the Partnering with Parents course. Kim teaches the course in a variety of ways. Students can take face to face workshops or an online course. Kim also offers a condensed version of the face to face workshops during the summer for those who can not participate in a semester long series. Students may sign up to take the class for CEUs or enroll as an undergraduate or graduate student.

The College of Agriculture is offering a series of horticulture courses designed for gardening enthusiasts. Continuing education staff sent announcements to garden centers, garden clubs, and agriculture students to announce the new noncredit option. Courses developed so far in the series cover annual flowers, herbaceous perennials, houseplants, and vegetables. Yvonne Nilles teaches the online courses. This spring 75 students have enrolled; 57 registrations are in credit courses with some courses scheduled to begin in March and April.

Steffen Schmidt and co-author Mike McCoy wrote Who is You, a book on identity theft. This spring the political science department offered an electronic democracy course online with a unit on ID theft. Noncredit courses begin February 24.

Iowa State's foreign languages department offered medical interpretation this semester. Tia Huggins in the instructor. The course meets on campus Saturday mornings. Students could enroll for either college credit or noncredit CEUs.

For more information on how to offer a noncredit version of a credit course, contact
Kris Phelps
kphelps@iastate.edu
294-7329

Posted by kphelps at January 30, 2006 10:12 AM

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Kris, this is quite impressive as a start. Keep up the great work!!

Posted by: Charlene Ahern | March 1, 2006 04:27 PM

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