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Course name	Format	Tuition	Next start date	Status	More	Description
	Online	$260	Start Anytime	Open	Details	Sharpening your skills before you start university can improve your performance, reduce stress, and allow you to accomplish more with your time. The right academic skills can also help you handle the commitments and challenges of university life so you can feel successful - and enjoy life as a first-year student.
	Online	$650	Start Anytime	Open	Details	Learn the fundamentals of building IT infrastructure on the Amazon Web Services platform. Explore storage, compute, database, networking, caching and security services. Diagram decoupled architectures, design microservices and plan for disasters.
	Online	$350	Start Anytime	Open	Details	Get a real-world understanding of cloud computing concepts in the context of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Understand AWS core services, security, architecture, pricing and support.
	Online	$50	Start Anytime	Open	Details	This is a condensed version of a popular full-semester credit course offered at Queen's University. It was developed by Dr. Anne Duffy, MSc, MD, FRCPC, an academic psychiatrist in the Department of Psychiatry, Division of Student Mental Health at Queen’s University as a resource to help high school students preparare for university life.
	Online	$260	Start Anytime	Open	Details	Maximize your chances of getting into the Canadian university of your choice in this dynamic, interactive and personalized course. Over eight self-paced weeks, learn step-by-step how to write memorable and convincing university undergraduate applications for Canadian universities that catch the attention of admissions committees.
	Online In-Person	$435	Sep 21, 2024	Open	Details	Speak and hear French from the first day as you quickly gain basic conversation skills to communicate information about yourself, your family and friends, your work, and your daily life. Learn grammar, pronunciation, expressions and vocabulary that allow you to function in everyday settings.
	Online In-Person	$435	Sep 21, 2024	Open	Details	Add to your base of French vocabulary and expressions in order to communicate in everyday situations involving travel, food, shopping, family, and business. Continue to improve your pronunciation and learn to talk about future plans and express past events. This immersive course focuses on oral communication skills and uses meaningful scenarios to help you use the language in authentic situations.
	Online In-Person	$435	Sep 21, 2024	Open	Details	Focus on improving your conversational French fluency by acquiring more complex grammatical structures and sentence formation. Possible grammar topics, based on student needs, may include the advanced level verb tenses (conditional, future anterior, and introduction to subjunctive,) or use of relative pronouns.
	Online In-Person	$425 - $435	Sep 21, 2024	Open	Details	Focus on using French in authentic real-life situations. Continue to expand your vocabulary, and start to elevate your level of language by learning more complex structures with a communication goal in mind. Concentrate on speaking correctly, and distinguishing between the past, present, and future tenses.
	In-Person Online	$435	Sep 21, 2024	Open	Details	Learn phonetics and study the tonal system of Mandarin. Learn to share information about yourself, discuss your family and ask basic questions of those around you allowing you to function in everyday settings. The use of Pin-Yin, the rendition of Chinese characters in the Latin alphabet, facilitates the learning process for students at the elementary level.
	In-Person Online	$435	Sep 21, 2024	Open	Details	Add to your basic Mandarin vocabulary in everyday situations involving travel, food, shopping, transportation, family and business, and focus on correct pronunciation of the tonal system. Native-speaking instructors provide you with insight into the culture, traditions and etiquette of China.
	Online In-Person	$435	Sep 21, 2024	Open	Details	Learn more complex Mandarin grammatical structures and complex sentence formation. Improve your grammar and vocabulary through interesting conversational exercises such as debates, presentations, cultural discussions and small group work using authentic materials.
	In-Person Online	$435	Sep 21, 2024	Open	Details	Expand your Mandarin vocabulary and start to elevate your level of language by learning more complex structures and refining your skills. You concentrate on speaking correctly and distinguishing between the past, present and future tenses. Native-speaking instructors provide you with insight into the culture, traditions and etiquette of China.
	Online In-Person	$435	Sep 21, 2024	Open	Details	Speak and hear Spanish from the first day as you quickly gain basic conversation skills to communicate information about yourself, your family and friends, your work, and your daily life. Learn pronunciation, expressions, and vocabulary that allow you to function in everyday settings.
	Online	$435	Sep 22, 2024	Open	Details	Topics in this course change each term and are designed to further spoken fluency in Italian. Each course begins with a half hour of guided conversation followed by structured exercises and lessons in advanced Italian grammar and conversation.

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