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Course name	Format	Tuition	Next start date	Status	More	Description
	Online	$465	Sep 17, 2025	Open	Details	Learn to communicate in a wider array of situations and further develop your fluency and comprehension of American Sign Language (ASL). Formerly Sign Language Intermediate 3. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$465	Sep 17, 2025	Open	Details	This course focuses on sharing opinions and comparing personal qualities using ASL. You’re introduced to your first ASL fable, The Fox and the Crow. Other start dates: TBA
	In-Person Online	$490	Sep 17, 2025	Open	Details	This course is designed especially for professionals who speak English as an additional language. Improve your pronunciation, fluency and presence in speaking English publicly. Build your confidence in different speaking situations, such as talking to one person, or presenting in a team meeting or in front of a large audience. Other start dates: Oct 27, 2025; Nov 13, 2025
	Online In-Person	$455	Sep 18, 2025	Open	Details	Designed especially for professionals whose first language is not English, this fast-paced and dynamic course empowers you to improve your conversational skills for today's business environment. Develop the confidence to feel successful in one-on-one discussions, workplace meetings, interviews and business negotiations. Other start dates: Oct 29, 2025
	Online	$1,185 - $1,220	Sep 18, 2025	Open	Details	Learn tools to build culturally diverse and inclusive teams. Enhance your skills to establish, motivate and lead your existing group toward inclusion. Develop strategies for transforming conflict and understand the influence of culture on teamwork. Other start dates: Jan 29, 2026
	Online	$445	Sep 20, 2025	Open	Details	Arabic Beginner 1 is designed to help you gain basic communicative ability in Egyptian Arabic, the most widely spoken and understood dialect across the Arabic-speaking world. You will also learn to read and write the beautiful Arabic alphabet. Other start dates: TBA
	Online In-Person	$445	Sep 20, 2025	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. Other start dates: Sep 22, 2025; Sep 23, 2025; Sep 24, 2025; Sep 25, 2025
	Online	$890	Sep 20, 2025	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. Other start dates: TBA
	Online In-Person	$445	Sep 20, 2025	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. Other start dates: Sep 22, 2025; Sep 23, 2025; Sep 24, 2025
	Online In-Person	$445	Sep 20, 2025	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. Other start dates: Sep 22, 2025
	Online In-Person	$445	Sep 20, 2025	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. Other start dates: Sep 22, 2025; Sep 23, 2025
	Online	$370	Sep 20, 2025	Open	Details	Learn about Deaf people's experiences and culture and connect with a new perspective. Learn about Deaf Gain versus hearing loss and develop the core knowledge and skills you need to be an ally and to interact sensitively with members of the Deaf community. Other start dates: TBA
	Online	$445	Sep 20, 2025	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. Other start dates: Sep 24, 2025
	In-Person Online	$445	Sep 20, 2025	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. Other start dates: Sep 22, 2025
	In-Person Online	$445	Sep 20, 2025	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. Other start dates: Sep 22, 2025

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