The Professional Development Center
The mission of the Professional Development Center is to provide faculty, staff, and the broader Winston-Salem community with professional, personal, and civic enrichment opportunities through education focused on management training, interpersonal skills, academic and administrative software, general technical skills, and a myriad of special interest topics.
The Professional Development Center web site was created to connect you to professional and personal development events and opportunities campus-wide. Please see our General Courses page for a general list of upcoming opportunities.
Featured Classes:
Learn to design and build a basic website. This class covers organizing and defining a website, creating basic pages, adding text, creating hyperlinks, and publishing a website. Topics include: Designing a Website The Dreamweaver environment Defining a website . . .
- Open to: Community, Faculty, Staff
Learn to make your workplace more technology-friendly by making the most of computers, telephones, e-mail, contact management applications, and scheduling software. This class covers email etiquette, communicating with your IT department, and using technology to work smarter and not harder. Topics . . .
- Open to: Alumni, Community, Faculty, Family of Faculty/Staff, Graduate Students, Staff
Learn to design and format complex forms. This class covers creating forms without the wizard, advanced formatting techniques, and incorporating subforms for more efficient data entry. Topics include: Creating a form from scratch Understanding controls and control types Viewing and changing . . .
- Open to: Alumni, Community, Faculty, Family of Faculty/Staff, Staff
Learn to lay out webpage content using tables and templates. This class covers using tables for page layout, inserting images, and creating and using templates. Topics include: Creating tables Modifying tables Using tables for page layout Inserting images . . .
- Open to: Alumni, Community, Faculty, Family of Faculty/Staff, Graduate Students, Staff
Working with the images for book and periodical publication requires some special knowledge and preparation. Issues addressed will be: file types, resolution, changing color to black and white, adding in image notations, "FPO", image management, file naming, image transfer methods and . . .
- Open to: Faculty