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Whether you want to earn a degree, improve your skills, get certified, train for a new career, or explore a new hobby, you can choose from many programs and courses.

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Explore your interests and find a program that puts you on the path to a bright future. Tri-C offers both credit and non-credit courses as well as certificate programs in most career fields.

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More than 1,000 credit courses are offered each semester in more than 200 career and technical programs. Tri-C also grants short-term certificates, certificates of proficiency and post-degree professional certificates.

View A-Z Program List

Workforce Training & Professional Development

Tri-C's Workforce Training provides both non-credit and credit training for individuals and businesses to assist individuals with skills leading to employment. Tri-C's Corporate College provides professional development and corporate training opportunities.

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Tri-C offers a variety of affordable and convenient community programs for both adults and youth. These programs are designed to promote individual development.

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Every Tri-C course has an official course outline that includes general information, outcomes, methods of evaluation, content, resources and applicable College policies. It’s a helpful tool for students and instructional faculty because it provides an overview of course topics and material along with desired learning outcomes.    

A course description includes primary topics and information to be covered. It also lists the number of credit hours, course format, pre/corequisites and whether the course is TAG or OT36 approved.

Learning outcomes describe what you should know and be able to do after successfully completing the course.  Each learning outcome has multiple objectives that provide details regarding what the course is designed to help you learn.

The course content section outlines specific course topics and material. Similar to a table of contents, it helps students and instructors understand what should be covered.

The academic credit statement helps you estimate your average weekly time commitment based on the course format and number of credits. Each course requires a certain number of lab and/or lecture hours and a certain amount of time for out-of-class assignments each week. See the official academic credit statement here.

If you don’t plan to complete the OT36 or an associate degree during your time at Tri-C, you can work with a counselor to develop a course-by-course transfer plan tailored to meet specific program requirements at your chosen four-year school. The receiving school must evaluate the transferability and applicability for each course — a process that official course outlines may help to expedite.

Official course outlines are guides that include course topics and material, desired learning outcomes, methods of evaluation and resources. Syllabi explain how individual instructors have chosen to structure their courses and evaluate student performance. Though some universal information may appear on a syllabus, most of the content (such as the weekly schedule) is determined by the instructor alone.

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