Careers in Specialized Fields
Summer & Fall 2022
Voice-overs…NOW is Your Time!
Learn about a unique, outside-of-the-box way to cash-in on a lucrative full or part-time careers. This is a business you can handle on your own terms, on your own turf, in your own time, and with practically no overhead.
CE-COMM 2008, 1 Sat., June 25, 11:00 am-1:00 pm, KNC-3, $47. T Harrison. #7892
Personal Fitness Trainer (non-credit)
Information Session
Join us to learn how to become a Personal Trainer. We will cover everything from A-Z so the fitness industry and its opportunities will come to life for you to turn your passion into a profession. This 1-hour information session will share everything from financial aid to textbook and online options too. View the FREE virtual orientation on-demand: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2165995440081874446
Personal Fitness Trainer Certification (non-credit)
Become a successful personal fitness trainer with an option to complete an employer internship that can walk you into a job! This challenging course offers remote instruction with in-depth, hands-on practical labs to master essential career skills and knowledge. Includes 15 hours of lecture on key topics like biomechanics, exercise physiology, fitness testing, equipment usage, and health assessment plus 15 hours of hands-on practical training labs with role playing drills on assessing clients, programming, performing proper exercises, presentation skills, and more. Includes student workbook, access to online student study tools, and test vouchers for the Personal Trainer exams. Combine passing the exams with proof of CPR/AED, obtain your Level 1 Certified Personal Trainer, and get to work. As a special bonus, with our 30-hour employer internship you get the advanced Level 2 Certified Personal Trainer credential at no additional cost! Textbook (Fitness Professionals Handbook, 7th ed., ISBN-13:9781492523376) required, not included in course fees; order and start reading immediately at 888-330-9487 or www.witseducation.com.
CE-CERTS 2018, 5 Sat., June 4-July 9 (Study week: July 2, National Certification Exam: July 16), 9:00 am-12:00 noon (lecture), AAB-307, 1:00-4:00 pm (practicum) PEB Fitness Center, $875. #7812
Expanded Historic Preservation Certificate—112 Hrs
This certificate program serves students and professionals interested in establishing credentials in the area of Historic Preservation in a multitude of job sectors: building trades such as woodworking and stone masonry as well as areas such as historic site management, artifact conservation and more. There is no other certificate program in Historic Preservation offered at a community college in New York State. A total of 112 hours, each course will be two hour sessions for 14 weeks long (field work will be variable), half classwork and half in directed historic preservation fieldwork, are required to fulfill the certificate.
Register for the entire certificate for $1,600!
All interested students should contact the Director, Dr. Sherry Mayo, at sherry.mayo@sunywcc.edu or 914-606-7385. To register for certificate program classes you must call 914-606-7300 or email peekskill@sunywcc.edu The certificate program is over two semesters beginning in the fall.
Historic Preservation Walking Tours
Architectural History Tour of Newburgh
This day-long walking tour will include a visit to Washington’s Headquarters State Historic Site, the Crawford House Museum and a tour of Newburgh’s many other iconic buildings. Designers such as Downing, Vaux, Olmsted, Withers and others will be discussed. We will also examine the tragic period of Urban Renewal when many buildings were lost along with the preservation movement that prevented further destruction in the 1960s and 70s. Johanna Porr Yaun, Orange County historian, instructor in the Historic Preservation Certificate.
CE-HIST 2148PE, Sat., June 25, 10:00 am-4:00 pm (tuition not including independent lunch), $50. #7816
Architectural History Tour of Rhinebeck, Rhinecliff and Staatsurgh
This is a guided walking and driving tour all within a five-mile radius of the Village of Rhinebeck. Sites include FDR’s New Deal era post office; the site of Aaron Burr’s 1804 pre-Hamilton duel campaign headquarters; early settler residences; sites of Astor, Morton and Ruppert estates; architect Richard Upjohn’s Saint Margaret’s Church; Staatsburgh State Historic Site (Mills Mansion) and more. Alan Strauber, historian and program coordinator of the Historic Preservation Certificate.
CE-HIST 2149PE, Sat., July 9, 1:00-5:00 pm (tuition not including post-tour dinner at Beekman Arms), $40. #7815
Fall 2022
Creating Partnerships and Corporations
Discover the laws governing partnership and corporations as types of business organizations. Learn the basic principles provided by the laws, and the application of these principles to the various relationships created by these business transactions. This course will delve into the formation of partnership entities and corporations, including partnership foundation, limited partnership, professional partnerships, as well as matters relating to dissolution and liquidation of partnerships.
CE-BUS 2136, 8 Fri., Sept. 9-Oct., 14 9:00-10:30 am, KNC-4, $99. Z Arushanyan. #90126
How Mental Health Can Assist Law Enforcement
This seven-week course for law enforcement, will help police officers understand mental health diagnoses. They will learn how to best work with those they may be dealing with in a crisis, criminal situation, or when active in community policing. The bridge with mental health and law enforcement is necessary to assist officers when dealing with Emotionally Disturbed Persons (EDP) and better foster communication with all those they interact with on a daily basis. This course will be taught as an educational and supportive module.
At White Plains Education & Training Center
3 Tues. & 4 Sat., Sept. 24—Oct. 15, 8:00 am-12:00 noon, $350, D Flynn-Capalbo. #90278
Voice-overs…NOW is Your Time!
Learn about a unique, outside-of-the-box way to cash-in on a lucrative full or part-time careers. This is a business you can handle on your own terms, on your own turf, in your own time, and with practically no overhead.
CE-COMM 2008, 1 Sat., Oct. 15, 11:00 am-1:00 pm, KNC-4, $47. T Harrison. #90361
Newly Expanded! Historic Preservation Certificate-140 Hrs
This is a one-year, non-credit certificate program beginning in the fall. The certificate program serves students and professionals interested in establishing credentials in the area of Historic Preservation in a multitude of job sectors: building trades such as woodworking and stone masonry as well as areas such as historic site management, artifact conservation and more. There is no other certificate program in Historic Preservation offered at a community college in New York State. A total of 140 hours, (field work will be variable), half classwork and half in directed historic preservation fieldwork.
One elective is required during the one-year program to fulfill the certificate. Lectures may be taken independently.
- Register for the entire certificate for $2,070
- All interested students should contact the Program Coordinator, Alan Strauber, at Alan.Strauber@sunywcc.edu
- To register for certificate program classes, you must call 914-606-7300 or email peekskill@sunywcc.edu.
American Architectural History
With an emphasis Historic Preservation and New York State, this course will explore the development of architecture in America from its beginnings to roughly modern day. Areas of examination will include indigenous and vernacular American architecture, colonial and Federalist design, the appropriation of European design elements, the development of architecture as a profession, the American Parks Movement and landscape architecture, the innovation of the skyscraper, the rise of twentieth century urban environments, public works projects, modernism and more. These will be 2-hour class sessions over 14 weeks for a total of 28 hours required towards completion of certificate requirements. This course will be taught entirely online using Zoom via Blackboard platform. Instructor-Alan Strauber.
CE-HIST 2128PE, 14 Sat., Sept. 10-Dec. 17 (skip 11/26), 11:00 am-1:00 pm. CE-HIST 2163PE, Independent option, $414.
Introduction to Historic Preservation
This course is an introduction to the history, principles and practice of historic preservation. It will provide a framework for understanding how the architecture and natural beauty of the Hudson Valley influenced the birth of the preservation movement in America and how reservation law has developed in New York State into present-day policies. Through discussions about the guiding principles, terminologies and current issues of historic preservation, the class will explore the benefits and limitations of the agencies that play a role in preservation and discuss local case studies. These will be 2-hour class sessions over 14 weeks for a total of 28 hours required towards completion of certificate requirements. This course will be taught entirely online using Zoom via Blackboard platform. Instructor-Johanna Porr Yaun.
CE-HIST 2127PE, 14 Tues., Sept. 13-Dec. 20 (skip 11/8), 6:30-8:30 pm. CE-HIST 2162PE, Independent option, $414.
Historic Preservation Field Work I
This course is designed to provide a wide range of hands-on experience related to historic preservation in a variety of settings. Participants will work at actual historic sites in the field as well as with artisans in trades related to historic preservation. Students will rotate between sites. Sessions will total 28 hours required for completion of certificate requirements. This class will be offsite.
CE-HIST 2129PE, TBD, Spring/Summer 2023.
Historic Preservation Field Work II
Continuation of Historic Preservation Field Work I. Sessions will total 28 hours required for completion of certificate requirements. Prerequisite: Historic Preservation Field Work I. This class will be offsite.
CE-HIST 2130PE, TBD, Spring/Summer 2023.
Electives
Historic Preservation Woodworking and Building Techniques
Through a combination of site visits to buildings of various periods, shop demonstrations, lecture and hands on work with tools, this course will explore the changes in technology, and the corresponding development of building design. Starting with timber framing participants will explore basic assembly techniques, and how assembly methods developed overtime. Methods for conservation of historic windows will be explored. Participants will use tools from as far back as the eighteenth century. We will explore the marks these tools leave and how they can be used to help us read the history of a building. These class sessions will be over 10 weeks for a total of 28 hours. Instructor-Bruce MacDonald.
At the Southern Westchester BOCES, Woodworking Shop, 65 Grasslands Rd., Valhalla
CE-HIST 2158PE, 10 Sat., Sept. 17-Nov. 19, 1:00-4:00 pm (*9/17 & 11/19, 1:00-3:00 pm).
CE-HIST 2159PE, Independent option, $414.
History of Landscape Architecture
This course will explore the complex relationship between culture and nature through a historic survey of humans’ intentional manipulation of the landscape. The class lectures will follow a roughly chronological structure tracing the evolution of landscape design from the public open spaces of ancient cities, private gardens of the Renaissance, through the large parks of the City Beautiful Movements. A significant segment of the syllabus will focus on human responses to the industrialized and post-industrial urban environments. The cultural knowledge and analytical tools gained through the course will provide a solid foundation for future academic endeavors in design disciplines and enrich students’ real-world experience of the natural and the built environments. These will be 2-hour class sessions over 14 weeks for a total of 28 hours and will be taught online using Zoom via Blackboard platform. Instructor-Susan Jainchill.
CE-HIST 2160PE, 12 Wed., Sept. 14-Dec. 14 (skip 11/2; 11/23), 7:00-9:00 pm 1 Sun., Oct. 30., 10:00 am-2:00 pm.
CE-HIST 2161PE, Independent option, $414.