To supplement SAIS's strong academic curriculum, Career Services offers a series of Professional Development Skills Courses (PDS) each semester including several online courses which are also available during the summer and the winter inter-session. PDS courses help equip students with professional skills demanded by top-tier private, public and non-profit sector employers. Although the courses are short-term and non credit, students who successfully complete skill courses, will have them added to their official academic transcripts. Alumni are permitted to take online skills courses at any time and onsite PDS courses on a space-available basis. For more information, please contact Martina Leinz at mleinz@jhu.edu. Inter-Session/Spring 2012 Online Skills Courses
Registration for spring semester online skills courses begins on Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. via SAISWorks so students on all three SAIS campuses may work on the courses over the winter inter-session and throughout the spring semester. The deadline to register is March 15, 2012 and the courses must be completed by April 15, 2012. Syllabi for the courses are located below. (Click on course link to view the syllabus). Inter-Session 2012 Skills Courses in Washington, D.C.
Registration for inter-session skills courses held on the Washington DC campus the week of January 23, 2012 begins on Monday, December 12, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. and will close December 20, 2011. If a course is fulll when yo go to register, please send an email to Martina Leinz at mleinz@jhu.edu and ask to be placed on the waitlist. These courses are open only to current SAIS students. The Speech Writing course is a pre-requisite for the Effective Presentation Skills course so you must register for both if you wish to take Effective Presentations Skills. Syllabi for the two courses offered are located below. (Click on the course link to view the syllabus). Spring Semester 2012 Skills Courses in Washington, D.C. General registration for spring semester skills courses held on the D.C. campus begins on Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. via SAISWorks and closes on Friday, February 1, 2012 at 5:00 p.m. Priority registration for students who will graduate in spring 2012 will be held in person in Career Services on Monday & Tuesday, January 30 & 31, 2012 from 12:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. in person in Nitze 212. Students who were wait-listed for courses during the fall 2011 semester may also pre-register for those courses only during priority registration on January 30 & 31, 2012. The courses listed below (in addition to the online courses listed above) will be offered in the spring, subject to change. Additional courses may be added later. Syllabi should be available by early January, 2012. (Click on the title of the course to view syllabus) For a complete schedule of spring semester skills courses, please click here.
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