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New Business & Social Science Career Certificates Available

Upgrade & Advance Your Career Skills

Foothill now offers a variety of new business and social science career certificates. These short-term intensive programs provide you with a convenient way to upgrade and advance your career skills. New certificates are now available for child development, travel careers and real estate professionals.

• Child Development - Five new career certificates now available. Each certificate qualifies you for a higher-level teaching permit approved by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. New certificates include child development assistant, associate teacher, teacher, master teacher and site supervisor. For details, access our BSS Child Development site.
• Travel Careers - Five new career certificates, including online reservationist, business travel specialist (North America or International emphasis), wholesale travel specialist and leisure travel specialist. For details, access this BSS Travel Careers site.
• Real Estate - Two new career certificates are now available, including broker and sales agent. For details, access this BSS Real Estate site.

For information, access the Web sites listed or call (650) 949-7322. For registration instructions, access www.foothillcollege.org or call (650) 949-7325.


It’s Your Job - Tropical Beaches, Foreign Cities, Exotic Places

Trained travel professionals know the best places to go, how to get there, and where to stay once you arrive. The Foothill College Travel Careers Program can help you get where you want to go in the travel industry.

We offer a five-tier career certificate program to help you achieve your travel career goals. For more information about the certificate program access our Travel Careers site.

This fall, we’re offering a variety of travel careers courses, including introduction to travel careers, travel online, high-tech travel, business and leisure travel reservations, tourism in North America, global tourism, selling domestic and international travel, tour directing and many others. For registration instructions, access www.foothillcollege.org or call (650) 949-7325.

Information Age Means Library Job Options

The Information Age has created a huge need for trained professionals who can manage information and library resources. The number of library technology jobs available at academic, public, corporate and specialty libraries continues to increase.

Fall Quarter is the time to enter the Foothill Library Technology Program to develop valuable skills that will give you the advantage over the competition for a library career.

To enter the program, you must first meet with the program coordinator. Schedule a consultation by calling (650) 949-7086. Then, you can enroll in our LT 50: Library Services and LT 58A: Technical Processes-Acquisitions courses. Click here for program information, or call (650) 949-7086. For registration instructions, access www.foothillcollege.org or call (650) 949-7325.


Grant Benefits Child Development Professionals

Earn While You Learn

If you currently work with children at a child care center or you’re considering earning a child development teaching permit, you may be eligible to participate in the Foothill College Child Development Training Consortium Grant Fund. Students who participate in the grant receive an $18-stipend for each child development course unit completed.

Foothill offers a variety of child development courses this fall, including infant and toddler development, the special needs child, child growth and development, parenting, and designing and starting child care facilities. For more program information, access the BSS web site or call (408) 292-9964. For registration instructions, access www.foothillcollege.org or call (650) 949-7325.