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Education
What
are we?
Objectives
Functions
Description
Courses
we offer in the year 2002
About
our Coordinator
What
are we?
We are a Unit of Non-Formal Education, which promotes
overall human development through updated training courses
that specialize in different areas.
The Management Center is a unit of academic support for personal,
professional, and business development, that promotes academic
excellence in all its programs, perfecting the skills that
are necessary to professionals who wish to enter the world
market.
Objectives
To
design, carry out, and promote training programs that will
satisfy the demands of the public in general, in the necessary
disciplines, thus attaining overall human development through
a transforming education.
Functions
- To encourage people to be capable of documenting their
learning activities after the last diploma or degree they
obtain.
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To program, promote, and carry out short courses, as workshops
or as modules.
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To program, promote, and carry out special courses of 3 to
12 months’ time, so that the persons who attend will
acquire new abilities, render their work more efficient, and
update their knowledge.
Description
This
Unit has as its main objective to plan, promote, and carry
out training courses open to all in order to satisfy the demands
of the national population, and courses that will be limited
to the employees of a company or of companies, according to
their needs and requirements.
The
Management Center has four large air-conditioned classrooms
and a computer lab, for the training of the population in
general, according to our regular program. Besides, we offer
the rent of the rooms of the Management Center for the enterprises
and persons who request it, with the help of audiovisual aids
and catering services.
Academic
offer for the year 2002
We offer a wide variety of management and non-management
courses, within our regular program.
Management
courses:
-
Special Course in Management and Supervision.
- Special Course in Translation and Legal Interpretation.
- Special Course in Interior Design.
- Special Course in Strategic Sales Administration.
- Special Course in Administration and Haute Cuisine.
- Special Course in the Organization and Management of Files.
- Special Course in Marketing Applied to Communication.
- Special Course in Training in Programming Delphi 6.
- Series of Talks of FORUMs about the Updating of Human
Resources.
Other
Courses:
- Computers for Adults
- Introduction to Feng Shui
- Workshop on the Techniques of Plastic Arts
- Business English Workshops
- Spelling and Drafting
Schedules:
The
schedules of our courses are varied, and mostly in the evening
(From 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM). See the schedules of each program,
which we annex.)
Extracurricular
Courses
Note: All the courses in Continuing Education
are extracurricular, which is why this paragraph is contemplated
and defined under Academic Offer.
Cost:
The
cost of the courses offered by the Continuing Education Unit
are varied, depending on the type of course and its duration
(See the attached programs).
Payment
plans:
The
short-term courses that cost less than $3,000.00 must be paid
in full from the beginning. For the longer courses, such as
the Special Courses, we offer plans of payment, depending
on the length and the cost of the same. The plans of payment
are different for each course. (See the attached programs
with this specification).
About
our Coordinator
Soraya Arbaje, who has a Bachelor’s
degree in Psychology, graduated from the Unidad Autónoma
de Santo Domingo in 1984.
She has done postgraduate work in family therapy at the UASD
(thesis pending).
She has done work related to training since 1982, being the
first Training Manager at the School for Training for the
Dominican Port Authority, from 1982 until 1985.
She worked at the Secretaría de Estado de Relaciones
Exteriores (Department of State) as Assistant Coordinator
for the Project to Modernize this Secretaría, under
the aegis of the PNUD and the Dominican Government, from 1985
to 1987.
In 1987, she represented the Secretaría de Estado de
Relaciones Exteriores at the Course of International Studies
at the Diplomatic School of Madrid, Spain.
During the years 1990 and 1991, she worked at
UNICEF as Assistant Coordinator of the Campaign for Social
mobilization: Inoculate, Commitment by all, under the aegis
of this International Organization and of the Secretaría
de Estado de Salud Pública y Asistencia Social.
She occupied the post of Training Manager in the Asociación
Dominicana para el Desarollo de la Mujer – Banco de
la Mujer –from 1994 through 1996.She worked as Coordinator
and Facilitator of the project: Mujer, Democracia y Participacion
Ciudadana, under the auspices of the PUCMM/BID/ADOPEM, during
the years 1995 – 1996.
During the last four years, she has been Manager of Sales
and Marketing of Services in her own enterprise.
Since February of 2001, she has held the post of Coordinator
of the Continued Education Unit, and Management Center, of
this Institution. |
