Most average or larger colleges and universities have a Continuing Education department, offering short, practical courses to help professionals re-certify or to learn new skills. Additionally, they offer hobby-related and coping with life courses, such as Basic Yoga and How to Effectively Parent.
It's become increasingly apparent, however, that many people have trouble making the necessary transitions from one stage to another. These constitute a core market for this category of practical course.
Northern Ohio Community College is currently offering the following to met the apparent needs of their customer base:
1. Selecting a Proper Sugar Daddy
2. Releasing the Old Fart in You
3. Elementary Battle Axe Studies
4. Intermediate Battle Axe Studies
5. Creative Use of the Television Remote
6. Wheedling Your Parents to Let You Live in Their Basement
7. Nagging for Beginners
8. Elementary Stripping for Your Boyfriend
9. Choosing the Starter Husband
10. Bad Food and Sexual Deprivation: Deaccessing the Starter Husband
11. Choosing the Starter Wife
12. Money Laundering for Dummies
13. Embracing the Angst of Being Thirtysomething
14. Feeling Up the Angst of Being Thirtysomething
15. Dealing With the Disappointment of Not Having a Midlife Crisis
16. Coping With an Uninteresting Midlife Crisis
17. Basic Parental Nagging Skill Techniques
16. Coping With an Uninteresting Midlife Crisis
17. Basic Parental Nagging Skill Techniques
18. Successful Cougar Strategies
19. Selection of Bowling Costumes
20. Basic Procrastination
21. Advanced Procrastination
22. Increasing Self-Indulgence for Twentysomethings
23. Dealing with Generation X Persons: Not Just Your Older Siblings
24. Yogi for beginners: Zen and the Art of Baseball Catching
25. Advanced Journalism Snobbery
26. Elementary Composting
24. Yogi for beginners: Zen and the Art of Baseball Catching
25. Advanced Journalism Snobbery
26. Elementary Composting
Actually, new courses are being developed all the time. But this list will help establish the flavor. Take advantage of the offerings at YOUR Community College!
I can teach #2. And I could also teach #'s 20 and 21 if I get around to it. Let me know if the positions are open. Great post!
ReplyDeleteBilbo, thank you! Community college salaries are not very high for continuing education, I fear......
ReplyDeleteFeeling Up the Angst of Being Thirtysomething sounds like dirty, all-American fun!
ReplyDeleteChoosing the starter husband? Can you imagine the controversy that would generate?
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