Pierce College Extension, in Woodland Hills, California, offers a wide range of highly interactive not-for-credit courses that you can take entirely over the Internet. All of our courses include expert instructors, many of whom are nationally known authors. Our online courses are affordable, fun, fast, convenient, and geared just for you. Ready to join us on the road to lifelong learning? Click the Courses link at the top of this page.
Gain a working knowledge of the computer skills you will need to succeed in today's job market.
Learn proven, step-by-step strategies to achieve higher positions with major search engines.
World-renowned author and career advisor shows you how to get the job you want quickly and easily and in any economy.
Gain a marketable new skill by learning the basics of double-entry bookkeeping, financial reporting, and more.
Learn how to have more successful relationships with difficult bosses, co-workers, students, neighbors, or relatives.
With the Speed Spanish course, you will immediately start creating sentences and conversations in Spanish. Each lesson will introduce new techniques to increase your fluency quickly and allow you to start speaking Spanish right away.
If you work with data of any kind, knowing how to create a spreadsheet is key to effectively managing and organizing information. This course will introduce you to Microsoft Excel 2019 and teach you how to use this powerful software.
Learn to use QuickBooks Online to record income and expenses; enter checks and credit card payments; track your payables, inventory, and receivables; and much more.
This course provides students with the hands-on experience and knowledge they need to successfully begin writing grant proposals, including real-world scenarios, and the opportunity to improve their work by reviewing previous grant proposals completed by peers.
This course offers an in-depth look at depression, including symptoms, risk factors, diagnosis, and treatment, plus vital suicide prevention strategies.
This course will teach you how to integrate some simple study skills into your lesson using a method called the notecard system.
Learn about mindfulness meditation, including health benefits, mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), as well as techniques and practices.
This course will highlight the significance of retrieval practice in the math classroom and guide you in a specific format for teaching retrieval techniques to your students.