Welcome to External Education
UIC External Education
Ready for a change? Gain the skills to set you apart with UIC’s professional development and personal enrichment courses.
UIC offers a catalog of over 300 unique personal enrichment and professional development programs and courses to help you get ahead at work, reach personal goals or excel in a new skill area. Choose from courses in business, writing, health sciences, nonprofit management, social work and more. Explore a sampling of our offerings listed here. Customized group training is also available for most courses.
Take the time now to create a profile with External Education so you can easily register for courses without having to re-enter your information each time you register.
Featured Courses
Don’t second guess your writing abilities! Strengthen your skills with the Grammar Workshop, now online! Students and professionals will learn the fundamental rules of punctuation and mechanics as well as the common grammatical errors that can dramatically distort meaning.
Spend your summer writing down your favorite stories and memories, or create fiction or non-fiction works that will keep readers hanging on to your every word with Telling Stories. This workshop gives you the tools you need to tell great stories, while guiding you through the writing process.
Featured Programs
Become a leader in multi-disciplinary research by learning how to translate clinical knowledge into practice with the new online certificate program, Clinical Research Methods. Clinicians, faculty early in their careers and residents seeking to enhance their research skills should apply.
Through its partnership with the AMIA 10x10 program, UIC offers a course that provides clinical practitioners and IT professionals with the latest information on implementing and managing electronic medical record systems as highlighted in the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
