The UX Professional Certificate Program is designed to equip you with the skills, portfolio, and confidence needed to thrive in the UX industry. With an expanded curriculum, expert one-on-one mentorship, and hands-on real-world projects, this program ensures you graduate with a globally recognized qualification. Plus, our career coaching and curated job application resources will help you land your next role with confidence.

Program Highlights:

• One-to-One Mentorship – Get personalized guidance from UX professionals with 10+ years of experience.
• Expanded Curriculum – 15 in-depth modules covering the latest in UX design.
• Real-World Projects & Portfolio Building – Create a job-ready portfolio with graded projects and expert feedback.
• Updated Figma & AI Tutorials – Stay ahead with cutting-edge design tools and AI advancements.
• Industry-Approved Curriculum – Designed and reviewed by UX leaders from Google, Meta, LinkedIn & more.
• Career Coaching & Job Prep – Resume workshops, interview training, and hiring insights from senior managers.
• University-Certified Diploma – Earn a professional UX diploma, credit-rated by Glasgow Caledonian University.

Ready to take the next step? Join the thousands of UX professionals who have transformed their careers with the UX Design Institute!

Modules:

1. Introduction to UX
2. User research fundamentals
3. User research methods
4. Research analysis
5. Introduction to portfolios
6. Heuristics
7. Structure and navigation 
8. Interactions
9. Introduction to Figma
10. Design principles
11. Design patterns
12. Designin for mobile
13. User Workflows
14. Prototyping in Figma
15. Getting job-ready

UX Design Institute is responsible for the online delivery and support of the program.

Online, New cohorts start every month.

Become a certified UI designer, and learn the principles, techniques, and craft of designing high-quality user interfaces. Create beautiful, pixel-perfect user interfaces and build an in-demand skill set for one of the fastest-growing professions.

This course is suited to anybody interested in designing beautiful interfaces for digital products. Our students are:

• Graphic designers and digital designers who want to upskill to UI design
• UI designers who want to strengthen their knowledge and craft
• UX professionals who want to become more rounded product designers
• Anybody with a design background looking for a creative job in tech

Course Overview

Throughout the program, you will build your professional UI portfolio using industry tools such Figma, Adobe XD, and Sketch.

Modules:

1. Introduction to UI design
2. Brand and personality
3. Layout
4. Design principles
5. Interactivity
6. Typography
7. Color, shapes, and effects
8. Iconography and imagery
9. Design process
10. Presenting designs

Time: 8:30 am-4:30 pm

Dates: January 31, February 28, March 28, April 25, and May 16

Includes breakfast and lunch, refreshments. 

Inspire teams, drive innovation, and lead with impact in this unique program.

The Women’s Leadership Initiative at Furman offers a unique opportunity for individuals to further develop their leadership skills, broaden their awareness of emerging issues, and expand their professional network.

Program Overview:

Module 1: Self-Awareness for Leaders

This module will help you better understand your unique strengths, the core values that drive you, and the challenges that you may encounter on your leadership journey. 

Module 2: Communication for Leaders

Communication is an essential skill for all leaders. In this module, you will develop skills for conveying your vision and strategy to those around you. Learn storytelling techniques for both in-person and digital communication, while developing your unique leadership story.

Module 3: Leading Teams

Leading successful teams is one of the greatest challenges for all leaders. This module will build your tool kit for having crucial conversations that can unlock greatness in those you lead. Develop your awareness of the formal and informal power structures to deliver important wins for your team. Learn the impact that mentorship and sponsorship can have on the development and retention of high performers.

Module 4: Innovative Leadership

Innovation is a mantra of the modern business world. This module will teach you the skills and mindset of an entrepreneur to drive a culture of innovation at your organization. You will learn design thinking strategies, better understand organizational behavior, and develop skills to be a more adaptive leader. 

Program Takeaways:

• Personalized CliftonStrengths for Leaders report
• A fully developed leadership story pitch
• Individualized leadership development plan
• Three follow-up 1-on-1 virtual coaching sessions
• Connection to a growing network of leaders

Who should participate in this program?

Individuals at all levels of leadership aspiring to be more effective and impactful leaders. Learn more from our full website here.

Scholarship Deadline: January 3, 9 am EST

Non-Profit and Government Discount Available, email cil@furman.edu for more information.

If interested in paying via check or invoice, please contact cil@furman.edu before registering.

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Better Culture Starts with Better Conversations

The culture of your organization is more powerful than your strategy and more persistent than your vision. It’s the environment that enables performance or undermines it.

Better Conversations Every Day™ (BCE) starts with a simple — yet transformative — premise: that better culture starts with better conversations.

No matter the size of your organization, BCE helps drive business outcomes and create lasting change. Uniquely created for everyone and every single conversation — from the front desk to the corner office — BCE’s impact transcends that of a typical coaching skills program. This scalable, one-day experience creates a common mindset, skillset, and language and equips leaders with the tools to break down communication barriers and bring your business strategy to life.

Everyone wants better outcomes. Build them on a foundation of better conversations.

Here’s what Better Conversations Every Day can do:

• Drive culture change at scale
• Break down silos and communication barriers
• Unlock employee engagement
• Accelerate emotional intelligence at every level
• Address issues with openness and respect
• Transform performance management with everyday conversations that matter
• Ignite a feedback-rich coaching culture

Imagine a workforce with the courage and skill to unearth truth, grapple with difficult issues, unlock collaboration, and create a liberating space for discovery and action — in real-time, while doing real work.

This interactive half-day workshop is designed for professionals eager to understand and leverage AI in their work. You'll move from curiosity to clarity as we demystify AI concepts, explore practical applications, and empower you with tools to start integrating AI into your daily tasks and decision-making. Whether you're an AI novice or just starting to explore its potential, this session provides a foundational understanding and actionable steps to confidently embrace the possibilities of AI.

Refreshments will be provided.

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Equip people at all levels of the organization to master the fundamentals of leadership.

Lead 4 Success® moves leaders from average to high-performing by developing the 4 fundamental leadership skills — self-awareness, learning agility, influence, and communication — that leaders at any level need to master for success.

The importance of developing fundamental leadership skills cannot be understated. No matter their intelligence, experience, or drive, leaders at every level need the same 4 core skills to be effective and grow within an organization. 

• Self-awareness: Understand your behavior’s impact on organizational outcomes
• Communication: Effectively communicate goals and inspire trust
• Influence: Be comfortable persuading, promoting, and delegating
• Learning agility: Know when to change course, and help others to do so

The Fundamental 4 have endured the test of time, and are the basis for our Lead 4 Success® program, where participants immerse themselves in development, adapt these skills to their own leadership contexts, participate with peers in learning, and share ideas to apply to their leadership lessons to their real world. 

This certificate program unlocks the power of automation by showing how to convert work done in spreadsheets to using scripts that can be easily read, executed, and shared. This change unlocks a “do it once” workflow that frees analysts to focus on improvements, automation, and more in-depth analysis instead of rote tasks. The written instructions of the script are created in an intuitive language to precisely describe operations like selecting, filtering, renaming, grouping, and summarizing rows and columns of data—all using free statistical software.

We will be using the R software package because, compared to using Excel, you will be more efficient, you will be better equipped to work with large data sets, you will be able to create better & more complete reports, your graphics will be more explanatory, and your reports will be better structured, more repeatable, and more informative.

This course is the beginning of your path to get from spreadsheets to scripting—we will use the language of spreadsheets (rows, columns, filtering, data lookup, etc.) to introduce and explain. The workshop is interactive and applied, focusing on IR problems common to universities, such as admissions, retention, learning effectiveness, and diversity. Each week unlocks new abilities and ideas you can use right away. 

Live sessions will be held every week starting Wednesday, May 28, and meet every Monday and Wednesday from 3-4:30 pm to finish on Wednesday, July 2 with final project submission. Asynchronous option is available.

Students, who are assumed to have experience manipulating data in R (as covered in the 101 course), are introduced to the skills needed to create both simple graphs for data exploration, more complicated graphs for presentations, and sets of graphs for multiple audiences.

Each week students will be introduced to a topic, work through group exercises during class, have work through more advanced exercises during a live problem session, and will work on a course-long project. All of this will be in preparation for defining and completing a personal project with the student’s own data.

Meets every Thursday and Tuesday from 3:00-4:30 pm EST starting May 29, 2025–July 1, 2025