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Introduction


Each certificate below lists their outcomes or competencies. If you have completed one of these certificates, you may paste these items into a resume, LinkedIn profile, or other digital space where you communicate what you have learned and are capable of doing. Note that some certificates are no longer offered to new students but are listed here for those who have completed them. For current listing of certificates, see byupathway.org.

Administrative Assistant

  • Create professional documents and spreadsheets
  • Analyze and solve business problems
  • Proficiency in MS Office productivity tools
  • Efficient merging, sorting and indexing 
  • Effective indexes, forms, and macros
  • Professional typography and visual media
  • Productive time management and communications
  • Efficient meeting planning and records management

Agribusiness Management

  • Create business plans
  • Understand global agribusiness impacts
  • Understand small enterprises
  • Increase profitability of organizations
  • Analyze international value chain
  • Construct budgets and financial statements
  • Perform feasibility analyses to mitigate risk
  • Perform financial transaction analysis

Auto Services Technology

  • Understand operation of systems and components
  • Apply logical processes
  • Diagnose mechanical and electrical faults
  • Use correct procedures for repair and maintenance
  • Show proficiency with professional certification
  • Demonstrate professionalism and integrity

Basic Accounting

  • Create basic accounting statements
  • Analyze budgeting tools
  • Produce useful QuickBook reports
  • Provide data for financial decision making
  • Build advanced professional spreadsheets

Commercial Fundamentals

  • Manage accounting cycle and cash flow
  • Design and launch social media campaigns
  • Create advanced professional spreadsheets
  • Increase sales through persuasive selling skills
  • Find, ask questions, highlight benefits
  • Overcome objections, negotiate and close, service

Community and Environmental Health

  • Differentiate diseases of the human body
  • Plan health programs
  • Apply health education and promotion principles
  • Organize data using Microsoft Office products
  • Communicate health information
  • Demonstrate professionalism and integrity

Construction Field Supervision

  • Utilize construction documents
  • Understand drawings and specifications
  • Create and use construction budgets
  • Manage people, time and equipment
  • Use Critical Path Method for productivity
  • Plan and carry out work in a safe manner

Entrepreneurship

  • Improve sales through persuasive selling skills
  • Find, ask questions, highlight benefits
  • Overcome objections, negotiate and close, service
  • Manage accounting cycle and cash flow
  • Create advanced professional spreadsheets
  • Build proposals for small business ventures

Family History Research

  • Define genealogical research problem
  • Develop plans to solve basic research problem
  • Gather information from documents
  • Analyze evidence and reach conclusions
  • Record conclusions in various formats
  • Teach and promote family history to others

Hospitality and Tourism Management

  • Improve accommodation operations
  • Understand metrics and software applications
  • Increase customer service
  • Team-building skills, leadership and coaching
  • Develop and enhance food services
  • Plan menus, purchase, storage, sanitation and safety
  • Marketing
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills

Medical Billing & Coding Fundamentals

  • Identify organs and structures of human anatomy and physiology of body systems
  • Demonstrate accurate and efficient billing and medical coding principles, including:
    • Reading and analyzing patient charts/operative notes
    • Understanding and applying the Revenue Cycle
    • Assigning appropriate ICD-10-CM, CPT, and HCPCS national codes.
  • Communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, regarding medical coding topics and issues

Family Relations

  • Describe basic principles and theories
  • Apply basic principles to healthy marriages
  • Relate theories to family functioning
  • Understand religious and secular research
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills
  • Demonstrate professionalism and integrity

Project Management

  • Prepare project objectives, goals, and priorities
  • Organize the work required to successfully complete a project
  • Discern stakeholder needs to influence project outcomes

Social Media Marketing

  • Create and manage content
  • Advertise and market
  • Develop content for social media
  • Produce, engage with, and build brand loyalty
  • Improve effectiveness of content and campaigns
  • Use analytical and research tools

Teaching English as a Foreign Language

  • Teach English as a foreign language
  • Apply essential theory
  • Practice basic principles of TEFL
  • Utilize best practices for effective instruction
  • Apply principles and framework for learning
  • Demonstrate professionalism and integrity

Technical Support Engineer

  • Identify and describe function of key hardware
  • Design and configure basic corporate network
  • Identify hardware and devices to connect systems
  • Identify and configure key security policies
  • Troubleshoot basic networking and system issues
  • Create advanced professional spreadsheets
  • Provide tools to visualize and solve problems
  • Share vision and articulate complex idea

Web & Computer Programming

  • Learn and apply new technology and techniques
  • Use Python, HTML/CSS, Java, and JavaScript
  • Convert software requirement into code
  • Understand principles of programming and design
  • Apply strong design and problem-solving skills
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills