Professional Excellence and Certification Program
USC Upstate is collaborating with Nepal-based Red Dot Technologies to provide professionals with opportunities to enhance their knowledge and skills across key areas of business excellence. The first phase of this collaboration utilizes instruction from partner Ed2Go to provide online courses with complete-at-your-own-pace work combined with guidance from experienced trainers. The courses ensure participants gain a strong understanding of the material and can apply industry concepts to their work.

Introduction to Business Analytics
Give yourself an employment advantage by developing analytical skills that are consistently in high demand. This course will teach you powerful quantitative methods that will have you making better, more informed, and more effective business decisions.
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
This course will introduce you to various forms of artificial intelligence (AI) and how we interact with AI as consumers in applications like chatbots and recommendation engines. You’ll see how AI provides analytics in business and consider industries that may be transformed or even disrupted by AI implementations.
Project Management Fundamentals
This course Professional will help you master the essentials of project management. You will become an indispensable member of your project team by discovering and mastering the critical concepts you need to plan, implement, control and close any type of project.
Fundamentals of Supervision and Management
This course is designed for anyone recently promoted to a supervisory or management position or wanting to learn how to become a more effective manager. You will learn the basics of business by learning the language of management. You will learn how to make a successful transition from employee to manager and how to manage your time so that you can deal with the demands of a managerial job.
Learn the basics of HTML as you design, create, and post your very own website. This course will help you plan the content, structure, and layout of your website, create neatly formatted text, build links, and add color, graphics, and tables, as well as understand no-cost web marketing strategies and SEO.
Introduction to C++ Programming
This course will give you hands-on practice as you learn to program with C++. Whether you’re completely new to programming or you want to learn a new programming language, this course will teach you the fundamentals of C++.
Introduction to Java Programming
Get comfortable programming with Java while gaining skills from an experienced Java programmer. This course provides you with easy-to-understand examples and plenty of skill-building exercises using the latest version of Java to give you confidence as you learn programming.
Growing Your Business with Digital Marketing
In this hands-on course, you will discover proven methods for establishing an internet presence and building a brand identity. You will learn how to use digital marketing for small business growth, specifically how to incorporate search engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing (SEM), advertising, email, social media, and more to develop an effective digital marketing plan even with little money to spend.
Six Sigma: Total Quality Applications
Determine the relationship of basic statistics to Six Sigma and learn about the Six Sigma business case, including strategic planning, the voice of the customer (VOC), quality function deployment (QFD), benchmarking, and financial investment methods. In this course, you will learn more than 25 tools and methods relate to the DMAIC (define, measure, analyze, improve, and control) model.
Contacts
USC Upstate
Jeff Stinson
Dean, George Dean Johnson College of Business and Economics
Red Dot Technologies
Anisha K.C. – Training Coordinator [email protected]
Rabin Ghimire – Business Development [email protected]