Tennessee Technology Centers offering online technical program
If you’d like to get a job in the rapidly expanding information technology field, but don’t have the time to go to school full time, the Tennessee Technology Centers may just have a solution for you.
Beginning in October, a new online technical program will offer Tennesseans the option of earning certificates in computer operations, information processing and computer systems, which culminate in a computer operations diploma. Though one has the option of earning just a single certificate, the program is designed as a three-tier system that will train participants for jobs as information technology professionals.
The computer operations program is the newest of the popular online programs offered by the Tennessee Board of Regents, the governing body of all public post secondary educational institutions in the state, save the UT system.
According to Dr. Abraham Pallas, director of the Tennessee Technology Center at McMinnville, the local center will also offer the computer operations diploma program in the more traditional classroom setting. At $327 per quarter, tuition for both the online and on-ground programs will be the same for at least the first quarter, he said.
Personal computer operator, the first of the three certificate classes, will begin Oct. 1 and requires 324 clock hours of study. The information processing technician certificate, the second class, will require 684 clock hours and will be divided into two quarters, beginning Jan. 6, 2003 and April 1, 2003. The third and final component of the curriculum, computer operations, will require 324 clock hours and will first be offered July 1, 2003.
After completion of all three program components students will receive a Computer Operations Diploma.
Anyone interested in learning more about the online computer operations diploma program can call the Technology Center at 473-5587.