Summer is a great time to explore your interests and find what inspires you. Northern Arizona University Continuing Education offers summer courses for the whole family—in Flagstaff, Phoenix, and online.
Youth, adults, and professionals can delve into non-credit courses for personal enrichment or professional development. Courses begin in June and July. From the Young Author’s Day Camp to Data Analytics and Data-Driven Decisions for Everyone and Intro to Brewing Science, it’s fun and easy to learn something new at NAU this summer.
Summer program highlights
This summer, NAU Continuing Education is offering exciting non-credit courses to help you learn more about the topics that interest you or your family. Also offered are specialized training programs for engineering and emergency management professionals. For more information, visit catalog.ce.nau.edu.
Summer youth programs
Course title: Making Your Own Journals and Creative Books
Dates: July 17-20
Duration: One week, Mon.–Thurs.
Time: 9-12 noon AZ time
Location: Flagstaff campus, in person
Registration deadline: July 10
Cost: $249
Recommended ages: 12-16 years
Create your own handcrafted books and journals in our day camp while learning the basics of bookmaking from cover to cover, including paper types, tools, and binding techniques. During the camp, you will explore both traditional and innovative bookmaking methods as you produce several journals, notebooks, or sketchbooks. Most supplies are included, but please bring a pencil, a large Sharpie, and a 10×14 sketchbook.
Course title: Young Authors’ Day Camp
Dates: July 10-13
Duration: One week, Mon.–Thurs.
Time: 9 a.m.–3 p.m. AZ time
Location: Flagstaff campus, in-person
Registration deadline: July 3
Cost: $279
Recommended ages: 8-12 years
Explore your artistic self through creative writing during this week-long day camp. Discover the power of words and how they can be used to shape worlds, both imagined and real. You’ll focus on poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Young authors will experience daily writing prompts designed to spark creativity, campus-oriented field trips, a zine-making workshop, group writing discussions, and writing techniques such as six-word stories, ballads, found poetry, and microblogs.
Adult courses
Course title: Creative Bookbinding Workshop
Dates: July 8
Duration: 1 day
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. AZ time
Location: Flagstaff campus, in-person
Registration deadline: July 3
Cost: $199
Create your own handcrafted books and journals in our 1-day workshop while learning about the basics of bookmaking from cover to cover, including paper types, tools, and binding techniques. During the course, you will explore both traditional and innovative bookmaking methods as you learn to produce journals, notebooks, and sketchbooks. Most supplies are included, but please bring a pencil, a large Sharpie, and a 10×14 sketchbook.
Course title: Intro to Brewing Science (ages 21+)
Dates: Jul. 24–Aug. 17
Duration: Four weeks, Mon. and Thurs.
Time: 5:30–7:30 p.m. AZ time
Location: Online
Registration deadline: July 19
Cost: $199
Recommended ages: 21 years and older
Whether you are getting started as a beginning to intermediate homebrewer, working in the brewing or restaurant industry, or aiming to expand your knowledge and interest in beer, this course is for you. Discover the fundamental science behind beer production, fermentation, and brewing microbiology.
- Discover the fundamental science behind beer production, fermentation, and brewing microbiology.
- Characterize common flavor profiles in beer with your fellow learners through beverage sensory best practices.
- Learn through a combination of interactive tastings, online lectures, and group discussions.
- Engage with—and learn from—experienced lecturers including brewing professionals and experts in related research disciplines.
Course title: Computer Skills for the Workplace
Dates: July 13 – August 17
Duration: 6 weeks, Thurs.
Time: 6:30-8:30 p.m. AZ time
Location: NAU–North Valley (Room 141), in-person
Registration deadline: July 6
Cost: $249
This course will help job seekers and experienced professionals in any field refresh and expand their basic computer skills. Get comfortable with your computer while exploring input, processing, and output; utilizing portable and cloud storage solutions to take your work with you; and navigating the Microsoft Windows operating system with ease. In this course, you will also practice using the Microsoft Office Suite—including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook—in a professional context to prepare for a career in any digital workplace.
Course title: 3D Printing Level 1 Workshop
Dates: July 17-27, including the weekend
Duration: 11 days
Time: 8:00-5:00 daily for the in-person workshop (July 22-27); otherwise, online and asynchronous
Location: Online and Flagstaff–in person
Registration deadline: May 31
Cost: $179
Join our non-credit Level 1 3D Printing Workshop for a unique experience in state-of-the-art software in computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), and in general manufacturing and 3D printing/additive manufacturing-specific techniques. The non-credit micro-credential and certificate will take two weeks to complete. Participants will spend one week on their own learning the fundamentals in an online course and one week on campus within our computer labs and IDEA lab.
For the first half of the in-person workshop, participants will begin learning computer-aided design via a software package and the fundamentals of engineering graphics specific to mechanical design. Then, participants will learn about various manufacturing techniques (including 3D printing) to properly select the appropriate processes for manufacturing solutions. Finally, participants will finish the certification by gaining more 3D printing-specific CAD-CAM knowledge, practicing printing parts on machines at NAU, and ultimately generating a solution to a real-world problem of their own!
The audience for this program will be those seeking professional development hours that do not have a mechanical engineering background, K-12 educators looking to expand their capabilities in the K-12 engineering course offerings, students on the NAU campus (and extended campuses), students who aren’t fully committed to a degree program, hobbyists trying to hone their skills, and/or continuing education knowledge seekers.
Course title: Data Analytics and Data-Driven Decisions for Everyone
Dates: July 11 – August 16
Duration: Six weeks, Tues.
Time: 6:30–8:30 p.m.
Location: Online
Registration deadline: July 5
Cost: $249
Recommended ages: Adults, 16 years and older
Learn how to employ analytics for making data-driven decisions in business. Course topics include decision science analysis techniques such as linear programming, break-even analysis, and cross-over analysis, among others. This online course is designed for beginners in data analytics and will examine techniques for making data-driven business decisions across a variety of applications.
For information on these and more courses and programs, visit catalog.ce.nau.edu.
To learn more about non-credit continuing education courses, including summer youth summer camps, personal enrichment courses, or professional development opportunities, call Brenda Sipe at (928) 523-6826.
Current full-time NAU faculty, staff, and students may receive a 10% discount on Continuing Education classes. Please contact ContinuingEd@nau.edu for a coupon code.
Contact information
Brenda Sipe
Director, Continuing Education
928-523-6826