Educational Events Open to the General Public
Academy of Continuing Education
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Other Programs
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Upcoming Programs/Courses
- Professional Coaching Associate Diploma
- Preschool Education Associate Diploma
- Project Management Professional (PMP®) Exam Preparation Course
- Luxury Brand Management Diploma
- Non-Profit Management Diploma
- Professional Real Estate Brokerage Certificate
- Veterinary Pharmacy
- Customer Service Strategies Certificate
- Certified Disciplined Agile® Scrum Master (DASM) Exam Preparatory Course
- Certified PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® Preparatory Course
- Certified Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA)® Preparatory Course
- Infection Control Principles and Practices in Healthcare Settings
- The Philosophy of Art and Mysticism in Arabic Calligraphy
- Finance for Non-Finance Executives Certificate
- Deciphering Personalities Certificate
- Law Talk - Legal Communication and Advocacy Program
- Painting Techniques
- Competent Leader for a successful team Associate Diploma
- Anxiety and Stress Management Certificate
- Special Education Associate Diploma
- Certified Innovation Professional (CInP)®
- Global Capital Markets Associate Diploma
- Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)®
Currently Running Programs/Courses
- Professional Digital Marketing Associate Diploma
- Human Resources Management Diploma
- Municipal Administration and Finance Diploma
- English for Lawyers Program
- Furniture, Fixtures, and Equipment Diploma
- Associate Diploma in Viktor Frankl’s Logotherapy
- Executive Diploma in Data Science, Deep Learning, and AI Solutions
- Certificate in Arbitration
- Digital Design and Advertising Certificate
Here is the schedule for this year’s workshops and classes!
(Re)Building (Re)Forming (Re)Moving
Every BODY is welcome and all workshops/classes are FREE of charge.
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Simulation Programs Close Off Another Youth Leadership Development Year
MUN, MAL and MEU recognize their top delegates and celebrate ever-growing programs.
Since 2005, LAU’s simulation programs have become a staple of student leadership across Lebanon, led by the university’s Outreach and Civic Engagement (OCE) Department. On Sunday June 16, Beirut campus buzzed with excitement as the programs’ school students, LAU student-secretariat, faculty, staff, representatives from non-profit organizations, and parents arrived to celebrate the closing of Model United Nations (MUN), Model Arab League (MAL) and Model European Union (MEU).
Speaking at the ceremony, Assistant Vice President for OCE Elie Samia declared that “we have built bridges for optimism, connection, and diplomacy, from Sidon, to Beirut and Byblos and all the way to New York City.” To the sound of echoing cheers from the audience, he announced that an additional program, the Model African Union (MAU), will be introduced next year.
Samia further commended the delegates for well-earned 569 awards as well as 212 university scholarships. Addressing the students, Samia called on them to embrace the age of “SMAC: that is, you becoming Social, Mobile, Analytic and Cloud – meaning digitally connected.”
The three secretary generals for each of the programs then spoke about the collective efforts it took to reap success, and recognized members of their secretariat and student awardees for their hard work.
The program with the highest reach, and the biggest MUN cohort worldwide, Global Classrooms LAU MUN trained 3,300 students this year on both campuses under the slogan “We Believe in YOU(TH).” Secretary General Alec Hagopian thanked advisors for “having faith in student leadership,” and affirmed that for a program that “loves to fall in love with problems, it has inspired students to come out with innovative solutions of their own.”
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The three simulation programs initiated a drive to “Plant a Smile on a Child’s Face.” The donations collected from student-delegates and their schools were used to buy toys for orphans from Dar Al Aytam Islamiya, Maytam Saida and SOS. |
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The three secretary generals strike their gavels announcing the year’s closing: (From left) MAL Secretary General Maya Makarem, MEU Director General Mohamad Ali Kalassina and MUN Secretary General Alec Hagopian. |
For MAL, the theme for the year was Reviving Arab Leadership and has included 1,300 students who trained at LAU Beirut and the LAU Outreach and Leadership Academy (OLA) in Sidon. Secretary General and LAU alumna Maya Makarem spoke in Arabic in line with the program’s call for preserving the Arab identity. She dubbed the simulation programs a school of thought that leaves a mark of civic responsibility in each of its veterans, who turn the lessons they’ve learned into life-long convictions.
As for MEU Director General Mohamad Ali Kalassina, every single region in Lebanon has potential to become “a standard for diplomacy, an example for democracy, a hub for diversity, and a stage for development.” This year, MEU ran its training in both English and French across both campuses and trained 500 delegates.
Walking in procession, school students received numerous awards and certificates, which were presented by members of the LAU student-secretariat of the corresponding program.
The ceremony also featured a performance by Rudy Abi Hanna from Sagesse Brasilia School, and was emceed by Sarah Boustany, who was the deputy secretary general for GC LAU MUN.
Online Design Thinking Workshop
Learn How to Use Design Thinking to Boost Your Profits
Over just four weeks, this online short course will demonstrate the importance of design thinking and how you can use it to create new business models that increase your profit margins. You’ll workshop how to master methods in training and develop ways to foster innovation and sustainability. You’ll also learn design strategies to enhance creativity, increase profitability, and introduce approaches to finding new business niches.
Implement Design Thinking on Your Team Successfully
Students and teachers in the design-thinking course will meet online, live, in the evenings (EET), twice a week.
To complete the Online Design Thinking Workshop, you’ll complete work in a series of topics that includes:
- Design Thinking: Introduction and Processes
- Inspiration Phase
- Design Tool: Visualization
- Ideation; Design Tool: Mind Mapping
- Prototyping & Testing
- Implementation; Design Tool: Story Telling
What You’ll Learn
Effective design thinking can change the way teams problem-solve to create innovative solutions that won’t break the bank or take years to develop.
Program Outcomes
Complete the Design Thinking Workshop successfully so you can:
- Understand the importance of design thinking
- Learn the complex art of problem-solving through design thinking, which is based on the agile methodologies
- Apply the different design tools for better creativity to develop new business models
- Learn how the design thinking approach to business challenges is used to foster innovation
- Grasp how to effectively assess the viability of new business solutions with minimum time and budget
Online Fundamentals of Applied Artificial Intelligence Certificate
Program Benefits
- No Prerequisites
- Expert Faculty
- Five Start Dates per Year
- No prior experience is required
- Learn from experienced faculty
- Apply certificate credits to our master’s in AI
Explore AI Tools and Apply Them to Your Career
AI technology is advancing quickly, making it a crucial part of nearly every industry. Add AI fundamentals to your professional toolkit with Lebanese American University’s online Fundamentals of Applied Artificial Intelligence Certificate.
Our Fundamentals of Applied Artificial Intelligence Certificate is an impressive credential for your career, whether you work in business, e-commerce, healthcare, marketing or media.
Our AI Certificate Complements Any Career
With the online AI certificate from Lebanese American University, you can add AI skills to your current role in almost any field, including business, e-commerce, healthcare, marketing, or media.
Understand the Fundamentals of Today’s AI
8-Week Term
9 Credits
This certificate’s fully online coursework will cover topics in mathematics and programming for AI, machine learning, deep neural networks and more. Throughout your courses, you will connect with LAU faculty members who have years of AI experience. They will use their expertise to help you apply AI fundamentals to your career.
Course Highlights:
- Mathematics for Applied AI
- Programming for Applied AI
- Machine Learning Fundamentals and Applications
- Deep Learning and its Applications
What You’ll Learn
With our expertly designed curriculum and diverse learning community, you can apply artificial intelligence concepts and tools to enhance your career. Graduates of this certificate have the analytical thinking, problem-solving and communication skills needed to take their careers to the next level.
Program Outcomes
Enable professionals to use artificial intelligence tools and methods in their fields to solve real-world problems and improve the efficiency of their processes.
Online Essentials of Neuromarketing
Course Benefits
- Get specialist skills to meet your objectives quickly
- Learn anywhere, anytime
Expand Your Marketing Strategy with Neuroscience Information
The online Essentials of Neuromarketing short course is about understanding and predicting consumer behavior by using the methodologies of neuroscience. It will explore how neuroscience is altering marketing as we know it — showing lessons from how neuroscience is causing marketers to rethink traditional marketing practices, and how neuromarketing may help organizations succeed.
Learn the Essentials of Neuromarketing
Neuromarketing is an emerging interdisciplinary field that studies how consumers’ brains respond to marketing, brands, products, and shopping to get scientific answers to the most fundamental question — why do consumers buy?
Students and teachers in this short course will meet online, live, in the evenings (EET), twice a week.
You’ll complete work in a series of topics that includes:
- How Consumers Think
- What Neuromarketing Measures
- How Measurements Capture Signals from the Body and Brain
- How Consumers Decide
- Neuromarketing at Work and Play
- Living with Neuromarketing
What You’ll Learn
The neuromarketing short course provides marketers with information that can fuel new strategies to achieve their marketing goals. You’ll learn the latest brain science information related to why consumers buy from experts in the field.
Program Outcomes
- Complete the short course successfully so you can:
- Better understand why consumers buy
- Gain implicit knowledge about the intuitive consumer