FRTF resource hub: Discipline and context specific skills

  • This course will teach you essential words and phrases so that you can begin to communicate comfortably with those who speak French.

  • Using practical explanations and real-life examples, this course will show you how money flows through a typical business. 

  • Whether you want to learn conversational Japanese for travel or just for fun, you'll find this course makes it easy and enjoyable for beginners to master the essentials of the Japanese language. 

  • Microsoft (MS) Word 2007 has a built-in equation editor which is now the default when you create equations. 

  • Learn to use LaTeX, a “document preparation system” to transform your thesis into a PDF file.

  • This interactive workshop will explore the theoretical and psychological relationship between games and learning, the elements of gameful design, and a variety of gamification methods that can be used in a university classroom. 

  • This course will not only show you how to create and operate a logistics function, but it will also show you how to achieve success through a combination of strategies and tactics. 

  • Free drop-in tutoring is available each term on the main University of Waterloo campus for a variety of programs and courses.  

  • The goal of Effective Selling is not to teach you how to make a sale today, but to help you discover how you can easily convert a potential customer into a long-term asset. 

  • Upon completing this course, you will be better able to attract the best people, fully utilize a selection process, know what motivates an increasingly younger workforce, and provide amenities that will encourage your employees to stay and grow within your organization. 

  • This online module provides a basic overview of the types of behaviours that can be considered sexual violence and introduces the supports and resources that exist on campus for those affected by it. It can be found on Learn under the "Self-Registration" tab. 

  • This dynamic course will teach you some of the essentials related to how to express yourself comfortably in Italian. 

  • Introduction to Mental Health for International Students.

  • This course features information on MATLAB basics, its desktop environment, getting help within the program, the MATLAB editor, and more.

  • The LaTeX language is a tag-based markup language for typeset documents, just as HTML is a markup language for Web documents. Learn how to use it to generate an e-thesis and other large documents. 

  • Join award-winning food and advertising photographer, Bill Robbins, as he shows how to enhance a food's color, shape, and texture and how to convey a sense of mood, environment, and story. 

  • In this six-week online course, you'll discover a number of dynamite methods to bring out the best in yourself, and do the same for the people you work with. 

  • This course will show you how to use powerful marketing techniques to compete more effectively for customers, donors, members, and volunteers. 

  • In this course, you'll understand the significance of strategic planning and discover how external and internal environmental factors affect an organization.

  • This document provides a quick reference to MATLAB functions and syntax.

  • This training consists of a facilitated discussion of the online More Feet on the Ground mental health education program. 

  • This is a free online mental health education program that teaches participants to Recognize, Respond, and Refer individuals experiencing mental health problems on campus to competent professionals. 

  • Learn how to turn a demo recording into a fully mastered song with Grammy-winning writer/producer/mixer Scott Jacoby.  

  • In this workshop, you’ll explore several note-taking strategies, identify your own note-taking style, learn about the role of effective listening, and practice taking great notes with your own material. 

  • Learn about the wellness services that are available to you on campus and discover tips for self-care while you are at university. 

  • PD22: Professionalism and Ethics in Engineering Practice helps students prepare for the Professional Practice Exam (PPE), a requirement for students who want to become professional engineers in the province of Ontario. 

  • In this course, you'll learn how to turn prospects into buyers, how to provide proper customer service, how to develop a sales plan, and more! 

  • In this six-week online course, you will learn how to define internal customer needs, generate purchase requisitions and purchase orders, expedite, trace, and receive supplier deliveries, maintain effective purchasing records, and create and manage various purchasing budgets. 

  • This training teaches participants how to recognize and support someone who may be having thoughts of suicide. 

  • Each term the Library offers workshops that are open to all University of Waterloo students, staff, and faculty, aimed at improving your study, research and publishing skills. 

  • This training teaches participants to identify people with thoughts of suicide and connect them to suicide first-aid resources. 

  • Learn information about the correlation between sleep and academic success, as well as tips for how to sleep well at university. 

  • This course is designed to ensure students working with hazardous materials have the information and proper training required to protect their health and safety. 

  • This course will demonstrate features in Word that will make formatting your thesis easier and less time consuming. 

  • Tutor Connect is a tool provided by the Student Success Office to connect current Waterloo students in need of academic support with Waterloo student tutors. 

  • This course is designed to help people without human resources experience to understand this very vital link in the organizational chain. 

  • This module explains your rights and responsibilities on the job and tells you what Ontario's Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) expects from your employer, supervisor and you.