Continuing Education

Current Classes Offered:

Certified Nurse Aid (CNA) Short-term credential

When: October 5, 2026 – November 5, 2026
Monday-Thursday
4:00pm – 9:00pm
Cost: $1,415.00 (Cost includes: textbooks, planner, background check, scrubs, blood pressure cuff, and class cost. CNA is NOT financial aid eligible.)

Nurse aides help provide basic care for patients in hospitals and residents of long-term care facilities, such as nursing homes and private residences. They are frequently active and may need to help lift or move patients.

• Communicate effectively with clients, families, health care team members, peers, and faculty.
• Stand and walk for six to eight hours/day.
• Bend, squat, and kneel.
• Assist lifting or moving clients and with use of appropriate mobility devices.
• Perform CPR, i.e., move client to compress chest and manually ventilate client.
• Work with arms fully extended overhead.
• Use hands for grasping, pushing, pulling, and other fine manipulation.
• Demonstrate eye/hand coordination for manipulation of equipment, procedural supplies, etc.
• Possess tactile ability to differentiate changes in sensation.
• Possess auditory acuity to hear normal voice and hear manual blood pressure.
• Possess auditory acuity to hear client’s calls for assistance without facing the client.
• Possess auditory acuity to interpret various equipment signals and use the telephone.
• Possess visual acuity to read and distinguish colors, to read handwritten /printed data.
• Possess visual acuity to clearly view electronic monitors and scales to correctly interpret data.

*Cost includes: textbooks, planner, background check, scrubs, blood pressure cuff, and class cost. CNA is NOT financial aid eligible.

Ballet – Aug. 24th – Dec. 9th

Description: An introductory/intermediate ballet course which focuses on basic placement concepts, transfer of weight, and core strength.
Meeting Dates: Monday
4pm – 5:25pm
Location: MCC Dance Studio
Cost: $100.00

Dance Appreciation – Aug. 25th – Dec. 10th
Description: This course is designed for students interested in learning to appreciate, understand, discuss, and critically investigate dance. This course introduces students to the art of dance through physical, creative, and analytical experiences. Students will explore basics of concert dance styles, including Jazz, Hip-Hop, Ballet, and Modern/Contemporary Dance. To better understand dance as more than just a physical activity, the historical, cultural and socio-economic backgrounds of different forms will be studied through selected readings and videos as well as class discussions. Particular attention will be paid to the topics of race, gender, class, ability, and environmental justice. This is an experience-oriented course and requires that students attend a dance performance outside of class.
Meeting Dates: Tuesday/Thursdays
2:20pm-3:45pm
Location: MCC Dance Studio
Cost: $100.00

Modern Dance – Aug. 25th – Dec. 10th
Description: Studio course training in introductory traditional and contemporary modern dance technique, building upon the foundation of coordination, alignment, spatial awareness, range of movement, dynamics, rhythmic phrasing, and its potential for expression as an art form. Students will become familiar with modern dance terminology and progressions, including exercises and movement phrases on all vertical levels.
Meeting Dates: Tuesday/Thursdays
4:00pm-5:25pm
Location: MCC Dance Studio
Cost: $100.00

Pilates – Aug. 26th – Dec. 11th
Description: This course is an investigation into the foundational principles of the Pilates method, a mind-body system of conditioning and strengthening developed by Joseph and Clara Pilates between 1920-1967. Students will become familiar with Pilates terminology and progressions, as well as gain a basic understanding of functional anatomy and physiology concepts. Exercises are primarily designed to gain core strength (abdominal, back, and lumbopelvic region), and enhance flexibility, posture and body awareness. Both classical and contemporary Pilates mat exercises will be taught, occasionally employing props such as flex band, small Pilates balls, and yoga blocks.
Meeting Dates: Wednesday
10:10am – 11:50am
Location: MCC Dance Studio
Cost: $100.00

Select the following on the application

*Admit Type: Community Guest
*Academic/Career Interest: Health Services
*Academic Program of Interest: CNA Course

Contact Us

Stephanie Briggs: Stephanie.Briggs@muskegoncc.edu – 231.777.0456
Nia Miskel: Nia.Miskel@muskegoncc.edu – 231.777.0375
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