Training for Departments

All CAL PACT courses may be scheduled for individual departments. Unfortunately, we cannot change or modify the course content to suit individual departmental training needs, nor do we make special handouts. However, if there are specific areas that you want your staff to know and for us to concentrate on, please discuss this with the CAL PACT coordinator.

Guidelines for Setting Up a Departmental Course

To schedule a course for your department, the following must be met:

• A departmental coordinator must be designated
• A minimum of 10 participants are required to set up a course
• A maximum of 15 participants are allowed
• The participants must be staff employees (no faculty, no students)
• Departmental courses are taught only in CAL PACT facilities

If you have fewer than 10 participants we can schedule a course for your department and allow additional departments to attend the course. You may also have your participants sign up individually on the general schedule through ICE.

Responsibilities of the designated Departmental Coordinator

• Scheduling the course date and time
• Notifying participants of date, time, and location
• Enrolling participants in the scheduled course
• Ensuring that participants meet the course prerequisites (we can work with you on this)
• Cancelling the course if fewer than 10 participants are enrolled one week before the scheduled course date

Guidelines to help make the course run smoothly for your department

• The course will start promptly at the scheduled start time, not on academic time. Late arrivals are disruptive to the class. Instructors will not slow down in order for latecomers to catch up.
• Participants who do not meet the course prerequisites often have a difficult time keeping up. Please be attentive in pre-screening your participants.
• The course will be cancelled 10 minutes past the scheduled start time if fewer than 10 participants show up. We will send you a roster of those who were in attendance. We hope to avoid being placed in this situation since it penalizes the attendees and wastes everyone's time and valuable CAL PACT resources.

For a listing of additional on-campus and off-campus training resources, please check our Training Resources link.

Please let us know if you have any suggestions or comments about CAL PACT training for departments. Send email to calpact@berkeley.edu or call 2-0559.

For more information about CAL PACT, send email to calpact@berkeley.edu.
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