University of Arizona
EN-12: Continuing Education

Beekeeping for Beginning and Small-Scale Farmers

The goal of this program is to help small-scale and beginner farmers diversify and sustain their operation by gaining knowledge in beekeeping, honey production, pollination and core business skills, including:

• Equipment and protective gear
• Bee species, anatomy, life stages, colony activities and more
• Setting your colony up for success: Arizona state laws, locations, buying/acquiring and installing your honeybees
• Feeding and managing your honeybees
• Hive inspection
• Diseases and pests
• Acquiring queens, rearing queens, re-queening
• Products of the hive: bees, honey, honeycomb, wax, pollen, propolis, royal jelly and value-added products made with honey
• Honey extraction, straining and storing
• Preparing products for market
• The business of beekeeping: brand development, business planning, pricing, marketing and promoting your business

Food Safety Preventive Controls for Human Food

• Introduction to preventive controls, food safety plans, Good Manufacturing Practices and other programs, and related regulations
• Biological food safety hazards
• Chemical, Physical and Economically motivated food safety hazards
• Developing a food safety plan
• Process, food allergen, sanitation and supply-chain preventive controls
• Recall plans
• Verification, validation and record-keeping procedure

Insights into Healthy Aging

Whether you are a caregiver, a professional, or someone who is interested in learning more about healthy aging, the Insights into Healthy Aging for Caregivers and Professionals Certificate will help you view the aging process from multiple perspectives, including a biological, social, and psychological lens. You will be provided with the opportunity to learn from, and interact with, researchers at the University of Arizona with extensive expertise in healthy aging.

Introduction to Greenhouse Environmental Control for Crop Production

In this course, you will

• Review greenhouse crop production systems and management strategies
• Be able to describe why and how important environmental parameters are controlled using sensors and control systems
• Gain sufficient insight in the basics of energy and mass transfer to understand the key plant-environment interactions in greenhouses
• Learn the basics of sensors and control logic to optimize greenhouse conditions
• Become familiar with recent developments in greenhouse control strategies

Science Policy and Diplomacy

You will explore topics such as the evolution of science policy, the role of ethics in science and engineering, science diplomacy, engineering diplomacy, science diplomacy in cyber space, artificial intelligence, conflict resolution, global health diplomacy, planning for a career in science policy, and more.