University of Seoul to Offer Practical Digital Skills Training in Excel, Python and More

[Financial News]  The University of Seoul's University Job Plus Center said on the 12th that it will offer “DX Skill Tool Training” to help current students, graduates and young people in the local community build practical digital skills in Excel, Python, SQL and other areas.
The classes will run live online on weekdays from 7 to 10 p.m., starting on the 27th and ending on the 13th of next month. The 42-hour course will cover Excel, Python, SQL, web development and other topics over 14 sessions, with 30 participants recruited for each session.
The curriculum was designed to reflect student demand. In a survey of 89 current students conducted last August, demand for Excel training was highest, at 75.3%. Notion (58.4%), Python (56.2%) and SQL (41.6%) followed.
Excel training is divided into four levels—introductory, basic, intermediate and advanced—and covers everything from basic functions to PivotTables and Power Query. In particular, an intermediate-level course was added this year in response to feedback from last year's participants. Python and SQL courses are also offered at basic and advanced levels.
The classes focus on hands-on practice, with participants modifying examples themselves and completing an output. The course is tiered by difficulty so that people without a major in these fields can also take part.
Applications are open through the 25th. Current students and graduates can choose a session and apply through UO Story, the university's portfolio system, while young people in the local community can apply through UO Story Together.
Assessment of print suitability: Suitable for a brief university news item. The addition of an intermediate Excel course in response to a student survey is new, but the program is modest in scale, with 30 participants per session, and has limited policy impact, making it too slight for a standalone major story. It would be best condensed to about five to seven manuscript pages for a university news section.

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