A heat pump is part of a home heating and cooling system with parts installed inside and outside your home. Heat pumps are powered by electricity and are designed to provide energy efficient comfort via heat and air conditioning all year round.
Vermont Adult Learning provides no-cost training opportunities for heat pump installation in just two weeks through the Energy Works training program.
Energy Works is open to anyone looking to begin a career in the trades. The Heat Pump Installation training includes an OSHA-10 certification, First Aid/CPR & Stop the Bleed certification, EPA-608 certification (exam required), basic power tools skills, and technical training conducted by industry leading instructors with years of experience. Participants will receive a $600 stipend upon completion of the training. Individuals who enter the industry following the training will receive an additional $500 after 60 days of employment.
Heat pump installation trainings are offered throughout Vermont on an interest-based schedule. Visit the program website and/or contact Vermont Adult Learning for the most up-to-date offerings.
This program includes for prepares for the following credential(s): EPA Act 608 Safe Refrigerant Handling Certification.
The Geosciences program offers perspectives of timescales across all Earth layers to investigate pressing environmental challenges. Geoscience students focus on understanding the interconnectedness of atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and geosphere, investigate the past, understand and measure the present, and make predictions about the future behavior of our planet and other planetary bodies. The College of Arts & Sciences offers Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Bachelor of Sciences (BS) degrees in Geosciences as well as a minor.
Students enjoy flexibility and interdisciplinarity with offerings within our department and other disciplines. This includes courses on weather, climate, vegetation dynamics, materials and hazards of Earth and other planetary bodies, sustainability, natural waters, contamination, lab and field methods, and much more.
Geography and Geosciences are available as a B.A., which puts more focus on broader interests as you will explore a minor as well. Geosciences also is available as a B.S. degree, which emphasizes the context of STEM disciplines.
The Bachelor of Science in Special Education (B.S.Ed.) is designed to provide students with the perspectives and skills necessary to work with all individuals with disabilities from birth through age 21 and their families in a range of family-centered, culturally responsive, inclusionary, and developmentally appropriate settings including home, community settings and schools.
The Studio Art program emphasizes art making as a form of creative inquiry taking place within a broad historical and cultural context. With a curriculum aimed at the development of visual skills, creative and critical reasoning, and comprehension of historical and contemporary contexts, the program prepares its students for a diversity of careers and graduate study in art. Students may take courses in drawing, ceramics, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, graphic design, digital art, and motion picture media.
Small class sizes, appreciation of diversity, and a spirit of inclusion promote a strong sense of community at the Department of Theatre. An extensive production schedule offers students numerous opportunities to practice the creation of theatre while rigorous academic offerings challenge students to learn and grow. The Department provides an expansive and creative curriculum that values ideas and promotes self-expression. Our program promotes the liberal arts approach to a theatre education by providing depth and breadth of study, thereby cultivating critical thinking and an understanding of historical and social contexts. Strong student-faculty relations and an accomplished theatre department staff make for a professional but inclusive learning environment.
Our program in Spanish combines language study at all levels with coursework in Spanish, Latin-American, and U.S. Latino(a) literature and cultural studies. Many of our students also gain life-enriching experience by studying Spanish abroad for a semester or year through one of UVM’s many exchange program sites in Spain or Latin America, while others participate in our 1-2 week travel-study programs abroad.
Statistics is a mathematical science extensively used in a wide variety of fields. Indeed, every discipline which gathers and interprets data uses statistical concepts and procedures to understand the information implicit in their data. Statisticians become involved in efforts to solve real world problems by designing surveys and experimental plans, constructing and interpreting descriptive statistics, developing and applying statistical inference procedures, and developing and investigating stochastic models or computer simulations. To investigate new statistical procedures requires a knowledge of mathematics and computing as well as statistical theory. To apply concepts and procedures effectively also calls for an understanding of the field of application.
The Sustainability, Ecology and Policy Program provides an academic framework that allows students to pursue their intended and emergent interests. It engages students in building knowledge and skills in both the ecological and social science dimensions of the environment. The Program curriculum combines coursework from disciplines within and outside the Rubenstein School to produce an individualized major for each student.
The Wildlife and Fisheries Biology major emphasizes the role of science to understand the natural world and solve pressing conservation issues. With expert faculty and outdoor learning in Vermont’s beautiful landscape, students embark on an exciting path to a career they will love.
Students choose to concentrate in either Wildlife or Fisheries and learn to apply their knowledge of organisms to real-world problems facing animal populations and people. Courses provide first-hand experiences in the field and build students’ skills.
Zoology, the study of the behavior, origins and life processes of animals, is a popular and versatile major. Zoology studies range from researching a particular animal and its ecosystem, to human effects on a specific species, to studying an animal at the molecular level. Since zoology is such a diverse field, a B.A. degree will provide you with a strong background that can take you wherever you want to go, in zoology or related fields.
The B.A. program in zoology at UVM requires a mix of introductory level life sciences and mathematics courses. After that, your advisor can help you to choose electives that align with your interests. From Winter Ecology to Physiology & Reproduction, you’ll find electives that challenge, inspire, and mold your B.A. degree into whatever you want it to be.