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Online Cannabis Studies Certificate

The Online Cannabis Studies Certificate Program is paused while under review.

Please check back at a later date to register. 

Customize your certificate by selecting 6 of the 8 courses offered. This allows you to build a certificate program that is compatible with your needs. Course selection will be made when registering for the full Certificate Program above.

All courses are also available on an individual basis.

Individual Course Descriptions and Registration

1. Environmental Issues and Sustainability

   This course was developed by Jack Palis, an industry leader in environmental business consulting and emerging issues. Palis developed this course to provide a better understanding as to why environmental issues and sustainability play a major role in the cannabis industry.

   Topics Covered:
   History and Evolution of Environmental Protection and Sustainability
   Environmental Regulation in NJ and the United States
   Environmental Issues for Starting and Operating a Cannabis Business
   Management and Best Practices
   Elements and Principles of Sustainability, Strategy
   Forward Focus on Social, Generational, and Personal Interconnections

   Online/ Self-paced

2. Cannabis Communications: Exploring Perspectives and Messaging

   To be prepared for a career in this growing industry, it is important to understand how our views are shaped by communications about cannabis from various sources. This course will explore cannabis communications through a historical lens as well as identify how influences like education, media, religion, and entertainment contribute to messaging, ultimately affecting attitudes and beliefs about cannabis. Regardless of the role or specialization within the field, all cannabis professionals can benefit from an examination of messaging around the topic of cannabis.

   Online/ Self-paced

3. Social Justice and Cannabis

   Rob Mejia developed this course to provide a better understanding about why social justice is important within the cannabis industry. Discover ways that the industry can be fair, inclusive, and appreciate the different approaches that states are taking to implement social justice policy.

   Topics Covered:
   History of Cannabis
   Race and Cannabis 
   Criminal Justice Reform
   Economic Opportunity
   Environmental Policies for Different States 

   Online/ Self-paced

4. Risk Management and Insurance for Cannabis Businesses

   Developed by industry professionals Karen Adamsbaum and Jack Palis, this course is intended for anyone planning, starting, growing, scaling, or working in a cannabis or related business.  Everyone in a company has a role to play in managing the business’ risks.

   Topics Covered:
   Risk management is and how is it utilized in business
   The risk management process and the key elements 
   How risk management applies to different activities and stages of a company’s growth and expansion
   Options available to manage, control and transfer risk
   Insurance options and how to get the most out of your policies
   Loss event and how to file a claim
   How to manage your insurance program

   Online/ Self-paced

5. The Cannabis Industry: Understanding the Opportunities

   This 7-module course introduces learners to the opportunities for employment in the cannabis industry.

   Topics Covered:
   Cannabis Basics
   Growing and Cultivation
   Extraction and processing           
   Retail and Medical Dispensary
   Hospitality, Marketing, and Communications
   Other opportunities and looking ahead

   Online/ Self-paced

6. Cannabis Cultivation

   This course will provide information on basic cultivation practices and general knowledge of the cannabis plant including cultivation techniques, cannabis harvest, and cannabis drying and storage.

   Topics Covered:
   Seeds and Seedlings      
   Vegetative growth
   Clones and Cloning         
   Cannabis Flowering
   Before Harvest
   Harvest and Drying
   Grow Rooms

   Online/ Self-paced

7. Introduction to Business

   The Introduction to Business course provides an introduction to the basic concepts and principles of starting and operating a business from the proper formation mechanisms and structures to effective management, operation and financial reporting. (This course is not cannabis specific.)

   Online/ Self-paced

8. NRF Retail Industry Fundamentals

   The NRF Retail Industry Fundamentals course focuses on customer service and the sales process. It will prepare you to take the NRF Retail Industry Fundamentals national certification exam which is included in the course. (This course is not cannabis specific.)

   Online/ Self-paced

Have you heard about CHRIS? Read about the Cannabis & Hemp Research Initiative at Stockton.

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