General Information
Continuing Education
Continuing education courses are developed in response to special educational demands and requests of citizens, professional and business groups, and other organizations. The major role of continuing education is to develop and implement courses for career and professional development and personal interest and enrichment. Continuing education registration information is printed in a regular class schedule.
Continuing education courses are offered in an informal and non-competitive setting. Usually, there are no grades, exams, or prerequisites. Admission to the school is not required. However, a one week advance registration into the class is required.
For more information, including a list of courses, contact our Economic Development Department in Vidalia 912-538-3258 / in Swainsboro 478-289-2326.
STC also offers online classes in computers, internet, business, web design, GRE and SAT study courses, and much more! Click Here for a step-by-step guide of how to use Education 2 Go!

What are Command Spanish® e-Training programs?
Web-based Spanish language training courses that the student can take whenever and wherever they want, because they are asynchronous and non-instructor-led. These programs were designed to be efficient, effective, and not teacher-bound. Moreover, the student takes the course at his/her convenience and pace, not the institution's convenience and pace.
The following Command Spanish(r) e-Training courses are available online NOW:
- Spanish for Financial Institutions
- Spanish for Law Enforcement Officers
- Spanish for Construction Supervisors
- Spanish for the Community
- Spanish for Pharmacy Personnel
- Spanish for the Workplace
- Spanish for Hospital Nurses
- Spanish for Medical Office Nursing
- Spanish for Physicians
- Spanish for Library Personnel
- Spanish for Real Estate Sales
- Spanish for School Teachers
Click on the logo below to find out more information and then register for any of the courses listed above!

Master Timber Harvester & Continuing Logger Education
Georgia's Master Timber Harvester
Georgia's forestry professionals have long been concerned with protecting the environment that produces and sustains our valuable forest resource. Georgia "Master Timber Harvester" is a logger education program offered by The University of Georgia's Center for Forest Business. The program objective is to "foster improvement in the professionalism of wood producers", and it satisfies the logger education suggested in the Sustainable Forestry Initiative® Program. Logging business owners, crew supervisors, industry procurement foresters and land managers, consulting foresters, and timber buyers will benefit from participation in the Master Timber Harvester Program. Workshop subjects include:
- The Environment - Principles of Sustainable Forestry, Forest Stewardship: Conservation and Regeneration, Wildlife and Endangered Species, Forest Soils and Water Quality, Georgia's Best Management Practices, and Harvest Planning.
- Business Management - Business management, Public Policy and Outreach, Federal and State Employment Laws, and Employee Hiring Retention.
- Safety - OSHA Compliance, Transportation Safety, and Loss Control.
Two-Week Early Registration: $200
Registration Fee: $225
Dates: 3/25 - 3/26
Times: 8:30am - 5pm
Total Hours: 14
Location: STC Swainsboro Campus - Building 6 - Room 6209
Continuing Logger Education
Master Timber Harvesters must complete a minimum of twelve (12) hours of acceptable continuing education during the two-year effective period of the Master Timber Harvester designation to qualify for renewal. A minimum of four (4) hours must be in subjects discussed in the "Environment" module of the Master Timber Harvester program (forest stewardship; silviculture; forest soils; wildlife and biological diversity; imperiled and endangered species; hydrology; water quality laws; best management practices (BMPs); harvest planning including: harvesting methods, access systems, logging aesthetics). Eight (8) hours may be in any subject addressed in the Master Timber Harvester program including "Environment" and/or subjects addressed in the Business Management or "Safety" modules of the Master Timber Harvester program. Please be sure to bring and complete the Master Timber Harvester Renewal Form.
- Environment
- Aerial Photo Interpretation
- Interpreting and mapping from aerial photographs. To register please contact Rodney Kellum at 478-289-2234 or rkellum@swainsborotech.edu.
- Registration Fee: $30
- Dates: September 13
- Days: Th
- Times: 6-8pm
- Total Hours: 2
- Location: STC Swainsboro Campus - Building 6 - Room 6209
- Tree Identification for Dollars
- Using identification techniques and characteristics in identifying tree species to help determine value. To register please contact Rodney Kellum at 478-289-2234 or rkellum@swainsborotech.edu.
- Registration Fee: $30
- Dates: October 10
- Days: W
- Times: 6-8pm
- Total Hours: 2
- Location: STC Swainsboro Campus - Building 6 - Room 6209
- Stream Identification and SMZ's
- Identifying braided, ephemeral and intermittent streams and discuss the proper SMZ's for each. To register please contact Rodney Kellum at 478-289-2234 or rkellum@swainsborotech.edu.
- Registration Fee: $30
- Dates: October 24
- Days: W
- Times: 6-8pm
- Total Hours: 2
- Location: STC Swainsboro Campus - Building 6 - Room 6209
- Logging Aesthetics
- What loggers can do to influence public opinion of logging operations. To register please contact Rodney Kellum at 478-289-2234 or rkellum@swainsborotech.edu.
- Registration Fee: $30
- Dates: November 15
- Days: Th
- Times: 6-8pm
- Total Hours: 2
- Location: STC Swainsboro Campus - Building 6 - Room 6209
- Road and Log Deck Planning
- The workshop will involve the group in hands on planning and mapping logging roads and decks. To register please contact Rodney Kellum at 478-289-2234 or rkellum@swainsborotech.edu.
- Registration Fee: $30
- Dates: December 5
- Days: W
- Times: 6-8pm
- Total Hours: 2
- Location: STC Swainsboro Campus - Building 6 - Room 6209
- Aerial Photo Interpretation





