Autumn is the perfect time to learn something new! Blackhawk Technical College’s October classes offer affordable, high-quality opportunities to expand your skills, spark creativity, and take the next step in your personal or professional journey. Explore all upcoming courses here: Lifelong Learning at Blackhawk Technical College.

Motorcycle Safety-Learn to ride safely—pass the course to earn your MSF card and skip the Wisconsin DMV road test for your motorcycle endorsement!

Dates: September 27-28, October 4-5

Time: 7am-1pm

Location: Beloit-Janesville Campus Motorcycle Range

Charcuterie Creations-Learn how to build beautiful, balanced, and delicious charcuterie boards that will wow guests and elevate any gathering. In this hands-on class, you’ll explore a variety of meats, cheeses, spreads, and accompaniments, as well as tips for presentation, pairings, and seasonal flair.

Date: Thursday, October 2

Time: 5-8pm

Location: Beloit-Janesville Campus, Central Campus Building

AI Foundations: Embracing the Future of Work-This workshop introduces the essentials of artificial intelligence and explores how it can be thoughtfully integrated into the workplace.

Date: Tuesday, October 7

Time: 8am-12:00pm

Location: Beloit-Janesville Campus, Central Campus Building

Intro to Excel-Monroe-Become more familiar with what Excel can do in this introductory course. Learn how to create an Excel workbook, select and move around in a worksheet, format, work with simple formulas and functions, create tables and charts, and explore templates.

Date: Wednesday, October 8

Time: 1-4pm

Location: Monroe Campus

From Staff to Supervisor: Earn Trust, Stay Confident, Deliver Results-Stepping into a supervisory role can be both exciting and overwhelming. This course teaches you how to set clear expectations, build strong relationships, and develop effective leadership habits that will serve you well in your first year and beyond.

Dates: Tuesdays, October 14-November 5

Time: 8:30-11:30am

Location: Beloit-Janesville Campus, Central Campus Building

Basic Excel-Formulas and Functions-Gain confidence in creating basic formulas and functions with relative and absolute references. Understand operator precedence and how it affects formulas. Learn about the different parts of a function and how to create arguments to calculate values and cell references. Excel includes common functions that can be used to quickly find the sum, average, count, maximum and minimum value for a range of cells

Date: Wednesday, October 15

Time: 1-4pm

Location: Beloit-Janesville Campus, Central Campus Building

Art Welding 1-This course is designed for the amateur metal artist to create a pre-designed metal art project to take home and display proudly. Students will learn the basics of safety, gas metal arc welding, metal prep and finishing, and metal art design.

Dates: Saturdays, October 18th and 25th

Time: 8am-12pm

Location: Beloit-Janesville Campus, IMEC

Spark Creativity-This is an open acrylic paint workshop, no experience necessary. Focus on bringing out your creative side through art and learning to use it as a tool to quiet your mind.

Date: Saturday, October 18th

Time: 9:30am-12pm

Location: Beloit-Janesville Campus, Central Campus Building

Computer Basics-Learn a variety of topics essential for using a computer including navigation, using the basic functions of a Windows operating system, creating and managing files and folders, and utilizing popular software applications. No prior knowledge of computers is required.

Date: Wednesday, October 22

Time: 10am-12pm

Location: Beloit-Janesville Campus, Central Campus Building