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eLearning Courses
Colored Stone Essentials
This course provides basic, essential knowledge of colored stones, with an in-depth focus on the “Big Three” of the gemstone world: ruby, sapphire, and emerald.
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Colored Stones
The next step after Colored Stone Essentials, this course provides in-depth knowledge about the multitude of colored stones in today’s market.
Interest-free payment option available.
Diamond Essentials
This course will teach you how to describe diamond jewelry accurately for effective and ethical sales conversations with customers.
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Diamonds & Diamond Grading
This course will help you gain the important skills needed to judge and grade the color, clarity, and cut of diamonds.
Interest-free payment option available.
Gem Identification
Learn to identify more than 60 species of gemstones, distinguish natural gems from synthetics, and detect gem treatments. Develop your skills by practicing testing procedures and techniques on sets of practice stones. Study the latest gem treatments in the market today and how illumination techniques can facilitate the identification process.
Interest-free payment option available.
Note: Effective January 1, 2020, students will be required to complete the Gem Identification Lab class (GEM240L) before enrolling in the Gem Identification eLearning course (GEM240).
Jewelry Essentials
New students: contact admissions to register - learn more.
Distance Education Students: register using button below.
This eLearning course examines jewelry's major features and how they combine to give jewelry its unique value.
Pearls
This class is only available to Distance Education Teach-out students.
This course examines popular techniques for selling pearls at the retail level and helps you gain the knowledge you need to buy inventory, build confidence, and increase profits.
Interest-free payment option available.
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