How do you say Degenerate in Dutch?

Afigure of speech which explicitly compares two different things using the words "like or as", sometimes referred to as approximations?

4. even after capitalist practices are in place, people may have trouble adjusting to new , such as taking , interpreting , making their own , and fending for themselves in the marketplace.

Do the certificate in a summer course give credits? if so, how many credits? and also, could you tell me which are the summer course and schools you know that give credits?