Assuming your empid and and courseID are numeric, it should look like this instead.
strSQL = "SELECT lnkCourseEmployee.EmpCourseID, lnkCourseEmployee.CourseID, lnkCourseEmployee.EmpID, " & _
"lnkCourseEmployee.DateComplete,lnkCourseEmployee.HoursTrained,lnkCourseEmployeeCompleted, " & _...