Professional / Business Development

Earning a Baccalaureate Degree with a Concentration in Business

The business, management, and organizational development option of the Vermont College's undergraduate program is designed for adults who wish to improve their  business skills, earn a bachelor of arts degree, or prepare for graduate school. We take into account that working adults may already know a lot about business and management. Accordingly, adults in the undergraduate program can customize their education to their own backgrounds, interests, and career plans; to learn new things and not have to study subjects they already know. Executives and others who must relocate find our undergraduate program a good alternative because they don’t have to change colleges when they change work locations.

The professional study areas of the business and management option include marketing, finance, organizational development, entrepreneurship, and policy planning and operations. Underlying these areas are the foundation disciplines of sociology, economics, history, psychology, law, communications, and math. A semester might include a study of:

• Leadership                                 

• Marketing and Business Analysis                           

• Managing Diversity Organizational Behavior                 

• Working Class Issues Industrial Revolution and its Lessons

• Women’s role in the Modern Workplace          

• Business Culture

• Gender and Diversity                   

• Small Business Planning                               

• Decision Making                                  

• History of Work in America

• Corporate Psychology                   

• Social and Ethical Issues in the Workplace      

• Unionism                                   

• Culture of Success in Business

• Managing Change                        

• Work/Life Balance                       

• Not-for-Profit Corporations

• Business and Politics

• Strategic Planning

• Or any interesting combinations of the above.

 These topics are just suggestions, together we can come up with others that are of interest to you, and will help you to improve your business expertise and position in the economy. For more ideas for studies you may also check out the Matching Studies to Degree Criteria document. Another way to help organize one’s thoughts is to read my Business Bibliography.   

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