For the second year in a row, the School of Business is offering a 10-credit summer business program for undergraduate, non-business majors who want to gain valuable business knowledge and expand their marketability.<\/p>\n
The seven-week UConn Business Fundamentals Program includes the following three-credit courses: Legal and Ethical Environment of Business, Managerial and Interpersonal Behavior, and Business Information Systems, plus a one-credit course on Workplace Readiness.<\/p>\n
The program runs from May 9 to June 23. The courses meet from Monday to Thursday, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., with an hour for lunch, and are taught by UConn professors and staff. The program will include the tour of a prominent company.<\/p>\n
For those students wishing to, only an additional two more courses are required to complete a minor in business.<\/p>\n
“This program is back by popular demand,” said Associate Dean Larry Gramling<\/strong>, noting the rising student interest in foundational business courses to augment other majors. “This is a tremendous opportunity for students who want to pursue a business minor to do so without being ‘overstretched’ during the spring or fall semester. They have the ability to get the majority of a minor done in a seven-week period, and that is attractive to many students.”<\/p>\n The program debuted last year, and participants gave the program very favorable reviews, he said. Eight students have already registered for the program, which is capped at 35.<\/p>\n “The workplace of 2020 is going to require people to understand the fundamentals of how business works and what their place is in it,” said Kelly Kennedy<\/strong>, associate director of student development and outreach and the program coordinator. “Combining the strength of their majors with a sprinkling of business knowledge gives these students a huge advantage entering the workforce.”<\/p>\n UConn is one of a few universities to offer such an extensive summer program and because it is an AACSB-accredited school, it has wide appeal, said Gramling, who has already fielded a call from a professor at another college who is considering enrolling her child.<\/p>\n Students also take a one-credit career readiness class, taught by Kennedy, which gives them individually tailored suggestions about how to highlight their business knowledge in a job search.<\/p>\n An information session about the summer program will be held at 2 p.m. March 24 in the business school’s board room, located on the third floor. Students who want more information or wish to register for the program should contact Kennedy at Kelly.Kennedy@uconn.edu<\/a> or call (860) 486-2315. More information is also available here: Business Fundamentals Summer Program<\/a>. The program will be offered on the Storrs campus, and housing and meal plans are available for an additional fee.<\/p>\n Senior Nicole McDonald ’16<\/strong>, who completed the program last summer, is a communication-design major. Having the business background will help her negotiate a fair contract with clients and give her knowledge that she will need if she starts her own company.<\/p>\n She was afraid she would have to stay in college an extra semester to fit business classes around her demanding art schedule, but the summer session solved that issue.<\/p>\n “If you want to have a career in art, you really have to understand business,” McDonald said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the second year in a row, the School of Business is offering Business Fundamentals, a 10-credit summer business program for undergraduate, non-business majors who want to gain valuable business knowledge and expand their marketability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":110882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1862],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1861],"class_list":["post-110880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-busn"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 23:43:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/110882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110880"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=110880"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=110880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}