Corporate & Professional Development

Semester Offerings

Summer 2010

Fall 2010

How To Green Your Business and Other OrganizationsNEW COURSE

This course covers three areas that address how to make organizations more environmentally friendly. This course also includes a field trip to a business that has greatly improved its environmental performance.

Performance Management in Government and
Non-ProfitsNEW COURSE

Governments around the world have increasingly come to realize the value of setting goals, measuring performance and using the resulting data as a core management tool to improve societal outcomes. This management approach is often referred to as "performance management" or "managing for results."

Principles of Web Design

This course leads you through the entire Web site creation process, from start to finish, while developing and enhancing your knowledge of Web markup languages (XHTML, CSS), Web design principles, and preparing content for the Web.

Successful Grant Writing - from A to Z

In today’s increasingly competitive grant seeking environment, successful grantsmanship requires thorough knowledge of one’s own organization, capacity to "market" programs effectively (in writing and in person), an awareness of comparable programs or services in other non-profit organizations, and familiarity with the broader marketplace trends and dynamics that may be affecting funding decisions at targeted foundations.

Critical Thinking in Business

Critical Thinking is a specific set of thinking skills that is necessary in today’s competitive business world. This course provides professionals with critical thinking skills for decision making, problem solving, marketing and sales, understanding customers’ perspectives, cause and effect relationships and detecting flaws and biases in one’s thinking. OL

Urban Landscape and Garden Development Certificate

From the Emerald Necklace to the Big Dig... from the first colonial settlement to the vibrant, modern metropolis of today, discover how Boston’s dedication to the environment and green spaces have sculpted the city’s appearance, activities, and character. OL

Information Design and Development Certificate

This program offers the fundamentals required for technical communication in the high-tech industry, as well as more advanced topics for developing and delivering effective technical information.OL

Practical Project Management

Practical Project Management provides professionals with the essential skills they need to succeed in an increasingly competitive job market. OL

Alcoholism/Chemical Dependency Treatment Services Program

The Alcoholism/Chemical Dependency Treatment Services Program Certificate (A/CDTSP) provides treatment professionals - from direct care counselors to program directors - with a focused, skill-building curriculum to promote successful delivery of substance abuse and dependency treatment. OL

Infant-Parent Mental Health Post-Graduate Certificate Program

The IPMHPCP is a 10-month intensive interdisciplinary learning experience designed for licensed and/or credentialed professionals working with children birth to five and their families. The goal of the IPMHPCP is train professionals to understand relationship-oriented therapies and to focus therapeutic efforts on the child-parent relationship.

Human Resource Management Certificate

The Certificate Program in Human Resource Management is a two-semester program designed for those seeking an overview of the human resource function and its strategic role in today’s organizations.

Improved Communications for Leaders and Professionals

This is an interactive course on the communication skills managers and leaders need to be effective in the workplace. This course is "blended," consisting of both online and on-campus sessions, and offers a combination of videotaping, lecture and skill building activities to track progress throughout the semester.

How to Do Business in China

Presenting a unique, educational opportunity for U.S. business executives developed by Tsinghua University and the University of Massachusetts Boston.