The Kenan-Flagler Business Essentials program is a unique opportunity to acquire invaluable knowledge about the business world and simultaneously build one’s resume. The UNC Business Essentials (UBE) program is a comprehensive online course that allows one to take six different modules on varying aspects of the professional world while moving at a pace best suited to the individual. The benefits of such a program for a young college student are numerous. The job market is an ever changing dynamic, and a concrete understanding of business principles is a necessity to warrant real value to future employers. The UBE program gives students, who previously had little to no business knowledge, the chance to foster business knowledge and skills which can directly Read More
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Staying Ahead of the Competition
As a Public Health, Health Policy and Management major, I knew that knowledge in business would be relevant in whatever career field I choose to undertake. UNC Business Essentials is a program that allows you to go at your own pace while having the end goal in mind: attaining a business certificate from a nationally renowned business school and being able to compete with other qualified students. Under the UBE program, I took courses on business writing and communication, economics, and management, among others. Because everything is online, I set my own schedule as well as my own pace, which was very important with such a busy summer. Just because it is online, however, doesn’t mean I was left to Read More
Business Essentials Helps You Interpret the Word in a New Way
UNC Business Essentials can be described in many ways on paper, but for me it is more than a new line on my resume, it has changed the way I learn and interact in the business world. UBE has given me a new sense of confidence in my everyday interactions. I now feel comfortable discussing marketing strategy and balance sheets in detail, something I would have struggled through before UBE. The course is structured to give students the ability to learn and practice. After studying the vocabulary and concepts, the student is given the chance to write about them in the context of a real world situation. I really loved this because it forced me to take my interpretation to Read More
Complement the Major of Your Choice
I will always remember the night my freshman roommate came home after taking her first ECON 101 exam. The week before the test, it seemed as though a highlighter and textbook were glued to her arms and she spent her nights gulping coffee down while she made notecards. She had entered “Business Administration” as her perspective major at CTOPS earlier that summer, and she was dead-set on going through with the major—no matter how challenging she found the classes. She came home from her test devastated and disappointed. She braced for the worst as she checked her exam score online. She opened her squinted eyes just enough to see the “F.” We spent the rest of the night eating ice Read More
Benefits of the Online Model
The UBE program was my first experience with online learning. I was very wary of starting an online course such as UBE, especially during the summer months. Having spent my entire life as a full time resident on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, my summers always consist of two things: working as many hours as possible and trying to squeeze some beach time in between shifts. I was worried that adding an online program to my to-do list would be too overwhelming and that I would eventually fall behind. Instead, I found that I actually had much more time to work on the program than I thought because the online course format offers so many more liberties to the Read More
Working, Interning, or Traveling, UBE Goes Wherever You Are
Looking back on the summer I spent completing the UNC Business Essentials coursework, a few things stick out in my mind that made the experience pleasant, useful and productive. The program was convenient to complete, packed with detailed and applicable information, and boosted my confidence as I approach graduation and entering the workforce. The convenience of the program was probably my favorite aspect of it, if I had to choose just one. I wouldn’t have signed up to participate in UNC Business Essentials if it had been a classroom-based, in-person program with a regimented schedule and courses to attend. I didn’t know where I was going to be living last summer, whether I’d be working or interning or traveling, so Read More
When I Grow Up
“When I grow up, how cool would it be to get to be – someone – do something – that would let me become anyone and do everything imaginable?” The moment I knew what I wanted to do with my life, I was a Star Wars-crazed, sixth grade kid with braces, sitting in front of our family’s TV, in PJ’s. The credits were rolling after an incredible movie we had just finished watching. At the time, though, l had no idea that my “epiphany” that night would become such a pivotal moment in my life. With insightful support from my parents, I was enrolling in my first acting class a week later. I had discovered an energizing afterschool activity that Read More
Online Learning – Simply a Lesson in Procrastination?
As excited as I was to be a participant in the UNC Business Essentials program, I was a bit apprehensive about the online learning aspect of it. Although the freedom of an online class sounds like heaven to most students, I have been told by friends numerous times that buckling down and forcing yourself to get through an online course is much more difficult than simply showing up to class each day. Procrastination is much easier when there is no one keeping tabs on you. Needless to say, I was a little worried about getting through the program on time. However, I was surprised to find out how well the program held my interest and thus, how easily I was able Read More