Minor in Corporate Training

About

In the Corporate Training minor, you’ll be prepared for jobs that involve training the trainer. You’ll have the tools you’ll need to educate new company hires and prepare employees for company changes. You’ll also learn about leading continuous improvement workshops and Kaizen events. You’ll be prepared for creating training videos online, mobile apps, internal videos, etc. along with coaching customers in processes or products.

You’ll be introduced to instructional methodologies and audience strategies. You’ll also learn how to create, deliver, and analyze training material in the area of your major. In addition, you’ll get practice with industry technology, written and oral communications, and assessments and presentations.

The Corporate Training minor complements the management majors: General Business Management and Human Resource Management. BUED 302 and BUED 425 are included in the management majors’ elective sections. If the two state-support courses are double-counted, you’ll only need four more courses (16 credits). It is also a complementary minor to Accounting, Finance, Health Science, Health Administrative Services, and any additional heavily regulated industry.

Curriculum & Requirements

What You'll Learn

The following information comes from the official EWU catalog, which outlines all degree requirements and serves as the guide to earning a degree. Courses are designed to provide a well-rounded and versatile degree, covering a wide range of subject areas.

Corporate Training Minor

Note: this program is currently not accepting new students.

This program is designed for post-baccalaureate students with career objectives that involve training the trainer, educating company new hires; preparing employees for company changes, leading continuous improvement workshops; creating training videos—online, mobile apps, internal videos; or coaching customers in processes or products. The course of study introduces students to instructional methodologies and audience strategies to build knowledge and skills necessary to effectively instruct and assess in today’s corporate environment. Students will learn how to create, deliver and analyze training material using instructional methodologies, instructional strategies, industry technology, written and oral communications and presentations.

Corporate Training (CT) students develop employee training manuals and focus on instructional alignment of assessments to standards and outcomes in order to evaluate instructional effectiveness through data collection and analysis. Throughout the course, students collect evidence of professional instructional growth and self-reflect on effective instructional strategies: problem-solving, metacognitive and task-based.

The Corporate Training Minor is designed to complement the management majors including Management and Human Resource Management. BUED 302 and BUED 425 are included in the management majors’ elective sections which leaves only four required courses.

Required Courses
BUED 302BUSINESS COMMUNICATION4
BUED 425WORKPLACE COMMUNICATIONS USING COMPUTER APPLICATIONS5
BUED 475METHODOLOGIES USED IN BUSINESS, ACCOUNTING, BUSINESS ENGLISH AND MARKETING4
BUED 476INSTRUCTIONAL METHODOLOGIES USING COMPUTER APPLICATIONS4
CTED 309CTE CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT3
CTED 341CTE SECONDARY STRATEGIES3
Total Credits23