{"id":265,"date":"2009-12-07T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/2009\/12\/07\/one-of-santa-claus-greatest-gifts-winter-intensive-courses\/"},"modified":"2009-12-07T13:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T17:59:00","slug":"one-of-santa-claus-greatest-gifts-winter-intensive-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/2009\/12\/07\/one-of-santa-claus-greatest-gifts-winter-intensive-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"One of Santa Claus\u2019 greatest gifts: Winter Intensive Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"

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[Post by Jesse Brooks, MS\u00b7MBA Class of 2010]<\/p>\n

Boston University\u2019s MBA program offers a great option for students willing to sacrifice a week of their winter vacation time. <\/span>This option is the Winter Intensive Course. <\/span><\/p>\n

These courses are 5-day long, 8-hours per day crash course in a given subject. <\/span>The goal of the intensive is to attempt to cover the same amount of content that is taught in a traditional semester long course. <\/span>For students, this is a great way to take a course that may be of some interest, but not necessarily worth investing an entire semester\u2019s studies to. <\/span>Students also receive a full semesters course credits for each intensive, which can alleviate a possibly overwhelming course load.<\/p>\n

Personally, I am a big fan of the intensive. <\/span>During my first year winter break, I took IT Applications in Management. <\/span>Pre-summer session, as part of the MS-MBA program, I took Systems Architecture, Telecom & Biz Networks and Issues in Managing Networked Systems. <\/span>The week before my 2nd<\/sup> year Fall semester started, I took Global Sustainability. <\/span>For this winter break, I am enrolled in two intensives: Applied Ethics and Emerging IT Perspectives Synthesis. <\/p>\n

Though these intensives do shorten a student\u2019s break away from school, they are great practice for future Management\/Executive training sessions that many MBA graduates will have to experience in their professional careers. <\/span><\/p>\n

If you do decide to enroll in an intensive, make sure you are prepared with the essential items for survival: <\/span>Caffeine Beverages, Various Snack Items and Plenty of Sleep.<\/p>\n

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[Post by Jesse Brooks, MS\u00b7MBA Class of 2010] Boston University\u2019s MBA program offers a great option for students willing to sacrifice a week of their winter vacation time. This option is the Winter Intensive Course. These courses are 5-day long, 8-hours per day crash course in a given subject. The goal of the intensive is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/questromgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}