Residential Experience
As part of beginning your studies, you will participate in an engaging on-campus workshop experience. This three-credit fun and transformative course, located on the beautiful Champlain College campus, will set you on a path for success in the program. Through a series of intensive classes, workshops and dynamic presentations by noted guest speakers, you will leave the workshop with new skills, knowledge and motivation – energized and ready for the demands of pursuing your degree. Getting started right is a primary ingredient in achieving your goal of an MSMIIT or MBA. Ensuring that you achieve your goal is our mission.
MBA 500, the course that comprises your residential experience, must be completed in the first year of either the MBA or MSMIIT program. The course sets the stage by providing you with the philosophical and technical basis for all of your subsequent courses. Through a mixture of individual and team assignments you will:
- Create a personal learning roadmap that will serve as a guideline for the entire program.
- Demonstrate an understanding of Action Research techniques and the process of Field- Based Learning Projects within each course
- Develop the ability to apply the Integrated Reflective Practice Model of Learning to challenging case studies.
This course emphasizes the importance of practice and experience as the basis for your personal and professional development. You will also learn how to leverage the online format and tools to their greatest advantage, and we’ll show you how these programs’ experientially based learning process can mean more ingrained learning that will have a more immediate impact on your career.
An underlying benefit to any graduate degree grows from maintaining the contacts and connections you will make with faculty and classmates. You’ll have ample opportunities to make those lasting connections through face-to-face team projects and one-on-one conversations during your time on our hillside campus and in Burlington, Vermont, one of America’s great small cities.
MBA 500 is offered is offered three times per year-fall, winter, and summer. You must take the course at some point during your first year, although we recommend that you take it as early as possible in your studies.
