Training & Development Degrees

Completing a degree in training and development will prepare you for career opportunities in a number of kinds of companies. Large corporations hire trainers to familiarize new hires with software or company policies. Here are some examples of the type of work you would be qualified to do after completing the program:

• Deployment Training Specialist
• Executive Coach
• In-house Corporate Trainer
• Specialized Subject Area Trainer

Concentrations available to students in this degree program are:

• Human Services Training and Development
• Instructional Technology and Distance Education
• Training and Development
• Training and Human Resource Development

Examples of courses you would be taking as a training and development major include the following:

• Adult Education
• Advanced Psychology of Learning
• Corporate Planning
• Course Construction Vocational Education
• Employee and Labor Relations
• Employee Involvement: Work Teams
• Human Resource Management
• Industrial Psychology
• Instructional Evaluation in Vocational Education
• Learning Technologies
• Management Consulting
• Management and Coordination of Training and Development
• Multiculturalism: Issues and Perspectives
• Occupational Safety/Loss Control
• Organizational Development
• Organizational Leadership
• Organizational Research Methods
• People Process Culture
• Performance Analysis
• Psychology of the Adult Learner
• Recruitment and Selection of Human Resources
• Sociology of Work
• Training Design and Evaluation
• Training Methods in Business and Industry
• Training Systems in Business and Industry
• Women and Minorities in Management
• Writing Technical Manuals

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