COURSES OFFERED BY BOSTON UNIVERSITY

The course introduces you to the financial planning process and teaches you how to work with clients to set goals and assess risk tolerance.

You will learn how to conduct an insurance needs analysis for clients and evaluate insurance contracts for life, disability, long-term care, and health insurance.

You will learn how to evaluate different asset classes for different investment objectives, and determine their suitability for investors considering investment goals, time horizons, risk tolerance, and tax situations.

Participants in this course study taxation for individuals, sole proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations, as well as the tax aspects of investments, insurance, annuities, and retirement planning.

This in-depth exploration of cheese varieties and production examines an international array of cheeses, from farm to table. Award-winning cheese monger and internationally-renown entrepreneur Ihsan Gurdal teaches students the techniques used in making all types of cheese.

Led by Claudia Catalano, writer for The Boston Globe and owner of Wild Carrot personal chef services, this course will guide students through the process of planning, starting, and maintaining a personal chef business.

In this introduction to the pastry arts, students will learn the history and fundamentals of baking through lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on participation.

This course is a technically-oriented introductory survey of information technology. Students learn about basic computer information, different types of business systems and basic systems analysis, design and development.

Introduction to problem-solving methods and algorithm development. Includes procedural and data abstractions, program design, debugging, testing, and documentation. Covers data types, control structures, functions, parameter passing, library functions, and arrays. Laboratory exercises in Python.

Covers the elements of object-oriented programming and the C++ language. Data types, control structures, functions, library functions, classes, inheritance, and multiple inheritance.