Undergraduates may earn a Bridging Disciplines Programs (BDP) certificate in one of 17 different concentration areas. BDP certificates allow students from a variety of majors to explore their interests and learning goals. The list below includes BDP certificate topics relevant to students with interests in organizations and entrepreneurship. Explore the list below to see how the 17 BDP certificates overlap with your interests.
- Teaches students to apply a multidisciplinary framework for human-centered design thinking in order to solve product, systems, service, and social problems.
Ethics & Leadership in Business
- Examines issues of morality applicable to business people and organizations. Topic areas may include corporate social responsibility, ethical leadership, conflicts of interest, organizational culture, and consumer protection.
Innovation, Creativity & Entrepreneurship
- Allows students to develop skills to bring creative thinking and an entrepreneurial mindset to their career goals, whether they are interested in turning their ideas into a new venture or initiative, being part of a startup team, or bringing creative new ideas into more established organizations.
- Offers the opportunity to develop an understanding of how museums, archives, libraries, galleries, and related institutions function as sites of collecting, education, and research.
Non-profits & Social Entrepreneurship
- Introduces students to social enterprise and administration of non-profit organizations. Concentration areas include art and social change; community welfare and social justice; environment; health and healthcare; international development; and youth and family.