Today is the first day of classes at the University and official start of my second year of studies in GWU part-time MBA program. My classes however haven’t started yet. I have my first class on Tuesday. For the first module of the Fall term I have signed up for two classes: Financial Markets and Consultative Processes. Originally I had three clasees in line-up for the first module, but one of them was cancelled, apparently they did not have enough students for that particular section. So I had to make some re-arrangements in my schedule last week. So instead of 9 credits I initially planned to have in Fall, I will have 7.5 again, just like in each of my terms in the first year.
Professor for the Consultative Processes has already put up assigned readings for the first class on the Blackboard. From the readings for the first two classes it seems that the course is going to give a high view of the consulting field. May be there will be more “meat” later. For me, it’s still a very helpful class to get general introduction to consulting industry and see if it fits my personality as a possible career upon graduation from the MBA.
Admittedly, my current job title has “consultant” in it, but in IT field it is a bit too industry-specific and somewhat skewed. That’s why I would like to learn about other “flavors” of consultancy and hopefully get introduced to “best practices” in the industry. I also expect to be able to make some applications of the classroom knowledge to my current job and beyond.
By the way, this class on Consultative Processes is the first class I am taking from the pool of the electives. All my other classes so far have been from the core curriculum and lasted just one module resulting in 1.5 credits. This one, however, is a 3-credit semester-long class. It’s new and I am curious to see how I am going to last in the same class for the whole term 
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Nothing to write about Financial Markets, alas. Professor for this class has not yet placed any information on the blackboard, not even a syllabus. The class is tomorrow, on Tuesday. So if not too tired, I will post an account of the class tomorrow night.
I am glad to be in action again, both at business school and on the blog.
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