You don’t have to have an MBA to know the value of basic business skills. Just ask Greg Shaw, 22, and the 54 other recent graduates of the Carolina Business Institute at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

These new biologists, psychologists and arts majors added the business course to their resumes before stepping out into the real world. Many think it will give them a competitive edge in the workplace. Some think such skills are necessary if they want to one day run their own businesses. And others want the confidence of knowing how to manage personal finances.

UNC’s Friday Center has offered a 4-week business boot camp to non-business students for 16 years. The intense course covers basic business practices including marketing, accounting, finance and operations management.

Its latest class graduated in June.

Among them was Shaw, who received a bachelor’s degree in biology at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Shaw said that in addition to helping with his personal budget, the class gave him the skills to one day manage his own medical practice. “Running a clinic is a business,” he said. “You have to know what to pay people and how to buy equipment and machines.”

Other schools across the nation offer similar programs, including the Tuck Business Bridge program at Dartmouth College and the Summer Institute for General Management at Stanford University.

At North Carolina State University, nonbusiness students are offered four business minors, in accounting, business administration, economics and entrepreneurship, said Steve Barr, a professor who heads the department of management, innovation and entrepreneurship.

In the past, students took such classes mainly to bolster their resumes. But the curriculums have been enhanced to help with a variety of business practices, and students are gleaning practical use from such programs.

Will Aldridge, 28, a UNC psychology graduate who completed the institute in 2006, said the courses give him a competitive advantage in the workplace.

Aldridge was working as an intern at a workplace consulting firm in Atlanta when a client needed advice about the benefits of Six Sigma. It’s a management program that identifies and replaces the causes of defects and errors in manufacturing and business processes.

“I told them, ‘Hey, I just had a class on that,’ ” Aldridge said. His boss was not familiar with Six Sigma, so Aldridge used what he had learned to help the client.

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Sarah Hovey Nutt, the director of market analysis for CBS-TV yesterday, was married to Thomas Van Leeuwen Melton, Vice President of Equity Research division of EF Hutton & Company in New York. The Rev. John H. Walsted the ceremony, in Christ Episcopal Church, west of Brighton, MI

Gilman Susan Nutt her sister was Miss honour.

Louis Joseph Caron was the best man.

Ms. Van Leeuwen, known as Sally, is a subsidiary of Mrs. L. Patrick Albert of Todt Hill, SI, and Robert H. Nutt Riverside, Conn. She graduated from the Academy on Staten Island, Dartmouth College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. His mother, Laura Patrick, is chairman of the board of Staten Island Visiting Nurse Association. His father is a Senior Vice President and General Manager Doyle Graf Mabley, an advertising agency in New York. The bride is a Ur-Ur-Ur-granddaughter of John A. Roebling, the designer of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Mr. Van Leeuwen is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Van Leeuwen of San Marino, Calif. He studied at Cornell University and Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. His father is President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Vehicle and accident insurance company in Pasadena, California

Colburn hard Constance, daughter of Mr. And Mrs. Charles E. 3d Hart of Middlebury, Conn., was married yesterday 3d Walking Robert Shaw, the son of Mr. And Ms. Shaw Jr. Walking in Sewickley, Pa pastor J. Douglas Jr., Wigner At the ceremony of the Cathedral St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Woodbury, Conn.

Walking Ms. Shaw, product manager at Bristol-Myers Company in New York, was graduated from the school in West Lake in Los Angeles, Trinity College, Hartford and the Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia . His father, a lawyer in the law firm Secor, Cassidy & McPartland in Waterbury, Connecticut, recently retired as a collaborator Associate Vice-President, General Counsel at Rockwell International in Los Angeles. The young grandfather, the late Charles E. Hart Jr. In Middlebury, was president of Chase Brass & Copper Company in Waterbury.

Walking M. Shaw was graduated from Sewickley Academy, Princeton University and the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College. He is a vice president of the investment division of Morgan Stanley in New York. His father was a pharmacist in Pittsburgh.

Mr. And Mrs. Michael E. Autera of Ridgewood, NJ, and Southampton, LI, have announced the engagement of her daughter Katherine T. Autera, Leonard J. Jardine, the son of Mr. Jardine and Mrs. Leonard C. Providence, RI

An April wedding is planned.

Miss Autera, a graduate of Colgate University and received a master’s degree in management from New York University Graduate School of Business Administration, is an auditor of Main Hurdman in New York.

His father, as Senior Vice President of Finance of the Bristol-Myers Company.

Mr. Jardine conclusion, the Dartmouth College and received a Master of Science from New York University Graduate School of Business Administration. He worked as a consultant for the firm in New York accounting Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. His father is chairman of the Jardine Associates, representing Providence.