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Business 101
BUS 101 introduces freshmen to the basic principles of professional responsibility and explores ways to exercise those responsibilities on behalf of themselves, in the course of doing business, and in order to create a better society.
Module One: Responsibility for Yourself
Students create a formal resume, become acclimated to an online career development tool, enhance their written and oral communication skills, learn how to dress for success, and build relationships with alumni and corporate representatives by participating in a formal career fair.
Module Two: Responsibility to Your Organization Students explore their personal values and learn about the ways organizations and professions articulate and support their value systems. Students are introduced to values-based decision-making models in a variety of academic and professional contexts. Using dilemmas rooted in value-conflicts, students develop an understanding of integrity, an appreciation of the challenges inherent in acting consistently with personal and organizational values, and the basic skills necessary to address those challenges confidently, appropriately, and constructively.
Module Three: Responsibility to Society
Students design sustainable business solutions to poverty-based market opportunities in an effort to show how business can demonstrate professional responsibility to society as a whole. Students are introduced to subsistence marketplaces through a poverty simulation that includes interview and video analysis, lectures and virtual immersion exercises. Students work in teams and use skills from all three modules to develop a product idea and a business plan that emphasizes people, planet, and profits. The course concludes with a poster presentation designed for potential investors who evaluate each team’s corporate governance model (including mission statements and ethical codes) as well as specific elements of the business plan.
Section Leaders
The College of Business is hiring Section Leaders for Business 101 for the Fall 2010 Semester. If you are a current student in the College of Business we invite you to learn more about this opportunity.
