Bachelor's Deg. W/Indiv Conc. 394I - Integration and Innovation

This course is designed to help students contemplate the skills and knowledge they have acquired through general education courses and through the process of designing and completing an individualized degree program in the context of a world that is changing dramatically. Students will; reflect upon their assumptions about success; read and view materials that raise questions about how the world is changing, what education is supposed to do and actually does, and work and organizational life; write short papers in which they describe their thoughts about success and the "good life"; how the changes discussed in class will affect their fields and their work in the future, and the skills and knowledge they have acquired through their UMass education; share and discuss these papers with one another; complete a major project in which they identify a critical issue in their chosen field and conduct research on how that issue may affect the field and their ability to thrive in it. Satisfies the Integrative Experience requirement for BA-BDIC and BS-BDIC majors.

Open to BDIC majors. Pre Req: BDIC 396P This class fulfills the Integrative Experiece requirement for BDIC
This course explores the skills and knowledge that BDIC majors have learned by designing and completing their individualized degree programs. You will be asked to reflect on a series of basic questions about yourself and your goals, such as how you define "success", who you want to be in the world, and what is happening in the world that will influence your ability to be successful? The course satisfies the Integrative Experience requirement for BDIC majors.