Principles of Management

Overview of organizational behavior, operations management, and strategy/entrepreneurship. Topics include: Behavioral background of formal organizational life, organizational design, integrating factors in collective behavior, organizational change, systems analysis, techniques of decision making and control, the organization and its environment, and the nature of management theory. Topics grouped in modules of organizational behavior, operations management, and strategy/entrepreneurship. Prerequisite: junior standing.

Intro to Operations Management

An introduction to operations management in manufacturing and service industries. Emphasis on learning the basic principles, using MS EXCEL, required to organize and manage service and manufacturing organizations. Topics may include improved facility layout, project management, supply-chain management, Just-in-Time systems, inventory management, scheduling, and work force management. Discussions of real world applications frequently used to demonstrate concepts.

Ideas That Change the World

This interdisciplinary, discussion-based seminar marks the beginning of a student's journey in the Honors College. Students examine innovative thinkers, groundbreaking ideas, and the strategies that transform these ideas into effective actions. The course is divided into four units: Models of Inquiry; the Impact of Science and Technology; Social Philosophy and Civic Engagement; and Art in the World. The connection between past and present is explored through the life and works of historical figures such as W.E.B.

Ideas That Change the World

This interdisciplinary, discussion-based seminar marks the beginning of a student's journey in the Honors College. Students examine innovative thinkers, groundbreaking ideas, and the strategies that transform these ideas into effective actions. The course is divided into four units: Models of Inquiry; the Impact of Science and Technology; Social Philosophy and Civic Engagement; and Art in the World. The connection between past and present is explored through the life and works of historical figures such as W.E.B.

Ideas That Change the World

This interdisciplinary, discussion-based seminar marks the beginning of a student's journey in the Honors College. Students examine innovative thinkers, groundbreaking ideas, and the strategies that transform these ideas into effective actions. The course is divided into four units: Models of Inquiry; the Impact of Science and Technology; Social Philosophy and Civic Engagement; and Art in the World. The connection between past and present is explored through the life and works of historical figures such as W.E.B.

ST- Sidewalks and Screens

Starting from debates over digital media and publicity/public participation in the city, this class examines the ways media technologies shape, and are shaped by, the built environment. Drawing on historical and ethnographic case studies, it will focus on the city as media, symbols as well as embodiments of particular ideas and values, and the impact that media technologies have had on how people experience urban life.
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