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 Department:    BASAM

 Course #:    301

 Credits:    5

 Variable:     No

 IUs:    5

 CIP:    520201

 EPC:    50B

 REV:    2018

 Course Description  

Introduction and orientation to the student-led cohort learning model of the BASAM program. Topics include: Business and contemporary landscapes, professional agency, and equitable business practices.

 Prerequisite  

Prerequisite: Admission to BASAM program and BASAM Director permission.

Contact Hours (based on 11 week quarter)

Lecture: 55

Lab: 0

Other: 0

Systems: 0

Clinical: 0

Intent: Distribution Requirement(s) Status:  

Vocational Preparatory Required for ATA degree  

Equivalencies At Other Institutions

Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, the student will be able to:

1. Explain and apply the educational principles underlying a course of study for a Bachelor of Applied Science qualification.
2. Describe the fundamentals of management and contextualize their application to the student�s target profession/ vocation and their professional aspirations.
3. Develop a personalized catalogue of reading, listening, observation and research strategies and techniques to facilitate efficient assimilation and synthesis of program materials.
4. Investigate ethnographies in shaping attitudes towards learning, work ethic and professionalism.
5. Identify and respond to the presence and consequences of bias (implicit and explicit).
6. Investigate the changing national and local socio-economic, environmental, and technological landscape.
7. Identify the business and personal impacts of the changing landscape.
8. Develop personal strategies to build professional agency and successful habits of metacognition, personal motivation, and stress management.

General Education Learning Values & Outcomes

Revised August 2008 and affects outlines for 2008 year 1 and later.

0. Application and Integration

Definition: Applying information from one or more disciplines and/or field experiences in new contexts (Outcome 0.1); developing integrated approaches or responses to personal, academic, professional, and social issues (Outcomes 0.2-0.5).

Outcomes: Students will be able to . . .
0.3 Identify and evaluate the relationships among different perspectives within a field of study and among different fields of study.
0.4 Integrate concepts and analytical frameworks from multiple perspectives to develop one or more of the following: more comprehensive descriptions, multi-causal explanations, new interpretations, or deeper explorations of issues.
0.5 Analyze and reflect upon insights gained from integrating multiple perspectives in a purposeful project or experience.

1. Information Literacy

Definition: Recognizing when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.

Outcomes: Students will be able to . . .
1.4 Evaluate issues (for example economic, legal, historic, social) surrounding the use of information.

2. Critical Thinking

Definition: The ability to think critically about the nature of knowledge within a discipline and about the ways in which that knowledge is constructed and validated and to be sensitive to the ways these processes often vary among disciplines.

Outcomes: Students will be able to . . .
2.2 Analyze issues and develop questions within a discipline.
2.6 Recognize how the value and biases in different disciplines can affect the ways in which data is analyzed.

3. Communication

Definition: Understanding and producing effective written, spoken, visual, and non-verbal communication.

Outcomes: Students will be able to . . .
3.1 Recognize, read, and comprehend academic and/or professional writing.
3.3 Demonstrate effective listening skills.

4. Community & Cultural Diversity

Definition: Recognizing the value of human communities and cultures from multiple perspectives through a critical understanding of their similarities and differences.

Outcomes: Students will be able to . . .
4.1 Identify and express concepts, terms, and issues associated with the diverse perspectives of race, social class, gender, sexual orientation, disabilities, and culture.
4.4 Demonstrate effective communication across differences in human communities and cultures.
4.5 Adapt to and function effectively in communities and cultures different from one's own.

5. Global & Local Awareness & Responsibility

Definition: Understanding the complexity and interdependence of, and stewardship responsibilities to, local and global communities and environments.

Outcomes: Students will be able to . . .
5.1 Understand the impact of their own and other’s actions on local/global communities and environments and how those communities/environments affect them in turn.

6. Individual Awareness & Responsibility

Definition: Understanding, managing, and taking responsibility for one’s learning and behavior in varied and changing environments.

Outcomes: Students will be able to . . .
6.3 Apply successful organizational strategies of planning, goal setting, prioritizing, resolving conflict, and managing time to specific goals and/or projects.
6.4 Use self-reflection to recognize and define a sense of self-identity in personal, social/gender, and/or cultural/global terms and in relationship to others.

10. Technology

Definition: Understanding the role of technology in society and using technology appropriately and effectively.

Outcomes: Students will be able to . . .
10.3 Use technology appropriate to the context and task to effectively retrieve and manage information, solve problems, and facilitate communication.
10.4 Demonstrate an understanding of the impact of technology in one’s personal and professional life.

Course Contents

1. Educational principles for a Bachelor of Applied Science qualification.
2. Fundamentals of management and their application to the student�s target profession/vocation and their professional aspirations.
3. Personalized catalogue of reading, listening, observation and research strategies and techniques to facilitate efficient assimilation and synthesis of program materials.
4. Ethnographies in shaping attitudes towards learning, work ethic and professionalism.
5. The presence and consequences of bias (implicit and explicit).
6. The changing national and local socio-economic, environmental, and technological landscape.
7. The business and personal impacts of the changing landscapre.
8. Personal strategies to build professional agency and successful habits of metacognition, personal motivation, and stress management.