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| Business Outdoor Leadership Development (BOLD) | |||
| BOLD | |||
| CLASS CODE: | B 499D | CREDITS: 3 | FEE: $25.00 |
| DIVISION: | BUSINESS & COMMUNICATION | ||
| DEPARTMENT: | BUSINESS MANAGEMENT | ||
| GENERAL EDUCATION: | This course does not fulfill a General Education requirement. | ||
| DESCRIPTION: | Use an outdoor or natural setting to provide business students with a true experiential education in order to help them develop increased self assurance, teamwork, problem solving skills, use of judgment, communication, commitment and trust. Course includes demanding physical activities and a 9 day backpacking trip. | ||
| TAUGHT: | Summer | ||
| CONTENT AND TOPICS: | Use an outdoor or natural setting to provide business students with a true experiential education in order to help them develop increased self assurance, teamwork, problem solving skills, use of judgment, communication, commitment and trust. Course includes demanding physical activities and a 9 day backpacking trip. | ||
| GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: | To learn leadership principles that are applicable to the business world. To experience being a leader and a follower in real, outdoor situations. To learn to work for a sustained period in teams to accomplish meaningful, and quite oftren, difficult tasks. To use the outdoor setting to learn to think more creatively to overcome problems. To expereince a time away from nmany of the distractions of the modern world to focus on leadership, teamwork, trust building, and our relationship with deity. |
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| REQUIREMENTS: | Experiential learning, oral group evaluations, subjective evaluation, group discussions. | ||
| PREREQUISITES: | Limited enrollment. Student must apply through Department of Business Management Office semester before anticipated enrollment. | ||
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| EFFECTIVE DATE: | August 2003 | ||