Course Description
Business 199, Business Pathways Academy, is a graded 1-credit hour course for undergraduate College of Business students enrolled in the Business Pathways Academy. This course will cover wellness essentials for academically staying on track, engaging with community and building crucial skills. Content for this course is developed through the lens of student developmental, educational, and ecological theories and models: Self-Authorship, Appreciative Advising, Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological System’s Theory and Response to Intervention.
Students are expected to be active learners as this course will utilize site visits and exercises aimed to steadily increase the bandwidth essential to tackling college transitional experiences. Additionally, students will make sense of professional development experience utilizing competencies outlined in the Gies Professional Pathway.
Instructor Expectations
This course is designed to support your development as a student as you make meaning out of your first semester experiences. Navigating the unfamiliar terrain of college can leave students vulnerable and in need of unpacking uncomfortable experiences. Being as such, you are expected to create and encourage a safe classroom experience for all students by upholding the core beliefs of Gies Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Seen, Heard, Valued. You will be asked to work with students from different backgrounds than yourself and we are all responsible for creating a learning environment that is positive and respectful of each other. Cases where exclusionary language or actions are exhibited may be subject to university conduct procedures. These are the same expectations I uphold for myself, and all students are encouraged to let me know if I say or do something that causes discomfort at any point in this course. Please notify me in class, through email or leave an anonymous note in an envelope at 1055 BIF that can be placed in my mailbox.