Firstbridge courses are offered to degree seeking freshmen and registration is done via webform in pre-arrival checklist.
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In this course we will explore business “heroes” and “villains” in contexts that include strategy and leadership, human resource decisions, as well as the nuts and bolts of companies’ sales or service operations. Students will study historical and current business leaders such as Marshall Field and the Boucicauts, Bill Gates, or Jeff Bezos, along with their fictional counterparts, analyzing their decisions, the reasons for success or failure, and the aftermath. We will examine sectors such as retail with its apocalypse, sports and its data-driven transformation, and finance with its traditional “villains” by using the work of Michael Lewis: Moneyball (2011) and The Big Short (2015) as well as other books, films, and series.
Learning Outcomes
- Through readings, TV series, and film, students will begin to understand the processes used by managers, e.g., strategic planning, organizing, controlling, etc., in a global context.
- Students will start to propose solutions to management problems through critical analysis and application of some of the foundational business disciplines (strategy, marketing, operations, human resource management)
- Local and Global Perspectives: Students will enhance their intercultural understanding of languages, cultures, and histories of local societies and the global issues to which these relate (CCI LO1)
- Exploring and Engaging Difference: Students will think critically about cultural and social difference; they will identify and understand power structures that determine hierarchies and inequalities that can relate to race, ethnicity, gender, nationhood, religion, or class (CCI LO3)
- Information Literacy: Students will comprehend how information is produced and valued in order to discover, evaluate, use, and create information and knowledge effectively and ethically. In FirstBridge, students will demonstrate the conversational nature of scholarship, and recognize their potential role and responsibilities as contributors to that conversation. For each discipline taught in FirstBridge, students will identify reference works, journals, databases and/or major works in history, in order to start effective research in the field.
- Life at University: Students will acquire the study skills, time management, and interpersonal skills needed to meet the demands of university-level academic work at a Liberal Arts College individually or as a team. Students will value the multiple meanings of place through experiential learning at AUP and beyond in the Parisian or global context.
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Schedule
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Tuesday | 10:35 | 11:55 | PL-2 |
Friday | 10:35 | 11:55 | PL-2 |