Integrative Project Design - 4 credits

Through this course, students learn what they need to know to design, complete, and report on an integrative project. Because the project must address a specific problem, the course opens with an extended discussion of problem finding, problem definition, and various theories of problem solving. Students then find a problem in an organizational setting and design a study which will shed light on the problem or undertake and report on a set of activities which will address and resolve the problem. In doing so they will draw on theories, concepts, and knowledge from several different courses in their major. By the time students have completed this course, they will have written the parts of their Integrative Project Report that address the identification and definition of the problem, the purpose of their project, the setting for the project, and the methods to be used in approaching the problem. Students leave the course prepared to execute the Integrative Project and report their results.

Prerequisite: Students need to have completed Directed Research, 8 credits of their common learning and 3 courses in their major above 3000 level.