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  • 1.  Undergraduate ODC Course Suggestions

    Posted 03-20-2014 13:11
    Colleagues:

    I am planning an undergraduate ODC course and am looking for ways to make it relevant and interesting for traditional undergraduate students with minimal work experience.

    My experience has been that these are difficult concepts for the students to grasp because they have no work experience and no foundational knowledge.

    Any suggestions on syllabi, text books, exercises, approaches would be much appreciated.

    Thank you.

    Shannon Brown Janicki
    College of Business & Health Administration
    University of St. Francis
    Joliet, IL
    sjanicki@stfrancis.edu


  • 2.  Undergraduate ODC Course Suggestions

    Posted 03-20-2014 21:29
    Shannon,

    Years ago as a teaching assistant, I had a similar challenge.  We used a great book full of articles, cases, assessments and exercises.  The book was: Effective behavior in organizations: Learning from the interplay of cases, concepts, and student experiences, by Cohen, Fink, Gadon, and Willits. 

    The real jewel was the teacher's manual for the book, which was done mostly by Natasha Josephowitz -- 300+ pages of course designs, lesson plans, questionnaires, activities, assessments, etc etc.

    Don't know if it's still being published, but in those years, it was published by Irwin . . .

    Matt


    On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Shannon Brown <shannonbrownllc@gmail.com> wrote:
    Colleagues:

    I am planning an undergraduate ODC course and am looking for ways to make it relevant and interesting for traditional undergraduate students with minimal work experience.

    My experience has been that these are difficult concepts for the students to grasp because they have no work experience and no foundational knowledge.

    Any suggestions on syllabi, text books, exercises, approaches would be much appreciated.

    Thank you.

    Shannon Brown Janicki
    College of Business & Health Administration
    University of St. Francis
    Joliet, IL
    sjanicki@stfrancis.edu



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