BUS 655: PRACTICUM III

Each Practicum allows students to personalize the orientation and content of the program along the common thread of detailed immersion into a selected industry. At the start of the program, students will select an industry of interest for which they will create a hypothetical company. Each MBA course contains assignments specific to that industry and/or hypothetical company. After every pair of courses, there will be a Practicum, or applied seminar, intended to reinforce and apply learning through the following activities: 1. Students will make a presentation of the combined Practicum pieces from the preceding pair of courses. The presentation will be to the MBA Cohort Coordinator, industry leaders and classmates followed by questions and answers and feedback. 2. The MBA Coordinator will lead a debriefing session on the learning that took place over the last two courses. Personal and Professional Development models will be presented and used. 3. Students will consolidate their journaling from courses into material for their Personal and Professional Development Plan and their MBA Portfolio. 4. Prior to each round of presentations, students will engage in a consulting role with other students to critique and improve each other's companies.