2024-2025 Catalog

SBS-298 Tackling Wicked Global Problems

SBS 298 will focus on addressing wicked problems, understanding the challenges they pose, and working towards creative solutions. SBS 298 will integrate freshman level business skills giving students a forum for practicing business decision-making in the context of solving global social challenges. Students will consider problems that the private sector can solve with innovation and focus on no further harm. Potential solutions such as these are hotly debated and give the perfect setting to practice recognizing and evaluating facts, ideas, opinions and arguments. Students will define the goals, interests and concerns of multiple stakeholders using research skills, entrepreneurial thinking, public policy, and other skills developed during their freshman and early sophomore years. Using storytelling and data visualization, students will pitch their solutions. Students will work in an experiential and collaborative learning environment as they develop the skills and knowledge to identify, conceptualize, and working on a wicked problem. Students can apply the skills built here on their major classes in subsequent semesters

Credits

3

Prerequisite

( Student has satisfied all of the following Student has completed or is in process of completing all of the following course(s) BLE 215 - Business Ethics and Law, MKT 210 - Principles of Marketing And Student has satisfied all of the following Student is a member of the Teachout BSBA Core End 2022 Student Cohort ) Or ( Student has satisfied all of the following Student has completed all of the following course(s) SBS 101 - Business Foundations Navigating the Fast-Paced Business Landscape, SBS 104 - Innovative Teaming, SBS 110 - Introduction to Business Communication And Student has satisfied all of the following Student has completed or is in process of completing all of the following course(s) BLE 215 - Business Ethics and Law, MKT 210 - Principles of Marketing )