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- LAMP-L 216 Sophomore Seminar: Business and the Humanities (3 cr.) P: Admission to the LAMP honors certificate program. A topical seminar that introduces students to fundamental issues in the relationship between business and society. Topics vary with the instructor and year and include advertising in American culture and big business in American society.
- LAMP-L 316 Junior Seminar: Analytical Problem Solving (3 cr.) P: Admission to the LAMP honors certificate program. A discussion course emphasizing the use of quantitative methods and analytical skills in exploring and solving business-related problems. Topics vary with the instructor and year and include mathematical modeling and operations research, organizational control, and corporate finance.
- LAMP-L 416 Senior Seminar: Liberal Arts and Management (3 cr.) P: Admission to the LAMP honors certificate program. A discussion course drawing together aspects of other LAMP courses to focus on specific problems of business management and corporate policy in light of both practical and ethical considerations. Topics vary with the instructor and year and include the nature of business leadership and the legal and ethical practices of corporations.
- LAMP-M 201 Arts of Communication (3 cr.) Introduces communication as a core practice in management and the workplace. Students work intensively to develop first simple, then increasingly complex, liberal arts communication competencies for business. These include formal presentations, one-on-one discussions, small-group work, and mediated communications.
- LAMP-M 301 Evidence, Analysis, and Ways of Knowing (3 cr.) Explores how researchers from different disciplines and different methodological traditions frame research questions and use evidence to answer them. Reviews the strengths and weaknesses of each and shows that different kinds of questions lead to different methodological choices. Through an examination of a series of cases about social issues, economic life, and workplace dynamics, students learn that different disciplinary/ methodological perspectives can be brought to bear on the same issue.
- LAMP-M 302 Ethics and Responsible Management (3 cr.) P: Completion of the English composition requirement. Addresses the ethical dimensions of management and social responsibilities within the public and private sectors. Examines the legal and regulatory requirements of ethical conduct, including the establishment and use of codes of conduct by various organizations and industry groups. Particular emphasis placed on examining the processes managers may use to confront conflicts that arise in organizational settings between individual values and organizational goals. Evaluates case studies involving alleged breaches of ethical conduct.
- LAMP-M 303 Business and Inequality in the 21st Century (3 cr.) Explores the complex interrelated dynamics of modern wealth production, competition, and inequality, both within organizations and in their social environments. Exposes students to the many different kinds of inequality that are systemic in society and the economy today, and asks them to think about whether inequality is good or bad for business.
- LAMP-M 401 Capstone Seminar (3 cr.) P: Senior major in Management and the Liberal Arts, or consent of instructor. Students address and analyze a complex, real-world problem related to management, business, and/or economic enterprise. Emphasis on identifying appropriate research strategies, finding relevant data/information, participating actively in collegial discussion and critique, working collaboratively, and communicating findings to diverse audiences.
- LAMP-X 215 Critical Thinking Discussion (1 cr.) P: Admission to the LAMP honors certificate program. C: LAMP-L 216. The lab focuses on critical thinking and writing skills as applied in undergraduate writing and beyond. Through reading, take-home assignments and in-class exercises, students will hone their critical thinking, logic and writing habits.
- LAMP-X 298 Challenges of Life and Work in the Twenty-First Century (2 cr.) P: Admission to the LAMP honors certificate program. Encourages self-exploration and personal development with the goal of enhancing life outcomes. Course readings and discussions analyze critical developments in the economic and professional environment and help orient personal, professional, and moral choices toward the resolution of practical problems. Requires a commitment to the self-evaluation process and to the understanding and application of development theories.