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Enhancing the Undergraduate Core

This year, Leeds rolled out an update to the second-year undergraduate core curriculum. This revision amplifies the best elements of the BASE (BCOR Applied Semester Experience) capstone course and incorporates feedback from the Career Impact roundtables. Throughout the first two years, students are challenged to learn core content knowledge and master 21st-century competencies and then integrate their knowledge into group work on real business problems and tackling big questions about the role of business in society.

Highlights include:

• Two Excel-based math and statistics courses

• Business-focused communication course

• Innovative World of Business course to understand ethics in global business

• Modular 1-1/2 credit courses (鈥渕ods鈥�) that introduce core content knowledge

• Capstone in which student teams work on a real business problem from Colorado companies (example: evaluate attractiveness of new categories to enter with Justin鈥檚 Nut Butter)

Real-World Training for MBA Students

Being comfortable making decisions in real business situations is a crucial skill for any MBA student. That鈥檚 why, before classes even began this fall, incoming MBAs were challenged with a 鈥渓ive鈥� business case from Emerson Automation Solutions.

Leed鈥檚 MBA faculty director Lori Seward led the exercise in collaboration with Andy Dudiak, a Leeds MBA alum and president of flow measurement at Emerson.

For students, the practical work on some of today鈥檚 business challenges helps them develop the confidence, resiliency and ambition needed to be successful in their careers. These skills are鈥�exactly what we look for when hiring at Emerson.
鈥� Andy Dudiak

MBA teams were given a data set and asked to recommend a supply chain strategy using what they had just learned in their quantitative methods course. Since the case competition took place over a 24-hour period, it simulated the real-time horizon business managers often face.

It was a powerful way to practice critical competencies, like social intelligence, critical and creative thinking, oral communication, learning through doing and reflection, and teamwork鈥攚ith direct feedback from Emerson executives.