Introduction to Organizational Dynamics: The Practical Scholar

This course provides you with an overview of academic concepts central to the Organizational Dynamics Program. In addition, the course will prepare you to move through our program by developing academic writing and research skills that are interdisciplinary, practical, and critical. We will explore questions central to being a student in a professional degree program, including: Why is academic research important in our daily lives? How can we apply the strategies that scholars use to improve our workplaces? How do we develop research topics that will help us while clarifying the concept under study? The final deliverable will be a proposal for a research project that can be used for your Capstone Project.

You will become skilled in how to: explain concepts central to Organizational Dynamics; narrow a topic and frame a research question; develop a methodology that suits your research goals and timeline; engage in innovative thinking techniques distinct to the arts and science; write a proposal for a substantial research project; develop and maintain an annotated bibliography; conduct and interpret interdisciplinary research independently and as a class; and read critically and write clearly for your specified audience.