BUS80640/BUS8064 - Competency Project I

(3 units)

This course provides students with a unique learning experience to practice their professional research skills and showcase their accomplishments. The course is run as a community of learners and incorporates peer review collaboration. By working on a major applied-learning project, the emphasis of the course will have participants planning one specific project for secondary research within the course context and identify the project’s goals, research questions, literature search, and deliverables. Students will review organizational data from secondary sources to develop a plan to solve an organizational problem evident from secondary research, offer suggestions for potential improvement or develop recommendations in terms of enhanced policies or procedures. The ground DBA program students will have the option of spending 200-300 hours in a supervised practicum engagement during the course.