The Weatherhead School of Management has revised its undergraduate curriculum to meet the challenges of today's management workplace and inspire students with an appreciation for lifelong learning.

The changes took effect this fall.

Building on the school's top programs in management, entrepreneurship and management information systems, Weatherhead's "value-added" curriculum now wholly emphasizes experiential learning, leadership and social engagement and an entrepreneurial approach to business, according to Gary Previts, professor of accountancy and associate dean for undergraduate and integrated studies programs at Weatherhead.

Weatherhead's management core degree requirements have been enhanced to reflect the business management world of the 21st century, Previts said. While Weatherhead's management core maintains such basic offerings as corporate finance, operations and marketing, management principles and leadership and social engagement round out a more modernized core degree requirement.

Managing Organizations and People, a course offering in the sophomore year (MGMT 250/251), is the centerpiece of the new curriculum, highlighting responsibility, leadership and social engagement. Instead of offering a triad of one-time, three-hour courses, MGMT 250/251 is now a yearlong, comprehensive sequence.

The school also has expanded its offerings to include a senior capstone strategy course and research and communications seminars.

The seminar-style MGMT 395, loosely modeled after Case's SAGES program, adds three one-hour seminar requirements, emphasizing undergraduate student research and enhanced interaction with faculty-particularly graduate faculty heavily involved in research-and their fellow students. The approach to group education also features new one-credit seminars, from which juniors and seniors can elect to take three versions of MGMT 395, focusing on business ethics, labor unions in developing countries and the origin of U.S. capital markets.

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