Steven Bednar and Katy Rouse from the Department of Economics describe their writing Writing Excellence Initiative Grant Project.
Thursday, Feb. 5, 1-2 p.m.
Koury Business Center 300
Primary Audiences
All faculty in the Love School of Business; other faculty interested in introducing writing into a computation-heavy course.
Open to all faculty and staff
We introduced a semester-long consulting project in business economics that consisted of five separate deliverables. Three of the assignments required the students to apply economic concepts studied in the classroom to a firm of their choosing. The other two assignments utilized advanced applications of excel to address a common problem that applied classroom material. Skills from Business Communications and Principles of Accounting were reinforced. In our presentation we will provide additional details about the project, discuss the costs and benefits of introducing this project including an assessment of student learning, and comment on student perceptions of the costs and benefits of the project.