| TERM: | 2021-22 Winter |
| COURSE NUMBER: |
BUSI 496 |
| COURSE TITLE: |
Senior Business Project |
| NAME OF INSTRUCTOR: |
Elden Wiebe, PhD |
| CREDIT WEIGHT AND WEEKLY TIME DISTRIBUTION: |
credits 3(hrs lect 0 - hrs sem 3 - hrs lab 0) |
| COURSE DESCRIPTION: |
This course provides students who expect to graduate with a first
concentration in business administration with the opportunity to work
closely with faculty members on a project, either a research project
or a practicum, which will allow them to pursue some facet of their
business studies in a more concentrated way.
Prerequisites: BUSI 471 |
| REQUIRED RESOURCES: |
- Group.
2009. Building Healthy Organizations: Transforming Organizations
Through Values Based Leadership. Victoria, BC: Computronix (Canada)
Inc. ISBN: 9781426922824
- Brueggeman, W. 2017. Sabbath as
Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now (New Edition with Study
Guide). Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN: 9780664263294
- Keller,
T. (with Kartherine Leary Alsdorf). 2012. Every Good Endeavor:
Connecting Your Work to God’s Work. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN:
9781594632822
- Marquis, C. 2020. Better Business: How the B Corp
Movement is Remaking Capitalism. New Haven: Yale University Press.
ISBN: 9780300247152
- Van Sloten, J. 2017. Every Job a Parable:
What Walmart Greeters, Nurses & Astronauts Tell Us about God.
Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress. ISBN: 9781631465482
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| MARK DISTRIBUTION IN PERCENT: |
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| Participation | 50% | | Sabbath Project | 10% | | Vocation of the Business Person | 20% | | Final Exam | 20% |
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100% |
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| COURSE OBJECTIVES: |
To
recognize and appreciate the interconnectedness of business with all of
life in its vast range of expressions, and thus to gain a broader
perspective on business
- To gain understanding of how the present paradigm/practice of business came about, and how this paradigm is continuing to change
- To more fully understand how to do business Christianly
- To recognize and develop skills to connect our work to God’s work
- To recognize that God is already at work in the workplace, and to see ourselves entering and being part of his work
- To
recognize that we can positively shape the culture of whatever
organization in which we are working on the basis of living out our
values
- To begin to develop our own sense of vocation as business graduates
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| COURSE OUTLINE: | - Introduction to Course
- How we got here: The Unintended Reformation, Ch 5
- Two Directions for Capitalism
- - Surveillance Capitalism: Massey Lectures 2020
- - Values based Capitalism: Reith Lectures 2020
- Getting free from life being reduced to the market: Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now
- Connecting your work to God’s work: Every Good Endeavor
- Seeing God at work in the world of work: Every Job a Parable
- John Van Sloten -- Home | johnvansloten Check out his sermons (on Work, Sport, Art, Science, Music, Film and Television, Kids,
Miscellaneous), and watch one that interests you - You can help to make your organization healthy: Building Healthy Organizations
- New ways of doing business are gaining greater standing in society: Better Business: How the B Corp Movement is Remaking Capitalism
- Offsite Visit: The Art Gallery of Alberta Need to go on another day (Open Wed, Fri-Sun, 11-5pm; Thursdays 11-7pm)
- Offsite Visit: The Royal Alberta Museum Need to go on another day (Open Wed-Sun, 10-4pm) $21
- Final Reflections/Wrap Up
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