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Question: During Interim, students pursue a single course, often of an interdisciplinary nature. If you could design your own Interim course today, what would it be? What areas of knowledge would you combine? (250-500)
If I were to design a course, I would develop a multi-cultural interim course in team management, a course that covers the aspects of various culture, ethnics and understanding of diverse disciplines. And my course would incorporate areas of study such as culture, ethnics, social sciences and sociology. One of the important reasons for this is because the human population is getting more diverse each year, and learning to work with different groups of people would be very important in the near future.
Thanks to globalization, the world is getting more diverse each year. And in this globalized world stereotyping can be dangerous in any type of work, because it tries to say something about an entire group of people, and leaves individual differences out in the cold. So my course would have perspectives about the management of diverse work force. For example, it would include studies related to how people expressed and managed tensions related to diversity, whether those who had been traditionally underrepresented in the organization felt respected and valued by their colleagues, and how people interpreted the meaning of their racial identity at work. By identifying the conditions that intervene between the demographic composition of a work group and its functioning, my course would try to give detailed study about ways to improve efficiency in work.
I would also like to approach my course from a sociological perspective. By studying the structure of a work group, my course would give the basis for decision making. Why a certain decision is creating unnecessary misunderstanding between workers? Why a certain decision is biased towards a certain ethnic group? And why it is creating racism? These sorts of questions could be addressed with the help of sociological perspective.
Also, while disputes or tension at work are inevitable because of racial differences, it is considered unlawful for employers to discriminate or treat employees less favorably because of his or her race, color, or ethnic characteristics. So by understanding the cultures and races of people, any sort of decisions could be carried out safely without creating havoc. In this case, my course would cover studies from cultural and racial perspective.
Question: During Interim, students pursue a single course, often of an interdisciplinary nature. If you could design your own Interim course today, what would it be? What areas of knowledge would you combine? (250-500)
If I were to design a course, I would develop a multi-cultural interim course in team management, a course that covers the aspects of various culture, ethnics and understanding of diverse disciplines. And my course would incorporate areas of study such as culture, ethnics, social sciences and sociology. One of the important reasons for this is because the human population is getting more diverse each year, and learning to work with different groups of people would be very important in the near future.
Thanks to globalization, the world is getting more diverse each year. And in this globalized world stereotyping can be dangerous in any type of work, because it tries to say something about an entire group of people, and leaves individual differences out in the cold. So my course would have perspectives about the management of diverse work force. For example, it would include studies related to how people expressed and managed tensions related to diversity, whether those who had been traditionally underrepresented in the organization felt respected and valued by their colleagues, and how people interpreted the meaning of their racial identity at work. By identifying the conditions that intervene between the demographic composition of a work group and its functioning, my course would try to give detailed study about ways to improve efficiency in work.
I would also like to approach my course from a sociological perspective. By studying the structure of a work group, my course would give the basis for decision making. Why a certain decision is creating unnecessary misunderstanding between workers? Why a certain decision is biased towards a certain ethnic group? And why it is creating racism? These sorts of questions could be addressed with the help of sociological perspective.
Also, while disputes or tension at work are inevitable because of racial differences, it is considered unlawful for employers to discriminate or treat employees less favorably because of his or her race, color, or ethnic characteristics. So by understanding the cultures and races of people, any sort of decisions could be carried out safely without creating havoc. In this case, my course would cover studies from cultural and racial perspective.
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