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  • 3.00 Credits

    This course teaches students important theories in strategy and allows them to apply the theories to real business situations through the extensive use of cases. Students learn key frameworks and analytical tools that help managers allocate company resources, and develop strategies to gain competitive advantages over rival firms. Course topics include industry analysis, internal analysis, business level strategies, diversification, strategic alliances, and mergers and acquisitions. The course carries a substantial reading and writing load. Students are expected to actively participate in class and case discussions. Prerequisites: 'C-' or better in (BCOR 3010 AND BCOR 3020 AND BCOR 3030 AND BCOR 3040 AND BCOR 3050) AND Intermediate or Full Major or Minor status in the David Eccles School of Business.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course focuses on understanding the key functional, business, and corporate decisions that affect the long-term position of the firm. The central concept of this course is competitive strategy, involving the use of critical resources over long periods of time to attain specific goals and objectives. Students look at both the internal structure of the firm and the external dynamics of the macro and industry environments. Taught primarily through cases and involves substantial class discussion and writing. Prerequisites: 'C' or better in (BCOR 3010 OR BCOR 3020 AND BCOR 3030 AND BCOR 3040 AND BCOR 3050) AND (Member of Business Scholars program OR Member of Honors College) AND Intermediate or Full Major status in the School of Business AND UofU GPA ' 3.5
  • 1.00 - 3.00 Credits

    Explorers is a strategic leadership internship program run through the Goff Strategic Leadership Center, and is designed for students who want a little extra support in accessing their first professional experience and being successful in the workplace. Students are matched with an internship site, and meet weekly in a corresponding class. Through this program, students engage in leadership and professional skill development. Students gain real-world, applicable experience while developing skills such as self-awareness, personal agility, and the ability to deliver results with strong personal ownership. These skills will help students lay the foundation for future experiences throughout their college career. This course is designed for students who do not have prior internship experience (often first-years and sophomores). Prerequisites: Instructor Consent.
  • 3.00 Credits

    To obtain an overall understanding of the legal concepts that directly impact the employment relationship, including but not limited to: anti-discrimination laws, employment contracts, employment-at-will, employee benefits, confidentiality requirements, hiring and firing procedures, employee handbooks, and employee policy and procedures. Prerequisites: Intermediate or Full Major status in the David Eccles School of Business OR Minor status in Entrepreneurship OR Instructor Consent.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course focuses on exploring the effect of the international context on business and specific management functions which firms must consider to remain successful. This approach includes examining how cultural contexts inform different social, technological, and business norms on management practices. We will use lectures, cases, videos, and articles to learn and apply course concepts, and to understand how international management issues are perceived by different stakeholders in a variety of international environments. Prerequisites: Member of the Business Scholars program OR Intermediate or Full Major status in the David Eccles School of Business OR Instructor Consent.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This project-based course exposes the ways in which America's civil legal system fails to provide justice for all, explores innovations targeted at addressing that systemic failure, and empowers students to design and launch solutions to the justice gap. The majority of Americans can't afford to hire counsel when confronted with a civil legal need. As a result, they attempt to navigate the civil legal system without representation, or simply do not engage with the system at all. What are the societal implications of that system failure, and what can we do to change the status quo? In this course, students will engage with various community stakeholders to understand: (1) what the civil legal system was designed to do; (2) the role that legal professionals have traditionally played in that civil legal system; and (3) how we might reform and improve traditional service models using creative and disruptive problem-solving skills. Community participants will be invited to collaborate on problem identification and solution building. Each semester, this course will tackle a new design challenge. Prerequisites: Instructor Consent
  • 3.00 Credits

    The justice sector is rapidly adopting technology aimed at delivering legal information, legal services, and court services. Citing technology as an emerging access to justice strategy, the justice sector intends to expand the public's access to their civil legal system through reducing barriers associated with travel to physical legal services and courthouses. Although justice sector technology is rapidly expanding across the nation, little attention has been paid to whether the people for whom justice sector technology is intended are able to access and use that technology. And that's a problem, because the people who most need those online services are often the ones who find them hardest to use. This course trains students to apply User Experience (UX) methodologies to the evaluation and design of justice sector technology. UX and its focus on human-centered design helps ensure that people are able to successfully navigate the platforms intended to provide them with digital access to their civil legal system. This is an interdisciplinary, project-based course that engages students in critical thinking and creative problem solving through design thinking, systems thinking, community-based user research, usability testing, and human-centered design. Each semester, this course will tackle a new design challenge.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will: (1) expose the ways in which America fails to provide 'justice for all;' (2) explore how advocates can be better equipped with data and policy research to advocate for systems-level change; and (3) empower students to design and launch policy-focused solutions to the justice gap. This is an interdisciplinary, project-based course that exposes students to design thinking, systems thinking, community-based research and tech-based collaboration tools. Each semester, this course will tackle a new design challenge. Previous projects to emerge from this course include i4J's Cost of Eviction Calculator and i4J's Medical Debt Policy Scorecard.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course teaches students important theories in strategy and allows them to apply the theories to real business situations through the extensive use of cases. Students learn key frameworks and analytical tools that help managers allocate company resources, and develop strategies to gain competitive advantages over rival firms. Course topics include industry analysis, internal analysis, business level strategies, diversification, strategic alliances, and mergers and acquisitions. The course carries a substantial reading and writing load. Students are expected to actively participate in class and case discussions. Prerequisites: 'C-' or better in (BCOR 3010 AND BCOR 3020 AND BCOR 3030 AND BCOR 3040 AND BCOR 3050) AND Intermediate or Full Major status in the David Eccles School of Business.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Entrepreneurship requires leadership. This class is designed to familiarize students with the current challenges and trends of growing a business in today's economy. Students learn not only through lectures and readings, but also from frequent presentations by distinguished entrepreneurs and business leaders who share their real-world experiences. This business elective has no prerequisites and is open to all majors at the University of Utah.