The AUSA Senate’s influence has produced a student-created business course that strives to improve learning for business students, Daniels College of Business Andrew Petraitis said last week.
An independent study course, titled, “Daniels Undergraduate Business Core Study,” was conceived last quarter by Petraitis and Chair of Records Mary Keller. The course is set up to give business students a chance to explore the business school curriculum.
“Each member of the class selects a course from the undergraduate business core, studies its learning modules and goals for their individual course and then evaluates how the course is currently being taught,” Petraitis said. “Once the evaluation is complete, each person will design optimal learning outcomes and ways to have better collaboration in the classroom. The final stage of the course is to create a syllabus that outlines the week-by-week activities of the course.”
Some of the courses include “Stakeholder’s Issues,” “The Business Idea,” “The Business Environment,” “Business Plan” and “Operations Management.”
Interaction among class members consists of collaborative sessions four times during the quarter and weekly meetings that give students the opportunity to ask questions and conceptualize ideas for the final paper. A book on the syllabus is Promoting Active Learning by Chet Myers and Thomas B. Jones.
In other business, the Student Organizations Committee has scheduled a Campus Collaborative Luncheon for Feb. 28. On-Campus Senator Chris Sivavajchaipong organized the lunch last year.
The lunch is followed by an information session, and then members from different organizations meet in breakout sessions to listen to speakers and work in groups with people from different organizations to generate ideas.
Other Senate business included consideration of a proposal by AUSA President Jake Bakker to create several task forces that would address such issues as school spirit, the senior gift, senior activities and the Student Involvement Center.
“What is unique about these task forces is that anyone who wants to be a part of them can,” Bakker said. Their goals will be to “increase DU pride and school unity,” he said.
To promote this proposal and address other issues, an AUSA retreat was planned for Feb. 8.
The Diversity Committee that meets every other Friday at 2 p.m. in the Student Involvement Center is brainstorming for a guest speaker for the group’s spring conference, Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Engineering Senator Chris Adams said. The conference will include overlapping hour-long workshops concerning different diverse topics and may reach out into the Denver community to include high school students.
Pioneer Place planner Jillian Doss is overseeing Pioneer Place renovation that began over winter break with new furniture. Doss, who was NSME Senator last year, said that installations would include a sitting bar, transparent walls to enclose the area and new coffee tables. A grand opening ceremony is scheduled for mid-February.
The Senate will now meet at 6 p.m. every Tuesday, Room 1864, second floor of Driscoll North.
