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Bridging General Education And The Business Discipline: Surfacing Central Themes Through A Core Course, Jennifer Dose
Bridging General Education And The Business Discipline: Surfacing Central Themes Through A Core Course, Jennifer Dose
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General education and business major courses often follow parallel paths with little intersection or appreciation of the other. Students benefit, however, by seeing key themes and skills linked to both general education and specialized disciplinary courses. Giving specific attention to Christian institutions, this paper argues for more intentional connections between these two parts of the curriculum, highlighting their common ideals of shared learning, shared connections as human beings, practical skills, institutional distinctiveness, and integration. One strategy to overcome the bifurcation of general education and business curricula has been to ground institutional distinctives within a core course experience, which can then …