Required Graduate Management Residency
Integrated Reflective Practice
Those students enrolled in the MBA, MSMIIT, MSDIM or MSL programs will participate in an engaging on-campus workshop experience. The on-campus component is built into the eight-week three-credit course, MBA 500. The residency component takes place on the beautiful Champlain College campus, and will set you on a path for success in the program. Through a series of intensive classes, workshops and dynamic presentations by noted guest speakers, you will leave the workshop with new skills, knowledge and motivation — energized and ready for the demands of pursuing your degree. Getting started right is a primary ingredient in achieving your MBA, MSMIIT, MSDFM, MSDFS or MSL degree.
MBA 500: Integrated Reflective Practice, the course that comprises your residential experience, must be completed in the first six months of your program. The course sets the stage by providing you with the philosophical and technical basis for all of your subsequent courses. Through a mixture of individual and team assignments you will:
- Create a personal learning roadmap that will serve as a guideline for the entire program.
- Demonstrate an understanding of Action Research techniques and the process of Field-Based Learning Projects within each course.
- Develop the ability to apply the Integrated Reflective Practice (IRP) model of learning to challenging case studies.
This course emphasizes the importance of practice and experience as the basis for your personal and professional development. You will also learn how to leverage the online format and tools to their greatest advantage, and we’ll show you how these programs’ experientially based learning process can mean more ingrained learning that will have a more immediate impact on your career.
An underlying benefit to any graduate degree grows from maintaining the contacts and connections you will make with faculty and classmates. You’ll have ample opportunities to make these lasting connections through face-to-face team projects and one-on-one conversations during your time on our hillside campus in Burlington, Vermont, one of America’s great small cities.
Although you must take the course at some point during your first six months after you enroll, we recommend that you take it as early as possible in your studies.
Course Description: Integrated and Reflective Practice
Taught through the required residency experience, this course provides the basis of both the philosophy and the professional development perspective used in all subsequent management focus programs and MSL courses. Students will complete a thorough, multi-dimensional self-assessment that culminates in a personal learning road map to guide their journey through the entire graduate program. The emphasis of the content will be on the importance of work practice and experience as a basis for management development, and on the use of experience for personal and organizational learning. Short case studies will also address the integration of learning through the six Areas of Practice: Global, Organizational & Personal Values-Based Leadership; Innovation through Information; Financial and Economic Resources; Customers, Markets, Sales and Marketing; Human Resources and Organizational Relationships; and Measurement and Process Improvement.
