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AVERETT COLLEGE GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES
Addendum to the Published Student Module (February 2000)

Course Number and Title
BSA 407, Integration Project (BBA Capstone Course)

Course Description
A course designed to integrate and demonstrate the student’s professional and personal growth during his/her third and fourth year of baccalaureate study. The student will document one major assignment from each course that demonstrates the various forms of cognitive learning, i.e.: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation. With this historical foundation, the student will prepare an assignment that demonstrates how the theoretical learning from the course work relates to the student’s: (1) workplace; (2) family; and (3) community service. The culminating activity for this course is the completion of a faculty-guided major written project encompassing an area of theory and practical application in the field of business, developed over the duration of the last three terms of the BBA program of study, which demonstrates the student’s knowledge of applied business research.

Professor and Contact Numbers
Dr. Brian Satterlee
(804) 791-5837
satterle@averett.edu

Textbook and Other Instructional Materials
· Same text as BSA 308, Business Statistics/Research and BSA 314, Business Communications
· www.maxpages.com/drsatterlee

Course Objectives
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· To provide a means to review the effectiveness of the course assignments in each course of the program to promote progress growth in the student’s written communication skills;
· To demonstrate the student’s ability to effectively integrate the new knowledge learned in the classroom and in group assignments into the individual work environment;
· To reinforce learning by promoting the integration of learned knowledge into the student’s work environment;
· To encourage the student to recognize the importance of treating opportunities as problems in the work environment;
· To provide the student with the opportunity to learn to recognize, define, analyze, and resolve a problem in his or her work environment;
· To provide the student with the opportunity to demonstrate applied problem solving skills;
· To cause the student to learn and apply research techniques to work-related problems, and;
· To require the student to demonstrate the ability to develop and write a quality research report.

Grading Policy
Performance in this course will be assessed as follows, on a 100-points scale:

End of the 8th Course
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Portfolio written assignment from first six Business courses -- 8 points
(BSA221, BSA346, CSS201, BSA314, BSA308, BSA313)

Application papers from first six Business courses – 17 points
(6 papers, approximately 2 pages each)

Applied Research Project Proposal – 15 points
(refer to information on proposal writing in Chapter 14 of the BSA 314 textbook)

End of the 16th Course
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Portfolio written assignment from next six Business courses – 8 points
(ECO305, BSA319, BSA310, BSA480, BSA406, BSA435)

Application papers from next six Business courses – 17 points
(6 papers, approximately 2 pages each)

Applied Research Project – 35 points
(refer to information on planning and writing formal reports in Chapters 13 and 14 of the BSA 314 textbook)

Assignments
Read the published Student Module prior to each class. Averett College Graduate and Professional Studies employs a modular approach to instructional delivery. Each course is developed and published as a series of modules. The modules are distributed to students upon registration. The purpose of this addendum is to provide additional information to students enrolled in this course.

This course will, for the most part, follow the published Student Module list of activities. During the first weekend session, students will be informed of any adjustments to the required assignments for this course.

The following assignments will be required:

· A “portfolio” consisting of one written and graded project from each of the 12 Business courses in your program.
· Twelve (12) papers illustrating how you applied or plan to apply the content from each of your courses in the organization in which you are employed, in a volunteer or service organization, or in your family.
· An Applied Research Proposal that clearly delineates the nature and scope of the Applied Research Project.
· An Applied Research Project through which you will develop solutions to a problem related to your position of employment.

Grading Criteria
· A = 94 to 100
· B = 86 to 93
· C = 85 to 78
· D = 77 to 70
· F = below 70

Expectations
This course has been designed to use the independent learning method with specific assignments due on dates mutually agreed upon by the student and the professor. Successful students will arrange periodic progress reviews with the professor by telephone, by computer, or in person. The intent is that students may use the entire length of the program to work on the requirements of this course but must complete all parts of it prior to the completion of the last term. The purpose is to allow the student and the professor the convenience and maximum flexibility in the scheduling and completion of assignments.

Academic Integrity
Refer to Averett College Honor Code

Brian Satterlee, Ed.D., D.B.A.
Danville	Virginia
(804) 791-5837
satterle@averett.edu

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