Course Description:

When people come together in any setting, they develop both spoken and unspoken rules about how things should be done.  Understanding these patterns of power and interaction is essential to accomplishing your goals in an internship, workplace, or with a group of people in any setting (including an apartment or program like Dynamy).  This seminar explores the many factors that influence how groups of people work well together – or don’t!  Topics include communication, group dynamics, conflict management, individual and organizational learning, and decision-making.

Readings, personal stories, and the writing assignments provide a lens through which students broaden their understanding of themselves, organizations, and their particular internship placement.  Conversely, internship experiences and class discussion provide a way to evaluate ideas and theories from the reading and discussion.  This interplay of theory and practice is central to the learning process of the Dynamy/Clark seminar.

Course Requirements:

1. Weekly seminar meeting
2. Maintain active involvement in a full-time internship
3. Weekly reading packets
4. Weekly 2-page response paper
5. Final paper (6 pages minimum)