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*'''Course Description''': A 200 level course that will bring sophomores from the College of: Business, Engineering & ISAT, and Visual Arts & Design. With each of these programs having some sort of capstone or long time frame projects this 200 level course will utilize short-term projects with teams made of diverse disciplines to foster collaborative and teamworking skills growth.
*Emphases on leadership, creativity, and design thinking through 3 week long projects.
**<u>Leadership</u>: Through the use of the JMU Dux Center students will benchmark their leadership/teamwork teamworking skills style at the beginning of the course. Through out the course as they finish a 3 week project cycle, the group leader will receive 4-5 leadership reviews from their team members and each team member will receive teammate reviews from their team members. At the end of the course a student will have participated in 4 groups, lead one, received feed back and completed the leadership challenge workbook.**<u>Creativity</u>: During class students will practice creativity exercises, learn it's application and get a further their understanding from through the text; "Creative Confidence"By David and Tom Kelly. **<u>Design Thinking:</u> The course will be project-based with the application of light design thinking. In 3 week weeks students will have had to discover more about a problem they have to solve, ideate solutions, prototype solutions and select the best idea for presentations.
**<u>Public Presentations</u>: At the end of a 3-week cycle each team will present their process, idea and prototype in a public space such as TDU. Each student will be required to bring at least 2 guests (no repeats) to this public event.
*Project Lead's 2015 Agenda-Nahom Fissaha