Oct 05, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25

BA 4920 - International Business Experience


The course provides students the opportunity to leverage their existing professional and consulting skills and develop new ones in an exciting and challenging international environment. By learning and doing, students will harness their curiosity through exploring diverse and new business and social cultures, while on-site and engaging with individuals from various locations around the world.

Requisites: BA 2290 or concurrent
Credit Hours: 3 - 6
OHIO BRICKS: Bridge: Diversity and Practice, Bridge: Learning and Doing
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 12.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 30.0 practicum
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will be able to articulate insights about conducting international business consulting in both the United States and the country they are visiting.
  • Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the complexity of elements important to members their consulting teams and those in which they engage while on site during their GCP.
  • Students will be able to interpret intercultural experience from their own and others worldview through professional and social engagement and assessments.
  • Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of cultural differences in verbal and non-verbal communication, in business and social settings, in and outside of the United States.
  • Students will be able to ask complex questions of their specific GCP site in order to articulate answers to these questions that reflect multiple cultural perspectives.
  • Students will be able to initiate and develop interactions with culturally different others while suspending judgment of not only residents of their visiting site but also other individuals, from around the world, in which they will also engage with.
  • Students will be able to connect relevant experience and academic knowledge learned on-site to real world global negotiation, business, and problem solving.
  • Students will be able to see and make connections across disciplines and perspectives to increase their global network and societal impact.
  • Students will be able to adapt and apply business and social skills, abilities, theories, or methodologies gained in one situation to a new situation to bridge gap between cultures and social styles.
  • Students will be able to complete reflections and assigned deliverables using a format, language, or visual representation in ways that enhance meaning of the professional skillsets and research learned while on-site.
  • Students will be able to demonstrate a developing sense of self as a learner and build on prior experience to respond to new and challenging contexts on a global individual, organizational, and societial view.


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