Month: March 2025

BADM/MENT 2240: Mastering Creativity and Innovation (Storrs)

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[UConn Storrs]

Instructor: Nora Madjar

If you are currently a business student, register for MENT 2240. If you are not, register for BADM 2240.

Students improve their creative problem-solving and leadership skills in a way that fosters creativity and innovation in others – integral skills for the constantly changing business world. Engagement in a variety of experiential activities designed to help understand first-hand the situations which are most likely to add creative value when working on complex and/or loosely defined open-ended problems. Topics include the basic features of creativity and innovation processes and practical applications for how to facilitate, manage, and evaluate creative ideas and innovations in a work setting.

Students enrolled in the Honors sections will have an opportunity to work with real business creatives (individuals from creative industries or entrepreneurs) and explore what stimulates and what stifles their creativity and what supports their innovations in real life.

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POLS 2803W: Legal Reasoning and Writing

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[UConn Storrs]

Requires ENGL 1007, 1010, or 1011.

This course provides students with an in-depth understanding of the federal appellate process through a Moot Court simulation. Moot Court is an experiential learning tool that teaches students to craft and present legal arguments both orally and in writing at the appellate court level. While the course prepares students for participation in tournaments hosted by the American Moot Court Association (AMCA), participation in these tournaments is not required for enrollment in the course. It is also important to note that team participation is subject to the availability of spots allocated to each educational institution at the regional level. All students in this course have the option to submit their written appellate briefs to the AMCA Brief Writing Competition.

As a writing-intensive (“W”) course, students will draft, revise, and resubmit several writing assignments throughout the semester. The final projects for this course include drafting appellate briefs for both the petitioner and respondent in the assigned hypothetical case, as well as delivering oral arguments on their behalf. By the end of the course, students will have strengthened their legal reasoning and writing skills, developed their persuasive abilities, and gained experience collaborating as teams for resolving critical legal issues in today’s society. Previous hypothetical cases include prisoners’ rights, the rights of undocumented citizens, and religious freedoms.