WELCOME TO BUS 302
The Gateway Experience
For more information visit:
http://www.csun.edu/bus302/
Why Gateway?
• Responds to feedback from alumni and
employers:
– Need for better communication skills
– Ability to work in teams
– Think critically and strategically
• Responds to university priority of increasing
graduation rates by:
– Ensuring a common set of skills and knowledge for
all (CSUN and transfer) students
– Prepare students for upper division work
Gateway Course Objectives
• Learn to build and work effectively in teams.
• Enhance written and oral communication.
• Understand the cross disciplinary nature of
business problems and strategies.
• Review lower division business core material.
• Use ethical thinking in solving business
problems.
How Will Gateway be Delivered?
• Active Student Learning
– Student preparedness is key
• Teaching Method
– Faculty are coaches not lecturers
– Students prepare and present homework
– Most assignments require working in teams
– Formal and informal oral presentations
Objective 1:
Learn to Build and Work
Effectively in Teams
• Work in teams on:
– Teams’ Exercises
– Lower Division Core Cases
– Ethics Cases
• Grade will depend upon:
– Instructor Evaluation of Case Analysis and Team
Exercises
– Peer Evaluation by Team Members
Objective 2:
Written and Oral Communication
• Written Assignments
– Writing grade on four LDC cases
– One or two other written assignments
• Oral Presentations (Formal and Informal)
– As part of your team’s LDC case presentation
– As part of a challenge team for LDC case
– Contribution to class via class participation
• Individual participation in class exercises,
readings, activities
Objectives 3 and 4:
Understand Cross Disciplinary
Nature of Business Problems
Review Lower Division Business
Core Material
• Written and oral work on
– LDC cases
– Integrates material in strategic thinking,
ethics, economics, accounting, business law,
and statistics
Objective 5:
Use Ethical Thinking in Solving
Business Problems
• Written and oral presentation of ethics
cases and ethics material in LDC cases
• Individual in-class ethics writing
assignment
Tips to Succeed in Gateway
• Complete all assignments before class
• Invest in your team
– Remember you are learning how to build an
effective team
• Plan ahead and budget time for class
– Take LDC exams early and get them out of the way
• Learn from each other
– Take advantage of LDC subject area expertise
within your team
BUS 302L – Gateway Lab
• You must take BUS 302L either:
– Prior to taking BUS 302
– OR at the same time you take BUS 302
• You will not be able to enroll in 400level business classes until you pass
both BUS 302 and 302L.
• Enroll now – all 302L sections are
open; there are no class size limits.