Course Objectives

Much attention in marketing this course has been placed on the metaphor and experiential learning opportunity of climbing Mt. Adams - "...that climbing course" as mentioned on campus.  Although our required capstone experience will place us in a simulation requiring hardy principles, much of the course will focus on personal and organizational hardiness as a pathway to resiliency and the capstone experience will engage us in experiential learning. The theoretical framework of hardiness is rigorously grounded in research evidence and scholarship. I wanted to reassure you and perhaps comfort you that our course will set out to meet the following objectives:

Course Objectives/Competencies

• Develop knowledge of and strategies for learning about existentialism
• Develop knowledge of and strategies for learning about the role of existentialism in the organizational setting
• Develop knowledge of psychological hardiness as a pathway to resiliency
• Develop knowledge of and strategies for applying ethnographic principles of observation, interviews, archival and secondary data to investigate hardy principles in the organizational setting
• Develop knowledge and strategies for thinking creatively about implementing psychological hardiness with organizations
• Develop strategies for applying principles of psychological hardiness in real life simulation

 The course will be led by the following team, representing faculty, guide(s), and teacher assistant:

• Joe Albert (Chair, ORGL Program)
• Adrian B. Popa (ORGL Faculty)
• Scott Martin (Guide)
• Lori Mage (Teacher Assistant)