MDS4620 Mediating the Wild
4 Advanced Liberal Arts CreditsWilderness is disappearing faster than ever due to humans' radical transformation of the earth. Yet, consumer cultures have developed an ever so strong desire for the wild. In the industries that sell "Wildness", media have played a large role in telling it, showing it, measuring it, and manufacturing it. This course focuses on the ideologies, discourses, and technologies that mediate between contemporary consumers and the disappearing Wildness. We will explore a variety of cultural phenomena including the usage of smart phones, selfie sticks, and Go Pros in ecotourism, backpacking cultures, and outdoor adventure sports industries, the appropriation of drones and GPS-tracking devices by environmentalists, wildlife poachers, and virtual/augmented reality game designers, the trending of the "wild food" diet and the NGO campaigns protesting it, as well as the adoption of sound recordings of wild landscapes as new age music therapies. This course incorporates a multicultural and "multinatural" view to look at technology's role in representing, mediating, and recreating nature. We also address difficult ethical questions such as: How to maintain a proper distance with the Wild? Should we tame it, save it and thereby annihilating it? Or should we leave it on its own terms, and thereby letting it live or die?

Prerequisites: Any combination of 2 ILA (HSS, LTA, CSP, LVA, CVA)

SEN1335 Memes, Virality, and Popular Culture

(Student Instructor: Kaitlyn Sleyster) Students in this course will explore the internet and its relationship to contemporary pop culture, emphasizing the role of humor. How has the internet influenced our understanding of what is "funny?" What makes something "go viral"? In what ways does the internet replace in-person connection? To answer these and related questions, students will analyze memes, TikToks, Netflix originals, and more. As a conclusion to "Memes, Virality, and Popular Culture," students will reflect on the internet's impact on their own lives in a creative format.

Wednesdays 6:30-9:00pm

MOB7507 Mentoring for the Entrepreneurial Leader: Catalyzing Your Network for Career Advancement
1.5 Elective CreditsMentoring relationships are critical for career development and success in the 21st century. This course combines theory and practice to raise students' awareness of the value of developmental relationships for career advancement while providing experiential learning opportunities for building a developmental network of coaches, sponsors, and mentors --all of which are essential for career growth in today's complex work environment. Students will apply course concepts through a series of relationship building activities, peer circle and group discussions, peer feedback, and structured reflection exercises.

During this course, students pair with mentors through the Center for Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership, based on compatibility and their career interests. Students will apply concepts learned in class to manage their mentoring experience and build their developmental relationships. CWEL Mentors are alumnae and friends of the Babson community that are senior leaders or have 15+ years of professional experience, who are committed to making a difference in the lives of the next generation of leaders. They come from a variety of backgrounds and industries and have their own unique combination of expertise and networks to share.

NOTE: Students of all genders are welcome to enroll in this course

Prerequisites: None

MOB3534 Management Consulting Field Experience
4 General CreditsThe Management Consulting Field Experience (MCFE) course provides an excellent opportunity for students to apply principles that they learn in the classroom to real-world consulting projects. The students gain practical experience by solving actual business situations. Students also develop key skills in teamwork and collaboration, thought leadership, communications, and decision-making. Teams of four to six undergraduate students work as a consulting group for a sponsor company, ranging in size from small start-ups to large global companies in a variety of organizational sectors. The students meet and work with representatives of the company, analyze a company's core problem, and explore possible solutions. Previous projects include marketing, corporate finance, investment management, human resources, data analytics, and business strategy. The project concludes with a formal report and a presentation to the sponsor company comprising the group's recommendations.

Prerequisites: Minimum GPA of 2.7, 2nd semester Sophomore, Junior or Senior status by the beginning of the project.

MFE7500 Field Experience
3 CreditsThe Field Experience Program is designed to give Babson graduate students practical, hands-on experience working with an organization on a business challenge or opportunity.

The assignments take place in a variety of business environments which have included Fortune 500 companies, growth companies, venture capital firms, hedge funds and large and small investment companies.

The class is 14 weeks during the spring semester, with students earning three credits. The course follows the following format:

• Advisory "Bootcamp": The initial classes prepare students for the upcoming projects by teaching skills in project management, framing and problem solving and client management and communication.
• Advisory Project: in teams of three to five people, supported by a faculty advisor, students work directly with an outside organization to address an actual business or investment opportunity or challenge.
• Final Recommendations: In April, at the conclusion of the project, the team presents their findings and recommendations to the sponsoring company in a detailed, written report and oral presentation.
• Refection: During the final two weeks of class, students complete an in-person and short-reflection exercise on their experience.

The program provides students with an opportunity to apply their classroom-based learning to real-world business issues and investment situations where they and their partnering companies gain value as well as exposure to new opportunities, innovative solutions and resources.

The experience is a strong resume builder, providing students with relevant and practical experience useful in a variety of settings ranging from traditional corporate positions to consulting and investment banking.

Prerequisites: Full time MBA students must have completed MBA7800 - The Babson Consulting Experience. Part-time MBA students should have completed at least 12 credits before enrolling in the Field Experience.

LTA2073 Middle Eastern Literature
4 Intermediate Liberal Arts CreditsThis course explores the most provocative literary movements of the contemporary Middle East, including authors from the Iranian, Arab, Turkish, Armenian, and North African areas of the region. From the experimental novels of Naguib Mahfouz and Orhan Pamuk to the prison poetry of Ahmad Shamlu, from such legendary voices of exile as Adonis and Mahmoud Darwish to the dark sensual narratives of Joyce Mansour and Forugh Farrokhzad, we will cover a range of creative experiments with romanticism, mysticism, surrealism, existentialism, and post-modernism. As such, this will also allow us to unravel the many intricate concepts (those of desire, violence, time, space, power, revolution, and catastrophe) that form the Middle Eastern cultural imagination.

Prerequisites: (FCI1000 or AHS1000) and (WRT1001or RHT1000)

ART1171 Mixed Media Drawing
4 General Credits

This is an introductory course designed to engage observational and experimental approaches to drawing. Employing a broad range of materials, from charcoal and pastels to ink and found materials, students will study and synthesize fundamentals such as perspective, mark making, line quality, value, and figure-ground relationships. Guided observational exercises will aid in deconstructing objects and translating spatial relationships. In addition to these techniques, the course will engage found imagery and printmaking strategies to explore drawing's vast possibilities as a methodology, a record, and a problem-solving tool. Critiques will provide an opportunity to collectively assess, interpret, and reflect upon students' work. A selection of artists' writings, interviews, and videos will complement the drawing prompts, investigating drawing as an evolving, contemporary practice.

Prerequisites: None

SEN1303 Marketing Beauty and Fashion from an Ethical Standpoint(Senior Instructor: Brittany Lo) The course will focus on identifying marketing differentiation strategies in the luxury sector of the beauty and fashion industry. Questions we will consider are: Why are luxury brands' marketing strategies the strongest? Why are people willing to pay such high prices for these brands? How do ethical business practices determine a brand's success? The course will use the "Paradoxes of Luxury" framework to analyze real world cases, such as L'Oreal, Hermès, and Louis Vuitton.

Course Schedule: Fridays: January 31, February 7, February 14, February 21, February 28 and March 7 (Showcase of all Senior-Led Seminars)

OIM2645 Modeling with Excel
2 Advanced Liberal Arts Credits

Today's employment market requires students to have good Excel modeling skills. Potential employees want newly minted graduates to hit the ground running, and this means knowing how to skillfully operate with Spreadsheets. This class will teach intermediate Excel skills using real case studies and hands-on exercises. In particular, you will learn how to use Excel to manage large data sets by using functions like Pivot tables, Vlookup and others.

Prerequisites: None

LIT4600 Modern Drama
4 Advanced Liberal Arts CreditsThis is a survey of Western drama from the late nineteenth century to the present day. We'll study representative works of major dramatists of this period such as Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, Brecht, O'Neill, Pirandello, Beckett, O'Casey, Soyinka, Churchill, Wilson, Stoppard, Mamet, Kushner, and Parks. You'll research and report on theatre movements such as symbolism, expressionism, realism, naturalism, epic theatre, and theatre of the absurd. We'll consider the play as both text and performance, making use of theatre reviews, director's notes, interviews, photographs, videos, and, when possible, live performances. Grades will be determined by two papers, a midterm and a final exam, a group performance project, and a thoroughly researched oral presentation.

Prerequisites: Any combination of 2 ILA (HSS, LTA, CSP, LVA, CVA)