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## It's not business as usual anymore, and your education should reflect this reality.
Whether you are an entering freshman or a seasoned MBA student, the School of Business will provide you with the cutting-edge skills and knowledge that will allow you to succeed at every stage of your career – from excelling in your first job, to discovering new professions and opportunities as technologies and business models evolve.
## From Day One
You will dive deeply into your program, while working with students from other disciplines, simulating what you will experience in the workplace. You will interact with students across majors and graduate programs, challenging each other to use creativity as well as analytics to conceive of new, valuable, market-driven products and services.
As you earn your degree, you’ll benefit from unique advantages such as study abroad, internships with regional business and collaboration on real projects with industry leaders to build valuable connections that can last a lifetime.
## Business Plus
Learn more about our unique Business Plus programs — curated **co-curricular experiences** to complement students' classroom work and aid in hard wiring the ideas of discovery and knowledge acquisition. Trough immersive opportunities, **digital badges** and **student organizations**, these experiences truly set our students apart in their career pursuits.
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## Undergraduate Academic Programs
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## Three-Year Bachelor Degrees
Earn your bachelor’s degree in three years, saving at least $10,000 on your undergraduate education. Launch your career early and begin earning a competitive salary in three, rather than four years, or consider using your final year to enroll in Jefferson’s one-year MBA program.
## MBA On-Campus Program Now STEM Eligible
Earn your Masters of Business Administration in our STEM-designated, on-campus program in one of nine different specialized concentration areas modeled for your career, including Accounting, Biopharmaceutical Commercialization, Cannabis Business, Fashion Business, Health Analytics, Marketing, Real Estate Development and more.
STEM eligibility also allows international students on an F-1 student status to apply for an additional two years of work authorization after an initial 12-month period of Post-completion Optional Practical Training.
## Graduate Certificates Now Available MS in Organization Leadership Certificate Options
The Master of Science in Organizational Leadership program offers nine graduate certificates — including Brand Management, Human Resources Leadership, Organizational Change Management and Transformational Leadership — for students to choose from as stand-alone, professional development credentials. Learn more about each below.
## undergraduate-to-graduate options Personalized Pathways Program
More than **220 guided options** are available to Kanbar College undergraduates — offering first-year students the opportunity to simultaneously **apply for admission to existing undergraduate and graduate programs** within Kanbar College upon enrolling at Thomas Jefferson University.
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# About Kanbar College
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Kanbar College offers an innovative and transdisciplinary approach to teaching and learning that provides students with the skills and knowledge to think creatively, brainstorm out-of-the-box ideas and work collaboratively to discover innovative solutions to complex problems.
Through the integrated DEC core curriculum, students gain the added value of expertise in related fields as well as deep discipline-specific knowledge. The program retains the core learning of each major while forging new collaborations between designers, engineers and entrepreneurs. By learning in a transdisciplinary environment, students go on to be better, more effective leaders in their professions.
When the critical-thinking and creativity skills of the designer combine with the analysis and problem-solving skills of the engineer and the planning and project-management skills of the business professional, they synthesize to form a suite of expertise that makes our students uniquely qualified to address today’s real-world problems.
By bringing together design, engineering and business disciplines, Kanbar College pushes students to think beyond the boundaries of existing academic fields and focus on innovation through teamwork, collaboration and connections with industry partners while it emphasizes critical thinking and real-world problem-solving skills.
This pioneering curriculum prepares students to adapt to changes in their professions, collaborate with colleagues in other fields, and excel in jobs that exist today as well as ones that will emerge tomorrow. Students gain the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in the 21st century workplace through real-world experience working on industry-sponsored projects.
# Design, Engineering & Commerce (DEC) Core Curriculum
## Design, Engineering & Commerce (DEC) Core Curriculum
The Kanbar College-wide core curriculum offers intensive, transdisciplinary skills development, fostering collaboration among designers, engineers and business majors. The curriculum gives students a breadth of expertise that goes beyond the boundaries of a traditional degree and aggressively addresses changes in the 21st-century work world, where a sophisticated interdisciplinary understanding makes young professionals more effective in their own field of expertise and enhances their ability to lead and succeed.
### Goals:
* To produce socially intelligent leaders with the ability to adapt to emerging practices and successfully navigate unpredictable challenges.
* To give learners multiple opportunities to analyze complexity through the integration of data collection and research to create ethical and sustainable innovations, that are rooted in empathy and respect diversity.
* To foster the interpretation and conveyance of information through multimodal means.
To develop the aptitude necessary to be innovators of the future, DEC Core Curriculum complements the skillsets of the major programs by preparing students to:
* **Adapt** to emerging practices and successfully navigate unpredictable challenges.
* **Create** ethical and sustainable innovations that are rooted in empathy and respect diversity.
* **Integrate** data and information at different scales to analyze complexity and convey information through multimodal means.
* **Lead** collaborative teams in the creation and execution of ideas.
### Kanbar's Design, Engineering & Commerce (DEC) Core
The DEC Core curriculum offers Skills Development for Years 1 & 2 and then Skills Application for Years 3 & 4.
Collaboration, Project Management, Ethics and Sustainability are threaded throughout the Core courses.
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## Key Information by Course
### DECF-102 Finding and Shaping Opportunity
Introduces students to the use of creativity, empathy and collaboration as key elements for navigating ambiguity.
**Course Description:**
This course introduces principles of design thinking as a key element of innovation. Students will learn how parts of traditional design processes can be used to reveal opportunity, and how to shape that opportunity by critically and creatively evaluating its components as part of a larger system. As a culminating assignment, students will work collaboratively with peers from other disciplines to create real-world value in an economic, social and environmental context by innovating a new model for business that is both desirable and viable. This course is designated as creativity intensive.
**Outcomes**
1. Engage curiosity and empathy to find new opportunity.
2. Demonstrate use of design process tools in understanding and shaping opportunity.
3. Devise effective strategies for collaborative creation and iteration of low fidelity prototyping.
4. Practice adaptive project management with students from other disciplines.
5. Create real-world value in a social, environmental and economic context by innovating an ethical model for business that is both desirable and viable.
### DECS-209 Systems Thinking and Sustainability
Uses a holistic problem-solving approach to explore the field of sustainability.
**Course Description**:
The field of sustainability will be surveyed using the lens of Systems Thinking. Students will be introduced to the rate and scale of environmental impacts resulting from climate change, our industrial food system and waste accumulation in linear models of production, with case studies considered from multiple perspectives and disciplines. Students will develop systems models to identify key feedback and interactions among factors. A final team-based inquiry driven project will involve analysis of a focal area of choice, to characterize sustainability challenges and opportunities for focused interventions, with consideration of social equity dimensions and model limitations.
**Outcomes**:
1. Analyze information to frame problems in terms of system boundaries and key elements and identify interconnections to environmental, societal and economic well-being.
2. Create conceptual and computational models to analyze feedback and emergent behavior including trends over time and generalize patterns.
3. Devise a workflow to advance group problem-solving and systems analysis.
4. Develop and evaluate sustainability solutions informed by system models, stakeholder impacts, model limitations and theory of change.
### DECM-300 Research Methods
Introduces a range of research tools to analyze human belief, behavior, cultural practices and the systems which they drive and are affected by, to inform planning and critical inquiry.
This writing intensive course explores a range of research tools to analyze human belief, behavior and cultural practices and the systems which they drive and are affected by to inform planning and critical inquiry. Students will learn to formulate appropriate research strategies and questions for conducting quantitative and qualitative research to explore a variety of approaches that address contemporary issues around all aspects of sustainability (economic, social, environmental and technical). Students will consider ethical, empathetic and contextual sensitivities at all stages of the research process, from planning through to analysis and interpretation. They will convey their findings through multi-modal means of communication as appropriate to the content and purpose of their research.
1. Collaboratively and equitably formulate questions and manage research strategies designed to drive innovation.
2. Utilize empathy, ethical and sustainable considerations in collecting and analyzing research from diverse perspectives.
3. Creatively interpret, curate and convey research results to others through multimodal means as appropriate to the goals, content and audience.
4. Construct a comprehensive research project using numerous research methods that embrace creative approaches to collecting and interpreting information.
5. Formulate and employ qualitative and quantitative research methods for analyzing human behavior in the context of economic, social, environmental and technological systems.
### Capstone Experience
Offers a series of DEC Core driven resources and events to supplement students' capstones within their majors.
**Description**:
The capstone experience is comprised of a series of DEC Core driven resources and events to supplement a student’s capstone in their major. These resources and events can help DEC students: find potential collaborators; connect with “experts” from a variety of fields; find tools and resources to assist with their capstone; learn from experts and peers through guest presentations and social events.
The Capstone Experience aligns with the overall DEC program outcomes, and how they are applied within the students’ capstone projects.
1. Employ leadership and social intelligence through collaboration and adaptive management of projects and teams.
2. Analyze complexity through the integration of research data and information.
3. Adapt to emerging practices, successfully navigating unpredictable challenges.
4. Create ethical and sustainable innovations, that are rooted in empathy and respect diversity.
5. Interpret and convey information through multimodal means.
### DEC Advanced Electives
**DECG-230 Design Process Through History and Culture** offers a study abroad experience focused on how human centered design has shaped movements in business, design and engineering throughout history and across cultures.
**DECG-480 Interdisciplinary Integrative Project** provokes interdisciplinary activity through a client-centered team project.
# Personalized Pathways Program
## Kanbar College of Design, Engineering, & Commerce Director for Student Services
Name:
 Bethany Ragusa
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Bethany.Ragusa@jefferson.edu
Kanbar College of Design, Engineering & Commerce offers first-year students the opportunity to simultaneously **apply for admission to existing undergraduate and graduate programs** within Kanbar College upon enrolling at Thomas Jefferson University. Matriculation to Kanbar College of Design, Engineering & Commerce graduate programs is seamless upon successful completion of undergraduate requirements.
The Personalized Pathways Program provides:
* Curated **undergraduate-to-graduate pathways** for Kanbar College of Design, Engineering & Commerce undergraduates
* More than **220 guided options** for Kanbar College of Design, Engineering & Commerce undergraduates to pursue a graduate degree within the College in a discipline that most aligns with their personal career aspirations
* The opportunity for Kanbar College of Design, Engineering & Commerce first-year students to apply for **advanced admission** into Kanbar College of Design, Engineering & Commerce graduate programs upon matriculation into the College
* The option for junior and senior Kanbar College of Design, Engineering & Commerce students to **start taking graduate courses** and receive personalized advising to help them transition directly into a Kanbar College graduate program
For more information on the Personalized Pathways Program, please contact Bethany Ragusa, Kanbar College Director for Student Services: Bethany.Ragusa@jefferson.edu.
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