All required readings and videos are in the attachment. All written assignments should be formatted using a standard 12-point font and 1 inch margins, including your full name in a header at the upper right, and using your full name as part of the file name (e.g., “Business&Society_Week 1_MattStatler).
Analytical Reflections
For each class meeting, you will be required to write a 1200 to 1400 word analytical reflection. Each reflection will address the four plenary videos for that unit, analyzing what the speakers said using concepts or information from the readings or other materials for that unit. You must draw on or reference each one of the readings or other materials for that unit at least once. Try to give equal space to each plenary.
The goal of this writing assignment is to give you the opportunity to identify the significance of the material other than the plenaries, to think about the ideas presented in the plenaries, and, quite simply, to do the work required to prepare for class discussion. (“Work,” in this case, means that your job is not only to read or watch the material in advance but to understand and begin to think about the material, in relation to other material we are reading or watching, in relation to what you see in the world, and in relation to what you, yourself, have experienced.)
In these assignments, you need to consider each speaker’s significant arguments and ideas (unless the “speaker” was functioning only as an interviewer or moderator), and reflect and analyze them by 1) considering what they mean in reference to contemporary business practice, 2) considering how the ideas in the other materials support or contradict what the speaker said, and 3) reflecting on what it all means for you and your professional development in business school.
Please note:
1. Thesearenotsummaries.Whileyoumayneedtoexplainparticulararguments or ideas that you are going to analyze, the majority of the written assignment should be comprised of your own thoughts about how the argument works or how sound the idea is, what assumptions the speaker or writer depends upon, what perspective the argument comes from, etc., and then your reflection on those points.
2. Thesearenotevaluationsorreviews.Youshouldnotstatewhetheryou like/dislike, agree/disagree with these texts. It is not opinion that matters here; it is analysis although you may criticize an argument, idea, or assumption.
3. These assignments are NOT group projects. While you may certainly discuss the materials with your peers, these written assignments constitute your preparation for class discussion and, more importantly, represent your own analysis and ideas about the material. As such, you should not use another student’s paper to write your own, nor should you ever give your written work to another student to use.
Some questions you might ask and address:
● How do the ideas in the plenary add to or conflict with the ideas in another plenary or in the other material?
● How might the concepts from the material be illustrated by events in our contemporary world?
● How might you apply the ideas from the readings to experiences in your own life?Some questions you might ask and address:
● How do the ideas in the plenary add to or conflict with the ideas in another plenary or in the other material?
● How might the concepts from the material be illustrated by events in our contemporary world?
● How might you apply the ideas from the readings to experiences in your own life?
Rubric for Analytical Reflection
5 Every reflection demonstrates exceptional thoughtfulness and intellectual understanding of the topic. Demonstrably important ideas are identified from the materials. Analysis or reflections are interesting and compelling, adding significant interpretations of the ideas through specific comparisons to the arguments of other materials or to real-world examples.
4 Reflections demonstrate insightful responses to the content of the materials. Discussions highlight important arguments from the materials. Analysis or reflections reveal careful thought and understanding through specifics.
3 Reflections demonstrate good comprehension of the materials. Analysis or reflections show some thought about the materials, but discussion of the ideas is broad or shallow.
2 Reflections are entirely summary, demonstrating reading or watching the materials but not demonstrating further thought about the material presented.
1 Reflections are predominantly incomplete or incorrect. 0 Failure to turn in the assignment on Brightspace.

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