Please note! Course description is confirmed for two academic years, which means that in general, e.g. Learning outcomes, assessment methods and key content stays unchanged. However, via course syllabus, it is possible to specify or change the course execution in each realization of the course, such as how the contact sessions are organized, assessment methods weighted or materials used.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Upon completion of the Work and Career in Business Schools course, students will be able to:

·         Recognize the differences between different types of university and business school contexts that exist in a global scale.

·         Recognize the differences between academic and corporate careers, and critically evaluate pursuing academic career in a business school.

·         Be active scholars through their research and other development activities that support the maintenance of intellectual capital in their teaching/research fields.

·         Understand how to find matching journals, submit new manuscripts and continue successful submissions that are already in progress.

Credits: 6 - 7,5

Schedule: 14.04.2025 - 16.04.2025

Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):

Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Henrikki Tikkanen

Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):

CEFR level (valid for whole curriculum period):

Language of instruction and studies (applies in this implementation):

Teaching language: English. Languages of study attainment: English

CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD

Content
  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Welcome to the inspiring world of business schools! Work and Career in Business Schools is a course about scholarly research, discussion, debate, manuscript submission, and much more, preparing the participants for academic careers in the field of business studies.

    The broad aim of the course is to develop the students understanding of the past, present, and future of business schools as academic institutions and sites for building scholarly careers. Combining the Nordic perspective with a global mindset, the course provides the participants with knowledge on different kinds of business school contexts. On a practical level, this course is both rigorous and relevant, aiming at helping early-career business scholars to find their way in the academic world which is full of citation indices, impact factors and research assessment exercises, but which is also the home of research and education of high societal importance and pertinence. Upon opening up the discussion about the means and consequences of playing the game in academia, a special attention in this course is given to the different phases of publishing process, ranging from making the journal choices to managing the revision processes, and communicating with the editors and reviewers.

    Upon taking the course, the students will increase their knowledge on different career alternatives of business school PhDs. As an outcome, the students will be better equipped for making well-informed and -justified career choices as well as to plan and to build international careers in academia.

Assessment Methods and Criteria
  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    This course is an intensive 3-day course, each course day consisting of 2-3 modules. Learning methods are a combination of lectures and interactive group discussions on the pre-readings and assignments.

DETAILS

Substitutes for Courses
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FURTHER INFORMATION

Further Information
  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    If a student completes the course according to the above description, s/he will gain 6 ECTS. Students who wish to have 7,5 ECTS must complete an additional task given and approved by professor Tikkanen.

     

    Teaching Period:

    2020-2021 Spring V

    (2021, 2022) - No teaching

    Course Homepage: https://mycourses.aalto.fi/course/search.php?search=23L6003

    Registration for Courses: In the academic year 2021-2022, registration for courses will take place on Sisu (sisu.aalto.fi) instead of WebOodi.

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