Students develop products, businesses, social programs, or other innovations that can be used to solve existing problems or capitalize on potential opportunities.
- The course I took to fill my entrepreneurship category was the psychology course ‘Human Factors’. This course focused on the way in which people act and what can impact those actions. In this course students were required to work in groups, collaborating to conduct social experiments.
- Attached is a link leading to a heuristic evaluation report conducted during this course with a group of 4 students.
- This report focused on studying the overall functionality of an ODU website based on how other groups interacted with the page and comments based on experience with navigating this site.
- This course developed the skills of working in a team structure and being a dependable member of the group. I also practiced skills of report creation and editing along with organization of information as to translate findings to others.
- Many work environments in the criminal justice career field rely on individuals ability to function efficiently in a group setting. A strong ability to communicate will with others and be a reliable individual for others to work hand in hand with. I believe that this course has helped me to grow those critical skills for my future career field.