Ashesi's council of advisors at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business met on October 11 to discuss a proposed curriculum drafted for the business program by Professor Rich Lyons and Dan Hilemstein, Director of the Undergraduate Business Program. Among issues discussed by the council were the necessity of certain core classes, how to incorporate IT issues into the curriculum, and where to fold in topics related to African history, political theory and developmental economics. Ultimately, the Haas advisors reached consensus on Ashesi's business curriculum outline and agreed to start working individually to formulate course descriptions and topics to be covered for each of the courses. As the three academic councils formulate their respective outlines for the core, business and computer science curriculums, we are paying close attention to building in linkages between the three. All students will take the same core classes before branching into their respective majors. In the final semester, business and computer science students will work together in mixed teams on a final, integrative project.
(For a full listing of council members, see About Ashesi.)