MSB 488
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Improving Helping Behavior
Public Service and Ethics
Marriott School of Business
Course Description
This class focuses on improving the ways you can be helpful to others, with a focus on informal helping. The course draws on research and evidence-based practices that lead to more effective helping behavior.
When Taught
Fall
Min
3
Fixed
3
Title
Flourishing
Learning Outcome
Recognize common elements of human flourishing and apply them to helping behaviors.
Title
Finding Your Calling
Learning Outcome
Employ core ideas and insights for finding the ways one is best suited to help others.
Title
Impact
Learning Outcome
Use counterfactual and opportunity cost thinking to identify helping with positive impact.
Title
Caring for Others
Learning Outcome
Apply practices that reliably increase one's compassion for other people.
Title
Mastering Problems
Learning Outcome
Develop practices for achieving expertise in understanding particular problems.
Title
Innovating
Learning Outcome
Describe and select the innovation role best suited for a given need.
Title
Making It Stick
Learning Outcome
Use effective strategies for making helpful behavior sustainable over the long-term.
Title
Acting Ethically
Learning Outcome
Recognize and avoid common ethical pitfalls faced by helpers.
Title
Avoiding Enmity
Learning Outcome
Model knowledge and behavior that resists enmity as a tool for helping.
