Corporate Residency

3 credits · Graduate

The Corporate Residency is an 8-month work-integrated learning (WIL) experience that is a foundational aspect of learning within Dalhousie’s MBA corporate residency pathway. Most easily referenced as a form of internship, the ‘residency’ experience provides students with an opportunity to explore knowledge and further develop competencies introduced in the classroom in a ‘real-world’ setting. Moreover, the ‘residency’ provides students with nuanced and in-depth insights as to how organizations (as complex, dynamic networks) and their units (at the level of the team and individual) behave in practice. It is expected that the ‘residency’ experience behaves as a lab for students’ personal and professional effectiveness, with dedicated assignments that focus on management and leadership competencies such as influence, giving and receiving feedback, performance evaluation, goal-setting and reflective practice, professional communication and more! BUSI 7005 is the course number allocated for the Corporate Residency. It recognizes the completion of supervised, hands-on learning taking place within partner organizations and the assignments associated with distilling learning from the experience. FORMATS: Experiential Learning