Wickedly Good Professions: It Matters Who You Are

(1 Credit Hour) · Undergraduate

What does it mean to become a good financial analyst, engineer, or physician in the face of wicked problems? Wicked problems are complex, intertwined, and significant social, environmental, and organizational issues that constrain and corrupt the common good, and as such, they demand nonlinear and holistic understandings of the contexts, consequences, and persons who strive for just solutions. Drawing on the wicked problems approach, this one-credit seminar brings together seniors from across the pre-professional spaces of Architecture, Business, Engineering, and Science to discuss why character matters for professions and how professionals can draw on their character to address today’s most pressing wicked problems.