Reflective Thinkers
They take into account their own dispositions and biases as they think creatively and critically. Loras students demonstrate their ability to think in a reflective manner.
January Term to St. Louis
Winter, 2010
The Arch and Busch Stadium.
As a first-year student I was able to have the opportunity to go on the J-Term to St. Louis to visit with numerous sports businesses including the St. Louis Cardinals of the MLB and St. Louis Blues of the NHL. Along the way we visited many other corporations that have a part of the sports business culture in a less public eye than pro leagues. The opportunity to be on this J-Term allowed me to assess my decision to be in Sport Management and give me an early learning of business in sports since I was only a semester into my collegiate education. I am now able to look back on these experiences with the knowledge that I know now and get deeper meanings out of the concepts that I learned. We learned how to take the mission statements of many companies and apply them to how the companies operated. During the trip to St. Louis we received many tours of this operation and had opportunities to ask questions to many established people in the business.
Attached is the final paper I did of the globalizing sport of baseball, as well as the take home final exam portion of the course.
This was a good source of reflective thinking because it was my first time out in the world of sport business and was the basis of my knowledge and thinking as I made my way through the Sport Mangement major. Being a first-year on that trip I did not have all the knowledge that the older students had, but it allowed me to start thinking more when I had classes because I had seen businesses dealing with sports in person.
Attached is the final paper I did of the globalizing sport of baseball, as well as the take home final exam portion of the course.
This was a good source of reflective thinking because it was my first time out in the world of sport business and was the basis of my knowledge and thinking as I made my way through the Sport Mangement major. Being a first-year on that trip I did not have all the knowledge that the older students had, but it allowed me to start thinking more when I had classes because I had seen businesses dealing with sports in person.
Interpersonal Communication
Advanced General Education Course
Every day we engage in interpersonal relationships, and every day we constantly construct these interpersonal relationships through communication. In this class, we examined the many facets of communication and ultimately, understand how these facets work together to initiate, maintain and terminate relationships. This was such a great class for my reflective thinking because it dealt strongly with relationships and how the system of communication works between two parties. There is so much we do in life that we do not know have terms associated with them and by reflecting through this class I was able to assess my self and the relationships I find myself in daily. That is what made this course so self-rewarding because one was able to search the reasons for meaning in people and each self. Attached is my final paper dealing with relationship and analyzing one from the movie Lost in Translation.
Sports Ethics
Advanced General Education Course
In this advanced general education course we were able to think critically through the five basic ethic theories and apply them to sport topics. We debated about ethical topics such as the Native Indians in Sport (attached final paper) and we read the book, Faust's Gold, which explained the ethical boundaries behind the Germany athletic power houses in the Olympics in the 1970's. Reflective thinking had an important impact in this class because we had to choose how we would take the facts and information from the court process regarding the way the Germans created a Olympic sports power at the harm of the athletes. We then took the same reflection based off ethics and applied them to other cases, I took on the Native Indians issue.