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Mentor's Seminar

2025/2026
Учебный год
ENG
Обучение ведется на английском языке
Статус:
Курс обязательный
Когда читается:
1-й курс, 1 модуль

Преподаватели

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The Mentor seminar is designed to immerse participants in a new environment (university) and adapt them faster to new roles, tasks, and practices. This new environment prepares young people for the workplace by providing knowledge about self-reflection, understanding of others, teams and roles, time management, and critical thinking. This course aims to equip aspiring managers with the insights and skills necessary to navigate the complexities and dynamic nature of the modern international business environment. The course combines insight content from university educators, motivating master classes from successful business representatives, and peer-to-peer sharing.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • The aim of this seminar is to provide participants with a profound understanding of the multifaceted role of a specialist in today's dynamic business environment. By covering essential managerial skills, contemporary practices, and ethical considerations, the seminar intends to help students to integrate into a new field (university) and prepare for work in business.
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Recognise the importance of learning to learn and make initial plans for their development as learners based on self-reflection on aspirations and developmental needs
  • Learn flexible time-management skills and put them into practice to create own plan
  • Demonstrate understanding of intra-personal concepts and theories
  • Identify applications of leadership concepts and theories in practice
  • Apply creative and critical thinking in study process
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Self-management
  • Time Management
  • Leading self and/or others?
  • Creative and critical thinking
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Self-management
  • non-blocking Creating your personal plan and acquiring flexible TM skills
  • non-blocking Group presentation based on case study
  • non-blocking Changing focus to find new ideas
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2025/2026 1st module
    0.25 * Changing focus to find new ideas + 0.25 * Creating your personal plan and acquiring flexible TM skills + 0.25 * Group presentation based on case study + 0.25 * Self-management
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • Consider the issues. Listening and critical thinking skills, Numrich, C., 2004
  • Critical thinking skills. Developing effective analysis and argument, Cottrell, S., 2011
  • Leadership : theory and practice, Northouse, P. G., 2021
  • Leadership : theory and practice, Northouse, Peter G., 2018
  • The Worldy philosophers: The lives, times and ideas of the great economic thinkers, Heilbroner, R.L., 1972
  • Working time around the world: trends in working hours, laws, and policies in a global comparativ..., Lee, S., 2016

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • 1018 - 11 Secrets of Time Management for Salespeople - D.Kahle - Career Press - 9781601635310 - https://hse.alpinadigital.ru/book/1018 - Alpina
  • Austin, J. (2019). Contemporary Leadership Challenges. Society Publishing.
  • Complex approach on multicultural teams management & leadership. (2019). https://doi.org/10.2478/jesr-2019-0008
  • Critical Thinking : a Concise Guide, Bowell, T., 2015
  • Critical thinking : a concise guide, Bowell, T., 2019
  • Kallet, M. (2014). Think Smarter : Critical Thinking to Improve Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Skills. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=733798
  • Lamb, R., Firestone, J., Schmitter-Edgecombe, M., & Hand, B. (2019). A computational model of student cognitive processes while solving a critical thinking problem in science. Journal of Educational Research, 112(2), 243. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220671.2018.1514357
  • Matteo Cristofaro, & Pier Luigi Giardino. (2020). Core Self-Evaluations, Self-Leadership, and the Self-Serving Bias in Managerial Decision Making: A Laboratory Experiment. Administrative Sciences, 10(64), 64. https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci10030064
  • Raise the issues: an integrated approach in critical thinking, Numrich, C., 2004
  • The economics of risk and time, Gollier, Ch., 2001
  • The great transformation: the political and economic origins of our time, Polanyi, K., 2001
  • van Knippenberg, D., & van Ginkel, W. P. (2021). A Diversity Mindset Perspective on Inclusive Leadership. Group & Organization Management, 1. https://doi.org/10.1177/1059601121997229
  • Wang, S. (2017). An Exploration into Research on Critical Thinking and Its Cultivation: An Overview. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.37D797A8

Authors

  • Khazieva Natalia Evgenevna
  • Миронова Алена Геннадьевна