Welcome to 302L Gateway Course
The Gateway class was developed with significant input from our major stakeholders such as employers, alumni, the David Nazarian College of Business and Economics business advisory council, the CSU Chancellor, current students and faculty. Employers and other stakeholders indicated that CSUN students are hard working and technically well prepared. However, they felt there was a need for CSUN business majors to have a stronger background in teamwork, effective verbal and written communication, and ethics. Although faculty assigned work to be done in teams, the faculty did not provide any guidance on strategies that should be used in effective team building. In addition professors teaching in the upper division courses had struggled with inconsistent preparation in the lower division core areas.
The objectives of the BUS 302 and 302L (Gateway) classes are designed to respond to these concerns. They focus on building teamwork and communication skills, reviewing and integrating lower division core material and ethics, developing problem solving skills, and creating a supportive community of Nazarian College students and faculty. The successful implementation of these objectives has lowered student failure rates in upper division courses and provided the data needed to improve inconsistent LDC preparation both at CSUN and the community colleges.