April 19

Hi everyone,

Hope you guys are having a good week and even more so now that our group inquiry paper has been completed! (Whoop whoop!) Please comment and let me know what you guys did your project on, I am curious and interested. Overall, I feel pretty good about me and my partner’s paper. More confident than I felt for my personal inquiry project that’s fer sure. Do you guys remember the reflection we completed after submitting our personal inquiry project? Well in my reflection I had stated that I should have went more in depth in analyzing my topic within the lenses I chose. I might of worded it differently but my statement was along those lines. However, when writing our group inquiry project I wanted to avoid feeling like I should have done better. There is always areas of improvement but this time around my partner and I established sub categories within our actual interdisciplinary lenses. Establishing subcategories encouraged us to further discuss our topic in each discipline. As stated in my last post our three disciplines were health science, communication, and sociology. In which, are subcategories comprised of Oxytocin, communicative clarity, affections/ nurturance, and environments “baby talk” is prone to be used in such as, hospitals. Since, we will be discussing our topic through our poster presentation, I am going to stop myself from going into detail of the technicalities behind our paper to avoid redundancy of what you guys will hear in our presentation.

To that end, I want to discuss a current interdisciplinary dilemma I am going through. In my last post I mentioned I was currently working on a presentation for my MKT 442 class also known as Psychology of Judgement Decision making. In which, my presentation covered prospect theory and some of the underling factors behind prospect theory. The underlying factors my group and I discussed in our presentation were loss aversion, framing, and endowment effect. However, we applied these factors to the use of marketing. We did this comparison by showing two different commercial ads that were essentially asking the same thing (animal shelter donations) yet they each framed their add differently. One portrayed animals as being sad, hurt, and neglected while the other only captured happy healthy animals. We then compared the endowment effect to how companies offer free trials of their products and or services. For those of you  who may not know the endowment effect occurs when we grow fonder of a product or service the longer we acquire it. For example, Netflix offers a 1 month free trail, they do this so the consumer can start to embed their service in their routine. Once they are hooked it conveniently  is the time their subscription is going to expire. What does the consumer do? Well by nature since we do not like the feeling of losing, the consumer is most like going to subscribe to the service.But now onto the dilemma I am currently dealing with, my group and I are going to discuss what we presented in class in our paper. However, to yield 15 to 20 pages we need another angle that will connect prospect theory and marketing together. So currently what we are going to discuss further in our paper is under debate.

Well that is enough of my interdisciplinary discussion for now, hope you guys have a good rest of the week!

Ch. 7 Good ways of explaining “who cares?” in your text

Hello all!

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As my title suggests the semester continues to roll on however, spring break is quickly approaching us. (Hallelujah!) Also, the semester is half way done which means another academic year will be put down in the books or for some of you it’ll be the end but a new beginning. I’m not sure about you guys but the semester seems to be going by fast as spring semester always does for me. Even though I have gotten into the swing of things, there seems to be no medium on catching a break. I don’t know why I am so surprised though, this seems to occur every semester. I know all of you feel the same way or at least similar where you turn in one assignment just to turn in the next, chug coffee or tea just to make it through the day, but all you want to do is watch Netflix or read your favorite books (#strugglesofacollegestudent).

Well, enough of my rambling onto the good stuff. In my last post, I shared my excitement of turning in the personal inquiry project. However, we are onto the group inquiry project which I think is going to be interesting. The topic my group and I chose is parents using “baby talk” to

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communicate with their children and the effects this has on their child’s development. We want to examine these effects using health science, psychological and sociological lenses. Also the age range we are using as our starting point is infancy to 5 years old. Nonetheless, the interdisciplinary lenses as well as the age range we are going to examine this topic  in are still up for debate.  As we continue to research, I believe the closer we will get to finalizing what exactly we want to convey in our paper.

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Hi my name is Ruby Ortega and I am perusing a Bachelors of Science degree in Business and an Option in Marketing. I am a fourth year student here at CSU Channel Islands who will be graduating in the Spring of 2017. Even though I have one more year left looking back at the past 4 academic years seems so surreal, and I can’t help but be excited for what has yet to come.

Before I dive into my college endeavors I can’t bypass my true passion and what inspired me to pursue a Business degree in the first place, baking. As a child, I would sit and watch my mother create elaborate cakes for hours and before I knew it I was the one mixing all the ingredients together. After that I hadn’t put much thought into the idea of baking as a career, but then I was asked the questions, ” what do you want to major in and what are you gonna do after you get your degree”? At age 16 I went with what I knew best and that was to become an owner of my very own cupcake bakery. And as an aspiring entrepreneur wanting to open my own cupcake bakery majoring in Business was a given. At this point I am sure you can guess what my answers were to those questions.

Then age 18 came and the idea of majoring in business started to feel more like reality when I confirmed my acceptance to CSU Channel Islands. My experience here has been very unique and I am not just saying that because I go here but because it is true. I have been fortunate to have had Business classes that have taken traditional approaches on teaching and have altered them in an interdisciplinary manner. For example I took MKT 311 in which, was Consumer behavior. This course explored the world of marketing but also included the field of psychology and how different types of psychology were utilized to research consumers shopping habits and  preferences. This class was very interesting because it put into perspective how an entirely different field from business such as, psychology could translate into the business world. Another course I took that explored three fields at once was BUS 340 which was Business & Economics in Literature. This particular class was very unique in that the chosen texts for this course were playwrights. Now I know you may be thinking how does performing arts translate into  business  and economics? Well these playwrights were written around stories that focused on sensitive business and economic issues such as the poverty and unemployment rate  in the U.S and the housing market crisis. One project that I really enjoyed in BUS 340 was when we had to take on the role of being a marketing consultant advertising two plays. In which, we had to compose a marketing plan that compromised of promotion ideas, allocation of costs, lists  of real companies and third parties we would utilize to execute our marketing plan.

With this being said I am familiar exploring subjects or a selected topic among multiple disciplines. Researching topics in an interdisciplinary manner  do pose its challenges such as learning new terminology and concepts but at the same time it raises my appreciation for other majors. As well as makes me realize how intertwined different disciplines actually are.