Please be advised: the information contained on this page is a general overview of the course. As course information is subject to change from one semester to another, please check DukeHub for the most accurate and up-to-date information about EGRMGMT courses.
At a Glance
- Instructor(s): Dean Hering (Fall and Spring), Dr. La Tondra Murray (Summer)
- Semester(s) typically taught: Fall, Spring, and Summer (to be completed in your FINAL semester of MEM)
- Units: 3.0
- Grading scale: Credit/No Credit
- Required or elective for MEM degree? Required
- If elective, applicable elective track(s): n/a
- Co- or Pre-requisite: EGRMGMT 550
- Recommended previous courses: n/a
Course Description/Synopsis (from DukeHub)
The purpose of this course is for students to learn how to tell their story (and by extension learn to tell stories during their career) by reflecting on your experiences from their personal background, their time in MEM, and their internship and tying them together into a story that will help someone, such as a job interviewer, understand why what they did mattered to the organization and to the student professionally. Stories are how humans are wired to communicate and create emotional connections; this course will help students learn to develop stories and give them practice presenting their story to others. Students must have completed or be simultaneously enrolled in Engineering Management 550 which is a course designated for the internship experience. Prerequisite: Students must be in their final Master of Engineering Management Program.
Course Syllabus (Most Recent)
EGRMGMT 551 Fall 2024 Course Syllabus
A Word From the Faculty
Student Testimonials (from Course Evaluations)
- “I extremely enjoyed the course. Before this course, I have never seen story telling as a skill. However, now, I understand what an important skill it is and how significantly it changes the delivery of the content. This is a course that directly teaches a skill for every area of your life.”
- “The course is a great value add to the curriculum, and it facilitates some great self-reflection which is helpful as we prepare to leave Duke and go into the industry. ”
- “Excellent quality in terms of building our story-telling skills, public speaking confidence, and opportunity to understand the stories of our peers.”
- “The internship presentation was the most useful because it gave me a platform to tell my story to my cohort, and in the process develop my story telling and public speaking skills. It also gave me a chance to listen to others’ stories and helped to understand them better.”
