May 31, 2026  
2025-2026 University Catalog 
    
2025-2026 University Catalog

HIP 532 Organizational Mindsets for Effective Research Careers


Credits: 2
Clinical research careers require the ability to make sense of complex organizational challenges through multiple lenses and mindsets. Effective academic leaders bring a strengths-based appreciative approach to managing their own careers and to mentoring others. This course offers practice analyzing how roles, goals and objectives, differences in human skills, motivations and cultures, strategic and operational networks of relationships, and clarity about meaning and purpose each contribute to effective responses to organizational challenges. The course includes practical tools for resiliency, work-life alignment, and managing time, energy and attention in the course of a professional career.

Graded: Pass/No pass
May be taken only once for credit