FIS 6890: Experiential Learning in FinTech Payments

3 Credit Hours
Students engage in research and team-based interactive virtual experiential learning with a collaborating industry partner. The student gains industry insight and hands-on experience that provides the underpinning for the student research. A virtual collaboration platform is used to enroll, onboard, empathize, reboot, experiment, and deliver business solutions for client problems. Students get mentored, trained, and practice on FinTech research, tools and techniques used in industry. Prototyping and experimentation are encouraged to understand “real world” issues. Partner companies share their anonymized dataset, tools and techniques. The student identifies potential research topics to complement the industry partner’s mission. The student will be strongly encouraged to publish her/his research. Coaching activities including design thinking, backlog management, business modeling, and research & publishing guidelines are offered in this course.

 

Note: This course may be cross-leveled with FTA 3890.