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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - MAN6116
Tracking Number - 2199
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Current Status:
Approved, Permanent Archive - 2010-06-22
Campus: Tampa
Submission Type: Change
Course Change Information (for course changes only): Change title from Managing Diversity to Diversity and Organizational Justice
Comments: College approved 4/6/10; Grad Council approved 4/19/10; to SCNS liaison 5/13/10; SCNS approved - posted in Banner. Effective 8/1/2010
Detail Information
- Date & Time Submitted: 2009-09-29
- Department: Management
- College: BA
- Budget Account Number: 140500
- Contact Person: Dr. Alan Balfour
- Phone: 9741785
- Email: abalfour@coba.usf.edu
- Prefix: MAN
- Number: 6116
- Full Title: Managing Diversity
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: D -
Discussion (Primarily)
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Diversity
- Course Online?: C -
Face-to-face (0% online)
- Percentage Online: 0
- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites: None
- Corequisites: None
- Course Description: The concept of diversity is profoundly important yet, at the same time, profoundly ambiguous. This course provides a forum to examine and clarify the various ideas surrounding the concept of workforce diversity. Topics will include: the multi-faceted de
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: Needed for program/concentration/certificate change
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? Required for MS in Management students.
Elective for MBA and other graduate students.
Anticipation section per academic year.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Yes, 3 or more times
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Ph.D. in Management or closely related field.
- Objectives: * Clarify concept of workforce diversity.
* Explore managing diversity with a focus on organizational justice.
- Learning Outcomes: Clarify the concept of workforce diversity; participate in experiential learning; increase self-awareness; learn about differences in inter-group relations; draw conclusions about your own views of diversity and how those have and will affect behavior at work; and identify effective ways for organizations to address diversity issues.
- Major Topics: * Self identity
* Civil rights
* Biases, stereotypes, discrimination
- Textbooks: Understanding and Managing Diversity (4th ed.) by Harvey
and Allard (2009), Pearson Prentice Hall.
- Course Readings, Online Resources, and Other Purchases: *Diversity at work (2008), Art Brief.
* Diversity Consciousness (3rd Ed) 2010, Richard Bucher
* Company websites will be used for diversity audits.
- Student Expectations/Requirements and Grading Policy: See syllabus
- Assignments, Exams and Tests: See syllabus
- Attendance Policy: More than one excused absence will lower grade. Exception: USF Policy on religious holidays.
- Policy on Make-up Work: Dealt with on a case-by-case basis. All papers subject to USF policies on Academic Integrity & Plagiarism.
- Program This Course Supports: Master of Science in Management MSM and Master of Business Admin (MBA)
- Course Concurrence Information: Master and Ph.D.
- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.