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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - REE6045
Tracking Number - 2376
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Current Status:
Approved, Permanent Archive - 2012-10-11
Campus: Tampa
Submission Type: New
Course Change Information (for course changes only):
Comments: Recd 12/10/10; GC 1/11/11. Pending revisions to Obj & Lrng Outcomes 2/16/11; emailed 6/23/11. corrected 6/30/11; GC approved 7/5/11. To USF Syst 7/5/11; to SCNS 7/13/11. Approved eff 8/1/11- posted in banner
Detail Information
- Date & Time Submitted: 2010-10-01
- Department: Finance
- College: BA
- Budget Account Number: 1404-000-00
- Contact Person: Scott Besley
- Phone: 46341
- Email: sbesley@usf.edu
- Prefix: REE
- Number: 6045
- Full Title: Real Estate Decisions
- Credit Hours: 03
- Section Type: C -
Class Lecture (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): Real Estate Decisions
- Course Online?: C -
Face-to-face (0% online)
- Percentage Online: 0
- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites: None
- Corequisites:
- Course Description: Provides an introduction to real estate with a focus on property rights (legal considerations), financial/investment analysis, and market (or location) analysis. The primary objective is to show how to make effective real estate decisions.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: Needed for new program/concentration/certificate
- 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? The course is being taught as an FIN Special Topics course for the first time during the Fall 2010 semester (we have no REE courses in inventory in the graduate program). There are 14 students enrolled. The course is required for the new MSRE program. It will also service the MBA, as a required course in the real estate track, and the Master of Science in Finance (MSF), as an elective.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Yes, 1 time
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Minimum requirements: Ph.D. in finance, real estate, or a related area and a good understanding of the area of real estate.
- Objectives: Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
1. Describe the different forms of real estate possession and associated rights and claims on real property such as easements, liens, and so forth.
2. Understand the demand factors for real estate and how they relate to location.
3. Analyze basic real estate investments using discounted cash flow analysis.
- Learning Outcomes: Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
1. Describe the different forms of real estate possession and associated rights and claims on real property such as easements, liens, and so forth.
2. Understand the demand factors for real estate and how they relate to location.
3. Analyze basic real estate investments using discounted cash flow analysis.
- Major Topics: real estate
- Textbooks: Real Estate Principles: A Value Approach by David Ling, Wayne Archer (McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2008)
- Course Readings, Online Resources, and Other Purchases:
- Student Expectations/Requirements and Grading Policy: Exam 1 25%
Exam 2 25
Exam 3 25
Exam 4 25
Detail about how grades are assigned will be outlined in the course syllabus by the professor who teaches the course each semester.
- Assignments, Exams and Tests: Exam 1 Chapters 1-4
Exam 2 Chapters 5-8
Exam 3 Chapters 9-11
Exam 4 Chapters 12-15
- Attendance Policy: Attendance is encouraged, but it is not mandatory.
Course Attendance at First Class Meeting – Policy for Graduate Students: For structured courses, 6000 and above, the College/Campus Dean will set the first-day class attendance requirement. Check with the College for specific information. This policy is not applicable to courses in the following categories: Educational Outreach, Open University (TV), FEEDS Program, Community Experiential Learning (CEL), Cooperative Education Training, and courses that do not have regularly scheduled meeting days/times (such as, directed reading/research or study, individual research, thesis, dissertation, internship, practica, etc.). Students are responsible for dropping undesired courses in these categories by the 5th day of classes to avoid fee liability and academic penalty. (See USF Regulation – Registration - 4.0101,
http://usfweb2.usf.edu/usfgc/ogc%20web/currentreg.htm)
Attendance Policy for the Observance of Religious Days by Students: In accordance with Sections 1006.53 and 1001.74(10)(g) Florida Statutes and Board of Governors Regulation 6C-6.0115, the University of South Florida (University/USF) has established the following policy regarding religious observances: (http://usfweb2.usf.edu/usfgc/gc_pp/acadaf/gc10-045.htm)
In the event of an emergency, it may be necessary for USF to suspend normal operations. During this time, USF may opt to continue delivery of instruction through methods that include but are not limited to: Blackboard, Elluminate, Skype, and email messaging and/or an alternate schedule. It’s the responsibility of the student to monitor Blackboard site for each class for course specific communication, and the main USF, College, and department websites, emails, and MoBull messages for important general information.
- Policy on Make-up Work: Arrangements will be made for students who have excused absences to make up missed work.
“Plagiarism is defined as "literary theft" and consists of the unattributed quotation of the exact
words of a published text or the unattributed borrowing of original ideas by paraphrase from a
published text. On written papers for which the student employs information gathered from
books, articles, or oral sources, each direct quotation, as well as ideas and facts that are not
generally known to the public-at-large, must be attributed to its author by means of the
appropriate citation procedure. Citations may be made in footnotes or within the body of the text.
Plagiarism also consists of passing off as one's own, segments or the total of another person's
work.”
“Punishment for academic dishonesty will depend on the seriousness of the offense and may
include receipt of an "F" with a numerical value of zero on the item submitted, and the "F" shall
be used to determine the final course grade. It is the option of the instructor to assign the student
a grade of "F" of "FF" (the latter indicating dishonesty) in the course.”
- Program This Course Supports: Master of Science in Real Estate
- Course Concurrence Information: MBA, as a required course in the real estate track, and the Master of Science in Finance (MSF), as an elective
- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.