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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - MAN5509
Tracking Number - 4803
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Current Status:
Approved by SCNS - 2014-11-01
Campus: St Petersburg
Submission Type: New
Course Change Information (for course changes only):
Comments: Approved by USFSP. To USF Sys 8/14/14. To SCNS after 8/21. "ISM 5002" apprd as "MAN 5509" eff 11/1/14
Detail Information
- Date & Time Submitted: 2013-08-24
- Department: Business Administration
- College: BP
- Budget Account Number: 140100
- Contact Person: Alison Watkins
- Phone: 7278734086
- Email: awatkins@usfsp.edu
- Prefix: MAN
- Number: 5509
- Full Title: MBA Essentials: Operations Mgt
- Credit Hours: 0
- Section Type: C -
Class Lecture (Primarily)
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: Y
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?: Y
- If repeatable, how many times?: 3
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): MBA Essentials: Ops Mgt
- Course Online?: O -
Online (100% online)
- Percentage Online: 0
- Grading Option:
S - S/U Only
- Prerequisites: Admission to Graduate School
- Corequisites:
- Course Description: A course emphasizing the quantitative techniques for trying to optimize the human and material resources utilized in service and production oriented operations.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: Replacing Selected Topics with Permanent number; already listed in program
- 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? This course is needed by all USFSP MBA students who do not have an academic background in business or whose undergraduate courses in operations management were taken more than 7 years before entering the MBA program.
This course serves no other program.
- 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.) Terminal Degree Only
- Objectives: To provide students with a working knowledge of the theory and application of analytical\quantitative analysis to a variety of business situations.
- Learning Outcomes: At the end of this course students should be able to:
1) Determine the critical path network given a written explanation of the activities and their immediate predecessors.
2) Provide a forecast for data that contains linear trend as well as seasonality.
3) Calculate the appropriate answers to several inventory problems utilizing one of several inventory models.
4) Be able to set-up a linear programming problem and determine the optimal answers given a written explanation of the problem
- Major Topics: 1. Project Management
2. Inventory Management
3. Forecasting
4. Quantitative Module B Linear Programming
- Textbooks: Operations Management, Tenth edition by Jay Heizer and Barry Render.
- Course Readings, Online Resources, and Other Purchases:
- Student Expectations/Requirements and Grading Policy: Students will need to score at least 80% on each online quiz from each assigned chapter in order to pass the course with an S=Satisfactory grade.
- Assignments, Exams and Tests: Students must read and study the following chapters from the text.
Chapter 3: Project Management
Chapter 12: Inventory Management
Chapter 4: Forecasting
Quantitative Module B Linear Programming (material created by instructor)
Students will need to score at least 80% on each online quiz from each assigned chapter in order to pass the course with an S=Satisfactory grade
- Attendance Policy: No first class attendance policy due to the nature of this course. Students can begin the class at any time. There are no scheduled exams. Students take the exams according to their own schedules. The schedule for the course is not part of the regular semester, so there are no religious conflicts. Students can alter when they take the online exams based on their own personal needs.
There is no time limit as when the student must complete this course. Students can take as long as they want, even in excess of a year or more, to complete the exams. Thus, there will be no conflict with religious holidays as the date a student takes an exam, as well as when they can finish the course, is entirely at their own discretion.
Students with Disabilities:
Please notify your instructor if you have a learning disability or require special assistance with this portion of Essentials. Confidential personal and learning assistance counseling are made available to students through the Division of Student Affairs. Contact R. Barry McDowell (mcdowell@stpt.usf.edu) for more information.
- Policy on Make-up Work: There is no set make-up policy. Students can begin the class at any time. There are no scheduled exams. Students take the exams according to their own schedules. The schedule for the course is not part of the regular semester, so no regularly scheduled exam is ever missed. Students can alter when they take the online exams based on their own personal needs.
There is no time limit as when the student must complete this course. Students can take as long as they want, even in excess of a year or more, to complete the exams.
See USF Policy on Academic Dishonesty and Disruption of Academic Process at www.ugs.usf.edu/catalogs/0304/adadap.htm
Because of the University’s commitment to academic integrity, plagiarism or cheating on course work or on examinations will result in penalties that may include a grade of “unsatisfactory” for this portion of the Essentials Program. Any incident of academic dishonesty will be reported to the dean of the college. Definitions and punishment guidelines for Plagiarism, Cheating, and Student Disruption of the Academic Process may be found at the web address listed above.
- Program This Course Supports: USFSP MBA Program
- Course Concurrence Information: None
- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.