Principles of Management
| Course | Section | Credits | Format | |||
| BUS 320 | 82 | 3 | Hybrid: online with face-to-face final exam (eight week course) |
Course Description
This 3-credit course
focuses on management theory. It explores different ways that managers
function in both profit and non-profit businesses and industry
organizations, and examines management behaviors from both functional and
organizational perspectives.
This course introduces the student to progressive management concepts and practices. The course’s fundamental building blocks are the managerial functions of planning, organizing, leading and controlling. Topics include organizational culture, business ethics, globalization, business strategy, organizational structures, leadership and teamwork.
Course Objectives:
What should you get out of this class?
- An understanding of how skilled managers tap into the resources of an organization to accomplish amazing things.
- An ability to see connections between management concepts and personal experiences.
- A capability to see relationships between management concepts and current developments in the business world.
- Better reasoning and analytical skills, so that you can develop solid arguments and think critically about arguments and evidence you must review.
- Enhanced writing and verbal skills, to allow you to present your ideas in a coherent and persuasive manner.
- Improved team-work skills, to boost your effectiveness as you work on joint projects.
BUS 320 is a required core course for the UWSP business major.
Permission required:
Contact Lynn
Kordus at
lynn.kordus@uwc.edu or
715-261-6380.
UWSP campus students contact
Laurie Kallstrom at lkallstr@uwsp.edu or 715-346-4324
Textbook Information
Required
Title:
Management, A Practical Introduction
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin; 4 edition (September 18, 2008)
ISBN-10: 0073381489
ISBN-13: 978-0073381480
Instructor
Barbara Mihm
Dates/Times:
Start: January 25, 2010
End: March 19, 2010
This course is eight
weeks in length.
Last day to
register for this course: January 28, 2010
Proctored face-to-face
final exam at UWMC and UWSP: Date TBD
Note:
There is no specific exact hour that you need to be online. All work can be
completed within a 24 hour window, with the exception of the final exam
which is face-to-face. The syllabus/schedule will
be available one week before class starts and will emailed to registered
students.
Location: Internet
Tuition and Fees
| WI Undergraduate - 3 credits: | $870.47 |
Please Note: The $200.00 fee charged for this course helps cover the administrative and course-delivery costs that are unique to this outreach effort. However, no segregated fees or text rental fees are charged. If you are enrolled full-time and you add this course, you will be charged an additional $870.47.
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