MGMT 5620 Project Leadership and Communication
Course Title: MGMT 5620 Project Leadership and Communication
Type: Required, intensive course
Term/Time: Spring 2017 / 5 to 9 pm on Fridays and 9 am to 5 pm on Saturdays from 1/20 to 3/03
Instructor: Eric D. Johnson
Teaching Assistant: An unknown TA for grading assignments
Overall Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Knowledge/Skills Gained: Leadership concepts & skills.
Summary: This course requires lots of reading and writing in such an intensive schedule. Therefore, time management is very important for this subject. The professor's teaching style is very clear and straightforward. He focuses more on leadership skills than communication skills. Depending on how you arrange your schedule and when you will graduate, you can complete this subject as early or as late as possible.
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Students need to put some efforts to earn an A for this subject because this courses involves many reading and writing assignments (you can see its syllabus here). From the syllabus, you can tell that the professor puts more emphasis on leadership than communication. To me, this is fine because we already have the Technical Communication course to cover communication topics. This is probably the only subject in our curriculum that addresses leadership skills. Accordingly, this course helps students in a different way--it stresses soft skills rather than the hard, technical skills.
The professor's teaching style is very clean and straightforward, even though it was difficult for me to have a good mood when facing the professor given his military background (My father was a soldier before, and I am the first child in our family. You can imagine how chaotic my childhood was when a soldier-father dealt with his daughter in a military manner).
Although it's very easy for students to lose points in our writing assignments due to grammar errors and unclear descriptions, losing points actually helps us improve our writing. Most of us aren't native American English speakers, so we need to pay additional attention to these writing assignments. I recommend use simple, stupid English with present tense to write your essays. Just like we want the simplest predictive or regression model, which has the fewest variables that can explain the most effects, students don't need to write long and complex sentences in this course. If you read the required materials for this subject, you can tell that most articles, such as those from the Harvard Business Journal, are written in simple English. Therefore, why do you write long, complex sentences and then lost points?
Depending on how you arrange your class schedule and when you plan to graduate, you can take this class as early or as late as you want because this course isn't a prerequisite for any other subjects. Personally I completed this course in my first semester. Yet I know many students put this class in their last semester so they can have less courseload and have more time to find a job. Students have a very high flexibility to arrange this course.
In conclusion, if you want to earn an A for this subject, pay additional attention to your writing assignments! Carefully organize your essays in simple, clear English.
Type: Required, intensive course
Term/Time: Spring 2017 / 5 to 9 pm on Fridays and 9 am to 5 pm on Saturdays from 1/20 to 3/03
Instructor: Eric D. Johnson
Teaching Assistant: An unknown TA for grading assignments
Overall Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Knowledge/Skills Gained: Leadership concepts & skills.
Summary: This course requires lots of reading and writing in such an intensive schedule. Therefore, time management is very important for this subject. The professor's teaching style is very clear and straightforward. He focuses more on leadership skills than communication skills. Depending on how you arrange your schedule and when you will graduate, you can complete this subject as early or as late as possible.
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Students need to put some efforts to earn an A for this subject because this courses involves many reading and writing assignments (you can see its syllabus here). From the syllabus, you can tell that the professor puts more emphasis on leadership than communication. To me, this is fine because we already have the Technical Communication course to cover communication topics. This is probably the only subject in our curriculum that addresses leadership skills. Accordingly, this course helps students in a different way--it stresses soft skills rather than the hard, technical skills.
The professor's teaching style is very clean and straightforward, even though it was difficult for me to have a good mood when facing the professor given his military background (My father was a soldier before, and I am the first child in our family. You can imagine how chaotic my childhood was when a soldier-father dealt with his daughter in a military manner).
Although it's very easy for students to lose points in our writing assignments due to grammar errors and unclear descriptions, losing points actually helps us improve our writing. Most of us aren't native American English speakers, so we need to pay additional attention to these writing assignments. I recommend use simple, stupid English with present tense to write your essays. Just like we want the simplest predictive or regression model, which has the fewest variables that can explain the most effects, students don't need to write long and complex sentences in this course. If you read the required materials for this subject, you can tell that most articles, such as those from the Harvard Business Journal, are written in simple English. Therefore, why do you write long, complex sentences and then lost points?
Depending on how you arrange your class schedule and when you plan to graduate, you can take this class as early or as late as you want because this course isn't a prerequisite for any other subjects. Personally I completed this course in my first semester. Yet I know many students put this class in their last semester so they can have less courseload and have more time to find a job. Students have a very high flexibility to arrange this course.
In conclusion, if you want to earn an A for this subject, pay additional attention to your writing assignments! Carefully organize your essays in simple, clear English.
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