Week 1 – Update

I have finish my first week of classes.  In general, they are interesting but frankly, fairly basic.  I never considered myself well read but what I am realising is that through all of my automatic feeds on various business topics and such, I consume news at a much higher rate than many other people.  Also, I have a knack for remembering numbers so that comes in handy and I can pull stats out of articles pretty quickly.

The classes are all lumped together.  In other words, in one class we are covering marketing and operations and in another we are covering finance, information technology and human resources.  The idea is that no one discipline is managed in a vacuum so each class is team taught by three or more professors.   Some days they will all be in class, others one or two will focus on a particular topic.

The good and the bad is that all of the group work and various tasks and group work must be done but none of it counts toward your final grade in the class.  The only graded material is one written assignment or test (depending on the class).  You have one and only one opportunity which is a bit stressful but I am sure with proper preparation all will be fine.

The weekend will be spent trying to get ahead in all the reading.  Thank goodness I had 70 odd books in Armenia to get my reading skills in shape!