The New Semester! And new mods.

Greetings, after (another) long hiatus I have decided to continue posting this journey in the Big U.

As of this sem, I am taking a whole different range of modules, albeit mostly pre-allocated.

Today's focus will be about Management and Organisation (1001)
The subject thus far has been almost like a replica of marketing the previous sem!

Why?
It is filled with general theories and concepts, slightly less of stating the obvious as was in marketing, but really alot of "fluff". Lessons wise my lecturer is seriously very slack, the first few lessons were spent playing games, subsequent ones simply watching other groups present and ask questions. Nothing very study-able.

But wait! We had a surprise class quiz (not counted in finals, thankfully) and the questions asked were taken pretty much directly from the textbook, which we had barely scratched during classroom time. Needless to say I did horribly (probably caught more unprepared than anything) and we have a graded quiz on Monday. This of course translates to mean the classroom time is quite a waste of time, simply there to choke up class participation points rather than have true learning (since we are expected to study by ourselves). Quite rubbish, in my opinion.

The textbook itself is readable (much better grasp of English than the horrid marketing textbook). My only qualm is that it states itself as an international version (for use outside of the US), however the content of the book is very American-centric, meaning that the examples and pointers are all written from an American perspective, rather than being more general (which you would expect from an "international" edition). The book's title is:
Management
A Practical Introduction
Kinicki / Williams

Though aside from that it is a fine textbook that attempts to make sense of the fluff surrounding the subject.

We'll see how the test goes, hopefully the memory work will be sufficient to pull through!

Signing off,
RRR