BAD 84266 Spring 2008 Troutt
BAD 84266 Spring 2008 Troutt
INSTRUCTOR: Professor Marvin D. Troutt
OFFICE: A426 BSA
PHONE: 330-672-1145 (V-mail), 330-672-0487 (Home)
E-MAIL: mtroutt@kent.edu
CLASS: TBA
OFFICE HOURS: TBA and by appointment
COURSE STYLE: Seminar style, Student Talks, Projects and Term Papers. This will be a graduate seminar class.
TEXTS: Lectures and readings will be based on several texts, web resources, and other library materials.
The course will use group discussions of research projects and individual completion of research papers. Some in-class sessions and some individual sessions with the instructor will be used.
COURSE POINTS:
Paper 100
Chapter reports 100
Total 200
GRADING: A = Excellent, B = Average, C = Poor.
STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES: In accordance with University policy, if you have a documented disability and require accommodations to obtain equal access in this course, please contact the instructor at the beginning of the semester or when given an assignment for which an accommodation is required. Students with disabilities must verify their eligibility through the Office of Student Disability Services (SDS) in the Michael Schwartz Student Service Center (181 MSC) (672-3391).
ENROLLMENT: It is the student's responsibility to ensure proper enrollment in classes. You are advised to review your official class schedule during the first two weeks of the semester to ensure proper enrollment. Should you determine an error in your class schedule, you have two weeks from the beginning of the semester to correct it with your advising office. If registration errors are not corrected by this date and you continue to attend and participate in classes for which you are not officially enrolled, you are advised that you will not receive a grade at the conclusion of the semester.
Last day to drop an individual class. If necessary, determine what is the last date to drop an individual class without special permission. If you stop attending a class without officially dropping, the probable result will be a grade of F.
Cheating -- any form of copying another student's work and submitting it as your own will result in one or more of the consequences specified in the university regulations, for all students responsible for the incident. Obviously where students are given a team assignment the two or more persons both attach their names to the work. It is a quasi-legal requirement to mention this in the syllabus. I do not really regard it as relevant for the students of this class.
6. GRADE WEIGHTS:
COURSE STYLE: Seminar style, Student Talks, Projects and Term Papers. This will be a graduate seminar class.
TEXTS: Lectures and readings will be based on several texts, web resources, and other library materials.
COURSE POINTS:
Paper 100
Progress reports 100
Total 200
GRADING: A = Excellent, B = Average, C = Poor.
In the earlier weeks of the semester we will focus on discussion of a number of journal articles put forward for us by each member of the class, as important background from the literature pertaining respectively to each person’s ongoing research. Given the advanced and often technical nature of the papers we will discuss, responsibility to lead the discussion will fall to the individual student identified in the class schedule for that meeting. The rest of us are responsible for bringing to class sets of systematic notes on the journal article or articles to be discussed. My general expectation is that we will have read 3 or 4 journal articles, as listed in the reading list, at each of these early class sessions, and will discuss two or more of these, with extensive follow-up discussion of how these papers relate to the student’s intended work in the course.
The Following Policies Apply to All Students in this Course
A. Students attending the course who do not have the proper prerequisite risk being deregistered from the class.
B. Students have responsibility to ensure they are properly enrolled in classes. You are advised to review your official class schedule (using Student Tools/Flashfast) during the first two weeks of the semester to ensure you are properly enrolled in this class and section. Should you find an error in your class schedule, you have until Friday, January 25, 2008 to correct the error with your advising office. If registration errors are not corrected by this date and you continue to attend and participate in classes for which you are not officially enrolled, you are advised now that you will not receive a grade at the conclusion of the semester for any class in which you are not properly registered.
C. Academic Honesty: Cheating means to misrepresent the source, nature, or other conditions of your academic work (e.g., tests, papers, projects, assignments) so as to get undeserved credit. The use of the intellectual property of others without giving them appropriate credit is a serious academic offense. It is the University's policy that cheating or plagiarism result in receiving a failing grade for the work or course. Repeat offenses result in dismissal from the University.
D. For Spring 2008, the course withdrawal deadline is Sunday, March 30, 2008. Withdrawal before the deadline results in a "W" on the official transcript; after the deadline a grade must be calculated and reported.
E. Students with disabilities: University policy 3342-3-18 requires that students with disabilities be provided reasonable accommodations to ensure their equal access equal access course content. If you have documented disability and require accommodations, please contact the instructor at the beginning of the semester to make arrangements for necessary classroom adjustments. Please note, you must first verify your eligibility for these through the Student Accessibility Services (contact 330-672-3391 or visit www.kent.edu/sas for more information on registration procedures).
