SYLLABUS – M&IS 34180

CRN NUMBER 10077

3 Credit Hours

Summer 1, 2008

Office Hours:  Thursday: 12: p.m. – 1:00 p.m. and by appointment

 

Text:   Human Resource Management, A Managerial Tool for Competitive Advantage Fourth Edition, copyright 2007.  Kleiman, Lawrence S., Atomic McGraw-Hill Irwin. ISBN: 1-59260-267-3

 

e-mail: rchapm10@kent.edu

Telephone: 803-323-7024 (Emergencies or arrange for an appointment)

 

 

A.    Students attending the course who do not have the proper prerequisite risk being deregistered from the class.

 

B.     Students have the responsibility to ensure they are properly enrolled in classes.  You are advised to review your official class schedule 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 the date noted in the university calendar to correct the error with your advising office.  If registration errors are not corrected by the date noted in the university calendar 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.    The course withdrawal deadline is June 30, 2008 and noted in the university calendar.  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:  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 Service Center (672-3391).

 

Class Guidelines:

Absences from class will impact your educational experience.  Attendance in class provides the opportunity for each student to learn not only from the instructor and materials, but also from other students. Should you miss a class, it is your responsibility to obtain the class notes and other information and handouts from another student.  The instructor will not provide copies of notes.

 

All written assignments must be submitted on or before the assigned due date at the beginning of the class period.  LATE ASSIGNMENTS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. 

You are required to be present for all exams unless you have made PRIOR arrangements with the instructor.   Make-up exams will be granted solely at the Instructor’s discretion.

 

All out-of-class written assignments must be submitted in typewritten form.  No handwritten assignments will be accepted.  Standards of proper English apply to all written assignments and exams.  In addition to content; spelling, grammar and flow of ideas will be used to evaluate any written work product.

All students are expected and encouraged to participate in activities and discussions during class.  Learning is an active process and each student should feel free to add input and ask questions during class sessions.  There will be a variety of in-class activities to supplement lectures and textbook reading.  Material covered during the in-class activities is considered exam-relevant information.

 

Students are expected to disable any electronic devices during class time to avoid interruptions caused by cellular telephones, pagers, PDA’s, and other equipment.  Please extend courtesy to your fellow class members and to the instructor by refraining from the use of such devices during class time.  Repeated violations will be reflected in the student’s participation grade.

 

All students are expected to read the assigned textbook as well as any articles assigned by the instructor throughout the semester.  Students are required to bring their textbook on scheduled class dates.

 

Students will be assigned and are expected to participate in class activities. 

 

If you encounter difficulties and cannot see me during my scheduled office hours, please send me an e-mail, call me, or ask before or after class.  If you need assistance, please contact me immediately. 

 

Students in this course will not be graded on the plus / minus scale.

 

            A  =  315 – 350 points  (90%)

            B  =  280 – 314 points  (80%)

            C  =  245 – 379 points  (70%)

            D  =  210 – 244 points  (60%)

            F  =  Below 210 points 

 

Midterm exam – 1 @ 100 points                      100

Class participation  @ 50 points                       150

TOTAL                                                             350