Now half of my courses are over and I have done a good job. The workload in the classes is higher, this means that you have to study more at home. The grading in all of the different courses is based on individual assignments, group works, course attentance and exams. The exams are usually multiple choice tests; sometimes it gets very challenging when the questions are tricky. I chose the classes:
- Managerial Communication
- Decision Support System
- Information- and Data Quality
- E-Commerce
A brief overview of my courses:
Managerial Communication is a highly interesting course about soft skills and also communication inside a company. You have to hand in a couple of letters and assignments. You have three multiple choice exams. The group works are very instructive because you learn how to handle groupware (Google Docs) or work togehter with a simple Word document and the function track changes.
For Descion Support System research is very important. You have two take home exams, but there it is very important that you write your own opinion and explain it. Furthermore, you have one big team project where you can choose your partner and some assignments which are similar to a take home exam; only the rating is not as important.
Information- Data Quality is with a professor from India. In the first classes it was very hard to understand him, but now we are used to it. Part of the course are three exams and they also include statistics, so if you dislike math and especially statistics do not take this class. But the workload in this class is not too high and there are “only” three exams and a group project with five people.
In my opinion E-Commerce is the most interesting course. You work together with micro-businesses, analyse their businnes model and create a draft for their new e-commerce businness model. I am in the group with Tobias Brunner, Littus from India and Umesh from Nepal and recommended an antique seller, a marketing concept and especially to setup new E-Commerce channels. Another part of this course are assignments and presentations, but there is no exam.
If you are more interested in the courses at UNO, send me a message. Before you choose a class read the syllabus and if available read ratings about the teacher.
