MGMT 1250
2015-16
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Description
This is a Concurrent Enrollment Course, offering both high school credit through ______________ High
School and college credit through Utah Valley University. Credit from this course is transferable to all colleges and universities. Contact the receiving institution for how the credits will be applied.
Overviews principles of leadership. Provides students with information on successful leadership styles.
Includes lectures, videos, cases, group activities, and class discussion.
Expectation Overview:
The philosophy of teaching and learning in this class requires students to be active participants in the learning process. It is imperative that students come to class prepared to discuss and engage with the material and other students. Learning can and should be challenging intellectually and requires hard work and time.
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Students will be able to express their knowledge and ideas appropriately in writing and through verbal presentation.
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Students will deliver a professional quality presentation to an audience while using appropriate, supporting technology.
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Students will also write a 5-page leadership based essay.
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Students will be able to utilize appropriate procedures, frameworks, models, and experience to gain knowledge, solve problems, and make appropriate decisions based on various informational sources such as data, written and verbal communication, process analysis, and creative thinking.
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Students will have a functional and integrated knowledge of general leadership concepts and themes.
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Students will demonstrate their ability to integrate knowledge from a variety of leadership perspectives.
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Students will become more aware of their responsibility to behave ethically in their professional lives
(e.g., clients, customers, employers, society, profession, environment, and community).
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Students will demonstrate an awareness of a variety of ethical issues in their own personal and professional lives.
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Students will demonstrate the ability to use appropriate ethical decision-making strategies toward plans to resolve their own ethical issues and challenges.
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Students will apply leadership concepts to developing solutions for realistic problems both in the classroom and/or the larger community.
Prerequisites
This class is available to all high school juniors and seniors in good academic standing. High school prerequisites apply. There are no college prerequisites for this course.
Text and Instructional Materials
Northouse, P. G. (2015). Introduction to leadership: Concepts and practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
Publications, Inc.
Attendance and Participation
Regular attendance and participation is an absolute for the successful completion of this course.
Assignments, Quizzes, & Exams
Online Assignments:
You will have a set of 9 online assignments. From the total the one with the lowest score will be eliminated and the rest will be averaged. The online assignments can be in the form of homework, comment on a documentary or answer questions from newspaper economic news. Any late assignment (quiz or discussion) will be penalized with 50% of the points, unless a serious illness or serious family emergency or death.
Situations that are not considerable as acceptable reasons for late assignments include computer crashing corrupted files, going out of town etc. So, please be on time when submitting your work. Assignments are found in the Assignments area of Blackboard.
Writing Assignment:
The writing assignment is a critical analysis of an economic topic. Papers should be three or four pages
(double space) not counting the Bibliography and cover page. The grading criteria are based on clarity, use of economic tools and critical analysis. I will use anti-plagiarism software for checking paper originality. Do not copy/paste material without the source; any citation cannot be more than one line. In UVU online you will find some examples in pdf format from Hacker’s eBook for writing references.
Examinations:
Exams will be available in the Testing Center and may be taken at any time on the three days scheduled. The exams are multiple-choice. You are responsible for knowing when the Testing Center is open. Allow up to two hours to take an exam. Class will be held on the week of an exam. Under exceptional circumstances, such as a death in the family, an exam may be taken late with a maximum credit of 80%, providing timely arrangements are made with the instructor. Adjust your work and family schedules according to exam date before you take this course.
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Online Quizzes:
You will have a set of 6 online quizzes. The due dates for the online quizzes are set in the course outline.
Quizzes are open book with time limit. Quizzes are found in the Assessments area of Blackboard.
Grading Scale
A = 100-93
A - = 92-90
B+ = 89-87
B = 86-83
B - = 82-80
C+ = 79-77
C = 76-73
C - = 72-70
D+ = 69-67
D = 66-63
D - = 62-60
F = 59-0
Grades and Credit
You will receive the same grade for your high school course as you receive for your college course. Your grade for this class will become part of your permanent college transcript and will affect your GPA. A low grade in this course can affect college acceptance and scholarship eligibility.
Academic Integrity
Utah Valley University expects all students to maintain integrity and high standards of individual honesty in academic work, to obey the law, and to show respect for others. Students of this class are expected to support an environment of academic integrity, have the right to such an environment, and should avoid all aspects of academic dishonesty. Examples of academic dishonesty include plagiarizing, faking of data, sharing information during an exam, discussing an exam with another student who has not taken the exam, consulting reference material during an exam, submitting a written assignment which was authored by someone other than you, and/or cheating in any form. Violators of this policy will be subject to disciplinary action. Cheating will not be tolerated. It will result in a FAILING grade for the course.
In keeping with UVU policy, evidence of academic dishonesty may result in a failing grade in the course and disciplinary review by the college. Additional information on this topic is published in the student handbook and is available on the UVU website.
Students with Disabilities
If you have any disability, which may impair your ability to successfully, complete this course, please contact the Accessibility Services office, 863-8747, BU 146. Academic accommodations are granted for all students who have qualified documented disabilities. All services are coordinated with the Accessibility Services office.
Dropping the Class
_________ is the last day to drop the course without it showing on your transcript.
_________ is the last day to withdraw from the class.
If you drop the high school class, you must also withdraw from the UVU class to avoid receiving an E or UW
(unofficial withdrawal).
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