Adjunct Meeting
5/4/2014
Finance Curriculum
• My observations
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Students especially traditional students are distracted.
TAP students are tired.
TAP students are sometimes high maintenance.
Every class has a problem child.
Students will portray neediness and an inability to do technological tasks.
Students procrastinate.
• Our Needs
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Develop a program that provides the tools for decision-making
Develop a broader set of curriculum choices
Develop an online option for elective courses
Provide a mechanism that brings traditional and non-traditional students
together
• Strengthen our expectations for on-time work
Current Finance Curriculum
• Core courses
• BUA108 Financial Analysis for Managers
• BUA321 Business Finance
• Electives
• BUA450 Financial Planning
• BUA325 Investment Analysis
• BUA350 Portfolio Management
• MBA
• FIN630 Managerial Finance
Proposed Curriculum
• Core Courses
• BUA108
• BUA321
• Finance Elective Courses
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**BUA325
**BUA350
BUA450
Risk management
***ST Finance
***Intermediate Finance
Financial Ratio Analysis
Money and Banking
Taxation
Teams and Groups
Leadership
Entrepreneurship
** Investment Track
BUA325
BUA350
BUA450
Risk MGT
Money and Banking
Taxation
Teams and Groups
Entrepreneurship
*** Corporate Finance Track
Risk Management
ST Finance
Intermediate Finance
Ratio Analysis
Teams and Groups
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
BUA325
Flipped Classrooms
• The concept is to get students to do a majority of the class prep before
class by watching lecture videos.
• In class we can then concentrate more on problems etc.
• All quizzes are online.
• Homework is designated as offline and online.
• The challenge is to keep the classroom moving and still provide
opportunity for students to interact.
• This is easier for adult students than traditional students.
• Currently no real way of knowing if students are actually preparing prior to
class.
• Developing the Classroom experience is a team effort.
Team Effort
• Flipped class content
• We need to develop communication to discuss
• Material to be included
• Presentation of the material
• Online courses
• What courses to develop
• How do we train adjuncts to teach in this format
• Additional adjunct faculty
• Who wants to teach online?
• We will need more
Websites
• Tmcfinancenotes.weebly.com (student site)
• No password (yet)
• Finance tab
• Has the individual course sites
• “What is a Flipped Class”
• Websites
• Site for interesting websites for use in the class
• In development
• Problem Solution Videos
• A compilation of excel solutions to finance problems
• Partially completed
• Tmcbusinessfaculty.weebly.com
• Password protected
• Finance tab for instructor files
• Meeting tab for adjunct meeting documents
BUA108 Financial Analysis For Managers
• Beginning introduction to Accounting and Finance
• Use two textbooks
• Students here are very stressed out (adult students only)
• The idea is to introduce the student to basic concepts.
• The class is flipped.
• Students should come to class with a laptop and the study guides for
the chapters downloaded.
• Homework and quizzes are open book.
BUA321 Business Finance
• Core course
• Flipped class
• There is a difference between adult and traditional students.
• Mostly experience.
• Harder to get traditional students to advance experiential input.
• A more difficult class due to the quantitative nature.
• We will use the excel workbook in class and for the assignments.
• The online LMS is MyFinanceLab.
• Starting Fall 2014 a new edition will be used.
BUA325 and BUA350
• This is going to be a big change moving forward.
• We will use one textbook for both classes.
• The new textbook has been chosen.
• Modules etc are being worked on
• The classes are taught sequentially at both campuses.
• A portfolio simulation game will be played for this class.
• The LMS is Connect by McGraw-Hill.
• It is very difficult to find a current textbook on portfolio management
and investment theory for undergrads.
BUA450 Financial Planning
• Currently only taught to Adult students.
• A flipped class with no LMS.
• An exploration of the student’s current financial preparation.
• I try very hard to avoid a “solicitation” feel.
Additional Information
• Attendance
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Must take every night online through the MyTMC system
Students cannot miss more than 1 class.
If a student says one of the CAPE people said it is up to you, it is not.
They must be administratively withdrawn
• Missing classes
• You cannot miss classes.
• If you must miss a class, you must call me and we can try to arrange a way to make up the class.
• If we work together, we can cover for each other and not mess up the students (or our contracts) too
badly.
• Contracts
• You should have a contract before you start the class.
• If you do not, please let me know.
• End of class summary
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New requirement.
To get information about best teaching practices, this will assist.
I will send this document to you.
When you finish the class, submit via email to me.
More to come.