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ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP Course Outline Winter Quarter 2006 |
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CATALOG
NUMBER: ADM 290 |
CREDIT: 4
UNITS |
INSTRUCTOR: Assistant Professor Jim DeCosta Office: Room 218
Email
address: jdecosta@humphreys.edu Phone: 478-0800 ext 303 Web
Site: /faculty/jdecosta
Office
hours: Current
Schedule, and by appointment. |
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ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGEMENT
LEARNING OBJECTIVES RELEVANT TO THIS COURSE OFFERING
Administrative Skills
Proficiency in composing business documents, telephone and
interpersonal skills, and office procedures create the groundwork on which to
continue building office and communication skills. The ability to communicate, coach, lead,
resolve conflicts and motivate employees from any culture and background keeps
the office moving forward. Progressive
requirements in the upper-level classes such as identifying creative solutions
or alternative and implementing them bring the students training in management
perspectives.
Critical Thinking and Analytical
Skills
The ability to think through issues and analyze situations
for efficient and effective problem resolution is invaluable. Practice in analysis, interpretation,
inference, explanation and evaluation increase ability to think critically.
CATALOG DESCRIPTION:
ADM
290 Special Topics, 4 units
Prerequisite: ADM
120, ADM 121, ADM 134, ADM 141 or approval of the academic chair.
This course will be designed to encompass specific topics
and/or problems in the management not addressed by the core courses listed.
COURSE
DESCRIPTION:
This
course is a complete instructional set in Microsoft Excel 2003 from
introductory to expert concepts. In
these nine projects, you will learn basic through advanced skills, including
building, editing, and formatting worksheets, charts, analyze lists data, use
what-if analysis and pivot tables, enhance charts and worksheets, exchange data
with other programs, incorporate Web information, and finally, how to gain
control over your work and work with programming in Excel. Basic experience
with the Windows Operating system is assumed. After completing this course, you
will have covered all the skills necessary to pass the MOUS (Microsoft Office
User Specialist) Exam to become certified in Excel 2003 at the core and expert
levels.
LEARNING
OBJECTIVES:
The
student will acquire introductory through advanced instruction on Microsoft
Office Word 2003. Topics include creating and editing a Word document, creating
a research paper, creating a resume using a wizard and a cover letter with a
table, creating Web pages using Word, creating a document with a table, chart,
and watermark, generating form letters, mailing labels, and directories,
creating a professional newsletter, using Words collaboration tools, creating
an online form, working with macros and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA),
working with a master document, an index, a table of contents, and XML, and
linking an Excel worksheet and charting its data in Word. Students will successfully complete the skill
sets associated with the Microsoft Office User Specialist Certifications at
both the User and Expert Levels.
PREREQUISITE:
Successful completion of ADM120 with a C or better, upper division
standing or approval of instructor.
WRITING
ACROSS THE CURRICULUM: Students will focus on the following writing
skills and objectives:
HOURS
OF INSTRUCTION: Asynchronous Online
METHOD
OF INSTRUCTION/COURSE CONTENT:
This Online Lecture Courses is composed of
four components
1. Lecture - Online lectures may be written or audio
summaries of the learning objectives for the week or module and these lectures
are considered required reading and are to be considered relevant material for
required quizzes and or tests. Occasionally the instructor may elect to
provide a multi-media presentation based on a PowerPoint presentation, or an
AVI file that can be played in Microsoft Media Player, or perhaps converted
into a Flash multi-media file, in which case your
Browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer, or Netscape) will need to have the Flash
plug-in installed (See
Introduction to Online Courses). In many instances your instructor
will provide links to content appropriate to the lessons under study and will
identify these materials as required reading or simply as supplemental reading
material in order to help clarify the main reading assignment or to provide an
alternative view to the conceptual material under study.
2. Discussion Forum/Email - Discussion forums and email take the place
of the teacher-student and student-student interactions that normally take place
in a lecture classroom. The forum provides the student the opportunity to
respond to the course materials and concepts being presented during the course
of a lesson. Unlike a classroom situation, the online environment allows
you, the student, time to think about your response
and contribute your own personal understanding of the question or concept to
the class a whole. In a typical classroom setting, instructors often pose
questions to the class and frequently it is only a very few students who answer
and based on the few the instructor will assume that he/she is getting the
point across or will undertake another track to frame the concept in another
manner in order to help facilitate understanding. Online, you will have
time to reflect and compose a short, concise answer to the question, or to
frame a question of your own.
The discussion forum serves as
the central hub for what has come to be known as an e-community and here at
Your instructor will grade your
participation in these forums and may require that you respond once, twice,
three, or four times in every forum. Your instructor may have separate
forums, some that are graded and some that are not depending on the subject or
the instructional method the instructor has deemed most beneficial for the
transmission of the concepts for that particular course. The Rubric that
is used for this course is as follows:
1-4 points:
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Posted main topic information.
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Replied to one other student posting.
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depth of presentation, no research base, opinion only.
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Information posted only one time or several posts at one time.
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Comments were barely related to main discussion question and/or other student
posting.
- No
constructive comments to help class discussion.
- All
posts made within 24 hours of assignment due date
5 - 9 points:
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Posted main topic information and one response on same day.
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Several posts, but all on same day
- Time
between posting indicated student had read and considered substantial number of
student postings before responding.
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Replied to other student postings and provided relevant responses and
constructive feedback to the student.
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Enhanced quality of discussion (i.e. illustrated a point with examples,
suggested new perspectives on issues, asked questions that helped further
discussion, cited current news events etc).
- Time
between posting indicated student had read and considered substantial number of
student postings before responding.
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Referenced other research, gave examples, and evoked follow-up responses from
other students.
10 Points:
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Demonstrated leadership in discussions.
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Posted regularly during the week.
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Replied to main topic. Substantially enhanced quality of discussion (i.e.
illustrated a point with examples, suggested new perspectives on issues, asked
questions that helped further discussion, cited current news events etc.)
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Replied to several other student postings on a regular basis and provided
relevant responses and constructive feedback to the student posting.
- Time
between posting indicated student had read and considered substantial number of
student postings before responding.
- Referenced
other research, gave examples, and evoked follow-up responses from other
students.
This
is a link to a short tutorial on what a forum looks like and how to respond to
a post.
3. Quizzes - Online
quizzes are usually short true/false or multiple choice examinations designed
to assess your ability to retain the weeks or modules content. The
quizzes may be timed, which helps ensure the instructor that you are actually
accessing your memory to obtain the answers and not just finding them in the
reading materials that you may have printed out, or they may not be timed
because the instructor may be asking more difficult questions in which the
primary objective is to get you to read for comprehension and to contemplate
what you have read and perhaps extrapolate the concepts covered into a new and
unique situation. In either case, your performance on these quizzes will
make up a portion of your final grade in the course.
4. Essays and Term
Papers - These articles of assessment should
be exactly what you have found up to this point in your college experience here
at
How to be successful in this online
lecture course
Suggestions:
What To Do and When
REQUIRED
TEXTBOOK AND MATERIALS:
1.
No textbooks are required for this course.
The only materials are those hardware and software requirements stated
in the online
instructions for
PLAGIARISM: Plagiarism is not
condoned or excused. Term papers,
research reports and essays are expected to be the individual work of the
student. References and sources of
information should be identified and accurately documented within the body of
any written work. Citations should
conform to either the MLA
or APA style. Violation of the honor code or plagiarism is
cause for dismissal.
STUDENT SERVICES: Reading, writing, researching, and math
tutorial services are available from the
BASIS
OF EVALUATION:
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Forums |
Quizzes |
Mid-Term
Paper |
Final
Paper |
Total |
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100
pts. |
90
pts. |
50
pts. |
60
pts. |
300
pts |
Grading
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Letter
Grade |
Percentage |
Points |
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A |
90-100 |
270-300 |
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B |
80-89 |
240-269 |
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C |
70-79 |
210-239 |
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D |
60-69 |
180-209 |
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F |
0-59 |
0-179 |
ATTENDANCE
POLICY:
Posting
in the discussion forums is the equivalent to attendance in this online course.
LATE
ASSIGNMENT POLICY:
There
is no late assignment policy, all dates are final, Moodle will accept no late
discussion forum posts, nor will access be available for quizzes beyond the
posted open test times. Mid-Term essay
may be turned in up to one week after the due date for a 20% reduction in
grade. The Final paper will not be
accepted late, if for some reason your final paper is not received on the due
date and the student has completed all course work up till that time, an
incomplete will be given by the instructor and the student will have five
additional weeks to submit the late paper for grading.
CLASS
SCHEDULE:
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The
schedule for this online class is mapped out in the weekly schedule
below. Frequent online access is
expected routine behavior throughout each week of the quarter. Links to required reading that appear in
the syllabus may change due to unavailability when the instructional week
begins, so the instructor may substitute alternative links and or add
supplemental material as deemed necessary. |
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Week |
Content |
Assignments |
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1 |
Leadership
Definitions |
Forum discussion on what is
leadership from a personal perspective.
Due by 1-10-06 (10 pts.) |
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2 |
Major
Leadership Theories |
Required Leadership
Theories Changing Minds Org. Forum discussion: First Four
Major Theories Due
by 1-17-06 (10 pts.) Quiz on Required |
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3 |
Major
Leadership Theories |
Required Leadership
Theories Changing Minds Org. Forum discussion: Second Four
Major Theories Due by 1-24-06 (10 pts.) Quiz: Major Learning Theories
Due by 1-24-06 (10 pts.) |
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4 |
Leadership
Styles Transactional
vs. Transformational |
Required Leadership
Styles Richard W. Scholl Forum discussion: Leadership
Style Due by 1-31-06 (10pts.) Quiz on Required Additional LIVING
ALOFT: Human Requirements for Extended Spaceflight - NASA Bates
Interactive Process Analysis |
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5 |
Leadership
Styles - Analysis |
Required Donald
Trump Bio and Quotations Ten
Top Leaders Tell Their Story Forum discussion: What if a
Leader was well schooled in all the theories of leadership and leadership
styles. Could they enhance their
ability to lead or would they be better off staying to techniques and a style
that they are comfortable with? Due by 2-7-06 (10 pts.) Quiz on Required |
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6 |
Leading
Through Change |
Required Doug Wesley (Leading Your Organization
Through Change) Dr.
Ken Blanchard (The Ten Minute Manager) Forum discussion: Describe the
type of Leader that you believe would be best in a changing environment.
Due by 2-14-06 (10 pts.) Supplemental
Quiz on Required |
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7 |
Front
Line Leadership Carrying the vision |
Required Cathy
Perme Warren
Bennis Forum discussion: Where are
leaders found? How do you recognize leaders?
Can followers be leaders? If so how? Due by 2-21-06 (10 pts.) Quiz on Required Mid-Term Paper Due by 2-21-06
(50 pts.) |
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8 |
Coping
with Change |
Required Transitional
Psychology Draw Parallels Leading
the Workplace Within Sharon
Mosenkis Forum
discussion: (10 pts.) Due by 2-28-06 Quiz on Required |
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9 |
Motivating
Employees Through Change |
Required Basics
About Employee Motivation JoAnna Brandi Stever Robbins Forum discussion: (10 pts.)
Due by 3-7-06 Quiz on Required |
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10 |
Leadership
in a nutshell |
Required The
Laws of Leadership Forum discussion: (10 pts.)
Due by 3-14-06 Quiz on Required |
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11 |
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Final Paper Due 3-21-06 (60
pts.) |