Speedster,
Not knowing if your message was said with a smile or not, I'll simply say "You didn't sign up for the Entrepreneur classes at USC." This was a one year concentration of all previous business classes. (Two classes each semester - total of 4 classes. Starting with 401, each student was required to take 401, 402, 403, and 404.) When the program started (1973) there were a total of 7 students. the last two years I was there (1992-93), we had 180 undergraduate students signing up for the course and, because of space limitation and the demands on faculty, we even had to turn student away. The graduate program had another 40 or 50 students.
For the final exam in 402, students were in groups of 4 or 5 and each group wrote an all inclusive business plan. The grade the plan received was the grade received by each of the group members. For the final in 404, each student was required to write an all inclusive business plan on a business they wanted to start or an expansion of their family's business (remember, this was USC - a private university). The grade they received on that plan was the grade they received for the class. Reading, grading, and making notes in the margins for 180 business plans was a heck of a lot of reading.
The students and faculty had a good time learning from each other and sharing ideas and experiences.
What we tried to teach was the application of real life business, not textbook theory.
......-jp |
