SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT INDUCTION

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SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT INDUCTION

• Dr Gloria Agyemang
• First Year
• Academic Coordinator

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Welcome to the School of Management!

• 3 years of hard work and a lot of fun!
• We want you to succeed
• Information to help you succeed.
• University is not the same as school!
• Personal Responsibility for success
• Dont get lost in the system!

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University is not the same as school
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Can you list some differences?

• School
• Handholding
• Spoon feeding
• Homework
• Parents
• Teachers
• Rules
• Detention

• University
• Independence
• Responsibility is yours
• Guidance
• Self motivation
• Intensity
• Fast pace
• Research
• Self discipline

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University students lead a full life!
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Attend all classes!

• Lectures
• All of you together
• Broad introduction to topic
• Workshops
• Smaller groups
• Pre set work
• You are responsible for attending/ reading and
  preparing for classes
• Reading lists
• Topic lists
• Moodle

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Workshops and Lectures
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Buy books and use the library

• Books purchased at bookshop or online
• Also reading packs via dept
• Remember you aim to get a degree!

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Achieving success at RHUL1

• Know the requirements of your degree
• Attend lectures and workshops
• Participate in class.
• Prepare for classes. 8 hours private study per
  subject.
• Accept academic judgement of tutors
• Respect staff students and facilities
• Let us know if you have a problem
• Student Contract to sign

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Achieving success at RHUL 2

• Academic support
• Essay guidelines
• IT support
• English language support
• Beware of Plagiarism
• What is it?
• Turn it in software
• Consequences
• Student attendance
• No chasing adults and not school children
• Failing Students

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This afternoons seminar

• How to write perfect essays!
• How to avoid plagiarism
• MX034
• Make sure you attend.
• Gerard will be talking to you about academic
  support available at RH

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If you have problems

• Seek help
• Email me or your personal tutor
• Let us know
• There is always help available
• But let us know!

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VIP INFORMATION

• Departmental Support Staff
• Lecturers, admin, personal tutors
• SOM website
• Degree structure and rules
• Curriculum
• Assessment
• Coursework
• Examinations
• Plagiarism

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Curriculum structure

• Full and half units
• Full units are taught for the whole year
• Half Units are taught for one term
• Terms
• Autumn third week in Sept for 12 weeks
• Spring second week in Jan for 11 weeks
• Summer term - May to mid June...Exams

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Management Degrees Offered

• Single Honours Management
• Management Specialisms
• marketing
• accounting and finance
• human resources
• international business
• information systems
• Management as a Major Component
• (description of 1 and 0.5units MN 1,2,3)

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Management Degrees Rules

• Four full credit units per year
• Compulsory must PASS to progress
• Core must take
• Exam must have completed 50 of coursework
• Progression pass 3 units each year
• Weighting 012 for degree classification

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Single Specialisms First Year

• MN100 Management and the Modern Corporation
  (1unit - comp)
• MN101 Business Analysis and Decision Making (0.5)
• MN102 Business Statistics (0.5)
• MN104 Accounting for Management (1)
• MN105 Management Communications Skills (0.5)
• MN107 Study Skills and Methods (0.5)

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Single Year Two

• MN220 Strategic Management (1 -comp)
• MN202 Management Information Systems (1)
• MN203 Production Operations Management (1)
• MN204 Managerial Accounting (1)
• MN205 Managerial Economics (1)
• MN206 Marketing Management (1)
• MN207 Human Resource Management (1)
• MN215 Asia Pacific Business (0.5)
• MN216 The Global Economy (0.5)

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Single Year Three

• MN330 Modern Business in Comparative Perspective
  (1 - core)
• Plus 3 other units from offerings no more than
  1 whole or 2 half units from each specialism
  group
• Dissertation is Optional

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Specialisms

• Follow single honours first year
• For second year MN220 is compulsory and for the
  third year MN330 is core
• Second year take pre-requisites for specialism
  e.g. if Marketing then take MN206
• Third year take the prescribed 2 units from
  specialism group

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Important Points

• Only take courses that match your year status
  e.g. 1st years take 1st year courses
• Only 2 floating units over course of degree
• Most second and third year units will have
  pre-requisites
• Pass mark is 40
• There is only ONE repeat/resit chance

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Terminology

• REPEAT taking the whole course again, lectures,
  workshops, coursework, exam
• RESIT resitting the exam or re-submitting
  missing/failed coursework (50 cap)
• AL allowed for medical and special
  circumstances mark is removed from calculation
• IN incomplete and must repeat at the next
  opportunity

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Change of Degrees

• Progression Issues
• e.g. minor changing to major must complete ALL
  first year core units
• Might require additional year
• Capped numbers on courses e.g. Marketing
• No changes will be made in the first term

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Department Support

• Teaching Office Marianne Bowyer (Finalists),
  Layla Walton (First Years), Gill Heasman (Second
  Years), Kayleigh Palmer who assists the office.
• Reception Jackie Brackenbury
• Staff office hours (notice boards)
• Personal tutor system (form)
• Communicating Information Vault, monitor,
  emails

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Problem Resolution

• Student staff committee
• Layla Walton
• Glorias office
• Academic Co-ordinator
• Room Founders East 128
• gloria.agyemang_at_rhul.ac.uk
• Handbook
• For the exam board to consider any extenuating or
  medical circumstances it must in writing and
  given to Layla before the exam sub-board NOT
  AFTER the exam results are posted.

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The class of 2008/9 Good Luck with your studies !

• Good luck with
• your studies