Excelsior Business Strategy 495

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Just completed this class. Got an A in it but you'll need to earn it with. Here are my observations.

The course requires plenty of work out of you. On a weekly basis, the minimum required is to read a chapter, answer the weekly questions on the discussion board, take a quiz on the chapter and reply to at least 2 other students posts. This is the bare minimum you need to do every week. Additionally, you'll need to submit your case outline on week 10 and submit your final case study by the last day.

The case outline requires audio to accompany the PowerPoint presentation you'll be submitting with the outline. It's not as bad as I thought but its additional work for that week.

The readings are not that bad, there's just a constant amount of it.

I'm employed full time and took this class alongside Operations Management, an XML class and Information literacy equivalent class. In retrospect, I should have not have taken them all at once but I was making a big push to finish. I did well in all my classes so I can't say other classes suffered but I certainly was stressed every week this semester. So in that regard, it sucked.

I'd recommend taking as few classes concurrently with this one if you can. Just makes like easier. I still feel kind of weird thinking I need to post something, somewhere.

Just glad it's over. One class left and I'm done.

BTW, rent the book if you can. I got a great deal at about $26 for the semester from knetbooks. That's what I got it for at the time.
Here's the book info: Strategic Management

Get Noodletools if you can, it helped keep my postings, and assignments organized. Thanks to bkahuna for that tip.