I’m exploring my Selected Topics in Supply Chain Management course outline because it is a course that I was the first to teach it and developed my concept of the course from scratch. The course Objectives are as follows:
This course will be engaging and memorable. Supply chain management is awesome! There are so many topics in supply chain management that it is hard to select just a few. My goal in this course is to familiarize you with many additional topics and considerations that organizations face from a supply chain management perspective. I hope that you will see opportunities for meaningful work in supply chain management by further exploring the challenges related to operating an effective and efficient supply chain.
This is a required course for the Supply Chain Management major. I believe courses that are required for major courses of study should do two things:
- Give you in-depth knowledge of a specific topic
- Prepare you for a job in the field.
Accordingly, I have designed the course and the deliverables to challenge you to take responsibility for your learning and to help you to develop skills that you will use in the future. Accordingly, you will be actively involved in the creation of the course and the material presented in class and be required to formulate opinions and have intelligent discussions.
I believe the intended outcomes of the course are both high and low-level and I have intended. I don’t expect expertise on all topics but want students to be familiar/aware of them as they will encounter the issues and challenges we discuss in the course in their future careers. This course is skills focused to enable students to develop soft and hard skills that will be valuable to them.
The assessment breakdown is:
| Simulation – Report 1 | 10% |
| Simulation – Results | 5% |
| Simulation – Report 2 | 15% |
| Case Assignments | |
| Context | 7.5% |
| Analysis | 7.5% |
| Critique | 7.5% |
| Report | 7.5% |
| Special Topic Presentation | 15% |
| Special Topic Report | 15% |
| Class Contribution – Individual | 10% |
| TOTAL | 100% |
There are numerous methods of assessment in this course. As described in the outcomes, students are actively engaged in the knowledge creation process through participation in four presentations, in-class discussion, and creating in-depth presentations and report on topics that they have not explored in other courses.
I believe the learning outcomes are well aligned with the assessments.
The word familiarization may connote a uni-or multistructural response at best. I could re-write it to encourage students to engage or explore the topics.
Interesting to see these concepts in a different field than my own.
I like how engaging your writing is! I also appreciate that students first need to be familiar or aware of a topic before they can engage in higher level deep learning.