re: LSUS Online MBA Reviews

Well, looks like I won’t have to worry about it. Just logged into Moodle and saw this.

“M3: Exam ***Due to a technical issue this exam has been closed early, your score is 80/80.”

Edit: Looks like she also emailed the whole class regarding this issue. I’ll take it.

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My only complaint is that you aren't allowed to know what questions you missed on the assessments. Since this is my first class I'm not sure if that's an overall LSUS policy or just hers.

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It's an LSUS policy. I have yet to find a professor that will share the missed questions.

How's it going with Isaacs? I have him for MADM 715 in AP2 with MADM 701 with Phillips. Think I'll be able to handle both of those?

Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

Now that we are a few weeks in, I just want to tell everyone that MADM 710 with Phillips has a large course load. It is super writing heavy and feels like a lot of busy work. The assignments each week say they have a minimum of 500 words, but all 3 of mine have been over 2000 and I am not a verbose writer.

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Now that we are a few weeks in, I just want to tell everyone that MADM 710 with Phillips has a large course load. It is super writing heavy and feels like a lot of busy work. The assignments each week say they have a minimum of 500 words, but all 3 of mine have been over 2000 and I am not a verbose writer.

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Thanks for the heads up. The specific word count is actually extremely helpful, as everyone's definition of a heavy load is different. Since MADM 710 isn't a core course, there is less feedback on it overall, so this is valuable information.

I would like to note however, that 2000 words probably wouldn't be considered "super heavy" when compared to the heavy core classes. I won't be taking the class, but for the sake of posterity is there only a single writing assignment each week, or is there a second (ie discussion post)?

I'd probably classify 2k words a week in the moderate territory. The majority of my MKT and MADM core classes have had weekly discussion posts with additional replies (probably about 800-1200 words total) PLUS a weekly assignment in the 1000-3000 word range... and I did my homework to pick the NOT heavy workload teachers (ie. I did not take Williams, White, or Meeks).

No, I agree with you. There is also a discussion board post + 25 question quiz each week. My discussion board posts have fallen in the 1000-1500+ range or thereabouts. Just as an example this week there were 4 questions to answer in that post including one that required 2 pro/cons and fully fleshed out arguments to go with it. Before that last question my word count was at 948. As it’s an HR class we are working on things weekly like writing a fully fleshed out job description + analysis, but we weren’t allowed to write it on our own job or one within our department. And both discussion board post and weekly assignment require a fair amount of outside research as they ask questions that can’t be answered with the core text.

All of this is fine—it’s a graduate level course after all—it’s just much more involved than the syllabus made it look in the beginning. I’d say the workload is nearly comparable to James’ MKT701 when you factor in all the research/etc.

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Also for clarification I didn’t call the course load super heavy or even the writing load—just that within the class, it is super writing heavy. For example McLaughlin’s MADM 760 I felt was more balanced as the writing assignments were straightforward every week and didn’t require multiple directions of outside research, just one or two supporting sources.

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Which is why I took McLaughlin for MADM 701 as well as MADM 760. Straightforward, balanced, no busywork. Frankly, writing for McLaughlin is also a bit more like writing for a senior executive. You need to be hit all the points while being concise. It's not perfect (most senior execs I've known typically preferred things condensed to bullet points), but it's much closer to getting you the real world skills than a 20-40 page paper.

It's also not a perfect class in other ways. From what I hear, James and Meeks are heavy on busywork, but also heavy on actual teaching and interaction. I'd like to have more interaction, lecture videos, zooms, open discussions (for non-graded conversations between the teacher and class so we can help each other with difficult concepts)... basically I took Shaughnessy my first semester, and so far no other teacher has begun to compare to his setup. lol

Satnights,

I've heard Heller is good so you probably won't regret it. The details have generally been vague but positive. No group work, which is important to me.

I should re-iterate that McLaughlin's tests can be a bit tricky. If you're lucky, you can pick up a bunch of easy questions, but I've also been unlucky before and gotten hit with questions that were more granular. It's tough for me to remember every single little detail, so I'm sure I miss some of these and it's been tough for some other students as well. For me, it's a calculated risk as I place a lot of value in the predictable and balanced workload.

Perhaps I was traumatized, but I would HATE to have another class like MKT 701 (A. Darrat) where literally 44% of the class was concentrated into two weeks (3 and 5) and you're hit with an exam covering multiple weeks, a discussion post and reply, AND a full case analysis on those weeks, while weeks 1, 2, and 6 are just two discussion posts and replies (worth 12% total).

McLaughlin's MADM 760 was, weekly discussion with two replies, a short weekly current event paper (I would say 500-1000 words), and a weekly exam on the two chapters for the week. 701 was a similar format (although only 4 weeks of forum posts). No weeks are light but neither are any weeks unusually heavy.

Me again! How is MKT 701 with Khan? I may change and take the same two classes you are this term? Has it been a real pain?

I'll be starting the program in the upcoming AP2 session. I've registered for ISDS 705 with Lind and FIN 701 with Kendall. Couldn't find much info on either professor. Any thoughts?