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From graduation packet just received:

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LSUS Email Account
Graduates will be allowed to utilize their LSUS email account for 3 semesters after graduation.

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Another session in the books.:nana: Congrats to all finishing with courses and program. Good luck to all starting and in process of completing the program. Stick with it and it'll be well worth the reward. Finished the program with goal of 4.0. Took 12 months (3 full time sessions and 3 part time sessions). More importantly, weekends will be free again :cheers:

Amazing how quickly this journey went by. Feels like just yesterday was applying to the program. Certainly was a little rough with the transition to 'no textbook format' in the spring but it's quickly improved IMO. Thanks to all that helped (and tolerated complaints) along the way. He's probably no longer here but brentb was a huge help early on. I'm planning as of now to attend the graduation ceremony in December and hope to see classmates there.
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PROGRAM/COURSE REVIEWS:
Proud to say I'm a graduate of this program. Were some bumps along the way but overall was great experience and well worth the investment. My hope with this program is it takes advantage of technology to continue to make it an interactive program. Foundation is already in place to continue to build upon. Have mixed feelings on the 'no textbook format' as far as future quality of courses but hopefully that will continue to be assessed. Things in the business world change too quickly to use dated material for too long.

Hopefully these will be helpful to someone, I posted my course reviews below. I wrote some of these a few months ago so some comments may not still be applicable with current offerings of the course.

ECON705 -- Dr. Shaughnessy. Very good professor that does several recorded Zoom sessions/week. Weekly Quiz/Self-Assessment/Assessment. He does everything to help but give you the answers. Personally didn't find course to be huge time commitment and doesn't have any busy work. Can be doubled. Highly recommend professor.

ACCT701 -- Dr. Ambrosio. Another interactive professor that'll do video reviews of quizzes and quickly responds to any questions. He'll explain everything in detail if you need it. Was my first course in the program Fall 2017. We used PDF textbook then. I can't find my prior notes but I believe we had a weekly quiz and assessment plus a midterm and final. Not sure if that's changed since. Can be doubled. Again, highly recommend.

FIN701 -- Dr Vines. I think Dr. Vines is the only option (at the time) but he's who I'd recommend. Does 4-5 Zoom sessions most weeks for exam prep. This course IMO definitely needed a textbook. He'll provide you with a 10-15 pages document written by himself to prepare for exams. If you don't have finance experience, I'd recommend finding a prep book and make your life easier.

One of the more time consuming courses in the program for me. Given lack of guidance in his 10-15 page document he provides, I had to use Youtube/outside sources to understand quite a bit of the stuff. To do well on his exams, rewrite his 10-15 document in your own words. If you don't already use regularly, get accustomed to Excel and/or Financial Calculator.

I don't think there's a professor that goes out of his way more to help than Dr. Vines. JMO The quality of the course w/o a text was lacking. I (luckily) didn't double this course. Not to say you can't, but I was spending 25-40+ hrs/week on this course. Really will depend on your background. Would recommend him. The course structure? No so much. The no text format wasn't his decision so not going to hold that against him. He's a great guy that cares about his students.

MADM715 (Employment Law) -- Wren. My only negative experience in the program. The professor 100% didn't get a sh!t this session. Nothing was reviewed by her from the reading material to the exams. The exam questions were incomplete and she never was willing to review them for errors. Her material was nothing more than repeated material after repeated material from internet sources. You would read the same exact thing 5-10x through various internet articles. There are many reviews out there from this session. Haven't read one that was really off base from the experience of this session. It was just horribly put together and unprofessional communication IMO.

I think she just REALLY had difficulty going from using a standard textbook to her having to provide material on her own. Knowing the time needed to put together the course, I probably wouldn't even have given a negative review if her communication with the whole class wasn't so off-putting. The content is fine but was just a jumbled, unreviewed mess. Hopefully it'll improve in future offerings. Certainly don't think it could be worse. I would not recommend on the basis of the Spring 2018 offering of the course. Her reviews pre-Spring 2018 were fine so hopefully this session was an anomaly.

MADM760 -- Dr. Meeks. Definitely one of the best professors in the program IMO. Very straight forward no BS guy. It is time consuming but wasn't a lot of busy work. Weekly group meetings I thought was one of the best things about the program in getting to know classmates. Weekly Quiz + Weekly Written Assignment + End of Class Individual Project + End of Class Group Project. This class prepared me well for the writing intensive MKT course. Can be doubled. Highly recommend.

MADM701 -- Dr. Knotts. Was a breeze IMO. Very straight forward with readings, weekly written assignment + weekly exam. Really only so much you can say with this course. Read and you'll do fine. Can be doubled. Recommend if an option.

ISDS705 -- Dr. Linn. Really not a whole lot to say here. Read the book and take 3 exams. Could be doubled/tripled.

MKT701 -- Dr James. Much has already been said here. She's outta her mind with the project timelines but the readings and exams were fine. Wish she'd be little more realistic with the project so students could take more from the course. As is, it's just writing a bunch of BS and cramming for exams.

TBH The biggest thing I took from the course was the Grammarly MS Word extension :lol: . It is definitely helpful. Survive the 7 weeks with her and you'll do fine. I would recommend taking someone else with course. That's SOLELY based on the unrealistic project timelines. She's more than helpful with any questions. She does many zoom sessions. Unfortunately I didn't find there to be enough hours in the day to attend or watch them. Wouldn't recommend doubling but is possible. Wouldn't plan on having much of a social life whether taking alone or double. :lol:

MADM720 -- Dr. K Williams. Very likable professor. She'll go out of her way to help you with whatever. Course could use more interaction for a communications course IMO but I'd probably suggest the same with several courses. Not a large time commitment. I'd say I spent 5 hours a week on it. Took with MKT701 so it's a course you can double with anything. Would definitely recommend her.

MADM710 -- Dr. F Williams. Admittedly I feared taking her based on past reviews, but I was pleasantly surprised here. Really was a walk in the park compared to MKT701 and MADM715. I imagine her MADM701 course is similarly structured. The Wednesday due dates for the discussion questions are the hardest part of the course. You'll have an additional writing assignment due the following Sunday night + a weekly exam. Exams are fairly easy. This course wasn't much different than taking MADM701 with Dr. Knotts. Can be doubled. Would recommend.

All the best again to those completing the program, starting and anything in between. This board has been a tremendous resource. I would encourage anyone new to read the history of this board and use google to search prior reviews of courses from this board (if you don't want to search page-by-page)

@GeauxDEEJ I would contact the MBA Coordinator to ask for your situation. Typically they do a "Degree Checkout" during the final session you're in and you'll be eligible for the following graduation ceremony.

Felice Williams --> MADM710 & MADM701
Kimberley Williams --> MADM720

I'd recommend either professor personally. Have taken both courses over the last couple months and both were laid out well IMO. Finishing up 710 with Felice now.

I'd take a non-James taught MKT701 course while you have the option. The last time someone other than James taught MKT701 was Fall 2017.

The material isn't difficult with her but she's completely oblivious with the project. I think her rationale with doing it is because it's "MBA level" course. Overwhelming with busy work doesn't make it MBA level. You really don't learn a whole lot because you're too busy consuming your time bullsh!tt!ng your way through the paper. Readings/Exams are nothing more than cram sessions as a result.

Get through the 7 weeks with her and you have a good shot at an A. The graders seem to want the course to be over as much as the students.

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AP1 Graduates, it's official!

DEGREE AWARDED:
MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND FAMILY EN
Graduation Date 08/08/18

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Congrats all!

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@WDE I thought Assignment 4 was just more intensive because I rewrote the whole thing to make sure I met the Turnitin threshold. I wound up getting a couple points docked on Assignment 4 because of it. The instructions said don't include any parts of Assignment 2 so I did exactly that. I included the Daily/Weekly/Monthly duties part on Assignment 2 but not Assignment 4. :lol: Oh well

Assignment 5 seems to be the easiest yet. I just finished it up. Gonna start reading for the next module tonight. Feels good to finally be ahead to get a head start on things and not cram all the reading on Monday/Tuesday. Hasn't been a problem yet but the Wednesday discussion posts always come down to the wire for me.

The finish line is near!! :nana:

@WDE

Is it just me or is this assignment 4 for MADM710 just a copy of Assignment 2 plus a job analysis in paragraph form? I get making tweaks to previous job description but really feels we're having to overhaul our previous work for the sake of overhauling just to fall under the required TurnitIn.

I've enjoyed this course so far quite a bit but just feels like this week is a bit on the side of busy work with the assignment. I went into great detail on Assignment 2 and didn't get any feedback but great job. I don't particularly think it's possible to go into much more detail than I already did. I think there's a part 3 of this job analysis upcoming, I REALLY hope there's a bit more to upcoming part 3 of this assignment than basically just reviewing what we've already done and having to write it to fall under the TurnitIn score.

From what I gather, our previous Assignment 2 submission is stored in the TurnitIn database so we have to completely re-write the whole thing over again? :lol:

@WDE
Have you got your Week 3 Application/Discussion grading back yet? I see we got our 12 Extra Credit points added this week for the Quiz at the beginning of the course.

This course has been a lot less time consuming than I thought it'd be at the beginning of the session.

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Graduate application submitted. 3 more weeks to go! Seems like just yesterday was applying to the program. Smell the finish line. :nana:
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I would recommend anyone/everyone get into MKT701 with Darrat even if you were planning to take MKT in the spring or next summer :cool: . Dr James is very much available to help students and the reading /exams / grading aren't difficult. However, project timelines aren't realistic whatsoever to do good work. Overloading people doesn't equal learning and is doesn't make a course "MBA level".

If she simply did some adjustments to the project, it'd be a better course where people would learn a lot more. Whether that be make it more clear (not play make believe product/company) and/or make it into a group project. I thought the group project in MADM760 with Meeks was one of the better things about the program. She just seems a bit oblivious to what she's actually assigning.

I think we got the items to grade Saturday evening last week. My mod 2 assignment grade didn't change but it did go missing for about 3 days after being graded. My mod 2 discussion and syllabus quiz are now missing from grade book (the items aren't even listed anymore). Gonna wait until Sunday to email

MADM710 exam 1 wasn't bad. Definitely a relief going forward. Was worried where the test questions would come from but all seem to come directly from the reading. She definitely tried to trick folks on 1 T/F question in particular. Literally changed one inconsequential detail to make it false. :lol: