The summer semester starts tomorrow. While I highly suggest that you get an internship or a job to sharpen your skills and come back in the fall. Some of you would prefer to take classes this summer. If you are taking classes. Don’t miss the first class of every course you are thinking or planning to take. It is a great opportunity to get the introduction. Here are a few comments on the classes I have on my schedule. I hope these can help you making registration decisions. If you have taken any of these courses, please share your views with your fellow students to help their expectations.

BMGT 200: This is an introduction course to management; we cover the 8 functions of management each in a chapter. If you are a management major, you take each chapter as a full course. If you are not a management major, it is an excellent course to take if you plan to be a manager one day or open your own business. It can also work as a great general elective for non-business majors. The main two key words in the course are effectiveness and efficiency. We talk about Alshaibani restaurant manager…

BMKT 300: This is an interesting course in marketing. It provides the fundamental concepts. I would not recommend it for freshmen students. It requires lots of reading to distinguish between the different concepts. The course includes a project that can be time consuming. It’s a good class to take with your friends to form a great team. Similar to BMGT200, it is a good general education elective for non-business majors; especially those who will work in advertising, or graphics.

BFIN 300: Don’t take this class if you have not successfully understood the accounting statements, business math, and introduction to statistics. If you have finished advanced statistics, you will make the best use of this course. If you are competent in math, then you can take it while taking the statistics class. Don’t take the course because your friends are signing up for it. If you are finance major, you may have to take it early so that you can take the other finance majors courses within the next few years. Some students considered it a heavy course that required lots of study time to comprehend the problems.

BMKT 420: ==*** special promotion for this course ***==
This is an easy course; you take it after BMKT 300. The concepts are very easy for many students; you just need to pay attention to details. The course has a practical focus. Students find it easy to relate to discussed concepts by daily shopping. The project should be fun if you take a company that you are interested in.

BMKT350: The class require passing BMKT 300. This class help us understand how people response to a marketing strategy. Expand your insights towards how we think and what drives us to buy in order to understand how to provide customers with value, trust, satisfaction, and loyalty. We discuss customer’s psychology, perceptions, life style, social influences, and motivation. It includes mini projects related to course topics.

This is a reminder from the syllabus
You must always submit work that represents your original words or ideas. If any words or ideas used in a class assignment or projects do not represent your original words or ideas, you must cite all relevant sources and make clear the extent to which such sources were used. Words or ideas that require citation include, but are not limited to, all hard copy or electronic publications, whether copyrighted or not, and all verbal or visual communication when the content of such communication clearly originates from an identifiable source.
The following list describes the types of academic misconduct that will not be tolerated in any way in this class:
1. Cheating: Use of an unauthorized “aid” while taking a test, having another person take an exam or quiz in the place of the student, stealing an examination, using learning team work as an individual student’s work, unauthorized use of assistance from a lab or computer technician. Note: If the instructor or an exam proctor sees/finds a paper or electronic device with course information during the exam, this will be considered as cheating and the student will receive a zero for the exam and possibly an “F” in the course. It is incumbent on the student to assure that all books, papers, notes, and electronic devices that contain course information are securely stored away — there is a no tolerance in this area.
2. Fabrication: Falsifying data in laboratory results, inventing information for a report, falsifying citations to sources of information.
3. Facilitating Academic Dishonesty: Aiding another student in committing academic misconduct.
4. Interference: Stealing, changing, destroying, or impeding another student’s work. Impeding includes stealing, defacing, or mutilating resources to deprive someone the use of resources.
5. Plagiarism: Using the ideas, words, or statements of another person without giving credit to that person. A student shall give credit to the works of others if the student uses another person’s words, ideas, opinions, or theories or borrows facts, statistics, or other illustrative material unless the information is common knowledge.
6. Violation of Course Rules: A student shall follow course rules in the course syllabus when those rules are related to the course content or to the enhancement of the learning process in the course.
“Students who commit any act of academic dishonesty may receive from the instructor a failing grade in that portion of the course work in which the act is detected or a failing grade in the course without possibility of withdrawal. The faculty member may also present the case to the office of student affairs for disciplinary sanctions.

Guys, I have posted the syllabi on the website. Please check them out. You do not need to print them I will distribute them on the first day of classes. Remember that the first day of classes is the most important class in the whole semester because it will give you guidance toward what is important in this course and how it will proceed. The first day of classes will help you make a decision as of what this class is about and how you will proceed with it. You may want to decide to drop the class based on the overall classes you are taking along with this class. Maybe you can add another class in addition, or postpone this or that class. It is an excellent chance to ask questions and get an idea on how to plan you semester. Stay Safe and take care.

Greetings everyone, I hope you guys had a good summer vacation. Now it is time to get back to school and work on your education. Remember that only education can reduce your future uncertainty and you need to take control over it now. It is your dedication that can assure your future.

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