"All business depends on men fulfilling their responsibility."
-Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948)

Contents

• Preface
• Notes
• Pre-course Materials
• Course Materials
• General Materials
• Additional Materials

Preface

The purpose of this web site is to provide information and materials for students enrolled in Wayne Smith's Business 302 course ( Class # 15435 ) for the Spring, 2007 semester. This course meets on Mon/Wed from 2:00pm - 3:15pm in room JH2208. This course is offered by the College of Business and Economics at California State University, Northridge (CSUN). CSU Northridge is one of 23 campuses in the California State University system. The BUS 302 course is currently managed by the Department of Systems and Operations

My email address is wayne.smith@csun.edu. For email sent to me by students, the Subject line should start with "[CSUN Bus302]" (without the quotes) [ example ]. Interested students may learn more about me by reviewing my personal web page. The PDF materials on this page require the "free" (as in "free beer") Acrobat Reader. Students desiring to generate PDF files under MS-Windows can use the "free" (as in "free speech") PDFCreator.

Notes

The following notes are updates/changes provided prior to the semester and between class sessions (in descending chronological order).

• Thu. Jan 25, 2007:  Before the first day of class, please access and review the course web page, including all of the documents linked in the "Course Materials" and "General Materials" sections. Additionally, please bring a printed copy of every document with you to the first day of class.
• Wed. Jan 3, 2007:  The add's for this class are handled by the SOM/Gateway Office (JH3123). Either the Dept. Chair or the administrative assistant can help you.

• Fri. Dec 29, 2006:  The textbooks should be available in the bookstore by the third week of January.

The above notes are also available as a subscription feed [ .atom ]. A subscription feed is a contemporary approach to automated student notification.

Pre-Course Materials

These materials can be reviewed before the first class session. This resource can be useful for prospective students desiring to gain a better appreciation for the subject matter of this course without purchasing the required textbook first.

• Course-pedia [ .html ]
• Course Calendar [ .ics ]

Course Materials

These materials should be reviewed before the first class session.

• Syllabus [ .pdf ] (Wed. Sep 1, 2010)
• Outline [ .pdf ] (Wed. Sep 1, 2010)
• Final Exam Schedule [ .html ]
• Business Honors Tutoring [ .html ]
• Key COBAE Courses [ .pdf | .odg ] (Wed. Sep 1, 2010)
• The "ABC's" of Gateway Success [ .pdf ] (Wed. Sep 1, 2010)
• Tips for Success - By Students, For Students [ .pdf ] (Wed. Sep 1, 2010)
• Presentation Tips [ .pdf ] (Wed. Sep 1, 2010)
• BUS 302 Course (Common) Page [ .html ]
• BUS 302L Course (Common) Page [ .html ]
• Wayne Smith's BUS 302L Statistics Exam Review [ .html ]

General Materials

The following materials apply to all my courses independent of subject matter.

• "How Successful Student Professionals Communicate Electronically" [ .pdf ] (Wed. Sep 1, 2010)
• Class Behavior [ .pdf ] (Wed. Sep 1, 2010)
• Class Participation Guidelines [ .pdf ] (Wed. Sep 1, 2010)
• Writing Tips [ .pdf ] (Wed. Sep 1, 2010)
• Management Vocabulary [ .pdf ] (Wed. Sep 1, 2010)
• Quantitative Evaluation [ .pdf ] (Wed. Sep 1, 2010)
• Understanding Standardized Scores [ .pdf ] (Wed. Sep 1, 2010)
• The Language of Performance [ .pdf ] (Mon. Aug 15, 2011)
• CSUN Grade Distribution/Inflation Study (BUS courses) [ .xls ]

Additional Materials

The following materials don't "fit" anywhere else neatly.

• Myers-Briggs Personality Profile [ .html ]
• Devlin, J. (1910), How to Speak and Write Correctly. [ .html ]
• "Two-Stage" decision-making [ .html ]
• LDC "Top Ten Topics" (ignore the MGT 360 part) [ .pdf ] (Wed. Sep 1, 2010)
• Options Evaluation [ .pdf ] (Wed. Sep 1, 2010)
• "Five Ways to Reduce PowerPoint Overload" [ .pdf ]
• Strategy (Economic Benefit and Cost Drivers) [ .pdf ] (Wed. Sep 1, 2010)
• Strategy--Michael Porter's "Five Forces" (WikiPedia) [ .html ]
• Project Management [ .pdf ] (Wed. Sep 1, 2010)