Supply Chain Management: This class is boring to most, but super relevant to some. Unfortunately for me, it was boring. Supply Chain is an interesting subject, but not an emphasis that I would want to start my career in. What I learned from the class is that I'd rather hire an operations manager to run the supply chain for my company.
Organization Behavior/Human Resources: Such a cool class, with a great professor (Troy Nielson, for anyone who has to take this class). There were so many applicable principles surround human behavior and organizations that were taught in the class. It was great.
Intro to Marketing Management: One of my tougher classes of the semester (also one of my only classes where I got a solid A this semester [I got mostly A-s]). This class was a rude awakening to what my marketing emphasis would be like. It gave a great overview of what marketing really is (changed my entire perception of marketing) and taught me some basic principles that prepared me for my last semester in the Business school (Winter 2010). The professor (Steven Huff) is a genius. Completely recommendable.
Business Ethics: Marriott School students are known for their high ethical standards and behavior. This is great. But this ethics class wasn't. It was redundant (I felt like the same principle was taught over and over) and the professor was ridiculous (don't take it from Mark Bigelow. Actually, if you're taking it in the fall, take it from Liz Dixon, who is amazing). I'm disappointed that a class that is supposed to be one of the main tenet of a Marriott School education was a let down.
Intro to Finance: A breeze. It felt like a review of Accounting 210. Taught by the former dean of the Marriott School. The lectures were unnecessary, since I could just download his slides and learn all of the information from them. I was fine with that, since I got a nice break in my day by skipping. A.
Mentoring/Career Planning: I'm quite the peculiar Marriott School student. I don't really plan on entering the corporate world post-graduation (which is what the school pretty much pushes us for), so when I was forced to make a career plan and find a mentor for the semester I ran into a road block. There aren't very many theater managers and producers that have graduated from BYU. Because of this I had to conform to the resources available to me and I ended up having a mentor from Sony, who works as a business analyst. It was still interesting to talk to her and gain some insight into the entertainment industry, but it still wasn't what I wanted to do.
Doctrine and Covenants, Part 1- Best. Religion. Class. Ever. Take it from Patricia Rushton. She gets what a religion class is supposed to be like.
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