Week 1

First lecture (10^th september 2013)

First and foremost

Today is the first day in this semester I start the class at 8am. This class is for subject STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT and COURSE CODE is MGB4013.  My schedule is pack at Tuesday because class start at 8 am until 10 pm. Thus, it will be a hectic day for me.

            As usual for the first lecture, the lecturer would brief to the entire student about course outline, assessment, final exam, book that will use and an introduction about the subject. My lecturer’s name is DR. UMMI SALWA AHMAD BUSTAMAM and the tutor would be PUAN SITI NURUL HUDA NORDIN.

Moreover, the Continuous Assessment is 60% and would consist of Teamwork assignment, Individual assignment, Participation (tutorial + case study), online forum, online quiz, Peer-review and Presentation. The final exam is 40%. The main reference book is David, F.R. (2013). Strategic management: Concepts and cases. 14^th edition. Pearson. Miss Ummi also enquires us to read more article and news about business from any source like the star, news strait time and others.

After that we were ask to form ten groups and a group consist of 15 people. Hence, we were order to build tower from newspaper and the newspaper is provide by the lecturer. All we have to do is to build the tower based on our own material and creativity. We were free to use any kind of material such as stapler, glue, tape and so on. All of us were given 10 minutes to finish the tower and the evaluation was to find both the highest and the strongest tower.

 

Actually all this is story by my dearly friend to me because I cannot attend the first lecturer. That time I still at my faraway hometown at Kelantan. I had to postpone my depart to USIM due to unresolved matter.