The key learning activities in this class is preparation for the weekly lectures by reading the course material, active participation in the lectures, seeking background information about the guest lectures and the organization they come from, active use of the course blog (including subscription to the feeds), participation in the exercises, viewing and discussing the video recorded of the student presentations, weekly self-test at the website for the text book, and writing up the essay and report during the course. Each week, the lectures will be followed by two hours of exercises. Exercises is the tool to digest the readings and train the students in what business literature essential is all about: identify the problem, outline different approaches to meet the challenge, aim to minimize risks and maximize the potential gains, take appropriate action, and monitor and follow-up actions during the implementation and exploitation phase. The exercises are supervised and assisted by a teaching assistant and will be an opportunity for students to prepare for the exam and to work with the theories and models from the lectures. Each exercises class will have a student presentation of one of 10 cases related to the topic of the lecture. The cases are analyzed and discussed as part of the exercises to highlight the importance of the technical and managerial concepts being introduced into the business context. The presentations will be recorded on video and given to each group. Innovations on the format and style of presentation are welcome. After the case presentation students will solve a set of questions during the exercises that are relevant according to the lecture of the day. The exercises are carried out in groups and aim at preparing the students for the exam as well as applying the theories and models presented in the lectures. At the end of the exercise class the solutions to the assignments will be discussed in plenary. Each person will be assigned a group, one to present and another to act as an opponent.
”All students must read all the cases and each group prepares a presentation of one case. Each group will be ask to take the lead in commenting on another groups presentation. Both tasks (presenting and act as opponents are mandatory tasks and a requirement for taken the oral exam)” In this course there is an oral exam with written work. The written work includes two sections: a case report of no more than 8 pages and a short essay of 1-2 pages. In the oral exam we have a dialogue with the point of departure from your written work and the readings in course. In the oral exam relevant elements from the readings will be discussed in order to demonstrate that the student has meet the learning objectives of this course. You are free to choose whether the oral exam is conducted in English or Danish. The oral exam is 20 minutes long. Submission/completion of mandatory activities before Friday 2. December 2011 at 15:00.