04-10-2023, 11:40 PM
Provider: Sophia.org
Course: Principles of Management
Course content: Standard Sophia format. Written text. No external materials required. One touchstone assignment consisting of a PowerPoint presentation where you do a SWOT, Porter's Five Forces, etc. analysis and make recommendations to management of a company of your choice. Followed the rubric to a "T", got a 100 on the touchstone.
Final exam format: No final, just the touchstone.
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: Milestone exams match lesson quizzes quite well. No gotchas.
Time taken on course: About 4 hours for the course, and 3 hours for the touchstone.
Familiarity with subject before course: Many years running small businesses, but zero experience managing large teams and zero experience in the MegaCorp world.
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: The course was pretty easy. All the concepts are explained well. The only pitfall for me is that I find subjects like ethics and philosophy to be the absolute most boring stuff in the world, and I have less than zero interest in it. So the first 1/3 of the course was painstakingly wretched to plow through. After that, some of the strategy analysis stuff was bearable.
1-10 Difficulty level: 3, just because of the boring parts
Course: Principles of Management
Course content: Standard Sophia format. Written text. No external materials required. One touchstone assignment consisting of a PowerPoint presentation where you do a SWOT, Porter's Five Forces, etc. analysis and make recommendations to management of a company of your choice. Followed the rubric to a "T", got a 100 on the touchstone.
Final exam format: No final, just the touchstone.
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: Milestone exams match lesson quizzes quite well. No gotchas.
Time taken on course: About 4 hours for the course, and 3 hours for the touchstone.
Familiarity with subject before course: Many years running small businesses, but zero experience managing large teams and zero experience in the MegaCorp world.
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: The course was pretty easy. All the concepts are explained well. The only pitfall for me is that I find subjects like ethics and philosophy to be the absolute most boring stuff in the world, and I have less than zero interest in it. So the first 1/3 of the course was painstakingly wretched to plow through. After that, some of the strategy analysis stuff was bearable.
1-10 Difficulty level: 3, just because of the boring parts
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Completed: TESU: BSAST Nuclear Engineering Technology (2004)
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