Opintojen valinta

Huh, asiat on edenneet taas kertaryminällä eteenpäin! Olen nyt vastaanottanut asunnon (sain huoneen asuntolasta, jonne halusinkin!!!), irtisanonut nykyistä asuntoa sekä saanut viimeinkin kurssit valittua. Suoritan siis ns. kolme moduulia tai erittäin laajaa kurssikokonaisuutta. Kevään aikana näistä kursseista tulee yhteensä 30 opintopistettä, jonka lisäksi työstän opinnäytetyötäni loppuun. Tavoitteena ensi vuodelle on siis valmistua muutaman kuukauden etuajassa, mutta en siitä ota liikaa stressiä.

Jokainen kurssi on siis laajuudeltaan 10 opintopistettä. Vaihtoani varten minun tarvitsee suorittaa muistaakseni yhteensä 20 noppaa, eli otan ylimääräisenä 10 opintopistettä. Luotan kuitenkin yliopiston tarjoamaan opetuksen laatuun ja mielenkiintoisuuteen sen verran, että jaksan varmasti opiskella läpi kevään. Eri kursseilla arvostelut koostuvat eri kokonaisuuksista, esim. osassa oli kaksi eri kurssityötä, joissa toisen työn vaikutus arvosteluun oli 20% ja toisen 80%, kun taas yhdellä kurssilla kurssityö määrittää numeron 100%.

Yliopistolta katsottiin siis TAMK:n suoritusotteeni läpi, josta ehdotettiin seuraavat kurssit päällekkäisyyksien minimoimiseksi:

Business Simulation

Students who have previously studied this module commented that it gives them a real experience of how challenging, stimulating, exciting and daunting it can be to manage a business. As such this module gives you a real feel of how you have to take everything into consideration to achieve successful outcomes in the real world. 

The overall aim is to provide you with the opportunity to practice and evaluate realistic decision-making in a simulated business environment. You use up-to-date Simulation software from the market-leading organisation in this sector, so you get a technologically advanced experience which works well and reliably. 

You work individually and in groups and get to make both quantitative and qualitative decisions as you manage a simulated business scenario in an authentic virtual business environment.

The module utilises business situations which mirror reality, with inter-active business simulation software. You are required and challenged to make and then evaluate the impact of decisions from an HRM, Marketing, Finance, Information and Operations perspective. This offers the opportunity for you to work in groups and individually. It is dynamic, exciting and interactive and encourages reflective learning.

Digital and Social Media

This 'Digital and Social Media' module will give you the tools, techniques and theory behind how digital marketing works within a business environment. During this module you will learn about best practice and key elements of managing digital marketing in an 'always on' 24/7 environment. You will learn how to audit and evaluate competitors' digital footprints as well as understand how to gain consumer insights using digital techniques. Your assessment is coursework-based, designed to provide practical life and employment skills, developing an outline digital marketing plan. This assessment will contribute towards key skills sought by employers, including; evaluation, understanding of digital tools, presentation and business report writing.

Innovation and Knowledge Transfer

Innovation can be defined as the development and application of new ideas to create new opportunities and to solve problems. In this hands-on module you will discover why the best companies are those which innovate. You will research how successful organisations harness the creativity of their people and steer their way through the unexpected hazards which business life throws at them. You will consider the type of thinking needed to create problem-solving ideas and how to manage this creativity to make better organisations and products. To do all this, you will have the opportunity to work with other students on a real business problem, finding out your strengths and abilities. You will work with an actual employer and their organisation, based in the local area, by applying your ideas, combined with the theories we will study, to promote solutions to issues they are facing right now. You are then going to present your ideas, backed up by academic references, in the form of a video presentation. The context for this innovation may be within the small firm or corporate organisation and your scope may include product, service, process, technology and marketing innovations of any kind. Being innovative, creative and confident of your own ideas is a key employability skill in today's challenging business environment. 

I'm getting excited!!!!