Everyone who is interested in hearing some feedbacks of Drucker School classes from 2nd year students should come and join us.
The session will be held on Mar 30 in Burkle 14 starts from 6:30 pm.
The Agenda is:
6:30~7:00 Tian-You Tang:The marketing classes in Rotterdam School of Management 7:00~7:30 Prof. Darroch: Marketing classes in Drucker School 7:30~8:30 2nd year students: Experience with marketing classes
1. Here is the comment from another student who came to RSM before. Again, this is only for reference.
I took e-Marketing course from a Canadian prof. It was intense, a 1 week course, 6 hours per day; but if its OK for you, I enjoyed it a lot. Also, negotiation course was OK, it was a bit boring but if you like negotiation, you may take that one. I also took, Supply Chain, International Investment, Future of Advertisement, Consumer Behavior courses. I wouldn't recommend Int. Investment, but all others are good. Consumer Behavior was also enjoyable, and easy.
2. Life in Rotterdam.
RSM will hold an orientation for exchange students. Just remember: BLAAK Market is the best place to buy fruit and vegetable.
3. Commend
I think it was a good opportunity to extend my vision, so I applied for this program. And I DID learn and enjoy it a lot. It was a nice and unique experience to stay in Europe alone for 4 months for me.
Well, I think the professor is a nice and kind guy. He shared some interesting videos about entrepreneurship during the class. (cases and speeches) But I will recommed CGU classmate sending me a e-mail for detailed info if he/she is interesting in this course.
2. Consumer Behavior, Professor Peeter Verlegh
This course is good. Prof. Verlegh is a young and energetic person who shows you a lot of passion and energy in the class. People who want to concentrate on marketing can consider to take this course.
3. E-Marketing, Professor Michael Parent
This course is interesting. We need to read two cases for each session in 7 straight days but the professor handle the discussion very well. I will recommed people who are interesting in marketing to take this course because they will need to know the jargons and tools in the new business world.
4. The Future of Advertising in a Changing Media World, Professor Annet Aris
Also very intereting course. Prof. Aris asked people in this course to "vote" for a question and then discuss that question during that class. After discussion, there was a guest speaker to give us some specific topics for the future of advertising. Those topics and guest speakers are from 4 main perspectives- consumers, media company, media agency, and advertisers.
For example, in session 7, we needed to vote for a queston "Google will be able to diversify its revenue away from search (adword and adsense) significantly (>25% of total revenue) within the coming 3 years." After discussion, prof. Aris invited people from google to give us their opinion from the perspective of media company.
5. International Finance, Professor Anoop Rai
Highly recommedto those who are interesting in finance, even if you don't have any financial background. Prof. Rai used very easy language to explain complex financial tools such as Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS), Credit Default Swaps (CDS). I learned lots of useful tools and knowledge from this course.
6. Strategic Value Management, Professor Murray J. Bryant
Highly recommedto those who are interesting in strategy. This course is like a changing management course. We discussed how to react and develop in a shifting environment. Prof. Bryant was highly involved in all the cases discussed in the class. Therefore, he gave us very specific and useful comment in the discussion.
Here is a link about "Google wave." No matter you guys heard about this or not, maybe you can take a look about this, I think it is a kind of cool tool for communication and collaboration.Although, I haven't figure out how to use it to be a useful tools~Orz. Any way, if anyone is interested in "Google wave", I have a lot of invitation letters, just send a E-mail to me, I will give you ~~^^Any questions, just let me know~^^
Q: What should I do for my registraiton? How many units can I take?
CGU faculty will help you to go through the registration progress. In my case it is Jeannie. You just need to send Jeannie an email to tell her which courses you will take in RSM. Also you need to tell Jeannie if you want to choose Letter Grade or Pass/Fail Grade when RSM transfer your grade back to CGU.
RSM will ask all students to take 6 elective courses. Each elective course is equal to a 2 units course in CGU. Therefore, you will take 12 units, which is equal to the minimum requriement from CGU. You may take one more elective course in RSM, but you need to ask RSM's faculty and there's no guarantee for approval. Q: Should I choose Letter Grading or P/f Grading?
The majority of the students studying abroad choose the p/f grading due to the difference in the grading scale used by our exchange partners. For example, in RSM, professors are asked to give grade based on learning curve distribution. Only top 10% of student can get 4.0, "A" letter grade. Following you can see the detailed info:
Letter Grade / GPA / Tiers
A / 4 / Top 10% B/ 3.5 / Following 25% C / 3 /Following 30% D / 2.5 / Following 25% E / 2 / Last 10% F / Failed
You can choose whatever you want and change to another one when you come back to CGU. For example, you can choose letter garde first, then change to p/f grade when you come back. However, you'll need to submit a petition to the Dean of Students to request that the grades be changed to p/f and there's no guarantee that it will be approved.
Q. How would I know which elective courses I can choose and whether those course is good?
Again, You will get an email from RSM with your user credentials for Blackboard and RSM email address. Blackboard is a IT system similar to Sakai in CGU. In blackboard, you can see the information about the courses list, individual syllabus for each course, and the evaluation results for each course from the last year students. You will have full access to those information to help you to choose elective course. It is somethat competitive to choose a "hot" course because RSM uses a "bidding" system for the registration.
(In the next article, I will give my own evaluation for your reference.)
Q. What is the bidding system?
Each student will have 1200 points to do the bidding for 6 courses. You need to allocate those points by yourself. It is all confidential before the end of bidding period. Then in the end of bidding period, people with higher points in the course will be enrolled in that courses automatically. For example, if "A" course only allowa 35 students to take, but there are 50 students putting their points on "A" course, at the end of bidding, the 35 students who put the highest points will get A course.
There are totally two period for bidding, and some specific rules if you want to choose EMBA course. You will get the full information in the email.
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