Department of Marketing
Kellstadt Graduate School of Business
DePaul UniversityINTERNATIONAL MARKETING
IB 550 MBA Program
Fall 2001Course syllabus
Professor: Dr. Douglas Lamont
Office Location: 7517 DPC, Marketing Department
Office Hours: Wednesdays 4- 5 p.m. in 7517 DPC or by appointment.Telephone: 312-362-5282. Fax: 312-362-5647.
E-mail: dlamont@wppost.depaul.edu
Web page MKT 555: http://www.depaul.edu/~dlamontPersonal information:
Write in your name, preferred e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers on the tablet that circulates during the first class meeting.Teams:
Teams of 2 to 4 members are OK. Select your team members and write them in on the tablet that circulates during the first class meeting. If you prefer to work alone, you may. The term paper takes a great deal of time and work.Required text and readings
The required textbook is Masaaki Kotabe and Kristiaan Helsen, Global Marketing Management, (2nd ed.; New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2001). The Kotabe and Helsen book is your basic source book for the class. Read it before class. Supplemental lecture notes are uploaded to my Web Site <www.depaul.edu/~dlamont) for IB 550. These bring certain topics up to date. Read them before class, too.Class sessions
Normally, class starts with a brief look at current economic and business issues as these pertain to the country risk issue and global marketing topic under discussion for the meeting. All students should read the current news stories, the lecture notes, and the chapter(s) assigned, and be prepared to participate in the class discussion. Students are graded on their participation and contribution to class discussion. Active quality participation is expected. Voluntary inputs are strongly encouraged.Preparation for class sessions
Read the current literature on global and international marketing, especially, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Economist, Fortune, Business Week, Harvard Business Review, etc. All newspapers and magazines are in the library on the tenth floor. As a team, review the articles and bring them to class for discussion with your colleagues. The articles you bring to class should pertain to the topics under discussion at each meeting. Also use the articles in the preparation of your term papers.Learning objectives
1. Research non-US markets. This allows you to conduct relevant country risk analyses to determine political trends, economic opportunities, and commercial threats.
2. Discuss the importance of sovereign government policies on exporting, importing, and business risk. This helps you prepare for a business environment in which the dumping, injury, TRIPS, and other trade rules of the WTO, NAFTA, the US, the EU, and other national and supra-national organizations affect sales overseas.
3. Explain segmentation, targeting, and positioning among advanced countries, and between them and emerging countries. This helps you understand that culture matters in global and international marketing. If you are unfamiliar with these topics, review the lecture notes for MKT 555, meetings one through three. See www.depaul.edu/~dlamont and download MKT 555.
4. Outline the impact of standardization and adaptation on the 4 Ps of marketing management in the NAFTA countries, the EU, Russia, Japan, China, South East Asia, the Mercosur countries, India, the Middle East, the Caribbean Basin Initiative, sub-Saharan Africa, and Central Asia. This enables you to understand and make strategic and tactical marketing decisions across national frontiers, especially for similar market segments in two or more regions of the world..
5. Explain how brands build up market share and leverage a firm's competitive advantage. This familiarizes you with the role of global branding, advertising, and integrated marketing communications.
6. Prepare to deal with e-commerce, m-commerce, and telematics in terms of the impact of global technology on global marketing management. This requires you to match the firm’s capabilities with emerging technologies and alternative channels of distribution.
7. Export products, services, and marketing ideas from home to host countries. This ties your efforts to the forces of globalization, international marketing strategy, and similar market segments across national frontiers.
8. Develop the ability to write a business plan. This focuses our attention on how marketing managers convince their colleagues within the firm and others in the market to support the former’s entrepreneurial ideas and projects.Teaching philosophy
1. The class follows a ‘learning-by-doing” philosophy. Please be prepared to put a lot of effort into this class.
2. The inputs for your learning are the required readings, in-class discussions, written papers, and the synthesis of materials by the instructor. The outputs from the learning include a clear understanding of the demographic, socio-cultural, life-style, psychographic, and international bases for marketing decisions, a precise mind-set about crucial strategic and tactical marketing management decisions, and the ability to communicate your plan of action (both verbally and in written form) to non-marketing managers within the firm and to outside stakeholders.
3. The focus will not be on finding the “right answers” to any given problem, but on constantly assessing the benefit of various options available. In your mind, you already know that the right answer to most business problems is as follows: “It depends on the environment, technology, competition, overseas market conditions, cost of air freight and ocean shipping, and a host of other macro and micro issues.”
4. A great deal of the materials in the class is both conceptual and detail oriented. You must stay current with your readings.Course format
The class uses a lecture-discussion format.
You are encouraged to use e-mail to contact me. The professor’s e-mail address is <dlamont@wppost.depaul.edu> This is for your private correspondence.Term papers
Here are the To Do items:1. Choose a country (the US and home countries of team members are not to be chosen).
2. Do a country risk analysis. Include in your analysis the impact of globalization on the trade and financial health of the country.
3. Choose a target market within the overseas country.
4. Do a segmentation and targeting analysis. Include in your analysis the impact of the global, largely American life-style on your target market.
5. Choose a product to export from the US to the country of the term paper. Include in your analysis the impact of changing technology and cost structures in the developed and emerging countries.
6. Prepare an "elevator pitch" or positioning statement to sell your choices (of country, target market, and product) to your colleagues. Include in your analysis the key points of your strategy--that is, your insight in how things get done overseas.
7. Choose a method of shipping the product. Include in your analysis the key tactics.
8. Specify the FOB, CIF, or other pricing schedule.
9. Select the freight forwarder, NVOCC, customs broker, and distributor.
10. Calculate the tariff of the importing country on the US-origin product. Include in your analysis the non-tariff barriers.
11. Decide on method of payment, e.g., open account, letters-of-credit, etc. Discuss the possible dumping, injury, TRIPS, and other trade-related problems.
12. Make a Go or No Go decision. That is, decide whether it would be cheaper to produce and export from the US or whether it would be cheaper to set up a plant and manufacture in the host country.
13. Prepare an international marketing plan for your product with a list of recommendations.When you and your team members have made your choice of country, target market, and product, let me know your choice. Your choice will be put on the tablet. Since I want to avoid duplication, first come, first serve on the choices for a term paper. All decisions must be made by the beginning of meeting #2. Also I want to avoid duplication of industries or products, such as too many term papers on beer, cola, and other consumer goods.
Format of term papers
“Elevator pitch”: Place a 30-second promotion spot or positioning statement on your title page.
Executive summary: 1 page, single-space summary of paper with list of recommendations. Make a go or no decision. Sign report.
Report: Maximum of 20, double-space pages. Introduction. Key findings. Recommendations, Conclusions.
Appendices: Extra pages. Tables. Charts. Graphs. Footnotes or endnotes. Bibliography.Additional suggestions for term papers
Do not copy printed or Web material without proper footnotes or endnotes.
Divide report into sections and sub-sections.
Put page numbers on each page of your report.
Go see Brian DeHart who is the marketing librarian in the DePaul Library. He has a special Web Site for IB 550.Class presentations
Class presentations of term paper reports start meeting #5.
During meeting #1, dates for class presentations are given out by lottery.
Prepare 30-second “elevator pitch.” Sell the class on your idea.
Prepare a PowerPoint presentation with six slides (no more). These are as follows:1. “Elevator pitch” or positioning statement..
2. Company and its competitive advantage over domestic and overseas competitors.
3. Target market group in host country.
4. Risk analysis of host country.
5. 4 P’s export marketing strategy or foreign direct investment strategy or both.
6. Go or No Go decision, and summary points.Hand out a paper copy of six slides (PowerPoint presentation) to class members. Put the names of all the team members on the top of the sheet.
Make presentation for ten minutes. Answer questions for ten minutes.Interim reviews of term papers start meeting five
If you want an interim review of your term papers, start turning them in during meetings #5, #6, and #7. These will be returned with suggestions for improvements. Completed term papers are due meeting nine. Graded term papers will be available in the marketing department (Loop campus) at the end of the fall term. If you want the term papers returned to you by mail, please give me a self-addressed, stamped envelope.Examinations
First exam is meeting #4. It's an in-class, open book examination.
Second exam is due meeting #10. It's a group take-home exam. Note: The group take-home examination will be handed out during meeting #5.Course schedule/outline
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Meeting #1 (Wednesday night, September 5, 2001).MODULE 1: ASSESS THE IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON NORTH AMERICA, EUROPE, AND EAST ASIA.
1. ASSESS ECONOMIC RISK.
Introduction to global marketing
Review basic marketing concepts from previous marketing classes.
Review the marketing concept, the 4 Ps, customer value and value equation, and competitive or differential advantage.
Apply these basic concepts to McDonald's. Does McDonald's fit the definition of global marketing?
Compare and contrast the driving forces of globalization and the restraining forces of nationalism in export markets.
Review the driving forces of technology, regional economic agreements, market needs and wants, transportation and communication improvements, product development costs, quality, and leverage.
Review the restraining forces of culture, market differences, costs, national controls, nationalism, war, management myopia, organization history, and domestic focus.
Apply global marketing concepts to the US, the EU, and Japan.Assignment: Read Chapter 1. Prepare to discuss in class the Club Med case (pp. 633-638). Learn key terms (p. 19). Answer review question 4 (p. 19).
Economic risk analysis
Review the new reality of the changed world economy.
Explain advanced versus emerging countries in terms of income group by per capita GNP. Put the country of your term paper in an income group.
Explain advanced versus emerging countries in terms of purchasing power parity. Rank the country of your term paper by PPP.
Rank the country of your term paper by population.
Explain marketing's role in economic development.
Rank the country of your term paper by leading exporters and leading importers.Assignment: Read Chapter 2. Learn key terms (p. 59). Answer discussion question 4 (pp. 60-61).
NAFTA
Who are the NAFTA countries? Which are the advanced and emerging countries? What are the benefits and liabilities of NAFTA to each of the NAFTA countries? Are the NAFTA countries each other's best trading partners in terms of exports and imports? Has NAFTA been a success? for whom? Should other countries in the Americas or elsewhere be admitted to NAFTA?Assignment: Check out NAFTA sites on the Web or in the library. Bring the information to class.
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Meeting #2 (Wednesday night, September 12, 2001)2. ASSESS SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RISK
Cultural risk analysis
Study human behavior, values, behavior, attitudes, religion, language, ethnic backgrounds, and nationalism from your self-reference criteria (SRC) and the SRC of a person from another country.
Examine cultural universals, such as sports, entertainment, music, food, etc. Show how these universals are similar and different between your SRC and the SRC of a person from another country.
Explain high- and low-context cultures.
Discuss negotiation strategies and what gets lost in the translation.
Review Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and Hofstede's cultural typology.
Study cross-cultural complications, and how we as marketers can gain competency in dealing with these difficulties.Assignment: Read Chapter 4. Prepare to discuss in class the Dow Brands Ziploc case (pp. 644-661). Learn key terms (p. 140). Answer review question 4 (p. 140).
European Union
Who are the EU countries? Which are the advanced and emerging countries? What are the benefits and liabilities of the EU to each of the EU countries? Are the EU countries each other's best trading partners in terms of exports and imports? Has the EU been a success? for whom? Should other countries in central and eastern Europe, and the Russian Federation be admitted to the EU?Compare and contrast NAFTA and the European Union in terms of tariff reductions, trade barriers, common external tariff, common currency, a supra-national regulatory regime, and the admission of new members. Should NAFTA and the EU join together in one larger North Atlantic Free Trade Area?
Assignment: Check out the EU sites on the Web or in the library. Bring the information to class.
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Meeting #3 (Wednesday night, September 19, 2001).3. ASSESS POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL RISK
Political and commercial risk
Explain nation-state sovereignty. Is it relevant in today's global markets? Does it apply to NAFTA countries? to EU countries?
Compare and contrast political risk in mainland China versus Italy, and commercial risk in Mexico versus France.
Explain the dilution of equity control and expropriation. List the countries in which US firms have lost equity control or have had their assets expropriated.
Explain international law, and the common versus code law.
Jurisdiction and the problems of Mareva in English and other British Commonwealth nation-states. What is the rule of comity?
Review the laws on protecting intellectual property, and the ability of foreign courts to uphold national legislation. What is TRIPS?
Explain the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and how it affects US firms doing business overseas.
Review the process of dispute settlement before courts of arbitration. How does the Calvo doctrine undermine these arbitration procedures?
Will China, Taiwan, and Russia get into the World Trade Organization?Assignment: Read Chapter 5. Prepare to discuss in class the Starbucks Coffee case (pp. 638-644). Learn key terms (p. 183). Answer discussion question 2 (p. 184).
East Asia
Who are the East Asian countries? Which are the advanced and emerging countries? Who are the Asean countries? Which are the advanced and emerging countries? Are the East Asian countries each other's best trading partners in terms of exports and imports? Has Asean been a success? for whom? Should Australia and New Zealand be admitted to Asean? What role does the Asia Pacific Economic Consensus Group (APEC) play in East Asia and among the Asian countries? Should one or more of the East Asian countries be admitted to NAFTA?Assignment: Check out East Asia sites on the Web or in the library. Bring the information to class.
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BEGIN MODULE 2: MANAGE VALUE CREATION IN ADVANCED AND EMERGING COUNTRIES.
4. MANAGE INTERNATIONAL SEGMENTATION, TARGETING, AND POSITIONING
Review session and 4th week examination
Between 5-6 pm, we will hold a review session of meetings 1-3. Bring your questions to class.
Assignment: Prepare for 4th week examination. Open-book 4th week examination, 1 1/2 hours.STP
Learn geographic, demographic, psychographic, behavior, benefit segmentation, and vertical versus horizontal segmentation.
Learn targeting, especially current segment size and growth potential, potential competition, compatibility and feasibility.
Explain standardized, global, and differentiated marketing.
Learn high-tech, high-touch positioning.Assignment: Read Chapter 7. Answer review questions 1 and 3 (p. 242).
Advanced and emerging countries
Compare and contrast the advanced countries and the emerging countries in North America, Europe and East Asia. Which are good and which are bad market opportunities for the product of your term paper? Which emerging countries will join the ranks of the advanced countries? Which advanced countries will fall back into the ranks of the emerging countries?Assignment: Review the information brought in about NAFTA, the EU, and East Asia during the first three meetings.
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Meeting #5, (Wednesday night, October 3, 2001)5. MANAGE SOURCING OF EXPORTS AND IMPORTS
Sourcing overseas
Make sourcing decisions. What are the decision criteria for sourcing?
Explain factor costs and conditions.
Explain logistics, ocean shipping, air freight and other modes of transportation.
Discuss a country's infrastructure, such as deep-water ocean ports, double-gantry cranes, air lift capacity, and customs inspections.
Analyze risk. What is the country risk? the political, economic, cultural, and commercial risks? Mexico is riskier than Canada. Why? Italy is riskier than Germany. Why? Thailand is riskier than Japan. Why? Chile is riskier than Ecuador. Why?
Analyze market access. How does the United States restrict market access to non-NAFTA countries in the Americas? How does the European Union restrict market access to non-EU countries in central and eastern Europe, and in North America?
Examine the ups and downs of foreign exchange. Is the Euro up or down vis-a-vis the US dollar? Is the Japanese yen up or down vis-a-vis the US dollar.
Discuss government programs to support exports. What are the US programs to support US exports?
Review tariffs, BTN, and HTS. Expalin non-tariff barriers, quotas, and trade control.
Apply the criteria for choosing export markets to your term paper.
Learn the customs valuation code. Learn about export marketing organizations.
Study export financing methods of payment including LCs, drafts, open account, consignment, simple barter, counterpurchase, offset, compensation trading, cooperation agreements, hybrid countertrade arrangements, and switch trading.Assignment: Read Chapter 10. Start presentations. Prepare to discuss in class the Anheuser-Busch case (pp. 704-709). Learn key terms (p. 343). Answer review question 2 (p. 343).
Mercosur or Mercosul
Who are the Mercosur countries? Which are the advanced and emerging countries? Are the Mercosur countries each other's best trading partners in terms of exports and imports? Has Mercosur been a success? for whom? Should the rest of Latin America join Mercosur or wait for an invitation to join NAFTA? What role does the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas play in southern South America and rest of Latin America? Should one or more of the Latin American countries be admitted to NAFTA?Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI)
Who are the CBI countries? Which are the advanced and emerging countries? Are the CBI countries each other's best trading partners in terms of exports and imports? Has CBI been a success? for whom? Should the CBI countries push to join NAFTA? What role does the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas play in the Caribbean and in Central America? Should one or more of the CBI countries be admitted to NAFTA or Mercosur or both?Assignment: Check out Mercosur and CBI sites on the Web or in the library. Bring the information to class.
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Meeting #6, (Wednesday night, October 10, 2201)6. MANAGE MARKET ENTRY THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS, JOINT VENTURES, AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS
Market entry strategies
Look at the big picture.
Develop a "sixth sense" about which countries (and regions) will prosper and which will stagnate.
Make a list of the probable most successful emerging countries in 2001-2005.
Study modes of international market entry and market expansion strategies.
Learn licensing, alliances and partnerships, joint ventures, and foreign direct investments (FDI).Assignment: Read Chapter 9. Continue presentations. Prepare to discuss in class the Nova Incorporated case (pp. 662-666). Learn key terms (p. 310). Answer review question 5 (p. 310).
India and South Asia
Who are the South Asian countries? Which are the advanced and emerging countries? Are the South Asian countries each other's best trading partners in terms of exports and imports? Should India be admitted to Asean or the Asia Pacific Economic Consensus Group?Comparative analysis
Rank order the best places in which to invest.
Compare the pros and cons of investments in NAFTA, the EU, East Asia, Mercosur, CBI, and South Asia.
Compare the pros and cons of investments in China versus India.
Which places in the world is it better to form an alliance, partnership or joint venture?Assignment: Check out South Asia sites on the Web or in the library. Bring the information to class.
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Meeting #7, (Wednesday night, October 17, 2001).BEGIN MODULE 3: DEVELOP 4 Ps INTERNATIONAL MARKETING STRATEGY
7. COMPARE PRODUCT DECISIONS IN HOME AND HOST COUNTRIES
Product decisions
Define products. What are local, international and global products? Give examples.
Define brands. What are local, international and global brands? Give examples.
Discuss product positioning. What are the salient attributes? Explain quality/price, use/user, and high-tech versus high-touch positioning.
Discuss product design characteristics. What are preferences, cost, laws and regulations, and compatibility?
Explain country-of-origin.
Learn the five expansion alternatives. Give examples.
Study standardization versus customization.Assignment: Read Chapter 11. Continue presentations. Prepare to discuss in class the Shiseido Company case (pp. 667-674). Learn key terms (p. 373). Answer discussion question 5 (p. 374).
Greece and the Balkans, Turkey and the Middle East, and Israel and the Arab World
Who are the Balkan and Middle East countries? Which are the advanced and emerging countries? Are these countries each other's best trading partners in terms of exports and imports? Should Turkey be admitted to the European Union? Which countries in the region have free trade agreements with the US or the EU or both?Comparative analysis
Rank order the best places in which to invest.
Compare the pros and cons of investments in NAFTA, the EU, East Asia, Mercosur, CBI, South Asia, and the Balkans and the Middle East.
Compare the pros and cons of investments in Greece versus Turkey, Turkey versus Israel, and Israel versus the Arab countries.
Which places in the world is it better to form an alliance, partnership or joint venture?Assignment: Check out Balkan and Middle East sites on the Web or in the library. Bring the information to class.
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Meeting #8, (Wednesday night, October 24, 2001).8. ENHANCE BRAND MARKETING ACROSS NATIONAL FRONTIERS
Global advertising and branding
Explain the extension versus the adaptation debate.
Learn about country-of-origin effects.
What are the appropriate and inappropriate advertising appeals you would use for the product of your term paper?
Study the cultural considerations. Tie these back to values, attitudes, behavior, habits, and self-reference criteria.
Study global media considerations.Assignment: Read Chapter 12. Continue presentations. Prepare to discuss in class the AOL Goes Far East case (pp. 710-714). Learn key terms (p. 411). Answer review question 3 (p. 411).
Advanced and emerging countries
Compare and contrast the advanced countries and the emerging countries in North America, Europe, East Asia, South America, South Asia, and the Middle East. Which are good and which are bad market opportunities for the product of your term paper? Which emerging countries will join the ranks of the advanced countries? Which advanced countries will fall back into the ranks of the emerging countries?Assignment: Review the information brought in about NAFTA, the EU, East Asia, Mercosur, South Asia, and the Middle East during the first seven meetings.
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Meeting #9, (Wednesday night, October 31, 2001).
9. RESOLVE OCEAN SHIPPING, AIR FREIGHT, AND LOGISTICS PROBLEMS
Learn how to select a middleman, distributor, customs broker, and agent.
Study free trade zones.
Study US Special Import Tariff Provisions as these have an impact on Mexican-origin, CBI-origin, and other foreign-origin products.
Learn the channel alternatives for consumer and industrial goods.
List global retailers, global catalogue operations, and global e-commerce sites.
Study the distribution functions in the value chain.
Compare and contrast the Japanese distribution system with the one in the US.Assignment: Read Chapter 16. Continue presentations. Prepare to discuss in class Cabotage Rules as these apply to Canadian and Mexican truckers in the US (p. 522, and newspaper reports on Mexican truck safety and the rules of NAFTA). Learn key terms (p. 539). Answer review question 6 (p. 540).
Russia and the newly independent countries of Central Asia
What is Russia? Who are the Central Asian countries? Which are the advanced and emerging countries? Are these countries each other's best trading partners in terms of exports and imports? Should Russia be admitted to the European Union? Which countries in Central Asia have preferential trade agreements with Russia, Turkey, and Iran?Comparative analysis
Rank order the best places in which to invest.
Compare the pros and cons of investments in NAFTA, the EU, East Asia, Mercosur, CBI, South Asia, the Balkans and the Middle East, and Central Asia.
Compare the pros and cons of investments in Russia versus the Central Asian countries.
Which places in the world is it better to form an alliance, partnership or joint venture?Assignment: Check out Russia and Central Asia sites on the Web or in the library. Bring the information to class.
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Meeting #10, (Wednesday night, November 7, 2001).
10. ASSESS EXPORT, INTERNATIONAL, AND GLOBAL MARKETING DECISIONS
Study the impact of information technology on globalizationi.
Prepare a global marketing strategy.Assignment: Read chapter 8. Finish presentations. Learn key terms (p. 279). Answer discussion question 1 (p. 279).
Sub-Saharan Africa
What is sub-Saharan Africa? Who are the West African, Central African, East African, and southern African countries? Which are the advanced and emerging countries? Are these countries each other's best trading partners in terms of exports and imports? Which countries in sub-Saharan Africa have preferential trade agreements (so-called, Lome I and Lome II) with the European Union? What do these agreements cover?Comparative analysis
Rank order the best places in which to invest.
Compare the pros and cons of investments in NAFTA, the EU, East Asia, Mercosur, CBI, South Asia, the Balkans and the Middle East, Central Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa.
Compare the pros and cons of investments in Senegal versus Nigeria, Gabon versus Congo, Kenya versus Uganda, and South Africa versus Zimbabwe.
Which places in the world is it better to form an alliance, partnership or joint venture?Assignment: Check out sub-Saharan sites on the Web or in the library. Bring the information to class.
Turn in group take-home examinations, peer reviews, and keep-stop-and start questionnaires.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Grading:
In-class, open-book exam during week 4 (individual work) ................. 20%
Group take-home due10th meeting (group work) ...........………….… 20%
Term papers due 9th week (group work) ...........……………………. 40%
Class presentation (group work) …………………………………… 10%
Discussion of in-class questions (individual work) ………………….... 10%Note:
The lack of class participation counts as a minus. Therefore, don't cut class. Negative peer ratings count as a minus, too.Grading scale used at DePaul University:
93-100 A 73-76 C
90-92 A- 70-72 C-
87-89 B+ 67-69 D+
83-86 B 63-66 D
80-82 B- 60-62 D-
77-79 C+ less than 60 FPlagiarism policy of DePaul University:
Plagiarism, similar to other forms of academic dishonesty, is a serious matter. If an instructor finds that a student has plagiarized (that is, copied documents and ideas without proper citation), the appropriate penalty is at the instructor’s discretion. Actions taken by the instructor do not preclude the college or the university from taking further punitive actions including dismissal from the university.
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Each member of a group project is required to submit a signed peer rating form. This form contains an evaluation of the other group members. In the space provided below, please fill in the names of your group members and record the peer rating for each. Submit the form to me on or before the last class meeting. The form must be signed; otherwise, it is invalid and will not be use in calculating final grades. Give the form to me personally. Do not send the form to me via e-mail.
The peer rating is based on a total points of 100 points for all group members other than yourself. (DO NOT INCLUDE YOURSELF ON THE FORM.) You must award 100 points among the other group members. Use the following factors in your evaluation:
1. Willingness of the team member to carry out jobs assigned.
2. Ability of the team member to meet deadlines.
3. Cooperation of the team member with other group members.
4. Quality of the team member’s work.
5. Overall contribution of the team member to discuss information, prepare part(s) of the term paper, do the in-class presentation, and complete the group project.TEAM MEMBER #1 _____________________________ _____
TEAM MEMBER #2 _____________________________ _____
TEAM MEMBER #3 _____________________________ _____
TEAM MEMBER #4 _____________________________ _____
TEAM MEMBER #5 _____________________________ _____TOTAL POINTS 100
Signature (required)
Note: If your team member is not doing the assigned work and is not meeting team deadlines, let the instructor know between meetings #1-9. Do not wait until meeting #10.
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KEEP-STOP-START QUESTIONNAIRE
What do you think about the course? What do you think about the assignments? Your advice is important for future classes. Please answer the following questions:
KEEP (What should we continue doing?)
STOP (What should we not do anymore?)
START (What should we begin doing?)
Thank you for your interest in the course. Please complete the questionnaire and give it to me during meeting #10, or send it to me via fax (312-362-5647) or e-mail <dlamont@wppost.depaul.edu>