Sample Coursework

Here you will find some coursework that I have completed in my Management courses at Wentworth. If you would like to see additional samples of my work, both from Management and Architecture, you will be able to see them in my Courses Section once it is complete.

One of the first classes that Management students take is Oral Communications. During the class, students learn how to make an effective presentation and give a speech. During the course, students give four speeches on a variety of topics. We are encouraged to pick a topic that is interesting to us, so that giving the speech will be easier. The second speech was on the topic of a Nobel Prize winner, my choice being Albert Einstein.

All Management students also have to take Business Communications at the beginning of their education. The class teaches students how to write memo, business letters, presentations, and business plans; to name a few. Here are a sample memo, and our project for the class, a marketing proposal for our company, accompanied with a presentation.

In their junior year, students have to take a class on Marketing. For the final presentation, I told the class about a topic in marketing that we didn't cover during the semester; Search Engine Optimization. SEO is a practice of optimizing the content of a web site such that it increases its location on the results page of a Google search; this works for all search engines, but the presentation focused on Google since it is the most popular one available. Although most of the class is not going into web development, I felt it is important to know because every company will have a web site, and a basic knowledge is better then none at all.

Another class taken early in the program is Management Information Systems. In MIS, students learn about different kinds of Information Systems, and continue to develop skills learned in Introduction to Computer and Business Applications, taken the previous semester. The semester long project in the class required students, in teams of four, to put all of their skills to use for the company Dirt Bikes USA.

To ensure Management students are well rounded and understand the rest of the picture, students take Contemporary Manufacturing as a sophomore. The course covered a variety of topics in the manufacturing world, and the final project had to go into more depth on one of the topics covered. My group chose to make a presentation on a Hollow Company, a company that has all of its products and services outsourced, while they focus on administration and planning tasks. In addition to the presentation, we created a web site for our futuristic hollow company; because of the limited production time, the web site might not work correctly in all browsers.

At the same time, students took Management of Contemporary Organizations. The class taught students about different management styles, different organization types, and employee/employer interactions, among other things. For our final presentation, my group chose to do a presentation on what we think what the Future of Work will be.

In the third course of the Technology Management concentration, Technology Transfer, students had to interview someone in the technology field, and make a presentation about it. The presentation had to be about a technology transfer project they had completed, and how it related to the Gameplan cards from class; each card has a different activity that a business can use in a project. For my project, I chose to do a presentation on Language International, my Co-Op the previous semester, on the steps they used in creating their new web site.