Management at St-Andrews

[Emil]

Anybody doing a management degree at s.a.? how big is the workload? How many gets a first class degree?

[me]

Im in first year management the workload isnt too big apart from a few of the tutorials which really suck. If you've never done anything like management before it can be pretty confusing at first but you soon pick it up.

[eleanorrigby]

I agree with the person above management can be shitty sometimes but mostly its quite good, i'm just in first year but most of semester one is common sense.

[EviLTwiN]

I'm in second year maths, but i did management in first year, both semesters.

And i have to say that even as not a great student it was piss easy. This almost isn't even a subject in first year.

First semester consists of basically saying stress is bad for a worker, and therefore a stressed worker is bad for the company.

2nd semester includes statistics that you can do on one hand, but which has arts students getting out their calculators to add up 1+1+1+0+0+1+0+1 and complaining that they didn't come to university to do maths (this did actually happen). In actual fact it involves maths that you could learn in a day if the lecturers knew what they were talking about. My tutor (some woman) seemed to have the worst grasp of basic maths like finding means that I've ever seen in an adult who has a degree. I don't know if she was trying (unsuccessfully) to simplify it or something

btw when i say this it may sound like i just found it easy cause i do maths, but seriously, this isn't even maths. Adding numbers and dividing by the total number of numbers is numeracy, not maths. and it doesn't get much more complicated than that.

and 2nd semester also includes working out balance sheets which again can be learnt in one day if you can be bothered.

that's about it. i imagine it gets more interesting later on, but first year is a joke. I know lots of people who didn't do 1st semester but did management 2nd semester on my recommendation cause it was so crap. They went to half the lectures and still did well.

that probably doesn't help, but it's not as far off the truth as you might imagine.

if anyone doing management wants to borrow my second semester notes from last year email me at gog313@yahoo.co.uk and i'll send you them - it's basically everything you need to know for the whole semester in a few pages. It may take me a week or so to get them from home, but they should be complete.

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[BackwardsMan]

I've done both 1st year (both semesters) and 2nd year (1st semester) and agree totally with eviltwin. I didn't even bother to do the maths in the 2nd semester and just concentrated on balancing the balance sheet in the exam, which I did, and therefore got a 10.

1st semester in 2nd year is pretty straight forward too. There is a fair bit of reading to do but it's quite interesting and is all based on what you do in 1st semester of 1st year. Tutorials in 2nd year are very simple too.

[Rennie]

yeah, i agree with the 2 posts above. Management is one of the easiest subjects at St Andrews, and this is a well known fact around the students. This isn't to say however that i want it to get harder. I like never going to lectures/tutorials.

[Bonnie]

this isn't actually bonnie, by the way.
She's letting me use her name for this one

[EviLTwiN]

yeah but who did?

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[Rennie]

i aint mr morocco, even though i have the first name as him

[munchingfoo]

The first module is split into three sections.

The lecturer makes the first section fun.

Your brain makes the second section easy

And finally common sense tells you that you will pass the third section without going to any lectures


Management: The art of writing like you know what you're talking about and making others believe it.
(munchingfoo comprehensive dictionary)

[Rennie]

[s]Bonnie wrote on 11:02, 31st Jan 2003:
this isn't actually bonnie, by the way.
She's letting me use her name for this one




So....who are you then. You could at least spell my name right.

[Mr. Morrocco]

So...who are you then? Who did I let down last year? You could at least spell my name right.

[mr. morrocco]

[s]Bonnie wrote on 11:02, 31st Jan 2003:
this isn't actually bonnie, by the way.
She's letting me use her name for this one




boo hoo.