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Course Syllabus

Course Type: Recognized Prior Learning Granted for MBA Degree Holders

Course Code: DBA812

Course Name: Operations Management

Course Outline

This course is designed for students who are thinking of doing a research project in business administration. This course will teach students how to analyze and improve business processes, be it in services or in manufacturing. Students will learn how to improve productivity, how to provide more choice to customers, how to reduce response times, and how to improve quality. Specifically, students will learn how to improve productivity, increase responsiveness, provide more choice to the customer, and deliver higher quality standards. In short, students will learn how to analyze business processes and how to improve them. Along the way, students will learn about topics such as Lean Operations, Six Sigma, and the Toyota production system, and hear about bottlenecks, flows rates, and inventory levels.

Course Syllabus

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WHAT TO DO NEXT (If you are interested in this course)

Students please note that all ‘Value’ courses must be done via Calwest Tubeclasses. However for the Core building block and Electives courses students will have four alternatives choices for completing the course.

Please Click on One Choice from List Below and then Scroll Down to Register.

  1. undertaking the course via Tubeclasses (if available) ($ 800.00) ;
  2. undertaking (free) MOOC courses and having the assessments suitably externally proctored and then applying to Calwest for credit towards their degree program ($ 25 per course);
  3. undertaking similar courses elsewhere (including MOOC Courses) and having them assesses for credit by Calwest professors via a Challenge Exam ($ 250 per course);

    4. OR

  4. (4) applying for Prior Learning Credit for a course done in the past from a recognized institution ($ 25 per course).

If you wish to undertake the Calwest Tubeclass for this course, the lecture topic PowerPoint’s that relate to the text book will be provided upon payment of the course fee ($ 250). The link to the recommended MOOC provider will also be provided, and can be used as a supplementary vehicle for those undertaking the course. Students however have the choice of undertaking a MOOC course without enrolling in a Tubeclass, but need to have their assessments suitably proctored. Some Calwest elective courses do not have a Tubeclass, and in such cases students need to undertake the course via a MOOC offering, or at another accredited university.

 

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