SUU ECON 6100 Blog

This blog was initiated by Dave Tufte, at the suggestion of students. It is a forum for SUU M.B.A. and M.Acc. students who have taken ECON 6100 to comment about the usefulness of this class for their other classes, degree, or career.


Only students who took ECON 6100 in 2004 were invited to post their thoughts here. There was no quid pro quo in that invitation.


I started this blog because students told me that this class is very worthwhile. Unfortunately, as an elective, this class does not have much of a constituency among the faculty to help guarantee that it will continue to be offered on a regular basis. I intend to show this blog to other School of Business faculty to make a case in support of this class.


Please do not view this opportunity as a way to support Dr. Tufte - I am only 1 of 3 people to have taught this class, and it is only 1 of 5 M.B.A. classes that I can reasonably be expected to teach at SUU. Also, don't use this as a forum to denigrate other professors or other classes.


Here are some suggestions (please feel free to expand upon this list). Was this class was more or less valuable than others you took? What did you learn that was so useful that you didn't learn in other classes? If you had to choose between this class and others that you took, how often would this class win (for example, ECON 6100 was better than half of my graduate classes)?


Please title your posts with either your name, or "anonymous".

Monday, December 20, 2004

Robert Tebbs

When I signed up for ECON 6100 I was thinking that this would be an easy A, because I felt very comfortable with my spreadsheet skills. I thought that the class would just be an extension of an undergraduate class that I took on Office 2000 programs. I was caught off guard when on the first day the professor handed out a statistics quiz and when we started to muddle through problems in the book that were quite complex. I soon realized that this was not the easy class that I had imagined that was going to teach me all the shortcut keys I needed to know, rather the class was turning into one that made me think about the big picture when confronting a problem and how to solve the problem quantitatively and qualitatively.
This class was beneficial for me--a person who is confident with his Excel skills--and would be for anyone majoring in any business field.
An easy A? Well... I hope that I got an A, but if not I know this class has expanded my mind and opened my eyes to the many realities that exist in a real buisness environment. Because of this class I feel better prepared and more confident with my Excel skills and more importantly with my ability to think through complex, real-world situations.

posted by Dr. Tufte | 10:32 AM

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