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".

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Econ 6100 Evaluation

Overall this was a great class. Dr. Tufte organized it in a way that was unique and interesting. For example, the spreadsheet projects were exchanged by students (anonymously) and then each student was graded by both what he/she produced and what he/she received.

The book was pretty good and the subject matter was pretty good. However, from spreadsheet sensitivity analysis to stats and linear programming, there seemed to be many different subjects that were only loosely related. Maybe it was just alot of material in a short amount of time (Maymester). In some ways, it was better to do it in Maymester, but in other ways it was more difficult.

I would recommend this class to anyone with a disclaimer...bone up on statistics before taking the class. Espescially if you are like me and have not had a stats class in almost 10 years.

posted by Dr. Tufte | 9:43 PM

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