Management 480
Management 480 in London & Ireland
May 26 - June 30, 2009
Course
This course offers you the opportunity to complete your college career while studying and traveling in England and Ireland. The general design is that of a January term abroad program, but conducted in May and June. Because of the late summer evenings in England and Ireland (dusk is generally around 11:00 p.m.), there will be time for “tourist activities” after classroom sessions and/or field trips have been conducted.
The English field trips will include trips to (1) Cambridge and (2) Canterbury, which is followed by dinner at a 300 year-old English country pub. Field trips in Ireland will be to (1) Blarney Castle (and the Blarney Stone), (2) a 3-day weekend trip to the west of Ireland that includes stops at Bunratty Castle & Folk Park, the Cliffs of Moher, Killarney, Dingle, and The Ring of Kerry, and (3) a site visit to Waterford Crystal where we will watch the production of crystal. Waterford Crystal is one of a select few crystal manufacturers where the crystal is both mouth-blown and hand-cut. Tentative plans are to visit the Apple Computer plant in Cork that manufactures Apple desktop computers and supplies Western Europe. While in Ireland, we will also visit Paddy Hayes, former CEO of Ford, Ireland and Waterford/Wedgwood. Paddy has visited UST annually since 1991 and received an honorary PhD from UST in June 1997. An optional 3-day weekend in Paris is also planned for an estimated cost of $545 (includes transportation, lodging, and coach tours).
Prerequisites: Finance 321, Marketing 300 and Decision Sciences 301 (NO exceptions will be made to these prerequisites. You must have completed these courses by the end of Spring 2009 to participate in this program.
Program Structure
The course will be five weeks long, extending from May 26 - June 30, 2009. Week 1 will be held on the UST campus. These classes will be intensive presentations of the course materials so that heavy reading will be completed before departing for London. This will prepare you for field trips and company visits in London and Ireland where you will explore the course concepts in depth and address cultural differences between these countries and the US. Weeks 2 & 3 will be held in London, Weeks 4 & 5 in Cork, Ireland. The classes in London will be held on the University of London campus in Bloomsbury (a five-minute walk from the British Museum). Classes in Ireland will be held on the National University of Ireland, Cork (NUIC) campus.
