Here’s a Few UIC Liautaud Classes You Can Still Register Into Before Classes Start

Are you an incoming MBA student to the Liautaud Graduate School of Business who is still working on putting the final touches on your Fall ’15 schedule? First off, quit procrastinating, that kind of behavior will catch up with you in business school! Any way, lucky for you, Jasmin Aßmann from the University of Illinois Chicago Liautaud Loop blog put together a list of two-credit courses available next semester. MBA students may include up to three of these courses in their elective options.

Here are a selection of courses of various levels that were listed in that post:

MBA 500 Corporate Strategy: Instructed by Mark Shanley, this class runs from Tuesday, 8/24 to 10/16, 6 – 8:30PM. The course is an analysis of major strategic decisions affecting the long-term performance of a firm and its ability to sustain competitive advantage.

MBA 570 Enterprise Strategy: Also instructed by Mark Shanley, this class runs from Tuesday, 10/19 to 12/4, 6 – 8:30PM. It is a new course for students in the final semester of the MBA program; will become a required course for all students enrolling in Fall 2015. The course provides content and framework to integrate prior course work to address business problems from a cross-functional and enterprise perspective. It creates an opportunity for students completing the MBA program concentrating in varied functional areas to apply their program-based knowledge and skills to address real business problems in an integrative and cross-functional context.

MBA 590 Creating Careers That Count: Instructed by Dave Kreischer, this class runs from Tuesday, 8/24 to 10/16 and 10/19 to 12/4, 3:30–6PM. In a highly dynamic, well-educated and globally competitive marketplace, relevance has replaced loyalty as a basis for relationships—which includes the contract between employee and employer. Since the marketplace dictates what is relevant, students are free to create a career that really counts for you as long as it counts for the marketplace. This eight-week course will explore the three steps to creating a career that counts for you and for the marketplace:

• Defining your difference-making strategy
• Discovering your marketplace relevance
• Demonstrating and delivering your difference-making capability with highly relevant impact

MBA 590 Improv & Leadership: Instructed by Michael Popowits, this class has two sections. Section 1 meets Monday, 8/24 to 10/16, Section 2 meets Monday, 10/19 to 12/4, 6–8:30PM. Using improvisational theater techniques taught in workshop exercise of graduating difficulty, this course creates a safe laboratory for students to experiment with the elements of their own executive presence. This is a “presentations course” where students study how to present themselves in a variety of executive communication modes: networking, interviewing, creative team leadership and impromptu speaking situations, like client interactions or expert panel discussions.

regions: Chicago

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