THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE

FACULTY SENATE

Senate Document Number 1799S

Date of Senate Approval 1/28/99

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Statement of Faculty Senate Action:

APC Document # 9: Management: Changes in Course Descriptions, Titles, and Prerequisites for Various Courses

Effective Date: Fall 1999

Delete: on p. 157, the following prerequisite statement for "317 Cost Accounting

Prerequisites: ACCT 202 and passing score on Management and Accountancy Department computer skills test. Fall and Spring.

Replace: with the following

Prerequisites: ACCT 202 or permission of instructor, and passing score on Management and Accountancy Department computer skills test. Fall and Spring.

Impact: Changing the prerequisites will not have a significant impact on course enrollment.

Rationale: All Management majors are required to take ACCT 201. With the exception of those Management majors in the Financial concentration, Management majors are not required to take ACCT 202. By adding the phrase "permission of instructor", there is the flexibility to allow MGMT majors into the course who have had ACCT 201 but not ACCT 202. This flexibility is needed as some Management majors may choose to take ACCT 317 to fulfill their concentration requirements.

Delete: on p. 157, the following prerequisite statement for "412 Advanced Managerial Accounting"

Prerequisites: ACCT 317; MGMT 380; passing score on Management and Accountancy Department computer skills test.

Replace: with the following

Prerequisites: ACCT 317 and passing score on Management and Accountancy Department computer skills test. Pre- or corequisite: MGMT 380.

Impact: Students will be able to take ACCT 412 and MGMT 380 at the same time.

Rationale: Currently students must have successfully completed MGMT 380 before enrolling in ACCT 412. In order to be properly prepared for ACCT 412 it is only necessary for students to have had or be concurrently enrolled in MGMT 380. Making MGMT 380 a pre- or corequisite allows more flexibility in student course scheduling.

Delete: on p. 158, the following prerequisite statement for "415 Auditing"

Prerequisites: ACCT 303, 340; STAT 185; passing score on Management and Accountancy Department computer skills test. Spring.

Replace: with the following

Prerequisites: ACCT 302, 340; STAT 185; passing score on Management and Accountancy Department computer skills test. Spring.

Impact: Changing the prerequisites will not have a significant impact on overall course enrollment.

Rationale: While all Accounting majors are required to take ACCT 301, 302, and 303, the material in these courses has been restructured. As a result, the material needed for the successful completion of ACCT 415 is contained in ACCT 301 (which is a prerequisite for 302) and ACCT 302. ACCT 303 covers special, intermediate level accounting topics that do not necessarily lead into Auditing. Also, due to enrollment, ACCT 303 does not always "make" as a class. Changing the prerequisite from ACCT 303 to ACCT 302 will give the students more flexibility in course scheduling.

Delete: on p. 158, the following prerequisite statement for "416 Advanced Accounting".

Prerequisites: ACCT 303; passing score on Management and Accountancy Department computer skills test. Fall.

Replace: with the following

Prerequisites: ACCT 302; passing score on Management and Accountancy Department computer skills test. Fall.

Impact: Changing the prerequisites will not have a significant impact on overall course enrollment.

Rationale: While all Accounting majors are required to take ACCT 301, 302, and 303, the material in these courses has been restructured. As a result, the material needed for the successful completion of ACCT 416 is contained in ACCT 301 (which is a prerequisite for 302) and ACCT 302. ACCT 303 covers special, intermediate level accounting topics that do not necessarily lead into Advanced Accounting. Also, due to enrollment, ACCT 303 does not always "make" as a class. Changing the prerequisite from ACCT 303 to ACCT 302 will give the students more flexibility in course scheduling.

Change: on p. 158, the course number for "308 International Management and Marketing Strategies (3)"

To: "398 International Management and Marketing Strategies (3)"

and insert the new title with the old course description on page 161 after the entry for "394 Project Management."

Add: to the end of the course description for the newly created 398 the following:

No credit given to students who have credit for MGMT 308. Fall and Spring.

Impact: The change in course number will create a more logical course number sequence, since MGMT 350 is the prerequisite to MGMT 308. The course content, prerequisites, and times offered remain the same.

Rationale: MGMT 350 is the prerequisite to MGMT 308. This has caused some confusion among students since a higher course number is a prerequisite for a lower course number. Changing the course number of MGMT 308 to a number higher than 350 will eliminate this confusion.

Delete: on p. 159, the following prerequisite statement for "350 Marketing Principles".

Pre- or corequisite: MGMT 220.

Replace: with the following

Prerequisite: MGMT 220. Fall and Spring.

Impact: Changing the prerequisites will not have a significant impact on course enrollment.

Rationale: All Management majors are required to take MGMT 220, which is a basic introductory management course. Because of the skills taught in MGMT 220 such as basic management terminology, concepts, and oral presentation techniques, students should have MGMT 220 before enrolling in any other Management course. Last year's catalog change should have made MGMT 220 a prerequisite, but listed it as a pre- or corequisite due to a typing error in preparing the APC document.

Delete: on p. 160, the following prerequisite statements for "386 Systems and Information Management".

Prerequisites: ACCT 201; passing score on Management and Accountancy Department computer skills test. Pre- or corequisite: MGMT 220. Fall and Spring.

Replace: with the following

Prerequisites: ACCT 201; MGMT 220; passing score on Management and Accountancy Department computer skills test. Fall and Spring.

Impact: Changing the prerequisites will not have a significant impact on course enrollment.

Delete: on p. 161, the course title and description for "394 Project Management".

Replace: with the following

394 Project Management/Occupational Safety (3)

Principles and concepts of project management as they relate to the quantitative skills of PERT, CPM, and other network methods of scheduling projects with attention given to compliance with OSHA legislation and NIOSH guidelines. Course emphasis is placed on using these directives in planning, and on qualitative factors as well as the traditional quantitative methods. Computer-aided as well as manual approaches to these topics are presented. Prerequisites: MGMT 220; STAT 185 or 225. Even years Spring.

Impact: The additional occupational safety material was included and successfully covered in the course taught Spring 1998.

Rationale: Feedback from industrial engineering management and operations management graduates indicate that it is essential that students be exposed to the basics of occupational health and the importance of compliance with OSHA legislation. It was determined that not only was it feasible and appropriate to cover the occupational safety material in this course, but approximately 12 hours of time were available to cover this material as a result of restructuring the course. In Spring 1998, the instructor experimented with including the material and was able to cover the new occupational safety material in addition to the required project management material.