ERAU Course Suggestions

USMC-SSGT

USMC-SSGT

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4 classes left, capstone needs to be taken by itself. Full time is considered 2 courses but for the sake of not dragging this out I'm going to do 3 and then the capstone to get this over with. 2 is a bit of work but manageable but 3 will likely be a pain. This one is required, MGMT 420 Management of Production and Operations and the other two are electives. The options are:

SFTY320 Human Factors in Aviation Safety
SFTY315 Environmental Compliance & Safety
MGMT391 Introduction to Project Management
MGMT311 Marketing
MGMT325 Social Responsibility & Ethics in Management
MGMT 331Transportation Principles

Looking for the least workload classes you have had experience with. I don't mind doing the work but with 3, I need at least 1 or 2 to be manageable. My last course ended with an 18 page APA research paper. Not a big deal but I don't want to do 3 of those. I have had other courses where there is a weekly mini research paper of 2-3 pages APA. Again, not a big deal but X3...it would be painful.

Any suggestions? All online worldwide admission.
 
I took SFTY320 and it was applicable to everything I’ve done in the real world since. Interesting stuff too. The environmental and ethics ones sound boring to me, but that’s just personal preference.
 
Another vote for SFTY320, that class was great. Can't say it won't have workload, but it'll be applicable down the road as previously mentioned. Marketing was interesting as well, I found it pretty easy. I haven't taken the others.
 
SFTY320 was part of my minor. Fairly straight forward course. Swiss cheese model, accident chains, etc...
 
USMC-SSGT said:
SFTY320 Human Factors in Aviation Safety SFTY315 Environmental Compliance & Safety MGMT391 Introduction to Project Management MGMT311 Marketing MGMT325 Social Responsibility & Ethics in Management MGMT 331Transportation Principles
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Course Cliff’s Notes by Jack Handy: Human factors: People screw up constantly and sometimes die from it. As others have pointed out, helps in all jobs and aspects of life to know how this continues to happen and probably always will. Environmental Compliance: We have an ex-Fed on the teaching staff, and yes he bores us to death, too. We make him teach this to get him out of the teacher’s lounge and away from us for at least a little while every day. The textbook is excellent for inducing sleep anytime, anywhere and serves as an excellent wheel chock when one goes missing. Project Management: You’re all the way to your capstone and don’t understand how to manage a project yet? You’re seriously screwed in life. Just sayin’. Marketing: You really like fonts and typography. Or you can write jingles. But probably you just like golf. Remember this is the industry that came up with, ‘We love to fly and it shows...” as one of the ‘best’ marketing schemes ever in the biz, and another campaign hasn’t changed from using Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue for going on something three decades now. We also paint aircraft in colors best befitting rental bowling shoes. We also have just mixed multiple company logos and colors when mergers happen, and we paint contractor’s aircraft in our company’s logos. Not a single thing you learn in this course will apply whatsoever to the Aviation business. Social Responsibility and...: Wait? YGBFKM, right? This is the industry Frank Lorenzo worked in, isn’t it? I’mma let you finish, but... Transportation Principals: Pick up stuff, move it from there to here. Fix broken machines when they can’t pick up stuff and move it. Repeat. For decades. Charge more than it costs your. You already leaned this in the Marines. Or how it often and in how many ways it breaks down and doesn’t work. Which.... brings us back to Human Factors and Project Management. :) :) :)
 
More relevant coursework for airline flying:

ECON432: How to provide nutrition on $4 per day
PSYC311: Deciphering crewmates political leanings: Readings in Modern Literature (Garden & Gun)
STFU425: How to Evade Chief Pilot Hat Police
BUSN365: Tactical Personal Bankruptcy: How to Stick it to the Man
MGMT666: Management Ethics (this course has no content, 0 credit, but makes it look like you're doing something)
 
Safety 320 was pretty easy iirc. I have a lot of these same courses coming up as I hit the full court press to finally finish this crap. Ugh. Thankfully I have an expert live-in paper proof-reader now. Got lazy thinking I was at a career gig, but it's looking more and more like that isn't meant to be.

Taking CSCI109 right now which I thought was going to be a straightforward course about computers but the instructor is treating every week's assignment like a doctoral level thesis.
 
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I teach MGMT 203 FWIW. Next scheduled mid-2018 but should provide cash for the tailwheel add-on.

Marketing is more straightforward and less technical...
 
Good lord. Tapatalk posting apparently removes all carriage returns/linefeeds now. Sorry about the Wall of Text. That was a lot better formatted and readable on my end.
 
Course Cliff’s Notes by Jack Handy: Human factors: People screw up constantly and sometimes die from it. As others have pointed out, helps in all jobs and aspects of life to know how this continues to happen and probably always will. Environmental Compliance: We have an ex-Fed on the teaching staff, and yes he bores us to death, too. We make him teach this to get him out of the teacher’s lounge and away from us for at least a little while every day. The textbook is excellent for inducing sleep anytime, anywhere and serves as an excellent wheel chock when one goes missing. Project Management: You’re all the way to your capstone and don’t understand how to manage a project yet? You’re seriously screwed in life. Just sayin’. Marketing: You really like fonts and typography. Or you can write jingles. But probably you just like golf. Remember this is the industry that came up with, ‘We love to fly and it shows...” as one of the ‘best’ marketing schemes ever in the biz, and another campaign hasn’t changed from using Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue for going on something three decades now. We also paint aircraft in colors best befitting rental bowling shoes. We also have just mixed multiple company logos and colors when mergers happen, and we paint contractor’s aircraft in our company’s logos. Not a single thing you learn in this course will apply whatsoever to the Aviation business. Social Responsibility and...: Wait? YGBFKM, right? This is the industry Frank Lorenzo worked in, isn’t it? I’mma let you finish, but... Transportation Principals: Pick up stuff, move it from there to here. Fix broken machines when they can’t pick up stuff and move it. Repeat. For decades. Charge more than it costs your. You already leaned this in the Marines. Or how it often and in how many ways it breaks down and doesn’t work. Which.... brings us back to Human Factors and Project Management. :) :) :) (Edit: Tapatalk is being strange. It won’t let me “Edit” the post to fix the removal of CR/LF, but maybe it’ll let me “Quote” my own post, remove the quote tags, and save with some modicum of formatting... will know after I hit “Save”... if it still looks like one big blob of text, no further fighting with the norm of bad web software shall be attempted. Hahaha. Been doing IT long enough to know it ain’t worth it.)
 
denverpilot said:
Course Cliff’s Notes by Jack Handy: Human factors: People screw up constantly and sometimes die from it. As others have pointed out, helps in all jobs and aspects of life to know how this continues to happen and probably always will. Environmental Compliance: We have an ex-Fed on the teaching staff, and yes he bores us to death, too. We make him teach this to get him out of the teacher’s lounge and away from us for at least a little while every day. The textbook is excellent for inducing sleep anytime, anywhere and serves as an excellent wheel chock when one goes missing. Project Management: You’re all the way to your capstone and don’t understand how to manage a project yet? You’re seriously screwed in life. Just sayin’. Marketing: You really like fonts and typography. Or you can write jingles. But probably you just like golf. Remember this is the industry that came up with, ‘We love to fly and it shows...” as one of the ‘best’ marketing schemes ever in the biz, and another campaign hasn’t changed from using Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue for going on something three decades now. We also paint aircraft in colors best befitting rental bowling shoes. We also have just mixed multiple company logos and colors when mergers happen, and we paint contractor’s aircraft in our company’s logos. Not a single thing you learn in this course will apply whatsoever to the Aviation business. Social Responsibility and...: Wait? YGBFKM, right? This is the industry Frank Lorenzo worked in, isn’t it? I’mma let you finish, but... Transportation Principals: Pick up stuff, move it from there to here. Fix broken machines when they can’t pick up stuff and move it. Repeat. For decades. Charge more than it costs your. You already leaned this in the Marines. Or how it often and in how many ways it breaks down and doesn’t work. Which.... brings us back to Human Factors and Project Management. :) :) :) (Edit: Tapatalk is being strange. It won’t let me “Edit” the post to fix the removal of CR/LF, but maybe it’ll let me “Quote” my own post, remove the quote tags, and save with some modicum of formatting... will know after I hit “Save”... if it still looks like one big blob of text, no further fighting with the norm of bad web software shall be attempted. Hahaha. Been doing IT long enough to know it ain’t worth it.)
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(Yeah, that’s hosed. Hahaha. Wow...)
 
Thanks everyone. Finally got it all squared away. Next semester is 1/8 and capstone is March. Finally. Looking forward to my airline pilot education bonus.
 
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