January 14
- Handout #1: Class Policies
- General introduction to course
January 16
- DUE: 3-ring notebook with two dividers and blank paper
- DUE: Your first idea for your research project. Fill in the blank: something about _______
- More information about narrowing your research topic
January 21
January 23
- DUE: A research article related to the broad topic you identified during class on January 16th
- An example of a research article appears on the Mgmt 352 MOODLE site
- More about narrowing your topic
January 28
- DUE: Draft of your research question
- Helpful reading: Chapter 3 in How To Do a Research Project book
January 30
- Meet in library room 119 (computer lab behind the reference desk)
February 4
- DUE: Final draft of research question
- How to start building your Theoretical Foundation (Literature Search) for your research project
- Helpful reading: Chapter 3 in How To Do a Research Project book
- How to prepare an Annotated Bibliography
- Additional information about Annotated Bibliography on MOODLE page
February 6
- DUE: Two articles in your Annotated Bibliography
- How to design a survey or interview instrument
February 11
- DUE: Two more articles in your Annotated Bibliography (total = 4)
- BRING: Your laptop to class today
REMINDER: Have you perused the research papers on the MOODLE page?
February 13
- DUE: Two more articles in your Annotated Bibliography (total = 6)
- BRING: Your laptop to class today
February 18
- DUE: Annotated Bibliography for 6 (or more) articles
- See requirements for this assignment on MOODLE
- How to prepare your interview/survey questions
- Consent form for your research (see examples on MOODLE)
February 20
- No class (Dr. Manns will be at Leadership Asheville all day)
February 25
- DUE: interview/survey form for your research
- BRING a printed copy to class AND email it to Dr. Manns no later than one hour before class begins today
- Email subject line: MGMT 352: questions version 1
- BRING your computer to class today
February 27
- DUE: interview/survey form for your research (version 2)
- Email your version 2 to Dr. Manns by class time today
- Email subject line: MGMT 352: questions version 2
- We will not meet in class today, but Dr. Manns will send you feedback on your survey so that you can revise it for class on Monday
March 4
- DUE: interview/survey form for your research (version 3)
- BRING a printed copy to class AND email it to Dr. Manns no later than one hour before class begins today
- Email subject line: MGMT 352: questions version 3
- BRING your computer to class today
March 6
- DUE: interview/survey form for your research and consent statement
- Turn in printed copy
- You can begin to distribute your surveys or do your interviews once you have received an approval email from Dr. Manns. Look for this email sometime after March 6.
SPRING BREAK: March 10-17
March 18
- DUE: Introduction and Theoretical Foundation section
- Peer review and schedule a time to go over your draft with Dr. Manns
- More "how to" information about collecting your survey/interview data
Dr. Manns will be doing an off-campus presentation on Wednesday afternoon and will be at a conference on March 21-22.
March 20
- No class today. Instead, schedule a meeting with Dr. Manns to go over your Intro/TF (time slots will be distributed in class on March 18)
March 25
- Class cancelled (Dr. Manns stuck at the airport)
March 27
- Individual meetings to discuss your Introduction and Theoretical Foundation (Owen 210)
April 1
- DUE: Verbal report on your data collection. Most of your data should be collected by today.
- How to write your Methodology section
- BRING: Your computer to class today.
- Work on your Methodology section of your paper
April 3
- LOCATION CHANGE: We will meet in Owen 228
- BRING: All consent forms and survey/interview data to class
April 8
- DUE: Introduction and Theoretical Foundation (version 2) with Methodology section (version 1)
- DUE: Your data collation results (from class on April 3rd)
- How to write your Results section
April 10
- DUE: List of observations from your data (as we discussed in class on April 8 -- also appears in "Assignments" section on MOODLE)
- BRING: Your computer to class today
- Work on your Results section
April 15
- DUE: Introduction (version 3), Methodology (version 2), and Results (version 1) sections
- How to write your Analysis section
April 17
- Individual meetings with Dr. Manns (Owen 210)
2:00 Grant
2:30 Angelica
2:45 Skye
3:30 Moriah
3:45 Laura
4:00 Clary
April 22
- DUE: Introduction, Methodology, Results (version 2), and Analysis (version 1) sections
- BRING: Your computer to class today
- How to write your Conclusion/Summary and Abstract sections
April 24
- Undergraduate Research Symposium Day - Dr. Manns is participating in a panel during class time
- Individual meetings with Dr. Manns (Owen 210)
9:00 Grant
9:15 Clary
April 29
- DUE: Final Paper (with all sections, including the Conclusion/Summary and Abstract)
- Information about putting together your presentation for May 1st
May 1, 3:00 until 5:30