6 ECTS credits
177 u studietijd

Aanbieding 1 met studiegidsnummer 4014250FNR voor alle studenten in het 1e semester met een gespecialiseerd master niveau.

Semester
1e semester
Inschrijving onder examencontract
Niet mogelijk
Beoordelingsvoet
Beoordeling (0 tot 20)
2e zittijd mogelijk
Ja
Inschrijvingsvereisten
Studenten die dit opleidingsonderdeel opnemen, moeten geslaagd zijn voor 'Micro-economie' en 'Management'.Students who want to enroll for this course, must have passed Intermediate Micro-economics' and 'Management'. Voor studenten in de master management en bedrijfsleven van de opleiding Biomedische wetenschappen gelden er geen inschrijvingsvereisten.
Onderwijstaal
Engels
Faculteit
Faculteit Sociale Wetensch & SolvayBusinessSchool
Verantwoordelijke vakgroep
Business
Onderwijsteam
Mychal Langenus (titularis)
Laura Molinari
Onderdelen en contacturen
0 contacturen Exam
27 contacturen Lecture
22 contacturen Practical exercises
128 contacturen Self study
Inhoud

This course aims at strengthening the analytical skills, the ability to synthesize and critically analyse information and decision making in and for project management. At the end of this course, students should be able to critically understand the project life cycle, project management and processes, project performance and project governance. Students should also know and be able to apply the skills and methods for project management. Moreover, students should capture, analyse and be able to critically explain the role of the project manager and project teams. Finally, the course aims at strengthening collaboration skills by working in teams, through discussing cases together, formulating solutions and arguing choices. You should together be able to timely hand in qualitative group reports. 

Studiemateriaal
Handboek (Vereist) : Project Management, The managerial process, Larson, E. W. and Clifford F. G., 8de, McGraw-Hill, 9781260570434, 2020
Digitaal cursusmateriaal (Vereist) : Slides of the lectures, readings and case(s), Canvas
Bijkomende info

The tasks of the case(s) and extra information, as well as the slides of the classes are made available via Canvas and/or the Vub-bookstore. Please note that the slides are just to help you with your notes during the lectures and point at the topics to be known from the book and materials. This is only a small part of the total materials to be studied. 

This course is taught in English and all the materials are in English. 

Teaching Methods

  • Lecture: collective contact-dependent moments during which the lecturer engages with learning materials
  • Seminar, Exercises or Practicals (Practical): collective or individual contact-dependent moments during which the students are guided to actively engage with learning materials
  • Independent or External Form of Study (Self): independent study

This description of the teaching methods is indicative, in order to assess the expected study load.

REGULAR STUDENTS

Lecture:  27 hours

  • lectures theory: 19 hours
  • guest lectures: 8 hours

Practical: 22 hours

  • assignments cases + discussion: 12 hours
  • MS Project workshops (by professional Exerti): 6 hours
  • individual feedback and online help: 4 hours

Self: 128 hours

  • preparation lectures, amounting to 3 hours per chapter: 36 hours (12 x 3 hours)
  • process guest lectures (link theory): 8 hours
  • preparation cases (reading assignments and background of the assignments): 8 hours
  • case assignments: 16 hours
  • MS Project assignment (in PC room): 4 hours
  • preparation different cases: 16 hours
  • preparation exam: 40 hours (5 days of 8 hours)

 

Leerresultaten

General competencies

This course aims at strengthening the analytical skills, the ability to synthesize and critically analyse information and decision making in and for project management, individually and in group. At the end of this course, students should be able to critically understand the project life cycle, project management and processes, project performance and project governance. Students should also know and be able to apply the skills and methods for project management. Moreover, students should capture, analyse and be able to critically explain the role of the project manager and project teams.

Beoordelingsinformatie

De beoordeling bestaat uit volgende opdrachtcategorieën:
Examen Schriftelijk bepaalt 75% van het eindcijfer

Examen Praktijk bepaalt 25% van het eindcijfer

Binnen de categorie Examen Schriftelijk dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:

  • Schriftelijk Examen met een wegingsfactor 75 en aldus 75% van het totale eindcijfer.

    Toelichting: Schriftelijk, individueel, gesloten boek examen

Binnen de categorie Examen Praktijk dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:

  • Groepswerk met een wegingsfactor 25 en aldus 25% van het totale eindcijfer.

    Toelichting: Groepswerk: cases/opdrachten

Aanvullende info mbt evaluatie

The evaluation will be on theory and methodology, mostly applied to case(s):

  • 25% of the evaluation is based on written group reports of case assignments during the academic year; and
  • 75% of the evaluation is based on a written, individual, closed book exam.

If problems occur within a team or group, a peer review can be started. A peer review should be requested at the latest 3 weeks before the exam period starts, in written and with a motivation by at least two members of the team, and should be sent to both the course responsible and assistant. In case, a peer review will be conducted, and if it turns out that at least 50% of the team recognizes the failure of participation of one or more group members, this member will obtain 0 as mark for this assignment. The student has – for both exam sessions - passed with an end result of minimum 10/20, even if on one of both parts of the exam a score of less than 10/20 has been obtained.

Second exam session (retake)

Your group assignments result obtained during the academic year (first session) will be transferred to the second exam session, regardless of the mark. There is no retake possible for the group assignments.

Toegestane onvoldoende
Kijk in het aanvullend OER van je faculteit na of een toegestane onvoldoende mogelijk is voor dit opleidingsonderdeel.

Academische context

Deze aanbieding maakt deel uit van de volgende studieplannen:
Master in de biomedische wetenschappen: management en bedrijfsleven
Master handelsingenieur: Standaard traject
Master of International Business: Standaard traject (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)
Master of Business Engineering: Business and Technology: Standaard traject (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)