Tepper School of Business – Learning Objectives Samples
45-908 Dynamic Asset Management (complete set)
The student successfully completing this course should be able to:
- Set up and solve linear, quadratic, and stochastic optimization problems that fit an investor's goals and constraints (e.g., short-term time horizon, long-term time horizon, dynamic consumption).
- Describe the role of estimation errors, taxes, and transaction costs in portfolio construction and discuss their implications.
70-345 Business Presentations (complete set)
When you leave this course, provided you apply yourself throughout the semester, you should be able to:
- Plan presentations based on audience needs and expectations.
- Synthesize information and ideas from multiple texts and sources.
- Develop style and tone appropriate for the situation.
- Project personal credibility and professionalism.
- Incorporate effective visual aid support.
- Articulate a variety of ideas and attitudes.
- Deliver oral presentations.
- Critique communication using a standardized evaluation process to assess your own and others’ presentations (e.g., classmates and future employees).
70-371 Production/Operations Management (Vince Slaugh) (complete set)
Upon successful completion of the course, you should be able to:
- Define operations management in terms and high level concepts.
- Employ mathematical analysis of basic operations management models.
- Assess the strengths and limitations of those models for a given business problem.
- Design new and redesign existing operations for a given business problem.
70-455 Information Resources Management (Bob Monroe) (complete set)
When you have successfully completed this course, you should be able to:
- Analyze a business situation to determine information management need.
- Design a database to address those needs.
- Write SQL queries to retrieve information from a relational database.
- Describe how to use data warehouses, OLAP, and reporting tools to create Decision Support Systems and Business Intelligence Systems.
- Explain and apply data mining concepts.
- Scope, set up, secure, and administer a relational database management system.
73-148 Environmental Economics (complete set)
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
- To apply microeconomic principles (a) to explain why environmental problems occur and (b) to determine economically efficient allocations of environmental resources;
- To use microeconomic and macroeconomic concepts to evaluate the consequences of public policies that are intended to improve the use of environmental resources;
- examine the substantial uncertainties that inherently limit knowledge about environmental resources and the consequences of their use;
- To analyze how such uncertainties limit the practical feasibility of implementing theoretically efficient principles and policies; and
- To consider alternative public policies that might achieve superior allocations of environmental resources in practice.
73-352 Public Economics (excerpt)
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
- Synthesize and integrate the material learned in their previous microeconomics coursework into more complex microeconomic models;
- Be able to identify the characteristics of public goods and how they differ from private goods;
- Apply the economics concepts of efficiency and equity to evaluate government policy;
- Apply the economic concepts to evaluate the extent to which government should interfere in markets;
- Identify characteristics of market failures and from where they come; and
- Apply mechanism design (e.g., tax policy, etc.) to regulate market failures.