GSIPM

Check out the new & exciting workshops coming up in the next few weeks!  NOTE: Syllabi for these courses can be found in the GSIPM Front Desk on Moodle.

WKSH 8586 Property Rights & Real Estate Investment

Instructor: Professor David B. Deniger
Date: April 16-18th
Description: Property Rights – The Organizing Principle of Just about Everything that Matters will examine both the characteristics of real estate investments and the legal institutions that promote an unencumbered flow of capital into growing markets. The course will identify the critical aspects of US property investment values, and the skills necessary to make money investing in real estate and related careers. The course will analyze the implications of global changes in property rights to position emerging markets to attract real estate investment capital to high growth opportunities.

WKSH 8582 Visual Communication of Scientific Information

Instructor: Professor Neo Martinez
Date: April 24-25th
Description: An introduction to the theory and practice of visually communicating scientific information with a focus on quantitative graphs and environmental concepts such as global warming and ecological interdependence. Emphasis will be given to navigating the transition between communication to experts and communicating to the public both for informational and activist purposes. Tufte’s classic text, “The Visual Display of Quantitative Information” plus his enthusiastic critique of PowerPoint templates will be used to introduce basic concepts (e.g. causation and correlation) and practices. Other information such as human water use, opinion polls and voting patterns will also be covered as well as global warming and climate change. Recent developments and the latest challenges in visualizing scientific information and complex networks will be presented. The course will be concluded by evaluation and critiquing visualizations chosen by students according to their own interests.

WKSH 8542 Tactical Counter-terrorism

Instructor: Professor Bill Hillar
Date: April 16th – 18th
Description: The purpose of this workshop is to make students aware of how policy gets interpreted and carried out in terms of counter-terrorism ideologies and operations. We will discuss the immediate and long-term effects of U.S. and other counter-terrorism actions throughout the world. We will try to define counter-terrorism by examining its multiple layers from pre-diplomatic assessment, government intervention through the use of military and armed conflict, to post action evaluation.

IMGT 8679 Green Marketing

Instructor: Professor Kevin McGibben
Date & Time: April 30th – May 2nd
Description:This course is a graduate-level Marketing seminar on Global Green Marketing. The “Green” movement continues to be a serious topic for the Marketer in 2009. As individual consumers continue to be concerned about global warming trends, the welfare of the environment and sustainability of global ecosystems, the demand for Green products and services expands. Marketers must determine whether they need to adapt their Marketing strategies to a Greening process in order to comply with global customer demands. Upon completion of the course students will be fluent regarding current practices and issues relative to marketing management of “Green” products or services and “sustainability” issues as they relate to marketing management.

WKSH 8526 Fundamentals of International Trade & Shipping

Instructor: Professor Jim MacLellan
Date: May 7th – 9th
Description: The purpose of this workshop is to explain the historic context, fundamental principles and implications of international trade transactions which require goods movement.
Additional goals are: to explore the relationships between the commercial agreement, the financial aspect of the transaction and the physical movement of the cargo (international air and sea freight); to acquire the knowledge to design a transportation strategy for corporate policy or specific commercial transactions; to understand principles of risk reduction, and their implementation through the pragmatic use of terms of sale, inter-modal bills of lading, surveys and insurance; to achieve familiarization with current areas of concern in the field of international logistics, including shipping markets, non-tariff barriers, security, foreign trade zones and currency fluctuations.