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Some updates of innovations of FUQUA curriculum, for the "why duke" essays. Concentrations The faculty and Dean have approved 12 concentrations that current students can select from: Accounting, Decision Sciences, Entrepreneurship, Finance (with a choice of either Corporate Finance or Investment Finance), Leadership and Ethics, Management, Marketing (with a choice of either Product Management or Market Analysis and Strategy), Operations Management, Social Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Consulting. These concentrations all have a common ?4-2?
structure, where the concentration typically has four courses in a focal area (e.g., Operations) and two courses from another area(s) that provide supporting breadth for the focal concentration. The idea of thoughtful, supporting breadth for the focal concentration is absolutely unique among our peer group of business schools ? this interdisciplinary feature connects directly to both our tradition of providing a general management education and our reputation for innovation through collaboration. As organizations work toward improved coordination of organizational activities, so, too, your education should reflect how functional activities and skills can be enriched and strengthened by other perspectives. All of you will be allowed to choose one concentration that will be designated on your transcript. Of course, this is not a requirement; you may choose to not have a concentration. (As we continue to transition in new curricular elements in future years, students will eventually be able to declare two concentrations; current students can select a single concentration.) Details about the 12 concentrations are now available on our course pages, and can be found at the following link: http://thumper.fuqua.duke.edu:81/courses/concentrations/ Concentrations are available to current first and second year students. First year students will have no difficulty fulfilling a concentration of choice, since, for the most part, no elective choices have been made. Second year students may face more constrained choices given that you have taken two terms of electives without knowing about a Concentration option. We apologize if this means you are unable to fulfill your first choice Concentration. However, the initial rollout for Concentrations approved by the faculty was not scheduled until one year from now, and we have worked hard to make this benefit available early, to the Class of 2007.
Certificate of Excellence Programs
Along with Concentrations, last spring the faculty approved the idea of introducing additional Certificate programs, in addition to our current HSM Certificate program. Certificates will serve as a complement to Concentrations, allowing our students to distinguish themselves with greater depth and with excellent course work in a given area. At this point, we are advancing the introduction of the new Certificate of Excellence options almost a year ahead of schedule, for the Class of 2008 (our current first years). The new opportunities will include at least two Certificates of Excellence -- in Finance and in Marketing, as well as potential Certificates in other topics.
We are currently completing details of the new Certificate requirements that will be available for the 2008 graduating class. We expect to announce the first implementations of Certificates of Excellence in Finance and in Marketing by December 2006, which the Class of 2008 will be able to pursue. The new Certificate of Excellence programs will have the following elements:
(1) Depth of 6-8 courses (as opposed to 4 in the Concentrations) as chosen by the Certificate area?s faculty (e.g., Accounting, Decision Science, Economics, Finance, Management, Marketing, and Operations), in addition to the two distribution requirements as in Concentrations, (2) a requirement that students take an additional two courses relative to the standard graduation requirement (i.e., accrue 85 credits instead of 79 credits); and (3) demonstrated above-average academic excellence in the certificate area (e.g., the GPA requirement that grades in the courses that fulfill the certificate requirements exceed the average GPA for all students in those courses). As a companion to Concentrations, Certificates will allow students to send a strong signal about their depth, and the quality of that depth, in a single area while still gaining the general management skills and perspectives necessary for lifelong career success. Our expectation is that we will be able to bring you details of the first new Certificate of Excellence programs (Finance and Marketing at least) before the current first year class begins taking electives in the Spring terms. We expect that additional Certificate programs will be developed in the months and years after that.
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