Itls5200 student guide THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY BUSINESS SCHOOL ITLS STUDENT GUIDE GEOFFREY CLIFTON July CONTENTS Introduction Class times and locations Textbook Other resources Computers and software Overview Software Software available at home Computer
THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY BUSINESS SCHOOL ITLS STUDENT GUIDE GEOFFREY CLIFTON July CONTENTS Introduction Class times and locations Textbook Other resources Computers and software Overview Software Software available at home Computer labs File storage Student email account What to purchase Basic mathematics and statistical skills Resources to help you write assignments General resources Academic honesty The library Finding relevant academic articles References for the ethics section of the Individual Report General references on ethics References on speci ?c topics Time commitment CITLS Student Guide INTRODUCTION This document sets out information that will help you successfully complete ITLS Quantitative Logistics and Transport this document will also provide you with useful information to work with quantitative data in your other units at ITLS and in your future career This document should be read in conjunction with the ITLS Unit of Study Outline and the Student Policies document both of which are available on Blackboard CLASS TIMES AND LOCATIONS The class timetable is available on Blackboard on the Unit of Study Outline page The timetable contains the class topics dates times and locations The timetable will be updated during the Semester with details of the exam times and locations An announcement will be posted on Blackboard if any of the these are changed TEXTBOOK There are two recommended textbooks for this unit The ?rst recommended text book covers all parts of the course and will also be used in ITLS Supply Chain Planning Systems Winston W L and Albright S C Practical Management Science th ed Cengage Boston ISBN The second recommended text book covers statistics regression modelling and time series modelling in more depth and will be particularly useful for students going on to do the research unit or further studies in business statistics Selvanathan E Selvanathan S and Keller G Business Statistics Australia and New Zealand th ed Cengage Melbourne ISBN OTHER RESOURCES We will be using the ITLS Workbook in class throughout the Semester and you will need this to complete the homework tasks This document can be downloaded from Blackboard A guide to SPSS is available on Blackboard This document will be a useful resource when we cover statistics and regression in class Please note that the document is written for all users of SPSS within ITLS and so provides more in-depth coverage of SPSS than we require for ITLS SPSS is discussed in Section COMPUTERS AND SOFTWARE OVERVIEW All our classes are in a computer lab so you will have a computer in front of you in every class However you may still wish to bring along a laptop or tablet to class This will give you another screen to view the slides or workbook and you may prefer to practice on your own computer However you will need to use the computer lab computers during the Computer exam SOFTWARE We will use two software packages in class Excel and SPSS You will also need a word processor application such as Word to complete your assignments Excel There
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