Prescriptive Analytics I: Fundamentals of Management Sciences

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• the range of techniques, tools, models, methods and approaches;
• the practical use of MS approaches.
• the nature of MS, its history and the context of its contribution to management;

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• use rational analytic skills.
• use quantitative modelling approaches;
• use problem-solving skills;

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• apply MS in practical contexts in a considered manner;
• apply a number of the core MS approaches;
• evaluate the outcome of the MS approaches with respect to sensitivity and uncertainty.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• use specialised software to solve mathematical programming problems and perform discrete- event simulations

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Class participation

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback:
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.