Schedule independent study
| Meeting | Topic | Assignment | Overview | Case Study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Woodstock 99 | Read the reading packet. | Communications | Understanding the project |
| 2 | Marketing | Mission statement, objectives, target audience, value proposition, elevator pitch and timeline. Create a set of theoretical documents | Leadership | Based on the organizers resumes how do you think they planned the event? |
| 3 | Pre-planning | WBS, PERT and GANT Charts planning systems for the original event | Organize | Discussion of how you think the original planners set up their event focus on priorities and information that you can cite to be accurate |
| 4 | Estimate original event | Recreate an original budget, what do you think they spent money on? Based on information you can cite. | What did they make money on? What did they spend very little money on? | Create an estimate of what you think the budget looked like. Look at materials and labor. |
| 5 | Evaluation SWOT | Create a SWOT analysis of the original event. Write a one page summary about your findings include your citations | Evaluate | Summarize what you learned about the original event |
| 6 | Marketing for your update event | Marketing: Mission statement, objectives, target audience, value proposition, elevator pitch and timeline. Create a set of theoretical documents | Leadership update | Create company and marketing documents |
| 7 | Pre-planning of updated event | WBS, PERT and GANT Charts planning systems for the updated event | Organizing update | Create charts |
| 8 | estimate of updated event | Based on your recreated budget, make a new estimate for the Updated event. Hi-light edits and updates. What did you change and why? | Are there better ways to spend money? | create a budget for the Updated event |
| 9 | Evaluation SWOT | Create a SWOT with a one page summary including citations of the event improvements | Evaluate | SWOT evaluate the updated event and include a one page summary |
| 10 | Final project | Compare and contrast the two events use at least 3 citations | Student will write a compare/contrast paper of the live event they observed and the theoretical event they planned. | Paper |
