LIT Curriculum

Logistics and transportation provides a wide range of exciting career opportunities.  Georgia Southern's major in LIT prepares students for employment in this challenging and vital field.  The major is uniquely organized around the intermodal concept which combines the cost and service advantages of more than one mode of transportation in an efficient, seamless product movement.

Here are four of the many reasons why students should consider the LIT major at GSU:

1. A Unique Curriculum - GSU is the only university in Georgia offering a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a major in logistics and transportation.
2. Extensive Financial Support - Our industry sponsored scholarship program awards approximately $10,000 annually to deserving LIT majors for their tuition and living expenses.
3. An Opportunity To Gain Experience - The LIT internship program allows students to earn credit toward their degree while gaining valuable experience with major shippers and carriers.
4. Excellent Career Opportunities - Numerous national, regional, and local firms recruit LIT graduates for entry-level management positions.

Current Curriculum

The Georgia Southern Catalogue is on-line and covers the entire curriculum.

The LIT program revising the curriculum with the conversion to semesters beginning in the fall of 1998.  The LIT faculty used that opportunity to modify the curriculum to better meet the needs of the students, employers and community!!

Description for the all the Logistics and Intermodal Transportation classes:

• Principles of Transportation
• Business Logistics
• International Logistics
• Logistics and Intermodal Transportation Operations
• Seminar in Intermodal Transportation
• Special Topics in Logistics and Intermodal Transportation

Classes

"An introduction to the economic, social, and political aspects of the U.S. transportation system.  Includes various modal components (rail, highway, air, pipeline, and water transportation) and strategic considerations, including deregulation.  Field trips may be required.  Prereq: Junior Standing."

Schedule: Fall and Spring Semesters and most Summer Semesters

"An introduction to and study of the fundamentals of logistics.  The primary areas of examination will cover the flow of raw materials, work-in-process, and finished goods through the supply channel.  The course will emphasis the effects of the business, legal and social environments upon the management of inventory, transportation alternatives, information processing, facility location, and packaging.  Field trips will be required.  (3 credit hours)  Prerequisite: Junior Standing"

Schedule: Fall and Spring Semesters and most Summer Semesters

"An examination of the planning and management of the supply chain operations.  Emphasis will be placed on the areas of traffic management, carrier operations, and warehousing.  Each area will be analyzed in terms of its key goals, operation processes, technology applications, and performance control mechanisms.  Field trips may be required.  (3 credit hours)  Prerequisite: LOGT 3231 and LOGT 3232."

Schedule: Fall and Spring Semesters

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LOGT 4232: International Logistics

"An in-depth examination of the global market for international logistics and transportation services.  This includes the role of shipping and air transportation in international business logistics and their impact on world trade.  Also covered are issues in the management of ocean shipping, the import/export process, the roles of international agents, and international sourcing decisions.  Field trips may be required.  (3 credit hours)  Prerequisite: LOGT 3231."

Schedule: Fall and Spring Semesters

"Senior seminar in the Logistics and Intermodal Transportation emphasis.  Guest speakers from Savannah and Atlanta intermodal logistics management communities.  Students will research special topics in intermodal distribution.  Field trips to area intermodal distribution facilities as practicable.  Prereq: LOGT 3131 and LOGT 3232."

Schedule: Fall and Spring Semesters

"This course is a class designed to provides the ability to bring current topics and issues to the classroom.  It is being taught for the first time this Spring Semester (2001) as an Executive in Residence Course that brings 13 CEOs through Managers of LIT functions to the classroom to interact with LIT majors."

Schedule: This class will be taught as needed and approximately once a year.

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The Southern Center for Logistics and Intermodal Transportation
College of Business Administration, Georgia Southern University
P.O. Box 8154, Statesboro, Georgia 30460-8154
912-681-0588 - Fax: 912-871-1523

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