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BUS 501 Business Diagnostics and Performance
Course Description: This course introduces the Theory of Constraints approach to business diagnostics. Various case studies from a wide range of industries examining many organizations enable students to apply the framework and readily identify problems in organizations in order to allow action to the taken to improve the business prospects. 3 Credits.
BUS 502 Business Accounting and Finance
Course Description: This course is designed for students who have not previously studied accounting and finance courses. The main focus of this course is on the understanding and application of accounting and financial information. Specific areas that will be considered are: generally accepted accounting principles underlying the accounting process, analysis of business performances/decisions, limitations of financial statements. Financial areas facing by the management, like capital budgeting will be addressed. 3 Credits.
BUS 503 Applied Business Economics
Course Description: This course introduces the fundamentals of microeconomic and macroeconomic principles relevant to the business world. It expounds basic theories and principles governing individual behavior and government policies and actions for practical understanding and application to businesses and professional. Specifically, it is concerned with the decisions taken by consumers and producers based on their interactions in the market. It explains the rationale of government actions in the economy towards the pursuit of employment, income, external trade and debt objectives. 3 Credits.
BUS 504 Strategic Marketing and Customer Service
Course Description: The market environment today is greatly influenced by many factors – our customers, our competitive firms, advent of new technology and digitalization trends, growing mix of industry forces and increasing trend towards globalization. To continue growing our business, we must consistently reassess and reevaluate our company’s strategies and our relationships with our strategic customers. 3 Credits.
BUS 505 Human Capital Management
Course Description: This course emphasizes the interaction between strategy and human resources, as approached from a general managerial perspective. The main focus of this course is on the strategic aspects of human resource management. Specific areas which will be considered are: mission statement, human-capital theory, strategic management, strategic planning, environmental analysis, human resource planning, strategy implementation, and principles of evaluation. 3 Credits.
BUS 506 Ethics in Corporate Governance
Course Description: Corporate governance has been a subject of hot debate in recent decades. The recent corporate failures were often attributed to incompetence, fraud and abuse of power. Hence, the recent call for transparency in decision making and financial reporting has been responded by Governments of many countries. The main focus of this course is how corporate governance ultimately leads to a balance between economic and social goals and between individual’s and society’s standards. 3 Credits.
BUS 507 Leadership in Action
Course Description: This course examines leadership as a process, rather than as a position. It will investigate leadership theories based on power and influence, personality and attitude, fellowship, groups, and teams and contingency theory, and will survey and analyze leadership skills. 3 Credits.
BUS 508 Strategic Thinking and Business Modeling
Course Description: This capstone course in the development sequence of courses in management will focus on the contemporary issues in strategic thinking, entrepreneurship and change management, bringing together the previous skills and knowledge gained in the courses taken earlier. 3 Credits.
BUS 509 Global Business Environment
Course Description: A discovery of the global environment where transnational corporations interact and transact. Structural and functional characteristics of these players, such as corporations, government and background institutions will be discussed. There will be a focus on PEST analysis and the development of the trading system, FDI, forex markets and strategies for market entry. On a micro basis we will evaluate the marketing, human resource and global operations of the firm. Overall, the course will provide an overview of the impact of globalization on the new world economy. 3 Credits.
BUS 510 Global Marketing
Course Description: Firms are increasingly looking towards the global market to grow and expand their earnings. The global market continues to grow rapidly with an estimated export volume approaching USD6 trillion. Most economies continue to encourage exports as a means of economic growth. Trade between nations plays a strategic role in promoting international relations. 3 Credits.
BUS 511 Product Development and Innovation
Course Description: Research has indicated that the management of new product development and innovation are critical success factors of almost all businesses, be it manufacturers or service providers, technology leaders or followers, or in mature and emerging industries. Improving new product development via innovation is the most cost effective and efficient means of achieving and sustaining competitive advantage in business. 3 Credits.
BUS 512 Retail and E-Marketing
Course Description: The retail industry continues to be the mainstay of most economies, with more jobs being created and shopping has become a major leisure activity and a major employer of people. With considerable changes in the industry in recent years, retailers require more highly skilled managers than ever before. This course covers three specific areas of retail marketing, namely:
- How to attract customers into the retail environment – shop, restaurant, pub or the virtual store
- How to persuade those customers to make a purchase
- How to ensure that they will revisit the outlet to make further purchase.
3 Credits.
BUS 513 Managing Alliance Strategy
Course Description: Successful business alliances are critical to the competitive advantage of many companies. This course is designed to enable you to understand and use alliances better. 3 Credits.
BUS 514 International Finance
Course Description: This course builds on the fundamental principles of international finance by examining and reviewing of recent issues and development in this literature. Topics include exchange rate determination, Foreign Exchange Markets, International Finance and International Arbitrage Relationships. 3 Credits.
BUS 515 Global Financial Management
Course Description: This course builds on the principles of investment analysis and financial management, and blends the theoretical and practical aspects of investment and financial management from the global perspective. 3 Credits.
BUS 516 Risk Management & Portfolio Analysis
Course Description: This course is mainly concerned with the analysis of financial risk management and the study of securities markets and security analysis for portfolio planning. Among topics covered are portfolio theory, CAPM theory (measuring risk return and mean-variance efficiency) and areas under risk management such as hedging, options and future markets with the focus on multinational firms and risk management. 3 Credits.
BUS 517 Corporate Finance
Course Description: This course is an extension of the principle of finance and focuses on the strategic aspects of corporate finance. The blending of both theory and practical aspects of investment and financing decisions will balance the students’ ability between understanding and application of corporate finance. Topics include CAPM theory, dividend policy, capital structure, debt and equity finance. 3 Credits.
BUS 518 Financial Institutions
Course Description: This course covers a broad overview of both the domestic and international financial systems. It considers the economic principles of the functions of the domestic and international institutions, and to analyze the integration of financial markets and institutions, and its policy implications on global developments. Topics include money and capital markets, The Federal Reserve System, financial markets and instruments, monetary policy and financial system. 3 Credits.
BUS 519 IT Security
Course Description: This course uses a case study approach to heighten the awareness and enhances the preparedness of managers to deal with security threats to information within their organization. The course generally follows the standard for the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification examination, but takes a more management-level approach and is not a preparation course for this examination. 3 Credits.
BUS 520 Management of Information Systems
Course Description: This course reviews information systems (IS) from a manager’s perspective. The course is designed to challenge the student to understand the practical implications of information systems and increase their awareness of the potential problems as well and the benefits that come with such projects. This course aims to be an up to date subject that can be of immediate practical use to the student in the workplace. 3 Credits.
BUS 521 Technology Management
Course Description: This course uses a case study approach to the management of technology. The course will cover ten specific areas where lessons can be learned to as to ascertain the skills and techniques for successful technology management through examining and analyzing the successes and failures of others. 3 Credits.
BUS 522 Information Technology for Management
Course Description: This course is an introduction to Information Technology and Computer-based Information Systems for managing enterprises, organizations and projects. The course uses a case study approach to heighten the awareness of managers and also incorporates a number of practical exercises to enhance the students understanding of their role as managers in I.T. strategy formation and implementation. 3 Credits.
BUS 523 Project Management
Course Description: Many organizations around the world utilize project management to enable innovative processes, to plan, organize and control strategic initiatives, to monitor enterprise performance, to analyze significant deviations and to forecast their impact on the organization and projects. This course offers a holistic and fundamental approach to the management of projects. This encompasses a study of the risk, value, finance, procurement, business strategies, and law and information technology together with an appreciation of the soft skills necessary in the effective management of projects. Topics will include an overview of project management, the processes and activities around 3 phases comprising the definition phase, the planning phase and the implementation phase with an underlying emphasis on communication and management skills. 3 Credits.
BUS 524 Project Finance and Budgeting
Course Description: This course refers to the techniques of financing projects that are dependent on cash flows for repayment, as defined by the contractual relationships within each project. By their very nature, these types of projects rely on a large number of integrated contractual arrangements for successful completion and operation. What distinguishes project financing from conventional direct financing is that rather than looking to the firm’s entire asset portfolio to generate cash flow, in project financing, the project is a ”distinct legal entity” and the financing is tailored to the cash flow characteristics of the project assets. 3 Credits.
BUS 525 Managing Project Teams
Course Description: Project managers today operate in a global environment and work on joint projects characterized by cultural diversity. Teamwork is the key to project success. This course offers insights on developing and sustaining the project team throughout the project life cycle and promoting working interdependence in an environment of mutual trust and win-win beliefs. It will emphasize on understanding the stages of team development, building strong project teams by eliminating barriers to high performance, selecting and organizing the project team for success by gaining commitment through participative decision-making and developing a matching skill and responsibility matrix. 3 Credits.
BUS 526 Operations, Logistics & Supply Chain Management
Course Description: The highly competitive global marketplace today is forcing organizations to find new and better ways to create and deliver value to customers, particularly increased customer service. Greater competition has also led to over-capacity in many industries leading to an inevitable pressure on price. It is now being recognized that through operations, logistics and supply management that the twin objectives of cost reduction and service enhancement can be achieved. This course will explain how operations, logistics and supply chain management can be used to maximize customer service and competitive performance. 3 Credits.