Banking and Finance
1. ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
This course presents the study of factors that either influence or are influenced by peopleat work. Focuses on macro factors such as organizational structure, technology andenvironment; group factors such as group dynamics, leadership, conflict, change anddecision making; and individual factors such as personality, attitudes, perception, motivation,and job satisfaction.
2. SERVICE MANAGEMENT
This course will focus on and explore areas such as: Why traditional management theoriesdo not fit today's hospitality industry, how a company's service strategy relates to guests'perceptions of value and critical moments of truth and why team building is a high priorityfor many hospitality organizations.
3. MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM (MIS)
This course is designed to help students learn how to manage and use informationtechnologies to revitalize business processes, improve business decision making and againcompetitive advantage.
4. CULTURAL DIVERSITY
HR manager in a diverse organization must learn to embrace differences in employees'gender, race, sexuality, age, and religion. Students' complex issues of managing a diverseworkforce as well as prepare them to enter an increasingly broad workplace where diversitymust not be accepted, but also understood.
5. CAREER MANAGEMENT
This course not only introduces students to the basics of career management but also tostrategies for effective career management implementation. In addition, the course willalso deal on techniques to align the needs of the individual with the goals of the organization.Some of the topics to be covered are: career decision making, trends on career managementpractices, assessment strategies, and others.
6. MANAGING CHANGE
The course provides insights on how organization change and how each member can bea proactive participant in the many changes occurring in organization today. It acquaintsstudents on the difficulty and pitfalls of change and provides successful paths for significantchange in complex organization. Specifically, the course will discuss why change is needed,types of changes, and how to implement them.
7. QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF BUSINESS
The course focuses on the application of the different mathematical models use in decisionmaking. These models are commonly applied in a variety of complex problems not onlyin business, but also in government, health care, education, and many other areas. Amongthe topics covered are: decision analysis, regression models, forecasting, inventory controlmodels, linear programming, project management, and others.
8. INTERPERSONAL SKILLS
This course introduces students to the dynamics and characteristics of interpersonalcommunications. Students will explore their own communication practices and improvetheir skills in verbal and nonverbal communication, perception and active listening. Theywill assess and interpret client needs, learn strategies for resolving conflict and participateas team members.
9. BUSINESS SIMULATION
This course is designed to provide the application of complex business simulation. Therewill be mock up business settings and data simulation to practice how to compete in anindustry.
BANKING AND FINANCE COURSES
1. GENERAL BANKING THEORY
This course deals with the history and theory of banking. It discusses bank structure andfunction of the central and commercial banks. It covers issues like monetary policies andKeynesian and monetarists' view of money.
2. FUNDAMENTALS OF INVESTMENT
This course is designed to shed light on the process of foreign investment as well as todemonstrate the relevance of international law to transnational business transactions. Thefocus of the course will be on the international community's regulation of foreign investmentand the law and protections required by international investments.
3. RISK MANAGEMENT AND INSURANCE
This course is designed to introduce the basic insurance concepts from the consumer'sviewpoint - both individual and corporate consumers. It will also provide background neededto understand the types of problems arising from the individual's or business firm's exposureto loss and how these problems may be approached and solved.
4. INVESTMENT ANALYSIS AND PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
This course is an advanced analysis and study of the techniques for selecting and combiningsecurities into a portfolio. Content includes setting investment goals, diversification and riskreduction, capital market theory, and portfolio selection models. The course provides theessential theoretical applications in the field of portfolio management; portfolio investmentand the purchase of stocks and shares, portfolio balance theory, and money bonds andforeign assets analyzed as portfolios of financial assets.
5. BANK MANAGEMENT & OPERATIONS
The aim of this course is to equip students with the basic tools of asset and liability managementin the commercial banking. The changing nature of bank management as well as the functionaloverview of international banking and its structure will be discussed here.Prerequisites: General Banking Theory
6. MERGER & ACQUISITION
The course deals with the law of corporate acquisitions, including corporate law and theduties that it imposes on directors, as well as contract and liability issues arising inacquisitions. The course will also discuss the accounting, tax and antitrust issues arisingfrom corporate acquisitions.
7. INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONSS AND MARKETS
This course will explore the structure of the financial systems with emphasis on the role,operations, and regulations of financial institutions and markets, including internationalmarkets. The nature of such markets, its participants, instruments, and relationships of themoney and capital markets will be examined.