Core Requirements
ACCT511 ( Financial Accounting )
Credit Hours: 3
| The course has been designed to provide students with an introduction to the basic accounting concepts and standards. It involves the analysis, recording, and summarizing of accounting transactions on the accrual basis. The syllabus also incorporates a good working knowledge of the end-of-year adjustments including, depreciation, bad debts, accruals, prepayments, a bank reconciliation statement, and their proper accounting treatment. Other topics include the accounting for various categories of assets, liabilities and equity, the preparation and analysis of financial statements (Income Statement, Statement of Owner’s Equity, Balance Sheet, and Statement of Cash flows). |
| NO pre-requisite |
BUS599 ( Research Project )
Credit Hours: 3
| Research methodology and its literature are presented. Students, accordingly, will demonstrate proficiency in choosing a topic, stating the problem, and making assumptions related to his/her topic. Students will show ability in constructing the structure of the research, planning, and developing research models, quantitative and qualitative tools and designing questionnaires. At the end of semester, he/she will defend their research proposals |
| pre-requisite : MGT522 – MIS512 – MIS515 – MIS518 |
MGT522 ( Strategic Management )
Credit Hours: 3
| This course bears all the experience of the study in economics, finance, marketing, accounting, and management to analyze central problems for businesses and the application of strategic management in both developing and executing business policies. This course explores the issues of defining corporate mission, objectives, policies, and goals. Participants focus on the analysis of the firm's external and internal environment to identify and create a competitive advantage in a global context. The course emphasizes the cultural, ethical, political, and regulatory issues facing any global business and the need for leadership for the successful management of strategic change. |
| pre-requisite : ACCT511 – MKT521 – OM512 – MIS510 |
MKT521 ( Strategic Marketing )
Credit Hours: 3
| This course is an analysis of the conceptual and tactical mechanisms of marketing management, with emphasis on how today's firms and institutions mobilize their resources to achieve market penetration, sales volume, and satisfactory profits. The course examines the positioning of organizations’ marketing activities through investigating the customers and competitors as an external profile, in addition to performing self-study and portfolio analysis as an internal profile. The course objective is to help students become aware of the major aspects in planning and controlling of marketing operations. By developing their marketing skills, the students will be able to locate marketing activities and formulate alternative business strategies. |
| No pre-requisite |
OM512 ( Production & operations managements )
Credit Hours: 3
| Operations Management (OM) is concerned with the management of resources and activities that yield the final output for stakeholders regardless of the type of organization. The course focuses on the theoretical aspects and practical concepts, issues, and techniques for efficient and effective operations. Special emphasis is placed on process improvement and supply chain management. Topics include operations strategy, product and service design, process design and analysis, capacity planning, lean production systems, materials and inventory management, quality management and six sigma, project management, and supply chain management |
| No pre-requisite |
MIS510 ( Management Information Systems )
Credit Hours: 3
| This course covers: Components of MIS technologies: Hardware, software, and networking components. Databases and their structures. Information systems applications including enterprise systems, e-business, and Decision Support Systems. Concepts and tools of systems development. Ethical and security issues. |
| No pre-requisite |
MIS512 ( Business Data Communication and Networking )
Credit Hours: 4
| This course covers, principles of modern computer networking, data communications, network security, and associated technologies. Design, implementation, administration, and security of computer (wired and wireless) networks and data communications. Network architecture to support network-based applications, such as Web, email, ftp, telnet. Management of enterprise information security, contingency planning (incident response, disaster recovery), security policy programs, and risk management. |
| pre-requisite : MIS510 – ACCT511 – MKT521 – OM512 |
MIS515 ( Systems Analysis Methodologies )
Credit Hours: 3
| This course covers, overview of Systems analysis & design methodology. Approaches (tools and techniques) used by today’s IS developers to gather requirements, design and model, and then construct and implement successful system solutions. Application of Object-Oriented (OO) tools and the Unified Modeling Language (UML). Description of objects, diagrams for functional (use case), structural & dynamic models, hierarchies, dependencies, message flows, state transition, and user interfaces. |
| pre-requisite : MKT521 – ACCT511 – OM512 – MIS510 |
MIS518 ( Business Data Management )
Credit Hours: 3
| This course covers, data resource management concepts. Database support for various levels of management. Relational database model. Database life cycle. Conceptual data modeling. Database logical and physical design. Database integrity. Database languages and technologies. Data and database administration. |
| pre-requisite : ACCT511 – MKT521 – OM512 – MIS510 |
MIS520 ( Information Security and Assurance )
Credit Hours: 3
| This course covers concepts and methods associated with security of information and information systems planning, designing, implementing, managing, and auditing security at all levels and on all systems platforms, including worldwide networks. Risk management and disaster recovery. Techniques for assessing risk associated with accidental and intentional breaches of security. Legal and ethical issues related to the uses of information systems. |
| pre-requisite : MGT522 – MIS512 – MIS515 – MIS518 |
MIS522 ( Decision Support Systems )
Credit Hours: 3
| This course covers introduction to Decision Support Systems (MSS): Decision Support Systems, Collaborative Work Systems, Executive Support Systems, Expert Systems, and Neural Networks. Impact of MSS on decision making. Exposure to MSS tools and development methods. Integration of MSS. Team projects to develop MSS. |
| pre-requisite : MGT522 – MIS512 – MIS515 – MIS518 |
MIS525 ( Web Applications Development )
Credit Hours: 3
| This course is an analysis of the conceptual and tactical mechanisms of marketing management, with emphasis on how today's firms and institutions mobilize their resources to achieve market penetration, sales volume, and satisfactory profits. The course examines the positioning of organizations’ marketing activities through investigating the customers and competitors as an external profile, in addition to performing self-study and portfolio analysis as an internal profile. The course objective is to help students become aware of the major aspects in planning and controlling of marketing operations. By developing their marketing skills, the students will be able to locate marketing activities and formulate alternative business strategies. |
| No pre-requisite |
MIS528 ( IT Project Management )
Credit Hours: 3
| This course covers, project management fundamentals and strategies. Project plan. Project estimation. Project risk management. Human aspect of project management. Project implementation issues. Managing IT projects from initiating, planning, executing, controlling, reporting, and closing a project. Project integration, scope, time, cost, quality control, and risk management. Software size and cost estimation. Work Breakdown Structure. Loading of Resources. Monitoring progress. |
| pre-requisite : MIS520 – MIS522 – BUS599 |
ECON511 ( Managerial Economics )
Credit Hours: 3
| This course integrates various economic concepts and tools with managerial decision-making and policy formulation in business organizations. The course will focus on demand and consumer Behavior, production analysis and Costs, market structure and competition, and pricing strategies. |
| pre-requisite : MGT522 – MIS512 – MIS515 – MIS518 |
FIN521 ( Corporate Finance )
Credit Hours: 3
| This course provides the skills needed by financial managers to create value through good investment and financing decisions. The course focus on financing decisions through capital structure theory and dividends policy; investing decisions through advanced project evaluation and advanced capital budgeting; and valuation through modern portfolio theory, cost of capital, security and firm valuation. Other topics include leasing, mergers and acquisitions; corporate restructuring, risk management, corporate governance, and international issues |
| pre-requisite : MGT522 – MIS512 – MIS515 – MIS518 |
MGT512 ( Organizational behavior )
Credit Hours: 3
| This course integrates management principles and practices with human behavior within the organization. It focuses on management and organizational behavior theory applications to promote organizational effectiveness, efficiency, and human resource development. Topics covered include diversity in Organization, attitudes and job satisfaction, individual decision making, group behavior, communication, leadership, and conflict and negotiation. |
| pre-requisite : MGT522 – MIS512 – MIS515 – MIS518 |
MGT 531 ( Entrepreneurship )
Credit Hours: 3
| The new world economy requires nations to harness, develop and preserve their capabilities to innovate and to be entrepreneurial. Mention is frequently made of the ‘entrepreneurial revolution’, signifying the fact that the ability to innovate and be entrepreneurial has become a powerful economic force across the globe. Entrepreneurial endeavor is a prerequisite for economic growth and entrepreneurs and small business leaders constitute a significant contributing force to economic activity in general and job creation in particular. However – entrepreneurship is not only about new ventures or small business organizations. An increasingly volatile and global environment is forcing organizations from small to extremely large to be more responsive and innovative in order to maintain or improve competitiveness internationally. You as a leader or manager of an organization(s), therefore, have to deliberately work towards establishing organizational environments that are well aligned with this new environment. This calls for leadership and managerial competencies that can unleash the creative potential and individual and collective innovative thinking and capabilities of all organizational members and stakeholders. This course is aimed at developing your entrepreneurial capabilities as a current, future leader or manager, with a particular emphasis also on your creative and innovative abilities. Through developing your knowledge and understanding of entrepreneurial endeavor and enhancing your capabilities to be creative and innovative, this course serves to lay the foundation for enhancing your chances of entrepreneurial success in the new world economy. |
| NO pre-requisite |
MIS532 ( Knowledge Management )
Credit Hours: 3
| This course covers theory and practice of Knowledge Management (KM), with an integrated interdisciplinary presentation. KM perspectives arising from artificial intelligence, information systems, and organizational behavior. Technical components of computer tools and technology for managing knowledge. Leverage knowledge effectively within an organization. Evaluation the nature, computer representation, access, and utilization of knowledge versus information within a human context. Preparation for managerial, technical, and systems workers alike in today’s modern knowledge-based economy. |
| No pre-requisite |
MIS 535 ( Enterprise Resource )
Credit Hours: 3
| This course covers architecture, setup, configuration, operations and management of system that is of "enterprise class". Fundamentals of business process and business process re-engineering concepts are also taught in this course. Emphasis is given to the ERP selection, process mapping, GAP analysis, implementation, and configuration of ERP systems. Students receive an in-depth coverage of enterprise modules and decision analysis tools. Project management techniques are used to emphasize team dynamics and management skills. |
| pre-requisite : MGT522 – MIS512 – MIS515 – MIS518 |
MIS 538 ( Business Intelligence and Data Mining )
Credit Hours: 3
| This course covers principles of business intelligence and Data Mining techniques. Data warehouse and decision-making process. Identification, collection, organization, and analysis of data from various sources such as the Internet, electronic banking, point-of-sale devices, bar-code readers, and intelligent machines. Data mining techniques drawn from Statistics, Computer Science, and Artificial Intelligence. Use of modern software tools. Examples will be drawn from several areas including applications in marketing, risk management, and fraud detection.. |
| NO pre-requisite |
OM531 ( Supply Chain Management )
Credit Hours: 3
| This course provides an understanding of the dynamic nature of supply chain management for products and services and addresses the impact of the global economy on managerial decisions. Examines the theory of supply chain design, which includes strategies for sourcing, supplier relationships, quality, logistics, inventory management, and integrated supply chain management. |
| pre-requisite : MGT522 – MIS512 – MIS515 – MIS518 |
