Curriculum Components:

Students studying for the Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Management must successfully complete 125 credit hours distributed as follows:

Course Descriptions

1. Human Culture

This course aims to introduce the student to the concept of civilization and its importance, ancient civilizations, modern Islamic and European civilization, and to know the factors of its development and achievements, and the achievements achieved by these civilizations in all political, economic, social and scientific renaissance.

2. Islamic Culture

This course aims study of sources of Islamic Legislation, Characteristics of Islamic Legislation, Islamic Systems, Family System, Judicial System, System of Government, Economic System, Characteristics of Islamic Economic Legislation, Islamic Education, Objectives of Islamic Education and Its Characteristics, Religious Activity. In Addition to General Educational Principles Islamic, the provisions of Tajweed, and steps to teach branches of Islamic education.

3. Public Health

This course provides a basic introduction to public health concepts and practice by examining the philosophy, purpose, history, organization, functions, tools, activities, and the results of public health practice at the national and local levels. The course aims to stimulate interactions among students around important problems and issues facing the health of the nation and the world.

4. English - Expression and writing skills

This course is designed to prepare the student for English writing and it will focus on reading and writing as integrally related skills. Students will study and practice reading comprehension, the writing process, and critical thinking. Students will create clear and correct sentences as they develop the skills necessary to write a variety of focused, developed, organized paragraphs and/or short essays. Students will be responsible for writing multiple full-process paragraphs/essays. The course may include a departmental proficiency test or portfolio assessment.

5. English Conversation Skills

The course content includes conversations, debates, and presentations on a wide range of concrete, abstract, and specialized topics. It is designed to enhance the speaking and listening skills of non-native English speakers. Emphasis is on pronunciation, stress, rhythm, and intonation patterns of American English. Oral communication, listening comprehension, and vocabulary development are stressed. Students build their skills through instruction and intensive practice.

6. Principles of Psychology

Surveys the major principles of psychology. Introduces the history of psychology, human development, personality, abnormal behavior, social psychology, feelings and emotions, research methodologies, experimental psychology, psychophysiology, learning and memory, altered states of awareness, sleep and dreams, and industrial and organizational psychology.

7. Human Geography

This course is to introduce students to the systematic study of patterns and processes that have shaped human understanding, use, and alteration of Earth’s surface. Human geography incorporates the concepts and methods associated with several of the disciplines within the social sciences, including economics, geography, history, and sociology. The course topics include the following: World Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives, Population, Cultural Patterns and Processes, Political Organization of Space, Agriculture and Rural Land Use, Industrialization and Economic Development and Cities and Urban Land Use.

8. Business Ethics and Social Responsibility

This course examines the formulation, interpretation, and application of law to business. It incorporates the study of ethical issues that arise in contemporary business settings, including professional conduct and corporate social responsibility. This course covers major areas of legal regulation to which businesses are subject, including tort liability, contract law, partnership and corporate law, employment and labor law, intellectual property law, environmental regulation and sustainability, and financial regulation. Emphasis is placed on active, experiential application of legal reasoning and analysis and on the global and comparative dimensions of legal and ethical issues.

9. Islamic Economics

Provides basic knowledge of the principles of Islamic economics and the Islamic economic system, developing skills necessary to appreciate an alternative to a commonly familiar approach of interpreting the economic behavior of men and women in the society, and helping the students probe liberally outside the frontiers of familiar forms of capitalist and socialist systems.

10. Fundamentals of Information Technology

This course provides a basic grounding and fluency in the basic information technology (IT) skills necessary for information professionals. The course introduces students to, and provides practical exercises on, several areas of information technology including the personal computer (PC) and PC applications (PC hardware & software), networking, web page design and website development/maintenance including JavaScript, databases, spreadsheets, and information security.

11. Cost accounting

This course introduces the following topics: cost accounting, analysis, and financial and non-financial information related to the costs of the acquisition or use of resources in the organization. Cost management refers to the methods and activities of managers to use resources to increase customer value and achieve organizational objectives. The topics covered in this course will include key accounting and accountability, flexible budgets, direct cost variance, costs and management control, inventory cost estimation, Pricing and Cost management, management control systems, conversion rates, performance measurement, compensation and multinational considerations. Establishment of new institutions and the implementation of project finance measures.

12. Employer- Employee Relations:

This course focuses on the employer-employee relationship at work, and how managers work with employees to improve employee performance. Attention is given to the history of labor relations and performance management in work settings, with an emphasis, however, on contemporary approaches to managing the employer-employee relationship and the systems for managing employee performance.

13. Human Resource Development

This course covers the study of a set of systematic and planned activities designed by an organization to provide its staff with the skills needed to meet current and future business requirements: learning and human resource development, needs assessment, task analysis, design and implementation of training programs, evaluation of training programs, career development and organizational development.

14. Compensation and business benefits

This course introduces the dynamics involved in compensating employees for the services provided in the modern institution. This course focuses on important tools and techniques in job analysis, job descriptions, job evaluation, wage surveys, wage management, and benefits.

15. Partnership Accounting

The course aims to identify the types of companies, their types, the accounting treatment for their formation, and how to distribute profits and losses. It also seeks to identify the solidarity companies, the simple recommendation, the joint venture companies, and the method of dealing with each of them, in addition to how these companies merge and how to liquidate them.

16. Intermediate Accounting          

Provides students with a more in-depth study of accounting theory. The main areas covered in this course include the role of accounting as an information system, economic resources and begins with in-depth analysis of accounting issues introduced in financial accounting. The statement of income, the statement of retained earnings, the balance sheet, the statement of cash flows, the income statement, the determination of income, cash and receivables, inventory calculation, departures from historical cost, inventory cost estimation.

17. Financial Accounting

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the principles of financial accounting and to teach students to be critical users of financial statements. The course is divided into two parts. The first part introduces students to the concepts and measurements underlying financial statements. The second part focuses on analyzing financial statements and understanding the choices firms make in reporting financial results. Students will be exposed to the decisions firms make relating to their operating, capital investment, and financing activities and how managers use discretion to affect reported financial results.

18. Computer skills

This course aims to discuss the basic information related to the use of computers in education, the use of educational computer capabilities in the field of education, dealing with basic programs in the MS Office group, dealing with digital images and modifying them using computer applications.

19. General Statistics

The aim of the course is to provide students with a range of skills and knowledge, such as recognizing the importance of statistics, the ability to choose the appropriate statistical methods for data and application to software, analyzing and interpreting outputs, understanding statistical concepts, identifying the role of the statistical analyst and improving the student's ability to participate in solving statistical problems. In addition, learn ways to collect data from interviews, questionnaires and others.

20. Principles of Management

This course investigates the way that managers get things done in an organization relying on the dynamic processes of strategic planning, business development, budgeting, and operations to move their organizations forward and achieve results. The concepts and skills needed to manage effectively under constantly changing conditions are identified. The course will review a manager's skill at influencing the direction and functioning of an organization and will develop students' appreciation of these management activities and their links to employee performance.

21. Principles of Accounting I

The purpose of this course is to enable students to develop a basic understanding of fundamental accounting concepts and practices. The course focuses on basic accounting concepts and techniques needed to interpret and use financial information in managing and analyzing business operations.

22. Principles of Microeconomics

The purpose of this course is to develop a working knowledge of the principle concepts and theories in microeconomics. This part of economics is concerned with the interrelationships of the individual business firms, industries, consumers, laborers, and other factors of production that make up a modern economy. This course involves main elements related to the private interests of the countless individuals who constitute a modern economy are related to the economic interests of society as a whole.

23. Functions of management

The course aims to provide students with the following skills and knowledge How to connect and coordinate the functions of an organization, the function of marketing and its relationship to other functions, the function of providing production or services and its relation to other functions, the function of finance and its relationship to the rest of the functions, the function of human resources management and its relationship to the rest of the functions, The ability to write an integrated plan for the organization, the ability to develop an organizational structure of the organization and the ability to develop a plan for management oversight in the organization.

24. Organization Behavior

This course introduces the student to the contemporary principles of organizational behavior. Emphasis is on the importance of human dynamics in modern organizations. The course covers individual behavior, group processes, and organizational dynamics from both the management and employees perspectives.

25. Personnel Management

This course covers the fundamentals of personnel or human resources management. The course is for students considering working in the field of human resources and management. Topics include human resources management strategy and practice; labor laws; recruitment, selection and placement; performance evaluation; training and development; compensation and benefits; safety and health; accident prevention; and labor relations and communication.

26. Fundamentals of Finance

The focus of this course is on the financial theory and empirical evidence that are useful for investment decisions.  This course aims to develop students understanding of the basic principles of financial markets and provides a very good foundation on how assets are valued and traded. The course considers stock market prices and returns; stock market risk and the influence of risk on the pricing of shares; interest rates and the pricing of bonds; and the characteristics and pricing of financial futures and options. It also considers Corporate Finance and Financial Theories. But the most important contribution of this course to your future career is how to use the academic insights to better assess risks and returns, and the trade-off between the two in future decision making.

27. Administrative reform and Development

This course introduces students to the theory and practice of institutional reform in developing and developed countries. It also focuses on policy implementation and public sector reform, especially in the delivery of public services. It relates theories of policymaking and implementation to the actual dynamics of implementation in often-complex institutional contexts, characterized by weak, divided, or indifferent institutions and governance systems, and where budgets, capacity and/or staff commitment are sometimes problematic. Theories and empirical studies of state failure and inefficiencies are discussed and students learn about different reform strategies and tools, including administrative reform and shrinking the state. Students learn how organizations develop, maintain and change their dominant cultures, how they develop and lose competencies and responsibilities, and how they develop and execute strategies. They also learn key issues of how to manage reform and change, taking into account budgets, human resources and institutions. Different models and their relevance to developing/transitional country contexts are discussed in the course and students learn to distinguish types of implementation and their policy relevance. The course will accordingly also cover management skills such as in negotiation and leadership.

28. Foundations of Investment

The objective of this course is to teach finance students about investment theory and practice. The course will utilize a combination of theoretical studies, problem sets and a portfolio project to teach students about: 1) the structure of the capital markets; 2) theories and practice in portfolio management; 3) asset pricing theories used to analyze securities; 4) equity and debt securities; and 5) derivative instruments. The course will focus primarily on the U.S. markets, although we will touch briefly on international investments. This course will provide students with information and skills needed to succeed in careers in asset management, corporate finance, research, sales or trading.

29. Business Processes & Technologies

The course focuses on understanding business processes and how to analyze them to identify improvement areas, conduct analysis to develop alternative recommendations with relevant justification, document/present findings and recommendations, and establish a continuous process improvement discipline. Additionally, business process analysis findings/recommendations will be used to illustrate how this effort can be used to jump-start the solution requirements for a proposed technology solution. It also offers an undergraduate major in business information technology. This course teaches students how to analyze processes, ensure quality, create value, and manage the flow of information, products and services across a network of customers.

30. Entrepreneurship 2

This course continues where Entrepreneurship 1 ended and addresses entrepreneurship in international markets. The key success factors in creating a new internationally-oriented business venture will be examined from the perspective of the entrepreneur.

31. Recruitment Selection and Retention of Human Resources   

This course discusses the main steps and decisions that include designing and implementing the recruitment effort, discussing the factors that future employees take into account in determining whether they will accept a job offer, designing the recruitment and selection efforts for a particular job, addressing the advantages and disadvantages of internal and external recruitment and other sources of applicants. Appropriate Character concepts of work, identification of alternative selection tools and how to use them in the selection process, and discuss the challenges inherent in designing a retention strategy.

32. Human Resources Information Systems

This course is designed to provide an introduction to the use of technology in human resources management, and how new technologies can contribute significantly to the efficiency of human capital management of the company, at the end of the course students will be able to demonstrate the ability to apply knowledge gained in the real world Human resources available in this field.

33. Financial management

This course concerns decision making in the field of investment and finance as well as financial planning and financial control. It is concerned with the process of integration, the

34. Management Info. Systems

This course will introduce you to the concept of MIS and the impact it has on business organizations. The purpose of this course is to examine the technical, business and management aspects of management information systems through the study of MIS theory and concepts.  Emphasis is placed on how and why different types of information systems have become an essential part of organizations.  Students gain experience solving real world business problems using different information systems applications throughout the course.

35. Modern theories in management

The course aims to provide students with the following skills and knowledge:

To identify, study and view everything related to the theories of management and business in an integrated, coordinated and simplified framework aimed at obtaining objective and logical solutions that ensure the effectiveness and results of decisions related to management and its problems.

36. Auditing l

This course aims to study the financial entity of an institution, review the financial statements, verify them in accordance with international accounting standards, and prepare the necessary financial reports. It also aims to reduce the chances of errors, cheating through censorship, and evaluating the results of the institutions.

37. Accounting of Funds Companies

This course covers the characteristics of the local accounting environment and the requirements of corporate financial reporting, expands on advanced financial accounting issues such as non-current assets accounting, intangible asset accounting, accounting for liabilities and equity holders, and provides comprehensive coverage of merger and equity issues.

38. Principles of Macroeconomics

This course provides an overview of macroeconomic issues: the determination of output, employment, unemployment, interest rates, and inflation. Monetary and fiscal policies are discussed. Important local, national, and international economic policies and issues are critically explored. The course introduces basic models of macroeconomics and illustrates principles with the experience of major international economies.

39. Human Resource Management

This introductory course provides students with a comprehensive overview of the major Human Resources functions typically found in organizational settings. Topics covered include Strategic HR Planning, Benefits & Compensation, Recruitment & Selection, Employee & Labor Relations and Training & Development. The course draws upon both current Human Resource practices and relevant research

40. Principles of Accounting II

Students will continue to develop a basic understanding of fundamental accounting concepts and practices. Students will also be introduced to fundamental managerial accounting concepts and practices and will learn to interpret and use internal financial information in the management and analysis of business operations.

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41. Specialty English

The course aims at introducing students to the commonly used English terminology in administrative and economic fields such as finance, marketing, personnel, operations, microeconomic analysis, macroeconomic analysis, etc., so that the student's future ability to practice any practical or academic activity improves.

42. Communication Skills

The aim of this course is to develop students’ basic communication skills in the context that they will most need those skills: graduate school. Within the context of going abroad to present a paper on their graduate research, students will learn skills needed for traveling (e.g. asking for/giving directions, making reservations), negotiations, survey taking, and problem solving, as well as be introduced to skills involved in making a presentation at a conference. Additionally, students will learn to start and continue a conversation naturally, using a number of communication strategies such as asking follow-up questions and giving extended answers. They will also learn about turn taking and how to control the flow of a conversation by adding information. Finally, writing skills will be practiced with a short essay using the Online Homework Submission and Evaluation System.

43. Principles of Marketing

In this course, you will be introduce to aspects of marketing, such as Marketing Strategy, Promotion, Market Planning, Distribution, Industrial Marketing, Retailing and Wholesaling, Target Marketing, International Marketing, Market Segmentation, Services Marketing, and Pricing. You will also learn about the strategic importance of marketing to an enterprise or non-profit organizations. Students learn to make marketing management decisions.

44. Operation Management

This course is an introduction to the concepts, principles, problems, and practices of operations management. Emphasis is on managerial processes for effective operations in both goods-producing and service-rendering organization. Topics include operations strategy, process design, capacity planning, facilities location and design, forecasting, production scheduling, inventory control, quality assurance, and project management. The topics are integrated using a systems model of the operations of an organization.

45. Leadership

Students will explore the principles of relational leadership and learn to develop individual and group leadership skills to impact their lives and their communities. Content areas include decision-making, goal setting, effective communication, servant leadership, organization and time management skills, and concrete strategies to implement change.

46. Business Quantitative Analysis

The objective of this course is to introduce students to commonly used quantitative techniques that can be used to make effective decisions in a business environment. In this class the focus will be on understanding the techniques, promoting its effective use and interpreting the results of quantitative analysis. The discussion of the extensive mathematical details that underline many of these procedures will be limited.

47. Marketing Management

This course introduces all aspects of marketing, including strategic marketing planning, marketing research, product planning and development, promotion planning, distribution and pricing. It provides an understanding of the theories of  the marketing mix variables, and a practical application in the context of the marketing management cycle processes of research, planning, organization, implementation and control.

48. Project Management

This course develops a foundation of concepts and solutions that supports the planning, scheduling, controlling, resource allocation, and performance measurement activities required for successful completion of a project.

49. Entrepreneurship 1

This course provides an introduction to entrepreneurship and the dynamics of starting/owning a business. This course is designed to assist students with the knowledge and skills entrepreneurs need to start and/or manage a small business. It will help you understand the steps involved in the process of the creation/development of business ideas and turning those ideas into a successful business model. The course will focus on the feasibility, planning, and implementation of a new business venture.

50. Strategic Management

This course explores the relationships between organizations and their environments from a corporate policy perspective. Topics to be discussed include organizational structure and development, competition analysis, long and short-range planning, creating mission and vision statements, implementing goals, performance indicators and evaluation.

51. International Business Management

This course provides an examination and analysis of multinational management functions and processes including planning, organizing, leading, and controlling across cultures and borders in globally diverse environments and organizations. Topics include cross-cultural business and strategic planning, leadership, and human resource management.

52. Public sector administration

This course introduces the history and practice of public administration at the national, governance, and local levels. Topics include public policy, organizational theory, budgeting procedures, intergovernmental administration, human resources, the ethics of public service, and the impact of the information age.

53. Quality Management

This course investigates the concept of “quality” in organizational culture, and how it has developed over time. A number of quality-improvement techniques will be explored, such as employee empowerment, quality-improvement tools, cross-functional teams, leadership for quality, continuous leaning, process management, Taguchi methods, ISO 9000 standards, and the role of inspection in quality management. Issues concerning the implementation of methods such as Total Quality Management (TQM) will also be studied.

54. Good Governance

This course focuses on the general theoretical and practical aspects of good governance agenda and looks at the main economic and political actors involved in the good government promotion. Also, attention is paid to the existing indicators and quantitative measurements of good governance. It considers the nature of regimes in developing countries, the legacy of colonialism and the modern political trends. Among the regions covered are Arabic Countries, Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa. Understanding the complexity of politics in developing countries can shed light on why good governance and democracy promotion sometimes fail.

55. Co-op Training

This course aims at achieving the highest degree of harmony between what the student studies and what is required and used in the actual work sites through the cooperation of the educational institution with local businesses to train students to practice tasks during a certain period. During this course, the student serves as a trainee and learns the skills and related knowledge required in an occupation through closely coordinated in-school instruction and actual work experiences in a job.