BUS4205 - GLOBALISATION AND EMERGING MARKETS - 3 CREDIT
This course aims to provide framework and various tools for formulating competitive strategies in response to increased internationalization and globalization process. Particular attention is given to help students to understand as to how a firm operates within the international environment. It equips students with knowledge and skills to develop appropriate international marketing strategies that contribute to future economic growth.
Pre-requisite: ECO2102,FIA 2013
BUS4115 - BUSINESS PROJECT MANAGEMENT (E) - 3 CREDIT
The course introduces the principles and techniques as well as the problems of the project manager. The focus of the course is on understanding the project life cycle its planning, allocation of resources, management and risk assessment. The course includes performance evaluation, risk assessment and closing the projects. It helps Students to use Project Management techniques and tools through appropriate software.
Pre-requisite: MGM1001
BUS3112 - COMPARATIVE GLOBAL MANAGEMENT - 3 CREDIT
This course focuses on global perspectives on management and its various functions which help the student to understand the differences in functional approaches practiced in different countries. This course develops ability of a student to identify and evaluate the management approaches practiced in contemporary scenarios. It will also help students to perceive the trends in the eastern and western countries and also be able to assess the impacts on management of the global organizations
Pre-requisite: MGM1001
CIS3112 - E-COMMERCE - 3 CREDIT
This course focuses to make the students understand the ways and means of doing business with Internet enabled technologies. The students will understand how Internet can be used to communicate, track and transact with the customers, suppliers and other related organizations for the benefit of business. Also, the emphasis is given in the course towards the new trends of e-commerce services that have emerged after initial e-commerce revolution. The students will also learn to define various business models in e-commerce operation and issues in adopting e-commerce in a seamless manner with the existing way of traditional operations.
Pre-requisite: CIS1001
CIS4216 - BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING(C,S) - 3 CREDIT
This course introduces the concepts of business process modeling using Unified Modeling Language (UML) with the help of Rationale Rose and Visio. Further, this course emphasizes on the core set of skills that students need to know as a business process analyst. This course also teaches students about object oriented approach to system design.
Pre-requisite: CIS3110 & SENIOR STATUS
CIS2102 - EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES - 3 CREDIT
This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of applications of information technologies and provide an overview on emerging trends such as cloud computing, Big Data analytics and Internet of Things (IoT) that are critical to modern business operations. The course helps students to learn the value of information technologies towards connecting people and processes with the technology.
Pre-requisite: CIS1001
CIS4017 - KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY(E) - 3 CREDIT
The ability to manage knowledge has become increasingly important in today; knowledge economy. Knowledge is considered a valuable commodity, embedded in products and in the tacit knowledge of highly mobile individual employees. The emergence of information and knowledge is a key factor in developing and maintaining a competitive advantage. This requires organizations to manage its knowledge effectively. The purpose of this course is to acquaint students with various knowledge management concepts and technologies.
Pre-requisite: None
CIS4115 - INFORMATION SYSTEM AUDIT AND CONTROL(E) - 3 CREDIT
As Information Systems are becoming center of critical business operations it is essential to evaluate various authorizations and controls regularly. In this course student will learn how Information system audit is planned, organized and executed, and their results communicated to the organization. Students will learn how to develop and implement risk-based IS audit strategies and objectives in compliance with generally accepted audit standards to ensure that the organization IT assets are adequately controlled, monitored, and assessed, and are aligned with its business objectives.
Pre-requisite: CIS1001
CIS4114 - CLOUD ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS - 3 CREDIT
This course covers the fundamentals of cloud computing and provides the skills and knowledge required to effectively evaluate and assess the business and technical benefits of cloud computing for a business organization. Furthermore it will familiarize students to use the basic tools and concepts to implement cloud computing in organization to get the competitive edge in ever changing technology trends.
Pre-requisite: CIS1001
CIS3110 - DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - 3 CREDIT
This course introduces the student to the basic concepts of Database Management Systems and different types of conceptual data modeling techniques are also introduced. Students will learn to develop an entity relationship diagram that reflects the data in an organization and to convert the ER-model to a relational database. Complete database creation and querying skills are given to the student through SQL. Finally the student is also exposed to the file organization strategies of a Database Management System. Hands on lab exercises are included in SQL to practice creation and querying of database.
Pre-requisite: CIS1001
FIA3110 - FINANCIAL MARKETS AND INVESTMENT STRATEGY - 3 CREDIT
This course serves as your introduction to financial markets, financial institutions and investment process. It provides a foundation for understanding financial markets, financial institutions and financial securities, such as stocks, bonds and derivatives, and acquiring knowledge for making sound investment decisions. The course also gives an understanding of how risks are quantified and managed by financial institutions and investors.
Pre-requisite: FIA2103
CIS4118 - BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE (E,P) - 3 CREDIT
This course covers the fundamentals of data warehousing architecture and the issues involved in planning, designing, building, populating and maintaining a successful data warehouse. The course introduces students to data mining and how it relates to data warehousing. Specific topics covered include the logical design of a data warehouse, the data staging area and extract-transform-load processing, the use of multi-dimensional analysis using OLAP techniques, and coverage of the knowledge discovery process including common data mining modeling techniques.
Pre-requisite: CIS1001
CIS3111 - INFORMATION SYSTEM SECURITY - 3 CREDIT
This course provides an overview of security challenges and strategies of countermeasure in the information systems environment. The Course enables students to understand the concepts, elements, and goals of information security. The course will focus on availability, vulnerability, integrity and confidentiality aspects of information systems. The course content helps students to prepare for various industry recognized professional certifications.
Pre-requisite: CIS1001
GEN2006 - ADVANCED ARABIC - 3 CREDIT
The course is designed to teach detailed topics in Arabic Language for Arabic speakers and improve student’s Arabic language skills in reading, writing and grammar. Reading texts, understanding context and idea of text in detail and answering related questions, learning new vocabulary of the reading text, practicing writing short paragraphs about general topics following grammar rules are the highlights of the course.
Pre-requisite: None
ECO3111 - ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABILITY - 3 CREDIT
The course provides an insight into sustainable economic development by examining various aspects of economic activity, public policy and their environmental impact. As a result of growing awareness of environment customers demand green products. Government regulations mean that business should adopt sustainable processes. The course helps students to understand role of entrepreneurs, governments and the stakeholders in adopting sustainable methods of performing policies and activities
Pre-requisite: ECO2102
FIA3111 - CORPORATE FINANCE - 3 CREDIT
This course gives an introduction to the basic principles of modern corporate finance. Topics covered include the time
value of money and basic methods for optimal investment and consumption decisions. Furthermore, the course covers aspects in capital market theory and asset pricing. The course also provides an insight into the importance of options in financial decision making and concludes with the firm optimal capital structure. Advanced topics include: valuation, advanced capital budgeting issues, capital structure, dividend policy, risk and return analysis, working capital and corporate governance.
Pre-requisite: FIA2103
CIS4013 - INFORMATION SYSTEMS PROJECT MANAGEMENT - 3 CREDIT
This course emphasizes managing projects within the specific scope, time, cost and quality. The different phases of the project are to be taught to the students in this course. These include identification of the need or problem, development of the proposed solution, and implementation of the solution. Students will be taught to use software for managing projects. Hence, students will learn to develop work break down structures, network diagram, and to identify critical path. Hands on experience will be given with live project modeled based on the learning during the Course using MS-Project and Visio.
Pre-requisite: None
FIA4118 - ISLAMIC FINANCE(E) - 3 CREDIT
This course deals with introduction to Islamic finance theory and practice, and it enables the students to understand the Islamic financial system, Islamic Financial Services Industry and Capital Markets. The course also enables students to differentiate between Islamic and non-Islamic financial system and identify suitable financial products for different situation.
Pre-requisite: FIA3111
IND4203 - PROJECT (C,S) - 3 CREDIT
The Internship Project program provides an opportunity to students to work, learn, and gain hands-on experience in an organization. It helps students to develop a professional understanding of an industry in their major area of study. Students are able to apply the knowledge gained in classrooms in a work setting, thus enriching their learning experience. This experience is also regarded valuable in preparing for their future careers. Since students work to gain experience, the course emphasizes that they be placed in an environment that is appropriate to their major field of study that is conducive to learning.
Pre-requisite: SENIOR STATUS & BUS4103
HRP3010 - FOUNDATION OF PSYCHOLOGY - 3 CREDIT
This course will introduce students to the basic knowledge about Psychology as an academic and applied field involving the study of behavior, mind and thought and the subconscious neurological bases of behavior. The focus will be on the application of such knowledge to various spheres of human activity, including problems of individuals daily lives and the problems at work. This course will facilitate the students in better understanding about human thoughts and behaviors and the underlying processes and components therein.
Pre-requisite: None
HRP4115 - COUNSELLING SKILLS AND THEORY(E) - 3 CREDIT
This course introduces topics related to main aspects of counselling which include counselling definition, its forms, counsellor role and ethics. The course will help the students in understanding various approaches of counselling. The course also discusses how various counselling approaches can be applied to various areas related to Human resource management in organizations.
Pre-requisite: HRP3010
HRP4117 - MANAGING POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY AT WORK(E,P) - 3 CREDIT
The course will introduce students to the concepts and theories of positive psychology. The focus of the course will be to enable the students to understand happiness, positive relationships, emotional intelligence and other concepts for using these concepts in their own lives and use these concepts to create the positive organizational environment. Students will learn the positive psychological therapies helpful in enhancing the productivity and interpersonal relationships in organizations.
Pre-requisite: HRP3010
HRP3111 - COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY - 3 CREDIT
This course will introduce students to the basic knowledge about the cognition and the mental processes underlying human behavior. It gives insight into the evolution of the cognitive psychology and the ways to understand the process of cognition in different circumstances.
The main focus will be developing the sound understanding about the processes by which the sensory input is transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, recovered, and used. After the successful completion of the course, students will have better understanding of the entire process relating to how we make sense of the world.
Pre-requisite: HRP3010
HRP4118 - DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY(E) - 3 CREDIT
This course will help students to acquire knowledge about the Developmental psychology which mainly focuses on the scientific study of how and why human beings change over the course of their life. The focus will be on the study of changes in thinking, feeling, and behavior throughout a person’s life. Students will also learn to analyze the changes in human beings across three major dimensions: physical development, cognitive development, and socio-emotional development.
Pre-requisite: HRP3010
INE4117 - BRAND MANAGEMENT(E) - 3 CREDIT
This course will introduce students the concepts related to brand management and about its various approaches. The students will get various insights in how brands create market value by using various approaches. The course will help the students not only to study how brands are created, and also analyzes various issues related to brand evaluation. The students will also study the key legal issues related to Brand Management.
Pre-requisite: MKT2102
MAT2103 - QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES FOR BUSINESS - 3 CREDIT
This course equips students in using appropriate concepts, tools and techniques in quantitative business decision-making. The course enable students to analyze the data using software on decisions related to investment, forecasting and managing inventories. Students are also exposed to network analysis, project management and assignment of resources and finish products to various markets using linear programming and transportation models.
Pre-requisite: MAT1102
MKT4115 - MALL MANAGEMENT - 3 CREDIT
This Course covers an overview of the fundamentals mall management and its practices. Students will be exposed to managing shopping malls facilities and its operations. It also enable students to understand and evaluate the positioning of malls and their promotional strategies. It helps students to analyze the revenue models by managing leasing, tenancy and negotiations within the frame work of regional regulations
Pre-requisite: MKT2201
MGM3105 - E-CUSTOMER RELATIONS MANAGEMENT(E) - 3 CREDIT
Customer relationship management (CRM) is a model for managing a company interactions with current and future customers. It involves technology to organize, automate, and synchronize sales, marketing, customer service, and technical support. This course is designed primarily for students undertaking majors in marketing or international business studies whose career plans may at some point involve managing a company interactions with current or future customers. This course is intended to help them understanding the technology involved in CRM, and various ways to know, retain and attract customers and increase the profitability of the organization
Pre-requisite: MGM1001
MKT3202 - E- MARKETING(E) - 3 CREDIT
This course enables the students to learn theory and practical aspects of e-marketing. It enables the students to understand strategic and operational aspects of e-marketing becoming digital marketing through applying new age marketing tools. This course helps the students to acquire skills of identifying and applying different digital marketing tools in real life scenario. It enables the students to develop comprehensive e-marketing strategy for an organization in a real life business context
Pre-requisite: CIS 1001 & MKT 2201
MGM3104 - MANAGEMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES (E) - 3 CREDIT
This course examines the structures and processes of human resource management that enables right kind of employees are recruited, trained and contribute to the growth of the organization. The course helps students to understand the conceptual framework of human resources and its role in maintaining suitable workforce for achieving organizational goals and objectives. Students also learn to evaluate HRM strategies relating to compensation and performance evaluation. The course includes discussions on contemporary issues of HRM in a global context and its impacts on an organization.
Pre-requisite: MGM1001
MKT4114 - RETAIL STORE OPERATIONS - 3 CREDIT
This course is aimed at developing comprehensive understanding of store operations and equips the students with the skills related to manage stores in different product categories. The course enables students to understand managing retail stores such as distribution of merchandise, sales support activities, and customer services, managing stocks, managing people, maintenance activities while ensuring safety and security of all the assets and people.
Pre-requisite: MKT2201
MKT4117 - VISUAL MERCHANDIZING AND DISPLAY(E) - 3 CREDIT
Visual Merchandising is the art of displaying merchandise in a manner that is appealing to the eyes of the customer. It sets the context of the merchandise in an aesthetically pleasing fashion, presenting them in a way that would convert the window shoppers into prospects and ultimately buyers of the product. A creative and talented retailer can use this upcoming art to breathe in new life into his store products. Passion for design and creativity are essential to be a good visual merchandiser. A perfect design process and the ability to create ideas that are different are required.
Visual merchandising includes window displays, signs, interior displays, cosmetic promotions and any other special sales promotions taking place. In this course, the focus will be on principles and practices of visual merchandising with particular emphasis placed on design principles, visual display components, types of visual merchandising techniques and emerging trends in visual merchandising.
Pre-requisite: MKT2201
PAD4118 - ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT(E) - 3 CREDIT
This course has been designed to create proper understanding about the environmental issues and the ways to manage them. Environmental management is a wide, expanding, and rapidly evolving field, affecting everyone from individual citizens to businesses; governments to international agencies. Indisputably, it plays a crucial role in the quest for sustainable development.
Students will learn about public policies related to environment and sustainability, how these policies are framed and what are the related institutional problems. They will also learn about how development is impacting environment, how environmental management is done for urban areas and what the anticipated future course of environmental management is.
Pre-requisite: GEN2005
THM3010 - FOUNDATIONS OF TOURISM - 3 CREDIT
This course introduces students to the complexities of the tourism system so that they will be better positioned to eventually assume the managerial challenges and responsibilities. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the world’s most rapidly growing industry. The course also gives valuable information regarding tourist attractions, tourist accommodations, means of transportation and other organizations that are involved in the tourism business. The importance of technology on the development and operation of tourism businesses will be given to the students so that they can explore major concepts in tourism, what makes tourism possible, how tourism can become an important factor in the wealth of any nation and suggests how the tourism industry can prepare itself to accommodate future growth and meet tomorrow’s challenges.
Pre-requisite: None
THM4118 - IMPACTS OF TOURISM(E) - 3 CREDIT
This course provides an understanding of the relationship between tourists and the various tourism providers, thereby facilitating insight into the importance of tourist motivations. It intends to comprehend the influence that the government, culture and environment bring about on tourism within a nation during a given period of time. The course studies the positive and negative aspects that are created by tourism on the host community. An in-depth understanding of the different effects that tourism brings about on the economic, social and environmental lifestyle of the host community is a main dimension of this course.
Pre-requisite: THM3010
THM4213 - E - TOURISM - 3 CREDIT
This course deals with the latest breakthrough of the Internet and its critical role in our daily lives with respect to travel and tourism. E-tourism assures that there will be enormous opportunity for tourism professionals to capitalize on the available opportunities on the Web. The development of large scale fully integrated Global Distribution Systems as one-stop market place where customers can benefit by making airline bookings, hotel reservations, arrange travel insurance, rent a car etc. without being constrained by working hours or distance of an outlet. The course familiarizes students to latest development in Information Communication Technology (ICT) that is being practiced in the field of Travel and Hospitality Industry.
Pre-requisite: THM3010 & CIS1001