Academic Plan

010610014

BEGINNING ENGLISH

In Reading, students learn to skim; scan; identify the main idea and supporting details; make predictions about a text; answer questions about a text; identify signal words, transitions, pronouns, and referents; identify parts of speech and verb tenses; guess the meaning of unknown words from context; and recognize prefixes and suffixes. In Writing, students learn to write both simple and compound sentences with correct punctuation and capitalization. They write at the sentence and paragraph level using simple present tense, simple past tense, and simple future tense. In Grammar, students review the basic parts of speech and their functions in a sentence, the simple tenses (present, past, and future) and present and past continuous, pronouns, prepositions of time and location, articles, singular and plural nouns, and question formation.

010610026

INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH LAB

The Language Center courses are designed to help students cope with university education in English. The unlock listening and speaking 2 (Intermediate English Lab.) focuses on developing students’ listening, speaking and critical thinking skills. Students watch videos, listen to audios, think critically to be able to speak about different topics using a simplified academic language. The intermediate English lab is meant to prepare students for speaking and listening contexts. Students learn strategies for improving listening comprehension and stimulating critical thinking. The language lab component is specifically designed to improve students’ speaking and listening skills.

010610014

BEGINNING ENGLISH

In Reading, students learn to skim; scan; identify the main idea and supporting details; make predictions about a text; answer questions about a text; identify signal words, transitions, pronouns, and referents; identify parts of speech and verb tenses; guess the meaning of unknown words from context; and recognize prefixes and suffixes. In Writing, students learn to write both simple and compound sentences with correct punctuation and capitalization. They write at the sentence and paragraph level using simple present tense, simple past tense, and simple future tense. In Grammar, students review the basic parts of speech and their functions in a sentence, the simple tenses (present, past, and future) and present and past continuous, pronouns, prepositions of time and location, articles, singular and plural nouns, and question formation.

010610025

INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH

In Reading, students learn to skim; scan; identify the main and supporting details; make predictions and answer questions about a text; identify signal words, transitions, pronouns, and referents, parts of speech and verb tenses; guess the meaning of contextual words; recognize prefixes and suffixes, recognize noun, adjective, and adverb clauses, and distinguish between fact and opinion.

010610036

ADVANCED ENGLISH LAB

This course aims at developing students listening and speaking skills. This is to be accomplished through helping them enrich their lexical input so that they can understand English language in its spoken forms as a focus and in its written form too. As a result, they will be able to communicate successfully. The course provides students with a series of listening, speaking, reading, pronunciation and vocabulary exercises that meet Bloom’s learning objectives. Furthermore, it aims at developing their critical thinking skills.

010610025

INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH

In Reading, students learn to skim; scan; identify the main and supporting details; make predictions and answer questions about a text; identify signal words, transitions, pronouns, and referents, parts of speech and verb tenses; guess the meaning of contextual words; recognize prefixes and suffixes, recognize noun, adjective, and adverb clauses, and distinguish between fact and opinion.

010610026

INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH LAB

The Language Center courses are designed to help students cope with university education in English. The unlock listening and speaking 2 (Intermediate English Lab.) focuses on developing students’ listening, speaking and critical thinking skills. Students watch videos, listen to audios, think critically to be able to speak about different topics using a simplified academic language. The intermediate English lab is meant to prepare students for speaking and listening contexts. Students learn strategies for improving listening comprehension and stimulating critical thinking. The language lab component is specifically designed to improve students’ speaking and listening skills.

010610035

ADVANCED ENGLISH

This is an integrated skills course in which students work on reading, Writing, listening' and speaking. In reading, student learn to distinguish between fact and opinion,determine the author's purpose or point of view, justify answers to comprehension questions,make inferences, read academic texts, recognize grammatical relation ship in atext. In Writing, student learn to write complex sentences and comma splices. In Grammar, the review parts of speech, articles, and phrases and clauses.

010610036

ADVANCED ENGLISH LAB

This course aims at developing students listening and speaking skills. This is to be accomplished through helping them enrich their lexical input so that they can understand English language in its spoken forms as a focus and in its written form too. As a result, they will be able to communicate successfully. The course provides students with a series of listening, speaking, reading, pronunciation and vocabulary exercises that meet Bloom’s learning objectives. Furthermore, it aims at developing their critical thinking skills.

020111011

ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES I

Provides students with the basic knowledge needed to understand and analyze financial accounting transactions, and how to prepare financial statements, the following topics are covered; the recording process, adjusting accounts, completion of the accounting cycle, accounting for merchandising operation, inventories, internal control and cash (bank reconciliation), and accounting for receivables.

020211010

INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

The basic principles of modern management.The function of planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling. Management of the enterprise in a contemporary environment.

020211020

PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT

A study of the functions of firm production,finance,marketing,and lobor forces.

020311010

MACROECONOMICS

Elemantary macroeconomics, determination of national income, role of government, inflation, unemployment, development and growth.

240111000

COMPUTER SKILLS

A basic, introductory course in personal computers, it introduces students to basic computer concepts in hardware, software, networking. The course will include a basic computer literacy including computer concepts, fundamental functions and operations of the computer. Topics include identification of hardware components, basic computer operations, and use of some software applications such as windows operating system, a word processing using Microsoft Word, a spreadsheet using Microsoft Excel, and a presentation software using PowerPoint.

100411050

BUSINESS MATHEMATICS

Linear and nonlinear equations, supply and demand analysis, revenue, cost, profit, exponential and logarithmic functions, differentiation, Marginal functions, optimization of economic functions, partial differentiation, constrained and unconstrained optimization, integration, matrices.

260123120

INTRODUCTION TO THE DIGITAL ECONOMY

This course provides an overview of the workings of the digital economy and examines its activities and practices. Topics covered include defining the digital economy, the role of search, advertising and social media, the disintermediation of traditional companies, rise of online gaming, economic practices in the digital economy and the impact on labor, production and consumption as well as digital economic policies and practices. Special emphasis will be placed on the concepts, theories and policy questions that will define the future of the digital economy.

260123110

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION STRATEGY

This course provides a foundation in managing digital innovation and examines how effective knowledge management can make organizations more innovative. Topics covered include the innovation process, organizing for digital innovation, strategizing for digital innovation, innovation projects and teaming, project liminality and open innovation, the role of objects in organizing for digital innovation, opportunities and challenges for innovation and the future of digital innovation. Special emphasis will be placed on the role of digital in fostering innovation and managing knowledge.

260123130

DIGITAL LEADERSHIP

This course provides an overview of effective leadership in a digital environment. Topics covered include the evolution of digital leadership, becoming a digital leader, awareness as a leader, experts and achievers, preferences and patterns, personality types, importance of intention, attention and reflection and how effective digital leadership leads to organizational success. Special emphasis will be placed on the differences between the characteristics of successful traditional and digital leadership.

260123140

FUNDAMENTALS OF DATA SCIENCE

This course is an introduction to the emerging field of data science, a field that combines business strategy, information technology and modeling methods. Topics covered include the evolution of data science, the benefits and opportunities of data science and its relation to machine learning and data infrastructure uses. Special emphasis will be placed on practical techniques for analyzing data including the use of statistical modeling as a data tool.

260123230

DIGITAL BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION

This course provides an overview of digital business transformation and examines the requirements for a successful digital transformation as well as the challenges that established businesses must overcome. Topics covered include the characteristics of a digital business, forces of digital transformation, goals of digital business transformation, the role of product, data and engineering in digital transformation and the components of a successful digital business transformation. Emphasis will be placed on how digital business transformation can lead to sustainable competitive advantage.

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AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

This course provides students with an understanding of theory and practice of agile project management and the role of agile management in digital transformation. Topics covered include principles of agile project management, lifecycle selection, creating an agile environment, delivering in an agile environment and organizational considerations for agile project management. Special emphasis will be placed on the building an agile business through digital transformation.