This course provides a survey of the business world. Students will achieve an understanding of the basic principles and practices of contemporary business. Upon completion, students should be able to demonstrate an understanding of business concepts as a foundation for studying other business subjects. The course covers the following topics: The Environment of Business; Business Ownership and Entrepreneurship; Management and Organization; Human Resources; Marketing; Finance and Investment.

This course provides a survey of the business world. Students will achieve an understanding of the basic principles and practices of contemporary business. Upon completion, students should be able to demonstrate an understanding of business concepts as a foundation for studying other business subjects. The course covers the following topics: The Environment of Business; Business Ownership and Entrepreneurship; Management and Organization; Human Resources; Marketing; Finance and Investment.

This course provides a survey of the business world. Students will achieve an understanding of the basic principles and practices of contemporary business. Upon completion, students should be able to demonstrate an understanding of business concepts as a foundation for studying other business subjects. The course covers the following topics: The Environment of Business; Business Ownership and Entrepreneurship; Management and Organization; Human Resources; Marketing; Finance and Investment.

The Course CP105 Project Management (CAPM I) is the first course in a series of 4 modules during which you will be introduced into the “Art of Project Management”. Each module will increase your knowledge about project management prepare you not only for certification but also to participate in projects as efficient team members.

During this course module, you will learn about the projects and project management, and focus on the origin and selection of projects the definition of a project and creating the project plan.

This will include the origin of projects, how to select between projects using decision making methods and financial parameters, introducing important definition and terminology that all project managers use, providing an easy to use ten-step approach to project management to help you manage projects from definition to closing, application of different techniques.

The techniques that will be described in this section relate to the creation of the charter, developing the work breakdown structure, defining the work packages and activities, precedence diagramming methods including the critical path method, creating the project schedule or Gantt, resource allocation, project budget and S-curve and finally the principles of risk management.

PRIOR PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE IS RECOMMENDED, eg PYTHON, JAVA, C++

PRIOR PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE IS RECOMMENDED, eg PYTHON, JAVA, C++

The objective of this course is to identify and demonstrate the nature and importance of female
leadership. This course will start with discussions on various leadership theories as well as the
leadership development, success of female leaders and what it means when a leader needs to be a
good follower. This class will host 5 female guest speakers coming from various leadership
backgrounds. The students will explore the character, personal attributes, and behaviours of effective
female leaders.

The objective of this course is to identify and demonstrate the nature and importance of female
leadership. This course will start with discussions on various leadership theories as well as the
leadership development, success of female leaders and what it means when a leader needs to be a
good follower. This class will host 5 female guest speakers coming from various leadership
backgrounds. The students will explore the character, personal attributes, and behaviours of effective
female leaders.

Marketing Management is a course designed to identify the role and importance of marketing in firms and organizations. This subject will examine different marketing strategies, product/service management operations, market research techniques, marketing segmentation processes and customer behaviors that influence the overall success of marketing in the business environment. Students will, through critical thinking, determine marketing weaknesses on specific company cases and search for possible solutions. This course includes the creation of a marketing strategy plan for a product or service that will allow the students to apply learned concepts into real life examples.

The essence of this course is to learn the basic concepts and principles of sustainability science, and how sustainability is or can be integrated into business. On the one hand, environmental challenges including climate, waste, energy, agriculture, and biodiversity, as well as their drivers will be touched upon. The course then explores how environmental problems are closely related to social aspects. Thereafter, the integration of sustainability in business will be analyzed. Various approaches and tools that companies can use to integrate sustainability in their business practices, such as circular economy principles and design thinking, will be discussed.  

This course offers an introduction to Women's and Gender Studies, an interdisciplinary academic field that explores critical questions about the meaning of gender in society. The primary goal of this course is to familiarize students with key issues, questions and debates in Women's and Gender Studies scholarship, both historical and contemporary. Gender scholarship critically analyzes themes of gendered performance and power in a range of social spheres, such as law, culture, education, work, medicine, social policy and the family.

The course is an introduction to Financial Accounting techniques and underlying principles. The students will learn to record the most common transactions (accounting event, journal entry, use of accounts) and prepare simple financial statements (balance sheet and income statement). Further analysis of major balance sheet accounts and accounting techniques will allow the students to optimize the use of accounting information in business decisions.

CPA102 Corporate law for the CPA Exam begins with an introduction to company law, which includes an explanation of the sources of company law and an analysis of the implications of incorporating a company. The course is on the regulation of the governance of the company focusing on the legal and non-legal mechanisms designed to ensure that directors act in their company’s and not in their own interests. The course is designed to study corporate law and in the economic and business context in which they operate for the CPA Exam. Accordingly, the course adopts an explicitly comparative approach drawing in particular on European and US corporate law, but also on examples from continental European companies.