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Business |
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BA101 Introduction to
Business (3-0-3) |
An introductory course in business
designed to give students an overview of
the major areas of business: accounting,
finance, marketing and organizational
behavior.
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BA120 Introduction to
Sales (3-0-3) |
Course explores sales as a means for
achieving career objectives. Special
emphasis will be placed on combining
techniques of presentation, poise and
refinement with psychology and marketing
fundamentals to assist students in
developing a critical understanding of
consumer behavior in the sales
environment, and gaining confidence in
selling. |
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BA110 Business
English (3-0-3) |
The course aims to teach students how to
communicate more effectively in Business
English in all four skills: reading,
writing, speaking and listening.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 |
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BA121 Principles of
Economics and Cost Accounting (3-0-3) |
Time value of money, rate of return,
taxes, depreciation, product costing
systems including job order costing,
process costing, joint products costing,
operational costing, and costing in
manufacturing and service organizations.
Activity-based costing systems. |
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BA150 Human Relations
and Psychology (3-0-3) |
This course acquaints students with
administrative principles and practices
emphasizing the human relations aspect
of management responsibility as it
affects employee attitudes, morale, and
productivity. Major emphasis is on
relationships among individuals and/or
small groups. |
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BA200 Business
Communications (3-0-3) |
This course will survey the principles
and techniques of business
communications. Methods of
investigating, organizing, and
presenting business data and ideas are
covered. Focus is on effective oral and
written business communications. |
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BA201 Office
Procedures (3-0-3) |
This course provides office-related
situations to include decision-making
and critical thinking activities.
Planning international travel, planning
and conducting a seminar, selecting
resources, and guest presenters and
tours of local business are included.
Prerequisite(s): BA101 |
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BA211 Machine
Transcription (2-2-3) |
This course provides advanced
transcription skills. Emphasis is on
specialized transcription features. Upon
completion, students should be able to
transcribe complex business documents
into mailable copy with minimal
assistance.
Prerequisite(s): BA110 |
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BA221 Business Law
(3-0-3) |
Introduces an understanding of law
through its forms, classifications and
sources. Impact of law as influenced by
political, social and economic needs;
legal rights and their enforcement; and
functions of administrative agencies.
Prerequisite(s): BA101 |
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BA231 Personnel
Management (3-0-3) |
This course reviews issues of personnel
management in organizations. Topics
include direction and motivation,
leadership behavior, recruitment of
support staff, orientation and training
programs, personnel placement and
reassignment, assignment of work,
personnel evaluation and counseling,
obsolescence and retraining, employee
grievances, and handling of conflict
situations.
Prerequisite(s): MGT 201 |
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English |
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ENGL101 Introduction to Academic Discourse (3-0-3) |
The main composition element of this
introduction to academic discourse is
organized on the basis of the principal
methods of exposition (comparison,
causal analysis, classification, etc.)
at the level of the sentence, paragraph
and composition. Attention is also paid
to such important aspects of text as
coherence, unity, conciseness, and
sentence readability, and to problem
areas of grammar and sentence structure
such as fragments, fused sentences, and
subject-verb agreement. The reading
component focuses on ways to improve
student reading of technically-oriented
textbooks, encyclopedias, and specialist
periodicals. |
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ENGL102 Introduction to Report Writing (3-0-3) |
The course consists of two main
elements: library research skills and
the writing of a term report. Students
are familiarized with the university
library's circulation reference
sections; they learn how to locate
printed materials using various methods.
Finally students are instructed in
narrowing a topic, taking notes from
sources and formatting a term paper.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 |
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Islamic
& Arabic Studies |
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IAS111
Belief and its Consequences (2-0-2) |
A course to vitalize the students’
knowledge of, and commitment to, Islamic
Doctrines, seeking thereby to fortify
them against the onslaught of godless
ideologies. Topics include the
following: An introduction to faith, its
foundations and sources; the
fundamentals of beliefs: divinity,
prophethood, and after-life; the
treatment of different subjects in the
Qur’an which deal with the universe,
man, and life; and a consideration of
the position of the contemporary Muslim
vis-à-vis the different alien doctrines
and the need for his adherence to Islam
and renunciation of all false
ideologies. |
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IAS201
Writing for Professional Needs (2-0-2) |
The course will introduce students to
methods of research, exposing its
theoretical and practical aspects, and
will attempt to develop students'
linguistic and literary potential, both
in reading and writing. The course will
be especially concerned with the essay,
dealing with its different varieties,
purposes, styles, and forms --
religious, scientific, literary, and
journalistic. In its practical aspect,
the course will require students to
study essays of a few outstanding
writers and to write compositions on six
subjects. Moreover, the course will
require students to practice oral
self-expression, with the instructor
correcting and discussing the mistakes
of students, both those that are
commonly spread among Arabic speakers
and those that individual students might
make. |
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Management |
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MGT201 Principles of
Management (3-0-3) |
This course covers fundamental
management principles and concepts.
Emphasis is placed on the management
functions of planning, organizing,
staffing, directing and controlling.
Principles of scientific management,
motivation, and economic analysis are
studied relative to their use in
business decisions. |
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MGT202 Organization
Behavior and Design (3-0-3) |
This course consists of an examination
of the complex relationships among
individuals, groups, organizations, and
society. A dynamic systems approach to
understanding and facilitating work
relationships is emphasized through the
study of the interaction of individual
needs, abilities, and traits with
organizational goals and structure.
Prerequisite(s): MGT 201 |
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MGT204 Project
Feasibility Analysis in Arabic (3-0-3) |
Concepts, process, and methodology in
feasibility analysis of private
investment projects, especially the
analysis of marketing, technical,
financial, economic and environmental
feasibilities; preparation of the
feasibility study, project proposal and
report with emphasis on practices.
Prerequisite(s): MKT 101, MGT 201 |
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Mathematics |
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MATH121 Introduction
to Applied Calculus (3-2-3) |
The theorem-proof approach of
differential and integral calculus is
covered with the explanation-example,
numerical and graphical methods.
Non-traditional applications are
stressed. Exponential and logarithmic
functions, derivatives, the definite
integral, polynomials, rational, and
their applications to business and
social sciences. |
