PROGRAM COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course Description This course will introduce students to some of the main topics of understanding and discussion in contemporary philosophy. This course’s key focused areas include knowledge (Epistemology), reality and free will (metaphysic), and morality. Other concepts such as utility, liberty, equity, and allocation of resources will put into discussion.

Course Description This course aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the scientific study of human thought and behavior. The fundamental topics include but are not limited to perception, communication, learning, memory, decision-making, persuasion, emotions, and social behavior.

Course Description These courses are designed to develop students’ academic writing skills by having them engage in various academic writing activities such as writing paragraphs, essays, citing sources, quoting, referencing, paraphrasing, and summarizing. The courses also emphasize how to write unified, cohesive, coherent, and adequately developed paragraphs and essays.

Course Description This course aims to introduce students to fundamental principles of communication and practical applications of communication in order to enhance performance and productivity, both personally and professionally. The principles discussed include communication cycles and barriers, effective message, communication through technology, and public speaking and presentation.

Course Description This course seeks to give students a clear understanding of an area fundamentally important in global governance by introducing students to the frameworks of the UN, the supreme Inter-Governmental Organization, and its subordinate agencies.

Course Description This course aims at offering students a glimpse of the modern history of countries in Southeast Asia, which supplements the understanding of socio-cultural, political security, and particularly economic issues raised by recent ASEAN’s institutional development. Another objective is to raise students’ awareness of ASEAN and the three communities which have profound implications and impacts on their lives.

Course Description The main objective of this subject is to provide an accessible introduction to statistic. The key areas of study include organization and presentation of data, summary of descriptive measures, probability, binomial, normal distributions and Pareto distribution, estimation of population parameters, sampling distributions, hypothesis testing, chi-square analysis, and analysis of variance.

Course Description This subject aims to provide a basic understanding of the nature of mathematical economics and how to apply economic models in analyzing data and economic indicators. The underlying topics under this course cover linear model, matrix algebra, comparative static, concept of derivative, exponential and logarithmic function, integral calculus, and differential equation.

Course Description This course covers essential aspects of the historical evolution of the global economy from the industrial revolution until today. The analysis of long-term economic development over the last two centuries includes historical developments of economic ideas and concepts and how these shaped economic policies and development. With a global outlook, it focuses on topics which are relevant to an understanding of current economic issues ranging from industrialization processes to international financial and trade arrangements to the rise of the welfare state and government intervention in the economy.

Course Description This course is an introduction and intermediate to the fundamentals of microeconomics analysis. Covered topics include the study of the forces of supply and demand that determined prices and the allocation of recourse in markets, as well as the behavior of individuals and businesses in response to those market forces.

Course Description This course is an introduction and intermediate to the study of the aggregate national economy. It introduces basic models of macroeconomics. It explores issues such as the determinants of economic growth, and how monetary and fiscal policies affect output, employment, unemployment, interest rates, and inflation.

Course Description This course is intended to provide students with basic, essential research concepts of and how-to approaches to research that can be applied to most social and economic settings. This course will be very helpful for conducting small-scale projects applying both quantitative and qualitative methods of research.

Course Description This course aims at introducing students to the understanding of how economic thought has developed over time—acknowledging that alternative frameworks offering different conceptualizations of the individual-economy-society relationship coexist as of today— by ways of surveying the major controversies over the definition of the objectives, scopes and methodologies of the discipline. It discusses with the rise of classical political economy and then engages with the formation of the mainstream neoclassical approach.

Course Description This course will provide students with a clear introduction to the principles and methods of behavioral economics. Behavioral economics considers the ways that people are more social, more impulsive, less adept at using information, and more susceptible to psychological biases than the standard economic models assume.

Course Description This course is primarily devoted to the fundamental principles of valuation. It applies the concepts of time value of money and risk to understand the major determinants of value creation and how firms finance their operations, make investments, and distribute profits. In addition, the course covers the role and function of stock markets, bond markets, and foreign exchange markets.

Course Description The focus of the course, which draws on microeconomic theory, is on the development of analytical tools and their application to key policy issues relating to the spending, taxing and financing activities of the government. The course aims to give students an appreciation of the analytical methods in economics for the study of the public sector and the role of the state in principle and practice to provide a thorough grounding in the principles underlying the role of the state, the design of social insurance and the welfare state and the design of the tax system and to enable students to understand the practical problems involved in implementing these principles.

Course Description Through this course, students will get a broad knowledge about statistical methods for analyzing econometrics models for cross-sectional and time-series data. In addition to the theoretical approach, students will also learn how to use the computer’s data analysis program package to regress empirical data.

Course Description The course provides a basic introduction to big data and corresponding quantitative research methods. The objective of the course is to familiarize students with big data analysis as a tool for addressing substantive research questions. The course begins with a basic introduction to big data and discusses what the analysis of these data entails, as well as associated technical, conceptual, and ethical challenges. The strength and limitations of big data research are discussed in depth using real-world examples.

Course Description The Internet is transforming many aspects of economic life, from the online purchasing and selling of goods and services to new ways of (peer) producing information goods such as open-source software, currencies (e.g. Bitcoin), and user-generated content in online social networks. This course shows how the tools of economics can further our understanding of online behavior, and also how economics can contribute to the future development of the Internet. The course also demonstrates how data from the Internet are being used to answer crucial long-standing research questions in economics.

Course Description The course provides an introduction to monetary theory, the effects of monetary variables on the macroeconomic system, the role of the Central Bank, and the conduct of monetary policy. Subjects covered include the nature and function of money; classical monetary theory, neutrality, and inflation; theories of the demand for money; the banking system, financial intermediation, and the determinants of the money supply.

Course Description Game theory is a set of tools for studying situations in which decision-makers (like consumers, firms, politicians, and governments) interact. This course provides an introduction to game theory, with a strong emphasis on applications in economics. Ideas such as dominance, backward induction, Nash equilibrium, evolutionary stability, commitment, credibility, asymmetric information, adverse selection, and signaling are discussed and applied to games played in class.

Course Description Over the past decade emerging technologies, paired with massive changes in regulations, have driven an unprecedented transformation of finance around the world. In this course, students will explore the major areas of FinTech including, beginning with (1) what is FinTech before turning to money, (2) payment and emerging technologies, (3) digital finance and alternative finance, (4) FinTech Regulation and RegTech, (5) data and security, and the future of data-driven finance, as well as, (6) the core technologies driving FinTech including Blockchain, AI and Big Data. These will set the stage for understanding the FinTech landscape and ecosystem and grappling with the potential direction of future change.

Course Description There are three primary forms of financial crises: currency, sovereign debt, and banking crises. This course aims to offer insights into: (1) major macroeconomic causes and effects of crises, (2) interactions among the three types of crises, and (3) appropriate policy responses. The course is divided into two parts. Part I focuses on international macroeconomic theories and analytical models of each type of crises. Part ÍI will touch on a variety of case studies.

Course Description Entrepreneurial Finance (EF) is designed primarily for students who plan to be involved with a startup venture at some point in their career as a Founder, early Joiner, Investor, Board Member, or Advisor. The course addresses key questions which challenge all entrepreneurs: how much money can and should be raised; when should it be raised and from whom; what is a reasonable valuation of the company; and how should funding, employment contracts, and exit decisions be structured.

Course Description Monitoring and evaluation is concerned with assessing the quality of a program as measured against action plans and evaluating its overall impact. This course addresses the quantitative or statistical aspects of monitoring and evaluation: what to measure, how to measure, how to analyze, and how to make inferences for the next steps of program implementation.

Course Description These courses aim to answer practical questions, including but not limited to: What is the basis for trade? What are the effects of trade? Who will gain from trade (and who will lose)? How are the value and volume of trade determined? What factors hinder trade flows? And what are the welfare impacts of public policy that attempts to alter the patterns of trade emerging through market forces? The courses will answer these questions by presenting a coherent basic microeconomic framework that forms international trade theories in its historical timeline.

Course Description With the increasing financial globalization, hardly any countries around the world today are closed economies. Therefore, the main aim of this course is to develop a deeper understanding of how the macroeconomic works when it is open to international capital flows. It is designed as an introduction to the topics such as the balance of payments, uncovered interest parity, purchasing power parity condition, determinants of exchange rates and exchange rate regimes, the external balance of an open economy and monetary and fiscal policies in an open economy.

Course Description The course aims to introduce the students to the geographical mode of thinking regarding various economic phenomena. Thus, we will consider pressing global questions such as how economic change, past and recent, has been shaped by geography and how historical processes affect the economic and social geography of modern societies. Using geographical dimensions of space, place, location, and scale, we then explore different mechanisms of the capitalist economy: agricultural, manufacturing, and services production, labor and capital markets, spatial patterns of consumption and trade. Matters of economic development, growth, and integration with the focus of logistic and infrastructure arrangement and development are also addressed, inasmuch as these are related to the countries’ geographical conditions.

Course Description Problems in the growth of developing countries will be explored. The course strives to find answers to questions such as: Why are some countries richer than others? What accounts for the different growth rates among countries? Thus, it begins with a discussion of growth models and then moves on to the analysis of, for example, health and education, population, urbanization, rural development, environment, and international trade and finance.

Course Description This subject teaches students how to use economic tools to help solve pressing global health problems. Through this degree program, students will learn how health economic principles are used to address global issues such as migration, displaced persons, climate change and pandemics. They’ll also learn how health economics can be used to promote healthy lifestyles, positive health outcomes, and equitable access to care. Students will learn how to conduct economic evaluations of health programs and how to evaluate the impact of social problems on the health of a community or population.

Course Description This course introduces methods and techniques for analyzing the impact of trade and trade related policies on economic growth and development. The method includes both the partial equilibrium, general equilibrium analysis such as the computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling and other quantitative approach. The course also introduces students to global trade, investment, and related policies database for the analysis.

Course Description The application of the principles of economics to the study of how environmental and natural resources are developed and managed. It uses economic analyses to improve the effectiveness of its environmental policies. A variety of economic tools allow the costs and benefits of different policy options to be compared. Some of the well-known issues are climate changes, carbon tax, natural resource dynamic management and others.

Course Description This course introduces cost-benefit analysis principles and provides a clear structure for conducting or evaluating a cost-benefit analysis. The course begins by discussing what cost-benefit analysis can be used for, in what kinds of situations it has been used in real life, and why it is preferred to some other methods for analyzing whether a project should be implemented or not. The course draws on a mixture of economic theory and real-life case studies to examine both the theoretical and practical issues.

Course Description The course gives an overview of the world of trade finance before going into the details of the various payment methods used in international trade. It explains the detailed process flow of complex payment methods like collections, letter of credit, escrow account, and bank guarantees. Knowledge of these processes is essential for anyone working in an international trade environment who is responsible for ensuring their business is paid on time and for efficient trade performance. This course evaluates the suitability and use of multiple trade finance instruments in detail, including letters of credit, bonds and guarantees. It covers how businesses can use these tools strategically as part of a trade finance suite that maximizes business profitability and working capital needs.

Course Description Drawing on theory and on case studies from experiences in several regions, the course covers requirements for economic and monetary integration; trade, financial, and monetary integration; costs and benefits of the integration process; and political economy aspects of integration. The student is expected to develop: a conceptual framework for understanding the economic implications of regional integration versus the WTO's multilateral trading system; the ability to analyze and provide an economic assessment of trade policies and domestic regulations of a country in terms of whether such policy/program is appropriate to meet the objectives and whether it is compliant with a country's WTO commitments; and the ability to analyze the business implications of specific trade rules and the policies employed by different countries by examining the central features of trade disputes.

Course Description International trade negotiations are complex processes, involving dozens or more players who may each represent different interests. This course aims at (i) giving students a range of analytical tools (both formal and informal) in order to understand negotiation dynamics between different configurations of actors, (ii) providing them with the skills needed to develop appropriate strategies and tactics in the conduct of trade negotiations and then (iii) testing their ability to apply them in selected case studies as well as in a simulation exercise. Priority will be given to recent or on-going negotiation challenges and processes in international trade. A part of the course is devoted to the World Trade Organization (WTO) as one of the major platforms for conducting international trade negotiations.

Course Description A successful manager makes good decisions. To make good decisions, you need to understand the market forces that impact your business and personal life. This is true for managers in large multinationals or small businesses, in non-profit organizations or in the government. Individuals and households also make decisions. They decide on what to learn, where to work, how much to save, where to invest, and what goods to buy, among others. This course provides an overview of economic tools and analytic approaches available to the manager for business decision making. It includes such topics as pricing, forecasting, demand analysis, production and cost analysis, and macroeconomic policy as it affects the business environment. The purpose of this course is to develop an economic perspective that is appropriate for students aspiring to manage varieties of organization.

Course Description This introductory course provides a practical overview of the high-growth area of Supply Chain Finance (SCF)—an emerging proposition in the financing of international commerce which covers the majority of global trade flows. Upon completion, you will be able to engage effectively and credibly with clients, recognize opportunities to propose SCF techniques as potential solutions to the needs of importers or exporters, and correctly describe the nature of SCF relative to traditional trade financing options such as documentary letters of credit.
You will also gain an appreciation for some of the emerging technologies and business models that will shape SCF in the coming years.

Course Description Introductory course on the basic principles of agricultural economics. Production economics, principles of supply and demand, resource economics, world food situation, marketing of agricultural products, and agricultural public policy.

Course Description This courses trains the student in dynamic economic thinking, intertemporal trade-offs, optimal and behavioral aspects of choice, and responses to uncertainty and learning. It draws from a variety of economic fields such as macroeconomics, asset pricing, behavioral economics, climate change economics, decision theory, and more. The overarching theme is the exploration, interpretation, and understanding of dynamic trade-offs in economic reasoning. Methodologically, the class starts with basic reasoning in two period models and moves on to dynamic programming in discrete and continuous time. The class pays particular attention to the fact that the future is uncertain. It explores implications of risk aversion, prudence, and Bayesian learning for decision making and economic dynamics. The seminars will make occasional use of Matlab. Students can use alternative programming language like Python or Julia if they do not require support.

Course Description This course will provide a broad overview of the scholarly field known as "law and economics." The focus will be on how legal rules and institutions can correct market failures. We will discuss the economic function of contracts and, when contracts fail or are not feasible, the role of legal remedies to resolve disputes. We will also discuss at some length the choice between encouraging private parties to initiate legal actions to correct externalities and governmental actors, such as regulatory authorities. Extensive attention will be given to the economics of litigation, and to how private incentives to bring lawsuits differ from the social value of litigation. The economic motive to commit crimes, and the optimal governmental response to crime, will be studied in depth. Specific topics within the preceding broad themes include: The Coase Theorem; the tradeoff between the certainty and severity of punishment; the choice between ex ante and ex post sanctions; negligence versus strict liability; property rules; remedies for breach of contract; and the rule for allocating litigation costs.

Course Description While experiments have been considered for long as a specific domain within economics (“experimental economics”), the experimental method is now widely considered as a tool among others in the typical economist’s toolbox. Its use has shed light on many areas, on the theoretical side (decision theory, game theory, markets) as on the more applied and descriptive ones (policy, development, labor econ., IO, health econ., etc.). It has led to the blossoming of “behavioral economics”, but its general relevance goes much deeper than that. The purpose of this program is to provide young researchers with the methodological skills required to pursue experiments in their own research, with a strong focus on lab experiment.

Course Description This course provides student basic knowledge on the role of digital technology in transforming firms, industries, government and societies. It focuses on how the digital tool can be integrated and harnessed for society. Topic discuss includes AI, communication, Big Data, Fintech, Automation, Block Chain and other topics.

Course Description This course provides an introduction to information technology and computing systems. It covers both the history and theory of information systems as well as the practical application of technologies. The student will be introduced to computer software, hardware, and networking technologies, as well as information security, privacy, and social issues inherent in information technologies. Future trends in information technology are addressed through topics including data mining, visualization, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and Block chain.

Course Description Digital marketing is a major component of marketing today. This course will equip you with practical digital marketing skills to help you build your business, to identify opportunities and minimize risk, to identify the different demographic ’s behaviors of your consumers online, marketing activities and digital marketing strategy.

Course Description Innovation and creativity are two powerful human pursuits. They are ingredients for human prosperity and capacity that are needed to both understand and harness them in your personal and professional projects are certainly a determinant of your future success. We will explore tools and techniques for fostering individual and group creativity, management practices that foster (or inhibit) innovation, methods for developing and evaluating ideas for new products and services, and the business models to execute these ideas, and principles and practices for leading innovation by using a variety of readings and case example.

Course Description Managing cybersecurity is about managing risk, specifically the risk to information assets of valued by an organization to make the organization safe. This course examines the role of governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) as part of the cybersecurity management process, including key functions of planning, policies, and the administration of technologies to support the protection of critical information assets. Topics covered includes : (1) Identify the importance and functions of governance, risk management, and compliance in cybersecurity program management, (2) describe best practices in risk management including the domains of risk assessment and risk treatment, (3) Describe the structure and content of cybersecurity-related strategy, plans, and planning, (4) Identify the key components and methodologies of cybersecurity policies and policy development and (5) discuss the role of performance measures as a method to assess and improve GRC programs.

Course Description This course explores the evolving world of finance, focusing on the changing dynamics caused by technologies and trends in banking and financial services - the digital transformation of finance. You will learn concepts such as digital platforms and business ecosystems, be exposed to the emerging Fintech landscape and master a new toolbox for successfully competing on innovation in the digital era of finance. FinTech brings healthy increased competition and opportunities as well as facilitates financial inclusion but FinTech companies are posing new risks to investors and consumers as well as to financial stability and integrity. Therefore, we also FinTech ecosystems and innovative regulatory approaches.

Course Description This course is designed to introduce the theoretical and practical basis of large scale economic modeling of the global economy for students with a strong understanding of Economics. Students will learn the fundamentals of constructing a global simulation models based on the computable general equilibrium model. They will then analyze a number of macroeconomic policy problems using the computable general equilibrium (CGE) model as the basis for formulating the policy question. They will learn how to use the model to generate a set of results, to interpret those results will write a report that uses those insights to contribute to an existing literature on a major macroeconomic policy problem. Simulation software such as GTAP, GAMS, ARENA will be introduced.

Course Description E-commerce study about the business or trade transaction done either fully or partially through any electronic media such as email, phone, digital media any other internet-based means. The use of electronic commerce technologies has become the best move in current business processes.

Course Description Operations management deals with operational planning and control issues and is needed in all sectors of the society. Operations Research (OR) deals with problem formulation and application of analytical methods to assist in the decision-making of operational problems in planning and control. The techniques of OR are useful quantitative tools to assist operations managers, and has a wide applicability in engineering, manufacturing, construction, financial and various service sectors.

Course Description The 4th Industrial Revolution is characterized by a combination of different technologies coming together, and massive amounts of data being generated. Companies, governments are incorporating Industry 4.0 technologies into their operations, and creating new business models through digitalizing and transforming their products and services. The courses will discuss at strategic technology transformation and how technologies are used in business operations and processes, and technology impact on firms, governments and households.

Course Description The course develops specialist skills and abilities in the design and communication of ideas, interactions, and user experiences. It focusses on three-dimensional design, product styling and form, user research, manufacturing processes and the production of prototypes and finished artifacts. Industrial Design emphasizes the ways that products are experienced by users. Throughout the course you will be expected to apply your understanding of branding, futures concept and the circular economy to the design of future product-service systems. You’ll be taught electronics, mechanics, thermos fluid and more by engineering specialists, while also being taught design skills, digital modelling and 3D printing by design professionals. The result is a well-rounded degree that sets you up to start your career equipped with the skills and knowledge you need.

Course Description The digital economy initially stemmed from the technology sector, but as new tools and techniques have become more accessible and widespread, new digital enterprises and entrepreneurs have begun to emerge in a variety of sectors. Entrepreneurs have been particularly keen to locate opportunities where digital business models can be created to unleash disruptive innovation, with serial venturing teams becoming digital entrepreneurs. The course will provide insight into the emergence of digital entrepreneurship, key concepts, business models and the resources needed to develop successful ventures.

Course Description This subject examines the field of IoT, which is commonly understood to entail the inter-networking of devices in the physical world by fitting them with sensors and network-connected devices. While most courses today treat IoT as a technological topic, this course takes a different approach. IoT is not a technology, it's a leadership opportunity; a mechanism to transform businesses. The course will provide participants with an introduction to the necessary technologies, skill components, and enablers and constraints for using IoT in a business. It provides many examples where IoT is already transforming customer experience, operations and business models.

Course Description Emerging digital and data-enabled technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, big data, and automation, are generating significant interest in a growing number of industries. In the course, you’ll develop a comprehensive taxonomy of AI-enabled use cases and learn how to strategically leverage data-enabled models to implement intelligent processes and systems. You’ll explore the core elements of an enterprise AI strategy, including investment in technical and data infrastructure, developing human-related expertise and capabilities, and implementing structured playbooks to select and manage AI projects.

Course Description As digital technologies continue to reshape industries, many companies are seeking large-scale digital transformation as a way to maximize results and get ahead of their competition. This course takes a deep dive into the five foundational dimensions of digital transformation. These key dimensions help organizations leverage the capabilities provided by technology.

Course Description This course examines blockchain technology from an economic perspective. You’ll be offered a foundational overview of how blockchain technology works, in order to demystify the technology and to understand its possibilities and limitations. The course draws on economic theory to offer participants a deep and practical understanding of blockchain technology, and to effectively demonstrate its meaningful capacity for innovation and efficiency in business.  You’ll gain a deeper understanding of the cost of networking, and learn how blockchain technology can bootstrap and facilitate a marketplace without traditional intermediaries. Using an engaging mix of resources, you’ll be guided to explore the effects of blockchain technology on market power in digital platforms, privacy, and trust.

Course Description Some of the most profitable and successful firms are those that have adopted a digital platform model—a platform strategy whereby the company allows two or more disparate groups to interact over a platform to co-create value; for example, website developers and users on Akamai, recruiters and employees on LinkedIn, and drivers and customers on Uber. The course discusses how to make platform add value for the company, in today’s networked age, the cloud, social media, and mobile devices are fueling this platform competition, and more and more companies.

Course Description This course will provide students with skills needed to analyze financial statements and disclosures for use in financial analysis, and learn how accounting standards and managerial incentives affect the financial reporting process. Students will learn to most common form of financial statement which includes the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows.

Course Description This course will introduce students to the basic concept of management. We will investigate what management is and the role managers play in the fulfillment of an organization's objectives. The content includes an introduction to organizations and the need for and nature of management. It examines the evolution of management theory, organizational environments, and corporate social responsibility and ethics. The course also includes a detailed investigation of the four functions of management: planning and decision making, organizing, leading and motivating, and controlling.

Course Description This course examines individual, interpersonal, and group effectiveness at work. Topics range from decision- making, motivation, and personality to networks, influence, helping, leadership, teamwork, and organizational culture. You gain insight into strategies and methods that cultivate and strengthen group performance, resource management, and organizational dynamics.

Course Description An overview of the ideas, methods, and institutions that permit human society to manage risks and foster enterprise. Description of practices today and analysis of prospects for the future. Introduction to risk management and behavioral finance principles to understand the functioning of securities, insurance, and banking industries.

Course Description Organizations in all sectors require entrepreneurial leaders who can transform innovative ideas into positive impact. Student will learn innovation in design through a response to changing practice, the changing relationship of designers and consumers, of designers and off shore production, of designers to making through innovations in digital fabrication mean that students need to be introduced to new ways of working and thinking about work. This course supports the development of an internationalized cohort of entrepreneurs and innovators who can take advantage of the emerging opportunities in industrial design practice in response to improved global communication, global networks and advanced technologies.

Course Description Explores the impact that supply chain management has on the financial performance of the organization. Coverage includes the impact of supply chain management on financial statements, budgeting, allocation strategies, and related concepts. Students will learn risk management, strategic management, logistics management and how to procure goods and manage supply lines. Students will be introduced to professional software, systems and tools and explore the ethics and sustainability of global supply chains.

Course Description Human Resource Management links people-related activities to business strategy. The course develops a critical understanding of the role and functions of the various human resource activities in an organization, providing students with a comprehensive review of key HRM concepts, techniques and issues. Topics include job analysis and design, recruitment and selection, evaluation, performance management, occupational health and safety, and the strategic contribution of HRM to organizational performance and evaluating HRM effectiveness. Working with contemporary case studies, students not only engage in collaborative and individual work processes but use communication and discourse characteristic of the HRM context and environment.

Course Description In a fast-changing and dynamic business environment, the role of marketing professionals has become more critical in ensuring the long-term success and survival of organizations and brands. Students will learn about branding, consumer psychology, market research and digital marketing, while also considering the environmental and ethical dimensions of marketing practice.

Course Description The course provides detailed knowledge of how financial markets work, how companies make investment, financing, and acquisition decisions, and how modern banks operate. This course will help students to gain skills in making investment decisions in the financial market in the short- and long-term perspective. Students will learn to (1) critically analyze, interpret information from financial markets, (2) develop their own investment strategy, (3) calculate the value of an investment portfolio, (4) use data analysis tools to conduct a scenario analysis of changes in the value of an investment portfolio, and (5) identify and assess the risks of investments.

Course Description This course is an introduction to management information systems and the importance of systems in achieving organizational goals. Topics include how to develop and maintain information systems to gain competitive advantage, to solve business problems, and to improve decision making.

Course Description Simulation is a process of designing and creating computerized models of real or proposed systems for the purpose of conduction numerical experiments to understand and analyze the behavior of the system for a given set of conditions. The course introduces various simulation modeling techniques, using Arena simulation software.

Course Description The aim of Actuarial Statistics is to provide a grounding in mathematical and statistical methods that are of relevance for actuarial work. It equips the student with knowledge of statistical distributions, methods to summarize data, the principles of statistical inference, regression models (including generalized linear models), and the fundamental concepts of Bayesian statistics.  The subject includes both theory and application of the ideas using statistical analysis software.

Course Description The goal of this course is to develop skills for making corporate investment and financing decisions. Topics include discounted cash flow and other valuation techniques; risk and return; capital asset pricing model; corporate capital structure and financial policy; capital budgeting; mergers and acquisitions; and investment and financing decisions in the international context, including exchange rate/interest rate risk analysis.

Course Description This is a course in applied statistics that studies the use of regression techniques for examining relationships between variables. Ordinary linear models and generalized linear models are covered. The course emphasizes the principles of statistical modelling through the iterative process of fitting a model, examining the fit to assess imperfections in the model and suggest alternative models, and continuing until a satisfactory model is reached. Both steps in this process require the use of a computer: model fitting uses various numerical algorithms, and model assessment involves extensive use of graphical displays.

Course Description This course develops actuarial techniques for the valuing of policies which depend on contingent events concerning uncertain lifetimes. Topics include principal forms of heterogeneity within a population and the ways in which selection can occur; definition of simple assurance and annuity contracts; development of formulae for means and variances of the present values of payments; evaluating expected values and variances of simple insurance and annuity contracts; description and calculation of net and gross premiums and provisions for various insurance contracts; and cash flow models and profit tests, extended to multiple decrements and multiple state model.

Course Description This introductory course on the topic of derivatives covers the fundamental knowledge you need to know about derivatives. Students will learn to differentiate between forward, futures, options, and swaps contracts. Students will have the essential knowledge about derivative contracts required to proceed to more advanced topics, such as derivatives pricing and trading, by the end the course. The main objective of this course is to help students gain intuition and to provide the necessary skills for pricing and hedging derivative securities and use them for investment, risk management, and prediction purposes.

Course Description Topics include exact and census methods for estimating transition intensities based on age; goodness of fit and smoothness of graduated estimates versus crude estimates; actuarial modelling; general principles of stochastic processes; Markov chains in actuarial work.

Course Description This subject aims to provide a thorough grounding in stochastic techniques for actuarial studies. It covers some probability concepts including expectations, conditional expectations, joint and marginal distributions, moment generating function and probability generating function; some commonly used probability distributions in insurance and finance; mixed distributions and actuarial applications; ordinary differential equations and actuarial applications; recursive techniques and actuarial applications; actuarial applications of Laws of Large Numbers and Central Limit Theorem; generating and Laplace transforms; actuarial applications of Brownian motion, geometric Brownian motion and lognormal distribution; stochastic integrals and Ito’s formulae.

Course Description This subject aims to provide students with grounding in some topics in actuarial studies, covering distributions of accumulations and present values; stochastic interest rate models; time series models; an introduction to ruin theory; claim run-off triangles; stochastic simulation.

Course Description This course provides a simplified model for solving actuarial problems in practice. Sample actuarial problems are examined in detail, with solutions being developed using Excel and Visual Basic. These solutions are then reported to the stakeholders of the problem. The aim of this course is to develop actuarial capabilities beyond the technical foundations taught in other actuarial courses.

Course Description This course introduces survival models and discusses their rationale, their estimation and their application to mortality. Topics covered will include: an introduction to the life table; survival models; estimation procedures for lifetime distributions; statistical models of transfers between multiple states; maximum likelihood estimation of transition intensities for such models; binomial model of mortality including estimation and comparison with multiple state models; exposed to risk and methods for smoothing crude mortality rate data.

Course Description Emergency management is the organization and management of the resources and responsibilities for dealing with all humanitarian aspects of emergencies (preparedness, response, mitigation, and recovery). The aim is to reduce the harmful effects of all hazards, including disasters. Students and new professionals alike will further gain an enhanced understanding of key terminology and concepts that enable them to work with emergency management specialists. Topic covered includes (1) the historical context of emergency management, (2) natural and technological hazards and risk assessment, (3) the disciplines of emergency management: mitigation, (4) the disciplines of emergency management: preparedness, (5) communications, (6) the disciplines of emergency management: response, (7) the disciplines of emergency management: recovery, (8) international disaster management, (9) emergency management and the terrorist threat, (10) the future of emergency management.

Course Description Hazard prevention and control is a fundamental principle behind any occupational health and safety program. Hazards are present in all workplaces, and can lead to injuries, short and long-term illnesses and diseases, and sometimes even death. Lost productivity, increased costs and, most importantly, human suffering, are three good reasons why it is vitally important to control hazards in the workplace. This course offers awareness of exactly what recognition, evaluation and control of hazards means to the individual and the organization, workplace safety can be improved.

Course Description This subject introduces emergency management planning. It examines the planning process, the specification of emergency management needs, resource availability, needs ratification, organizational design, the selection of emergency management strategies and planning implementation.

Course Description Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are important documents that guide good business practices and contribute to an organization’s compliance with laws and regulations as well as other local or international quality control requirements. Effective SOPs contribute to an organization’s operational efficiency and more importantly, enable its operations to achieve the required level of compliance and quality control. The goal of this course is to develop a general understanding of standard operating procedures (SOPs) and safe work practices (SWPs) and a detailed understanding of how to review systems for risks. Also covered is how to create, communicate and maintain the documents and training associated with these risks.

Course Description Sustainability, vulnerability and resilience are now key words for emergency managers. Disaster plans must incorporate the philosophy of sustainable development. Increasingly communities are being encouraged to find ways to build their resilience, rather than 'waiting for help to arrive'. The degree to which a community is considered resilient is often spoken about in terms of its 'vulnerability'. Through the use of case study examples this subject explores the concepts of sustainability, vulnerability and resilience in both the western and third world context.

Course Description You'll learn how to prepare now to give yourself the very best chance of surviving a life-threatening emergency. You'll not only explore survival skills and strategies, but you'll also hear the stories of individuals who used those techniques to survive real-world situations.

Course Description Living through a disaster is not a question of if—it’s a question of when. Fires, floods, chemical spills, terrorist attacks, and other disasters can happen swiftly and without warning, so it is imperative that we all do what we can now to prepare. Do you know what hazards are most likely in your neighborhood? How will you find out about potential disasters? And how will you communicate with your loved ones? If you had to evacuate without warning, do you know where you will go, and what route you will take? This course offers a practical guide for protecting yourself, your family, and your community. The lectures will arm you with information for planning ahead so you can prepare for the effects of a disaster or catastrophe. You will also learn about the resources and infrastructure in your community that are in place to aid in preparedness, response, and recovery.