Skills Curriculum
Skills Curriculum
At MU all majors are designed carefully to offer you directly or in an embedded way ‘skills curriculum’ to ensure that you are fully prepared for study and for the world of work.
At level one of the curriculum of study, the courses MIT 200 - Business Software Applications and MAT 210 - Business Math, prepare you to acquire the necessary technology literacy, problem-solving methodology, and numerical applications that are commonly used in a working environment. On the other hand, you will have a vital opportunity, through ENG 201 - English Communication Skills I and ARB 201 - Arabic Communication Skills I, to polish and refine your writing skills and anchoring you in academic reading through the close analysis of key business texts and theory.
At level two, you are engaged in the study of a selected number of courses in Liberal Arts, designed to expand your mind's horizon to cope with important intellectual, social and behavioral skills.
At level three and four, you are also provided with a set of core and major courses that prepare you to have the basic and intermediate fundamental theoretical approaches in the field of business Administration regardless of the major field of specialization.
You are expected for the first year to cover a selection of introductory courses (core courses) on several dimensions of business administration to acquire those transferable professional skills in the areas of accounting, business quantitative methods, microeconomics, management principles, marketing principles and business statistics and probability.
At level four, then, the courses become focused on the heart of the major’s requirements in each field of study offered in the Faculty of Business Administration. Each course covers those fundamental professional skills that are expected of the graduate students by the industry. The range of major courses enables the student to have a command on theory, however, in the context of professional practice.
There is around 40% (27/69) of the major courses that are geared in the curriculum for level four (Major Courses) to equip students for work in the industry. ECO 310 Intermediate Economics, ECO 390 Introduction to Econometrics, ACC 310 Cost Accounting, ACC 320 Intermediate Accounting, FIN 340 Banking Operations, FIN 320 Financing Small Business, MGT 320 Quality Management Systems, MGT 330 Human Resources Management, and HRM 310 Organizational Effectiveness, are few examples of the courses' role in enabling students to have a sound understanding and hands-on experience to certain dimensions of work in the range of institutions and organizations.
Students at level four in all majors will also be expected to cover a three-credit course named: Professional Placement (or Practical Training or Internship), by securing a temporary job in one of the functional areas of the companies that match their interest and area of specialization. This is a crucial step at level four to attain all the Curriculum Vitae (CV), profiling, interviewing skills necessary for them to obtain a professional placement and be in a confident position to immerse into the dynamics of the real work environment. By the end of the professional placement, students should deliver a report on their work experience and present their findings to an appropriate jury of instructors.
The Faculty will be there to help/assist students in identifying both the companies that are ready to receive students on work placement and the skills that optimize their opportunity to get a place in the selected institution for work.
Students at level four are well prepared to take on board more integrative and research-based specialty in a particular area of interest. The courses involve lengthy research, known as a capstone project to help them understand and have the experience of researching methodically a particular area in the company's divisions and functions.
Having also the Final Project course will enable students to investigate different methods and approaches in business administration research, and will allow them to develop independently their skills in research and analysis that are extensively required, as set by the ‘employability skills curriculum’, from any prospective person to go to a working environment.
In the aforementioned courses, students pursue a topic of interest to them in detail with support from lecturers via seminar workshops and individual tutorial as in the case of Professional Training Practices and Final Project courses.
At level five of the study (Major Technical Electives), students are expected to have already acquired the necessary knowledge and skills from the previous levels in different fields of business administration.