What will you learn?
What will you learn?
Every course you study, in whatever major you seek in the Faculty of Business Administration, capitalizes on a set of learning objectives and outcomes. The aforementioned lead to build and enrich prospective competencies and skills much needed by the different business fields.
The Faculty is continuously engaged in improving and providing its students with common learning outcomes shared by all the Eight majors offered by the faculty. These outcomes enrich the necessary skills that students should be taught and which are classified into knowledge skills, thinking skills, subject-based practical skills and skills of life and work. Consequently, students are mentored to acquire employability skills by developing the personal qualities, skills, knowledge, understanding, and attitudes required in rapidly changing economic environments.
The different types of courses making up each of the majors of study are distributed into the student's intended three years program plan. There are five sections in the plan namely, University General Education Requirements (GER), Liberal Arts Electives (GEE), Core Requirements, Major Requirements, and Technical Electives (TE).
What are these majors designed to achieve?
The Faculty of Business Administration offers Eight Majors of study. These majors are designed to prepare you to:
- Acquire knowledge and develop an understanding of the character and content of the general or specific business activities at different scales of operations within a stimulating environment of learning and teaching;
- Develop appropriate and diversified skills in a particular business field whereby, students will be acquainted with the whole value chain constituencies;
- Engage in the selected business entity at all levels of input, transformation and output processes;
- Undertake work-based experiential learning in the field of interest and be able to report about it; and
- Complete an independent comprehensive research and/or entrepreneurial project in the relevant areas of your study.
Knowledge Skills
The knowledge skills represent a set of cognitive abilities learned to carry out specific theoretical tasks required in a domain of study and area of professional practice. The major of study should enable students to:
- Acquire the relevant economic, cultural, political, intellectual and ethical aspects of the business functions;
- Assess and understand the character as well as the social and professional influences of the modern business phenomena;
- Comprehend and apply the latest technologies, practices, and techniques of business leadership, setups, client-based operations, customer-oriented outcomes, local and international growth, and investment returns, and integrated communication;
- Grow a familiarity with a range of interdisciplinary approaches to studying business types, sizes, processes and outcomes; and
- Utilize a comparative understanding of the business input-output processes and outcomes in national and global contexts with the intent of fostering a productive and proactive indigenous and creative output in the local and regional and diversified industries.
Thinking Skills
The thinking skills are part of a set of meta-cognitive aptitudes that enable students to construct rational relations that are characterized by position-taking effects in a particular domain of study. The major of study should allow students to:
- Develop a critically informed framework of analysis of business institutions, practices, and customers;
- Engage critically with the main thinkers, debates and intellectual theories and paradigms in the field;
- Conceptualize the links between theory and practice and how they have a role in providing the features of the modern small, medium and large business processes and outputs;
- Reflect critically on the business's supply chain processes and their influences in creating sustainable socially responsible enterprise in a competitive environment; and
- Examine and scrutinize the complexities of businesses and their cultures as well as their systemic changes in their ecosystem.
Subject-Based Practical Skills
The subject-based practical skills are dispositions internalized from repeated implementation of the knowledge and thinking skills in a specialized domain of study. The selected major of study should provide students with the opportunities to put into practice the following:
- Competence in relevant business and business technologies and techniques including the skills involved in accounting, finance, asset and people management, business information systems, marketing, market intelligence, market growth locally and globally in both conventional and digital contexts;
- Competence in communication (writing and oral) skills in different levels of management contexts that fit the strategic, tactical and operational roles and duties of a range of business setups; and
- Competence in creating dynamic spaces of engagement with a range of client-based operations within a proactive framework for delivering quality services in the business environment.
Skills for life and work
The skills for life and work are those supplementary matrices of aptitude that apply to general domains and diversified contexts, allowing students to adapt with involvement in different social interactions and institutions. The selected program of study combines to the above set of skills to enable students to carry out the following:
- Working independently and as part of a team to organize and manage tasks and workload of different types and complexity business work in an effective way;
- Researching and reporting different types of domains related to diversified enterprises with learning outcomes on how to plan and design research projects; how to locate, select and synthesize sources of information in a professional context; and
- Communicating effectively and confidently on how to present ideas and information accurately and responsibly in diversified private and/or public organizations in different contexts and institutions.