German University in Cairo - Course Catalogue

Course Catalogue

Department of Accounting & Finance

CTRL101 Financial Accounting I

This is a basic course that introduces students to accounting as an information system which facilitates informed economic decision-making by a variety of users. The course explains the significant impact that accounting information has on the business world today and the role that accountants play in providing this information. The course explains the principles of financial accounting and their application in recording, posting, summarizing and reporting financial data in the form of financial statements for a sole proprietorship.

CTRL202 Financial Accounting II

This course is a continuation of CTTL101 and designed to improve students' understanding of basic financial accounting concepts, principles, rules and procedures. In this course, students will learn the accounting treatment for current assets, long-term assets, current liabilities, longterm liabilities, and stockholders’ investment in the firm under generally accepted accounting principles.

CTRL301 Management Accounting I

Success in any organization, no matter what size or type of organization, requires the use of managerial accounting concepts and practices. Managerial accounting provides key data for managers to make decisions related to planning, controlling, organizing, directing and motivating. It allows managers to understand cost behavior; determine costs of various objects; prepare budgets; evaluate performances; and assess projects, while taking into consideration various ethical, motivational, and behavioral issues

CTRL402 Management Accounting II

This course provides key data for managers to make decisions related to planning, controlling, organizing, directing and motivating as success in any organization, no matter what size or type of organization, requires the use of managerial accounting concepts and practices. Managerial accounting. It allows managers to understand cost behaviour; determine costs of various objects; prepare budgets; evaluate performances; and assess projects, while taking into consideration various ethical, motivational, and behavioural issues.

CTRL505 Auditing

This course will integrate the most important concepts of auditing as well as certain practical aspects in a logical manner to assist students in understanding audit decision-making and evidence accumulation. This is in addition to understanding the main aspects and ethics an auditor should follow as well as the scope of auditor responsibility. The course familiarizes the students with the important concepts, procedures and techniques, which the audit function is based on. It also enables the students to appreciate the importance of auditing in modern business societies; to a have a more in depth view on the phases of the audit process as well as it places a good corner stone to help them to start their profession practically.

CTRL606 Taxation

This course is an introduction to fundamental personal income tax principles and practices. It provides students with an overall understanding of taxation concepts and principles and introduces the institutional environment related to tax regulation. Second, it discusses the basics of tax planning for individuals and corporations. Finally, the course also explains the Egyptian tax regulations (Law no. 91 for the year 2005) related to computation of individual tax liability. Through discussing the tax rules, the course also aims at providing students with an understanding of the role of taxation in investment and business decision making. In addition some advanced taxation topics are incorporated in the course in order to deepen the understanding the tax accounting, tax law, and impact of tax imposition over the probability and business results of the corporations.

CTRL 710 Contemporary Issues in Accounting

The aim of this course is to enhance students’ abilities to conceive and delve into interesting internationally-sought topics in Accounting. The course offering will present a variety of topics with the aim of exposing students to new and contemporary trends in Accounting thought as well as emphasizing the concept of interdisciplinary in recent literature.

CTRL711 Financial & Management Control Systems

The course mainly stresses on the importance of planning, budgeting and forecasting as a crucial tool for decision making required by managers in successful organizations. This involves discrimination between relevant and irrelevant information for making decisions and explaining why pricing decisions depend on the characteristics of the market, deciding whether to make or to buy certain parts or products and to add or delete a product line using relevant information and to keep or replace equipment, discussing how performance measures can affect decision making, as well as preparing different budgets and analysing their variance with the companies’ actual performance as well as a combination of other methods used in decision making, as well as describing the relationship of management control systems to organizational goals and developing performance measures and using them to monitor the achievements of an organizations.

CTRL712 Financial Reporting & Analysis

The aim of this course is to develop a thorough understanding of portfolio formation and management and analysis of investments in financial securities. The course consists of lectures and applications. Lectures focus on theory with numerical examples, while the applications are conducted through a comprehensive project that will focus on using the concepts in real life Egyptian market cases. The project is done using Excel spreadsheets. The course requires the student to have a good background in finance, economics and statistics.

CTRL713 Intermediate Accounting I

The course provides an in-depth examination of the theory, principles, procedures, practices and problems associated with measurement of items presented on financial statements. Particular emphasis is placed on the asset side of the balance sheet. Topics include: review of the accounting process; preparation of financial statements; receivables; inventory; property, plant and equipment; and intangibles.

CTRL714 Intermediate Accounting II

This course is a continuation of Intermediate Accounting I. The course enables students to gain an understanding of current generally accepted accounting practices relating to various accounting issues, with emphasis on liabilities and owners' equity. Topics include: bonds payable; stockholders’ equity; investments; revenue recognition; and leases. Special consideration is given to reporting accounting changes and error analysis.

CTRL 715 Public Sector Accounting and Budgeting

The aim of this course is to address the new trend in public sector accounting and budgeting reform and changing the accountability concept: from accountability in terms of procedural compliance to accountability in terms of efficiency and results (effectiveness and cost effectiveness). It also provides an overview of the new public governance and how it can be applied to the public sector in alignment with the new concept of the accountability. The public sector accounting and budgeting reform primarily aims to provide information for better decisions so that governmental entities improve the use of their resources to achieve their objectives and to put emphasis on what governmental entities produce rather than on what they have available to spend.

CTRL 716 Accounting Information Systems

The aim of this course is to provide a thorough understanding of the information systems that support the accounting function. This course explores business processes and transaction cycles, related internal controls, and the use of computers as tools for the collection, organization, analysis and reporting of accounting data. Rapid development of information technology and the trends of using IT in different disciplines have driven modern businesses to use big data, data analytics and cloud solutions in accounting functions. Students will learn new developments in accounting along with getting hands-on experience on using accounting software.

CTRL717 International Accounting

The aim of this course is to familiarize students with contemporary and conceptual issues in the area of international financial accounting and reporting. The course will cover topics such as national/international voluntary and mandatory accounting regulations; conceptual frameworks and their effects; asset, liability, revenue and expense controversies; accounting research and professional issues; earnings management; value and business relevance of accounting numbers; and practitioner and professional domains.

CTRL720 Seminar in Accounting

This is a research based course that provides students with the necessary skills that enable them to conduct academic research in their major field of study. The seminar is designed to help students conduct systematic studies according to scientific standards in the area of specialization and prepare for future academic work such as Bachelor thesis. The student signs up for a topic, gathers and evaluates literature, and then integrates this into a coherent manuscript. Students writing successful work will be asked to present their work to the class at the end of the semester.

FINC403 Managerial Finance

The purpose of this course is to teach students the main concepts and theories of finance. Students will be introduced to the managerial finance world and learn how to analyze financial statements. Moreover, by the end of the course students should have mastered the important concepts of finance such as, time value of money, interest rates and bond valuation, risk and return, and stock valuation. Such concepts are essential and extended on throughout the corporate finance course FINC504.

FINC504 Corporate Finance

This course focuses on understanding the tools of corporate finance and its applications. Topics include net present value and other capital budgeting techniques, making investment decisions, risk analysis, capital structure and dividend policy and some other important topics in finance and international finance. Most of the concepts will be applied to the Egyptian market through student assignments/projects.

FINC505 Corporate Finance for BI

This course focuses on understanding the tools of corporate finance and its applications. Students will be introduced to the finance world and learn how to analyze financial statements. Moreover, by the end of the course students should have mastered the important concepts of finance such as, time value of money, risk and return, interest rates and bond valuation , capital budgeting techniques, making investment decisions, and capital structure. Most of the concepts will be applied to both the international and Egyptian market through student assignments/projects.

FINC 710 Contemporary Issues in Finance

The aim of this course is to enhance students’ abilities to conceive and delve into interesting internationally-sought topics in Finance. The course offering will present a variety of topics with the aim of exposing students to new and contemporary trends in Financial thought as well as emphasizing the concept of interdisciplinarity in recent literature.

FINC711 Advanced Corporate Finance

This course focuses on financial market and highlights some topics in finance. Moreover, understanding foreign exchange markets are topics which are included under financial markets. Throughout this course students will also learn fundamentals of risk in Foreign Exchange Market, and hedging risk in the foreign exchange markets. Other topics include market indices, market efficiency and Mergers and Acquisitions.

FINC712 Portfolio Management & Investment

FINC713 Banking Management & Credit Analysis

The objective of the course is to present and discuss state of the art bank management tools. This includes basic techniques like RoE-based profitability management and advanced tools like the matched funds transfer price concept. Moreover, students learn throughout this course a value based management concept as well as banking related issues of risk management such as addressing credit risk management. Finally, an introduction to Islamic banks is presented to provide the students an understanding of the available banking models and learn the basic Islamic banking operations. The course is backed by a banking simulation that enhances the students’ understanding of the course material.

FINC714 Derivatives

The aim of this course is to develop a thorough understanding of financial derivative instruments and their applications in risk management. This course presents the terminology, characteristics, techniques, and pricing of main derivatives markets; forwards, futures, swaps, and options. The uses of such markets in risk management are studied in details, with particular attention to constructing strategies and financial engineering. The course also introduces the pricing formulas, uses, and applications.

FINC 715 Corporate Risk Management

This course aims to provide an in-depth analysis of the operational and financial risks faced by firms in an ever changing global environment. It will analyze the different methods of managing these risks including loss prevention, risk control, corporate insurance programs and use of derivatives. It will compare and contrast tools and techniques used to manage risk at corporate and strategic business levels.

FINC 716 Empirical Finance

The aim of this course is to enable the students to understand and apply advanced empirical research methods in the context of finance. The course includes an integration of theory, methods and examples, through which students will learn to manage and interpret financial information in line with the finance theory. Students will learn to intensively and efficiently utilize Excel to obtain the practical skills necessary for studying the course. The course concentrates on several topics, such as tests for information efficiency, event study, risk quantification, portfolio valuation, and asset pricing models.

FINC 717 Investment and Security Analysis

The aim of this course is to provide a good understanding of the field of investments. It focuses on the trade-off between risk and return, introduces the investment environment, objectives of investment, investment process, and investment alternatives. It explains the fundamental and technical analysis. The Fundamental analysis includes the economic analysis, industry analysis and company analysis. While the Technical analysis focuses on assumptions Dow theory, chart patterns, moving averages and market indicators. In addition to Valuation of fixed income, that is Bond fundamentals: bond analysis and valuation, bond characteristics, pricing and yields.

FINC720 Seminar in Finance

This is a research based course that provides students with the necessary skills that enable them to conduct academic research in their major field of study. The seminar is designed to help students conduct systematic studies according to scientific standards in the area of specialization and prepare for future academic work such as Bachelor thesis. The student signs up for a topic, gathers and evaluates literature, and then integrates this into a coherent manuscript, project, etc. Students writing successful work will be asked to present their work to the class at the end of the semester.

Department of Business Informatics and Operations Management

INSY301 Information Systems I

As information systems (IS) become a core part of today’s business, understanding the technical, managerial and organizational aspects related to information systems is essential for successful business. This course provides the basic knowledge for dealing with information systems such as information processing, technical infrastructure, and organizational management. It introduces the relevant viewpoints and methods, and takes the first steps towards running successful IS projects.

INSY402 Information Systems II

Information Systems II is an advanced course of Information Systems I. The course provides students with enough knowledge and skills that allow them to build and manage Information Systems projects in different fields. Also, it provides students with information about how to utilize the internet technology to enhance Information Systems efficiency.

INSY711 Information Management

Information & Communication Architecture II provides an in-depth understanding of form and content of business information and communication and how the flow of information can be structured and supported through IT.

INSY712 Electronic Business & Government

The phenomenal growth of the Internet usage has become an essential part of any modern business that is serious about reaching out to its customers and supporting its own employees. This course aims to provide students with a broad perspective of the roles of e-business in modern societies as well as organizations.

INSY713 Business Intelligence

Integrated concepts for management support – termed Business Intelligence – are the topics of this course. Data Warehouses, Data Marts and analytical systems like Decision Support Systems, Online Analytical Processing or Data Mining are introduced as well as conceptoriented systems like Balanced Scorecard Systems.

INSY714 IT Project Management

This course provides basic knowledge for managing IT or IS projects through planning and execution of lifecycle phases. It includes estimating costs, managing risks, scheduling, staff and resource allocation, team building, communication, tracking, control and other aspects of successful project completion.

BINF 302 Enterprise Systems

Enterprise Systems course provides an in-depth understanding of enterprise-wide software systems – commonly referred to as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems or Enterprise Systems (ES). These are large-scale application systems that encompass most, if not all of an organization’s business processes and beyond.

INSY715 Digital Transformation

The course introduces the fundamental concepts of digitalization, digital disruption and digital transformation, and exemplifies these concepts in the area of e-business, e-commerce, CRM and digital government. Students are exposed to key transformation mechanisms including data analytics, business intelligence, business-IT alignment, innovation and change management.

INSY720 Seminar in Information Systems

OPER501 Operations I

The overall aims of the course are to acquaint students with the basic concepts of managing manufacturing and service operations and its physical resources; mainly facilities, machines, and equipment. The process of decision making concerning these operations and physical resources is usually done through the Production and Operations Department. Effective managers in the global era must realize the importance of operations quality and have the right tools for making good choices for their business; hence they must realize that the most important part of the business management is their awareness of production / operations basic concepts.

OPER602 Operations II

The aim of the course is to take you to a higher level with deeper insights of the subject matters of Operations Management. The issues this course will address will enable you to have a better understanding of several aspects in any operational process. Although there are differences on how the different industries run their businesses, still there is a common ground based in the generic Operations Management tools and techniques used that plays an important role in any company’s success or failure. The course will acquaint the students with a variety of topics including Supply Chain Management, what is forecasting and its techniques, how to effectively manage your inventory, how to have a successful aggregate plan, what is MRP and how to process it, you will get acknowledged to the Quality Control process and the tools used to monitor it (ex. Control charts).

BINF 405 Information & Communication Architecture II

BINF 404 E-business & E-government

OPER 710 Contemporary Issues in Operations Management

The aim of this course is to enhance students’ abilities to conceive and delve into interesting internationally-sought topics in Operations Management. The course offering will present a variety of topics with the aim of exposing students to new and contemporary trends in Operations Management thought as well as emphasizing the concept of interdisciplinarity in recent literature.

OPER711 Operations Research

An effective manager is the one who makes good choices amongst alternative courses of actions. Next to the qualitative ability of managers, some knowledge of quantitative methods is especially crucial to them. This does not mean that an effective manager must be mathematically skilled or must personally develop models and solutions. The ability to know where, when, and how to use quantitative methods to make optimal decisions, gives managers a competitive advantage. As a minimum requirement, any exposure to quantitative methods will teach future managers to ask the right questions and to recognize when outside help may be useful. Therefore, the goal of this course is to: "Familiarize students, who are expected to be future effective managers, with the important quantitative techniques and to expose them to a variety of practical applications".

CSEN 404 Introduction to Networks

The main goal of this course is to give the students a solid grounding in the central concepts of communication networks. The Internet, which is an important part of the communication infrastructure, is considered throughout the course as a case study. Students will be able to understand fundamental issues covering network architectures, protocols, interfaces and applications.

CSEN 501 Data Bases I

Students learn about database systems in general and how to work with them. In addition, they study the state-of-the-art theoretical concepts behind building them. Students are introduced to utilize the previous concepts through using an actual SQL-based database system and its accompanying management studio.

OPER712 Manufacturing Strategy

This is an integrative course in Operations, which tries to present global operations concepts in a unified fashion. The course deals with the structural changes that corporations have to make in facilities, locations, technologies, and organizational structure. The course also deals with infrastructural changes—management policies and practices that enable the structure to operate at its full potential.

OPER713 Operations in Service Organisations

A whole range of issues pertinent to a wide range of service organizations and sectors is captured in this course. It is structured to allow the emphasis on the various operations challenges across sectors or to focus on particular sectors and interests. Illustrations are provided from all types of service activities, such as Business-to-business services, Businessto-consumer services, Internal services, Government-to-consumer (public sector) services,

Not-for-profit services, and also from a wide range of sectors such as: Hotel and catering, Leisure, Hospitals, Education, Legal services, Consulting, Police, Banking, Faith organizations, Software companies, Internet services, Retailers, Transport companies, Utilities, Charities, etc….

OPER714 Supply Chain Management

Students learn how companies plan and manage inventories in a supply chain under the considerations of, i.e., forecasting methods, economics of scale, or uncertainty. Further fields of study: supply chain performance; achieving strategic fit & scope; supply chain drivers and obstacles; demand forecasting in a supply chain; aggregate planning in the supply chain; planning supply and demand in the supply chain.

OPER 715 Sustainable Supply Chain Management

To survive in today’s competitive environment, organizations need not only have an efficient and effective supply chain for the context in which they operate, but they have to consider issues of sustainability in their supply chain strategies. Supply chain sustainability, will define what a sustainable supply chain means. These issues are a consideration beyond those of environmental sustainability and encompass social sustainability (ethics and wellbeing), financial sustainability, and network sustainability. Supply chain sustainability, introduces four sustainability perspectives; the environmental, the financial, the social, and the external stakeholder or network, and discusses how these perspectives can assess the sustainability of any supply chain.

OPER720 Seminar in Operations Management

This is a research based course that provides students with the necessary skills that enable them to conduct academic research in their major field of study. The seminar is designed to help students conduct systematic studies according to scientific standards in the area of specialization and prepare for future academic work such as Bachelor thesis. The student signs up for a topic, gathers and evaluates literature, and then integrates this into a coherent manuscript, project, etc. Students writing successful work will be asked to present their work to the class at the end of the semester.

CSIS 102 Introduction to Computer Sciences

CSIS 102 is an introduction to fundamentals of Computer Science. The purpose of this course is to gain a broad oversight of the discipline of formal computer science. This will allow the students to, not only use computers and software efficiently, but to understand the ideas underlying their creation and implementation. Students will be able to understand fundamental issues as algorithms, hardware design and system software.

MATH 105 Mathematics for BI I

This course Math105 is designed to introduce BI students to an introduction to Calculus. This course starts with the concepts of functions, graphs, limits, continuity, Differentiation, Integration and some applications. The main goal of this course is to enable the students to apply mathematical tools to solve real life problems. Thus, in this course we will have a close look at Management and Business applications such as finding the optimal profit or the minimal cost.

BINF 201 Introduction to Business Informatics

This course introduces the core subjects of Business Informatics and lays the ground for all following specific courses, which interrelate the business and the computing perspective. It offers an overview of information systems (IS). It focuses on key business applications as well as on the required information technology (IT) infrastructure.

CSEN 909 Human Computer Interaction

This course is taught as a combination of social and computer science to understand peoples´ lives before any technological development takes place. It is not a technology course. Any technological knowledge that might be needed for the group projects is expected to be selftaught. This course teaches the student how to look at technology from the human perspective.

CSEN 911 Data Mining

Data mining is the discovery of patterns and hidden information in large data sets. This course is aiming at the understanding of the data mining concepts and techniques. The course provides students with detail about most aspects of data mining and knowledge discovery.

CSEN 202 Introduction to Computer Programming

This course aims at building and enhancing the student’s programming basics through multiple topics covered and taught in Java. The course starts with mapping from Python language to Java. Overall, the focus is to empower the student’s capability of solving problems and doing so efficiently.

BINF 303 Information & Communication Architecture I

Information & Communication Architecture I provides an in-depth understanding of form and content of business information and communication and how the flow of information can be structured and supported through IT.

CSIS 301 Data Structures & Algorithms

Intended for students who have a working knowledge of the core Java programming language, this course introduces classical data structures and algorithms in a programming perspective. Students will learn about tools and strategies that have proven themselves useful in modeling real-world problems and solving problems on a computer.

INSY710 Contemporary Issues in Information Systems

The aim of this course is to enhance students’ abilities to conceive and delve into interesting internationally-sought topics in IS. The course offering will present a variety of topics with the aim of exposing students to new and contemporary trends in IS thought as well as emphasizing the concept of interdisciplinarity in recent literature.

BINF 406 Digital Transformation

CSEN 401 Programming Lab

The aim of this course is to teach students about the concepts of object oriented programming (OOP) through learning about JAVA programming language. The basic concepts covered are summarized as the four features of OOP along with exception handling and graphical user interfaces.

CSEN 507 Theory of Computation for BINF

The theory of computation comprises the mathematical underpinnings of computer science. It introduces three major topics: formal languages and automata theory, computability theory, and complexity theory.

CSEN 604 Data bases II

Students will gain in depth knowledge of the internals of a Database Management System to prepare them to be designers, developers and sophisticated administrators of such complex system. Students will learn how a database engine is architected, how to optimize an SQL query, how to work with the query planar.

CSEN 603 Software Engineering

The course is an introduction to the discipline of Software Engineering. Students will explore the major phases of the Software Lifecycle, including analysis, specification, design, implementation, and testing. Techniques for creating documentation and using software development tools will be presented. Students will develop a software system, working in a team.

BINF 609 Enterprise Systems Applications

The goal of this course is to enable students to learn about the scope of the various ES, their modular components, and other issues related to their implementation, upgrade, integration, security, continuance, and retirement.

BINF710 Contemporary Issues in Business Informatics

The aim of this course is to enhance students’ abilities to conceive and delve into interesting internationally-sought topics in Business Informatics. The course offering will present a variety of topics with the aim of exposing students to new and contemporary trends in Business Informatics thought as well as emphasizing the concept of interdisciplinary in recent literature.

BINF 711 Information Security

The goal of Information Security course is to familiarize students with the security issues and technologies involved in modern information systems. Students will study and understand various information and network attacks and trade-offs in protecting them.

BINF 712 E- Business Development

Students will understand the different types of websites over the internet and how they could develop a successful websites using different applications. The process of developing e-Business websites is explained from both theoretical and practical prospective.

BINF 713 Digital Marketing

The Introduction to Digital Marketing course will enable students to bind the power of Digital Marketing as a core driver of the marketing strategy of the Business. This course is designed to survey the landscape of social media tools with a special focus on analyzing their role as an effective mean of communications.

CSEN 901 Artificial Intelligence

The course starts with an attempt to identify exactly what we mean by "intelligence". The history and philosophical foundations of AI are then glossed over. Since most AI problems could be conceptualized as search problems, an intensive study of search algorithms comes next.

BINF 506 Research Methodology

One of the most important conceptual and technical managerial skills is the ability to solve organizational problems and make decisions using a systematic research methodology. The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the fundamentals of business research methods. The course will focus on the research processes including the strength and weaknesses of the various research methods.

BINF 720 Business Informatics Seminar

The seminar in business informatics provides students with a wide range of knowledge in various information systems' topics through the case study approach. This includes enterprise systems, software as a service, decision making, IT investment in organizations, etc. In parallel, students conduct a literature review on a selected topic and prepare their thesis proposal.

Department of Economics

ECON101 Introduction to Economics

The course is a requirement for all management undergraduate students in order to familiarize them with the basic economic concepts and principles. The course introduces the students to the various mechanisms by which the economy operates whether on the individual and the market level (micro-level) or on the economy-wide level (macro-level).

ECON302 Microeconomics

The course is a requirement for all management undergraduate students in order to deepen their understanding of principles of microeconomic analysis. The course lays the basic foundations of microeconomics by covering supply and demand, the logic of individual choice, and introduces different market structures and policies. The course introduces some application to microeconomic analyses such as: applications of demand and supply elasticities and the role of government intervention and taxation policies.

ECON403 Macroeconomics

The course covers the national income analysis, tools of Macroeconomics (consumption & investment functions), Keynesian Analysis (Multiplier Model), Macroeconomic policies (fiscal and monetary policies), unemployment and inflation.

ECON504 Economic Development

The course is a requirement for all management undergraduate students. The course is divided into two parts: The first part familiarizes students with development from a global perspective in which students will be introduced to the basic notions, concepts and theories of development and growth. The second part is dedicated to study the most important contemporary economic problems facing developing countries like unemployment, poverty, the population problem, education, income inequality, and environmental problems.

ECON605 Money & Banking

This course aims at providing students with basic knowledge of how financial markets and intermediaries operate. It introduces them to the economic concept of money, how it has evolved overtime, and how it can be measured. In addition, this course shows how the efficiency of the financial system affects the performance of the aggregate economy as a whole. Topics to be covered include: the nature of money, the behavior of interest rates, the money multiplier, tools of the central bank in money supply creation and control, and principles of bank management. Moreover, this course helps students to relate theoretical study to real practice in the Egyptian Economy e.g. Central Bank of Egypt.

ECON 710 Contemporary Issues in Economics

The aim of this course is to enhance students’ abilities to conceive and delve into interesting internationally-sought topics in Economics. The course offering will present a variety of topics with the aim of exposing students to new and contemporary trends in Economic thought as well as emphasizing the concept of interdisciplinarity in recent literature.

ECON711 Microtheory

This course provides an understanding of basic concepts of analysing the behaviour of consumers as well as firms under both perfect competition and monopoly. Simple concepts of assessing social welfare will be introduced and applied to the comparative static analysis of the market outcome under different market structures and of government policies.

ECON712 Macrotheory

A thorough study of the macroeconomic theory and the analysis of macroeconomic policy (fiscal policy, monetary policy) in closed and open economies. With emphasis on the integration of the goods, financial and labor to a coherent whole.

ECON713 International Trade

This course aims at introducing students to how nations are closely linked through trade in goods and services, flows of money, and investment in each other’s economies. Topics to be covered include: gains from trade; models that shape the patterns of trade, such as: the gravity model, the Ricardian model, and the Hecksher-Ohlin model of trade. Other topics covered in the course include: instruments of trade policy; national income and balance of payments accounts.

ECON714 Introduction to Econometrics

This course is an introduction to the basic econometric methods used in empirical economic and business research. The participants will learn how to set up, estimate and discuss econometric models which are used to test theories.

ECON 715 European Economic Policy

In this course, the aim is to analyze domestic and foreign economic policy. In particular, it investigates current issues such as policy making on the basis of social choice principles and the normative and positive theory of economic policy in a global economy as well as issues concerning the establishment of international public institutions that can match the global reach of private institutions (markets and firms) which, in turn, generate many of today's economic challenges. Broad in scope, this module is aimed at students who have completed micro and macroeconomic courses in economics.

ECON 716 Behavioral Economics

The aim of this course is to provide a basic understanding of the comparatively novel research program of behavioral economics. Behavioral economics builds on standard microeconomics, but attempts to make the models used there more ‘realistic’, particularly by drawing inspiration from cognitive psychology. The course gives an overview of the development of this research program, presents its main findings, and critically discusses recent suggestions to derive practical policy implications (‘behavioral public policies’).

ECON 717 Environmental Economics

The aim of this course is to orient students with topics in Environmental Economics. In a world of increasing scarcity and competing demands, economic analysis can guide public policy to efficient valuation, management, utilization and distribution of environmental and natural resources. Further to identify and use economic analytical techniques to solve problems associated with environmental degradation. Market failures are the cause of many of our most serious environmental problems, but can be remedied with economic tools.

ECON720 Seminar in Economics

This is a research based course that provides students with the necessary skills that enable them to conduct academic research in their major field of study. The seminar is designed to help students conduct systematic studies according to scientific standards in the area of specialization and prepare for future academic work such as Bachelor thesis. The student signs up for a topic, gathers and evaluates literature, and then integrates this into a coherent manuscript, project, etc. Students writing successful work will be asked to present their work to the class at the end of the semester.

Department of Management & Organization

MGMT101 Introduction to Management

This course introduces the students to the basic functions of management; planning, organizing, leading and control. The courses discuss issues such as management roles, competencies, decision making and leadership. Special emphasis is made to discuss the application of Western management concepts and techniques to Egyptian organizations and business ethics.

MGMT501 Business Ethics

In an intellectually-stimulating environment, this course will expose students to issues of sustainability, ethics, and corporate social responsibility. The course will also equip students with hands-on international tools that they can effectively use in decision making relevant to day-to-day ethical dilemmas that they face at work settings. In general, the course is intended to make students acquainted with state-of-the-art knowledge of business ethics, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and sustainability in terms of both theory and application. The course provides a closer look into the stakeholders involved in a company’s business relationships. Throughout the course material, we touch upon several different topics that broaden students’ perspectives on relevant best practices; including codes of ethics development, CSR, international cases of unethical practice, factors affecting ethical decision making, and sustainability..

MGMT502 Research Methodology

MGMT604 Quantitative & Qualitative Analysis

This is an intermediate course that provides students of all management majors with basic and intermediate quantitative & qualitative techniques, methods & tools that help researchers in data analysis as well as decision makers to make rational decisions concerning actual life business and economic practices.

HROB201 Human Resource Management

Human resource management (HRM) is considered an important source of organizational competitive advantage. This course introduces students to the basic fundamentals of HR with practical application to companies in Egypt. Topics covered include: strategies, policies and practices of managing people within organizations. Topics covered include HR planning, recruitment, selection, and compensation, training and performance management.

HROB203 Human Resource Management for BI

HROB502 Organisational Behaviour

Organizational behavior (OB) focuses on the complexity of human behavior at the workplace. The course presents basic ideas and theories from the behavioral sciences as they apply to human behavior in organizations. Topics covered in the course focus on exploring the complexity of human behavior at the workplace and reviewing the applicability of western OB theories to the Egyptian/Arab workplace. In addition to that, the course helps students to read and write in the area of OB and develop their interpersonal skills as potential future managers.

HROB 710 Contemporary Issues in Human Resource Management and Organization Behaviour

The aim of this course is to enhance students’ abilities to conceive and delve into interesting internationally-sought topics in HROB. The course offering will present a variety of topics with the aim of exposing students to new and contemporary trends in HROB thought as well as emphasizing the concept of interdisciplinarity in recent literature.

HROB711 Leadership & Motivation

Organizations are complex systems that call for sustainable leadership practices and processes. Leadership and Motivation is about understanding the true meaning of leadership as well as the different approaches leaders use to understand, motivate and inspire followers in their organizations. Managing others effectively requires certain skills, talents and strengths. The students learn about different leadership styles, ethical leadership and approaches for understanding people and motivating them. Students also learn about sustainability and innovation and their link to leadership.

HROB712 Organisational Change

Change is inevitable, and in today's organizations, change is occurring at an unprecedented rate. Due to a dynamic environments and global and regional instability, managers must be able to quickly devise and implement strategies to initiate desired change. This course focuses on organizational theories that address organizational design and change. Students will gain understanding of how organizations work and the ways managers and leaders seek to promote organizational effectiveness through organizational structure, strategy and processes.

HROB713 Compensation & Performance Management

This course focuses on the design and implementation of compensation systems in Egypt. The course covers topics including the legal environment of pay in Egypt, internal equity, external competitiveness, and incentive system. The course also covers performance appraisal systems as the cornerstone of merit pay.

HROB714 Staffing & Development

Organizational performance depends on the quality of the organization’s staffing and development practices. As such, organizations not only compete for customers, but also for talent. This course focuses on providing an overview of the processes and techniques, by which organizations acquire, deploy and develop human resources. Emphases will be placed on how such practices are shaped by the organization’s strategy and how they affect organizational structure.

HROB 715 Wellbeing and Positive Psychology

The aim of this course is to empower students with knowledge and tools that foster their selfdevelopment and self-leadership capacities. It introduces students to the cognitive behavioral model and the internal family systems model, two evidence-based approaches in positive psychology. These models equip students with tools to build healthy self-awareness and selfregulation in personal and professional contexts, through focusing on their cognition, emotions and behavior.

HROB 716 Human Resource Management Information Systems

The aim of this course is to provide students with an introduction to human resource management information systems used in business organizations. Specifically, the course will focus on the design, acquisition and implementation of such systems. The course also focuses on how such systems are used in areas such as talent management and staffing and performance management. Particular attention will be given to the opportunities and challenges of such systems in Egyptian organizations

HROB 717 Organization Development

The aim of this course is to provide students with an introduction to the field of organization development (OD). The course focuses on the basic philosophical and theoretical principles of OD. The course also covers the selection and implementation of OD interventions at the individual, group and organization levels. Particular attention is given to use of OD in Egyptian organizations.

HROB720 Seminar in HR & OB

This is a research based course that provides students with the necessary skills that enable them to conduct academic research in their major field of study. The seminar is designed to help students conduct systematic studies according to scientific standards in the area of specialization and prepare for future academic work such as Bachelor thesis. The student signs up for a topic, gathers and evaluates literature, and then integrates this into a coherent manuscript, project, etc. Students writing successful work will be asked to present their work to the class at the end of the semester.

IBUS 710 Contemporary Issues in International Business

The aim of this course is to enhance students’ abilities to conceive and delve into interesting internationally-sought topics in international business. The course offering will present a variety of topics with the aim of exposing students to new and contemporary trends in international business thought as well as emphasizing the concept of interdisciplinary in recent literature.

IBUS711 Transnational Management

This course provides students with a basic understanding of how to manage a business across borders. Following an introduction into what international business and management implies, the course will take you through fundamental dimensions of managing a transnational corporation. We will commence or journey by taking a brief look at the environment of international management. Building on this understanding, the course addresses core issues of managing multinational corporations (MNC). This involves first of issues of strategic choice at the level of the MNC at large all the way down to strategic choices with respect to market entry, organizing and controlling operations as well as knowledge transfer on a global scale. It involves, secondly, some insight into core dimensions of people management across cultures and borders. Specifically, we will take a closer look at issues of cross-national/cultural communication, negotiation, leadership and HRM peculiar to the setting of a MNC. And last but not least will concern ourselves with questions of ethics and corporate social responsibility.

IBUS712 International Business Policy

The main goal of this course is to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the environmental complexity of international business and management. This course begins with a brief overview of international business, focusing on the concept of globalization. The course starts by examining how cultural, political, legal and economic differences across countries cross-border trade and investment. Moving beyond national level conditions, the course takes a closer look at how super national mechanisms and infrastructures influence international trade and investment. The course is concluded by illustrating how the environmental complexity of international business and management translate in practical terms into country evaluation and selection as well as global marketing strategies.

IBUS713 Intercultural Aspects

The main objective of this course is to provide an in depth understanding of the cultural and institutional differences across nations and how they impact both international business and management and the competitive advantage of nations. In a world of increasing international business opportunities it becomes essential to understand cultural differences across nations. This becomes even more important as cultural differences can become a major source of misunderstanding, conflict and ultimately business failure. Next to comparative cultural approaches in a narrower sense, the country comparisons include different institutional perspectives – Business System, Societal Effect and National Innovations Systems approach – along different functional domains, such as Human Resource Management, Corporate Governance and Production Management. The course tries to strike a balance between imparting theoretical insight and practical application to real life business scenarios. While the lectures focus more on imparting the theoretical content of the course, the prime goal of the tutorials is to refresh and apply the theory.

IBUS 715 Competitiveness of Nations and Industry Clusters

The aim of this course is to expose students to how nations worldwide compete through having competitive industries rather than resting on successful individual firms. Building nations based on industries that have “country of origin” brand names such as the Automotive Industry of Germany; Consumer Electronics of Japan; Digital Industry of the USA; create sustainable competitive advantage for those nations as well as the firms operating in such industries. Forming industry clusters constituting core industries, related industries, as well as adjacent industries including relevant education and R&D are all part of building competitive international industries and brands. Topics covered shall include “made in my nation” syndrome, sustainable competitive advantage; competitive/porter diamond; industry segmentation; industry clusters, and global value chains. Cases from nations that have built competitive industries will be explored, and industries will be analyzed.

IBUS720 Seminar in International Business

This is a research based course that provides students with the necessary skills that enable them to conduct academic research in their major field of study. The seminar is designed to help students conduct systematic studies according to scientific standards in the area of specialization and prepare for future academic work such as Bachelor thesis. The student signs up for a topic, gathers and evaluates literature, and then integrates this into a coherent manuscript, project, etc. Students writing successful work will be asked to present their work to the class at the end of the semester.

INNO 710 Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship

This course is designed to acquaint students from diverse academic background with new trends in entrepreneurship as a powerful and emerging academic discipline. Students will become versed in the subject through overview of various sub-fields of entrepreneurship. A study of selected topics, strategies, or problems facing the entrepreneur today will be explored.

INNO711 Entrepreneurship

This course covers the entrepreneurial process from conception of the innovative idea to birth and early growth of the new venture. It concentrates on attributes of entrepreneurs, searching for innovative opportunities, evaluating those innovative opportunities, and gathering resources to convert opportunities into businesses. Students learn how to evaluate entrepreneurs and their plans for new businesses. They work in teams to write a business plan for an innovative new venture that they have conceived.

INNO712 Technology Strategy

This course covers the key aspects of formulating innovation and entrepreneurial strategies. It reviews the basic strategic analysis tools that managers use to assess the firm’s current position and define its strategic direction. It also discusses the different strategies that organizations can adapt to grow and develop their business in order to achieve market leadership.

INNO713 Product & Process Innovations

In today’s dynamic business environment, innovation has become the main theme of competition. It is those companies that constantly introduce new products and services and modify their internal processes that have the lead in almost all markets. This course provides a framework for managing innovations in businesses. It aims to equip students with an understanding of the principals and main issues in innovation management. It discusses the key success factors, as well as, the relevant skills and organizational capabilities needed to manage innovation. It provides evidence of different approaches based on real-world cases and experiences of leading international firms.

INNO714 IT Project Management

A project is a temporary organization within a permanent organization set up to achieve a specific objective. It is a onetime operation with a unique goal, limited lifespan, and limited resources. Projects represent an increasing percentage of the activities of most organizations, mainly because of the shortened product lifecycles, rapid introduction of new technologies, hypercompetitive business environments, escalation in global trade, and numerous other factors. This is particularly true in innovative companies that mainly depend on projects to execute their innovative activities. Research has shown that a great many projects fail to produce the expected results or are not completed on time or on budget. Some of the primary reasons are poor definition of the project’s requirements and objectives and lack of project management. This course will introduce students to the world of projects and to projects’ real life challenges. It will take a comprehensive view of project management, addressing both the technical and the social or human sides of the field. It will also provide the conceptual framework and practical tools to effectively plan and manage the activities of different projects.

INNO 715 Emerging Technologies & Business Model Innovation

The aim of this course is to introduce fourth year management students to a variety of innovative business models taking hold in emerging industries. The course surveys current research on business model innovation and exposes students to case studies of new venture models, with a specific focus on the MENA region. As new technologies are disrupting industries and changing lives and societies, implications are explored for promising business opportunities and sustainable ventures.

INNO720 Seminar in Innovation & Technology Management

STRA 710 Contemporary Issues in Strategic Management

The aim of this course is to enhance students’ abilities to conceive and delve into interesting internationally-sought topics in strategic management. The course offering will present a variety of topics with the aim of exposing students to new and contemporary trends in strategic management thought as well as emphasizing the concept of interdisciplinarity in recent literature.

STRA711 Business Strategy

The course familiarizes students with most important concepts and major tools of the Harvard school of strategy which was the paradigm for strategy from the early 1960s to the late 1980s. Students will understand why it was so popular and why it was replaced by a multitude of new ideas of how to think about strategy. Ansoff's planning school was quickly joined by the decision school with the SWOT model at the center of its set of tools. The SWOT model will be discussed so that students will have a firm grasp of the serious flaws of this model. Michael Porter's positioning school as a revamped version of its two predecessor schools will have centre stage for much of the course. The BCG matrix and the two models which form its basis (product life cycle and learning curve) will be thoroughly analyzed and put in a historic, practical and theoretical context. Industry analysis and generic strategies will be contrasted with some aspects of modern schools of strategy. The lecture will be accompanied by seminaristic tutorials in which the participants will discuss cutting edge articles from the Harvard Business Review and other publications

STRA712 Change Management

STRA713 Strategic Analysis

This course focuses on the practice of strategic analysis, i.e. the frameworks, tools, and measurements applied. It concentrates on the key elements of strategic management: environment (customers, deliverers, competitors, complementors, alliance partners), organization (structure, processes, resources), strategy (formulation and implementation) and performance. Students learn to understand the conventional and unconventional tools of analyzing the external and internal environment of the organization. Building a comprehensive perspective on the modern organization through case studies is an essential aspect of the course.

STRA714 Strategic Decision Making

Strategic Decision Making is all about understanding the process of decision making and steps and potential challenges related to making decisions. Making the right strategic decisions is the key for successful companies or organizations. This course provides an overview and a structure for the different scientific and practical approaches to contemporary decision making and exposes students to real life examples and applications related to their professional and personal life. Students learn how to generate and evaluate different strategic choices and they learn methods to bring these decisions into actions by taking into consideration different aspects in the organization. This comprehensive perspective on contemporary strategic management will be supported by text book and real world case studies as an essential aspect of this course.

STRA720 Seminar in Strategic Management

Department of Marketing

MRKT301 Marketing I

This course reflects latest insights into the marketing discipline and scholarship. This is particularly useful for a consulting or marketing career. This course will cover the whole marketing process, starting with defining marketing to managing customer relationships and partnering with customers to identify needs and innovate products to satisfy them, to the aspects of the marketing environment, and consumer and business buyer behavior, to strategy development, analyzing corporate competitive strategies and finally marketing ethics and social responsibility.

MRKT402 Marketing II

The course is an important one in forming a deeper understanding of marketing concepts and how marketing projects are conducted. In general, the course is intended to make you acquainted with of state-of-the-art marketing skills and techniques. The course provides a closer look into the elements of the marketing mix, with an orientation geared toward marketing strategy. Throughout the course material, we touch upon several different topics that broaden the students’ perspectives on marketing; including consumer behavior, CRM (customer relationship management), social marketing, marketing plan development, marketing research, personal selling and sales management, services marketing, STP (segmentation, targeting, and positioning) strategy, and branding. The course also offers a unique module on marketing ethics. The skills covered in this course are particularly useful if you plan to go into a consulting or marketing career.

MRKT602 Consumer Behaviour

Consumer behavior is an interdisciplinary field of study that focuses on the behavior that consumers display in searching for, purchasing, using, evaluating and disposing of products and services that they expect will satisfy their needs and desires. Consumer behavior focuses on how individuals make decisions to spend their available resources including time, money and effort on consumption-related items. For marketers to be successful in today’s dynamic and rapidly evolving marketplace, they need to understand everything about consumers including the personal and group influences that affect consumer decisions and how these decisions are made. That involves what consumers buy, why they buy it, when they buy it, where they buy it, how often they buy it, how they evaluate it after the purchase and the impact of such evaluations on future purchases.

MRKT 710 Contemporary Issues in Marketing

The aim of this course is to enhance students’ abilities to conceive and delve into interesting internationally-sought topics in Marketing. The course offering will present a variety of topics with the aim of exposing students to new and contemporary trends in Marketing thought as well as emphasizing the concept of interdisciplinarity in recent literature.

MRKT711 Marketing Research

The course is an important one in conducting marketing projects and assessing market needs, especially in the marketing consulting business. The course is also critical in marketing theses preparation. Using the results from a research study is as important as conducting one. In general, the course is intended to make you acquainted with of state-of-the-art marketing research tools and procedures. You will be prepared to formulate and structure marketing problems, recommend the marketing research that should be undertaken, appreciate what can and cannot be learned from marketing research, gather and analyze quantitative marketing data, and make effective decisions based on those data. The skills covered in this course are applicable to marketing problems encountered in consumer and business-to-business markets. These skills are particularly useful if you plan to go into a consulting or marketing career.

MRKT712 Integrated Marketing Communication

This course is designed to enlighten students on the basic concepts and practices of Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) in an enjoyable and practical way. The course starts with introducing IMC as a means for bridging the gap between organizations and their many stakeholders. IMC is the most exciting and creative areas within marketing. It is continually innovating and requires progressive managers who must demonstrate initiative and dynamism. Next, each of the main components of IMC such as advertising, sales promotion, personal selling, public relations, sponsorships, direct marketing, packaging, and exhibitions and trade shows will be analyzed and the integration among them will be discussed. Because communication takes place across multiple contexts, the course will move on to investigating the international dimensions of the marketing communications environment

MRKT713 International Marketing

This course is designed to provide students with the necessary marketing knowledge to understand and function more effectively in a global environment. It seeks to familiarize students with the international marketing concepts and applications. By doing so, students are expected to develop a cultural sensitivity, in addition to relating international marketing concepts to business reality.

MRKT714 Marketing Channels & Distributions

The course is an important one in conducting marketing projects whilst utilizing e-marketing and assessing market needs, especially in the marketing consulting business. In general, the course is intended to make you acquainted with state-of-the-art marketing distribution, emarketing, and retailing techniques. All intricacies and strategies related to product/service flow from point of conception/production till point of consumption will be thoroughly analysed. Means of handling conflicts and power nodes that emerge within the channel structure will also be highlighted in the different channels forms, including e-channels. Expertise on the channel design process, selection criteria, setting policies using qualitative heuristics and quantitative Key Performance Indicator analyses/performance metrics as well as forms of channel compensation will also be among the topics of discussion. New forms of channels in the millennium including e-channels will be highlighted. The skills covered in this course are thereby applicable to marketing channels encountered in both consumer and business-to-business markets. These skills are particularly useful if you plan to go into a consulting or marketing career.

MRKT 715 Services Marketing

This course aims at examining broad issues in managing service businesses and the service component. A core theme of the course is how customer value is created. Topics include nature of service products, consumer behavior in service settings, service quality and satisfaction, developing service strategies, managing customer service, servicescape strategies, service recovery and service technologies. This course also focuses on the key elements (culture, communications, strategy, operations, people and technology) that marketers must integrate to establish and sustain service excellence and provide customer value. For each topic, theory, empirical research and practice are covered, and the emphasis is placed on the linkage between them.

MRKT 716 Digital Marketing

This course aims at enabling students to bind the power of Digital Marketing as a core driver of the marketing strategy of the business. The course is designed to survey the landscape of social media tools with a special focus on analyzing their role as an effective mean of communications. Special emphasis is given on the different digital marketing techniques utilizing the technologies which depend on customers’ participation and engagement. This course will challenge students to look at Digital Media in a more expansive way through examining social media’s potential benefits, as well as appropriate ethical concerns, when used professionally. Different social media tools will be scrutinized using case studies and real business examples. This course will cover four main zones mainly community, Publishing, Commerce and Entertainment.

MRKT 717 Sustainability Marketing

The aim of this course is to show students how the complexities of sustainability issues can be integrated into marketing. The decision-oriented, step-by-step approach of sustainability marketing involves: an analysis of socio-ecological priorities to complement conventional consumer and market research; an integration of social, ethical and ecological values into marketing strategy; a new consumer-oriented sustainability marketing mix of the ‘4 Cs’ (Customer Solutions, Communications, Customer Cost, Convenience) to replace the outmoded and producer-oriented ‘4 Ps’; and finally an analysis how marketing can go beyond responding to social change to contribute to a transformation to a more sustainable society.

MRKT720 Seminar in Marketing

This is a research based course that provides students with the necessary skills that enable them to conduct academic research in their major field of study. The seminar is designed to help students conduct systematic studies according to scientific standards in the area of specialization and prepare for future academic work such as Bachelor thesis. The student signs up for a topic, gathers and evaluates literature, and then integrates this into a coherent manuscript, project, etc. Students writing successful work will be asked to present their work to the class at the end of the semester.

General Courses

German Language I - IV

The compulsory program DE 101 – DE 404 offers basic German to beginners without any previous knowledge. By the end of this program the students should achieve Level A2 according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, and Assessment.

English for Academic Purposes

Introduction to Academic English is a course catering for the language needs of students who are able to function in an academic environment but have certain deficiencies in oral/written communication. The course is designed to brush up on basic language and academic skills. It highlights the importance of improving the different language skill areas of listening, speaking, reading and writing as well as the language content of grammar and vocabulary. All skills are integrated and presented in an academic context. Students learn to write paragraphs, read critically, listen to lectures and take notes, use grammar effectively, and become more effective learners.

Scientific Methods

The Introduction to Scientific Methods course trains students to think critically and introduces them to the basic skills required to function in an academic environment in addition to the fundamentals of conducting scientific research. Students acquire basic skills such as notetaking, outlining, and using dictionaries. However, the course mainly emphasizes other skills that are essential for research purposes. The course equips students with information literacy skills by familiarizing students with methods for researching and accessing information through the library or web searches. The course introduces students to the different reporting styles. In addition, students learn how to evaluate the content and sources of information, how to report and cite sources, and how to avoid plagiarism.

Communication and Presentation Skills

The Communication Skills course introduces students to the nature of the communication process and empowers them to develop a communication strategy necessary for team work and intra-group collaboration in addition to a special focus on presentation skills. The course provides students with the skills, techniques, and the language required to make effective presentations. The course is highly participative with an emphasis on practical skill development. Students go through the stages of developing and giving an effective presentation. They explore the purposes of a presentation, establish their objectives, analyze and understand their audience, structure the presentation, provide support, make use of audiovisual aids, and deliver the presentation.

Research Paper Writing

The Research Paper Writing course is designed to help students develop their research paper writing skills. Students are taught to do extensive research, analysis, and writing within an area of their interest or within their potential major field. They learn to identify a research topic and narrow it down into a researchable question. In addition, they pursue researching and evaluating various sources of information and incorporating them into their own writing. Students also know how to develop a framework, outline, draft, and refine their research papers in addition to learning how to list sources using standard documentation format. (Prerequisite: Introduction to Scientific Methods / Academic Reading and Writing). Students learn to write paragraphs, read critically, listen to lectures and take notes, use grammar effectively, and become more effective learners.

MATH101 Mathematics & Statistics I

This course is designed to introduce Business Informatics students to an introduction to calculus. This course starts with introducing the concepts of functions, graphs, limits, continuity, differentiation, integration and some applications. The main goal of this course is to enable the student to apply mathematical tools to solve real-life problems. Thus, in this course we will have a close look at management and Business applications such as finding the optimal profit or the minimal cost.

MATH201 Mathematics & Statistics II

This course is the 2nd semester Math. course for Management students. It aims to give the student an introduction to Integration calculus with some management applications, as well as an introduction to some elementary Linear Algebra. An introduction to elementary statistics will also be introduced.

MATH 204 Mathematics for BI II

In order to understand many concepts in management and computer science a good knowledge in linear algebra is needed. There are plenty applications of mathematics, such as the discussion of a two-market equilibrium or Kirchhoff’s rules for electric circuits. Linear algebra is also an essential background for many further courses. The aim of this course is not to turn you into mathematical experts. The main goal is to enable you to apply linear algebra to solve real-life problems.

MATH 305 Mathematics for BI III

The goal of MATH305 is to provide the students in BI with the logical background they will need in their study. These include their knowledge about various logics starting with propositional logic and first order logic with the syntax, semantics, and proof theory.

MATH404 Mathematics IV

Math404 This course will train students to think logically by tackling data values of a whole population or even a certain sample to be: organized in frequency distributions; presented via graphs and summarized in terms of means or in terms of variations if means are confusing or misleading. It then introduces them to apply the concept of standard deviation in Chebychev theory. Besides, Probability Theory is introduced with strong motivation: for spaces, events, classical probability, then moving to counting rules with some combinatorics techniques to empirical probability, Discrete and Continuous probability distributions for sampling and central limit theory with applications in Confidence intervals and test of hypothesis to make decisions; so that students will be able to handle real-life and engineering problems. Math404 will bring students from different major’s backgrounds to the same level of statistical experience to help building an equal foundation amongst them all as a strong data base for other courses in “computer science”. Not only that, but Statistics & Probability theory are considered important and basic tools used in almost of engineering and business disciplines.

LAWS201 Principles of Law

This course is designed to introduce the student to the basic concepts of law, characteristics of law, types of legislation, enactment and repeal of legislation, promulgation and proclamation of legislation, public and private law.

LAWS302 Business Law

This course is designed to introduce the student to the basic concepts of the judicial system as they relate to business transactions. Detailed material on the concepts of Property, Sales and Contracts, Business Entities, Legal Texts and Secured Transactions is dealt with.

CSIS101 Introduction to Computer Science I

This course is designed for students who want to learn how to apply computer technology to college study. The course focuses on personal computers and application software in a windows environment, specifically word processing, spreadsheets, presentation graphics and a variety of Internet topics.

CSIS202 Introduction to Computer Science II

CSIS202 is a course in Computer Science intended primarily for students who are not in the Engineering field. The objective of the course is to convey a simplified picture of the different fundamental concepts in Computer Science.

Advanced Quantitative Analysis MGMT 902

Obtaining information is often the result of interpreting a huge amount of data. Next to the qualitative interpreting, knowledge of quantitative tools is especially crucial. The main purpose of this course is to provide the essential tools for handling, presenting and interpreting data such as finding the right probability distribution, testing hypotheses, and the use of SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science). We stress on the understanding of the presented ideas and methods from scientific as well as practical points of view.

Advanced Research Methodology (MGMT 903)

The basic purpose of this course is to expand the student’s ability as a producer and consumer of research. This course will familiarize with the philosophy of science and its most important theories and debates. Different methods of inquiry are presented and discussed. The course also discusses the challenges of conducting research in Egypt.

Advanced (field of study) …... 920

This advanced course is a research-based course that builds on the skills and knowledge obtained during undergraduate studies and leads Master students towards a mature and professional level of conducting academic research in their major field of study. The seminar alerts students to the full set of research methods, to all relevant sources of academic literature, and to the quality criteria of academic research according to international scientific standards in the area of the student's specialization. Participants are guided to apply and integrate these aspects through preparing a proposal for future academic work such as the Master thesis. Milestones and final results should be presented and discussed in order to strengthen the student's ability to defend his/her academic work.

Technology-Based Management

CSEN 202 Introduction to Computer Programming

The course is designed to teach students the basics of computer Programming in an objectoriented framework. We will use Java as a programming language example for learning software writing skills. Java includes a lot of facilities that satisfies the requirements for developing high scale, secure and maintainable software.

CSEN 503 Introduction to Database Systems

In this course, the students will learn the basic theories of database systems as well as basic skills to operate a database so that they can design, implement, and operate an application database. The major topics covered in this course include high-level conceptual database design using ER and EER models; relational database concepts, relational database design by ER- and EER-to-Relational mapping, and basic SQL programming.From a course project running through the entire semester, the students will learn to design simple database applications using ER model, implement them on a relational database management system, and write queries to extract information from the database.

CSEN 501 Software Engineering

The main objective of this course is to introduce you to the most essential concepts of Media Design. This includes overview about usability, planning of a website, user-Interface-Design Guidelines, marketing and communication and Evaluation.

CSEN 301 Data Structure and Algorithms

DMET 601 Introduction to Networks

The course will give an introduction to the basic concepts of computer and communication networks. Course includes the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) reference model, network design issues, network architectures and protocols.

DMET 603 Media Design

The main objective of this course is to expose the students to different design aspects, clientside scripting languages and computer imagery used to build Web pages. The following topics are covered by this course:

DMET 902 E- Business Development

The course deals with the design and implementation of e-business and e-government applications. Project scope and systems requirements will be discussed based on the analysis of new business structures and processes of enterprises and administrations with their partners, respectively their customers/citizens, suppliers, and cooperating companies. The course will focus on various design and implementation methods tailored for Web applications. Practical work will include project design, prototyping and evaluation.

MATS 311 Materials for Management Students

The principal objective of the course is to inform about the different materials, to enable them to get a “feeling” for different materials and their properties to enable a proper handling in industrial surroundings. In the lab some characteristic experiments should be performed to mediate the “feeling” for the different materials.

MATS 411 Materials for Management Students II

The principal objective of the course is to inform about widely used materials, with relation to their properties as far as handling, storing, transport and possible damage is concerned. In the exercises some real examples of handling and proper storage should be discussed.

EDPT E04 Quality Management

The students are familiar with the contents of the most important standards as for example ISO 9000. They have understood the importance of project management concerning their future work. They know the tools of quality management and the importance of quality assurance.

EDPT 201 Production Technology (Workshop) 1+ 2

The course provides methods to understand the various production processes both in theoretical and practical manner. For the machining processes NC coding and CNC programming will be introduced. It gives the student rudimentary skills in manufacturing by hand and using machines.

EDPT 703 Production Engineering

Manufacturing technologies like casting, forming, cutting, joining and coating (for metals, polymers, ceramics and organic materials) should be covered as well as the production of electronic and micro-mechanical components. Furthermore topics as quality, quality factors and calculation of profitability should be discussed. Another focus should be on environmental sustainability. The most common production technologies of semi finished products and components are conveyed. The students must be able to classify the techniques for specific applications regarding quality and costs.

EDPT 601 Materials Manufacturing Technology for Management Students

This course provides the fundamentals of materials manufacturing. It clarifies the importance of using different materials for specific requirements and goes into detail by explaining the manufacturing process of various products. It also pinpoints the manufacturing process as part of the product’s life cycle.

EDPT/MATS E03 Recycling

Techniques and technologies for recovering and reusing waste materials. Relationships of recycling and waste reduction to energy conservation and environmental impact; legal, economic, institutional and environmental policy aspects of recycling and waste reduction. The students are familiar with different recycling techniques and strategies. They have an increased awareness regarding the environment and the value of scrap.

EDPT 511 Engineering Design for Management students

This course is for Management students and combines the fundamentals of Engineering Drawing and Engineering Design. It provides the methods to represent technical drawings by hand and offers methods to understand the design procedure of machine elements. Further, it offers methods to understand the function of a mechanical technical system by knowledge the function of various machine elements and their interaction.

ENVT 201 Introduction to Environmental Technology

This course is designed to give the student a general overview of the environmental technology arena with an emphasis in hazardous materials, hazardous wastes management and Occupational worker health & safety. The history of pollution leading to current legislation and current best practices of handling of hazardous substances to minimize its harmful impact on society, environment and industry will be covered. Topics covered include: the legislative and regulatory framework created to manage hazardous materials and hazardous waste and worker protection, characteristics of hazardous materials/hazardous waste, application of basic chemistry principles, fate and transport of chemicals through environmental compartments, toxicology, interpreting and application of material safety data sheets, labels and placards, pollution prevention, career ladders and future environmental issues.

ENVT 662 Pollution Prevention

The course will center on various raw materials and chemicals used in industry, examining the changes that occur as they move through the industrial process, and understanding the material balance concept of inventory. Throughout the course, discussions of applicable regulations will be included. Other topics include the importance of waste minimization/pollution prevention concepts, and residential waste generation, reduction and prevention. Students will develop a waste source reduction plan.

PHTX 631 Safety and Risk Management Administration

Hands-on instruction for students on how accidents and incidents occur in the occupational health and safety environment. Instruction in the establishment and maintenance of safety programs and comprehensive analysis of occupational health programs with an emphasis on safety program management. topics include: planning approaches to Safety and Health Management used by international, national and local regulatory agencies; insurance companies and professional societies; risk management; worker compensation; employee accommodations and workplace. Students will develop plans related to Safety and Risk Management.

PHTX 1001 Hazardous Materials Management Applications

A study of the requirements and applications of federal, state and local laws and regulations relating to hazardous materials. The course will emphasize compliance with Department of Transportation, OSHA Hazard Communication, SARA Title III Community Right-To-Know, Underground Tank, Asbestos, Proposition 65, and Air Toxics Regulations. The lecture of the course provides the student with an understanding of the legal framework of hazardous materials; obtaining and interpreting MSDS's; permitting and monitoring functions, as well as planning and reporting functions. Students will develop plans related to Hazardous Materials Management.

ENVT 601 Introduction to Recycling

The purpose of this course is to introduce current technologies, procedures, and philosophies in the fields of municipal and industrial recycling and waste management. The course will teach some aspects of elementary chemistry and physics in a very topical manner, and will focus on the financial, ecological, technological and political aspects of recycling.

ENVT 602 Urban Planning

The purpose of the course is to introduce the main areas of Urban Planning including: human settlements & forces that shape them, processes of change, law, economy & government, planning process & process design, environmental principles and architectural principles professionalism, values & ethics

ELCT 201 Principles of Electronics

Introduction to electrical circuits, electronic devices and basic electronic circuits.

ELCT 202 Digital Systems

Elements of digital logic design, functional blocks, design strategies, products.

CSEN 202 Software Tools of Electronics

PSPICE, VerilogHDL, MatLab, Electromagnetic Field Simulation, Device Simulation. Focus: Impact of software tools on economic efficiency.

EDPT 601 Elements of Industrial Electronics

Elements of system control, power electronics, power generation, transfer and storage, automotive electronics. Focus: high reliability and long life.

EDPT 1001 Overview of consumer electronics

Classification of consumer electronics. Technological base. Examples: TV, Hi-Fi, CD, DVD, computer games, Digi-Cams, impact of globalization, technical standards, Focus: large volume production.

ELCT 602 Introduction to VLSI

Concepts of silicon technology, microelectronic integration, different approaches in VLSI, trends, ASICs, FPGA, VLSI design and software tools.Focus: Trend analysis.

ELCT 601 Electronics for Measurements and Diagnostics

Basics of electronic measurements (oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, analytic equipment), medical applications, specialized measurements for physics and chemistry. Focus: Now-how reach products, low volume production.

ELCT 603 Technical Specifications

This course delivers the knowledge needed for one of the most important activities on the management level: taking decisions for purchasing the components and system. The way of “reading” the specs for typical electronic products (semiconductor devices, ICs, electronic equipment) will be studied with typical examples from different sub-disciplines of the electronics. Also the ability to set-up the product specifications will be trained.

ELCT 610 Intellectual Property in Electronics

The basics of patent low and other intellectual property issues will be delivered. The special focus of the course is on the most common forms of intellectual property protection in electronics and presenting the impact of IP on the development, production and distribution of electronic equipment.

PHBL 102 Biology

Fundamental properties of life, chemical basis of life, developmental biology of plants and animals. Physiology of the cell, photosynthesis, ethical issues in biology and biotechnology.

PHCM 102 Chemistry

Basic general and inorganic chemistry: atomic structure, periodic table, theory of chemical bonds, reaction kinetics, chemistry of the elements. Learning basic chemical laboratory techniques.

BIOT 402 Introduction to Biotechnology

Fundamental concepts of biotechnology, biology of industrial micro-organisms, and engineering techniques.

PHTC 732 Pharmaceutical Technology (Terminology)

Introduction to the actual terminology used in pharmaceutical sciences and practice. Studying the pharmaceutical technology used in the manufacture of dosage forms and the basic principles of drug delivery. Good manufacturing practice regulations and quality assurance.

PHCM 663 Instrumental analysis

Instrumental methods for analysis, general instrument performance characteristics and optimal methods for separation, detection, and/or quantification. The practical course includes experiments and data interpretation on the major techniques covered in this course.

PHTX 632 Toxicology & Safety

Basic toxicological principles as applied in the study / detection of potentially harmful chemicals, with relevance in drug design and therapy, forensic medicine, and environmental toxicology. Incidence of poisoning, mechanisms of cellular toxicity, factors modifying toxic effects, relevance for adverse drug reactions.

PHTC 842 Quality Assurance

Methods of assessing and ensuring the quality and efficacy of a finalized pharmaceutical product, its stability and shelf life. Process validation, in-process and end-control assessment. GMP and GLP guidelines

BIOT 802 Industrial Biotechnology

Introduction into industrial applications of biotechnology, engineering and biopharmaceuticals.

BIOT 803 Regulatory & Ethical Aspects of Pharmacy & Biotechnology

Introduction into international and national regulations and laws of pharmacy and biotechnology.

PHTX 051 Pharmacoepidemiology & Economy

Pharmaco-epidemiology deals with the study of the use of drugs and their effects in large number of the population. The course involves the incidence and total cost of disease, economic impact and aspects of drug therapy, cost/benefit assessment, public health systems, health insurance, tax-based systems.

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