Learning Outcomes
Course learning outcomes for Year 1 Courses
Course Code : BMG 31012
Course Title : Environment of Business and Industry
Prerequisites: None
Learning Outcomes :
On completion of this course, student should be able to:
- Explain the evolution of business and industry
- Describe the current global and domestic business and industrial environment
- Identify the legal provisions which bound business activity
- Identify the input-output relationships between the firm and its environment
- Explain the PESTEL model and apply it for a given business firm
- Review environmental trends and identify emerging opportunities
Course Code: BMG 31024
Course Title: Management: Principles and Practice
Prerequisites: None
Learning Outcomes :
- On completion of this course, students should be able to:
- Describe the historical evolution of business and business management theories
- Demonstrate understanding of the characteristics of contemporary organizations and different approaches to designing organizational structures
- Demonstrate understanding of the fundamentals of organizational management and the specific roles of contemporary management
Course Code: BMG 31033
Course Title: Fundamentals of Computing
Prerequisite: None
Learning Outcomes :
On completion of this course, the student should be able to:
- Explain the evolution of computers
- Understand basic computer architecture and operations of a computer
- Understand the concepts of data representation, computer arithmetic and Boolean algebra
- Understand the basic components of a CPU, its operations, and how it is used to execute programmes
- Understand and describe the role of high level languages, assembly language and machine language in programme execution
- Understand operations of an operating system
Course Code: BMG 31043
Course Title: Business Communications
Prerequisites: None
Learning Outcomes :
On completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate understanding of principles of human communications
- Demonstrate understanding of the structure, styles, and semantics of communications
- Develop skills in areas of business communications providing instructions, discussions, conducting meetings, negotiating, and presenting
- Demonstrate skills in formulating and delivering business letters and electronic mail
Course Code: BMG 31054
Course Title: Organizational Behaviour
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Learning Outcomes :
On completion of this course, the student should be able to:
- Learn theories of organizations and their evolution
- Identify and describe the key concepts of organizational behaviour
- Demonstrate organizational design and team development skills
Course Code: BMG 32063
Course Title: Entrepreneurship and Venture Creation
Prerequisites: None
Learning Outcomes :
On completion of this course, the student should be able to:
- Identify and explain the generic characteristics of entrepreneurs
- Explain the process of making an entrepreneur and identify the motivational and Behavioural traits of entrepreneurs
- Evaluate a given business proposal
- Cultivate assertive and inner locus skills
- Discuss the relationship between technology and innovation
- Explain the product development cycle
- Evaluate different methods of commercialization of inventions
Course Code: BMG 32073
Course Title: Marketing Essentials
Prerequisites: None
Learning Outcomes :
On completion of this course, the student should be able to:
- Explain the increasingly significant role of marketing in modern organizations
- Identify the socio economics and cultural factors influencing the marketing function
- Describe the process of marketing: Need and want identification through research, product development, pricing, distribution, and promoting products. Customer segments, designing the marketing mix and targeting
- Prepare a comprehensive marketing plan for a business organization
Course Code: BMG 32082
Course Title: Business Mathematics
Prerequisites: None
Learning Outcomes :
At the end of the course, the student should be able to demonstrate the basic knowledge in
- Logic, sets, relations and functions
- Probability
- Sampling
- Forecasting
- Boolean algebra and its use in simplifying combinatorial circuits
Course Code: BMG 32093
Course Title: Basic Accounting
Pre-requisites: None
Learning Outcomes :
On completion of this module the student should be able to:
- Define the term accounting and describe types of accounting, basic concepts such as accounting cycles and account hierarchy
- Perform the accounting cycle for a business, apply the practices of accounting for cash and payroll, and utilize the specials journals associated with accounting for a merchandising business
Course Code: BMG 32102
Course Title: Fundamentals of Economics
Prerequisites: None
Learning Outcomes :
On completion of this course, the student should be able to:
- Explain fundamental concepts of economics
- Explain how economic theories and concepts are useful in organizational management
- Identify the economic indicators of a company’s performance
- Explain the significance of microeconomic principles in management decision making
Course Code: BMG 41013
Course Title: Human Resource Management
Prerequisites: None
Learning Outcomes :
On successful completion of this module students will be able to
- Analyse the application of HRM techniques of staffing, selection, training and development, performance appraisal in less complex scenarios
- Analyze the concept of human capital of the organization viewed as an investment versus an operational expense
- Examine various models of how human resources management is positioned in the structure of an organization
- Assess the major challenges of human resources in the 21st century business and government organizations
