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This course explores new perspectives in economics related to the environment and sustainable development goals. It discusses the limits of the green circular economy, the main dilemmas and implications of growth for society and the environment, and the trade-off between economic growth and environmental protection and social justice.

In this course, students develop, plan, manage, and control projects successfully in a business environment. This requires an awareness of general project management principles, methodologies, and the tools and techniques as applied within multi-disciplined projects, specifically to large IT projects. They also examine formal approaches to managing risk, opportunity, uncertainty, and value in these projects.

This course focuses on the history and culture of the Africans in the diaspora on the African continent (especially West Africa) and the Americas (North America, the Caribbean, and South America). The course examines major issues and conditions in Africa that sent many people into diaspora communities in Africa. Specific issues considered in this direction are those related to Islamic Jihads, Trans-Saharan Trade, Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Colonialism, and plantation slavery in West Africa, as these events led to the relocation and redistribution of African populations in Africa. Additionally, the course reviews archaeological evidence that provides insights into the historical experiences of the African Diaspora as seen from the Americas.

The course examines the important role that product and service innovation plays in a firm’s long-term strategic sustainability.

This course reviews the development of selected research topics from the fields of economic theory such as general equilibrium theory, game theory, mechanism design, decision theory, social choice theory, information economics, and behavioral economics.