International Christian University

Often called "the language of business," a basic knowledge of accounting is essential to becoming a successful business manager. This course teaches basic accounting concepts to read and analyze corporate financial statements. The first part of the course focuses on the core financial statements: Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and Cash Flow Statement. It also covers some important accounting topics such as the globalization of accounting standards and the double-entry accounting process (journal entries, posting, preparing trial balances, adjustments, and closing entries). The second part of the course covers various methods to read and analyze corporate financial statements, such as various financial statement analysis techniques used in both short and long-term analysis. Real examples (actual corporate financial numbers) are used for comparing and analyzing corporate financial performance.

This introductory course explores how political scientists and social analysts approach modern-day issues with modern-day methodological tools and explanations, delving into issues related to the empirical and theoretical causes and consequences of democracy and dictatorship.  The course also projects future institutional design and the change in relationship between actors. 

This course investigates Asian and European history from a global perspective through the analysis of both primary and secondary historical materials. The course compares how how Iberians and English/Dutch established their presence in East Asia, especially in Japan.

The course covers the following topics:

• Introduction: The Age of Discovery and Global History
• Portuguese expansion in Asia - The Estado da India I and India II.
• Iberian traders and slavery in East Asia
• Spain and the Manila Galleons
• The Jesuit enterprise - Christian missions in East Asia
• East India Companies and factories - Dutch and English in Japan
• European Diplomacy vs. East Asian diplomacy
  
   

This course introduces students to empirically-based findings of comparative politics and public policy, through a cross-national, cross-temporal approach of case studies of some of the world’s major political units. In doing so, it examines several important empirical and theoretical puzzles including, but not limited to:

(1) What accounts for variance in terms of the extent and quality of governance; 

(2) How and why do different political regime types produce different outcomes such as better or worse socio-economic levels; 

(3) Are some sets of political regimes better at holding political elites accountable?  

(4) What accounts for variance in terms of some political elites leading their countries into costly wars, and others delivering peace and prosperity? 

The goal of the course is to provide the field’s best generalized answers to these questions as well as to facilitate the development of one’s own conclusions. 

This course teaches basic knowledge and techniques used in animal cell biology, through performing the following animal cell and molecular biology experiments: RNA and protein extraction from rat tissues/cell culture pellets, quantification of transcript (RT-qPCR) and protein (Western-Blotting) expression, and observation of protein expression on rat tissues/cell culture by confocal microscopy.

Recommended Prerequisites: Basic Concepts in Cell Biology; Basic Concepts in Genetics; Advanced Cell Biology, and Laboratory in Foundation of Biology. 

This course introduces students to the principles of management accounting - the internal use of accounting information to manage organizations. It deals with the following topics: using cost accounting information as decision-making; the function of a budget as performance evaluation, and fundamental financial analysis. This course aims to equip students with the knowledge and ability to understand, analyze, and evaluate financial and non-financial accounting information.

Prerequisites: Fundamental accounting and fundamental management. 

 

This course studies the basic ideas of the 27 books of the New Testament in their historical contexts. First, it explores he epistles of Paul, the oldest books in the New Testament, then study the four Gospels. Finally, it focuses on the second-Pauline epistles and the Revelation of John. 

This course aims to deepen students' understanding of the United States by exploring diverse topics through an interdisciplinary approach.

The topics and materials covered in class includes historical events; traditional concepts rooted in the nation's founding ideals; a wide range of famous and lesser-known works of American literature, and even the lyrics of 1930s blues. All of these are relevant to contemporary America. Furthermore, this course encourages students to develop an interest in and critically explore racial issues in the United States, particularly in the ongoing era of the Black Lives Matter movement.

 

This is an advanced course in psychological statistics. The objective of the course is to gain knowledge of multivariate statistics especially non-experimental, cross-sectional data. The course covers how to select, conduct, interpret, and report quantitative statistical analyses to help answer research questions that involve multiple dependent variables. Students are expected to have taken PSY104 and PSY223. R and R Studio will be used as main statistical packages. 

This course studies significant Christian theological works by Americans, paying careful attention both to their contributions to Christian theology and to their context within the United States. One theme that emerges repeatedly, although certainly not the only important theme, is the question of what makes one a “true Christian." The course covers topics such as: Revivals and the First Great Awakening; the Holiness Movement and the Second Great Awakening; the Bible, the Civil War, and white Christian debates about slavery; the Social Gospel; the Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy and Pentecostalism; the World Wars and American power; American power, American oppression and liberation theology, and American culture and Christianity.