Business Administration

This course introduces the fundamental principles of international finance and its applications. Course topics include the structure, function and operation of Foreign Exchange Market; the concept and theory of balance of payments; models of interest rate parity, purchasing power parity and exchange rate determination to analyze exchange rate changes and forecast exchange rate; the evolution of International Monetary System; Output, exchange rate and macroeconomic policy, and international financial topics.

The course is designed to prepare students for leadership in a globally interdependent and culturally diverse workforce. Throughout the course, students are challenged to question, think, and respond thoughtfully to the issues they observe and encounter in the internship setting, and the designated city in general. Students have the opportunity to cultivate the leadership skills as defined by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), such as critical thinking, teamwork, and diversity. Assignments focus on building a portfolio that highlights those competencies and their application to workplace skills. The hybrid nature of the course allows students to develop their skills in a self-paced environment with face-to-face meetings and check-ins to frame their intercultural internship experience. Students complete 45 hours of in-person and asynchronous online learning activities and 225-300 hours at their internship placement.

This course is a rigorous examination of the key analytical frameworks and tools that are essential to building an effective marketing strategy. Students cover concepts including segmentation, targeting and positioning; product management and diffusion; pricing, placement and promotion; customer behavior; customer lifetime value, and marketing relationships. Students learn to apply these concepts as part of a comprehensive and sophisticated marketing strategy. They employ these elements across a variety of industries and functions, in ways that add value for consumers and extract value for businesses. 

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.

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