*Note: Placement Tests for Arabic and English are held during the registration period to advise students on which appropriate language courses they are required to take.

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This course is about people and how they act individually and collectively. It deals with three major topics: questioning identity, interaction between the worlds of the natural and the social, and the ordering of lives.

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This course is about understanding more key debates, ideas and arguments about the contemporary social sciences, race and ethnicity, the city and globalization, the city and knowledge and communication.  It also deals with the relationship between structure and agency and focuses on uncertainty and diversity in the post-war and analyses the consequences of globalizing world on culture, economics and politics.

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This course explains how businesses are structured, how they work, how their environments influence them, and how they try to control competitive market pressures.  Understanding the complexities and uncertainties of all this is not easy, so the course discusses different approaches and ways of seeing organizations and markets.  It enables students to evaluate and use information and theories, thus improving their capacity for rigorous assessment.  Finally, the course defines and develops three groups of related business skills: study and presentation, IT, and numeracy.  Much use is made of computer conferencing for learning and debate between students and dedicated conferencing tutors.  Course tutors are expected to participate.  .pdf details

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This course develops an understanding of how organizations work through the contributions of five key business functions – human resources, information, marketing, operations, accounting and finance – and how those are integrated.  Working with a selection of textbooks, you will look at the key practices of the ‘traditional’ business functions and the contributions they make to organizations, individually and collectively.  Case studies and specially written texts enable you to see the origins, rationale, limitations and strengths of business functions from the perspectives of various stakeholders.  You will develop skills in finding and organizing information, preparing simple presentations, and using basic software packages and computer conferencing.  The student will need a personal computer and access to the internet.

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This course is designed to develop an understanding and knowledge of strategic organizational issues and how organizations respond to change in their environments.  The course has three main teaching modules: decision-making, strategy and policy.  Students look at how organizations make strategic decisions and consider rationality and routines, decision methods and decision processes.  They analyze how organizations develop strategy, notions of core competence and strategic innovation.  A range of policy and environmental concepts and cases that demonstrate the impact of the macro-environment on organizations are studied.  Students are made aware of the boundaries of strategy in terms of relationships between strategies at the level of the firm, the industry, the nation, the region and globally.  Three groups of related business skills are developed: study and presentation skills, IT and numeracy skills, and computer conferencing for learning and debate.  Course tutors are expected to participate.     .pdf details

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This introduction to economics examines important economic issues of our time and how economists tackle them.  It teaches both economic theory and an understanding of changing economies.  The course recognizes the increasing integration of the world economy and draws on examples from the UK and other countries.  Topics include market competition and cooperation; market structures and firms’ decision-making; the state’s role in the economy; money and financial markets; European integration; booms and slumps; unemployment and inflation; managements of the national economy; poverty, wealth and redistribution; ecological constraints on growth.  The course teaches basic techniques of economic analysis and data analysis.   .pdf details

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This course is designed to be taken after DD202 Economics and changing economies.  Households, firms, and markets are three of the most important types of institution making up the economy.  This course develops a critical understanding of fundamental economic issues relating to these three institutions by using mainstream economic theory and less orthodox interdisciplinary approaches.  The course examines the behavior of economic agents by investigating the outcomes of their decisions and introduces ways of trying to model the processes of decision-making as well as the outcomes.  .pdf details

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