AUL | Bachelor of Science in Chemistry

General Requirements

Code	Name	Credits
CST201	General Education I	3
CST201	General Education I/Humanities/Business Elective	3

Required Credits: 6

Description: Choose two of the following courses (CST201, CST202, ENS201,GDS300)

English Requirements

Code	Name	Credits
ENG203	English for Academic writing English for Academic writing ENG203 This course is a comprehensive rhetoric and sentence structure course. It aims at developing the students’ reading skills to become strategic readers, to expand general vocabulary, and to think critically. Students are expected to be able to comprehend reading by practicing various reading skills such as predicting, scanning for details, skimming for main ideas, guessing meanings from context and making inference. Moreover, students are helped to learn how to appreciate literature. This course emphasizes, however, the interaction of reading and writing skills. Therefore, students are guided to organize and express ideas through writing well-organized and developed essays.	3
ENG204	Advanced Eng. Academic Writing Advanced Eng. Academic Writing ENG204 This course is designed to develop students’ reading, writing, and speaking skills and help them fulfill their academic requirements. They will boost their critical thinking skills through fulfilling various text-analysis tasks, and enrich their vocabulary repertoire. Students will thus improve their sentence structure, paragraph, and essay writing whilst multi-drafting essays of various types. They will have the chance to enrich their fluency and accuracy through preparing and presenting an authentic public talk.	3
ENG206	Business Communication Skills	3

Required Credits: 9

Description: three courses are required (ENG203, ENG 204, ENG206)

Business Common Requirements

Code	Name	Credits
MGT210	Introduction to management Introduction to management MGT210 Introduction to Management covers a lot of ground. Its focus ranges from understanding the functions and roles of managers to making sound decisions and working in teams. Successfully managing an organization is an enormously demanding task. This course will help students to acquire basic management skills to take a launch in the business world. It is oriented for first-timers in practicing management and get you acquainted with the main theories and principles drawn from the schools of management established during the 19th and 20th century.	3
BUS319	Business Ethics Business Ethics BUS319 The issue of business ethics has attracted the attention of companies and institutions worldwide. We think it is imperative that students focus on ethical guidelines for ensuring corporate norms and values. After studying Business ethics, students should be able to identify the major justification and motivations behind concern for professional ethics in business practice. In fact, adherence to a code of professional ethics separates professions from other skilled occupations. Ethical issues take on added importance because professionals with special expertise have unprecedented power in decisions that affect every aspect of society, in the global village, where information and influence reach most parts of the world with amazing speed and ease. Business ethics is a global concern, with social responsibility no longer simply a local issue. The objectives are also to explore the ethical and professional foundations of public relations practice.	3
MGT410	Business Research Business Research MGT410 This course is written with a progressive logic, which means that terms and concepts are defined when they are first introduced. This course gives a comprehensive introduction to the subject of business research. Acquainting participants with all modern and universally applied research concepts, tools, and techniques, it encourages them to apply their acquired theoretical knowledge to real life situations.	3
ACC211	Accounting II Accounting II ACC211 This course is designed to provide a basic understanding of financial accounting and covers various financial accounting topics, including basic accounting principles that are applied to the partnership and corporate entities with emphasis on the structure of corporate financial statements. Topics include stockholder’s equity, long-term liabilities, short-term investments and cash flow statement. More importantly, students will learn how accounting information assists financial statement users in facilitating their decision making.	3
FIN210	Managerial finance Managerial finance FIN210 This course is the introduction to the world of finance. It introduces the theories of annuities, amortization, bonds and securities, capital cost valuation models, risk and rates of return, cash and marketable securities, credit management. As well as developed topics like capital budgeting techniques, the cost of capital, capital structure and leverage, dividends policy, and common stock financing	3
BUS210	Business Law Business Law BUS210 This basic field of study includes contracts, sales, and introduction to Uniform Commercial Code, product liability, warranties, and commercial papers. It also includes corporate law, agency and partnership, real and personal property, security transactions, wills and trust, and insurance	3
HRM210	Human Resource Management Human Resource Management HRM210 The world of human resource management has experienced major changes. The impact of global competition and rapid technological advances has accelerated trends such as shared service centers, outsourcing, and just-in-time training. All business areas are being restructured in many organizations. This course provides a realistic approach to the management of human resources. It is balanced throughout by current HR theories and concepts. Case studies are discussed relative to each chapter. The course is intended for students who are being exposed to Human Resource Management for the first time.	3
MKT210	Introduction to Marketing Introduction to Marketing MKT210 This course evolves on analyzing the elements of the marketing mix, namely product, price, promotion and channel of distribution. It introduces the marketing concept and the relevant internal and external factors affecting the marketing activities. It also highlights the consumer buying process, along with its complementary analyses.	3
ECO210	Microeconomics Microeconomics ECO210 This is an introductory course in economics. It gives students general information about the functioning of market forces in determining the prices and the level of production in a free economy. The course introduces the behavior of each firm as a part of the trade in different types of markets. The topics covered in the course include the mechanics of individual prices, demand, supply, and elasticity, theory of consumer behavior, and costs of production, price and output determination under different market conditions, the employment and pricing of economic resources.	3
MIS210	Management Information System Management Information System MIS210 This course introduces students to the basic concepts and developments in information systems. Areas of study include computer technology, information system concepts, information system development, and the use of technology in organizations. Students gain hands-on experience by using microcomputers to solve business problems.	3
MAT212	MAT212-Business Math MAT212-Business Math MAT212 Introduces limits, continuity, differentiation and its applications, introduction to integral Calculus and applications	3
MAT213	Business statistics Business statistics MAT213 The course starts reviewing the essential measures students are supposed to know from school (Descriptive Statistics). It then tells us how to analyze business situations in order to take appropriate decisions. Sample statistics are used to estimate population parameters (Inferential Statistics) and to carry on some hypothesis testing.	3
MAT211	Discrete Math Discrete Math MAT211 This course introduces students to ideas and techniques from discrete mathematics that are widely used in science and engineering. It teaches the students techniques in how to think logically and mathematically and apply these techniques in solving problems. Students will learn logic and proof, sets, functions, as well as algorithms and mathematical reasoning.	3

Required Credits: 43

major courses

Code	Name	Credits
ACC320	Business Software Application Business Software Application ACC320 Business Software Application course is considered essential for students to practice the Lebanese Chart of Account and to learn and review all kinds of daily accounting transactions, created, and related accounts such as assets, inventory, customers, suppliers, and partners’ accounts and link them to chart of account to get financial statement using Account, Stock, and Payroll Software. In addition, students will have example of Value Added Tax and Salaries & Wages tax declarations.	3
ACC321	Intermediate Accounting Intermediate Accounting ACC321 The objective of Intermediate Accounting is to teach you how to map a real, complex and evolving business entity using the accounting model according to U.S. GAAP and IFRS. Intermediate Accounting starts with the conceptual foundation of accounting, reviews the central elements of the accounting model (the cycle, financial statements and their linkages), and then proceeds with a detailed study of the assets side of the balance sheet, including cash, receivables, inventories, tangible assets, intangible assets and investments. Along the way, you will also be exposed to some types of liabilities.	3
ACC322	Managerial Cost Accounting Managerial Cost Accounting ACC322 This course provides key data to managers for planning and controlling as well as costing products and services. It introduces basic cost accounting concepts, analyses, uses and procedures instead of procedure alone since cost accounting is a managerial tool for business strategy and implementation.	3
ACC323	Financial Statement Analysis Financial Statement Analysis ACC323 This course focus on the effective analysis of financial statements by integrating the concepts and principles learned in previous accounting courses. Examine the analytical tools to assess a company's performance, the concept of quality of earnings, approaches to valuation and other issues.	3
ACC421	Advanced Accounting Advanced Accounting ACC421 This course highlights advanced financial accounting topics not previously covered in the general accounting courses. It discusses specific advanced accounting issues related to the different forms of business combinations, inter-corporate investments, inter-company transactions, and multinational accounting and provide discussion of recent FASB pronouncements and IFRS updates that are shaping and changing the accounting profession.	3
ACC422	Auditing Auditing ACC422 This course is intended for Accounting students in their senior years of studies. This course aims to introduce the students to the procedures and techniques applied in the International Auditing Standards.	3
ACC423	Special Topics in Accounting & Taxation Special Topics in Accounting & Taxation ACC423 Special Topics in Accounting & Taxation provides an introduction to taxation, and is adapted for students who intend to pursue careers in accounting. This course is considered essential for students to learn all kinds of tax declarations in addition to applications of tax and regulations taught through Tax accounting. The course is based on daily life cases, through which student will experience the real-life tax declarations.	3
ACC426	Accounting Senior Project Accounting Senior Project ACC426 To achieve the degree, the student has to demonstrate his ability to pursue research readings and studies through a senior project. Each group of students must apply what they have learned from all advanced courses by establishing a new company and proceed with the needed forms and transactions in order to end up with a ration analysis at the end of the year,	3
ACC425	Accounting Practical Training Accounting Practical Training ACC425 Senior Level students are asked to have on-job training at one of the entities in the Accounting field, and then submit a report of the tasks achieved.	1

Required Credits: 28

major elective

Required Credits: 9

Description: Choose three of the following courses (ACC430, TAX233, TAX421, TAX422, JIA301, JIA401, JIA402, BUS-E1, BUS-E2, BUS-E3)

free elective

Required Credits: 3

Bachelor of Science in Chemistry

Overview

Courses & Requirements

English for Academic writing

Advanced Eng. Academic Writing

Introduction to management

Business Ethics

Business Research

Accounting II

Managerial finance

Business Law

Human Resource Management

Introduction to Marketing

Microeconomics

Management Information System

MAT212-Business Math

Business statistics

Discrete Math

Business Software Application

Intermediate Accounting

Managerial Cost Accounting

Financial Statement Analysis

Advanced Accounting

Auditing

Special Topics in Accounting & Taxation

Accounting Senior Project

Accounting Practical Training

Department Majors & Programs

Bachelor of Science in Statistics

Bachelor of Science in Physics

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics

Bachelor of Science in Chemistry

Bachelor of Science in Biology

Bachelor of Science in Actuarial Mathematics

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