AUL | Bachelor of Business Administration - Management Information System(BBA)

Bachelor of Business Administration - Management Information System(BBA)

Management Information System Program: An Overview

Through the different fields of study including management, finance, marketing and economics as well as information systems development & design, the department aims to provide to students a balance between management & business principles and technical skills. It will help students master the theory without losing sight of applications. Graduates of the MIS Department should be well prepared for graduate work or professional employment in information systems or business-related areas (Computer Systems Analyst, information security manager, technical support specialist, software or web-developer, …).

Educational Objectives for MIS program

Understand broad business knowledge across disciplines and demonstrate analytical competencies in the business profession including critical thinking, quantitative reasoning, and information literacy.
Apply sound managerial concepts and principles in the development and operation of information systems.
Apply systems analysis, IS design and project management concepts
Apply technical concepts in information technology.
Become contributing members of multidisciplinary teams and successfully apply the fundamentals of their educational background.

Program Outcome Objectives

At the end of the program, students will be able to

Critically state, describe, and consider an issue or business problem.
Analyze a problem, identify and define the computing requirements appropriate to its solution.
Design, implement, and evaluate a computer-based solution to meet a given set of computing requirements in the context of the discipline.
Support the use, delivery and management of information systems within an information systems environment.
Provide credible, relevant, and convincing information (e.g., explanations, analogies, quotations, statistics, examples, contexts) during communication.
Understand professional and ethical responsibility.
Function in a multidisciplinary team.

Courses & Requirements

General Requirements

Code	Name	Credits
CST201	General Education I	3
CST 202	General Education II	3

Required Credits: 6

Description: Courses required for all AUL Students

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
ACC210	Accounting I Accounting I ACC210 This course is intended to introduce the basic theory, concepts and practice of financial accounting and to enable students to understand information contained in the published financial statements of companies and other organizations. This course will focus on external reporting of accounting data. The course will include the accounting cycles for service and merchandising firms; preparing and interpreting related financial statements. Specific aspects of accounting will also include control over cash, accounts receivables, and inventory costing under the perpetual and periodic methods. By the end of the course students will acquire a good understanding of basic accounting terminology, principles and procedures; they will be able to use their knowledge and skills in everyday life or for continued studies in accounting.	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
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
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
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
ECO211	Macroeconomics	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
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
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
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
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
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
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

Required Credits: 43

Major Courses

Code	Name	Credits
MIS320	Quantitative Techniques Quantitative Techniques MIS320 This course provides the learning of necessary quantitative models in management that uses spreadsheet applications and other computer tools to provide management solutions in optimizing business outcomes, making appropriate strategic decisions, analyzing and controlling operational systems and simulating the business processes to allow in depth management acquaintance to real life problems.	3
MIS321	Computer Networking Application Computer Networking Application MIS321 A study of computer networks: functionality, characteristics, and configurations. Recent advances in standardization, internetworking, and deployment of LANs, MANs, and WANs are examined. Topics include network topologies; architectures; and current and emerging technologies in communication and services. Discussion also covers strategies for network planning, implementation, management, and security, nd study in details the process of network design from definition of requirements to design validation illustrated with simple case studies	3
MIS322	Data Mining for Business Data Mining for Business MIS322 This course is designed to explain data analytics including the strategic aspects by using Data Mining techniques. We concentrate on demonstrating how discovering the hidden knowledge in corporate databases will help managers to make near-real time intelligent business and operation decisions.	3
MIS323	Business Application Programming Business Application Programming MIS323 This course focuses on programming logic. It allows students to become comfortable with fundamental concepts and logical thought processes used in programming.	4
CSC222	Database Systems Database Systems CSC222 This course illustrates the important role that database systems play in any organization; it provides the point of view of the database designers and the techniques used to model and create modern database applications for different businesses and domains. It covers data modeling, relational algebra, basic and advanced Structured Query Language (SQL), as well as various related topics such as views, triggers, transactions and database integrity.	3
CSC222L	Database Systems Lab Database Systems Lab CSC222L In the lab, students gain hands on experience on the topics covered in the course CSC222	1
CSC310	Software Engineering Software Engineering CSC310 This course covers the following topics: An introduction to the system development process which links user requirements to the computer based system. This course will provide students with a basic exposure to the tasks and challenges facing today’s projects .This course emphasizes problem formulating and problem solving. Students learn how to analyze a problem domain and develop the appropriate analysis and design models to formalize the requirements using object oriented methods and appropriate theory.	3
CSC310L	Software Engineering Lab Software Engineering Lab CSC310L In the lab, students gain hands on experience on the topics covered in the course CSC310	1
MIS420	E-Business & Web Design E-Business & Web Design MIS420 This course introduces students to the discipline of B2C, B2B technologies, online payment process, responsiveness website design, and developing systems using web, mobile, and other latest technologies. It is designed to give students an exposure to and experience with several "modern" web development principles and technologies used on the Internet today	3
MIS421	Business Intelligence Business Intelligence MIS421 Business Analytics refers to the process of capturing and storing needed data in a data warehouse and utilizing appropriate tools that enable that data to be transformed into useful information to support managerial decision-making.	3
MIS 431	Business Process Management Business Process Management MIS 431 This course teaches the important tools and concepts of Business Process Management and their use in developing operational strategies and increasing competitiveness, adopting e-business, emphasizing the role of information systems, and presenting applications in service and manufacturing from both qualitative and quantitative approaches.	3
MIS426	MIS Senior Project MIS Senior Project MIS426 This course will give students a broad overview of managerial, strategic and technical knowledge associated with Business Intelligence design, implementation, and utilization through a focus on the concepts and techniques of data warehouse and business intelligence.	2
MIS425	MIS Practical Training MIS Practical Training MIS425 A supervised training period spent at some company working in a field of interest to the student and related to his major. At the end, the student is asked to report on the gained experience and is evaluated according to his accomplishments and the appraisal of the supervising specialist.	1

Required Credits: 34

Major Elective

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
MGT420	Project Management Project Management MGT420 This course provides the learning of necessary quantitative models in managing a project. Managing a project is approached from the planning process of time, cost, material, human resources through the implementation and control of the plan. However, planning involves an assessment of a future event which carries the risk of an error in estimating a quantitative measure as the time or cost. The different models taught in this course are meant to decrease any possible estimation error, on one side, and to allocate available resources efficiently, on the other side. Models taught are: PERT/CPM, Bar Chart (Gantt chart), Time and Cost Schedules.	3
MIS430	Special Topics in MIS	3
MIS433	ERP Implementation	3
MKT335	E- Marketing E- Marketing MKT335 The course focuses on the Internet and other technologies that have had a profound effect on marketing. It also focuses more on e-marketing strategy and create E-Marketing plan emphasis on E-marketing communication tools and how to engage customers with social media.	3

Required Credits: 3

Description: choose one of the following (ACC320, MGT420, MIS430, MIS433, MKT335)

Free Elective

Code	Name	Credits
FRE-I	Free Elective	3

Required Credits: 3

Department Majors & Programs

Bachelor of Business Administration - Management Information System(BBA)
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Bachelor of Business Administration - Management Information System(BBA)

Management Information System Program: An Overview

Educational Objectives for MIS program

Program Outcome Objectives

Courses & Requirements

English for Academic writing

Advanced Eng. Academic Writing

Accounting I

Accounting II

Business Law

Business Ethics

Microeconomics

Managerial finance

Human Resource Management

MAT212-Business Math

Business statistics

Introduction to management

Business Research

Management Information System

Introduction to Marketing

Quantitative Techniques

Computer Networking Application

Data Mining for Business

Business Application Programming

Database Systems

Database Systems Lab

Software Engineering

Software Engineering Lab

E-Business & Web Design

Business Intelligence

Business Process Management

MIS Senior Project

MIS Practical Training

Business Software Application

Project Management

E- Marketing

Department Majors & Programs

Bachelor of Business Administration - Management Information System(BBA)

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