Global Learning Classes
This is a list with descriptions of the Global Learning Classes I have taken in my 4 year program
FIN4634 International Banking
This course provides an overview of banking in a global context.
Community, regional and large national institutions also pursue profitable international banking opportunities, whether a niche segment such as trade finance or wealth management, or a full-scale international banking department.
This course takes a strategic approach to international banking. It examines the key financial markets where banks play a very active role, with emphasis on the international arena; and then explores how banks manage the risks they face in operating in these markets. The sound and profitable growth of the banking business hinges on effectively managing risks.
We will study the different banking areas, such as consumer, corporate, investment and wealth management, their products and services offerings to their retail and wholesale clients, and their international activities. We will also discuss the regulatory environment and the interactions betweenÂ
bankers and their regulators.
IDH 3034/IDH 3035Â Thinking, Design and Impossible Problems
Regardless of discipline, ideation, critical thinking and problem-solving frameworks have beenshown to produce the best outcomes. Each week this course tackles an impossible problem as a means to hone one’s critical thinking skills and work with new frameworks for problem solving. The problems are typically problems and solutions that changed society and the direction of humanity. This course is to analyze the problem in an original way to produce a satisfactory solution. Genius is expected.Outcomes include: Global Awareness: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the interrelatedness of local, global, international, and intercultural issues, trends, and systems.Global Perspective: Students will be able to conduct a multi-perspective analysis of
local, global, international, and intercultural problems.
Global Engagement: Students will be able to demonstrate willingness to engage in local, global, international, and intercultural problem solving.
MAN4720 Strategic Management
This is a capstone undergraduate course designed to enable students to increase their understanding of the theory and practice of strategic management. It includes management, marketing, finance, and accounting. Students will explore the systematic nature of strategic management and its objective to develop organizations that adapt and learn quickly in increasingly complex global environments, formulate strategy to increase organizational effectiveness and efficiency, and serve the interests of all stakeholders. In the context of firms, strategy aims to accomplish firms’ goals of creating value and succeeding in often highly competitive marketplaces. We address the question: What makes a firm successful in terms of creating value over the long term? As such, the focus is on concepts and analytical techniques for creating sustainable advantage in difficult competitive environments. The perspective adopted is that of the top manager who has overall responsibility for the performance of the firm or of a business unit within the firm.
MAR3023 Introduction to Marketing
This course has the purpose of teaching how to increase productivity via innovations in marketing exchanges that are designed to serve and satisfy customers, particularly profitable customers. In this course we learned about marketing’s organizational function of managing processes for creating, communicating, and delivering value to customers and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its stakeholders. Students should be able to: Analyze a company’s marketing strategy and recognize appropriate marketing alternatives, identify key marketing-related issues or problems, Manage the integrative functions of marketing, use practical buyer/seller behavior models to evaluate and improve marketing strategies. As for Global Learning: Demonstrate knowledge of the interrelated effects of local marketing decisions on international constituents and vice versa, analyze marketing problems from local, international, and various cultural perspectives, demonstrate a willingness to engage in solving marketing-related problems that pertain to various local, international, and intercultural entities.