Undergraduate Courses 2022-23

The course is designed to promote students' personal development, teamwork, communications skills, career preparation, leadership capability, and a global mindset. For GBUS students only. Grade PP, P or F.

This course develops students' proficiency in business analysis by building competence in using fundamental tools for business problem solving and delivering professional presentations. For GBUS students or students with consent from the instructor.

This is a project-based service-learning course with the aim to nurture students' passion in socially responsible leadership. Students will collaborate with a non-governmental organization to design, lead, and implement a service project. For GBUS students only. Graded P or F.

This course is designed for students who are interested in starting a business or working for an entrepreneurial company. Students are expected to understand the opportunities and challenges of a start-up journey, from coming up with their own start up idea to incepting the idea, pitching for funding and to growing their own start-up. At the end of the course, they will be equipped with the skills and knowledge necessary to kick start their business as an entrepreneur.

This course aims to develop students' capacity for critical reflection. To deal with human interactions in a global setting, we need to equip ourselves with a spectrum of understanding and responses that go beyond our parochial mind-set. The course exposes students to issues outside the business field, providing an opportunity to explore relevant topics concerning their community, their world and themselves. For GBUS students or students with consent from instructor.

This is an advanced case studies course that develops students' proficiency in conducting business problem solving and presentations under conditions simulating real business settings. For GBUS students or students with consent from the instructor.

This course intends to develop a deep understanding of the contextual factors of Asia and emerging market countries, with a specific emphasis on the risks, challenges and mitigants to doing businesses in these countries. In studying key social, cultural economic, geographical, political and historical characteristics of these countries, it is expected that students will gain a good understanding of how business is conducted as well as the constraints, risks and challenges associated with doing businesses in these countries, such as financial, political, legal, operational and technical risks. In addition, this course aims to explore how country differences impact on business strategies and managerial decision-making in different countries. For GBUS students or students with instructor's approval only.

This course introduces students to cross-border and cross-cultural business transactions in Asia and emerging markets. Analyzing cases studies of different types of real business deals, the course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive overview of doing business in these regions and the opportunity to strategize as corporate decision makers through discussions, role plays, and presentations. The objective is to sharpen students' capabilities in deal structuring, financing, negotiating, and deal closing from a strategic management perspective. For GBUS students or students with consent from the instructor.

The course covers a coherent collection to topics in the current development of global business. May be graded by letter, or P/F for different offerings.

Faculty directed study of selected problems in global business. May be repeated for credits if different topics are taken. Graded P or F. Instructor's approval is required for enrollment in the course.

The course is designed for final year GBUS students to synthesize skills and knowledge learned from the program by undertaking a challenging individual or team capstone project. For GBUS students only.