COURSE DESCRIPTION


Financial Technology

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University Requirement

Faculty Requirement

Major Requirement

Free Ellective

Complementary Requirement

Total Credit Hours

Complementary Requirement is not calcualted in total credit hours



University Requirement - 24 Credit Hours:



Compulsory Courses - 15 Credit Hours

Course Code Course Name Credit hours Description
A0110151 National Education 3
A0110144 Arabic Communication Skills 3
A0110155 Military Sciences 3
A0110143 English Communication Skills 3
A0110154 Life Skills 1
A0110153 Leadership and Societal Responsibility 1
A0110152 Entrepreneurship and Innovation 1

Elective Courses - 6 Credit Hours

Course Code Course Name Credit hours Description
A0110163 Archeology and Tourism in Jordan 3
A0110161 Islamic Culture 3
A0110164 Development and Environment 3
A0110165 Contemporary Issues 3
A0411601 Legal Education and Human Rights 3 This course identifying the basic concepts of human rights in an analytical way, and then realistic clarify of the international & regional means dealing with human rights such as treaties, recommendations and international means that are in the process of formation, such imperative rules & customs, this course also address realistically the content of human rights and the rights of the first generation such as right of living. The second-generation rights such as the right to work and third-generation rights such as the right of environment. International ways to protect human rights in general. In addition, the extent to which the Jordanian constitution is compatible with international human rights standards.
A0110162 History of Jordan and Palestine 3
A0110166 Media and Public Relations 3

Elective Courses - 3 Credit Hours

Course Code Course Name Credit hours Description
A0871103 Principles of Renewable Energy 3 Introduction to renewable Energy include Photovoltaic, Wind power, Micro hydropower, Biomass energy, Waste power, Solar thermal power, Geothermal power, Ocean energy (tidal, tide-flow and wave), Ocean energy (OTEC), , Comparison of characteristics and cost of renewables. How we can use the sun, wind, biomass, geothermal resources, and water to generate more sustainable energy. It explains the fundamentals of energy, including the transfer of energy, as well as the limitations of natural resources. Starting with solar power, the text illustrates how energy from the sun is transferred and stored; used for heating, cooling, and lighting; collected and concentrated; and converted into electricity
A0110168 Digital Literacy and Artificial Intelligence 3
A1321100 Sport and Health 3 Defining health and fitness: physical education, health education; the cognitive, emotional, skill-oriented, and social goals of physical education; the history of physical education: ancient, medieval, and modern ages, the Olympics, Athletics in Jordan: nutrition and exercising; athletic injuries: bone, joint , muscle, skin injuries; special exercises for figure deformation; diseases related to lack of exercise: diabetes, obesity, being underweight, back pain, cancer; hooliganism: causes and recommended solutions for hooliganism.
A0110167 Critical Thinking Skills 3
A0110281 Society Health 3


Faculty Requirement - 24 Credit Hours:



Compulsory Courses - 24 Credit Hours

Course Code Course Name Credit hours Description
A0551201 Microeconomics 3 The course provides the basic knowledge of economics that is essential for all business major students to know. Topics covered in microeconomics include equilibrium models used by consumers and producers to satisfy needs under scarce resources, the theory of demand and supply, shifts in supply and demand, elasticity of demand and supply, consumer equilibrium, producer equilibrium, and markets under perfect competition.
A0591102 Management Information System 3
A0571101 Principles of Marketing (1) 3 This course aim to describe the Marketing Concepts, the importance of understanding the marketplace and build customer engagement, and marketing mix; Analyzing the Marketing Environment: Marketing Environment Definition, The Micro-Environment, The Macro Environment, Responding to the Marketing Environment; Products: Product Definition, Product Dimensions, Product Classification, Product life cycle and its strategy;? pricing: pricing concept, pricing strategies and tactics; marketing channels: Understand the importance of marketing channels, Understand what value channel members create; marketing communications: define the promotion mix tools, the integrated marketing communications. Include planning and execution of promotional program.
A0551101 Principles of Financial Management 3 This is an introductory finance course which assumes no prior knowledge of financial management. It introduces students to the fundamental concepts of financial management and the tools of financial decision making. These concepts relate primarily to the financial statement analysis, financial ratios analysis, time value of money, and capital budget techniques.
A0110192 Computer Skills (Humanities) 3
A0511101 Principles of Business Administration 3 This course aims to provide students with the basic knowledge of management functions. Students will learn the fundamental principles of business administration, which include: Introduction to management and organizations, management history, planning, organizing, leading, and controlling
A0110104 Statistics For Business 3
A0531101 Principles of Accounting (1) 3 This course aims to prepare students to understand the definition and objectives of Accounting, and its Principles and Assumptions. As well, this course helps students to use the accounting equation in order to analyze the economic transactions, prepare the journal entries, posting, and prepare financial statements. Moreover, this course illustrates all of the following ( event, transaction, entry, journal, posting, ledger, trail balance, adjusting entries, correcting entries, closing entries, financial statement).


Major Requirement - 72 Credit Hours:



Compulsory Courses - 66 Credit Hours

Course Code Course Name Credit hours Description
A05102404 Portfolio Management (lab) 1
A05103102 Financial Analysis (lab) 1
A05103502 Technical Financial Transformation Management 3 The objective of this course is to provide students with the tools for observing and analyzing how the role of digital technology is shifting from being a marginal efficiency enhancer to an established enabler of fundamental innovation in the financial sector. The course is designed to provide students with insights into the use of innovative technologies, data, and connectivity by enterprises to create value, revenue, and efficiency for organizations. Notably, as digital transformation requires businesses to remodel their own resources, their relationship with consumers, and the services they offer, the course provides valuable strategic insights and implications of digital transformation in the financial sector.
A05104506 Entrepreneurship and Innovation in FinTech 3 This course seeks to introduce students to the financing lifecycle of high-growth new ventures, key technologies, business models, and companies in the startup FinTech landscape. This subject is intended for students who are potentially interested in working at, establishing, or investing in early-stage startups in the FinTech sector. From a practical perspective, the course will follow a successful startup?s path through all of its stages. These stages include the venture capital industry and how entrepreneurs and investors realize returns.
A05102501 Fundamentals of FinTech 3 This course will introduce students to FinTech ? an innovation that is intended to transform the financial services industry. The theory behind how these systems work will be applied to real-life examples. Within this context, the course aims at explaining why, and when banks, financial institutions, and other organisations might benefit from utilizing these technologies to make payments more efficient and enhance customer experience. Upon successful completion of this module, students will have the ability to explain the current and future FinTech developments. No prior experience in programming is expected, as the core focus is on explaining how FinTech works in the real world.
A05104503 Data Science Applications and Fraud Analytics 3 This course teaches the essentials of interpreting data, performing analyses, communicating actionable insights, and how the results are applied in various fields. The course also seeks to introduce the students to the concept of fraud analytics and its importance. Moreover, the course explores the types of fraud detection and prevention techniques and their applicability in real-life contexts. Additionally, the course introduces a number of traditional methods of detecting fraud, which is a particularly important preventive measure.
A05102202 Islamic Banks 3 This course aims to introduce the key characteristics of Islamic banking and how these differ from conventional banking, especially pertaining to financial statements. Topics covered include how Islamic banking is consistent with the Sharia, history of Islamic banking and its evolution, contracts of Murabaha, Mudaraba, Musharaka, Ijara, Istisna'a, Salam, as well as Islamic insurance Takaful is also covered.
A05104101 Corporate Finance 3 This course aims to introduce students to the tools and techniques of financial management and their use in managerial decision-making. The course emphasizes the understanding of finance theory and working knowledge of the financial environment in which the firm operates to develop appropriate financial strategies. Hence, it covers the entire range of finance concepts such as cost of capital, capital structure, dividend policy, and merger and acquisitions.
A05104202 International Finance 3
A05102403 Portfolio Management 2 The course examines the theoretical basis and practical approach to the management of stocks and investment portfolios. The course?s main objective is to familiarize students with the theoretical underpinnings of modern portfolio theory, investment objectives and constraints, efficient markets paradigm, diversification, asset allocation, evaluating portfolio performance, and the mathematical and practical calculation of portfolio risk-return using Microsoft Excel.
A05103101 Financial Analysis 2 The course seeks to provide students with a set of financial tools that enables them to interpret and analyse financial information and to make informed and effective financial decisions. The course comprises of the fundamental analysis of financial statements, the application and valuation techniques to a variety of decisions on a firm. The main purpose of the course is to teach students the processes and methods of financial analysis, how to extract data from financial reports, and make financial decisions relating to corporations and investments. Essentially, with a dynamic financial landscape, the course inspects relevant financial tools, such as key performance indicators, breakeven analysis, capital management, dividends, and how organisations analyse and act upon these decisions.
A05104601 Field Training 3 This subject aims to train students in relevant institutions or companies in order to acquire practical and professional skills in the FinTech field. Through exposing students to real-world companies, the course teaches students to abide by instructions and regulations in the workplace, teamwork, be punctual, operate ethically, and take responsibility for their actions. As a result, this course helps develop students with practical competence who are ready to join the labour market upon graduation.
A05104402 Financial Modelling 3 This course aims to build the financial modeling abilities necessary for applying financial theory to real-world situations in investment research, portfolio management, and valuation. The course will specifically cover the use of Excel spreadsheet functions and SPSS for the statistical analysis of financial market data, presenting financial information, and utilizing various models to predict credit default/financial distress.
A05102400 Investment Management 3 This course introduces students to the concepts of risk and return, the stock market, the principle of diversification, calculation of return on investment using different methods, the measures of risk, stock price behavior and market efficiency, and how different investment processes of security types are managed through security brokers and the type?s brokerage accounts.
A05103308 Data Management and its Applications 3 The goal of this course is to teach students the basics of how to manage and analyze financial datasets. The first segment of the course focuses on building skills in basic data; the second, and more important part, introduces various financial databases. Through practice on real-world financial datasets, students will learn methods used to prepare data for statistical computing. The latter part is essential for data analysis, which is applicable in various contexts in finance. The covered methods include basic statistical modeling and inference, simple textual analysis, classification, and alternative datasets.
A05104504 Blockchain and Simulation of Financial Markets Applications 2 The focus of this course will be on important FinTech topics, namely: blockchain and cryptocurrencies; crowdfunding and P2P lending; high frequency trading, and simulating trading in financial markets. Specifically, students will learn what technologies are being used, how they are used in practice, and the advantages and disadvantages of applying those technologies to financial markets. This course is meant to be taught in a lab to enhance experiential learning and provide students with a connection between theoretical knowledge and real-world experience.
A05104400 Risk Management and Financial Derivatives 3 This course aims at providing students with information regarding the risks that face the financial institutions and the ways to manage them. Precisely, the risks discussed in the course include operational risk, interest rate risk, liquidity risk, market volatility and value at risk. The course also links risk with derivatives by covering topics such as options, forward contracts, future contracts, and swaps. By the end of this course, students will know how these contracts work, how they are used, and how they are priced. The emphasis of this course is on understanding the instruments and their use in risk management.
A05104505 Blockchain and Simulation of Financial Markets Applications (lab) 1 A practical application to the material taught in the Blockchain and FinancialMarket Applications subject.
A05103307 Financial Information Systems 3 This course introduces students to financial information systems by providing an overview of the key data available for taking informed financing and investment decisions. It also describes the role of information for corporate decisions, its sources, and the analytical tools used to collect, store, manage, and report economic and financial data. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to investigate, analyse, and optimize business processes using financial information.
A05104501 Artificial Intelligence in Finance 3 The course gives an overview of how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is applied in finance. Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) are also discussed. Practical applications using ML techniques will be utilized to for prediction purposes on various financial issues. Students will learn how to choose the basic data preparation method and model and then how to improve them, how to train and test the models, and how to choose the most accurate model.
A05102305 Security and Protection of Information Systems 3 This course introduces the concepts and understanding of the field of computer security and how it relates to other fields of information technology. Topics include security threats, hardening systems, securing networks, cryptography, and organisational security policies. The duties of cybersecurity analysts, who are responsible for detecting security incidents in information systems and responding to such incidents are also explored.
A05102300 Electronic Financial and Banking Services 3 This course aims to equip students with major current developments in the banking industry with respect to the application of electronics in finance, in order to promote self-service retail banking. Specifically, the course seeks to cover electronic banking, electronic commerce, interbank clearing system and settlement, and many other related issues. As a result, upon successful completion of this course, students are expected to explain how electronic and digital transformation impacted the banking and financial markets. This will give students an idea of how control systems, like check truncation, electronic settlements, and clearance systems, work in an electronic interface. 
A05101102 Statistics in Finance 3 This course introduces students to the foundational statistical skills necessary for financial analysis. The objectives of this subject are to provide basic knowledge in mathematics and statistics in financial disciplines, to develop the ability to analyse and interpret business-specific data in decision-making, and to develop the ability to apply a modern toolkit using Microsoft Excel to analyse quantitative data.
A05103202 Financial Markets and Institutions 3 This course provides students with introductory information about the functions of financial markets and institutions.Hence, the discussion involves stock markets alongside bond and money markets.Furthermore, the course covers the characteristics of depository and non-depository financial institutions such as commercial banks, investment banks, security firms, mutual funds, and pension funds.
A05102201 Banks Management 3 This course provides students with the fundamental concepts related to the management of banks and financial institutions. The course begins with defining banks and their roles, followed by showcasing and explaining organizational structures. Thereafter, the course explains what the financial statements are and describes how their performance can be evaluated. The final part of this course explains how to allocate and manage assets and liabilities, taking into consideration both profitability and liquidity.

Elective Courses - 6 Credit Hours

Course Code Course Name Credit hours Description
A0551202 Macroeconomics 3 "This course offers an introduction to economics with a focus on macroeconomic issues. The central
A0531102 Accounting Principles (2) 3 This course aims to prepare the students to understand the classification of assets like cash, bank, account receivable, and note receivable, inventory and plant assets. This course covers the topic like cash control, bank reconciliation, accounting for receivables, accounts receivable, notes receivable, inventories and the comparison between the perpetual and periodic entries. This course illustrates how to deal with plant assets, determining the cost of plant assets, calculate the depreciation, and plant asset disposals.
A0554302 Behavioral Finance 3 This course aims to introduce students to the tools and techniques of behavioral finance. Topics covered include the impact of psychology, uncertainty, and the cognitive biases/forces that affect people?s decisions. Behavioral finance applies the scientific method to understand the impact of cognitive forces, including motivation, emotions, impulses, fear, regret, loss aversion, and genuine uncertainty upon financial market outcomes.
A0593301 Electronic Payment and Financial Systems 3 This course introduces students to a wide diversity of electronic payment mechanisms that are used worldwide. The course is designed to provide students with basic knowledge about the use of new technologies in money transfer nationally and internationally. This course will help students to identify the different forms of electronic money, how money is transferred through the world's banking systems, and e-payment systems are secured.
A0561102 Principles of E-Marketing 3 This course aims to provide students with the basics of internet marketing, its benefits and advantages and the difference between traditional marketing and e marketing as part of the marketing communications mix. This course also aims to provide students with knowledge related to business models, e-strategies, methods used for online advertising, and methods of maintaining and existing customers via the internet. New customer acquisition techniques, as well as the basic tools used in Internet marketing, developing Internet marketing strategies and plans and evaluating their results.
A0412301 Electronic commerce legislation 3 Studying the most important legal aspects raised using electronic information systems, clarifying means of communication and their components, their impact on different branches of law, and the definition of electronic commerce. As well as studying the legal of electronic payment by credit card, in addition defining the applicable law for E-commerce disputes


Free Ellective - 12 Credit Hours:



Compulsory Courses - 12 Credit Hours

Course Code Course Name Credit hours Description
A0591201 Fundamentals of Programming 2
A0554502 Graduation Project 3
A0591202 Fundamentals of Programming Lab 1
A0511109 Business Communication Skills 3
A0110105 Business Mathematics 3


Complementary Requirement - 9 Credit Hours:



Compulsory Courses - 9 Credit Hours

Course Code Course Name Credit hours Description
A0110191 Computer Skills (Remedial) 3
A0110141 English Language (Remedial) 3
A0110142 Arabic Language (Remedial) 3

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