| Course Code |
Course Name |
Credit hours |
Description |
| A0161201 |
English Communication Skills |
3 |
Grammar: question tags, modals, future forms, articles, adjectives, adverbs, if structures; vocabulary: relationships, work, activities, media, war, sport; writing skills: essay, notes, messages, application letters; basic and advanced reading skills; basic and advanced listening skills; verbal skills: oral presentations, arguments. |
| A0161101 |
Arabic Communication Skills |
3 |
Language levels: phonological level, grammatical level, rhetorical level, orthographic level, comprehension and speaking; grammar exercises, nominal sentences, verbal sentences, kana and its sisters, Inna and its sisters, dual, masculine plural, feminine plural, indeclinable nouns, vocative, appositives; exercises in morphology, present participle, and past participle; spelling and punctuation, dictionaries, listening and speaking. |
| A0161301 |
National Education |
3 |
Concepts and terms; Geography of Jordan; contemporary political history of Jordan; Jordanian Society; Jordanian constitutional and democratic life; Jordanian national institutions; challenges facing Jordan; threats to civic life: fanaticism, extremism, terrorism, violence; corruption: definitions, types, causes, impact, and prevention. |
| A0161112 |
Leadership and Societal Responsibility |
1 |
This course deals with prominent titles related to leadership, such as: the meaning of leadership, the vocabulary that falls under the term, leadership styles, leadership and social responsibility, change management and strategies, building an effective team, the leader and managing diversity, how to discover future leaders and support them, and women leaders. |
| A0161401 |
Military Sciences |
3 |
The establishment and development of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan; the history of the Arab Legion; peacekeeping troops; preparing the nation for defense and liberation. |
| A0161113 |
Life Skills |
1 |
This course deals with the vital interest of the individual on the individual and collective level. It is like a passport to the success of individuals and helps them understand their personal competencies. It discusses the meaning of skills, their levels, characteristics and importance, communication skill and communication, and trains them on self-skills such as the skill of time management, organizing and defining it, and providing examples of its fields of application and activities. carried out by the students themselves. It also deals with thinking skills, its importance, education, and forms such as problem-solving and decision-making as forms of complex thinking or its strategies. The course also deals with training students on methods of dialogue and exchange of views as an entry point to resolving differences and mitigating frictions when we witness the openness of societies, correct study skills, family success and conservatism. |
| A0161111 |
Entrepreneurship and Innovation |
1 |
Economic science definition: its objectives and the economic problem; The relation between the economic science and other sciences; Economic analysis methods; Production possibilities curve; National income accounts; Consumption; Investment; Saving; Unemployment; Inflation; Money and Banking; Financial and monetary policy and its role in dealing with the imbalanced economy through these policies; Economic development in terms of importance and objectives and economic planning to achieve such objectives; Demand and supply theory and consumer equilibrium; Cost and production theory; Producer equilibrium in different markets. |
| Course Code |
Course Name |
Credit hours |
Description |
| A0161501 |
Islamic Culture |
3 |
Definition of the culture, characteristics of the Islamic culture, Islamic culture and other cultures; the sources of Islamic culture: The Holy Quran, Sunna, the Arabic language, history of Islam; fields of Islamic culture: faith, worship, morals; challenges facing the Islamic culture: orientalism, globalization, secularism; young people and the impacts of foreign cultures, women and Islam, Islam and terrorism. |
| A0161701 |
History of Jordan and Palestine |
3 |
The geography of Jordan and Palestine, Jordan and Palestine in ancient times, general historical look, Jordan, and Palestine in the Mamluk era, Jordan, and Palestine during the First World War (1914- 1918), Emirate of East Jordan (Transjordan), constitutional and legislative life in Jordan, Palestine under the British Mandate, and Jordanian-Palestinian relations, Jerusalem, historical status. |
| A0161703 |
Archaeology and Tourism in Jordan |
3 |
Tourism definition; Classification of Tourism; The difference between tourist and other traveler?s concepts, Travel types, The definition of Archaeology and archaeological sites: Archaeological surveys and excavations; Documentation; Jordan through the ages; Components of tourism in Jordan; Elements of tourist attractions in Jordan: Archeological sites, Natural sites, Natural reserves, Forests; Tourist movement and types in Jordan; Economical impact of tourism in Jordan. |
| A0161601 |
Contemporary Issues |
3 |
Identify the most important contemporary local, national and regional issues, the most prominent contemporary challenges and their questions from development, youth, extremism, globalization, culture and identity; Jerusalem and its central position, the Arab-Israeli conflict |
| A0161802 |
Development and Environment |
3 |
The course provides awareness and insight into the environmental issue, its vocabulary, the human relationship with the ecosystem, and environmental hazards to avoid. It also works to develop students' understanding and awareness of basic ecological concepts, and to reinforce their attitudes and values, in order to practice solving environmental problems. And linking it to comprehensive development and its relationship to water, food and energy security. |
| 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. |
| A0161901 |
Media and Public Relations |
3 |
The nexus between media and society in terms of the social, political, economic and cultural power of the media, the role of the media in giving people the opportunity to express their opinions and promote international relations. Communication and public relations, communication and its types, levels, forms, properties, fields, activities, physical and nonphysical (symbolic) environment, and obstacles to the communicative process. Public relations: its beginnings, development, principles, bases, importance, functions, planning, activities. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| A0591111 |
Digital Literacy |
3 |
Digital Literacy is a concept that describes how technology and the Internet are shaping the way people interact and how they affect us as individuals and as a society. This course educate students on the uses of digital technologies, the dangers of digital technology and the need to build a culture of ethical use of the Internet and introduce the concept of responsible freedom. |
| A0612303 |
Society Health |
3 |
The course aims to provide students with the basic principles that enhance the concept of health and health prevention in its various physical, psychological and social aspects. The student will also be provided with information that helps individuals realize their health needs in the context of the culture and values ??systems they live in and how to meet these needs, which is known as improving health and quality of life. |
| A0161602 |
Critical Thinking Skills |
3 |
The concept of critical thinking, its components; characteristics of critical thinking individuals; Critical thinking skills: the skill of interpretation, analysis, evaluation, inference, expectation, prediction; Stages of critical thinking: Motivation, searching for information, linking information, evaluation, expression, and integration |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| A0111104 |
Statistics For Business |
3 |
Elementary principles and applications of descriptive statistics;
counting principles; linear regression and correlation
and ANOVA; elementary probability principles;
probability distributions; test of hypothesis
and confidence interval. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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). |
| A0581401 |
Management Information Systems (1) |
3 |
his course aims to equip students with the basic knowledge of management information systems (MIS) fundamentals.
Accordingly, this course is formulated to cover key topics of MIS include: Information systems basic concepts,
the role of information systems in business environments complementary assets of information systems,
types of information systems and their functions in an organization, foundations of business intelligence,
foundations of telecommunication and Internet technologies, and the principles of e-commerce
business and revenue models. |
| A0331701 |
Computer Skills (Humanities) |
3 |
The course introduces students to a range of advanced topics in Microsoft Office 2016 Applications; these applications include Microsoft Outlook 2016, Microsoft Word 2016 and Microsoft Excel 2016. The course is designed to enhance the students? skills in advanced topics of Microsoft, it explains how to manage Emails using MS-Outlook 2016, also it introduces the students to create, format and design Text documents using MS- Word 2016 and finally it develops the knowledge of students in MS-Excel 2016 (Advanced Topics). |
| Course Code |
Course Name |
Credit hours |
Description |
| A05103102 |
Financial Analysis (lab) |
1 |
|
| 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. |
| 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. |
| A05102404 |
Portfolio Management (lab) |
1 |
|
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| A05104202 |
International Finance |
3 |
|
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| A05104505 |
Blockchain and Simulation of Financial Markets Applications (lab) |
1 |
A practical application to the material
taught in the Blockchain and FinancialMarket Applications subject. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Course Code |
Course Name |
Credit hours |
Description |
| A0592201 |
Electronic Business Models |
3 |
The course explores the issues underpinning e-business models and related issues. It also pays attention to several aspects related to innovative e-applications (e-government, e-management, m-commerce), the economics of e-business, e-tailing and marketing, e-trust, legal and ethical issues in global e-business. More precisely, the course investigates the impact of e-technologies on marketplace transformation, online business activities/processes, management strategies to e-business and related issues with an emphasis on B2C (business-to-consumer) and B2B (business-to-business) e-business models. |
| A0331202 |
Introduction to Programming |
3 |
Sequential execution: program structure, command line arguments, string literals, output, Limerick layout; Program errors: syntactic errors, semantic errors, compile time errors, runtime errors; Types, variables and expressions: string, double and integer types, hard-coded data, assignment statement, arithmetic expressions and associativity, type conversions, parsing input data, integer division, grouping expression terms and long statements layout; Conditional and repeated execution: choice and iteration statements, Boolean expressions, relational operators, program design using pseudo code, lists of command line arguments, comments, standard classes; Control statements nested in loops: declaring variables in compound statements, conditional expression operator; |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| Course Code |
Course Name |
Credit hours |
Description |
| A0161200 |
Remedial English Language |
3 |
Grammar: auxiliary verbs, tenses (past, present, future) Vocabulary: friendship, communication, IT, TV shows, media, houses, places description, compound nouns, free time activities, books and movies description, food, dinning out. Variety of skills: paragraph writing, verifying formal and informal letters, writing unofficial emails, ways of using punctuation, upper case letters and conjunctions, outlining main ideas and details, inferring conclusions and impeded meanings, determining author?s perspectives, presentations, argumentation and persuasion, agreeing and disagreeing expressions, making comparisons, narrating events, expressing opinions, making official phone calls, ordering food, correct pronunciation. |
| A0331700 |
Remedial Computer Skills |
3 |
Introduction to basic computer hardware and software; copyrights; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Power point, Access; Introduction to Internet. |
| A0161100 |
Remedial Arabic Language |
3 |
Language level and definition, speaking and comprehension texts, syntax exercises, Nominal Sentence, safe feminine plural, safe masculine plural, singularity, auxiliaries, duality, numbers, subordinates, punctuations, morphological exercise, dictation issues, Nunnation. |
