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Faculty Requirement

Major Requirement

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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
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.

Elective Courses - 6 Credit Hours

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.

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
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.
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.
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


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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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).
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).


Major Requirement - 72 Credit Hours:



Compulsory Courses - 66 Credit Hours

Course Code Course Name Credit hours Description
A0534401 Tax accounting 3 This course aims to illustrate the following (conceptual Framework, definition, objectives, types, good tax system characteristics, estimation methods, collection methods, double taxation, tax evasion; Jordan income tax law: legal characteristics, residential and non-residential for tax purposes, taxable & exempted income
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.
A0532201 Cost Accounting 3 This course aims to give an introduction about cost accounting, classification for cost elements. This course illustrates the following (costs, cost instatement for absorption theory, variable theory, capacity theory, direct material, direct labor, factory overhead, cost allocation, and various cost allocation methods. This course helps the students to calculate the cost of job).
A0532103 Intermediate Accounting (2) 3
A0532302 Ethics in the Accounting Profession 3 This course aims to provide information and some cases about the ethical rules, public interest, objectives, basic principles, ethical conduct for all accountants, integrity and objectivity, professional competence, secrecy, tax practice, ethical conduct for employed accountants in the public sector, independence, and applying principles in specific cases. As well, the course explaining independence, professional competence, relation with other professional accountants and the ethical conduct of employee accountants.
A0532301 International Audit Standards 3 This course aims to define the concept of audit and its origins and objectives, economic factors that led to demanding for audit, expectations gap, and types of audit services provided by auditors, international auditing standards and the importance of standards.
A0532202 Managerial Accounting 3 This course aims to define the managerial accounting, and the interrelationship with financial and cost Accounting, the cost concepts and classifications, the mixed cost separation method, the High-Low method. The course helps the students to calculate the breakeven point for one and multiple Product, as well, how to take the short-term managerial decisions. The course illustrates how to prepare the various types of budgeting.
A0533101 International Accounting Standards 3 This course aims to define and illustrate the various types of international accounting standards. The course covers standards such as (inventory measurement & valuation issues, inventories, provisions contingent liabilities and contingent assets, agriculture, depreciation impairment and depletion, property plant and equipment, exploration and evaluation of natural resources, impairment of assets, intangible assets).
A0534101 Advanced financial accounting 3 This course aims to define the conceptual framework of business combination: Nature of business combinations, defensive tactics, determining the price for a business combination and accounting for business combinations. The course helps the student calculate and prepare the merger with goodwill, bargain purchase excess, statutory consolidation with goodwill, contingent considerations, leveraged buyout, and consolidated financial statements on acquisition date. The course highlights the meaning of parent and subsidiary company, recording the acquisition transactions, the use of the working papers, consolidation of a wholly and partially owned subsidiary, consolidated financial statements after acquisition date.
A0533303 Accounting Information Systems 3 This course aims to illustrate the design of the accounting system, techniques of development and documentation of information systems, the importance of the development of techniques and systems analysis, hierarchy chart, data flow diagrams input-process-output charts, analytic flow chart; transactions cycles and internal control. As well, this course highlights the importance of reports, types of reports, processing in accounting information system: the principles of designing processing operations.
A0533401 Accounting for Banks and Insurance Companies 3 TThis course aims to illustrate the process costing system and spoilage, static-budget variance, flexible- budget variance, sales-volume variance, standard costing system, price and efficiency variance for direct material, price and efficiency for direct labor, variable overhead cost variance, fixed overhead variance, activity?based costing system, cost allocation and joint product. B15
A0533301 Auditing 3 This course aims to define the proof checking, checking of subsequent events, types of subsequent events, responsibility of auditor for auditing the newest subsequent, audit reports, form and content of the auditor's report. This course illustrates the using of samples in the audit, representative samples, the risk of samples, sampling methods, methods of selection of sample statistical and non- statistical methodologies preview.
A0532102 Intermediate Accounting (1) 3 This course aims to provide information about the accounting conceptual framework in addition, its objectives, qualitative characteristics, primary qualities, secondary qualities, and the accounting assumptions. The course illustrates the accounting cycle from the recording until the closing and preparing the financial statements. This course helps the students understand how to prepare an expand income statements, retained earnings statement, financial position statements and its classification, and finally how to prepare the statement of cash flow.
A0533302 Internal Audit 3 This course aims to define the following (control, control by planning, control by evaluating; features at internal control: importance of internal control, objectives of internal control, the relation between the internal control system and audit; internal audit: nature of internal audit, importance of internal audit, objectives of internal audit; applications of internal audit: stages of completing internal audit task). This course helps students to understand auditing operations, auditing performance, auditing compliance of policies, auditing financial control, writing internal audit report, preparing for writing the report.
A0534201 Advanced cost accounting 3 This course aims to define the conceptual framework of business combination: Nature of business combinations, defensive tactics, determining the price for a business combination and accounting for business combinations. The course helps the student calculate and prepare the merger with goodwill, bargain purchase excess, statutory consolidation with goodwill, contingent considerations, leveraged buyout, and consolidated financial statements on acquisition date. The course highlights the meaning of parent and subsidiary company, recording the acquisition transactions, the use of the working papers, consolidation of a wholly and partially owned subsidiary, consolidated financial statements after acquisition date.
A0533403 Specialized Accounting Systems 3 This course aims to define the accounting system for companies with branches. Moreover, the accounting system for independent local branches companies. The course focuses on the accounting treatment for the center's transactions and branches, and the consolidated financial statements. The course highlights the Hotels accounting system, revenue, and cost centers in the hotel and analyzes the financial statements of the hotels.
A0534102 Accounting Theory 3 This course aims to define the nature of accounting theory, corporation and developing accounting thought accounting as information system, General purpose financial statements according to IFRS, conceptual framework of FASB, conceptual framework of IFRS, methods of measurement, basic postulates, concept of capital maintenance, objectives of financial statements, objectives of IFRS, objectives of FASB, Evaluation according to accounting theory, qualitative characteristics of 6 / 7 accounting information, primary and secondary qualities, assumptions principles and constraints
A0533402 Governmental Accounting 3 This course aims to define the conceptual framework, definition and the effects of legislation on governmental accounting. The course shows the basis of governmental accounting measurement in Jordan, and similarities & differences between governmental & commercial accounting. The course helps the students to understand fund theory, cash basis, public budget, budget preparation, methods of public revenues classification, and methods of public expenditure classification.
A0532101 Company Accounting 3 This course aims to provide information about the types of public shareholding companies and their characteristics, treatment of establishment expenses, types of capital, the accounting treatment to adjust the capital. Moreover, this course shows the types and characteristics of partnership companies, the types and the characteristics, accounting treatment for the profit, loss and dividends. As well, the accounting treatment for the increase or decrease the number of partners, liquidation of partnership companies, the accounting treatment of the liquidation process, prepare a statement of liquidation.
A0534501 Practical Training 3 This training aims to involve students in the practical side of their study in the market. The training ensures that the students apply what they have learnt during studying.
A0534402 Islamic accounting 3 This course aims to illustrate the Islamic rules applied in companies according AlShare'a. It also displays the different of types of companies in al-Share'a. it concentrates on the Islamic investments activities in details, in addition to illustrate how the income and losses are distributed between the participants in the investments.
A0532203 Financial Statement Analysis 3 This is an introductory financial statement analysis course. It offers students the opportunity to learn how to understand and apply the tools and techniques of financial statement analysis. It includes vertical and horizontal analysis, ratio, and cash flow analysis.

Elective Courses - 6 Credit Hours

Course Code Course Name Credit hours Description
A0534301 Computer application in accounting 3 This course aims to prepare students to learn the differences between manual and computerized accounting systems and will set up and use integrated computerized general ledger, accounts receivable, accounts payable, inventory, depreciation and payroll applications, to maintain accounting records of a business and produce financial reports including cash flow, horizontal and vertical analysis..
A0573101 Pricing Policies 3 This course to describe the Nature of The Pricing: The Concept and the Importance of Price; Price and the Marketing Mix; Factors Influencing the Pricing Decision: Internal Factors, External Factors; Pricing Objectives: The Importance of Goals In Pricing, Profit-Oriented Goals, Oriented Size; Entrance Cost-Based Pricing: Types of Costs, The Importance of Cost In Pricing, Cost Structure, Pricing Methods on The Basis Of Cost; Entrance Pricing Based on Demand: the Price Elasticity of Demand, Determine The Price Using the Demand Function; Pricing Strategies: Steps Choose Pricing Strategy, The Strategic Role of Price
A0111105 Business Mathematics 3 The course introduces students to essential mathematical tools used in finance. Topics offered in this course include linear and nonlinear functions, simple and compound interest rates, annuities, amortization, bond valuation, and discounting. All subjects are presented to students in the context of mathematics and computational methods.
A0533405 Contemporary Issues In Accounting 3 This course engages students in critical analysis of the major approaches to the formulation of an accounting theory. The features, similarities, differences and merits, or otherwise, of alternative theoretical approaches to analyzing and dealing with contemporary problems facing accounting and accountants are examined.
A0533404 Forensic accounting 3 This course aims to provide a solid foundation for building skills in forensic accounting techniques, including gathering, interpreting, and documenting evidence. The course helps students examine the investigative techniques used by accountants to conduct forensic examinations as well as the common schemes and techniques used to commit fraud. The skills acquired will enable students to assist businesses in detecting, investigating, documenting, and preventing fraud.
A0534406 Tax planning and consultation 3 This course is designed to teach students to recognize major tax issues inherent in business and financial transactions..


Free Ellective - 12 Credit Hours:



Compulsory Courses - 12 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
A0412302 Commercial law for Business 3 This course deals with the most important provisions of the Jordanian Trade Law. The course focuses on the definition of the commercial law, explaining the forms of commercial business, the trader, the store, and commercial papers, as well as defining commercial companies, studying the provisions of companies in its two parts, companies or persons, funds, and companies, and a careful study of the provisions for auditors, Jordanian Companies Law and its amendments.
A0552302 Investment Management(lab) 1 A practical application to the material taught in the Investment Management subject.
A0552101 Working capital Management 3 This course provides students with knowledge and skills regarding the scientific method of conducting Business Research. Students will learn the basic steps to conduct a scientific research and writing a report using APA style formatting. Topics include; introduction to scientific research, defining the problem, literature review, theoretical framework, hypothesis development, research design, data collection methods, measurement of variables, sampling, citation, and references. Ethical considerations and implications related to the research process are also covered.
A0552301 Investment Management 2 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 types brokerage accounts.


Complementary Requirement - 9 Credit Hours:



Compulsory Courses - 9 Credit Hours

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.

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