Course Description - Bachelor of Business Management

  • 13020001: Hebrew Language [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020005: Turkish Language [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020023: Astronomy [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020034: Introduction to Automotive Engineering [2 Credit Hours]


  • 14110101: Principles of Finance (1) [3 Credit Hours]

    Topics treated in this course include definition of the time value of money, relationship between return and risk, appropriate financing foundations for companies, ways of measuring risks and their types, profit polices of companies, cost of capital, and optimal capital structure.


  • 14120204: Organizational Behavior [3 Credit Hours]

    The aim of this course is to provide the student with the basic and theoretical concepts of organizational behavior and the historical development of the field of organizational behavior, as well as its relationship to behavioral sciences. It also includes understanding the nature of the organizational behavior and its importance in the administrative institutions.


  • 14120308: Human Resource Management [3 Credit Hours]

    This course shows the importance of the human element in private and public institutions, how to plan for the recruitment of manpower, how to maintain them, the characteristics of employment, training and rehabilitation policies, and the theories of physical and moral motivation and leadership theories.


  • 14110412: Commercial Law [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to introduce the student to the history of the emergence and development of commercial law, commercial legislation and its sources, business and its types, and criteria for differentiating between them in commercial and civil businesses (land and sea business), operations of commercial papers, merchant and shop terms and their characteristics, merchant duties, commercial address, commercial register, contracts and their provisions, and agency. Commission and brokerage


  • 14110415: Corporate Governance [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to be acquainted with the concept of governance, its principles, the international environment for its development, as well as the local environment through the corporate governance code in Palestine. It also sheds light on the element of internal and external control and risk management, as well as identifying the role of governance in social responsibility. The course contains various practical experiences.


  • 14170481: E-Supply Chain Management and Logistic Services [3 Credit Hours]

    This course deals with the study of supply chain management, which extends beyond the borders of organizations and focuses mainly on the interactions between organizations and the chain of companies involved in the transfer of products, services, and information through to suppliers and intermediaries final consumers. This course focuses on developing a supply chain strategy and building distinguished relationships between manufacturers and logistical distribution channels. These are emerging issues for industrial and commercial organizations that adopt cooperative behaviour based on achieving mutual benefit. This course also deals with the study of the role of information technology in improving the efficiency of logistics services operations for industrial and service organizations and addressing some contemporary logistics such as reverse services and their suppliers.


  • 15200107: Islamic Studies [3 Credit Hours]


  • 13020008: Physical Culture [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020013: History of Jerusalem [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020015: International Relations [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020020: Anti-Corruption [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020022: Library and Research Methods [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020024: Environmental Culture [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020029: My Career II [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020030: Individual and Society [2 Credit Hours]


  • 15060105: Princ. of Stat. for Admin. [3 Credit Hours]

    This course is an introduction to statistical methods and concepts applied to business and economics data. The topics include descriptive statistics, graphical representation of data, expectation and variance of random variables, Sampling distributions, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, Correlation and regression, introduction to time series, index numbers.


  • 14220210: Introduction to E-Marketing [3 Credit Hours]

    The course deals with the marketing process in terms of how it appears, its concept, and its elements, and addresses the marketing mix and its components. In addition to the practical skills necessary to develop a comprehensive strategy for electronic marketing in a professional environment, and to take advantage of programs, tools, tactics and technologies used.


  • 14120321: Principles of Public Administration [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to introduce to the student a knowledge of public administration (concept, functions, and objectives) and stages of development to the student, as well as to identify a foundational (behavioral, environmental) and developmental approaches (systems approach, technical approach) to public administration, and contemporary analysis of public administration from the perspective of diversity, governance, leadership and quality citizenship, knowledge management and information technology to empower governments, learn about the foundations of the organization of government agencies, the stages of policymaking, and the stages of preparing the public budget...


  • 14220410: Information Security for E-commerce [3 Credit Hours]

    The aims of this course is to provide students a thorough grasp of the numerous risks connected to e-commerce operations as well as the skills and knowledge needed to successfully identify, evaluate, and manage such risks. This course covers a broad range of subjects, such as data privacy, fraud prevention, and regulatory compliance, operational risk (internal system breakdown, technical issues, external factors, managerial problems, and human errors), post-crisis regulatory framework, corporate governance, and risk management, with a focus on the necessity of a proactive and methodical approach to risk management in the e-commerce sector.


  • 13020004: Russian Language [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020007: English language III [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020010: Islamic Econmic System [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020016: Law in Our Lives [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020032: Economy in the Third World [2 Credit Hours]


  • 14131101: Financial Accounting (1) [3 Credit Hours]

    This course is an introduction to the basic concepts and standards underlying financial accounting systems. Topics like definition and objective of financial accounting and reporting, the accounting equation, double entry system, the accounting cycle that consists of recording transactions through Journal Entries, posting those Journals to T-Ledger Accounts, and preparing Trial Balance will be covered. The course will also cover the construction of the basic financial statements - the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement - as well as their interpretation.


  • 14120315: Field Training(1) [0 Credit Hours]

    A student should spend 6 weeks of practical training in one of the relevant institutions in coordination with the department.


  • 14230410: Risk and Crisis Management [3 Credit Hours]

    "The aim of the risk management module is to provide participants with some basic tools that they can use to assess risks and provide solutions to risk management questions in their countries. We show the complexity of risk management by introducing participants to the diverse and often dynamic factors that influence risk, but then train participants to apply specific techniques for assessing and managing risk across a range of circumstances. "


  • 13020011: Contemporary Problems [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020019: Democracy and Elections [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020035: Professional Communication Skills [2 Credit Hours]


  • 14131102: Financial Accounting (2) [3 Credit Hours]

    This course provides information about the principles of internal control and how companies recognize account receivable and plant assets, also explain current and long term liabilities. The course will also cover the how to account for natural resources and intangible assets.


  • 14120421: Sales management [3 Credit Hours]

    Clarifying the following issues to students: all types of problems that could face the salesman, organizational design, products and producers, salesmen selection and employment, product`s distribution, sales principles in consumer and industrial markets


  • 15010105: Math In Management [3 Credit Hours]

    At the beginning of this course, a general review is made of groups of numbers, equations and inequalities, and their solutions. Then, the functions with one variable that are widely used in economic and administrative studies, systems of linear equations, matrices and their types, equal matrices and operations on them, determinants and their properties, and Cramer's method, are discussed. Multiplicative inverse and the multiplicative inverse method for solving systems of linear equations, limits, continuity, differentiation and applications to the derivative.


  • 15200102: Arabic Language [3 Credit Hours]

    The course aims to develop the students’ cognitive abilities and communication skills in Arabic language by introducing Arabic dictionaries, spelling and grammatical errors, and familiarizing them with ancient and modern Arabic literary models including models from the Holy Qur’an.


  • 15200106: ُEnglish (1) [3 Credit Hours]

    English 1 is a theoretical, 3-credit hour university requisite, and a general English Course which is designed to serve all BA and BSc Students of (PTUK) in all faculties. This course aims at developing students’ repertoire of the English language main skills as well as sub-skills through providing them with broad varieties of language patterns, grammatical and structural rules, and vocabulary items that can enable them to communicate meaningfully within ordinary and real-life contexts and situations. This course is also oriented towards equipping students with the skills they need to comprehend texts, contexts, and situations that are related to ordinary and real-life topics. Throughout this course, students will be exposed to a wide and various aural inputs in order to broaden and deepen their skills in listening, judgment, and critical thinking. Students of this course are expected to acquire and practice the skills they need to maximize their capabilities to express opinions about ordinary and real life topics both orally and in a written format, which will help in widening the students’ academic horizon.


  • 13010007: Communication Skills [1 Credit Hours]


  • 13020025: Agriculture in Palestine [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020028: My Career I [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020033: Child Rearing and Family Upbringing [2 Credit Hours]


  • 14120314: Production Operations Management [3 Credit Hours]

    This course covers an introduction to production operations management, analysis of strategic processes and operations plans, demand forecasting, production capacity, utilizing of waiting theory and facility placement, internal arrangement, information systems, process management, job design, production standards, quality control and work metrics with a focus on using mathematical and statistical methods.


  • 14230311: Project Management [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to provide students the importance of the project, managing of administrative projects and the project management framework in order to describe the environment in which the project operates, and project management processes that give an overview of how the different processes of project management overlap, beside describe the areas of knowledge of project management in the light of its constituent processes


  • 15200101: Palestinian Issue [3 Credit Hours]

    The course deals with the events of the Palestinian issue through the most important ages from the Canaanites until the year 2021. It focuses on the Islamic conquest of Palestine in the year 15 AH 636 AD, the Crusader torch from 1099 to the liberation of Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi of Palestine in 1187, and it talks about the Ottomans in Palestine from 1516 to 1917. The course is concerned with the Palestinian issue during the British occupation in 1917, until the Nakba in 1948, and the establishment of the occupation state .It deals with the Palestinian resistance and revolutions during 100 years, and Arab-Israeli wars from 1948 to 2021.The course talks about Palestinian Liberation Organization, Palestinian resistance movements and parties, Palestinian Authority and the peace negotiations projects since the 1978 Camp David Accords until 2021.The course talks about attempts to Judaism Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque since the Palestinian setback in 1967 until 2021, and the issue of Palestinian refugees since 1948. It also anticipates the future of the Palestinian issue.


  • 15200104: Social Services [1 Credit Hours]

    Students perform voluntary work such as donating blood, repairing homes, tourist trails, or holding educational workshops at the university, and the student is committed to training or working for 40 hours.


  • 15200112: English 2 [3 Credit Hours]

    This course is designed to serve PTUK students in the faculties of Science and Engineering as well as the students of Educational Technology (ET); it offers a broad overview of the English language learning skills in reading, writing, speaking that will enable them to communicate meaningfully in scientific contexts and situations. It also offers a broad variety of scientific language grammatical patterns and vocabulary items that are needed to comprehend scientific contexts and trends. Throughout this course, students will be exposed to a variety of scientific topics, aural input in order to broaden and deepen their critical thinking skills and to help them express opinions about modern scientific topics and problems.


  • 13020006: Italian Language [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020009: Islam and Contemporary Issues [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020031: Contemporary Global Issues [2 Credit Hours]


  • 14140101: Principles of Microeconomics [3 Credit Hours]

    This course enables the students define the theories and concepts of microeconomics includes: microeconomic theory of demand and supply, flexibility and balance, consumer and enterprise behavior, decision-making processes, production and costs, types and characteristics of markets in the context of competitive and monopoly markets and oligopoly.


  • 14140307: Economic Feasibility and Projects Evaluation [3 Credit Hours]

    This course introduces the student to the different forms of investment and the decision making process for the case of a certain-type, probable-type and unknown future-type investments. It also covers studying the market, economic feasibility criteria, technical matters, site selection criteria within industrial zones in addition to assessing the efficiency of economic activities.


  • 14120428: International Business Management [3 Credit Hours]

    This course explain the topics of global developments and management and the concept of international business management and its activities, strategies for expansion in international markets. It also includes the definition of foreign trade theories and the General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the World Trade Organization (WTO), and a review of the international business environment such as economic, financial, political, legal and cultural. It shows its foundations in financial management, human resources management, planning strategy for choosing the host country, leading to a review of ISO international standards systems, and the philosophy of total quality management.


  • 14110314: Scientific Research Methods [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to introduce students to the scientific research methods (descriptive, experimental and historical), as well as to develop their skills in using references and selecting the research network. It also covers skills on how to prepare research plans for theoretical and applied scientific research works armed with sound scientific documentations.


  • 14190201: Supply Chain Management [3 Credit Hours]

    Supply chain management extends the study of logistics beyond the boundaries of a single organization, and places particular emphasis on the interfaces between the 'chain' or 'network' of enterprises engaged in moving products, services, and information, from suppliers through intermediaries to end users/ consumers. The course focuses on developing a supply chain strategy, something which many organizations still do not have in place even today. Channel relationships between processors, manufacturers, and distributors will also be reviewed, particularly as leading organizations are now openly embracing more collaborative behavior for mutual benefit.


  • 14230610: Business Management Technology [3 Credit Hours]

    This course is an introduction to the basic concepts in project management and their importance and applications in all business fields. This course focuses on enabling the student to plan and manage projects, starting from the idea of


  • 14230511: Leadership and Creativity [3 Credit Hours]

    "The course deals with the basics and concept of human resource management, human resource planning, job analysis and description, how to attract and select workers and evaluate their performance, training and development, performance evaluation, compensation, rewards and benefits, career development, human resource training and development, promotion, industrial safety, industrial relations and labor relations. "


  • 14230426: Business Administration Graduation Project [3 Credit Hours]

    It is a fourth year requirement, which is offered with the approval of the department. This course aims to give the student the basic concepts of practical applications to build real projects carried out by the student from the beginning to the end in the field of specialization under the supervision of a specialist professor in the department.


  • 14230510: Organizational Change Management [3 Credit Hours]

    "This course deals with the concept of crisis and the concept of crises, their characteristics and stages, and their repercussions on individuals and groups. The course focuses on defining the concept of crisis and change management, and introduces students to the crisis and change management team, causes and types of crises, and methods for diagnosing crises and change. The course also focuses on crisis and change management strategies. The tools and means used in managing crises and change, and scenarios for managing crises and change. The course monitors a set of effective models for managing crises and change. It acquaints students with how to use quantitative methods in managing crises and change. It also focuses on the effectiveness of managing communications and media coverage during crises and change. This course also deals with the experiences of successful local, Arab and international institutions in managing crises and change, in addition to studying various cases related to the methods and approaches of managing crises and change. "


  • 14230230: Logistics Management [3 Credit Hours]

    "This course deals with the basic concepts of logistics, in addition to how this concept is contained within commercial and industrial organizations, with a focus on the main logistical activities such as material handling, purchasing and warehousing, forecasting, transportation and distribution systems, with a study of the relationship between logistics activities and marketing services. This course will also examine the role of information technology in improving the efficiency of logistical operations for industrial and service organizations, in addition to addressing some contemporary logistics such as reverse services and their providers. "


  • 15200099: Pre-English [3 Credit Hours]

    Remedial English: The course is a compulsory service course offered for first year students. It is a prerequisite for E1 and it focuses mainly on the language learning skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. The course is intended to equip the students with basic skills necessary for successful communication in both oral and written forms of the language. In addition to grammar and how to use vocabulary in a meaningful context.


  • 13010006: Computer Skills and Applications [1 Credit Hours]


  • 13020002: French Language [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020012: Islamic Civilization [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020014: Political Science [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020017: E-government Legal Framework [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020036: Software Applications [2 Credit Hours]


  • 14160101: Marketing Principles [3 Credit Hours]

    The course aims to introduce students to the system of contemporary marketing methods and to clarify the meanings of marketing mix elements (product, pricing, distribution, promotion and methods of product planning). It also covers different studies including consumer behavior, market division and marketing strategies.


  • 14120419: Quality control [2 Credit Hours]

    This course contains the concept and development of quality and its establishment in business organizations, tools to improve quality and quality control and statistical quality control in the industry, and control schedules of measurements and specifications, methods of acceptance by specifications and measurements, the standard plan for the testing of samples, serial analysis, testing of samples in continuous production.


  • 14110102: Principles of finance (2) [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to familiarize students with the fundamental concepts of financial inciples applied in business entities. This includes getting acquainted with financial data and alyzing it using financial ratios, as well as vertical and horizontal analysis of the financial statements of these entities. The course covers analyzing the costs of different types of financing ources, understanding the concept of optimal capital structure, examining the impact of financing hods on project profitability, addressing long-term financing sources such as common and preferred stocks, bonds, and retained earnings, managing working capital (cash, ceivables, inventory), and making short-term financing decisions.


  • 13020003: German Language [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020018: The Palestinian Captive Movement [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020021: History of Science Among the Arabs [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020026: Leadership and Creativity [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020027: Health Culture [2 Credit Hours]


  • 14140102: Macroeconomics [3 Credit Hours]

    Introducing the student to the terms and theories of the national economy, the importance of studying it, distinguishing between it and microeconomics, explaining financial and monetary policies, components of methods for measuring national income, consumption, investment (government spending), national income (national output), wages, unemployment, inflation.


  • 14120101: Principles of Management [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to enable the students identify the importance of management and recognize its types. It also covers the differences between business management as opposed to public or official administration. In addition, the course discusses differences between traditional and modern management schools, the scientific study schemes they include and their decision-making processes.


  • 14150201: Management Information Systems1 [3 Credit Hours]

    In this course, the students will be introduced to the fundamental concepts of MIS, systems theory, comprehensive analysis and the technology used in information systems. It also covers the role of planning, control, decision making, project follow-up etc. in the development of information systems.


  • 14130414: Operations Research [3 Credit Hours]

    This course introduces the fundamentals of Operations Research Models including linear programming and applications. The student will learn how to construct models appropriate to particular applications, develop optimal solutions, understand the theory behind solutions and translate solutions into directives for action. On successful completion of this course, the student will be able to: define and formulate linear programming problems and appreciate their limitations; solve linear programming problems using appropriate techniques and interpret the results obtained; conduct and interpret post-optimal and sensitivity analysis; and explain the primal-dual relationship.


  • 14110309: Business Language [3 Credit Hours]

    This course introduces the student a good outcome from the technical scientific terms used in administrative science. It helps students to understand the vocabulary and expressions contained in various administrative, commercial and financial fields. The student will also be familiar with the principles of communication and its related aspects as well as writing business correspondence in the English language in addition to the types of such correspondence.


  • 14120313: Total Quality Management [3 Credit Hours]

    This course deals with the definition of quality besides the concept of total quality and its philosophy of continuous improvement of quality and productivity, so that organizations can compete globally. The relationship between quality and competition, how to focus on internal and external clients, comparative comparison, decision-making, problem-solving, continuous improvement and other important issues related to total quality will be addressed, as well as clarifying the strong relationship between total quality, effective leadership, employee participation and delegation as key pillars of overall quality success.


  • 14170405: Ethical & Legislative Issues for E-business [3 Credit Hours]

    This course introduces students to the legal environment of E-business. Topics include such as: the application of business law concepts to solving e-business issues and problems, contemporary legal issues related to e-business management, e-business behaviors, social responsibility and legal aspects of e-business problems.


  • 14120316: Strategic Management [3 Credit Hours]

    The course deals with the concepts and basics of strategic management, formulation of the organization's mission and strategic objectives. The course deals with strategic management processes that include analysis of the external and internal environment of the organization using strategic analysis and discusses alternatives and strategic options, implementation, and control.


  • 14230420: Computer Applications in Business Administration [2 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to provide the learner with the necessary knowledge and skills to design and operate computerized models for business administration applications using computer tools and techniques and through MS Excel spreadsheet system, MS Access database applications and other software such as primavera, PMP, MS Project and MS Outlook. student will be able to: Dealing effectively with the Excel program and using ready-made mathematical and statistical functions and graphic planning in order to support administrative decisions. Understanding the concept of databases in Access and how to archive data and use it to issue reports that result in administrative decisions.


  • 14130309: Managerial Accounting [3 Credit Hours]

    This course deals mainly with the concepts, procedures, and quantitative methods needed to measure and analyze the necessary accounting information for the purposes of planning, controlling, and making managerial decisions at different levels in the companies. It includes such topics as cost classification and behavior, cost- volume-profit analysis; relevant cost for decision making, pricing decision; relevant and irrelevant information for decisions; budgeting, and operational and capital budgets.


  • 14220310: E-Procurement Management [3 Credit Hours]

    Students who complete this course will have a thorough grasp of the concepts, procedures, and best practices related to electronic procurement in the context of e-commerce. A wide range of subjects are covered in the course, with a focus on the strategic and operational facets of e-procurement management, such as procurement strategy, supplier selection, contract negotiation, and performance assessment.