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EMBA 614/5614 - Innovation and Creating the Best Practices of Tomorrow (1.75 cr.)
Description
It explores a broader, more inclusive view of innovation, enabling the manager to employ innovation as a more effective competitive weapon, leading to an understanding of state-of-the-art “Innovation Process Management” within and between firms and across geographies. It addresses how to make creative energy the goal of the organization and energizes the staff to be creative and see problems not as obstacles but as opportunities for innovation.
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EMBA 615/5615 - Global Supply Chain Management and Operational Excellence (2 cr.)
Description
This module is about supply chain management from suppliers to customers to clients, how to link it with marketing and business strategy and develop Global Business Networks. It addresses operational excellence as a competitive strategy, customer service versus operational efficiency from “built-to-forecast” to “build-to-order” and behavioral operational management
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EMBA 616/5616 - Negotiation & Conflict Management (1.75 cr.)
Description
It focuses on negotiation as an important process in resolving conflicts that may arise from differences in interests such as goal, priorities or competition from limited resources. It examines stakes, power, interdependence, trust, coalitions, communication, and personal negotiation styles. Participants practice cross-cultural negotiations, dispute resolution, coalition formulation. It addresses multiparty negotiations, extremely competitive negotiations and negotiations via Information Technology (IT).
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EMBA 617/5617 - Entrepreneurial Management (1.75 cr.)
Description
It covers the challenges involved in managing entrepreneurial ventures, whether they are start-ups, small entrepreneurial firm or units within larger, well-established companies. It focuses on the behaviors and attributes required to operate successfully within entrepreneurial environment. The module addresses the concepts, theory of practice of entrepreneurship in a dynamic international environment. It helps participants to understand the risks and rewards that accompany entrepreneurial activities and develop the skills of leadership while enhancing their own practice.
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EMBA 618/5618 - Doing Business With The East (International Live-in Module) (2.75 cr.)
Description
The module is live-in week in Hong Kong. Participants will be prepared for new challenges and opportunities that they will face in the business world, especially in China and Asia. The modules include introduction to Asia/China Business, Economic, social and political environments. Emphasis will be on China’s current Economy Development, Change in Business environment and managing in a Chinese context.
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EMBA 619/5619 - Doing Business With The East (International Live-in Module) (2.75 cr.)
Description
The module will be a continuation of above topic. There will be an overview about the Legal and Regulatory issues, managing Joint-Venture Partnerships, Entry strategies, Marketing and Human Resources challenges in China. Practical cases on Legal and Regulatory issues and on Successful Negotiation in China will be studies. Participants will be able to visit companies during their study.
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EMBA 620/5620 - Corporate Governance & Social Responsibility (2 cr.)
Description
This module focuses on how corporate governance, as a set of processes, customs, policies, laws and institutions, affects the way the organization is directed and controlled. It examines how the quality of corporate governance system influences prices shares of the company and the cost of raising capital and how it complies with the legal and regulatory requirements. It addresses some important topics as the separation of ownership and control, property rights, reconciling conflicts between stakeholders and the role of the board of directors in ensuring accountability, fairness and transparency in the firm’s relationship with all its stakeholders.
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EMBA 621/5621 - Business & Legal Environment (1.75 cr.)
Description
This module relates business to its legal environment. It provides broad analysis of how laws influence management decisions and strategies, how to review the characteristics of various legal structures and how to set the legal framework for doing business. It focuses on how business decisions and transactions should comply with the law. It familiarizes participants with certain basic legal concepts relating to doing business on national and international levels.
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EMBA 622/5622 - Development & Rationale for Competitive Law (1.75 cr.)
Description
This module looks at how competition law fits in a larger context of economic policy. It covers the development and rationale for international competition law for firms, with reference to developing countries’ competition law as well as relevant provisions in the Egyptian competition policy and covers agreements between firms (cartels, joint ventures, mergers), monopolization, and public enforcement of law by competition authorities, private enforcement in the courts and the coordination of private and public enforcement.
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EMBA 623/5623 - Adapting to Global Environment - Integration Consultation Project (4 cr.)
Description
Participants undertake a successful “consulting” project within their own organization, identifying a challenge or an opportunity they seek to address and undertaking the appropriate analysis leading to a recommended course of action. Participants are encouraged to apply and integrate several analytical tools and organizational skills learned in various courses of the program. It provides concrete tools and concepts for projects management. The module is taught in an interactive case-based format. Participants are expected to actively participate while providing insights from their own experiences with project management. Participants will understand why many projects fail, know the critical success factors, be able to define and analyze work breakdown structures and critical paths for projects, and understand the impact of uncertainty on project management.
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FILM 199/1099 - Selected Topics for Core Curriculum (3 cr.)
Description
Course addressing broad intellectual concern and accessible to all first-year students as part of the Primary Level Core.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
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FILM 299/2099 - Selected Topics for Core Curriculum (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Description
Course addressing broad intellectual concerns and accessible to all students, irrespective of major.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
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FILM 213/2113 - Introduction to Visual Cultures (3 cr.)
Description
This lecture course provides a primer in visual literacy across media, introducing students to key terms and methods for critically reading the visual world including iconology, formal analysis, art history, ideological analysis, and semiotics. Students gain fluency in understanding how images work in cultural context to communicate meaning, to express a sense of self, to convey pleasure, to sell things, and to distribute power. Questions of the effect of specific visual technologies are also engaged, particularly their impact on perception and conduct. Examples are drawn from fine art, advertising, film, popular culture, and new media.
Cross-listed
Same as , .
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FILM 220/2120 - Introduction to Film (3 cr.)
Description
An introduction to the art of cinema, covering basic film history, theory, aesthetics, and production. Dramatic narrative (fiction), documentary (non-fiction), and avant-grade subjects are analyzed in detail, and relevant films are screened in class to stimulate discussion.
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.
Notes
Required for the Major and Minor in Film.
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FILM 000/2122 - Introduction to Film Criticism (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
FILM 2120 or consent of the instructor
Description
This course in an extension of the introduction to film (FILM 2120). While the first introductory course focuses on the basics of cinematic language and textual analysis. Introduction to Film Criticism focuses on the basic schools of film criticism and analysis. This course is foundational for film majors,providing them with basic knowledge necessary for satisfactory performance in more advanced film courses. The course is also open, with permission of the instructor, to non-film majors/ minors interested in a more comprehensive introduction to the field (e.g., students of media/journalism and comparative literature).
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FILM 200/2200 - Analogue and Digital Practices (3 cr.)
Description
This introductory studio course introduces students to techniques of visual research as a basis for creative work in various media forms. Students undertake a continuous visual research project as the basis for the course. By means of class lectures and exercises, sketchbook practices, technical workshops, take-home assignments, and group critiques designed to activate the research process, they develop their skills in the expressive use of analogue and digital media for the realization of art, design, or film projects.
Cross-listed
Same as , .
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.
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FILM 000/2201 - Acting I (3 cr.)
Description
A basic course in the fundamentals of acting, designed for majors, minors, and those with some previous experience. In-class exercises and improvisations, combined with rehearsed scenes and monologues from simple realistic texts, will help students gain proficiency in objective/obstacles, creation of character, basic voice and breath control, and basic body alignment and awareness.
Cross-listed
Same as THTR 2201 .
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring, and occasionally in the summer.
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FILM 000/2211 - Acting in Arabic I (3 cr.)
Description
The art and craft of acting as a systematic process applied to the specific demands of Arabic Drama. Scene work and monologues from modern and contemporary Arabic plays.
Cross-listed
Same as THTR 2211
When Offered
Offered in fall or spring, and occasionally in the summer.
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FILM 341/3041 - Anthropology and Film (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Description
The history and practice of film in anthropology; film as ethnography; comparison of films and analytical ethnographies.
Cross-listed
Same as .
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
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FILM 370/3070 - Selected Topics in Film (3 cr.)
Description
In-depth examination of specific topics in film determined by the special interests and expertise of the faculty..
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
Repeatable
May be repeated for credit if content changes
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FILM 310/3110 - History of World Cinema (3 cr.)
Description
A survey of international narrative cinema, from the silent period to the present. Individual films, film movements and film genres will be studied, and important films from the respective periods will be screened in whole or in part.
When Offered
Offered in the fall or spring.
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FILM 000/3115 - History of American Cinema 1895 - 1945 (3 cr.)
Description
The course provides a history of the most influential cinema in the world: Hollywood. The course focuses on the first half of the twentieth century, and the second half of the twenty-first century along with the first decade of the twenty-first century. Students will acquire broad knowledge of Hollywood cinema, its early precursors and experimental innovators as well as its later, independent challengers and critical deviations. History of American Cinema is designed for students from across the disciplines and carries no prerequisites for non-film majors or minors.
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FILM 000/3117 - History of American Cinema 1945 - Present (3 cr.)
Description
The course provides a history of the most influential cinema in the world: Hollywood. The course focuses on the first half of the twentieth century, and the second half of twentieth century along with the first decade of the twenty-first century. Students will acquire broad knowledge of Hollywood cinema, its early precursors and experimental innovators as well as its later, independent challengers and critical deviations. The course is designed for students from across the disciplines and carries no prerequisites for non-film majors or minors.
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FILM 320/3120 - Cinema in Egypt and the Arab World (3 cr.)
Description
This course examines various aspects of cinema in Egypt and the Arab World in order to understand its history, and determine the themes, the styles, and the character of this cinema which has been historically among the most influential in national world cinemas. Topics could include areas such as New Arab Cinemas, classical Egyptian cinema, the Arab film industry, independent Arab cinema, among others.
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FILM 000/3125 - Topics in National Cinemas (3 cr.)
Description
This course variably focuses on a specific national and, where appropriate, regional cinema, such as that of Germany, France, Argentina, Brazil, Japan,Italy, England, Sub-Saharan Africa, India, China, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Eastern Europe, Iran, Turkey, Russia or Scandinavia. The course considers recent shifts in the study of national cinemas that accounts for understanding the notion of “identity” in a global context. The course is open to students from across disciplines.
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FILM 330/3130 - Film Theory and Criticism (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
or consent of the Director of the Film Program.
Description
A historical study of the major theoretical approaches to motion picture art, Including early analysis of film aesthetics, structure, and form, as well as modernist political critiques of cinema. Films will be screened class to facilitate understanding of the readings.
When Offered
Offered in the fall or spring.
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FILM 340/3140 - Documentary Film (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
or consent of the Director of the Film Program.
Description
A Study of the non-fiction film, Its international history, theoretical approaches to its structure and effects, and current issues in documentary production. Class screenings will be used to expose students to important and relevant examples of documentary cinema.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
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FILM 000/3150 - Women and Film (3 cr.)
Description
This course provides a basic history and theorization of the representation of women in cinema, filmmaking, and the field of film studies. The course engages in a historiographic analysis of feminist film theory while mapping aspects of women’s representation in cinema and her role behind the camera. The course is open to students from across disciplines, and should be of strong appeal to students majoring in psychology, sociology, anthropology, and comparative literature.
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FILM 360/3160 - The Filmmaker (3 cr.)
Description
A detailed study of the themes, the characteristic style, development, and influence of the director within the world of cinema. The course will assess, compare, and/or contrast combinations of two to three filmmakers. Themes could inclulde empahsis on filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorcese, the Coen Brothers, Youssef Chahine, George Romero, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Ingmar Bergman, Salah Abou-Seif, Pier Paolo Pasolini, among others.
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FILM 390/3190 - Film Genres (3 cr.)
Description
This course examines questions relating to one or several generic forms and conventions, drawing examples from Hollywood as well as a variety of world cinemas. Topics could include the Musical, Comedy, Horror, Film Noir, Western, Historical Epic genres, etc.
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FILM 351/3251 - Digital Editing (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
FILM 2120 and
Description
This course focuses on developing practical as well as aesthetic skills for digital forms of film editing. Students will engage in several assignments and exercises manifesting their capacity to work on various applications of editing techniques.
When Offered
Offered at least once every year.
Notes
Priority of registration in this course is given to declared Film Major and Minor students.
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FILM 353/3253 - Digital Cinematography (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
FILM 2120 and
Description
This course focuses on developing the practical as well as aesthetic skills necessary for digital cinematography. As part of a fast emerging and increasingly dominant form of filmmaking, digital cinematography has become key in contemporary mainstream, alternative and independent filmmaking. Students will perform assignments and exercises manifesting their capacity to work with various applications of cinematographic techniques and their integration with lighting design and camera movement.
When Offered
Offered at least once every year.
Notes
Priority of registration in this course is given to declared Film Major and Minor students.
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FILM 357/3257 - Screenwriting (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
FILM 2120
Description
Provides an overview of the role of storytelling in filmmaking practice, introducing students to the techniques used by screenwriters to craft stories in both fiction and non-fiction and television programs and other moving picture media.
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FILM 336/3306 - Sound for Picture Production (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
FILM 2200 and MUSC 2301 .
Description
This course provides an in-depth, interactive study of sound and its relationship to picture. Topics will include post production areas relative to time code, synchronization, workflow, data interchange, sound recording and editing, lip-syncing and voice over tracks using ADR (Automatic Dialog Replacement), creating special effects with Foley, routing structures, sound mixing, and delivery methods. All of the above will be first described in class lectures and then applied practically in projects.
Cross-listed
Same as MUSC 3306 .
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FILM 352/3352 - The Film Industry (3 cr.)
Description
The organization of the production, distribution and exhibition practices of various film industries. May include an examination of the relationship between a national film industry and other visual media; changing technologies and their impact on the medium; connections and intersections between the film industry and other economic industries and dynamics.
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FILM 354/3354 - Film Audience and Reception (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
or consent of Visual Cultures Director.
Description
The course maps aspects of spectatorship, audience, and reception approaches as they intersect with experiences and study of cinema. The course provides students with tools to appreciate film as an interactive medium of communication. It explored these approaches with emphasis on spectatorial agency. Resistant and subversive reading, and hegemonic and counter-hegemonic readership and production.
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FILM 450/4250 - Senior Film Project (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
FILM 3251 , FILM 3253 and MUSC 3306 .
Description
Senior students work on making their own film projects with the participation of other film students. Under the supervision of the instructor, students will develop their project through pre-production, production, post-production phases. Attention will be given to quality excellence rather than quantity and length films.
When Offered
Offered once a year in the spring semester.
Notes
Enrollment in this course is restricted to students with a declared Film Major.
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FILM 452/4352 - The Arab and Egyptian Film Industries: National and Global Perspectives (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Fourth year level in the Film major or the consent of the Program Director.
Description
A study of the nature of the Arab and Egyptian Film industry. Emphasis will be on the evolution of the Arab motion picture industry in the twentieth century and how it is situated in contemporary popular culture. Other topics include Egyptian cinema’s relationship to Hollywood, the audience for Egyptian and Arab films, the role of the state cinematic funding, distribution and production systems, the impact of new technologies, and how the structure of the Egyptian and Arab film industries compares with those of other countries.
Notes
This course may be repeated for credit.
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FILM 456/4356 - Experiential Learning in Film (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Fourth year level in the Film major or the consent of the Program Director.
Description
This course designed to provide students with the opportunity to gain practical experience and to work and learn within the film community (production, festivals, administration, archives, research) as interns, paid employment, or volunteers.
Students interested in enrolling in this course should submit a proposal to the Film Program. The proposal should be submitted for approval at least one month in advance to beginning the work. Students should also include an official letter from the host institution that has agreed to supervise their project indicating approval of the proposed student project. The host institution should also agree to provide an evaluation of the quality of the student performance within two weeks after the end of the student project.
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FILM 470/4370 - Advanced Seminar in Film Study and Research (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Fourth year level in the Film Major or Minor, or consent of the Director of Film.
Description
The course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to survey and investigate various and specialized areas of film studies. Topics may include history, theory, filmmakers, national cinemas, women in film, etc. Seminars may also discuss film industry and distribution, film media, festivals, production systems, etc. Within the framework of the seminar’s general topic, each student develops his/her more focused research project. This project builds upon and develops the material discussed in class and in the required readings.
Notes
Students may choose to take this course twice provided the specific area of each of the seminars falls in a different area of study, and pending approval.
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FILM 402/4402 - Independent Study (1-3 cr.)
Prerequisites
This course is restricted to senior level students in the Film Major or Minor. Departmental approval required.
Description
With departmental approval, advanced students may arrange an individualized course topic to be completed under faculty supervision.
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.
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FINC 303/2101 - Business Finance I (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
, ( or ) and or MACT 2222 .
Description
The study of the principles of finance and their application to business enterprises. Special emphasis on financial analysis, management of working capital, cost of capital, capital budgeting, long term financing, dividend policy and internal finance.
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.
Notes
Enrollment in is limited, and priority is given to students seeking the Bachelor of Business Administration degree or the Bachelor of Accounting degree, students enrolling in specified as collateral requirements in other majors, and students who have declared business administration as a minor.
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FINC 404/3201 - Investment Analysis (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Description
Introduction to the theory of investments. Topics include risk and return, the theory of portfolio selection, asset pricing models, valuation for stocks, bond pricing and the term structure of interest rates and options.
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.
Notes
Enrollment in is limited, and priority is given to students seeking the Bachelor of Business Administration degree or the Bachelor of Accounting degree, students enrolling in specified as collateral requirements in other majors, and students who have declared business administration as a minor.
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FINC 405/3401 - Applied Banking (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
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Description
Measuring returns and risks in banking, evaluation of a bank’s performance, introduction to lending techniques and risk rating methods. Analyzing creditworthiness of business firms and financial institutions. Credit-management techniques such as asset protection, asset conversion and cash-flow analysis are introduced.
When Offered
Offered twice a year.
Notes
Enrollment in is limited, and priority is given to students seeking the Bachelor of Business Administration degree or the Bachelor of Accounting degree, students enrolling in specified as collateral requirements in other majors, and students who have declared business administration as a minor.
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FINC 408/3501 - International Finance (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Description
The effect of the international financial environment on the major financial decisions of business. The international financial institution and their effect on firms operating in the international environment.
Cross-listed
Same as .
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
Notes
Enrollment in is limited, and priority is given to students seeking the Bachelor of Business Administration degree or the Bachelor of Accounting degree, students enrolling in specified as collateral requirements in other majors, and students who have declared business administration as a minor.
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FINC 410/4202 - Capital Markets (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
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Description
The objective of this course is to provide students with a thorough understanding of the structure and mechanics of financial markets coupled with a practical perspective of the use of finacial tools and their applications. It will introduce students to capital markets with global applications to various financial instruments including debt, equity and derivative securities, such as forwards, futures, and options. The course, as well, aims to widen students understanding of the various risks encountered by financial institutions and the means by which they are mitigated and managed.
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.
Notes
Enrollment in courses is limited, and priority is given to students seeking the Bachelor of Business Administration degree or the Bachelor of Accounting degree, students enrolling in courses specified as collateral requirements in other majors, and students who have declared business administration as a minor.
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FINC 412/4203 - Options and Derivatives (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Description
Overview of basic derivative securities; forwards, futures and options. The focus is on the valuation of these securities and the use of derivatives for hedging risks. More complex derivatives may be covered.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
Notes
Enrollment in is limited, and priority is given to students seeking the Bachelor of Business Administration degree or the Bachelor of Accounting degree, students enrolling in specified as collateral requirements in other majors, and students who have declared business administration as a minor.
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FINC 415/4204 - Portfolio Theory and its Applications (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Description
Portfolio Theory provides students with basic concepts and models of financial theory and introduces them to the evaluation of quantity risk and return decisions. Subjects that are offered in this course: Capital assets Pricing Theory; Arbitrage Pricing Theory; Derivatives and Portfolio Selection and Management.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
Notes
Enrollment in is limited, and priority is given to students seeking the Bachelor of Business Administration degree or the Bachelor of Accounting degree, students enrolling in specified as collateral requirements in other majors, and students who have declared business administration as a minor.
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FINC 414/4301 - Corporate Finance (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Description
The course introduces students to basic concepts of corporate finance in the Egyptian environment. The course will cover the theory and application of capital budgeting techniques and capital structure choice of firms.
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.
Notes
Enrollment in is limited, and priority is given to students seeking the Bachelor of Business Administration degree or the Bachelor of Accounting degree, students enrolling in specified as collateral requirements in other majors, and students who have declared business administration as a minor.
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FINC 470/4970 - Special Topics in Financial Management (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor.
Description
Considers selected topics of current relevance in Financial Management.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
Notes
Enrollment in is limited, and priority is given to students seeking the Bachelor of Business Administration degree or the Bachelor of Accounting degree, students enrolling in specified as collateral requirements in other majors, and students who have declared business administration as a minor.
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FINC 475/4975 - Independent Study in Financial Management (1-3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Prerequisites: Senior standing and consent of FINC unit head and chair.
Description
Guided readings, research, and discussions on specific selected topic in Financial Management.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
Notes
Enrollment in is limited, and priority is given to students seeking the Bachelor of Business Administration degree or the Bachelor of Accounting degree, students enrolling in specified as collateral requirements in other majors, and students who have declared business administration as a minor.
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FINC 527/5201 - Managerial Economics (3 cr.)
Description
This course aims at applying economic principles to managerial decision making. The course covers topics such as demand, costs and market structure and their relation to pricing, product choice and resource allocation. This course also covers Macroeconomic topics such as saving, investment and the rate of interest; the theory of inflation; and economic growth.
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FINC 540/5202 - Financial Management (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Description
It is a basic business finance course, dealing with various aspects of financial decision making. It provides an introduction to time value of money; bond and stock valuation; ratio analysis; financing decisions; capital budgeting; cost of capital; capital structure; risk and return; dividend policy; operating and financial leverage; and working capital management.
Cross-listed
Same as .
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.
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FINC 535/5204 - Applied Financial Econometrics (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
ACCT 5201 and FINC 5202 .
Description
This course introduces the main econometric methods and techniques used in the analysis of issues related to finance. The course will cover econometric models and their application to various financial problems such as: the testing of market efficiency, empirical testing of the various asset pricing models (CAPM, Fama French, APT), measuring and forecasting volatility of bond and stock returns (ARCH and GARCH models) and tests for market contagion amongst others.
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FINC 543/5312 - Financial Institutions and Markets (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
ACCT 5201 and FINC 5202 .
Description
This course will analyze the role of financial markets and financial institutions in allocating capital. The major focus will be on debt contracts and securities and on innovations in the bond and money markets. The functions of commercial banks, investment banks, and other financial intermediaries will be covered. Aspects of the regulation of these institutions will also be examined.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
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FINC 512/5313 - Options and Derivatives (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
ACCT 5201 , FINC 5202 and FINC 5203 .
Description
This course covers a list of advanced topics in derivative securities. It assumes that students have taken an introductory course in derivatives as well as an introduction to fixed-income markets. The first part of the course develops numerical techniques which are used to implement pricing methodologies. The techniques are applied to exotic options and real options. The second part of the course develops term structure models and options based on fixed income securities.
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FINC 516/5314 - Real Estate Finance (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
ACCT 5201 and FINC 5202
Description
The course introduces main elements of real estate Finance. It begins with a comprehensive introduction of mortgage from the perspective of capital market investors. The mortgage basics are then used in investment analysis of income producing properties. The public debt and equity are introduced in the third part of this course.
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FINC 518/5315 - Islamic Finance (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
ACCT 5201 and FINC 5202
Description
Islamic Finance is one of the fastest growing and most innovative financial disciplines in the international financial markets. It is growing at a rate of 15-20 % each year. It is one of the least understood both by the western financial community and indeed by those in Islamic communities. This course offers a clear and understandable examination of this dynamic area of finance. It will help participants to fully understand the fundamental principles underlying modern Islamic finance, as well as modern practices prevailing in this industry.
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FINC 513/5331 - Fixed Income Securities (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
ACCT 5201 and FINC 5202
Description
This is a course on fixed-income securities and related derivatives. It covers basic analytical tools in fixed-income markets. Topics include relative pricing of fixed-income securities, forward rates, yield-to-maturity, yield-curve trading strategies and immunization techniques. It also discusses term structure models, fixed-income securities with embedded options, and derivatives with fixed-income underlying securities. Instruments to be discussed are forward rate agreements, bond and interest rate futures, interest rate swaps, fixed-income options, mortgage-backed securities, and credit derivatives. The course emphasizes analytical techniques, rather than institutional details.
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FINC 545/5333 - Private Equity and Venture Capital (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
, , , , , , and .
Description
The course focuses on private equity and venture capital cycles. Emphasis is placed on the valuation concepts and their application to privately held companies. Case studies are an integral part of the course.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
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FINC 544/5351 - Advanced Corporate Finance (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
ACCT 5201 and FINC 5202 .
Description
This is an advanced corporate finance course with an emphasis on debt and equity management, security issuance, and distribution policy. Topics include descriptions of types of debt and equity, tradeoffs in the choice of an optimal capital structure; the role of capital structure in competitive strategy; the design of capital structure and securities to control information problems and limit conflicts of interest between different classes of security holders; procedures and costs of issuing securities including initial public offerings, and the determinants of optimal payout policy. The course is intended for those with career objectives in financial management, the corporate finance aspects of investment banking, or general management.
When Offered
Offered in fall.
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FINC 517/5352 - Financial Modeling (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
ACCT 5201 and FINC 5202
Description
This is a hands on course that introduces financial concepts through analytic frameworks and financial models that can be used to identify and solve financial management issues. The course guides students through various intermediate methods and techniques of financial modeling in Microsoft Excel emphasizing the use of (1) Excel Solver for Optimization, (2) Monte Carlo Simulation and (3) Excel’s Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming language.
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FINC 514/5353 - Financial Risk Analysis (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
ACCT 5201 and FINC 5202 .
Description
This course deals with the ways in which risks are quantified and managed by financial institutions. Among the topics covered are the nature of financial institutions and their regulation, market risk, credit risk, operational risk, liquidity risk, and the credit crisis of 2007.
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FINC 570/5370 - Selected Topics in Financial Management (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
ACCT 5201 and FINC 5202 .
Description
It considers selected topics of current relevance in Financial Management.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
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FINC 575/5375 - Independent Study in Financial Management (1-3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Consent of FINC unit head and chair.
Description
Guided readings, research, and discussions on specific selected topic in Financial Management.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
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FINC 590/5402 - Research Methodology (3 cr.)
Description
This course offers an overview of different research methods and processes in the area of finance. The course outcome will be the completion and presentation of a comprehensive research proposal for a research study.
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GWST 501/5101 - Approaches to Gender and Women’s Studies in the Middle East/ North Africa (3 cr.)
Description
This course immerses students in the literary, historical, and theoretical debates within the academic field of Middle East Gender and Women’s Studies. Interdisciplinary approaches as well as varieties of theoretical positions are exposed and discussed critically. Acknowledging the entanglements of regions, scholarly debates and politically struggles, this course locates the Middle East/ North Africa region within its worldly context. Must be taken in the second semester.
Cross-listed
ECLT 5256
When Offered
Offered in spring.
Repeatable
May be taken more than once if content changes.
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GWST 502/5102 - Justice: Histories and Theories (3 cr.)
Description
This course introduces students to justice as a problem in contemporary cultural, legal and philosophical debates. The course explores the different domains through which justice becomes a universal language of rights, and the resultant compartmentalization of human experiences along parameters in which culture is presumed to be non-existent, rendering different forms of justice, such as gender justice, appendixes to the already known. The course will engage with questions of distribution of justice - economic, social, political, historical - in the contemporary world with special focus on locating theories of justice in the practice thereof. It is conceived as laying the intellectual foundation for the GWST gender and justice graduate concentration, for graduate work in IHRL and other related fields.
Cross-listed
Same as .
When Offered
Offered every fall.
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GWST 503/5103 - Histories and Theories of Gender and Development (3 cr.)
Description
The aim of this foundation seminar is to introduce students to the historical, theoretical and empirical perspectives and experiences that inform current programs and polices in the filed of gender and development. The course is divided into four sub-modules each of which will present key concepts in the analysis of social relations between men and women in the context of development thinking. Each module will present these theoretical perspectives with reference to concrete empirical applications.
When Offered
Offered every fall.
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GWST 504/5104 - Gender and Migration (3 cr.)
Description
This seminar provides an in depth engagement with the growing sub-field of Gender and Migration. Themes covered include: international gendered labor markets, migration to and from the Middle East, domestic labor, trafficking, displacement through conflict and development, remittances, and human rights. This is a joint course offered by the Center for Migration Studies and Refugee Studies and the Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies.
Cross-listed
Same as .
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GWST 506/5106 - Reading Capital (3 cr.)
Description
The primary goal of this course is to develop adequate tools for understanding the gendering of political economies in the contemporary world. The course provides a reading in the genealogies of capital in order to critically engage emergent political, economic and social forms.
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GWST 507/5107 - Critical Geographies: Reading the Global South (3 cr.)
Description
This seminar explores the spatial and its social, political and gendered effects with a particular focus on dispossession. It introduces students to critical work about space in the social sciences aimed towards social transformation.
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GWST 508/5108 - Women and Human Rights (3 cr.)
Description
This seminar explores the historical development of the notion of the human from the 1950’s to the present. It introduces students to women’s struggles for incorporation into human rights discourses, the consolidation of dominant regulatory processes, and their contemporary critical feminist engagements.
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GWST 570/5170 - Special Topics in Gender and Women’s Studies (3 cr.)
Description
Alternating selected topics.
Repeatable
May be taken more than once if content changes.
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GWST 580/5180 - Independent Study and Readings (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Approval of IGWS Graduate Advisory Committee.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
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GWST 505/5205 - Gender and Feminist Research Methodologies (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Description
This course provides an introduction to gender and feminist approaches to dominant theories of knowledge and research methodologies in the social sciences.
When Offered
Offered in spring.
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GWST 000/5298 - Thesis Writing Seminar (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
GWST 5205
Description
This course serves as an intermediary phase between the research proposal and the Master’s thesis. It is designed to help students transition from fieldwork and data collection to data analysis and writing.
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GWST 599/5299 - Research Guidance and Thesis (no cr.)
Description
Consultation for students in problems related to their thesis.
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.
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DSGN 213/2113 - Introduction to Visual Cultures (3 cr.)
Description
This lecture course provides a primer in visual literacy across media, introducing students to key terms and methods for critically reading the visual world including iconology, formal analysis, art history, ideological analysis, and semiotics. Students gain fluency in understanding how images work in cultural context to communicate meaning, to express a sense of self, to convey pleasure, to sell things, and to distribute power. Questions of the effect of specific visual technologies are also engaged, particularly their impact on perception and conduct. Examples are drawn from fine art, advertising, film, popular culture, and new media.
Cross-listed
Same as , .
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DSGN 215/2115 - History of Graphic Design (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Description
This course introduces students to the conceptual and critical aspects of graphic design through the discourse of history and theory of visual communication. It addresses how international graphic design went hand in hand with social, political and technological developments around it. It is a chronological survey of graphic design through slide lectures and research.
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DSGN 200/2200 - Analogue and Digital Practices (3 cr.)
Description
This introductory studio course introduces students to techniques of visual research as a basis for creative work in various media forms. Students undertake a continuous visual research project as the basis for the course. By means of class lectures and exercises, sketchbook practices, technical workshops, take home assignments, and group critiques designed to activate the research process, they develop their skills in the expressive use of analogue and digital media for the realization of art, design, or film projects.
Cross-listed
Same as , .
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.
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DSGN 201/2201 - Design I (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
and
Description
Based on a series of experimental visual exercises, this course investigates basic design principles like concepts development and its application in different mediums. Students will explore the fundamentals of graphic form, communicating visually, and integration of type through drawing, collage, and other experimental media.
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DSGN 202/2202 - Design II: Logo and Corporate Identity (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
and
Description
The development of an identity of brand through its logo and corporate identity is the aim of this course. It teaches students to think strategically about a company’s image and mission. In this studio course students will work with real client briefs and experimental ideas.
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DSGN 210/2210 - Typography I (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
and
Description
This course is an introduction to and experimentation with different aspects of Latin and Arabic typography. It addresses letterforms and their legibility, visual organization, classification and text applications. Projects will explore the fundamentals of Latin and Arabic typography in terms of history, theory and practice.
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DSGN 240/2240 - Color (3 cr.)
Description
A series of experiences devoted to the development of the perception of color and its use as a tool for the graphic designer. The physics of color, colored light, colored pigments and the color wheel. The study of Johannes Litten’s color theory and Labert Munsell’s color solid, the psychology of color and application of its relations to different design fields. There will be an emphasis on using gouache paint and matching paint colors with digital color and printing as well as exploring digital color on the computer.
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DSGN 245/2245 - Illustration (3 cr.)
Description
Students explore the different media of illustration for different end products in this studio course.
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DSGN 250/2250 - Digital Practice I (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Description
Introduction to the basic operation of computers for designers and developing their skills on desktop programs like Illustrator and Photoshop.
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DSGN 315/3115 - History of Graphic Design in the Arab world (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Description
Exploring a relatively new field in the region, this course will explore the history of graphic design in the Arab world by looking at the rise of different newspapers, magazines and packaging design from the turn of the century until today.
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DSGN 317/3117 - History of Advertising in the Arab World (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Description
A course on the history of advertising in the Arab world that studies visual communication in the region from the rise of the printing press to the introduction of multinational brands.
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DSGN 318/3118 - History of Arabic Calligraphy (3 cr.)
Description
A Slide-lecture based course that will introduce students to the history of Arabic calligraphy from the early Quran scripts, through highlights of the creative output of different Islamic dynasties until the introduction of the printing press. It will discuss the aesthetics of the calligraphic Arabic word and different stages of development of the script on paper and different media.
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DSGN 303/3203 - Design III: Publication (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
and
Description
This course focuses on the different formats that a printed word can appear in on different items like brochures, catalogues, newspapers, magazines and books. Students are given briefs that push for exploration of type on different grids, as well as layouts, editing photos, structure, and space.
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DSGN 304/3204 - Design IV: Packaging (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
and
Description
Understanding shelf-life and presence, this studio course is based on designing and understanding communication graphics for packaged products. Students experiment with structures of products and the application of type, color, and image on different media like paper, plastic, nylon etc. Projects may be based on real market client briefs and/or experimental ideas.
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DSGN 305/3205 - Design V: Retail Design (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
and .
Description
In this course students develop one whole project in all of its applications. From a logo to in-store signage, students explore the application of a unified visual system across several media from print to on-line.
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DSGN 313/3213 - Web Design (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
DSGN 2250 and DSGN 3250
Description
In studio we will explore concepts and the design of branding in the web environment. After presentation of the basic programs and related means of web production, as well as the importation of sound, motion and image, each student will create and design the interface of a brand that exclusively exists on the web. Students will develop a branding strategy, identity design, the components of on-line standards and its digital manual format. The instructors will provide information on strategy, information narratives, hypertext, interactivity, accessibility and system. Students will experiments with type, form color, layout, grid, hierarchy, sequence etc. and explore how these behave in an interactive interface. By the end of the course, students will have produced a working prototype and interface web site for their brand.
When Offered
Offered in Fall and Spring.
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DSGN 320/3220 - Typography II (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Description
This course continues exploring the world of typography through the study of essential typographic elements and principles while discussing typographic functions and critical theoretical issues. Studies will include grid layout and page systems and typographic matching between Arabic and Latin typography.
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DSGN 330/3230 - Typography III (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Description
Technology and typography is explored in this course. Students will explore and understand type applications on different media from cell phones to home appliances to websites. The aim of this course is to equip students in applying typography in any media such as music, videos, web applications, film titles, etc.
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