Business Administration Emphasis Advertising & Communication
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BBA
Chair: Fadi Asrawi, Ph.D.
Coordinator: Najoie Nasr
Is this program for me?
If you love learning how to research and better understand human behavior, if you have or you want to acquire high skills in research, creativity, planning, interacting with people and communicating with society, then YES! The Advertising and Communication is the program for you. This program is intended for students who want to become a professional marketing manager and attain senior positions in all types of organizations where marketing plays a pivotal role.
What will I learn?
You will learn about the marketing process from understanding the marketplace and customer needs and wants, to capturing value from customers and creating customer equity. More specifically, you will learn about choosing your target market and developing the marketing mix including creating or improving your product, setting the best price, choosing the best location and communicating your choices to your target audience! You also will develop an understanding of advertising, sales, e-marketing, and consumer behavior. In addition, you will be equipped with the necessary tools to conduct a scientific research of the intended market, design creative media strategies and promotional campaigns. And, you will have the opportunity of hands-on training in a company before graduating.
What can I do with my degree?
With this degree, you may work as a market analyst, market researcher, product manager; media account manager, sales manager or consultant in almost all types of institutions. You can also advance yourself by continuing with an MBA. You will be well trained to study successfully for any graduate degree in business or communication particularly one with an emphasis in marketing.
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Requirements
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Prerequisite:
An introductory course in financial accounting. The course covers the techniques of recording, classifying, and summarizing financial information; the completion of the accounting cycle; the preparation of the income statement, the balance sheet and the cash flow statement according to the requirements of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles; the accounting for current assets such as cash, receivables and inventories, plant assets and depreciation, natural resources and depletion, intangible assets and amortization. Prereq.: Sophomore standing.
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3
Prerequisite: ACC 212:Fundamentals of Accounting II
The course presents a study of the concepts and principles underlying the development
of cost information for decision-making and control. It covers the
process and job order systems using both traditional and activity-based costing
(ABC) in the service, the merchandising, as well as the manufacturing sectors;
the break-even analysis; variance analysis; cost behavior and budgeting (standard
and flexible); pricing and optimization through cost control.
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3
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This course is a survey of the major functions performed by the manager of any
type of enterprise, namely the planning, organizing, leading, and controlling
functions. These functions are studied in a dynamic environment with emphasis
on individual and group research.
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3
Prerequisite: ECO 231:Economic Statistics I
A survey of management science and its quantitative tools. Coverage includes:
general linear programming, transportation methods, deterministic and nondeterministic
inventory methods, queuing theory, and simulation models. These
quantitative tools are used for problem-solving and optimization purposes.
Prereq.: ECO 231, CSC 201 and Junior standing. (same as CSC 255).
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3
Prerequisite: ECO 231:Economic Statistics I, ECO 201:Microeconomic Principles
The course emphasizes the application of economic tools of analysis to solve
managerial problems. The following economic techniques and principles used
in formulating business policies are considered: forecasting, estimation and
analysis of demand functions, estimation of production and cost functions, forms
of competition, pricing techniques, and profit and capital budgeting.
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3
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A senior course in the field of business or economics, the topic of which changes
each semester. A student may complete this course more than once. In such a
case, one course will be considered as required and the second one as a major
elective. Prereq.: Senior standing and courses that will be specified depending on the BAD 295 topic to be covered.
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3
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Analysis of price determination and resource allocation in a market economy.
Particular attention is paid to the individual consumer and producer choice under
a variety of market structures. Prereq.: Sophomore standing. The minimum passing
grade is 70 for Business Administration and Economics students.
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3
Prerequisite:
Introduction to theories of national income, fiscal and monetary policies, money
and banking, inflation and unemployment, public finance, and international
transactions. The minimum passing grade is 70 for Business Administration and
Economics students.
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3
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Descriptive statistics, including frequency distribution, measures of central tendency,
measures of variations, elements of probability theory, probability distribution,
sampling and sampling distributions, estimation, and hypothesis testing.
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3
Prerequisite: ECO 231:Economic Statistics I
Hypothesis testing, regression and correlation analysis, analysis of variance;
Chi-Square distribution, t and F distributions; time series and forecasting, index
numbers, decision theory.
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3
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The course deals with the planning and control aspects of working capital management
including cash and capital budgeting, ratio analysis, forecasting, project
evaluation, criteria of investment decisions, the determinants of capital structure
including financial leverage, risk, and the cost of capital.
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3
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The course covers laws pertaining to businessmen. business associations, and
commercial documents. Special emphasis is placed on the Lebanese
Commercial code and the Lebanese Accounting Plan, comparing them to the
laws of other Arab countries, the U.S., and Europe.
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3
Prerequisite:
Any Elective in the Faculty of Business Administration & Economics
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3
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Survey of the economics, psychology, and philosophy of advertising; creative
and media strategies; and organizational structure. This course emphasizes the
principles and practices of advertising in relation to economies, societies, and
mass communication.
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3
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The course presents a survey of the field of marketing through analyzing the
planning, organizing, and controlling of the marketing function in an organization.
The variables of the marketing mix (i.e., product planning, pricing, distributing,
and promotion) in a continuously changing environment are discussed.
Special emphasis is placed on individual and group research.
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3
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The decision-making process of buyers is examined and evaluated with reference
to sociopsychological and economic factors. Market segmentation and target
market selection are focal topics.
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3
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Addresses the interface between marketing activity and various public institutions
and actions: government agencies, consumer groups, boycotts, and litigation.
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3
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Internet technology and its use in business and commerce. Consumer choice,
search, and implications for competition. Pricing and bundling of information
goods. Agents, shop bots, auctions, and intelligent markets. Personalization and
targeted communications. Retailing and business-to-business applications.
Security, encryption, and payment systems. Privacy and intellectual property.
Lectures, guest speakers, and projects.
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The course explores, through the use of scientific tools, both internal and field
research. Methods of sampling, data collection, and analysis are studied as
means of reaching more effective marketing decisions.
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Focus is on the intersection between marketing communications and strategic
marketing. Prepares students to plan and manage all the varied communication
tasks as a system. Develops tools to design marketing communications, deploy
them tactically to meet strategic goals, and to create learning systems to adjust
them periodically. Lectures, guest speakers, case discussions, and projects.
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The primary objective is to teach students to do rigorous, explicit, customerbased
marketing analysis, which is most appropriate for new ventures. Explicit
analysis of customers and potential customers, using available data, together
with explicit and sensible additional assumptions about customer needs and
behavior. Additional course objectives are to teach students about: (a) ways to
implement marketing strategies when resources are very limited, and (b) common
deficiencies in marketing by entrepreneurial organizations
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Prerequisite:
A one-credit course of one to two months of training in a business firm. Prereq.:
Completion of 54 Sophomore-level credits and the approval of the Dean of the
Faculty of Business Administration and Economics.
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3
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Mathematical topics covered: Functions of several variables, partial derivates,
optimisation over constraints, Lagrange multipliers. Matrices, determinants,
inverse of a matrix, systems of linear equations. Business and Economic applications:
supply and demand, cost analysis, revenue functions, break-even analysis,
production cost. Integration and applications. Joint demand and cost functions.
Consumer and producer surplus. Input-output analysis.
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The course introduces and describes the components of an information system.
It focuses on the design, building, and analysis of information systems. The different
applications of computer-based information systems in business will be
emphasized. Students will be introduced to existing packages.
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Prerequisite: ENG 202:Advanced English Communication Skills
The focus of this course is on the common forms of business communications.
The course is aimed at assisting students to develop skills in writing business
letters, memos, minutes, and reports as well as conducting interviews.
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| Advanced English Communication Skills | ENG 202 |
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