Semester II (July 2025)

The course is designed to equip students with knowledge of commercial banking practices in the regulatory framework and their contribution to economic growth and development. This course examines the ways in which modern commercial banks are operating in the face of various shocks, locally or internationally, such as economic and political, and how these operating practices contribute to economic growth and development of modern economies. It covers topics of commercial banks and their regulatory framework, commercial banking practices in reaching economic development and commercial banking in the global economy. To follow this course, students should complete Microeconomics and Macroeconomics courses as the pre-requisites.

This advanced course provides the students with knowledge and skills on Project Management in business organisations or entirely project-based organisations. This is a compulsory course which covers the theoretical foundation of Project Management techniques, software training and practical elements of real-world projects undertaken by the students. This course studies the nine basic Project Management knowledge areas: project integration management, scope management, schedule management, cost management, quality management, human resource management, risk management, communication management and procurement management. In addition, the students undergo a thorough training in MS Project software (usually the latest accessible version) to be competent in meeting the challenges in the real business setup under project management. This course enables the students to manage a project effectively throughout its life cycle and to use MS Project software to apply those principles and techniques discussed. Pre-requisites of this course are Principles of Management, Microeconomics, Human Resource Management, Financial Management and Operations Management.

This course integrates the theory of finance and financial institutions into the main body of economic theory with the aim of providing students with an in-depth understanding of overall financial market. This is an extended analysis of Microeconomics and Macroeconomics courses with a special focus on the financial market. This course is compulsory for Banking Students and elective for Development Studies and International Economics and Business students. It covers the areas of behaviour of interest rate, the risk and term structure of interest rates, theories of the term structure of interest rates, interest rate and bond market, the efficient markets theory, economic analysis of financial structure and the foreign exchange market. This course enables the students to gain a profound knowledge of financial markets in a microeconomic and macroeconomic context and to develop analytical skills and thinking ability to evaluate the behaviour of national and international financial markets and institutions. Business Mathematics, Business Statistics, Microeconomics and Macroeconomics courses provide the pre-requisites for this course.