BEC 2201: English for Business Economics (Part I)

The aim of this course is to further develop and reinforce the four basic language skills, foster students’ critical attitude towards the topics discussed and build up their competence in using English in real situations, further helping students to communicate more effectively and confidently in English and improving listening comprehension skills, participating in class discussions, making group presentations, asking and answering questions. On successful completion of this course, students will be able to develop their communication skills to help them in their university studies, recognise the importance of communication in English, understand contexts of communication, communicate clearly on a variety of different contexts to a wide range of audiences, effectively formulate arguments and communicate research findings through the process of researching and confidently engage in constructive and critical dialogue.

BEC 2370: Macroeconomics

This basic course provides students with the comprehensive understanding of the aggregate economic system. This is a compulsory course which covers the topics of concepts of aggregate demand and supply, national income and product measures, consumption and investment, supply side economics and its applications, use of fiscal, monetary, exchange rate policies to guide the economy, employment, and inflation. It also encompasses macroeconomic analysis in both closed and open economy, with income-expenditure, IS-LM and modern approaches. At the end of this course, students will be able to understand the macroeconomic concepts, measurements and issues, the sectoral composition of an economy and the interrelationships among the various macroeconomic variables in the economy. Pre-requisites for this course are Business Mathematics and Microeconomics.