BBA (HONORS) (FOUR YEAR) PROGRAM

The Bachelor of Business Administration (Honors) is a four-year program. It requires completion of 144 semester hours of course work and a summer internship in a firm approved by the College. A student studies 48 courses of 3 credit hours each in order to complete the degree requirements. Six credit hours are structured into the program for a foreign language course. Students must maintain a 2.5 GPA for the conferment of the BBA (Honors) degree.

 

Students are provided with general business courses as part of their studies and are required to select one of the eight fields of
specialization which would be called their major. The eight fields of specialization offered are:

Accounting

Finance and Banking

Human Resource Management

Management Information Systems

Marketing

Marketing Communications

Management

Media Management

Courses are divided into Foundation, Core and Electives.

Foundation Courses

Communications

COM 101 General English

COM 102 Business Communication I

COM 201 Business Communication II

COM 202 Business and Professional Speech

Language

LAN 10* Foreign Language I

LAN 20** Foreign Language II

*1 = Introduction to Arabic **1 = Intermediate Arabic

*2 = Introduction to French **2 = Intermediate French

*3 = Introduction to Spanish **3 = Intermediate Spanish

*4 = Introduction to German **4 = Intermediate German

*5 = Introduction to Japanese **5 = Intermediate Japanese

*6 = Introduction to Italian **6 = Intermediate Italian

Economics

ECO 101 Principles of Microeconomics

ECO 102 Principles of Macroeconomics

ECO 402 Pakistan Economic Policy

Law

LAW 201 Corporate Law

LAW 401 Business Law

Mathematics

MTH 101 College Algebra

MTH 103 Calculus for Business Decisions

Political Science

PSC 301 Pakistan Studies

Social Science

SSC 101 Introduction to Psychology

SSC 301 History of Ideas

SSC 401 Business Ethics

Religious Studies

REL 101 Islamic Studies

Statistics

STA 201 Quantitative Business Analysis

STA 202 Quantitative Skills and Managerial Statistics

 

Core Business Courses

Accounting

ACC 101 Introduction to Financial Accounting

ACC 201 Intermediate Financial Accounting

ACC 303 Cost Accounting

ACC 410 Management Accounting

ACC 503 Taxation

Finance

FIN 201 Introduction to Business Finance

FIN 202 Financial Management

FIN 301 Financial Institutions

Human Resource Management

HRM 301 Human Resource Management

Management

MAN 101 Principles of Management

MAN 201 Personal Management

MAN 302 Organizational Behavior

MAN 303 Production and Operations Management

MAN 305 International Relations

MAN 403 Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management

MAN 405 Strategic Management

MAN 408 Analysis of Pakistani Industries

Management Information Systems

MIS 102 Computer Concepts

MIS 103 Computer Applications I

MIS 201 Computer Applications II

Marketing

MKT 301 Principles of Marketing

MKT 302 Marketing Management

MKT 403 Sales Management

MKT 404 Methods in Business Research

 

Students must take a minimum load of twelve credit hours (four courses) or a maximum load of eighteen credit hours (six courses) in a semester. In order to obtain the BBA (Honors) degree in four years, one would have to cover twelve courses in a year. Full load of six courses can be taken each in the fall and spring semesters with option for fewer courses in the latter and making up the shortfall in the summer session.

Course Structure

               

                                                                                FRESHMAN

SEMESTER ONE                                                                                                               SEMESTER TWO

Principles of Management                                                                                                  Principles of Macroeconomics

General English                                                                                                                    Calculus for Business Decisions

Principles of Microeconomics                                                                                           Introduction to Psychology

College Algebra                                                                                                                   Computer Applications I

Computer Concepts                                                                                                             Introduction to Financial Accounting

Islamic Studies                                                                                                                     Business Communication I

 

                                                                                SOPHOMORE

SEMESTER THREE                                                                                                         SEMESTER FOUR

Business Communication II                                                                                               Personal Management

Quantitative Business Analysis                                                                                        |Introduction to Business Finance

Principles of Marketing                                                                                                       Business and Professional Speech

Corporate Law                                                                                                                      Marketing Management

Inter. Financial Accounting                                                                                               Foreign Language I*

Computer Applications II                                                                                                   Quant. Skills & Managerial Statistics

 

                                                                                JUNIOR

SEMESTER FIVE                                                                                                             SEMESTER SIX

Methods in Business Research                                                                                         Human Resource Management

Organizational Behavior                                                                                                     Pakistan Studies

International Relations                                                                                                        Sales Management

Financial Institutions                                                                                                          History of Ideas

Cost Accounting                                                                                                                 Production and Operations Mgmt.

Foreign Language                                                                                                                Financial Management

 

                                                                                SENIOR

SEMESTER SEVEN                                                                                                         SEMESTER EIGHT

Management Accounting                                                                                                  Taxation

Business Ethics                                                                                                                    Pakistan Economic Policy

Business Law                                                                                                                       Analysis of Pakistani Industries

Entrepreneurship & Small Bus.                                                                                          Strategic Management

Elective - I                                                                                                                             Elective III

Elective II                                                                                                                              Elective IV