Bachelor of Business Administration – Logistics and Supply Chain Management

A MAJOR ENABLER OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
COURSE STRUCTURE
PROFESSIONAL BODY ACCREDITATION
American University in the Emirates has been recognized as a Project Management Institute (PMI) Registered Education Provider (R.E.P). This recognition allows the College of Business Administration to equalize all offered Project Management courses at undergraduate and graduate levels to attending certificate preparation courses in PMP. As a result, all students in the logistics specialization will be eligible to take the exam and achieve the prestigious PMP certification.
- Develop critical analysis skills relevant to their career paths
- Analyze and interpret specialized data and information to make rational business decisions
- Apply innovative and advanced approaches to evaluate the national and international business environment
- Demonstrate practical skills of various business disciplines
- Acquire knowledge about the fundamental concepts, principles and theories in the specialization
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
ACCREDITATION
Preparatory Courses
Prior to their enrollment in the program, students applying for Bachelor of Business Administration must sit for the placement test related to the program, failure to successfully passing the placement test, they are required to enroll in the following courses:
# | Course Code | Course | Credit Hours | Exemption Condition |
1 | CIT 90 | Computer Preparatory | 0 | Passing the Placement Test |
2 | MAT 90 | Mathematics Preparatory | 0 | Passing the Placement Test |
3 | ENG 99 | Academic Writing (*) | 0 | Passing the Placement Test |
PROGRAM STRUCTURE
Course Category
Total Number of Courses
Total Number of Credit Hours
General Education Courses
11
33
Core Courses
18
51
Specialization Courses
12
33
Free Elective
3
9
Total
44 Courses
126 Credit Hours
(*) 11 Specialization courses (33CH) required for Logistics and Supply Chain Management with total credit hours of 126 CH
FEE STRUCTURE
GENERAL EDUCATION COURSES
11 COURSES | 33 CREDIT HOURS
A: University Core Requirements
The student selects 6 credit hours (2 courses) from the list below:
B: Languages and Communication Studies
The student selects 9 credit hours (3 courses) from the list below:
Students must take all of the following courses:
This course provides students with advanced writing skills in English so that they can successfully pursue their studies in various academic specializations. It helps students to develop, improve, and upgrade their writing and structure skills, and it also acquaints students with technical writing, research papers, and essays since brief research methods are applied in student projects and assignments.
Students must take one of the following Arabic Language courses:
C: The Natural sciences or Mathematics
The student selects 6 credit hours (2 courses) from the list below:
D: The Social or Behavioral Sciences
The student selects 3 credit hours (1 course) from the list below:
E: The Humanities or Arts
The student selects 3 credit hours (1 course) from the list below:
F: Islamic Studies
The student selects 3 credit hours (1 course) from the list below
G: UAE Studies
The student selects 3 credit hours (1 course) from the list below
CORE COURSES
18 COURSES | 51 CREDIT HOURS
This course aims to acquire a sound education in those statistical concepts and its applications in the fields of business and economics. This course requires fundamental understanding of basic statistics like frequency distribution, averages, measures of variability, probability, confidence intervals. The course also recommends a prior understanding of software application and MS Excel. Course covers statistical concepts and methods like hypothesis testing, variance Tests, chi-Square analysis and ANOVA with an emphasis on business application.
SPECIALIZATION COURSES
11 COURSES | 33 CREDIT HOURS
The Course Illustrates the characteristics of service and it different nature from Products. It also relates to the science of operations management with regards to effectively and efficiently manage the consumer service experience.
This course as well focus on the impact of customer satisfaction on the design of the service environment.
This course discusses the fundamentals of purchasing management, Purchasing technologies and techniques in supply chain management. this course focuses on procurement and supply chain management. Contract management especially partnership contracts and contractual negotiation techniques are discussed and analyzed.
The course describes the different procurement criteria such as optimization based and value based procurement.
The course discusses the different forms of inventory in supply chains whether its raw material, work in process or finished product. Also, applications of the different inventory management techniques that optimizes demand of products under certainty and under uncertainty. This focuses on making good inventory decisions in logistics and supply chains. This course addresses the key operations and supply chain issues that have strategic and tactical implications
The course is aimed to provide a wider and much better knowledge of quality concerns in the products and services that are in offering. The course further invites attention of the students in better understanding the importance of quality concerns and best practices to be followed in manufacturing sector. The course provides a better understanding of the international quality standards and its implementation in every industrial sector. The course provides a better understanding of the quality measurement tools and techniques to the students.
ELECTIVE COURSES
3 COURSES | 9 CREDIT HOURS
ATTENDANCE
Weekday Morning Classes
TUE – THUR
BETWEEN 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
MON – WED
BETWEEN 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Weekday Evening Classes
TUE – THUR
BETWEEN 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MON – WED
BETWEEN 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Weekend Classes
SAT - SUN
BETWEEN 9:00 AM – 8:00 PM
WHEN CAN I JOIN
Student can join at the beginning of any semester
SEPTEMBER
FALL SEMESTER
MIN 3 COURSES | 9 CREDIT HOURS
MAX 6 COURSES | 18 CREDIT HOURS
JANUARY
SPRING SEMESTER
MIN 3 COURSES | 9 CREDIT HOURS
MAX 6 COURSES | 18 CREDIT HOURS
MAY
SUMMER SEMESTER
MIN 3 COURSES | 9 CREDIT HOURS
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