Program: English Program of Business Administration
Level of Study: Bachelor
Supervisor: Gegeshidze Eka
Language of Study: English
Awarded Qualification: Bachelor of Business Administration
Program Capacity: 240
Admission criteria/ prerequisite:
English language B1 level (70%) and other legislative requirements, namely citizens of Georgia should successfully pass Unified National Entrance Examinations. Foreign high-school graduates who received complete general education abroad or its equivalent and the last two years of complete general education had studied abroad or students who lived abroad for the last two or more years and who are currently studying abroad in higher educational institutions recognized by the legislation of the host countries will be able to enter the program without passing Uniform National Entrance Examinations according to Order №224/N of the Minister of Education and Science of Georgia (December 29, 2011).
Goals and Objectives of the course:
The objective of the program is provide a student with basics of modern business administration. To provide solid foundation for business administration sections –such as finances, marketing, accounting, management and etc. as well as business sections such as banking, insurance, industrial, financial and etc. After completing the program a student will develop basic entrepreneur skills, as well as receives knowledge and skills that are necessary for lower and middle level managers in Georgia and worldwide.
Methods for achieving the learning outcomes:
Methods for achieving knowledge and understanding
Lectures and seminars
Working with textbooks
Discussion
Demonstration
Usage of video and audio products
Interactive studies
Methods for developing skills or abilities for practical use in real life
Life problems
Role games
Identification of new information
implementation of small studies
Practical study
Team work
Reproduction
Field work
Formulation and solving of a problem
Producing (small) more complicated research
Methodology for developing judgment skills or abilities
Critical analysis
Presenting and defending debatable topics
Team tasks
Problem solving tasks
Projects
Case study
Literature analysis
Critical assessment of own work
Constrictive criticism
Methods for developing learning skills or abilities
Working with textbook
Searching required literature electronically and in library
Methods for developing communication skills or abilities
Writing assignments
Writing about a topic
Presentation
Verbal and oral methods
Knowledge and understanding
Graduate will be able to:
- Know main principles and theories of micro and macro economics
- Understand participants of market, market forces, role of competition for product pricing
- Know the state role in economics
- Know monetary and fiscal policies, inflation, unemployment, theories of developing state economics
- Know mathematical and statistical theories
- Understand achievements of school of management
- Understand ethics of business environment
- Know legislative forms of business organisation
- Know critical methods of analysis of an organisation and environment, modern methods of
- assessment and modeling of the happening
- Know discussion and decision making principles
- Know assessment principles of the strategic alternatives and methodology of competitive business strategy
- Understand theoretical basics of business optimisation and management
- Understand management structure, its subsystems and its relationship
- Understand management`s strategic, financial, production, administrative, international, social,
- cultural aspects
- Know fundamental principles and theories of Marketing, modern understanding of competitiveness of companies
- Understand modeling of network for product distribution
- Know price systems, trademarks that are used by international marketing systems
- Know modern technologies of managing advertisement and promotions, general methodology of promotion and pricing, costing and cost strategy analysis
- Understand theoretical basis for providing effective advertisement performance
- Know modern PR methodologies for forming public opinion, understanding of competitiveness
- Understand internationally accepted accounting principles, methodologies for assessing financial position of the company, producing income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement
- Know financial markets, financial instruments and financial institutions
- Know assessment principles of financial investment instruments, methods of constructing financial portfolios, risk management and analysis
Applying knowledge
Graduate will be able to:
Work individually and in team
Plan, motivate, control, implement
Lead
Develop strategic vision, design business plan with accordance of requirements, identify critical solution, develop an
operational plan
Organise with accordance of requirements marketing research, analyse statistical information
Use mathematical and statistical application for solving financial problems
Create financial and bookkeeping documentation
Generate final results' assessment coefficients
Assess investment project
Produce expenditure, expenses and budget documents, calculation of production cost
Find information on financial market regarding financial instruments and organise financial portfolios
Making judgments
Graduate will be able to:
Analyse quantitative and qualitative results of a research
Make conclusions and arguments based on the statistical analysis of marketing research
Predict future sales and prices based on past statistical results
Analyse market and environment forces; to compare competitors and week and strong sides in business SWOT
analysis
Analyse financial documentation of the organisation and make decisions regarding its financial position
Analyse reasons that brings difference between budgeted and actual results
Make optimal judgement when assessing investment projects
Analyse special financial information from special TV programs and newspapers and to make correct judgment
based on these information
Communications skills
Graduate will be able to:
Present own vision in writing as well as to make presentation using modern technology
Use appropriate terminology during a presentation
Explain or tell appropriate information to the specialists as well as other interested individuals
Participate in discussion
Present detailed analysis of the result in writing
Communicate fluently in Georgian and in English
Use electronical communication at academic level
Learning skills
Graduate will be able to:
State its own professional interests and independently identify preferable continuation of study at next level of
education or progress knowledge by new certified courses
Search required literature electronically and in library
Constantly progress its knowledge by using Georgian and English special literature
Values
Graduate will be able to:
Consider liberal-democratic attitudes expressed by respecting individual and property
Consider correct attitude towards physical and intellectual properties. Consider personal and collective
responsibilities
Consider responsibilities toward the community and state expressed as respect to the law and business ethics
Consider the role of the values in developing of the State and welfare of future generation
University Core Subjects
Code
KART1220 Academic Writing
HIST1120 Introduction to World History
BUSN1210 Basics of Business and Economics
HIST1230 Introduction to the History of Georgia
Total amount of credits: 24
School Core Subjects
Code
LAWB4300 Corporations
MATH1111 Mathematics for Economists I
MATH1211 Mathematics for Economists II
PSYC1265 Introduction to Social Psychology
MATH2111 Mathematics for Economists III
ECON2120 Macroeconomics I (Intermediate)
MGMT2110 Basics of Management
ECON2130 Microeconomics I (Intermediate)
ACCT2121 Financial Accounting I (basics, Part I)
STAT2217 Business Statistics I
ECON2270 Macroeconomics II
MKTG2210 Basics of Marketing
ECON2260 Microeconomics II
STAT3111 Business Statistics II
FINA3115 Fundamentals of the Finances
Total amount of credits: 81
Program Core Subjects
Code
INFO1110 MS Office and Internet
ACCT2210 Basics of Managerial Accounting
ACCT2220 Financial Accounting I (basics, Part II)
MGMT3110 Basics of Operation Management
MGMT3121 Basics of Organizational Behavior
MGMT2210 Fundamentals of the Strategic Management
MGMT3220 Business-communications
INFO3212 Decision Modeling in MS Excel
MKTG3210 Basics of customers Behavior
BUSN3210 Basics of Business and Economics Forecast
ECON3210 Basics of International Business and economics
MGMT3211 Human Resource Management
FINA3220 Fundamentals of the Investment
FINA4115 Corporative Finances (intermediate)
MKTG3220 Marketing Researches
COMM4120 Introduction to Public Relations
MKTG4110 Brand Management
BUSN4250 Project and Thesis in Business Adminsitration
MGMT4220 Project Management
COMM4130 Basics of Advertising
Total amount of credits: 111
Program Elective Subjects
Code
ENGL1110 General English I
KART1141 Georgian, as a second language I
ENGL1120 General English II
KART1241 Georgian, as a second language II
student should take 12 ECTS from the given list. Georgian student can choose English language and foreign student
Georgian languageTotal amount of credits: 24
Learning pecularities: The length for undergraduate studies is defined as 4 years or 8 terms. University Study Day is divided in lectures (lessons).The lecture consists of several (two, three or four) parts (theoretical part, practical – seminar, lab), each of length - 60 minutes, or an astronomical hour (including 50 minutes of the lecture and a 10 minute break). At the University groups (classes) are formed as from 25 or 50 students. The minimum number of students per group is 10. If during the registration less than 10 students registered, the University reserves the right
not to open the group.
Evaluation System:
Weekly evaluation (quiz) 20 grade / 20%
Assay or other activities that requires presentation 10 grade / 10%
I Mid-term exam 20 grades / 20%
II Mid-terme xam 20 grade / 20%
Final exam 30 grade / 30%
Average results Results Average Coefficient (GPA) University Evaluation Genral Evaluation system in
Georgia
97-100 4,00 A+ A Excellent
94-96 3,75 A
91-93 3,50 A-
87-90 3,25 B+ Very good
84-86 3,00 B B
81-83 2,75 B-
77-80 2,50 C+ C Good
74-76 2,25 C
71-73 2,00 C-
67-70 1,75 D+ D Sattisfactory
64-66 1,50 D
61-63 1,25 D-
51-60 1,00 E E Enough
Negative Evaluation
41-50 FX FX Not passed
<40 F F Failed
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