Curriculum structure for Bachelor of Business

Bachelor of Business

Years of Study	Essential Components: Core	General Education Requirement (GER) Requirements	Specialisation Components	Total Courses
Year 1	10	4	0	14
Year 2	2-3	3-4	3-5	10-11
Year 3	2-3	3-6	2-5	8-13

Curriculum structure for Bachelor of Business

Essential Components: Core

Foundation Courses 7 Courses

Professional Development 3 Courses

Advanced Courses5 Courses

AD1101 Financial Accounting I
AB1201 Financial Management
AB1202 Statistics & Analysis
HE9091 Principles of Economics
AB1401 Technological Innovations & Development
AB1501 Marketing
AB1601 Organisational Behaviour & Design

AB1001 Career Foundations
AB1002 Career Readiness
AB1003 Professional Attachment

AD2101 Management Accounting

Capstone course

AB3601 Strategic Management

3 Business Enhancement Courses

BE1401 Business Operations & Processes
BE2601 Management Principles, Skills and Competencies
Choose 1 from the following as Major PE:
- AB9601 Negotiate to Get What You Want: Strategy and Practice
- AB9602 Leadership in Organisations
- AC2302 Company Law & Corporate Governance
- BE2501 International Business Environment (N/A for Marketing students)
- BE2502 Innovation Marketing
- BE3201 Entrepreneurial Finance
- BH3604 Managing Organisational Change
- BL9301 Law of Commercial Transactions
- BL9302 Law of Intellectual Property and New Media
- BL9304 Negotiation & Dispute Resolution

General Education Requirement (GER) Component

GER-Core 7 Courses

GER Prescribed Electives (GER-PEs) 3 Courses

Unrestricted Electives (UE) 4-5 Courses

Communications

AB0601 Communication Management Fundamentals

AB0602 Communication Management Strategies

Digital Literacy

AB0403 Decision Making with Programming & Analytics

Singapore Studies

AB1301 Business Law

NTU Core

HY0001 Ethics and Moral Reasoning

GC0001 Sustainability: Seeing through the haze

ET0001 Enterprise and Innovation

To choose one from each category:

Business & Management

To choose from the menu of NBS Sustainability Courses:
1. AB0301 Legal & Ethical Issues in Sustainability
2. AB0501 Green Marketing
3. AB0502 Managing Sustainability
4. AB0603 Business Gone Green: Managerial Issues
Liberal Arts
Science, Technology & Society - waived in lieu of GER Core: AB0403 Decision Making with Programming & Analytics

University Minor

Ureca

USP

Specialisation Component

Business Specialisation Courses 6-10 Courses

Actuarial Science

Business Analytics

Human Resources Consulting

BA2201 Actuarial Economics
BA2202 Mathematics of Finance
BA2203 Statistical Modelling
BA2204 Models
BA3201 Life Contingencies & Demography
BA3202 Actuarial Statistics
BA3203 Actuarial Aspects of Asset Valuation

Specialisation Core Courses

BC2402 Designing & Developing Databases
BC2406 Analytics I: Visual and Predictive Techniques
BC2407 Analytics II: Advanced Predictive Techniques

Specialisation Prescribed Electives

Choose 3 Specialisation Prescribed Electives:

AC2401 Accounting Information Systems
BT2403 Service Operations Management
BC2408 Supply Chain Analytics
BC3402 Financial Service Processes & Analytics
BC3405 Lean Operations & Analytics
BC3406 Business Analytics Consulting
BC3408 Decision Modelling & Analytics
BC3409 AI in Accounting and Finance

Specialisation Prescribed Electives

Choose 6 Specialisation Prescribed Electives:

BH2601 Strategic HR Management & Consulting
BH2602 Total Rewards Management
BH2603 Talent Sourcing & Acquisition
BH2604 Managing & Consulting through Research
BH3301 Employment Law
BH3601 Talent Development & Management
BH3602 HR Technologies, Metrics & Performance Management
BH3603 Cultural Intelligence at Work

Note: In view of the pre-requisites for various HRC courses, HRC majors have to take BH2601 Strategic HR & Consulting in Year 2 Sem 1 in order to have more options in course selections in Year 3

Marketing

Risk Management & Insurance

Banking & Finance

Specialisation Core Courses

BM2501 Market Behaviour
BM2502 Market Intelligence
BM2503 Market Relationships
BM3507 The Global Marketer - Marketing to the World

Specialisation Prescribed Electives

Choose 2 Specialisation Prescribed Electives

BM2504 Integrated Marketing Communications
BM2505 Channel Value Creation
BM2506 Digital Marketing: Connecting with Customers in Today's World
BM2507 Marketing Analytics
BM3501 Marketing Strategy
BM3506 Strategic Brand Management

Specialisation Core Courses

BR2201 Risk Modelling
BR2202 Insurance Law & Regulations

Specialisation Prescribed Electives

Choose 4 Specialisation Prescribed Electives:

BR2203 Econometrics & Applications
BR2204 Introduction to Financial Risk Management
BR2205 Insurance Practice
BR2206 Life Insurance Underwriting and Claims
BR3201 Insurance Mathematics
BR3202 Risk Theory
BR3203 Principles of Enterprise Risk Management
BR3204 Property and Liability Insurance
BR3205 Marine and Aviation Insurance
BR3206 Alternative Risk Transfer
BR3207 Cyber Risk Management and Insurance
BR3208 Operational Risk Management
BR3209 Computing for Risk Management and Insurance Practices

Main Track

Applied Wealth Management Track

International Trading Track

Platform-based Learning Track

To take 8 specialisation courses comprising 2 Core courses and 6 Prescribed Electives:

Specialisation Core Courses

BF2201 Investments
BF2100 Ethics in the Investment Profession

Choose 6 Specialisation Prescribed Electives:

AC2301 Principles of Taxation
BF2101 Financial Statement Analysis
BF2202 Mathematical Methods of Finance
BF2206 Wealth Management
BF2207 International Finance
BF2209 Derivative Securities
BF2210 Risk Management of Financial Institutions
BF2211 Global Financial Markets
BF2212 Investment Products
BF2213 Introduction to Compliance
BF2214 Financial Technologies in Investment Management
BF3201 Corporate Finance and Strategy
BF3202 Fixed Income Securities
BF3203 Equity Securities
BF3204 Financial Modelling
BF3207 Alternative Investments
BC3402 Financial Service Processes & Analytics

To take 8 specialisation courses comprising 4 Core courses and 4 Prescribed Electives:

Specialisation Core Courses

BF2201 Investments
BF2100 Ethics in the Investment Profession
BF2206 Wealth Management
BF3901 Wealth Management Internship Course

Choose 4 Specialisation Prescribed Electives:

BF2207 International Finance
BF2209 Derivative Securities
BF2210 Risk Management of Financial Institutions
BF2213 Introduction to Compliance
BF3201 Corporate Finance and Strategy
BF3204 Financial Modelling
BF3207 Alternative Investments

To take 10 specialisation courses comprising 8 Core courses and 2 Prescribed Electives:

Specialisation Core Courses

BF2100 Ethics in the Investment Profession
BF2216 Trade Incoterms & Ship Chartering
BF2217 Commodity Markets
BF2302 International Tax and Trading Law
BF3212 Trade, Structured & Supply Chain Finance
BF3213 Enterprise Risk Management in Commodity Markets
BF3214 Commodities Trading
BF4001 Industry Seminar

Choose 2 Specialisation Prescribed Electives:

BF2201 Investments
BF2207 International Finance
BF2209 Derivative Securities
BF2211 Global Financial Markets
BF2213 Introduction to Compliance
BF3201 Corporate Finance & Strategy

To take 8 specialisation courses comprising 6 Core course and 2 Prescribed Electives:

Specialisation Core Courses

BF2100 Ethics in the Investment Profession
BF2201 Investments
BF2211 Global Financial Markets
BF2212 Investment Products
BF3209 Portfolio Management and Analysis
BF3210 Issues in Global Financial Markets

Choose 2 Specialisation Prescribed Electives:

AC2301 Principles of Taxation
BF2101 Financial Statement Analysis
BF2202 Mathematical Methods of Finance
BF2206 Wealth Management
BF2207 International Finance
BF2209 Derivative Securities
BF2210 Risk Management of Financial Institutions
BF2213 Introduction to Compliance
BF3201 Corporate Finance and Strategy
BF3202 Fixed Income Securities
BF3203 Equity Securities
BF3204 Financial Modelling
BF3207 Alternative Investments
BC3402 Financial Service Processes & Analytics

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Curriculum structure for Bachelor of Business

Curriculum structure for Bachelor of Business

Bachelor of Business

Curriculum structure for Bachelor of Business

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