General Education

This course is a 3-unit course for second year students that will be taken for 18 weeks or 54 hours for lecture course. This course aims to provide students the opportunity to observe, participate in, or otherwise experience works of art in order to appreciate their role and purpose in life. Students will be exposed to various works of art, ranging from the classical art forms to modern art installations, performance art, indie films, enhanced e-books, and multimedia aesthetics. These works of art will be examined from an aesthetic point of view and also as reflections or critiques of the societies that produced them. The course will thus build upon and hone the skill of understanding, critical appreciation, and expression of one’s views. At the end of the course, the students must be able to approach a work of art from a perspective informed by the history and tradition of art and the social milieu in which it was produced as well as the perspective of aesthetics. Such an approach would require a written appraisal of the meaning and value of the works of art taken up in class and possible some within the immediate vicinity of the student’s experience. The written essays must clearly demonstrate not only understanding and appreciation of a specified work of art, but also a sense of the work’s important in life, culture, and history.

The course deals with interactions between science and technology and social, cultural, political, and economic contexts that shape and are shaped by them.                   

This interdisciplinary course engages students to confront the realities brought about by science and technology in society. Such realities pervade the personal, the public, and the global aspects of our living and are integral to human development. Scientific knowledge and technological development happen in the context of society with all its socio-political, cultural, economic, and philosophical underpinnings at play. This course seeks to instill reflective knowledge in the students that they are able to live the good life and display ethical decision making in the face of scientific and technological advancement.

The goal of this course is to develop the ability to conduct empirical research on (1) the role of accounting information in the firm (i.e., contracting and corporate governance, (2) how managers choose to exercise their discretion to implement their firms’ financial accounting, reporting, and disclosure strategies. In doing so, we will develop an understanding of the economic, finance, and accounting theory that underlies empirical accounting research. As we go through each study in this class, we will focus on identifying and understanding three critical elements of each study: (1) the research question, (2) the motivation, and (3) the research design. An author must describe the incremental contribution to the literature to motivate his paper. Therefore, we will also build an understanding of the major results in the literature and evaluate the strength and weakness of each study.

This course introduces accountants to a rewarding vocation of teaching. It focuses on building a foundation for planning, teaching, assessment based on outcome-based approach, it considers methods and approaches to teaching accounting, business and allied courses.

 How do you define art? For many people, art is a tangible thing: a painting, sculpture, photograph, dance, poem or play. Art is uniquely human and tied directly to culture. As an expressive medium, it allows us to experience wide ranges of emotion, between joy or sorrow, or confusion and clarity. It gives voice to ideas and feelings, connects us to the past, reflects the present, and anticipates the future. In this module, let us examine how art is defined and the different ways it functions in societies and cultures.

Purposive Communication is a three-unit course that develops students’ communicative competence and enhances their cultural and intercultural awareness through multimodal tasks that provide them opportunities for communicating effectively and appropriately to a multicultural audience in a local or global context. It equips students with tools for critical evaluation of a variety of texts and focuses on the power of language and the impact of images to emphasize the importance of conveying messages responsibly. The knowledge, skills, and insights that students gain from this course may be used in their other academic endeavors, their chosen disciplines, and their future careers as they compose and produce relevant oral, written, audio-visual and/or web-based output for various purposes.

The course deals with the nature of identity, as well as the factors and forces that affects the development and maintenance of personal identity.

The course is intended to facilitate the exploration of the issues and concerns regarding self and identity to arrive at a better understanding of one’s self. It strives to meet its goal by stressing the integration of the personal with the academic – contextualizing matters discussed in the classroom and in the everyday experiences of students –making for better learning, generating an new appreciation for the learning process, and developing a more critical and reflective attitude while enabling them to manage and improve their selves to attain a better quality of life.