Strategic Management
This course is an introduction to the field of Strategic Management. It covers the key concepts and theories in the field and how they can be applied to real business situations. The main objective is to learn how to formulate and implement successful strategies that grant competitive advantage to a firm, where a strategy is a plan that guides managerial decisions. Theoretical background is founded on the “resource-based view” of the firm and its complementarity to microeconomic theory, game theory and organizational theory.
Credit Units : 3
MICROECONOMICS 1B
The course covers the basic principles of Microeconomics for Commerce Students. The course introduces the students to the economics of the firm and how resource is allocated by individual decision making units. In particular, the course expounds on the basic mircoeconomic theories governing the concepts of demand and supply, production theory, costs, and pricing and output determination.
MICROECONOMICS 1A
The course covers the basic principles of Microeconomics for Commerce Students. The course introduces the students to the economics of the firm and how resource is allocated by individual decision making units. In particular, the course expounds on the basic mircoeconomic theories governing the concepts of demand and supply, production theory, costs, and pricing and output determination.
Business Law and Taxation
This course covers basic principles of law in relation to contracts and obligations. It involves discussion of the nature, sources, kinds and extinguishment of obligations. It will also cover provision on negotiable instruments. The course also provide students with knowledge on income taxation. This will cover the nature, scope and limitations and other basic principles of taxation.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTEGRATION
As the name implies, this is a final semester course that will summarize and integrate the entire entrepreneurship course. The course would invite one to three successful entrepreneurs in the locality to relate their experience and for the students at these sessions to asses and look for the entrepreneurial traits and behaviours that made them successful.
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR BS ENTREP 2B
This course examines the role of the human
resource professional as a strategic partner in managing today’s organizations.
Key functions such as recruitment, selection, development, appraisal,
retention, compensation, and labor relations are examined. Implications of
legal and global environments are appraised and current issues such as
diversity training, sexual harassment policies, and rising benefit costs are
analyzed. Best practices of employers of choice are considered.
Agribusiness
This course introduces the fundamental concepts of agriculture business within the framework of how agriculture industry operates and functions in local and global economy. The course provides an overview of the economic theories associated with the production, consumption and marketing of agricultural products as well as the policies designed to achieve efficiency and overall goals in agriculture.
RIZAL's LIFE and WORKS
This course covers the life and works of Jose Rizal, the Philippine National Hero. Among the topics covered are Rizal's biography and his writings, particularly his most famous Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, his essays and various correspondences
ETHICS (2A & 2B)
This course is a CHED guided module that deals with the PRINCIPLES OF ETHICAL BEHAVIOR IN MODERN SOCIETY
AT THE LEVEL OF THE PERSON, SOCIETY AND INTERACTION WITH THE ENVIRONMENT AND
OTHER SHARED RESOURCES. Ethics, is a body of reasoning
that tackles the capability of an individual or entity to discern from what is
morally right and wrong. The course aims to help and guide future professionals
to make just and moral decision that will enable them to function at a level of
changing community or society.
At the end of this course, the students should be able to:
· Understand the basic principle of ethics that involves solving moral dilemmas of individuality and society
· Integrate ethical standards applicable to their chosen career path or program
· Determine civic acceptable acts that tends to the benefit of their competence and society
· Enhance their capability to distinguish between moral & non-moral standards;
· And be able to guide with their moral obligations as individual, part of the society, & contributors of environment