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The course is designed to improve students’ Academic English skills by integrating reading and public speaking skills to prepare the students entering the University for studying through the medium of English. Along with strengthening students’ reading skills e.g., skimming, scanning, and so on, the module will enrich their vocabulary by reading about a variety of adapted and authentic texts in group, pair, and individual works. After reading on some intriguing topics, students will also improve oral communication skills for academic interactions through extensive conversational practices as a reflection on reading. Reflective oral practices include forming and communicating opinions by discussing contemporary issues and developing formal and informal oral informative and persuasive presentations after reading a number of texts on particular topics and outlining them.
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The course intends to acquaint students with an overall introduction to the fundamental concepts and views of Social Sciences particularly Sociology and its relationship with other Social Science fields. It offers the foundational Sociological theories and examines some major social issues and problems in contemporary society with a special focus on Bangladesh. In addition to the theories, topics such as social interaction, family, culture, social inequality, gender, crime, and deviance are also covered in this course. The course also aims to develop the ability to identify, analyze, and apply sociological perspectives to current social problems and everyday life to better understand how larger society affects individual behavior and choices.
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This course aims to familiarize students with the usage of computers as business and personal tools, office application software, information systems relating to the business environment, and business-oriented utilization of the Internet. Practical business computer applications will emphasize word processing, spreadsheets, presentation software, and a few web applications to make students familiar with the basic principles of computer systems, usage of internet business, and E-commerce, and learn the use of internal hardware, operating system, and application software.
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This course will help the students cover some basic key mathematical topics widely used in business, such as real numbers, linear equations, exponential and logarithmic functions, and their applications in business, economics, and finance. As well as giving the students these topics the course focuses on how to interpret and solve business-related word problems and to develop simple mathematical models. The course will provide step-by-step guidance through sample problems and solutions related to business and economics.
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The course will develop students’ knowledge of Political & Cultural traits, Heritage, and Socio-economic conditions in Bangladesh. It will focus on the language and people of Bangladesh, its historical background, the emergence of Bangladesh as a new nation, its social structure, arts and literature, religious philosophies, archaeological evidence of the cultural heritage, geography, politics, and the governance of Bangladesh.
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The course is an introduction to the market system. It is designed to provide a strong foundation of microeconomic principles. The course will cover scarcity and choices, basic demand and supply analysis, theory of consumer choice, elasticity of demand and supply, short and long-run cost curves, price and output determination under different market structures.
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The course is designed to give students an orientation to academic writing and provide scope for the adequate practice of the skill. The students will actively participate in task-based class activities both individually and in groups and get practical exposure of academic writing practices required for tertiary level education. Selected units from the course book have built-in activities that are designed specifically to help students develop and organize ideas, create, and finalize drafts, and be conscious about academic writing ethics.
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This course provides an opportunity to study and practice the forms of mathematics that students will need for a successful professional career and to receive the fundamental concept of Mathematics. Topics include matrix: addition, subtraction, types of matrices, application problem, calculus: differential and integral. The course will meet the students’ need for all types of conceptual, and analytical skills for current professional domains. It will help students to analyze various economic and business analyses.
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This course is designed to equip students with basic principles, concepts, and techniques in doing macroeconomic analysis. The main goal is to help students understand the important areas of macroeconomics like the economy's overall performance, with a focus on determining specific factors like national income, unemployment, inflation, and interest rate levels. Government fiscal and monetary policies, as well as other pertinent topics, will be covered to aid them in making day-to-day business decisions.
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Regardless of the area of study, computer science is all about using computers to solve issues. Any real-world issue, or perhaps even those from the abstract world, can give rise to the issues we are trying to solve. The foundation of computer science is computer programming. This stage of software development, application development, and software engineering involves turning concepts and theories into practical, implementable solutions. Introduction to programming is the basic course of programming where the students are taught basic programming structures. The course examines programming syntax and knowledge about problem-solving using programming.
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The course will explore the basic tenets of our rich and varied Political, geographical, and historical inheritance of Bangladesh. It will add value to the political history of the country for a better understanding of the glorious struggle and tradition. Learners would be applying the holistic knowledge of the country in the decision-making in professional life and to cope with the local community and values in future perspectives of life and career.
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This course is an introduction to the economics of agriculture and food markets. The goal is to provide the student with an understanding of the basic theoretical tools employed by economists in the analysis of agricultural price determination and discovery. The basics of supply and demand will be reviewed and expanded upon. This course tries to provide an overview of agricultural economics, through a focus on the market theory of agricultural commodities and agricultural development theories. It will provide the basic theoretical framework for discussing agricultural policies of developing countries, as well as developed countries. Types of markets and their structure will be examined as well as the implications they have for participants. The course aims to review the knowledge of basic economics and perform its application to agricultural economics to solve the problems of rural economics.
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Public Economics is the field of economics that analyzes government taxation and spending policies. It focuses on the microeconomic functions of government, the way government affects the allocation of resources and the distribution of income. Topics include government activities, externalities, public goods, fiscal deficits, and public debt, principles of taxation, incidence and effects of taxation, and optimal taxation.
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This course aims to familiarize the students with the conceptual understanding of microeconomic theories and applications in business and economy. Since a market economy is dependent on the price system to guide in decisions related to the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Microeconomic theory describes the economic behavior and decisions made by individual economic agents. These behaviors affect relative prices that act as signals in a market economy to guide production and consumption decisions.
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This course focuses on the role of public policy in economic development and the political context in which policy decisions are taken. The course provides an overview of development theories and alternative theories of why and how development takes place in each society or fails to do so. It explores the causes of why same-path-for-all development policies did not and will not bring any benefits to the different countries with diverse economic endowments.
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This course is designed to equip students with basic principles, concepts, and techniques for doing mathematical economic analysis. My goal is to help you understand the way economists approach problems and at the end of this course, you will own a set of skills that will never become obsolete. The analysis to be covered in this course is applicable to various decision-making problems in economics, business, and many other areas.
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The purpose of the course is to give students an overview of the process of development of economic thought from Antiquity till the second half of the 20th century. Special attention shall be paid to the nature of the problems that economists of all times faced and tried to solve. Understanding of continuity and changes in the problem-solving activity of economists may contribute to a better grasp of the logic of the evolution of economics as a discipline. Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to distinguish between the main schools and trends in the history of economic thought and to understand the analytical foundations of the approaches in the economics of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Development is a dynamic process of economic encroachment, which depends on the structural formation and changes of the different sectors of the economy. It is extensively needed to comprehend the importance and contribution of the different sectors in the growth process of a country. This course will provide a wide range of knowledge about the economic structure of Bangladesh and the changing patterns of the economy in different time periods. The problems and prospects of the sectors will be reviewed through updated literature. This will ultimately address the national issues of economic progression. Hence, the course will help students to properly understand and critically evaluate the agriculture sector, industry sector, state of infrastructure, prevailing poverty situation, consequences of unemployment, and trade pattern and policy along with other contemporary issues in the arena of Bangladesh economy.
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The course is designed to introduce statistical tools used extensively in the business decision-making process. Statistical tools aim to provide some useful insights to the decision-maker. It gives the idea of how decision theory is statistics is concerned with identifying the uncertainties and other issues relevant to each decision and resulting optimal decision. It will help economists to justify decisions based on data. This course provides students with a basic understanding of the role of statistics in the gathering of data, the creation of information, and its use in decision-making. Students will learn methods for summarizing data, both numerically and graphically, and for drawing conclusions from sample data. Statistical analyses will be carried out using the computer and statistical software.
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The course is an introduction to the banking and financial system. It is designed to provide a strong foundation of Money and how it flows to different parties and generates income. The course will cover money, banking & finance, and all about the function & structure of financial markets, interest rates and the distinction between interest rates and returns, basic banking and general principles of bank management, the money supply model, and the money multiplier, the IS-LM Model.
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This is an intermediate-level course in macroeconomics. The goal of the course is to give students a firm foundation in intermediate macroeconomics and to prepare them to use macroeconomic analysis to study economic problems. Topics include the determination and distribution of output in the long run; the measurement problems, and determinants of unemployment and inflation in the long run; and the role of capital accumulation, population growth, and technology in growth theory.
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This course provides a theoretical and empirical discussion of labor markets. The labor relations and the dynamics of the labor market are discussed in considerable detail. The purpose of this course is to promote the growth of independent research interests in labor economics and related areas. Topics considered will include labor supply and the determinants of hours of work, migration, investments in human capital, labor demand, determination of wages and employment, discrimination, internal labor markets, trade unions, and macroeconomic issues related to wages and employment.
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Health economics is the study of how resources are allocated to and within the health economy. The course examines the demand for health and health care, the nature of health care as a commodity and the behavior and organization of health care providers, health care financing and insurance, health care funding, innovation in health care (pharmaceuticals), methods for evaluating health care programs and interventions, and selected other topics. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to apply the tools and techniques of economics in the health sector. The students will be able to discuss historical trends that have led to the increasing use of economic evaluation being applied to the healthcare system. It will help students to discuss present-day market realities that give increasing importance to health economics research.
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This course aims to prepare students with essential knowledge of basic international trade theories and to equip them with the necessary quantitative skills with which students will be able to empirically identify important factors determining trade and evaluate various trade policies. Ultimately, students will be able to connect themselves with the international trade system, develop confidence and the ability to analyze international economic issues by applying relevant theories, form logical reasoning and critiques on world trade affairs and policies, and offer creative and innovative solutions to trade conflicts in the ever-changing global economy.
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This course is designed to provide a wider view of economic philosophy. It includes topics related to economic debates. Understanding different types of economic systems and the outcome of each economic system are at the core of the debate. Most importantly, it emphasizes various types of economic policies and the debate related to them.
CORE COURSES: MATHEMATICS (18 CREDITS)
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One of the most significant and contentious contemporary policy topics is the environment and sustainable economic development. This course will cover the interdependencies between the environment and the economy. It will offer underlying causes of environmental issues, why unregulated markets can occasionally fail in this setting, and various economic solutions for these issues, such as laws, taxes, subsidies, and pollution permit trading schemes. This course aims to provide students with sound knowledge and understanding of the major basic results of environmental economics, covering a wide range of subjects from the economics of pollution control, the economics of natural resource use, and sustainable development to international environmental problems, including climate change. Students will also learn about the costs and advantages of environmental protection. Students who complete the course will be prepared with the skills needed to participate in the debate over environmental policy from an economic standpoint and its impact on sustainable development.
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This course is an introduction to economic analysis, with application to decision-making in business, and the effects of policy on the broader economic environment in which business decisions must be made.
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The purpose of this course is to introduce econometric theories. It covers the basic tools of estimation and inference in the context of the linear regression model and deals with various techniques of estimation. The course emphasizes understanding how evidence of economic theories is found.
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The course examines monetary policy in a closed economy, considering a few models that allow real effects of monetary policy, ranging from new-Classical to Keynesian. Specific models will be introduced and solved, allowing students to see exactly how these models work and what differentiates one from another. It then studies Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models which brings together insights from Real Business Cycle Models and Keynesian macroeconomics.
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Game theory is a way of thinking about strategic situations. One aim of the course is to teach you some strategic considerations to take into account when making your own choices. A second aim is to predict how other people or organizations behave when they are in strategic settings. We will see that these aims are closely related. We will learn new concepts, methods, and terminology. A third aim is to apply these tools to settings from economics and other disciplines.
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This course will provide students with a clear overview to the principles and methods of behavioral economics. Behavioral economics looks at how people are more social, more impulsive, less proficient at using information, and more susceptible to psychological biases than traditional economic models assume. This course will also examine key deviations and their impact on individuals, businesses, and politics. Students will get an understanding of how behavioral principles have been applied to economic problems both in microeconomics and macroeconomics.
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In this course, Big Data and Business Decision, students will learn the traditional curriculum in economics, but also learn how to translate these theories into empirical questions that can be studied using real-life data. Specifically, students learn data analytic and data science techniques to evaluate the effectiveness of economic policy, understand economic behavior, predict and classify economic phenomena and describe and analyze networks of relationships between economic agents, firms, institutions, and society.
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Advanced Microeconomics is the study of individual decision-making by consumers, firms, and governments, and the institutions that support such decision-making. This course will focus on how to construct economic models using mathematical tools. The primary objective of these models is to provide structures to support economic reasoning. This course will combine the economic institution obtained in the principles and intermediate microeconomics courses with the rigor of optimization techniques from mathematics. It also studies the equilibrium in the presence of externalities or public goods and information asymmetry. At the conclusion of this course, students should have the tools to set up, solve, and interpret economic models in various institutional situations.
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This course takes an economic approach towards international energy markets. We will address the fundamentals and applications of models to understand markets for oil, gas, coal, electricity, and renewable energy resources. Models, modeling techniques, and issues included are supply and demand, market structure, futures markets, environmental issues, energy policy, energy regulation, and energy conservation. We will gain an introduction to data analysis, regression, economic forecasting, game theory, and optimization. We will also support our course with current articles and data sets.
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The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the theory and application of econometric methods. It covers the basic tools of estimation and inference in the context of the linear regression model and deals with various techniques of estimation. The course emphasizes the intuitive understanding and practical application of these basic tools of regression analysis, as distinct from their formal theoretical development. In addition, econometric software will be taught in this course to apply econometric techniques in research for both cross-sectional and time series econometrics.
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This course will provide an opportunity for students to establish or advance their understanding of research through critical exploration of research language, ethics, and approaches. The course introduces the language of research, ethical principles and challenges, and the elements of the research process within quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches. Each student will be exposed to and given a set of conceptual tools & techniques that will allow them to understand the nature of scientific methods as they apply to business. Emphasis will be given to research design, problem formulation, developing data collecting instruments; conducting a research project, and application of research to special fields will be stressed. Students will be able to use these theoretical underpinnings to begin to critically review literature relevant to their field or interests and determine how research findings are useful in forming their understanding of their work, and social, local, and global environment.
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This course is intended to help students to understand important macroeconomic issues such as economic growth, consumption, investment, and unemployment at an advanced level. It also introduces students to important mathematical techniques (such as dynamical systems, and dynamic programming), which are commonly used in research.
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Development is a dynamic process of economic encroachment, which depends on the structural formation and changes of the different sectors of the economy. This course will provide students with an opportunity to explore contemporary economic issues, debates, and policy. It will assist in developing in students an ability to: identify and apply the appropriate economic approaches to explain real-world economic issues; to be able to engage in both written and oral form with the critical analysis of current economic issues; to be able to understand, interpret and write journalistic discussions of economic issues and to be able to contribute to the policy debate concerning the contemporary issues under investigation.
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The purpose of this course is to guide students to understand the importance of the theories, methods, and applications of monitoring and evaluation for high-impact social mission organizations, with special emphasis on organizations that practice social entrepreneurship economics. Students will be able to design projects that need continuous tracking in addition to periodic assessments in order to have effective and efficient outcomes of the project. Consequently, this course will also equip students with advanced Project Monitoring and evaluation skills including developing an appreciation of the components of an effective monitoring & evaluation plan, data collection methods, tools, ethical considerations in data collection, statistical analysis, processing, storage, sharing and feedback mechanisms, risk management, and reporting to enhance your capacity of managing the project effectively and resourcefully to deliver on the expected intervention outcomes. Government fiscal and monetary policies and other relevant topics will be discussed in light of the day-to-day decision-making process in this course as well.
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This course focuses on the concept of poverty, measures of poverty, policies on inequality and development, and features of real-world activities. The course offers a thorough examination of poverty metrics and the applicability of strategies from the viewpoints of emerging nations. After that, the course tries to critically examine current concerns of poverty and its connections to development, participation, female empowerment, and the role of the development practitioner. The format of the course will be seminar-based, with frequent in-class discussions and several group activities.
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This course is designed to prepare the graduating students for jobs and a professional environment that will give them a competitive edge over others. This course is not only designed to groom the students but also to guide them to make appropriate decisions. As the course uses multiple techniques, the students will become more equipped to seek and avail the most suitable opportunities. As well as gaining outlook, the students will get special learning results, gain skills, and improve their existing skill sets via assessments & activities tailored to this non-credit course. A well-established course description is enforced to create a cohesive learning outcome throughout.
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This course is designed for advanced students in economics to engage with current research, methodological advancements, arranging seminars, developing report writing, and theoretical debates in the field of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Students will learn to critically analyze recent papers, present their own research/report, and discuss emerging trends and challenges in economics.
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The basic theory of investments in education (human capital theory); disentangling the return to education from the return to innate ability; the role of education in individual mobility and national economic growth; the association between education and individual earnings and reasons why that relationship has changed over time; the role of early childhood education; the main approaches to school reform (money, choice, educational standards, and teacher selection/training); and issues in higher education as well as higher education policy. We will also discuss the effectiveness of teaching methods.
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Over the last decades, the economic approach to the study of law has become an important part of economic dialog. This course will familiarize students with the elements of economics most helpful in legal analysis and will explore the basic elements of several substantive areas of law, such as property, torts, contracts, and criminal law from an economic perspective. In addition, this course concentrates on the economic analysis of law by asking whether economic reasoning can contribute to a better understanding of the legal system and the integration process. It looks at the efficiency and inefficiency of laws, regulations, and court decisions in all legal fields. In this course, special attention will be given to accident law, product liability, and insurance by asking the question of how the law can contribute to reaching a minimization of the total sum of accident costs. Criteria for government regulation will be advanced and differences between tort liability and regulation will be discussed with respect to the example of environmental pollution. Other topics include the economics of contract law, the economics of crime, intellectual property rights, and other topics such as the subsidiarity principle, insurance markets, and competition law.
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This course introduces students to the field of Industrial Economics and studies why and how firms and industries behave and interact with each other. Understanding firms' behavior is relevant not only to the firms but also to the governments that design industrial policies to favor consumers without decreasing firms' efficiency.
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Globalization is generally understood as the lessening of the barriers to and the strengthening of the exchange of economic, political, and cultural relations across different countries of the world. In this course, the different aspects, and dimensions of globalization (economic and political) will be presented, analyzed, and discussed. This course will help students to trace the ways in which trends in international trade, production, and finance contribute to the development of a globalizing economy. In particular, the course is aimed at providing the students with the conceptual and analytical tools necessary to comprehend the different ‘faces’ that globalization has and how they affect domestic and international politics and decisions.
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The field of urban economics introduces space into economic models and studies the location of economic activities. This course is an introduction to the economics of cities, providing students with a theoretical understanding of how residents, workers, developers, and government interact to shape the cities and urban setups around us. In this course, students will learn the economics of cities and urban problems by understanding the effects of geographic location on the decisions of individuals and firms around different regions. The importance of location in everyday choices is easily assessed from our day-to-day lives, yet traditional microeconomic models do not usually account for geographic factors. This course will also focus on many specific urban economic problems such as firm location, crime, transportation, housing, education, and local government economics.
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Economics of Microcredit is a field that has gained recognition worldwide due to its contribution to social and economic development, particularly in poverty reduction. The course aims to enlighten a broad understanding of the major issues in microfinance practices and management. Future development hinges to a large extent on the effective harnessing of the potential in the informal sector in our economies. Given the sizeable number of people engaged in SMEs in Bangladesh and other developing nations who lack access to financial services, a thorough understanding of the sustainability and growth of microcredit institutions is relevant to the growth of those developing countries. Thus, this course will help students to identify, explain, and discuss the role of microfinance institutions in socio-economic development, review how these institutions are regulated, and unravel some of the myths and disagreements that have hindered their operations for a few decades with a view to unveiling their potentials for growth and development.
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This course is an introduction to the actions people take that are determined by potential welfare gains. Indeed, the gains from trade are what bring buyers and sellers together in markets. Unfortunately, however, not all private actions raise social welfare when markets are subject to taxes of other distortions. This course obtains general equilibrium shadow (or social) prices to identify welfare-improving policy changes in these circumstances.
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Macroeconomics was developed in, and for, industrialized countries. Both theory and policy were concerned with how monetary and fiscal policy should be used in industrialized economies to attain full employment, control inflation, and stabilize economic activity. Developing countries often use this corpus of knowledge, with its competing schools of thought, without any significant modification. But it’s by no means clear that applying these theories to developing countries is either justified or appropriate. This course intends to go inside the macroeconomic variable which is important for the progress of developing countries.
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This course covers various aspects of demography, including population issues, concepts, theory, and practices. It provides a broad overview of numerous elements of population development and transition, including changes in health and mortality, fertility, migration, and age structure from a sociological, economic, and geographical standpoint. This course also investigates the connections between population and development and their potential consequences including their contemporary implications, environmental effects, and population policies.
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This course is intended to teach the Chinese Language (汉语) to beginners. In choosing the dialect, Standard Mandarin (官话) has been prioritized due to its popularity and widespread use. As an elementary course, this course aims to introduce the Chinese Language used in China in the basic contexts of daily life such as introducing oneself, eating and dining, asking for road directions, shopping, discussing one’s studies, and campus life. This course mainly focuses on spoken Chinese so that students can communicate with Chinese nationals without a translator. Reading and comprehending Chinese texts have also been emphasized while writing and composing texts using Chinese characters have been kept to the minimum.
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This is an elementary course in the French Language. French is the second most widely learned foreign language after English and the fifth most widely spoken language in the world. The rationale of this course is to enable students to use French at the elementary level. It is tailored for using French at the elementary level of proficiency for effective communication in everyday life and different situations. According to modern pedagogy, emphasis is given to a function-based communicative approach to facilitate the four skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing). Students develop their vocabulary, grammar, structural accuracy, pronunciation, oral fluency, and overall acquisition through different activities, pair work, group work, role play, and exercises.