FOUN 1001 ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES

Pre-requisite – No pre-requisite required

This is a cross-disciplinary course. It is designed to provide a firm base for Communication courses and for courses in English for Special Purposes linked with specific disciplines. It helps students to achieve the level of competence in written language that is required of the university student in undergraduate programs. Course content includes Language in the Caribbean, Summarizing, the Formal Essay and Methods of Organizing Information.

Credits: 3

ECON 1003 MATHEMATICS FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES

Pre-requisite – No pre-requisite required

The course is designed to review students’ knowledge of elementary mathematics and to expose them to some of the mathematical concepts and techniques that are required to study mathematical models in economics and the management sciences. Emphasis will be placed on the understanding of important concepts and developing analytical skills rather than just computational skills, the use of algorithms and the manipulation of formulae. Outline: Remainder and Factor Theorems; Graphs of Functions; Systems of Inequalities; Complex Numbers; Theory of Logarithms and Exponential Functions; Matrix Algebra – Matrix Solution of Linear Systems of Equations in two and three variables; Sequences and Series; Limits; Continuity; Concept of Derivative; Rules of Differentiation; Applications of Differentiation – Maxima and Minima; Vertical and Horizontal Asymptote; Sophisticated Graphing.

Credits: 3

SOCI 1002 INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY I

Pre-requisite – No pre-requisite required

This course seeks to expose students to the basic concepts of Sociology applied in the context of a developing country. The works of the classical 182 theorists Durkheim, Marx and Weber are explored in providing an understanding of different models of society. The course also focuses on issues of culture, class, race, social stratification, family, and gender as they relate to Caribbean Societies.

Credits: 3

MGMT 1000 INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS (Information Literacy & IT)

Pre-requisite – No pre-requisite required

This course deals with the basics, major concepts and principles of computers and computing.  Topics covered will include evolution and classification of computers, computer hardware, software and data communications, computer data processing and microcomputers in business.

Credits: 3

FOUN 1101 CARIBBEAN CIVILIZATION

This course is designed to develop an awareness of the main process of cultural development in Caribbean societies, highlighting the factors, the problematic and the creative output that have fed the emergence of Caribbean identities. It also develops a perception of the Caribbean as wider than island nations or linguistic blocs and stimulates students’ interest in, and commitment to Caribbean civilization and to further their self-determination.

Credits: 3

SPAN 0900 INTRODUCTORY SPANISH

Pre-requisite – No pre-requisite required

This course aims to develop the basic communicative skills of students. Students will be equipped with both receptive skills (listening and reading) and productive skills (speaking and writing).

Credits: 3

ECON 1005 INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS

Pre-requisite – No pre-requisite required

This course is designed to teach students various concepts in descriptive and inferential statistics. It is also designed to give students an introduction to research methods. 136 Outline: Describing a data set (graphical methods, measures of central tendency, measures of variability, measures of shape); probability and probability distributions (sample space, probability of events, events composition, conditionality and independence, random variables, expectation for discrete random variables, binomial distribution, normal distribution), sampling distributions (central limit theorem), large-sample estimation (confidence intervals, choosing a sample size); large-sample tests of hypotheses.

Credits: 3

MGMT 1905 FOUNDATIONS OF CARIBBEAN ENVIRONMENT

Pre-requisite – No pre-requisite required

Credits: 3

ACCT1003: INTRODUCTION TO COST & MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING

Pre-requisite – No pre-requisite required

This course sensitizes students to cost and management accounting theory and practice. With emphasis on the concepts and procedures of product costing and strategies that help the manager to perform the functions of planning and decision-making. 

Credits: 3

ECON 1002 – INTRODUCTION TO MACROECONOMICS 

Pre-requisite – No pre-requisite required 

The course examines the composition of the economy’s key macroeconomic variables and the relationships which exist among such variables.  Throughout the course, variables such as national income, economic growth, money demand and money supply and inflation are examined.  In addition, the course would allow students to develop an understanding of how certain macroeconomic variables are measured and how such measurements can be interpreted.  

Credits: 3

MGMT 1001 – INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT 

Pre-requisite – No pre-requisite required 

This course deals with the role, practice, importance and social responsibility of management in contemporary society. The topics to be covered include: overview of the management task and approaches to managing; nature, importance and types of objective; fundamentals of planning; organising for effective performance; the control process; staffing and human resource management; leadership and decision-making; Production and Operations Management; social responsibility of management and international influences on management

Credits: 3