This course intends to train students studying in a business-related discipline, such as business, management, economics, accounting, and finance, their skills of academic English. Students learn skills in reading articles and listening to lectures or talks, writing essays, and discussing and giving presentations on business-related topics. Students will also learn useful vocabulary in business and economics.
01006526
Logic and Critical Thinking
3 (3-0-6)
Prerequisite: None
This course intends to train students skills in analyzing and evaluating arguments, and in constructing good arguments. Students will be taught and trained to recognize arguments in real life, identify different modes of reasoning, including deduction and induction, notice common fallacies, and make use of symbolic logic, including propositional logic and predicate logic, and related logical tools and techniques for analyzing and evaluating arguments.
01006510
Introduction to Economics
3 (3-0-6)
Prerequisite: None
This course gives an overview of economics, covering basic concepts and theories of microeconomics and macroeconomics. Topics in microeconomics studied include demand and supply, price elasticities, consumer behavior theory, production and cost theory, and perfect and imperfect competitions. Macroeconomics topics studied include aggregate demand and supply, macroeconomic data (e.g. gross domestic product, national income, etc.), management of economic growth, inflation problems, unemployment problems, money and banking systems, fiscal and monetary policy, taxation, international trades, and exchange rates.
01006806
Introduction to Programming
3 (2-2-5)
Prerequisite: None
This course is an introduction to computer programming using Python programming language. Topics covered include basics of structural programming, input and output, basics of object-oriented programming, basic data structures, exception handling, testing and debugging, and good coding style.
01006715
Linear Algebra
3 (3-0-6)
Prerequisite: None
Matrices and system of linear equations; Solving system of linear equations; Vector spaces and subspaces; Orthogonality; Determinants; Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors; Linear transformation
01006710
Introduction to Calculus
3 (3-0-6)
Prerequisite: None
Functions, limits, continuity and their applications, Mathematical induction, Introduction to derivative, Differentiation, Applications of derivative, Definite integrals, Antiderivative integration, Application of definite integral, Indeterminate
forms, Improper integrals, Numerical integration, Sequences and series of numbers, Taylor series expansions of elementary functions
