KMU International School General Education 1. Writing & Critical Reasoning As a modern global intellectual, the student fosters his or her writing ability and capability of expression so that he or she can express accurately and appropriately logical and creative thought, and abundant emotion through writing. 2. Intensive Reading The course has objective of students increasing English reading speed and comprehension, improving English vocabulary, becoming acquainted with some classic English literature, and understanding some of the ideological issues explored in these books. 3. Contemporary Presentation The course aims to help students handle with confidence presentation, discuss topic with interest and ease, use English on all levels important to topic, and further become an English speaking professional presenter. Elective Course 1. Seminar in Special Topics This course has the objective to induce student's intellectual curiosity and activate their relationship through the face to face study method. It will also help to prepare the students for graduate courses. Different topics of social studies and different methods such as seminar, research, workshop, field study will be used as announced by the professor. Pre-requisite Course 1. Introduction to Statistics This course provides basic concepts and theories of statistics so that students can think and analyze business phenomena in a statistical way. 2. Principles of Economics The course intends to help students basic structures of economic phenomena and establish foundation for doing further in-depth research on economics. In particular, the course has focus on set-up, development, and applications of economic models. 3. Principles of Business Administration The course deals with business administration and related concepts under a free capital economic system. In a more details, in addition to business environments, has the course focus on planning, implementation, control of management activities, and also individual and organizational behavior and organizational structure. 4. Business Software Practice The course provides students with practical training of various PC applications for business such an OA suites and other productivity tools. It focuses on 'managerial applications' of the software packages rather that 'techniques' of them. With this course, the students can improve
their ability to create high-quality reports or presentation materials used in schools or offices. 5. Financial Management Financial Management is a basic course to understand the goal and concept of investment and financing. In this course, students study time value of money, valuation theories for equity and fixed income securities, and capital budgeting theories. They also learn many theories on financial management such as portfolio theory, capital asset pricing theories, the cost of capitals, capital structure theory and dividend theory. 6. Production Management This course is designed to address key operational and logistical issues in service and manufacturing organizations that have strategic as well as tactical implications. The specific topics include role of operations management, interdependence with other key functional areas, design of effective operating systems, analytical tools appropriate for operating systems, operations management policies and techniques. 7. Principles of Accounting Accounting is an introduction to financial and managerial accounting. The course will focus on the content, interpretation, and uses of accounting information from financial statements as well as other accounting information used for planning and control by a business entity. Major 1 - International Business 1. Analysis of Statistical Data The course provides students with the ability to analyze statistical data with high accuracy and to make meaningful summary. 2. Principles of Marketing The objective of this course is to introduce students to the concepts, analyses, and activities that comprise marketing management, and to provide examples in assessing and solving marketing problems. Topics include marketing strategy, customer behavior, segmentation, market research, product management, pricing, promotion, channels of distribution, sales force management and competitive analysis. 3. Individuals in Organizations Modern people are organizational individuals. The course analyzes individual activities and thinking process as organizational individuals on both individual and organizational dimensions. On the individual dimension, the course covers attitude, learning, stress, and motivation. On organizational dimension, the course covers communication, group conflict, decision making, and leadership. The course offers basic understanding and perspectives of organizational phenomena that are required for organizational individuals. 4. International Management This course provides students with knowledge about theories of international business, in particular, related to issues including characteristics and scope of international business, political risk analysis, global business strategy, etc. 5. Management Information Systems
This course examines the significance and evolution of the MIS filed as an academic discipline, Students also learn various subjects regarding MIS such as the concepts and structures, planning, development, operation, evaluation, and control of information systems. 6. Investments In this course, students learn about theoretical and practical contents about investment such as general organizations of capital market and their functions, investors' psychological behaviors, and companies' investment policies. 7. Financial Accounting This course provides students with a thorough understanding of the theoretical foundations underlying financial reporting; revenue recognition, and the matching of expenses; financial statement presentation; and accounting for assets. 8. Management Accounting In this course, students learn about theoretical and practical issues related to accounting information for planning, budgeting, standard costing, performance evaluation, etc. 9. Personnel Management This course provides students with general knowledge about human resource management through theories and case studies. 10. Marketing Research In this course, students learn about how to scientifically collect, modify, process, store, and distribute marketing information. 11. Consumer Behavior & Promotion In this course, students learn about theoretical and practical contents about consumer behaviors. This course also applies consumer behaviorism to promotion and provides knowledge about goals of promotion, its concept, message strategy, media strategy, performance measurement. 12. International Financial Market Analysis In this course, students, in the perspective of finance, learn about structure and characteristics of direct and indirect financing markets related to financing and understand about theory and practices related to sources and methods to finance various funds. 13. Marketing Management As a subsequent course to the Principles of Marketing, the course extends basic marketing concepts to theories and practices of marketing environment, and strategic marketing issues related to organizations. 14. Futures & Option This course provides students with knowledge about the basic concepts of option and future, investment strategy, and price determination model, and students learn about how to make a portfolio with option and future through computer simulation games. 15. Marketing Channels In this course, students learn about new techniques to analyze functions of marketing
channels and to design channels. 16. Analysis of Management In this course, students learn about how to analyze accounting information for supporting decision-making on management and investment. IN particular, this course focuses on theories and practices for evaluation financial liquidity, profitability, productivity. 17. Management Internship I In the courses, students participate in business process of a company and learn the following. - Understanding main corporate business tasks - Understanding corporate business functions required in the related tasks 18. Business Ethics In this course, students learn about theories about business ethics and relevant accounting theories and techniques. 19. International Financial Management This course aims at educating students about theories and application techniques of international financial activities. 20. Marketing Strategy In this course, students learn about market-focused marketing strategy that is established based on management strategy. 21. Service Marketing The content of this course includes frameworks for customer focused management, and strategies for increasing customer satisfaction and retention through service. In addition to standard marketing topics, this course introduces students to entirely new topics that include management and measurement of service quality, service recovery, customer co-production through integration of marketing with disciplines such as operations and human resources. 22. Financial Institutions In this course, students learn about roles and functions of financial institutes, pricing and economic function of financial markets. 23. Marketing Seminar This course is an undergraduate level course for upper division students that deal with current marketing issues. As such, it is designed to provide you with an overview and appreciation of marketing theories and practices, While the primary aim is to familiarize you with marketing concepts and issues, the course is also designed to make you familiar with expressing and discussing in English in a group. 24. Entrepreneurship & Venture Business This course covers theoretical and practical issue related to entrepreneurship and venture companies. 25. Corporate Financial Strategy This course covers company's finance-related strategies such as financing strategy, investment strategy, and strategy to fit with international money markets, M & A strategy, and LBO strategy.
26. Management Internship II In the courses, students participate in business process of a company and learn about understanding detailed functions of corporate business supporting requirements of tasks. Major 2 - Information Technology 1. Analysis of Statistical Data The course provides students with the ability to analyze statistical data with high accuracy and to make meaningful summary. 2. Financial Engineering with Stochastic Calculus I The course provides an introduction to continuous-time models of financial engineering and the mathematical tools behind them. To be specific, it develops a practical knowledge of stochastic calculus to apply to the pricing and hedging of derivative securities in complete financial markets. 3. Optimization This course provides optimization techniques such as simulated annealing, genetic algorithms for various problems encountered in information technology and other related areas. This course also provides mathematical background to understand the performance of these optimization technologies. 4. Entrepreneurship for Engineers This course covers theoretical and practical issue related to entrepreneurship for Engineers. 5. Java Programming This course is an introduction to programming using Java. The course also covers the fundamentals of object-oriented programming utilizing the Java programming language for general purpose programs. Topics include the Java programming environment, fundamental programming structures in Java, objects and classes, inheritance, interfaces and inner classes, graphics programming, event handling, user interface components with Swing, applet programming, exception and debugging, and streams and files. 6. Introduction to Information System Introduction to the concept of the computer system and its applications including C computer programming language. Topics include computer hardware and software, computer networks and data communication, the Internet and multimedia, the organization and characteristics of modern digital computers, the role of operating systems and application software, wireless communications, and the understanding of multimedia and problem solving technology. In C language, topics include functions, array, string, structure, pointer, and file input/output. 7. Financial Engineering with Stochastic Calculus II This course presents no-arbitrage theories of complete markets, including models for equities, foreign exchange, and fixed-income securities, in relation to the main problems of financial engineering: pricing and hedging of derivative securities, portfolio optimization, and risk management. 8. Introduction to Financial Engineering
Financial Engineering provides methods to tackle the requirement of customizing answers for each type of client. Using as building blocks the tools of risk management, derivatives product structuring, statistics and financial institutions, this course will develop a framework for designing and implementing tailor made instruments and solutions through an exciting creative process. 9. Electronic Mathematics This course covers the fundamentals of mathematics for electrical engineering such as Taylor polynomial and differential equation. In addition, both Laplace transform and Fourier transform are covered as the tools of a frequency domain analysis, and the transform is dealt in terms of a digital signal processing. 10. Simulation Modeling and Analysis This course includes topics of event scheduling, process interaction, and continuous modeling techniques. Probability and statistics related to simulation parameters including run length, inference, design of experiments, variance reduction, and stopping rules are also provided. Furthermore, the course presents different aspects of simulation languages. 11. Applied Systems Engineering This course provides methodologies and strategies to develop applied systems using the core knowledge of information technology. It also provides several real life examples such as mobile trading systems. 12. Decision Making and System Theory This course provides the mathematical background of decision making process. Topics include Nash equilibrium, Came Theory, and Bayesian Inference. 13. Web Programming This course covers Web-related programming. As the computing environments are rapidly changing, the programming knowledge on the Internet is indispensable these days. Especially, in web programming area, new technologies in both client and server side is continuously developed. In this course, to introduce the web programming concepts to sophomore of the school of computer science, client side web programming will be focused. Students will understand the characteristics of World Wide Web and learn the basic syntax of HTML documents. Students will also use JavaScript to write more complex client programming. To do this, they will learn and understand the basic concepts of the communication to the servers, user interface, event handling, and window object control. Furthermore, by CGI programming, the students will understand the basic server side web programming. The course offers various programming laboratories to make the students experience the programming practice so that they can learn the basic theories and background needed to work in this field. 14. Programming Languages An introduction to the theory and implementation of modern programming languages. Topics include implementation techniques for traditional block structure and type systems, abstraction and procedure mechanisms, and storage management. Basic concepts of functional programming, logic programming, and object oriented programming are introduced for the recognition of various types of the languages. 15. Data Structure
The class offers an introduction and concepts of various data structures that are needed to solve the real world problems and the principles and concepts to describe algorithms. Topics include data abstraction and abstract data types, lists, stacks, queues, the searching tree, dictionaries, priority queues, and other structures. Students will implement programs (via C, C++, Java) that make use of data structures and algorithms. The structure, computation, and characteristics for all types of information in computers are studied. The design and analysis about algorithms concerning with data structure are practiced. 16. International Financial Market Analysis In this course, students, in the perspective of finance, learn about structure and characteristics of direct and indirect international financing markets related to financing and understand about theory and practices related to sources and methods to finance various funds. 17. Data Mining This course will be an introduction to data mining. Topics will range from statistics to machine learning to database, with a focus on analysis of large data sets. Several clustering algorithms will be provided as the basic building blocks of data mining. 18. Futures & Options This course provides students with knowledge about the basic concepts of option and future, investment strategy, and price determination model, and students learn about how to make a portfolio with option and future through computer simulation games. 19. Analysis of Management In this course, students learn about how to analyze accounting information for supporting decision-making on management and investment. In particular, this course focuses on theories and practices for evaluating financial liquidity, profitability, productivity. 20. Internship I This course aims at providing the students with the opportunities of industry experiences and professional communications. The intern program duration ranges from two months to a whole semester depending on the status of the participated students. The company participants are selected before the semester starts. 21. Project Management This course provides methodologies and strategies to manage large scale projects. Many software engineering concepts will be discussed. The course will provide students to conduct a small scale team project to get basic experience of project managements. 22. Quantitative Methods of Financial Risk Management The course provides methods for evaluating risk and considers multivariate methods for evaluating portfolios requiring copula tools which have become popular. Topics include a historical perspective of market risk measurement including the Markowitz, CAPM and APT models, a description of the value-at-risk approach and an overview of VaR variants and extensions such as delta-var, CVaR etc. 23. Computer Graphics Introduction to the concept of virtual reality based on a basic theory of two-dimensional and
three-dimensional graphic processing. Topics include the explanation of a graphic hardware system and how to use it, software technology such as drawing, geometry, transformation, typography, splines, interpolation, input technology, interaction technology, light, color, digital cameras, displays, exposure, imaging, filtering, sampling, compression, digital videos, HDTV, geometric modeling, rendering, CAD, animation, and art. 24. Web Service Programming This course has a practical emphasis on the design and techniques for developing web applications, mainly focusing on server-side web programming using servlets and JSP. Topics includes software installation for Java server developers, Web application deployment directories, servlets, processing HTTP form data, cookies and sessions, basic JSP scripting language, using JavaBeans with JSPs (tags and properties), custom tag libraries, in-depth guide to Web application configuration, and programmatic security (including using certificates and SSL). 25. Embedded System Concept of embedded systems is introduced and software development process of embedded systems is taught in laboratory sessions using embedded system development kit. It includes building boot loader, kernel, file system, and device drivers of various I/O devices. The software development is based on linux OS and installation of software development tool chain is also part of the laboratory sessions. 26. System Engineering Project In this course, students spend a whole semester performing projects to integrate the theories and techniques learned from courses. The project teams are organized before the semester starts and all the projects are executed following software engineering process steps. This course aims at implementation of core parts of the objective results. 27. Algorithms An introduction to the design and analysis of algorithms. This course covers a number of ideas and techniques useful for designing and analyzing algorithms. Basic paradigms, e.g., divide and conquer strategies, greedy algorithms, dynamic programming, back-tracking, graph algorithms will be focused. A practical side of algorithm design is also explored with interesting examples of the designing techniques. 28. Information System Security Introduction to the concept of the information security management system. Topics include access control, definitions and key concepts, cryptography, encryption systems, symmetric and asymmetric algorithms, digital signatures, management of cryptographic systems, physical security, layered defense model, security architecture and design, security evaluation methods and criteria, business continuity planning and disaster recovery planning, business impact analysis, continuity and recovery strategy, telecommunications and network security, application security, databases and data warehouses, operations security, legal, regulations, compliance an investigation. 29. Database Introduction to relational database systems. Topics include file organizations and indexing, relational data model and relational database, database query language and SQL, embedded
database programming, database interface to Web programming and ODBC. 30. Business Ethics In this course, students learn about theories about business ethics and relevant accounting theories and techniques. 31. Investment Simulation This course provides brief introduction simulation methods that are focused on investments and several commercial and non-commercial simulators there are currently used. Then, it provides simulation results for various real life examples using real data sets collected from various fields. 32. Seminar in Financial Engineering This course provides seminars by experts form various fields in financial engineering. Topics include software/hardware systems and current financial issues of financial engineering. 33. Internship II This course aims at providing the students with the opportunities of industry experiences and professional communications to understand the detailed functions of commercial software developments. The intern program duration ranges from two months to a whole semester depending on the status of the participated students. The company participants are selected before the semester starts.