Comprehensive Exam Track: Total Credit Hours Required to Finish the Degree ( 36 Credit Hours ) as Follows
Specialization Requirements
Students must pass all of the following courses
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Course Number |
Course Name |
Weekly Hours |
Cr. Hrs. |
Prerequisite |
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Theoretical |
Practical |
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| 150056000 | ADVANCED RESEARCH METHODS | This course provides content on the logic of inquiry and the necessity for an empirical approach to practice. It is also addresses the process of formulating appropriate research questions, objectives, and hypotheses, techniques for reviewing literature, approaches for testing relationships and patterns among variables, methods of data collection and analysis, methods for assessing and improving the validity and reliability of data and measurements, and the ethics of scientific research. Objective: The course prepares students for conducting scientific research and development of their thesis work. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 150056060 | FUNDRAISING | This course will provide the students with an introduction to the basic terminology and concepts in the field. It will help the students to develop a case for support, identify and assess prospective donors, match a donor’s interests and needs with your organization’s mission and goals, recognize planned giving benefits to your donors, structure a successful solicitation, and respond to ethical dilemmas. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 150056070 | STRATEGIC THINKING | This course provides the steps of the strategic planning process, starting with the 'thinking' components of strategy, moving into the 'planning' components and ending with 'execution'. At the end of the course, students will be able to develop or improve the strategic thinking at selected organizations to reach their vision and achieve their mission. The course enables participants to practice the development of strategic goals for actual organizations or interties within the actual environment. Strategy tools and frameworks will be discussed and put into actual cases during the course. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 150056080 | PROPOSAL WRITING FOR FUNDING | This course is designed to help students in researching and writing grants and proposals for corporations, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and government agencies. The student is expected to learn about the processes, skills, successful parameters and practices that lead to successful grant and proposal writing. To explore the range of activities associated with the act of proposing, paying careful attention to how these activities are coordinated. To foster reflective practices, laying a foundation for proposal writing success in the future in which grant proposals develop. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 150056090 | SEMINAR | The student selects research topics related to strategic planning under the supervision of a specialized teacher and presents them in the form of a research project | 6 | - | 6 |
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| 150056150 | STRATEGIC PLANNING | The course focuses on the concept of strategy formulation and implementation. This course introduces students to the concept, importance, and methodologies of strategic planning. The course will introduce the theoretical basics and framework for building implementing and evaluating an organization long-term plan or strategy. Procedures like SWOT analysis to evaluate external and internal environment, setting up strategic goals and objectives, drafting and action plan, and translating these plans into executable projects among principles and practices will be covered in the course. The course further will help students drafting and implementing an evaluation plan for the strategy. The course serves as a platform to acquire competences in strategic thinking, analysis, evaluation, leadership, communication, teamwork, as well as cross-functional integration. Objective: To improve student's ability to think strategically while operating and managing daily objectives and to integrate strategic planning into daily business activity. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 150056250 | PROJECT MANAGEMENT | This course introduces students to the basic concepts and practices that support the planning, scheduling, controlling, resource allocation, and performance measurement activities required for successful completion of a project. Throughout this course students will develops project management knowledge, skills, tools and techniques needed to initiate, plan, execute, control, evaluate and close a project. The course combines theatrical basis with practice by active participation. Objective: The aim of the module is to teach students the four elements of project management: initiation, planning or design. Production or execution. Monitoring, controlling, and finally closing. | 3 | - | 3 |
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Students must pass ( 12 ) credit hours from any of the following courses
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Course Number |
Course Name |
Weekly Hours |
Cr. Hrs. |
Prerequisite |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Theoretical |
Practical |
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| 150056030 | STRATEGIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT | This course presents an overview of corporate finance concepts and tools that financial managers use to make strategic investment decisions. Topics include net present value and internal rate of investments, risk, return and opportunity costs, the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) and efficient markets, capital budgeting decisions, and corporate financing and capital structure. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150056040 | NGOS AND LOCAL GOVERNANCE | This course introduces basic information and knowledge about the vibrant civil society organizations in Palestine and their expected role in development in the country. The other part or track of this course will cover the fundamentals of local bodies in Palestine and their contribution towards citizenship, democracy and development especially in far remote areas that are not close to the center. The course will embark on giving different case studies about these organizations and municipalities in the country with clear emphasis on fieldwork and group discussion about the future of these organizations and local bodies in building institutions and paving the way towards more sustainable development. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150056550 | IMPLEMENTATION OF STRATEGIC PLANNING | This course is preoccupies with real implementation of working strategies in the firms and in the public as well as private establishments in real sense. Today, a key preoccupation of executives in most organizations is how to make their intended strategies work in practice. There is no shortage of good strategic planning but the issues surrounding how to implement strategies are understood less well. This course explores the key challenges facing senior managers seeking to execute strategy. It introduces a practical and rigorous process to drive from conceptual plans through to the concrete actions that deliver results. Methods are also introduced to ensure that all managers shaping, delivering initiatives and projects can align activities with strategic objectives effectively. Key issues such as performance measurement, organization structure and reward systems are explored to show how they affect implementation. Objective: To teach students that implementation of strategies will have long-term competitiveness. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 150056560 | LEADERSHIP | The course focusses on the impact of leadership on an organization and its employees and is assessed through all three exams as well as Assignment 1 which requires students to analyze leader-member exchange theory and to apply it in an organization. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150056570 | STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT | This course provides students with an understanding of theory and practice of strategic management. Students will examine the ways that organizations plan and execute strategies and analyze the ways in which strategic management can be used to create effective organizations and build sustainable competitive advantages. Topics covered include competitive analysis, impact of internal and external environment on choice of strategy and strategic planning, positioning and implementation. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150056580 | TOOLS FOR STRATEGIC PLANNING | In this course, participants will learn about a series of most commonly used strategic planning tools and see how each can help them gain a new perspective on the operation and future of a given business. After each tool has been explored, the delegates will have the opportunity to practice it by going through relevant exercises. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150056610 | SPECIAL TOPICS IN STRATEGIC PLANNING | This course ideally innovative and pioneering in nature and in content since the teaching faculty in full partnership with the students and the researchers can focus on some selected topics in strategic planning and proposal writing. While specific topics and emphases vary from term to term, course seeks and explores to impart the analytical, interpretative, and planning skills required of senior managers to run successful strategic planning and productive proposal writing. Topics such as international donors. International NGOs and municipalities in the age of globalization and developments could be chosen as special topics to be studies and researched. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150056620 | SPECIAL TOPICS IN FUNDRAISING | This course deals with selected readings and specialized and in-depth discussions of important topics in the field of Fundraising | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150056630 | IMPLEMENTATION OF FUNDRAISING | The course main objective to enable students to strategize the fund raising understand the different techniques of fund raising (crowded fund , and to …etc. ) .The course will provide the long term funding partnership core fund students the business model to implement sustainable funding plan . | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150056640 | PLANNING AND DECISION MAKING | The course will focus on how to analyze alternatives and to adopt the best of them toward achieving the mission based on efficiency and feasibility of the chosen alternative. At most levels of planning, the planner has to choose among available alternatives. The combination of decided selections, will join together the plan. This is the technique the students will be leaded to develop through the course. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150056660 | SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT | This course covers issues related to the concept of development in connection with the occupation. It contributes towards developing the basic required determinants vital for national liberation, achieving social and economic justice and meeting the demands of the Palestinian people. Teaching of this course will take into consideration field cases about improving performances in agriculture, industry, commerce, private sector, public sector, services and signing further economic treaties with Arab countries. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150056670 | DATA ANALYSIS | This course familiarizes students with statistical techniques for making comparisons and predictions about a population based on sample data. Major attention is given to identifying and describing the process involved in carrying out a statistical analysis and how a variety of desktop tools and statistical packages may be used within the managerial and business decision process. Topics include analysis of variance, regression (linear and multiple), time series, statistical process control, decision analysis. Linear programming and simulation. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150056680 | GRANT MANAGEMENT | Grant Management course is designed to enhance the competencies and skills of individual officers who manage project development grants at various levels. The course introduces participants to the fundamental concepts of grant management, monitoring techniques, financial and record keeping systems. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150056690 | ETHICAL ISSUES IN FUNDRAISING | The aim of this course is to invoke a variety of classical and contemporary models, and examines what it means to think and act ethically. It applies an ethical framework to a wide range of situations familiar to nonprofit development officers, volunteers, and organizations. Furthermore, it presents a hypothetical case and concludes with a program for developing and refining a code of ethics for the organization. The course objective is to keep the students informed about emerging ethical standards and issues about the importance of ethics in this discipline. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150056710 | QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS | This course is designed to provide students with an overview of quantitative research methodology applicable to the investigation of organizational phenomena. It is intended to introduce the fundamental skills and concepts needed to design and conduct behavioral research and to enhance the students’ ability to evaluate the research of others. Moreover, it enables the students to collect quantifiable data for use in decision making. | 3 | - | 3 |
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Thesis\Treatise Track: Total Credit Hours Required to Finish the Degree ( 36 Credit Hours ) as Follows
Specialization Requirements
Students must pass all of the following courses plus ( 6 ) credit hours for the Thesis
|
Course Number |
Course Name |
Weekly Hours |
Cr. Hrs. |
Prerequisite |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Theoretical |
Practical |
|||||
| 150056000 | ADVANCED RESEARCH METHODS | This course provides content on the logic of inquiry and the necessity for an empirical approach to practice. It is also addresses the process of formulating appropriate research questions, objectives, and hypotheses, techniques for reviewing literature, approaches for testing relationships and patterns among variables, methods of data collection and analysis, methods for assessing and improving the validity and reliability of data and measurements, and the ethics of scientific research. Objective: The course prepares students for conducting scientific research and development of their thesis work. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150056060 | FUNDRAISING | This course will provide the students with an introduction to the basic terminology and concepts in the field. It will help the students to develop a case for support, identify and assess prospective donors, match a donor’s interests and needs with your organization’s mission and goals, recognize planned giving benefits to your donors, structure a successful solicitation, and respond to ethical dilemmas. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150056070 | STRATEGIC THINKING | This course provides the steps of the strategic planning process, starting with the 'thinking' components of strategy, moving into the 'planning' components and ending with 'execution'. At the end of the course, students will be able to develop or improve the strategic thinking at selected organizations to reach their vision and achieve their mission. The course enables participants to practice the development of strategic goals for actual organizations or interties within the actual environment. Strategy tools and frameworks will be discussed and put into actual cases during the course. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150056080 | PROPOSAL WRITING FOR FUNDING | This course is designed to help students in researching and writing grants and proposals for corporations, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and government agencies. The student is expected to learn about the processes, skills, successful parameters and practices that lead to successful grant and proposal writing. To explore the range of activities associated with the act of proposing, paying careful attention to how these activities are coordinated. To foster reflective practices, laying a foundation for proposal writing success in the future in which grant proposals develop. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150056150 | STRATEGIC PLANNING | The course focuses on the concept of strategy formulation and implementation. This course introduces students to the concept, importance, and methodologies of strategic planning. The course will introduce the theoretical basics and framework for building implementing and evaluating an organization long-term plan or strategy. Procedures like SWOT analysis to evaluate external and internal environment, setting up strategic goals and objectives, drafting and action plan, and translating these plans into executable projects among principles and practices will be covered in the course. The course further will help students drafting and implementing an evaluation plan for the strategy. The course serves as a platform to acquire competences in strategic thinking, analysis, evaluation, leadership, communication, teamwork, as well as cross-functional integration. Objective: To improve student's ability to think strategically while operating and managing daily objectives and to integrate strategic planning into daily business activity. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150056250 | PROJECT MANAGEMENT | This course introduces students to the basic concepts and practices that support the planning, scheduling, controlling, resource allocation, and performance measurement activities required for successful completion of a project. Throughout this course students will develops project management knowledge, skills, tools and techniques needed to initiate, plan, execute, control, evaluate and close a project. The course combines theatrical basis with practice by active participation. Objective: The aim of the module is to teach students the four elements of project management: initiation, planning or design. Production or execution. Monitoring, controlling, and finally closing. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
Students must pass ( 12 ) credit hours from any of the following courses
|
Course Number |
Course Name |
Weekly Hours |
Cr. Hrs. |
Prerequisite |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Theoretical |
Practical |
|||||
| 150056030 | STRATEGIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT | This course presents an overview of corporate finance concepts and tools that financial managers use to make strategic investment decisions. Topics include net present value and internal rate of investments, risk, return and opportunity costs, the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) and efficient markets, capital budgeting decisions, and corporate financing and capital structure. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150056040 | NGOS AND LOCAL GOVERNANCE | This course introduces basic information and knowledge about the vibrant civil society organizations in Palestine and their expected role in development in the country. The other part or track of this course will cover the fundamentals of local bodies in Palestine and their contribution towards citizenship, democracy and development especially in far remote areas that are not close to the center. The course will embark on giving different case studies about these organizations and municipalities in the country with clear emphasis on fieldwork and group discussion about the future of these organizations and local bodies in building institutions and paving the way towards more sustainable development. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150056550 | IMPLEMENTATION OF STRATEGIC PLANNING | This course is preoccupies with real implementation of working strategies in the firms and in the public as well as private establishments in real sense. Today, a key preoccupation of executives in most organizations is how to make their intended strategies work in practice. There is no shortage of good strategic planning but the issues surrounding how to implement strategies are understood less well. This course explores the key challenges facing senior managers seeking to execute strategy. It introduces a practical and rigorous process to drive from conceptual plans through to the concrete actions that deliver results. Methods are also introduced to ensure that all managers shaping, delivering initiatives and projects can align activities with strategic objectives effectively. Key issues such as performance measurement, organization structure and reward systems are explored to show how they affect implementation. Objective: To teach students that implementation of strategies will have long-term competitiveness. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150056560 | LEADERSHIP | The course focusses on the impact of leadership on an organization and its employees and is assessed through all three exams as well as Assignment 1 which requires students to analyze leader-member exchange theory and to apply it in an organization. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150056570 | STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT | This course provides students with an understanding of theory and practice of strategic management. Students will examine the ways that organizations plan and execute strategies and analyze the ways in which strategic management can be used to create effective organizations and build sustainable competitive advantages. Topics covered include competitive analysis, impact of internal and external environment on choice of strategy and strategic planning, positioning and implementation. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150056580 | TOOLS FOR STRATEGIC PLANNING | In this course, participants will learn about a series of most commonly used strategic planning tools and see how each can help them gain a new perspective on the operation and future of a given business. After each tool has been explored, the delegates will have the opportunity to practice it by going through relevant exercises. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150056610 | SPECIAL TOPICS IN STRATEGIC PLANNING | This course ideally innovative and pioneering in nature and in content since the teaching faculty in full partnership with the students and the researchers can focus on some selected topics in strategic planning and proposal writing. While specific topics and emphases vary from term to term, course seeks and explores to impart the analytical, interpretative, and planning skills required of senior managers to run successful strategic planning and productive proposal writing. Topics such as international donors. International NGOs and municipalities in the age of globalization and developments could be chosen as special topics to be studies and researched. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150056620 | SPECIAL TOPICS IN FUNDRAISING | This course deals with selected readings and specialized and in-depth discussions of important topics in the field of Fundraising | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150056630 | IMPLEMENTATION OF FUNDRAISING | The course main objective to enable students to strategize the fund raising understand the different techniques of fund raising (crowded fund , and to …etc. ) .The course will provide the long term funding partnership core fund students the business model to implement sustainable funding plan . | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150056640 | PLANNING AND DECISION MAKING | The course will focus on how to analyze alternatives and to adopt the best of them toward achieving the mission based on efficiency and feasibility of the chosen alternative. At most levels of planning, the planner has to choose among available alternatives. The combination of decided selections, will join together the plan. This is the technique the students will be leaded to develop through the course. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150056660 | SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT | This course covers issues related to the concept of development in connection with the occupation. It contributes towards developing the basic required determinants vital for national liberation, achieving social and economic justice and meeting the demands of the Palestinian people. Teaching of this course will take into consideration field cases about improving performances in agriculture, industry, commerce, private sector, public sector, services and signing further economic treaties with Arab countries. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150056670 | DATA ANALYSIS | This course familiarizes students with statistical techniques for making comparisons and predictions about a population based on sample data. Major attention is given to identifying and describing the process involved in carrying out a statistical analysis and how a variety of desktop tools and statistical packages may be used within the managerial and business decision process. Topics include analysis of variance, regression (linear and multiple), time series, statistical process control, decision analysis. Linear programming and simulation. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150056680 | GRANT MANAGEMENT | Grant Management course is designed to enhance the competencies and skills of individual officers who manage project development grants at various levels. The course introduces participants to the fundamental concepts of grant management, monitoring techniques, financial and record keeping systems. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150056690 | ETHICAL ISSUES IN FUNDRAISING | The aim of this course is to invoke a variety of classical and contemporary models, and examines what it means to think and act ethically. It applies an ethical framework to a wide range of situations familiar to nonprofit development officers, volunteers, and organizations. Furthermore, it presents a hypothetical case and concludes with a program for developing and refining a code of ethics for the organization. The course objective is to keep the students informed about emerging ethical standards and issues about the importance of ethics in this discipline. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150056710 | QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS | This course is designed to provide students with an overview of quantitative research methodology applicable to the investigation of organizational phenomena. It is intended to introduce the fundamental skills and concepts needed to design and conduct behavioral research and to enhance the students’ ability to evaluate the research of others. Moreover, it enables the students to collect quantifiable data for use in decision making. | 3 | - | 3 |
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