INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, B. A.
Important Data for Study Program
Start: winter term 2010/2011 (September)
Study duration: Regular length of study: 7 semesters for Full-Time study
Place of Study: Emmerich
Degree: Bachelor of Arts, B.A.
Instructional language: English
Practical Work Experience: 3 months until the beginning of the 5th semester
Practical or foreign study semester: in the 6th semester
Bachelor thesis: in the second half of the 7th semester
We speak today of globalization. Along with disadvantages it brings many advantages, opening especially opportunities for new perspectives in an international economic arena, setting new priorities and promoting innovative thinking and endeavors. Rhine-Waal University wants to provide a foundation for a new excellence.
Our university has set for itself the goal – also in the study course “International Business and Social Sciences” – the conveyance to students not only techniques for grasping economic relationships, but also to show the integrated contexts between science, technology and trade in different international cultures. Because of traditions and customs with distinctive legal perceptions that have developed over the course of time, different countries have their own understandings in their approach of how to conduct negotiations, of how employees are motivated, how management in companies and cooperation with institutions are basically understood. All this must be considered upon the backdrop of the ever growing importance of international organizations.
Rhine-Waal University offers already during the basic studies of the first three semesters in the field of "International Business and Social Sciences" lectures and seminars that provide analytical tools such as business mathematics, statistical methods and company accounting and controlling, while taking different cultural views into account; for example in the subjects “International Culture and Economy”, “International Labor Market Policy”, “International Marketing”, “International Environmental Law”, International Business Law”, and also subjects such as “Media Law”, “Social Policy” or “Leadership and Human Resources Management”.
On the basis of a broadening awareness of different cultural environments, the fourth semester follows with an initial specialization in terms of the vocational orientation an individual later decides to take. Students can choose whether they want to align their professional future toward profit-oriented companies or toward non-profit-oriented entities and agencies.
The fifth semester follows with additional reinforcement in subjects such as "International Financial and Banking Systems", "International Business Auditing" or “International Business Law." During the sixth semester, the student completes a practice semester ideally in the direction of his later choice of profession in a company or a social institution. Here the University provides support within the limits of its possibilities.
In the seventh semester in block study, the practical experience of students will be merged with the theoretical curricula before writing the Bachelor thesis in cooperation with a company or a social organization.
Dual Study
Which vocational professions could be combined with the study program?
- Industrial Sales Professional
- Jobs in the Hotel Industry
- Jobs in Tourism and Leisure
- Jobs in Community Health
- Bank Professional
- and others
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POSSIBLE VOCATIONAL FIELDS AND CAPABILITIES
With the skills acquired during the course of study, graduates are excellently qualified for positions in the field of management of national and international, profit-and non-profit organizations. They can be equally active in administration as well as in specialized areas such as marketing, controlling, human resources or finance.
