Note: The course information in the list is subject to change. Last update: Nov 15, 2013 Courses lectured in English 2013-2014 Courses and Teaching ECTS Credits and Workload There are four types of courses: • Full term course: a course lasts a fall or a spring term • Half a term course: a course lasts half a fall or half a spring term • Intensive course: a course lasts less than half a term • Book Exam course: students study the course materials independently and take the exam according to the exam schedule. A full-time study load is approximately 1600 hours per year, which equals to 60 ECTS credits. Most courses are worth of 6 ECTS credits. One ECTS credit represents approximately 27 working hours. These hours include all work required for completing the course: lectures, exercises, cases, possible projects, independent studies, exams etc. Course Code Course Name B.Sc. M.Sc. CEMS ECTS Fall Spring x x Accounting 22E00100 Financial Statement Analysis x 6 22E00200 Theories of Financial Statements x 6 22E00400 International Accounting x x 6 22E00500 Corporate Governance x x 6 22E10000 Strategic Management Accounting x x 6 22E12000 Capital Budgeting x 6 22E13000 Accounting as Social and Institutional Practice x 6 x 22E20700 Research Methods in Accounting x 6 x 22E21000 Auditing - Theory and Practice x 6 22E25000 Accounting for Management Control x 6 22E26000 Cost Accounting and Financial Planning x 6 x 22E28000 Accounting Information Systems x 6 x 22E29000 Corporate Sustainability Reporting x 6 x x x x x x x x x x Business Law 32A00220 Introduction to Business Law x 3 x 32C23000 International Taxation x 6 x 32E11100 Legal Aspects of Finance x 6 32E15000 Competition law I x 6 32E25000 International Contracts x 6 32E28000 Legal Environment of Business (Including IPR) x 6 32E29000 European and International Tax Law x 6 32E30000 Tax Planning of International Enterprises x 6 32E31000 Competition law II x 6 x x x x x x x English Business Communication 61C00600 Readings in Business and Intercultural Communication x 6 x x 61C01100 Communication Skills for Business (self-study) x 3 x x Corporate Communication 71E00200 Communication in Strategy Work x x 6 75E00100 Managing Corporate Communication x x 6 75E11000 Corporate Communication Research x 6 75E12000 Corporate Communication Practices x 3 75E13000 Corporate Communication in Global Contexts x 75E17000 Media Management x 6 x 75E20000 Corporate Communication Special Topics (Introduction to Visual and Multimodal Communication) x 6 x x x x x x x 3 x Economics 31C00400 Introduction to International Economics and Finance x 6 31C00510 History of Economic Thought x 6 31C00700 Economics of Development x 6 31C00800 Personnel Economics x 6 x x x Courses lectured in English 2013-2014 Course Code 31C19000 Course Name EMU: The Currency without a State 31E00500 31E00510 B.Sc. x M.Sc. CEMS ECTS 6 International Trade x x 6 x History of Economic Thought x 6 x 31E00600 Open Economy Macroeconomics x 6 x 31E00700 Labor Economics x 6 31E00900 Applied Microeconometrics x 6 x 31E01000 Topics in Economic Theory and Methods I x 6 x 31E01300 Applied Time Series Econometrics x 6 x 31E01400 Macroeconomics of Labor Markets x 6 x 31E01700 Topics in Economic Theory and Methods II x 6 x 31E01800 Resource and Environmental Economics x 6 x 31E02200 Financial Economics x 6 x 31E02300 Bayesian Econometrics x 6 x 31E02400 Money and Monetary Policy x 6 x 31E02500 Globalization and Growth x 6 x 31E02700 Political Economy x 6 x 31E02800 Nonlinear Time Series Econometrics x 6 x 31E11000 Microeconomics I: Competitive Theory x 6 x 31E12000 Microeconomics II: Games and Information x 6 x 31E13000 Industrial Organization (Micro III) x 6 x 31E15000 Development Economics I x 6 x 31E16000 Development Economics II x 6 x 31E19200 Macroeconometrics x 6 x 31E21000 Macroeconomics I: Growth and Cycles x 6 x 31E22000 Macroeconomics II: Short Term Fluctuations x 6 x 31E31000 Econometrics I: Basics x 6 31E32000 Econometrics II: Time Series and Panel Data Models x 6 x 6 x x Fall Spring x x x Entrepreneurship 25E31000 Entrepreneurship and Managing Innovations x 25E32000 Entrepreneurship as a Field of Science x 25E46000 Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Competencies x x 6 x 6 x Finance 28C00100 Corporate Finance x 6 28C00300 Investment Management x 6 x 28C00400 Derivatives and Risk Management 6 x 28C00500 Capstone: Valuation x 6 x 28C00800 Financial Markets and Institutions x 6 x 28E00100 Behavioral Finance and Decision Making x 6 x 28E00300 Advanced Investment Theory x 6 28E00400 Marketing Financial Services x 28E00600 Venture Capital x 6 x 28E00900 Fixed Income x 6 x 28E33000 Capstone: Mergers and Acquisitions x 28E34200 International Financial Management x 28E34500 Banking and Financial Intermediation x 28E34600 Portfolio Management x 28E29000 Advanced Corporate Finance x x x x x 6 6 x x x 6 x 6 x 6 x x x 6 x Information Systems Science 37C00100 Management Information Systems x 6 x 37C00200 Information Systems Development x 6 x 37C00300 Enterprise Applications x 6 x 37C00400 Introduction to Programming x 6 x Courses lectured in English 2013-2014 Course Code 37E00100 Course Name Information Economy B.Sc. M.Sc. x 37E00200 Strategic Information Technology Management 37E00300 ICT Enabled Business Process Development 37E01000 Current Topics in Information Systems Science x 37E01400 Essential Literature in Information Systems Science (Book Exam) 37E01500 CEMS x ECTS 6 Fall x 6 x x 6 x 6 x x 6 x Project Management and Consulting Practice x 6 x 37E01600 Data Resources Management x 37E08000 Service Business Models x 37E44000 Critical Issues in Information Systems Research x Spring x x 6 x 6 x x 6 x x Common Studies of Department of Information and Service Economy 57E00500 Business Intelligence x 6 x 90L56503 Behavioral Decision Making x 6 x x International Business 26E00200 Rising China - Business and State x x 6 26E00800 Global Marketing Management x x 6 x 26E01000 International Design Business Management x x 6 x 26E02500 Doing Business in Russia x x 6 26E03100 Driving Global Businesses x x 6 26E03200 Managing in a Global Context x x 6 26E03300 Operating in Different Cultural and Institutional Contexts x x 6 26E03400 People Management in Multinational Organizations x x 6 26E03500 Capstone: Global Business Cases x 26E05100 CEMS Block Seminar 26E05500 CEMS Core Course: Strategy 26E05200 x x x x x 6 x x 3 x x 6 x CEMS Skills Seminar x 1-5 26E05300 CEMS English Business Communication Skills Seminar x 1 26E05400 CEMS Business Project x 3-15 x 26E05600 CEMS Core Course: Global Management Practice x 6 x 26E02900 Doing Quantitative Research x 6 x x x Logistics 35C00100 Distribution and Logistics Services x 6 35C00200 Purchasing and Supply Management x 6 35C00400 Management of Technology x 6 x 35E00100 Service Operations and Strategy x 6 x 35E00300 Product and Inventory Management x 6 35E00400 Coordination of Supply Chains x 6 35E00500 Quality Leadership x 6 35E00700 Packaging and Warehousing Technologies (Book Exam) x 6 35E00800 Intellectual Property Rights x 6 x x x x x x x x Management Science 27C01000 Tools for Business Decisions 1 x 6 x 27C02000 Negotiation Processes x 6 x 27E01000 Decision Making and Choice Behavior x 6 27E02000 Models in Marketing x 6 x x Marketing 23C510 Integrated Marketing Communications x 6 23C550 Services Marketing x 6 23C570 Business-to-Business Marketing x 6 23C581 Consumer Behavior x 6 23C60000 Market Research x 6 23C72000 Customer Relationship Management x 6 x x x x x x x Courses lectured in English 2013-2014 Course Code 23C79000 Course Name New Product Development 23E47000 B.Sc. x M.Sc. CEMS ECTS 6 Fall x Digital Marketing x x 6 23E48000 Consumer Psychology x x 6 23E52050 Managing Innovative Sales x 23E53000 Brands in Strategic Marketing x x 6 23E21050 Marketing, Strategy and Firm Performance x x 6 x x 23E28000 Consumer Culture x x 6 x x 23E56000 Sales Competition Course x 6 x 23E57000 Fashion Marketing x 6 23E58050 Consumer Behavior and Retail Experience Management in Fashion and Design Business x 6 23E59000 Sustainable Marketing x 6 27E20100 Database Marketing x 6 x x 3 x x x x 6 Spring x x x x x x x Organization and Management 20E00220 Corporate responsibility 21A00310 Introduction to Management 21E00011 Doing Qualitative Research x 6 21E00012 Gender and Diversity at Work x 6 x 21E00013 Capstone: Workshop on Innovating Management x 6 x 21E00030 Strategy Work x 21E00031 Innovation, Strategic Resilience and Renewal x 21E00600 Human Resource Development x 6 x x 21E01050 Management and Strategy Making, book exam x 6 x x 21E01500 Special Project x 6 21E03050 Inside Work Cultures, Book exam x 6 x x 21E10000 How to change the world: Innovation toward sustainability x 6 x 21E11000 Corporate Responsibility in Global Economy x 6 x 21E12000 Sustainability Politics and CSR Reading - Seminar x 6 x 21E16000 Sustainable Business and Consumption x 6 x 21E20000 Aalto Global Impact Challenge x 3 21E71000 Strategic Foresight and Design x 4 x 21E72000 Psychology and Practice of Academic Writing x 6 x x 6 6 x x x 6 x Philosophy 51A00211 Business Ethics Book Exam 3 x x 51D00220 Argumentation in Research x x 3 x x 51E00100 Business Ethics x 6 51E00500 Academic Skills x 6 x x x Quantitative Methods 30A00410 Quantitative Business Analysis x 6 30C00100 Statistical Analysis x 6 30C00200 Econometrics x 6 30C00300 Mathematical Methods for Economists x 6 30C00400 Tools for Business Decisions 2 x 30E00400 Simulation x 6 30E00500 Quantitative Empirical Research x 6 30E00800 Time Series Analysis x 6 30E09000 Current Topics in Quantitative Methods x 6 x x x 6 x x x x x Codes with 8 marks (f.e. 30C00110, new degree requirements): • Fundamental knowledge in business: A • B.Sc. courses or Minor courses, also language and communication studies: C or D • M.Sc. courses (advanced specialization studies): E * The schedule of this course will be announced later ** Teaching of the course is uncertain Codes with 6 marks (old degree requirements): • General studies: usually A, seldom C • Subject studies: C, sometimes D • Advanced specialization studies: D or E Information about the courses lectured in English, lecture schedules and exams: http://into.aalto.fi/display/enmasterbiz/Course+catalog Information about the study programmes: http://into.aalto.fi/display/enmasterbiz/Homepage