Global Financial Markets – BUSI 606
CG • Section 8WK • 11/08/2019 to 04/16/2020 • Modified 02/17/2024
Course Description
For information regarding prerequisites for this course, please refer to the Academic Course Catalog.
Rationale
This course explores the view that the world is moving toward a single global market and provides a broad and balanced introduction to financial markets across the world. Within this context, the course culminates in providing the student with skills for examining how an international business can raise capital to fund projects in a foreign market of its choice.
Course Assignment
After reading the Syllabus and Student Expectations, the student will complete the related checklist found in the Course Overview.
The Discussions in this course allow the student an opportunity to apply what he/she has learned from the assigned Readings. The discussion will vary per student. There are 3 parts to each Discussion. Part A is the key topic submission. Part B is the discussion thread, which must be at least 500 words and cite 5 recent scholarly articles (published within the last 5 years). During Part C, the student must reply to at least 2 of his/her classmates. Each reply must be 200 – 350 words.
The student will complete an annotated bibliography to be used for the Thematic Literature Review. There should be at least 12 annotations and 150 words used for each annotation.
The student will write an essay with a minimum of 500 words. The student will integrate the Bible into one of the topics related to global financial markets covered in this course. The student will briefly describe how the Bible is related to the chosen topic covered in the course. An integration of the Bible must be explicitly shown, in relation to the chosen course topic, in order to receive points. In addition to the required textbook, at least 2 other outside scholarly sources should be used to substantiate the student's position.
The student will write a literature review on a topic relevant to the course. The paper will be a comprehensive thematic review of the scholarly literature related to the selected topic. The paper is to be written in strict conformance to APA standards, contain at least 16 double-spaced pages of content (excluding the title page, abstract, and reference page) and utilize at least 12 scholarly references.
