The word leader first appeared in the English language in the 1300s, coming from the root word leden meaning 'to travel' or 'to show the way'.
Increasingly unpredictable environments now require teamwork and leadership skills in one’s career than ever before. The objective of this course is to provide a thorough familiarity with the literature on leadership (both theory and practice) as well as to take part in a transformative learning experience. This course focuses on leadership skills, leadership development, team building and team leadership. The course requires personal curiosity and reflection, openness and sharing in class discussions. Through self-evaluation and team-building exercises, students will monitor and enhance their own leadership and team-building skills relevant to building relationships and creating positive change. 

The purpose of the course is to provide students with conceptual and practical skills to develop web-enabled database applications and database management systems in organizations.

Course Description

The contemporary business world demands an understanding of research methods and an ability to apply research skills to a wide range of business problems. This course provides a framework to solve research problems, interpret research, and understand the interaction among the various parts of the research process. It combines both practical and theoretical approaches to the design and execution of research. The course is structured so that students will learn how to develop a research proposal and how to design, conduct, and evaluate research studies. In the end, you will produce a research proposal that represents the culmination of the study experience.

The purpose of this course is to introduce and illuminate the range of ethical issues confronting managers, employees and institutions in today’s society. It is designed to stimulate thinking on ethical issues and professional challenges encountered in organizations and to provide plausible frameworks for dealing with those conflicts through the lens of Christian values.My primary goal as your professor is to help you become thinkers and informed citizens who can use what you learn in school to benefit yourselves, organizations, and society. I want you to gain critical thinking skills and become better managers and communicators. As a result, I try to create exams, assignments, and activities that (1) test your knowledge of the material, (2) ask you to apply the theory or concept to specific situations, and (3) ask you to integrate ideas so that critical thinking skills are developed.

I want my courses to be an exciting class. My definition of “exciting” is one where motivated students read the assignment, do their homework, make logical arguments, integrate course concepts into their discussions, and actively participate in class discussions.

 By means of lecture, readings, class discussion, application projects, group presentations and case studies, this course will enable students to recognize ethical issues as they arise and formulate their own standards of integrity and professionalism.

This course is in twofold: This first part of the course analyzes the forces that drive organizations to change, examines impediments to change, and surveys a range of approaches for making organizational change more effective. The second part of the course details the thinking and planning that is essential to managing and communicating during an organizational crisis.

The purpose of this course is to expose and enlighten students on biblical leadership principles and practices in contrast to the secular leadership principles in society at large. This course will also review a leadership approach that will be referred to as Last Day Leadership; a leadership approach that views leadership from a Seventh-day Adventist perspective using the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy as the baseline foundation. Generally, the course will be constructed around biblical narratives and characters who demonstrated successful and unsuccessful leadership traits. Emphasis is placed on highlighting concepts and principles that inform effective leadership traits that accomplish spiritual goals and objectives according to God’s divine economy.

This is a 'dummy' course set up for the specific purpose of training.  Faculty can find in this course, templates on how to set up their respective courses in the School of postgraduate studies. 

History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Africa (CHIS 678) explores the Seventh-day Adventist movement in Sub-Saharan Africa from the 1850s to the present day. As a background, the first two class sessions will trace the history of Christianity in Africa, from the first century AD, through the Middle Ages and Protestant Reformation, and to the Second Great Awakening. The other eight sessions will explore the origins of the Seventh-day Adventist message in Africa; significant indigenous believers and ministers; important foreign missionaries; the means of the expansion of the message; early Adventist institutions; the organization and development of church administrative structures; the church’s impact on local societies; missional challenges unique to the African setting; the assumption of African leadership; the decades of evangelism from the 1970s onward that have resulted in world church membership being approximately one-third African; the church’s engagement with regional and national politics; and the impact of African Adventists on the global church and the world.   

A formal introduction to the steps and tools for exegesis of the Hebrew text, including practice in the exegesis of selected passages of the Hebrew Bible and the writing of an exegesis paper.

Purpose of the Course

The aim of the course is to provide the student with all the knowledge and understanding of the   mathematical background used to secure computer networks and information. The course has a significant mathematical component. It complements Computer and Network Security courses which focuses more on "high-level" issues. The course looks "under the hood" and attempts to present the various cryptographic protocols and algorithms. 

Expected Learning Outcomes of the Course

Upon completion of the course, the student should be able to:

1.     Define Cryptography, Encryption, Decryption, Keys, Certificates, Digital Signatures.

2.     Identify and describe the different types of ciphers and their context of application.

3.     Select the appropriate type of cipher to use in a given context.

4.     Compare various Encryption techniques with respect to some given criteria

5.     Discuss the validity and efficiency of a given Encryption technique in a given context.

6.     Describe the limits of existing methods and techniques.

7.     Design and implement ad-hoc Encryption/Decryption methods as well as protocols that use them.

Course Content

Introduction (Definitions, concepts & purpose) 

Part #1 Symmetric Ciphers

            Chapter #1: Classical Encryption Techniques

            Chapter #2: Block Ciphers and Data Encryption Standard

            Chapter #3: Basic Concepts in Number Theory and Finite Fields

            Chapter #4: Advanced Encryption Standard

            Chapter #5: Block Cipher Operation

            Chapter #6: Pseudorandom Number Generation and Stream Ciphers

Part #2 Asymmetric Ciphers

            Chapter #7: Advanced Number Theory

            Chapter #8: Public-Key Cryptography and RSA

            Chapter #9: Other Public-Key Cryptosystems

Part #3 Cryptographic Data Integrity Algorithms

            Chapter #10: Cryptographic Hash Functions

            Chapter #11: Message Authentication Codes

            Chapter #12: Digital Signatures

Mode of Delivery

1. Lectures
2. Media-enhanced Video presentations
3. Group case study
4. Reading / Writing Assignments
5. Tutorials and Labs

Course Assessment

The final grade will be evaluated on the following basis

1. Quizzes / Class Tests / Assignments                           20%

2. Exams (Mid and Final Semester Examinations)          60%

3. Labs                                                                              20%

Instructional Materials

1.     Textbooks

2.     LCD Projector

3.     Lecture Notes

4.     LMS (Moodle) resources

5.     Virtual servers

Core Reading Materials for the course

1.     William Stallings, Cryptography and network security: Principles and Practice, 7^th Edition, Pearson Education, 2016.

2.     Jonathan Katz and Yehuda. Lindell, Introduction to Modern Cryptography, 2^nd Edition, CRC Press, 2014

Recommended Reference Materials

1.     Dan Boneh and Victor Shoup, A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography, 2015, https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/cryptobook/draft_0_2.pdf

This course provides various documentation on AUA Library Resources.