Study European Business Management at CBS in Germany

This course addresses students with no or little prior knowledge of economics. It is designed to get an easy and intuitive access to the basics of economic phrasing and modelling. Main focus will be on the history of thought and on the most common concepts of mainstream economics nowadays.

The course will include the following items:

• Introduction to economics with elements from microeconomics and macroeconomics

• Basic concepts and vocabulary

• Methods and economic modelling

• Economic indicators (GDP, inflation rates, unemployment rates)

• History of economic thought

• Development of today’s economic policy concepts.

The target audience is students with basic economic training or students who have attended the module “Economic Thinking”. This course is set to enable the students to evaluate the European Union and its economic and political affairs from different perspectives. Based on the common economic theories, the students will learn to analyse current decisions in European economic policy, monetary policy, tariff disputes, etc. They will be acquainted with the underlying dissent between different countries concerning these decisions. Students will be encouraged to highlight the pros and cons of the European project, and to draw their own conclusions about the further development of the European union they hope or fear for.

• To provide an overview of current theory and research in the field of Human Resource Management. 

• To offer a combination of theoretical contents and practical case examples that highlight the principles and practices of the management of people. 

• To develop students’ personal and managerial skills.

• Getting to know the principles of business strategies as a foundation for doing business in an international context

• Learning how to plan, implement and control business strategies successfully

• Understanding the European business environment more profoundly as a foundation for informed strategic management decision-making.

• Understanding the centrality of management competencies when (inter-)acting in intercultural business environments

• Getting to know and apply different managerial tools and approaches

• (Critically) reflecting upon and reinforcing one’s own management skills

• Getting to know the principles and tools of international marketing.

• Learning about the opportunities and risks linked to the decision to internationalize within a constantly changing global environment. 

• Learning what can positively contribute to a successful internationalization strategy and what should be avoided in order to prevent failure.

Students will deepen their grammar and language structure knowledge and expand their lexicon. The course will build on the student’s previous knowledge.

This lecture invites all international students and is open regardless what prior courses or state of knowledge the students have achieved before. It is aimed to give the students some deep knowledge about how we ended up in the current situation – as Nobel Prize winning entity and highly fractured confederation of national states at the same time. Students are encouraged to develop their own judgement about the different layers of the European project, knowing full well the origins and courses of different evaluations in the past and at their time.