In the second semester of IFYP, students are required to choose two elective courses. It is essential for the students to consider their interests and academic goals. While students are encouraged to choose freely, we would also like to provide some suggested elective courses combinations:
This combination strengthens student’s concepts of Maths like algebra and probability to the applications of data analysis. Together with the essential economic principles, students will be prepared for the globalized digital world.
Topics such as, but not limited to:
Programming Tools and Python, Data Aquisition and Preprocessing, Data Vistualizatiion;
Costs and Production, Money and Banking, Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
With knowledge from psychology and sociology, students will embark on their journey of understanding factors in the changes of society and human behaviours.
Topics such as, but not limited to:
Biological Psychology, Motivation and Emotions, Psychotherapies;
Socialization and the Life Cycle, Ethnicity and Race, Globalization in a Changing World
Through the fundamental concepts of the commercial world, ideas and strategies of marketing, students can plan their study in management, human resources, accounting, marketing and finance.
Topics such as, but not limited to:
Management and Leadership, Managing Operations and Supply Chain, Motivating the Workforce;
Analyzing the Marketing Environment, Consumer Markets and Consumer Buying Behavior, New Product Development and Product Life Cycle Strategies
Students can build up their understanding of society and cultural knowledge by learning the principal concepts of social structures, social forces, and group relations from sociology and other culture-related courses.
Topics such as, but not limited to:
Socialization and the Life Cycle, Ethnicity and Race, Globalization in a Changing World;
Early China: Mythologies and Archaeological Findings, The Sui-Tang Unification: Pax Sinica, The Dawn of the Modern Age