Faculty Manual

It is indeed a great pleasure for us to present a manual for the Faculty members of IIUC Dhaka Campus BBA Program. We are very proud of mentors like you, who are creating the future business leaders through your incessant flow of knowledge. This manual is essential to maintain uniformity and sustain with high quality of education.

We have grown up and being considered as one of the most popular BBA Programs in Bangladesh. We will keep it growing in order to reach at the highest level of performance and to be considered as a Center of Excellence among the BBA Programs in south Asia.

This faculty manual is a handbook to guide us to run day-to-day operations smoothly. We still have the rooms for improvements in the next edition and will also welcome any valuable suggestions from the faculty members.

Hope, the guidelines of this manual will boost up our academic activities many steps further through teamwork, dedication and by enlightening the hearts of our upcoming BBA Graduates.

Prof. Samad Abedin
Head, BBA Program
IIUC Dhaka Campus

BBA Program

General Features of BBA Program:

• The world has entered into a new century, a century of globalization and diversity. As such, the nation needs a new generation for leadership, a generation with a sound mission and vision, a generation with human skills, creativity and aptitude for teamwork, and the ability to perform their duties with most up-to date technical know-how and managerial skills.

• This program has been designed to produce graduates with a sound working knowledge of all core business skills together with the ability to manage creatively from a strategic perspective within the context of ethical standards and value system. This program is targeted at ambitious self-driven executives to prepare them for top level management career.

• The practical and vocational orientation of this program will equip the participants with high professional skill, knowledge and understanding of rapidly changing global employment nature. Furthermore, this program has been designed to develop leadership capabilities among the executives and will generate a clear vision to get outstanding success in future businesses.

• Specially designed for fresh students specially coming from
• Classes are held in the daytime
• Faculty members are from the Corporate World as well as from teaching profession.
• All textbooks are supplied free of cost to all the students.
• Teaching Efficiency Rating (TER) by BBA participants is in practice for evaluation of the teachers’    performance.
• Participative classes, seminars and case study methods are used to enhance the process of    learning
• 100% Scholarship are available for Meritorious Students.
• Opportunity for Foreign Academic Tours for Meritorious Students.
• On campus physician facility

The Program comprises of a number of semesters depending on credit hours. Each semester is of 6 months long and there are two such semesters in a calendar year. They are Spring (Jan-July), & Autumn (Aug-Dec).

All classes are conducted in English.

131 Credit Hours designed for 8 semesters must be completed within 12 semesters

The BBA Program offers a choice (any four courses as listed bellow) of the following six specialized areas:

• Marketing
• Finance and Banking
• Human Resources Management (HRM)
• Accounting

Major courses for specialized areas:

List of Core Courses:

English for Professionals:

To maintain the standard of the participants at BBA level, the English for Professionals course is mandatory for those who are not proficient in English.

University Guidelines on different issues

A.    Special Examination (make-up exam):

If a student cannot appear at the Semester Mid Term / Final Examination for unavoidable circumstances, which is acceptable to the University authority, he/she may opt to sit for the special exam for the missing course/s. An application is to be submitted to the Coordinator with supporting documents (medical certificate along with test reports/official documents) within seven days of the scheduled examination(s). If the competent authority approves the application, the Academic Affairs Division will record an ‘I’ (i.e. incomplete) grade in the semester final transcript.

Normally, the special final examination is held within three weeks of the commencement of the following semester. For such examination Tk. 1000.00 for Mid-term exam and Tk.1500.00 for Final exam is to be paid by the incumbent examinee for each course. ‘

A course instructor is not entitled to give ‘I’ grade or grant a special examination to any student unless it is authenticated and authorized by the competent authority.

B.    Appeal for Re-Evaluation of Examination Results:

If a student wants his/her answer script to be reevaluated, then a formal written appeal shall have to be made by the student to the University Board of Appeals through the ACAD. A fee of Tk. 500.00 per paper (or as determined by the University Board of Examination from time to time) must accompany the said appeal. The appeal fee of Tk. 500.00 will be refunded if the appeal is successful at the end.

Grounds for Appeal:

An appeal may be made on any or all of the following grounds:
• If a student strongly believes that he deserves more marks than he got in the course in question.
• If a student reasonably believes that the evaluation has been conducted improperly or a portion of    his marks has not been counted.

Application Procedure for Appeal:

Application procedure for appeal may take the following forms:

• The student must first consult the Coordinator regarding the course grade he disputes.
• A prescribed Form has to be filled in by the applicants which is to be endorsed by the Academic    Advisor and the Coordinator, as the case may be, and is to be sent to the Director of ACAD within    2(two) weeks of the publication of results and a fee of Tk. 500.00 must be accompanied with said    appeal.

C.    Course Repeat Policy:

If a student obtains ‘B-‘ or below grade in any course(s), he/she can improve the grade by repeating the said course(s). There is no provision for improvement of result through repetition of exam.

D. Improvement Policy:

Guidelines for the BBA Facultiy Members

General Guideline:

For smooth conduct of semester the concerned faculties are requested to take note of the followings:

Class timing:

Faculty members will spend three hours time in the campus for each session. They would make them available in campus 30 minuets before the schedule time to counsel students (30 minutes consultation and 2.5 hours class). Sometimes, a faculty may need to allow the students to go early because of some reasons; however, he/she will full-fill the requirement of three hours.

Beside this the following should also be maintained:

Faculty Liaison Committee:

To make the smooth communication with the faculties regarding various issues, BBA Program Office is going to establish a Faculty Liaison Committee. The members of the committee, if necessary, will communicate the faculties

Guideline Regarding Examination Management

International Islamic University Chittagong, Dhaka Campus is going to establish a systematic and structured examination system. In this regard, Faculties are requested to study and maintain the following guidelines.

Feedbacks and Recommendations:

All Faculties are requested to submit summery report to the MBA Program Coordinator [rahmanbangladesh@yahoo.com electronically) after finishing the semester. Summery Report should contain the strengths and weaknesses of this university including problems and recommendations for further improvements.

TER Form:
To maintain quality of education, Teaching Efficiency Rating (TER) form is filled up by the MBA participants (attached with this manual) that gives feedback on instructors’ teaching efficiency. Feedback will be given to the respective faculties.

Appendix A: Question Format
Appendix B: Summery Report Format
Appendix C: Grading Sheet