Globally, financial systems are currently experiencing turmoil in the stock markets. Such volatile markets provide both challenges and opportunities for investors. This situation provides the need for adequate training in areas of securities and investments management. Hence, this course is designed to provide opportunities for acquiring knowledge and skills on concepts, theories and operations of capital markets, financial instruments, and investment process.
Emphasis will be placed on role of modern theories of securities and investments management by covering wide range of courses. At the completion of the programme, students should be able to have grasped adequate understanding of how securities and investments markets work, to analyse securities, and to make intelligent investment decisions based on available evidence and analysis. Emphasis shall be placed on the core elements of securities and investments management analysis that support sound decision-making by managers.
The four-year undergraduate degree programme shall also provide training on the practical elements of securities and investments management involving the trading of a variety of financial instruments within the modern market environment. The programme shall be guided by curriculum designed to provide close links to professional practice.
This will avail the students with the opportunity to learn how to evaluate the effect of changing regulatory and operating conditions and gain an understanding of the local and global dynamics in securities and investment management. It is the vision of the programme to graduate students with a combination of knowledge and practical skills guided by scrupulous respect for ethical and professional standards that would propel them forward in the career they may be pursuing. The curriculum also contains the details of requisite, staff, infrastructure, library and laboratory requirements.
The general philosophy of undergraduate training in Securities and Investment programme is to equip students with quality education and training that will develop the mind, impart both theoretical and practical knowledge on the individual student, develop self-confidence, and help them to be innovative and self-reliant in the field of Securities and Investments. The training should be rooted in an interactive pedagogical methodology developed to produce graduates that would strive to be upright and patriotic.
The major objectives of a Bachelor’s degree programme in Securities and Investments are to:
The features of this programme are in its delivery process which shall involve:
The product of this programme should be able to demonstrate remarkable skills based on well-grounded knowledge of Securities and Investments management, particularly in the operation of security market and design of financial systems to suit changing investments requirements of organisations.
At the end of the course, the students are expected to demonstrate certain employability skills such as:
The programme would lead to the development/acquisition of the following 21st century skills by the students:
For admission into any of the first-degree programmes of the University, a candidate shall be required to possess the following minimum qualifications:
To qualify for entry into the 4-year programme for the award of a B.Sc. Degree in Securities and Investments, a candidate must fulfil the following:
To qualify for entry into the 3-year programme for the award of a B.Sc. Degree in Securities and Investments, a candidate must fulfil the following:
University
Course Code | Course Title | Units | Status | LH | PH |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
GST 111 | Communication in English | 2 | C | 15 | 45 |
GST 112 | Nigerian Peoples and Culture | 2 | C | 30 | – |
AMS 101 | Principles of Management | 2 | C | 30 | – |
AMS 102 | Basic Mathematics | 2 | C | 30 | – |
AMS 103 | Introduction to Computer | 2 | C | 30 | – |
AMS 104 | Principles of Project Management | 2 | C | 30 | – |
SIM 111 | Fundamentals of Securities and Investment I | 2 | C | 30 | – |
SIM 112 | Banking Technology | 2 | C | 30 | 15 |
SIM 121 | Fundamentals of Securities and Investment II | 2 | C | 30 | – |
Total | 18 |
Course Code | Course Title | Units | Status | LH | PH |
ENT 211 | Entrepreneurship and Innovation | 2 | C | 30 | – |
GST 212 | Philosophy, Logic, and Human Existence | 2 | C | 15 | 45 |
SIM 211 | Law Relating to Securities & Investments | 2 | C | 30 | – |
SIM 212 | Introduction to Cryptocurrency | 2 | C | 30 | – |
SIM 213 | Business Information System | 2 | C | 30 | – |
SIM 214 | Investment Decision-Making I | 2 | C | 30 | – |
SIM 221 | Investment Trading Fundamentals | 2 | C | 30 | – |
SIM 222 | Introduction to Digital Economy & Web Based Systems | 2 | C | 30 | 15 |
SIM 223 | Business Communication | 2 | C | 30 | – |
Total | 18 |
Course Code | Course Title | Units | Status | LH | PH |
GST 312 | Peace and Conflict Resolution | 2 | C | 30 | – |
ENT 312 | Venture Creation | 2 | C | 15 | 45 |
SIM 311 | Risk Management | 3 | C | 45 | – |
SIM 312 | Alternative Investments | 3 | C | 45 | – |
SIM 313 | Investment Management | 3 | C | 45 | – |
SIM 314 | Entrepreneurship Skills in Securities and Investments Management | 2 | C | 30 | – |
SIM 321 | Ethics & Professional Standards | 3 | C | 45 | – |
SIM 322 | Investment of Pension Fund in Nigeria | 3 | C | 45 | – |
SIM 323 | Fixed Income Securities | 3 | C | 45 | – |
SIM 324 | Research Methods | 3 | C | 45 | – |
Total | 27 |
Course Code | Course Title | Units | Status | LH | PH |
SIM 411 | Practice of Stock Broking & Regulation of Securities | 3 | C | 45 | 15 |
SIM 412 | Financial Derivatives | 3 | C | 45 | – |
SIM 413 | Capital Market & Portfolio Theory | 3 | C | 45 | – |
SIM 421 | Technical Securities Analysis | 3 | C | 45 | – |
SIM 422 | Global Securities Analysis | 3 | C | 45 | – |
SIM 423 | Research Project | 6 | C | – | 27 0 |
Total |
21 |