This is an advanced course intends to impart various concepts, principles, models and theories of strategic management needed to acquire and expose the students to major issues, problems, challenges, limitations and realities involved formulation and implementation of strategies. It further, helps the students to develop conceptual and analytical skills and creativity needed to develop various strategic managerial views and perspectives and to become a good strategic manager.

As the world of business has become more and more international at the beginning of the 21st century, it is obvious that management must also be international in its focus. Thus, effective managers will be those who understand the nature of international business and how cross-national similarities and differences impact on management. This course provides theoretical foundations and overview of firm level business structures for companies that operate internationally. Furthermore, students who follow this course will understand the importance of regionalization in world trade and appreciate the importance of diversity and its impact upon global business practices. Hence, upon successful completion of this course, the student will understand the scope of the new global economy and the role of management in successfully directing international trade activities.

Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a novel course introduced to the B.Sc. Business Administration (General) External Degree Programme. The prime objective of this course is to make students realize the necessity of being ethical and socially responsible members in Sri Lanka’s corporate sector as well as wider society. Thus, this course, with special reference to Sri Lanka’s corporate sector, encourages students to critically engage with the basic theories, concepts and practical issues of Business Ethics and CSR

This is an intermediary level course which introduces the students to the knowledge and practical application of Productivity and Quality the pillars of the success of businesses in today's context. This course intends to provide wide knowledge in the real meaning of productivity and quality and how to improve them continuously with various improvement methods and techniques. The course will be thought in three sections; namely, Section 1 – Managing Productivity, Section 2 – Managing Quality & Section 3 – Managing Productivity and Quality simultaneously.

The concept of entrepreneurship creates a mechanism for creating new ventures which will positively affect the economic development of the country. This introductory course incorporates core concepts and elements of entrepreneurship and business development in order to develop business related skills and entrepreneurial competencies among business management graduates that would meet the needs of the society. And it lays solid foundation to start their own business or to start a career as an entrepreneurial manager. Hence, this course is designed to develop students’ entrepreneurial competencies, confidence, and attitudes in order to identify business opportunities and make use of those for the benefits of the business ventures and the development of the society

At present organizations are operating in a highly turbulent environment and are facing changes very often. This is mainly due to globalization and developments in information technology. Further, the present organizations have become more human than ever before. Survival and growth within the said environment and being highly human within the process of achieving organizational goals is a challenging task.Organizational Development (OD) is the application of the knowledge of behavioural science to improve organization performance and functioning. This course is designed to provide students a sound theoretical knowledge of OD, while enabling them to understand how theory relates to practice. Areas such as the nature of planned change; the OD practitioner; the process of OD, OD interventions and the future directions in OD will be covered in this course