Applied Accounting I

This course provides students with a basic introductory knowledge of how financial information is recorded, summarized, and reported in the world of business. Students will study each facet of the accounting cycle from the preparation of source documents to the presentation of financial statements.

Organizational Behavior 

This course examines behavior in organizations. Organizations are essential to the way our community operates. Business organizations are, however, much more than means for providing goods and services. They create the settings in which most of us spend our lives. In this respect, they have profound influence on our individual behaviors. We will develop techniques that can motivate individuals to work together and improve personal satisfaction, organizational performance, and be integrated with its community. While emphasis will focus on the practical problems encountered in management and supervisory roles, the course will, in addition, support the characteristics of a healthy sustainable community.

College Communication I 

This first-level post-secondary course will help students in all programs develop their ability to communicate effectively. The course requires students to meet first-year benchmarks for generic skills in researching, organizing, reframing, analyzing, and presenting information.

Introduction to Canadian Law

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Business Mathematics 

The student will develop the basic skills required to solve problems in business mathematics. Topics include simple and compound interest and annuities. There will be some applications of mathematics of finance, including mortgage amortization problems and investment decision applications.

Managerial Accounting 

Students will be introduced to the basic quantitative tools used by managers to plan, organize, direct, control, and evaluate operations within a business environment.

Human Resource Administration 

The primary objective of this course is to make the student "literate" in the issues of human resources management. This literacy includes understanding the relationship between the human resources function and the rest of the organization. It also involves acquisition of the concepts and terminology, which provide the foundation for practice, and examination of the behavioral results of human resources decisions. Topics covered will include an introduction to employee hiring practices, opinion surveys, health and safety administration, job evaluation, planning, wage and salary administration, and labor relations.

Business Writing 

This course will help the students learn about communication theory and develop business-writing skills so that they can communicate effectively in a vocational setting.

Multiculturalism in Canada 

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Statistics I 

This course, together with MTH205, will introduce the student to statistical techniques used in business research and decision-making. The emphasis in this course will be on descriptive statistical techniques, probability, probability distributions, statistical inference involving a single population, and bivariate analysis.

Customer Service Management 

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Business Skills

This course is designed to aid the student in developing those business skills essential for successful business practitioners. Topics covered include studying skills, teamwork, critical thinking, and time management techniques.

Introduction to Business 

Introduction to Business is a course that introduces the student to the basic background knowledge of how business operates in relation to the rest of society and the world. An historical perspective is also provided on the mutual impacts of technological development and social evolution. In addition, instruction and practice are included in critical thinking, problem solving and creative imagination, by utilizing a simulated business game.

Finance I

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Marketing for Business 

Students in Marketing for Business will examine the fundamentals of marketing and the role the marketing function plays in various business enterprises. Specific coverage includes the marketing concept, consumer motivation and behavior, marketing research, product planning and development, place and distribution selection, promotion and advertising, and the marketing mix.

Microsoft Office I  

Microsoft Office I introduces students to the microcomputer and its use in business and industry. The main topics are word processing and presentation software in the Windows environment. The students will also be using an electronic mail application. The skills learned in this course will enable students to more productively complete assignments and projects required in other courses.

Principles of Economics

Principles of Economics is an introductory course covering both microeconomics and macroeconomics. Microeconomic topics covered include supply- demand markets, and market structures. Macroeconomic topics include national income analysis, monetary and fiscal policy and international trade and finance.

Fundamentals of Financial Planning

Fundamentals of Financial Planning examines the financial planning process. From developing and implementing the financial plan, the risks and rewards associated with estate, retirement, and investment planning will be examined. The course will allow the student to obtain credit standing from the Financial Planners Standards Council. This course will also benefit the student who plans on taking further financial courses working towards Certified Financial Planner.

Marketing II 

Marketing II students study successful marketing activities and techniques in a broad range of businesses. Students evaluate the marketing strategy of a selected retail business or product based upon consideration of the many factors affecting marketing success.

Entrepreneurial Studies 

This course is designed to have students learn how to start up and run a small business and to explore self-employment opportunities related to their fields of interest.

Personal Effectiveness in Business 

The Personal Effectiveness in Business course is designed to teach students the essential skills for personal advancement in business organization. Students will practice effective speaking, examine the formation and maintenance of political alliances within organizations, study the role of dress in business success, learn to negotiate successfully, and develop skills in managing time and stress effectively.

Career Planning

Career planning is a practical course designed to assist students identify their skills and develop a marketing strategy for successful employment. The course concentrates on personal flexibility, adaptability, self-assessment, interviewing techniques, and customizing the résumé.

Strategic Planning

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Operations Management 

This course is an overview of the management of the operations function in business, including both manufacturing and service operations. Topics covered include: operations in the context of the whole business environment; importance of operations on strategy formulation; forecasting using qualitative and quantitative methods; the relationship of product design to operations; the design of the physical process for producing goods and services, including process selection, service operations design, technology, process-flow analysis and facilities layout; and capacity planning decisions which deal with facilities locations and aggregate planning.

International Marketing

This course brings a managerial orientation to the challenge of global marketing. It puts into practice the principal tenet of the global marketer: to benefit from the similarities across diverse markets, but to heed the differences.