My First Year

Prerequisite: None

This course is designed to help students develop university-level writing skills.  Students improve their critical reading, English grammar and oral presentation skills while learning strategies for researching, planning, drafting, composing, and editing university essays in the APA format.

A range of academic essays is explored, including Response Paper, Problem-Solution, Compare-Contrast, and Cause-Effect. Students also learn how to summarize and paraphrase texts effectively and without committing plagiarism.

Prerequisite: ENGL101

This course is designed to help students extend their critical thinking, analytical, and research skills, and apply them to academic writing. Students explore common types of research, annotations and two major assignments: an academic case study report and a research paper in the form of an argumentative essay based on extensive secondary research in their area of business interest written in APA 7^th format. Students also share their findings with the class through oral presentations in teams and individually.

Prerequisite: ENGL101 (Co-Requisite)

In the increasingly global business economy, effective communication skills are one of the most important determinants of career success. This course introduces students to a wide range of concepts essential to communicating effectively in business settings. Coverage includes all the important written message formats, as well as oral communication (presentations), critical thinking, nonverbal communication, the use of new communications technologies, and successful job application and interview techniques.

Prerequisite: ENGL101 (Co-Requisite)

The purpose of this course is to introduce the students to business mathematics. These include a review on numbers (fraction, percent and decimals) and solving linear equations or proportions. Then it will be the basic statistics concepts, payroll, markup, markdown, and inventory control. Next, students will explore the finance- simple and compound interest, annuity, and amortization. The course will be completed by introducing the accounting and its applications – depreciation and financial statements. This course is to prepare the students for statistics, accounting, management science, and other business courses that require applications of business mathematics.

Prerequisite: BADM120

This course is to provide the elementary level of descriptive Statistics and a part of the intermediate level of inferential Statistics. These include a review of the numerical measure and graphical displays. Then it will be an introduction to probability, three discrete probability distributions (binomial, hypergeometric and Poisson distributions), and three continuous probability distributions (uniform, normal and exponential distributions). Next, students will learn inferential Statistics – sampling methods, confidence intervals, one- and two-sample testing hypotheses, analysis of variance, regression and time series.

This course will assist students in classifying and analyzing research and economic data and in testing assumptions about the underlying nature of the data provided before testing hypotheses.

Prerequisite: BADM221

The purpose of this course is to provide an introduction to applied modelling and business problems including linear and non-linear programming, goal programming, decision making under uncertainty, queuing models, inventory management, and time series analysis.

* All General Education and Business Core courses are common amongst the 7 concentrations. The only exception is the
Accounting concentration which requires one additional General Education course.

Prerequisite: ENGL101 (Co-Requisite)

The course provides an overview of the Canadian business environment, forms of organizations, the management function, and an introduction to the
functional areas of business management. The course includes insights into the key economic and business developments that shape the future. The
integration of business practices, incorporating technology in business, globalization and global management skills, sustainable business, changing
Canadian demographics, corporate ethical standards, managing multinational cultures in the workplace, virtual teams and corporations, nurturing
knowledge workers, and entrepreneurship.

Prerequisite: None

This course is designed to give students a strong foundation of basic computer skills through guided activities and will allow them to learn fundamental concepts and skills for applying Technology. The course will introduce students to basic knowledge of computer components including the internal hardware, operating system, and software applications.

Students will gain practice in using productivity applications including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Power Point and help them foster connection skills such as collaboration, problem solving and self-direction using multimedia, technology tools and resources. The course will also introduce students to various social, legal, and ethical implications and issues regarding the internet, information, and security.