Administration Level One and Two Course Offerings

ACAD 100

Academic Discourse: Writing, Research, and Learning Strategies

This course provides first-year students with tools for successful communication across the disciplines by emphasizing elements of effective writing and academic research. Topics include rhetorical considerations for effective writing, process-oriented writing and revision, critical reading skills, approaches to group collaboration, research tools, bibliographies, academic integrity, and citation methods.

BUS 100

Introduction to Business

This course will introduce students to the functional areas of business in a variety of organizations.
* Note: Students who have received credit for more than two of BUS 210 (or ADMN 210), BUS 250 (or ADMN 250), BUS 270 (or ADMN 270), BUS 275 (or ADMN 275), BUS 288 (or ADMN 288), BUS 290 (or ADMN 290), BUS (or ADMN) course numbered 300 or higher may not take or receive credit for BUS 100. Students may not receive credit for both BUS 100 and ADMN 100.*

BUS 201

Entrepreneurship: Creativity, Design and Innovation

This experiential and case based course will identify barriers to individual and group creativity, approaches for overcoming these barriers, and methods for generating ideas that solve commercial, operational and/or institutional problems.
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of BUS 201 or BUS 235AC.*

BUS 210

Introduction to Marketing

This course presents the fundamentals of marketing theory and application. Starting at a societal level, it works through environmental scanning, explores the differences between consumer and business customer groups, followed with a strategic focus on segmentation, targeting and positioning. Tactical applications of the marketing mix are then addressed – product, price, place and promotion. Attention is also directed to ethical and legal considerations.
***Prerequisite: BUS 100 (or ADMN 100) and BUS 260 (or ADMN 260). Concurrent enrolment is allowed in BUS 260.***
*Note: Students may not receive credit for both BUS 210 and ADMN 210.*

BUS 250

Introduction to Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations

This introductory course addresses basic concepts and processes of the field of human resource management. Topics include: human resource planning, job analysis, recruitment, selection, orientation, training and development, performance management, compensation management, workplace health and safety, and employee and labour relations.
***Prerequisite: BUS 100 (or ADMN 100) and BUS 260 (or ADMN 260).***
*Note: Students may only receive credit for one of BUS 250, ADMN 250, or NSLI 310.*

BUS 260

Introduction to Organizational Behaviour

This introductory course addresses the basic concepts and processes of organizational behaviour. Topics will include: individual level variables, such as perception, personality, attitudes, and motivation; interpersonal and group processes, such as communication, teams, leadership, and power; and, organizational level factors such as organizational design, culture, and change.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100, or ACAD 100, or KIN 101.***
*Note: Students may not receive credit for both BUS 260 and ADMN 260.*

BUS 285

Introduction to Financial Accounting

This course presents the fundamentals of financial accounting theory and practice at the introductory level. Basic accounting principles, their application in modern business organizations, and the preparation of business records and financial reports are considered.
***Prerequisite: ECON 201 or ECON 100***
*Note: Students may not receive credit for both BUS 285 and ADMN 285.*

BUS 288

Introduction to Managerial Accounting

This course introduces the use of accounting systems for managerial information and control purposes. It also provides an introduction to some of the problems inherent in assigning valuations to various cost objects.
***Prerequisite: BUS 100 (or ADMN 100) and BUS 285 (or ADMN 285).***
*Note: Students may not receive credit for both BUS 288 and ADMN 288.*

BUS 307

Business Law

This course provides an introduction to Canadian legal institutions and processes. Topics will include: the judicial system, law making, contracts, torts and civil liability, constitutional and administrative law, and criminal law.
***Prerequisite: BUS 100 (or ADMN 100) and 45 credit hours of university studies.***
*Note: Students may not receive credit for both BUS 307 and ADMN 307.*

BUS 361

Management of Performance

This course takes the perspective of human resources professionals and is concerned with the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of systems that measure, support, review and appraise individual performance. These systems can help managers improve workforce effectiveness and address performance problems.
*** Prerequisite: BUS 250 (or ADMN 250) ***
*Note: Students may not receive credit for both BUS 361 and ADMN 361.*

CCE 099

Academic Integrity and Strategies for Success

The purpose of this course is to ensure students understand and can apply concepts relating to academic integrity. By the end of this course, students will know how to avoid academic misconduct in order to be successful in undergraduate-level study in any discipline.
*Note: This course must be completed by the end of the first semester of study in any CCE undergraduate certificate program. Students must pass the course to register in a subsequent term.*

ECON 100

Introduction to Economic Issues

An introduction to the economic way of thinking. Basic economic concepts are used to explore current economic issues such as unemployment, inflation, economic growth, taxation, competition, pollution reduction, health care, and more.
*Note: Students who have received credit for either ECON 201 or 202, or any ECON course numbered 300 or higher may not take ECON 100 for credit.*

ECON 201

Introductory Microeconomics

Theory of how individual consumers and firms behave in a market economy. Emphasis is on evaluating how well markets deliver efficient and fair outcomes.
***Prerequisite: 15 credit hours or ECON 100 or Pre-Calculus 20 (or equivalent)***
*Note: Students who have already received credit for both ECON 201 and ECON 301 may not retake ECON 201 for credit.*

ENGL 100

Critical Reading and Writing I

This course develops students' proficiency in critical reading and writing through the study of a wide range of non-literary and literary texts, and the study of composition, with emphasis on connections between modes of reading and writing.
*Note: Students who are planning to repeat ENGL 100 should seek academic advising before doing so*