Core Course Descriptions

E&M 2AA2: Communication Skills
The objective of the course is to improve the communication skills of students. Emphasis will be upon writing professional reports, oral presentations with visual support, and networking on the job. These skills will be presented in the context of technology management in the organization.

E&M 4A03: Innovation Driven Project Development and Management

What is innovation and how is it managed?  Team-based creativity skills will be developed with a focus on delivering innovation.  Participants develop team-work skills while using project management tools to develop a project.

E&M 5BO3: E&M Projects

Capstone course: Students work in multidisciplinary teams to solve an integrated engineering and business problem in an organization. Project management skills are taught and project management software is used.

ECON 1B03: Introductory Microeconomics
An introduction to the method and theory of microeconomics, and their application to the analysis of contemporary economic problems.

ECON 1BB3: Introductory Macroeconomics
An introduction to the method and theory of macroeconomics, and their application to the analysis of contemporary economic problems.

ECON 2X03: Applied Business Economics
The economic analysis of the strategy of managerial decision-making. The role of technology, costs, government intervention and market structure on output and pricing decisions.

COMMERCE 2AA3: Financial Accounting I
This is an introduction to the basic principles and practices of financial accounting, which includes an examination of income measurement and asset and liability valuation, to provide an understanding of financial accounting information and the ethics of financial reporting.

COMMERCE 2AB3: Managerial Accounting I
An introduction to concepts underlying the use of cost accounting information for managerial planning and control and for inventory valuation.  The nature and analysis of costs and the usefulness and limitations of accounting data for decision-making, including ethical considerations, will be discussed.

COMMERCE 2BA3: Organizational Behaviour
The central objective of this course is to develop an understanding of human behaviour in organizations with a view toward effective management of such behaviour.
COMMERCE 2BC3: Human Resource Management and Labour Relations
This course builds on COMMERCE 2BA3, focusing on human resource management and labour relations issues and practices from a general management education perspective.

COMMERCE 2FA3: Introduction to Finance
This course introduces the main instruments and institutions in the Canadian financial system. The basic concepts and models of modern financial theory are introduced through lectures and "hands-on" problem solving. Topics include: the time value of money, capital budgeting, the trade-off between risk and return and security valuation.

COMMERCE 2MA3: Introduction to Marketing
This course introduces the conceptual underpinnings and operational facets of marketing with a primarily consumer (as opposed to industrial) focus.

COMMERCE 3FA3: Managerial Finance
This course examines various aspects of the financial management of the firm including the sources and methods of financing, capital structure, dividend policy, leasing, mergers and acquisitions, working capital management, effects of taxation on financial decisions and international aspects of finance.

COMMERCE 3MC3: Applied Marketing Management
This course builds upon material in COMMERCE 2MA3 but is more applied in nature and covers the 4 P's in greater depth. It also has a heavier industrial and service sector component, and relies more on practical, real world cases. A major field project (student teams working with companies) is a critical part of the course.

COMMERCE 4PA3: Business Policy: Strategic Management
As the capstone to the program, this case course is designed to unify the student's learning experience by exploring the formulation and implementation of corporate strategy.

COMMERCE 4QA3: Operations Modelling and Analysis
A course that looks at productions and operations management as practiced in engineering and manufacturing industries and the services sector.