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Program Requirements

Mentors: Professors M. El-Attar Vilalta, P. Dickinson, J. Kurien, J. Li, R.T. Naylor, and C. Ragan; Department of Economics, Faculty of Arts.

All B.Com. students take a Core curriculum in addition to the Major.

Required Courses (45 credits)

Management Core (27 credits)

• MGCR 211 Introduction to Financial Accounting (3 credits)

  Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty of Management)

  Overview

  Management Core : The role of financial accounting in the reporting of the financial performance of a business. The principles, components and uses of financial accounting and reporting from a user's perspective, including the recording of accounting transactions and events, the examination of the elements of financial statements, the preparation of financial statements and the analysis of financial results.

  Terms: Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Summer 2022

  Instructors: Zhang, Jingjing; Oh, Seunghwan; Ma, Guang (Fall) Lee, Dongyoung; Wang, Peng (Winter) Matarasso, Robert (Summer)

  • Restriction: Not open to U0 students.

• MGCR 222 Introduction to Organizational Behaviour (3 credits)

  Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty of Management)

  Overview

  Management Core : Individual motivation and communication style; group dynamics as related to problem solving and decision making, leadership style, work structuring and the larger environment. Interdependence of individual, group and organization task and structure.

  Terms: Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Summer 2022

  Instructors: Ferguson, John-Paul; Blanchette, Simon; Mahabadi, Sara; Al Hajj, Raghid (Fall) Dakhlallah, Diana; Reyt, Jean-Nicolas; Galperin, Roman (Winter) Westgate, Chantal (Summer)

  • Restriction: Not open to U0 students.

• MGCR 331 Information Systems (3 credits)

  Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty of Management)

  Overview

  Management Core : Introduction to principles and concepts of information systems in organizations. Topics include information technology, transaction processing systems, decision support systems, database and systems development. Students are required to have background preparation on basic micro computer skills including spreadsheet and word-processing.

  Terms: Fall 2021, Winter 2022

  Instructors: Taherizadeh, Amir; Tanguay, Sol (Fall) Tanguay, Sol; Taherizadeh, Amir (Winter)

  • Restriction: Not open to U0 students.

• MGCR 341 Introduction to Finance (3 credits)

  Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty of Management)

  Overview

  Management Core : An introduction to the principles, issues, and institutions of Finance. Topics include valuation, risk, capital investment, financial structure, cost of capital, working capital management, financial markets, and securities.

  Terms: Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Summer 2022

  Instructors: De Motta, Adolfo (Fall) di Pietro, Vadim; Madan, Sujata (Winter) di Pietro, Vadim (Summer)

  • Corequisite: MGCR 271 or equivalent

  • Restriction: Not open to U0 students.

• MGCR 352 Principles of Marketing (3 credits)

  Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty of Management)

  Overview

  Management Core : Introduction to marketing principles, focusing on problem solving and decision making. Topics include: the marketing concept; marketing strategies; buyer behaviour; Canadian demographics; internal and external constraints; product; promotion; distribution; price. Lectures, text material and case studies.

  Terms: Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Summer 2022

  Instructors: Etemad, Hamid; Han, DaHee; Cyrius, Fabienne (Fall) Doré, Bruce; Sarigollu, Emine; Forget, Marie-Elyse; Cyrius, Fabienne; Maziarz, Christopher (Winter) Han, Jung Ho (Summer)

  • Restrictions: Open to U1, U2, U3 students.

• MGCR 360 Social Context of Business (3 credits)

  Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty of Management)

  Overview

  Management Core : This course examines how business interacts with the larger society. It explores the development of modern capitalist society, and the dilemmas that organizations face in acting in a socially responsible manner. Students will examine these issues with reference to sustainable development, business ethics, globalization and developing countries, and political activity.

  Terms: Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Summer 2022

  Instructors: Holmgren, Lindsay; Moyal, Jonathan; Mohammadi, Hanieh; Horner, Hervé Robert (Fall) Karunakaran, Arvind; Mantere, Saku; Horner, Hervé Robert; Moyal, Jonathan (Winter) Horner, Hervé Robert (Summer)

  • Restriction: Open to U2 and U3 students.

• MGCR 382 International Business (3 credits)

  Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty of Management)

  Overview

  Management Core : An introduction to the world of international business. Economic foundations of international trade and investment. The international trade, finance, and regulatory frameworks. Relations between international companies and nation-states, including costs and benefits of foreign investment and alternative controls and responses. Effects of local environmental characteristics on the operations of multi-national enterprises.

  Terms: Fall 2021, Winter 2022

  Instructors: Melville, Donald; Matziorinis, Nicholas (Fall) Melville, Donald; Matziorinis, Nicholas (Winter)

  • Restriction: Not open to U0 students.

• MGCR 423 Strategic Management (3 credits)

  Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty of Management)

  Overview

  Management Core : An integrative and interdisciplinary introduction to strategy formation and execution. Concepts, tools, and practical application to understand how firms leverage resources and capabilities to gain competitive advantage in dynamic, contemporary industries. Strategic positioning, organizational design, and managerial action for the long-term success of businesses and positive social and ecological outcomes.

  Terms: Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Summer 2022

  Instructors: Melville, Donald; Moore, Karl; Zavosh, Ghahhar; Lyubman, Liliya (Fall) An, Kwangjun; Moore, Karl; Zavosh, Ghahhar (Winter) Fast, Jonathan (Summer)

  • Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only

• MGCR 472 Operations Management (3 credits)

  Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty of Management)

  Overview

  Management Core : Design, planning, establishment, control, and improvement of the activities/processes that create a firm's final products and/or services. The interaction of operations with other business areas will also be discussed. Topics include forecasting, product and process design, waiting lines, capacity planning, inventory management and total quality management.

  Terms: Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Summer 2022

  Instructors: Ding, Yichuan Daniel; Talla, Malleswara (Fall) Gopalakrishnan, Sanjith; Hariss, Rim; Cohen, Maxime (Winter) Mutlu, Aysun (Summer)

  • Prerequisite: MGCR 271 or equivalent

  • Restriction: Open to U1, U2, U3 students.

Major (18 credits)

• ECON 230D1 Microeconomic Theory (3 credits)

  Offered by: Economics (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  Economics (Arts) : The introductory course for Economics Major students in microeconomic theory. In depth and critical presentation of the theory of consumer behaviour, theory of production and cost curves, theory of the firm, theory of distribution, welfare economics and the theory of general equilibrium.

  Terms: Fall 2021, Winter 2022

  Instructors: Gendron-Carrier, Nicolas; Lange, Fabian (Fall)

  • Students must register for both ECON 230D1 and ECON 230D2.

  • No credit will be given for this course unless both ECON 230D1 and ECON 230D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

• ECON 230D2 Microeconomic Theory (3 credits)

  Offered by: Economics (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  Economics (Arts) : See ECON 230D1 for course description.

  Terms: Winter 2022

  Instructors: Saltiel, Fernando; Lange, Fabian (Winter)

  • Prerequisite: ECON 230D1

  • No credit will be given for this course unless both ECON 230D1 and ECON 230D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

• ECON 330D1 Macroeconomic Theory (3 credits)

  Offered by: Economics (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  Economics (Arts) : A review of basic economic concepts and tools with an in depth and critical presentation of the fundamental areas of macroeconomic theory. Topics include: the determination of output, employment and price level; money and banking and business cycles; stabilization policy; international finance and growth theory.

  Terms: Fall 2021, Winter 2022

  Instructors: Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco; Poschke, Markus (Fall)

  • Prerequisite: ECON 230 or ECON 250. If a student has already taken 154-200 or 154-203 and 154-204 or ECON 208 and ECON 209, it may be concurrently taken with ECON 230 with the permission of the instructor

  • Students must register for both ECON 330D1 and ECON 330D2.

  • No credit will be given for this course unless both ECON 330D1 and ECON 330D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

• ECON 330D2 Macroeconomic Theory (3 credits)

  Offered by: Economics (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  Economics (Arts) : See ECON 330D1 for course description.

  Terms: Winter 2022

  Instructors: Fairclough Campbell, Peta-Gay (Winter)

  • Prerequisite: ECON 330D1

  • No credit will be given for this course unless both ECON 330D1 and ECON 330D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

• MGCR 271 Business Statistics (3 credits)

  Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty of Management)

  Overview

  Management Core : Statistical concepts and methodology, their application to managerial decision-making, real-life data, problem-solving and spreadsheet modeling. Topics include: descriptive statistics; normal distributions, sampling distributions and estimation, hypothesis testing for one and two populations, goodness of fit, analysis of variance, simple and multiple regression.

  Terms: Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Summer 2022

  Instructors: Miao, Sentao; Qi, Wei; Nasiry, Javad; Lima, Eduardo (Fall) Smith, Brian E (Winter) Sadana, Utsav (Summer)

  • Prerequisite: MATH 122 and 123 or equivalent

  • Restriction: Not open to U0 students. Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 204, MATH 324, PSYC 204, ECON 227, ECON 257.

  • You may not be able to receive credit for this course and other statistic courses. Be sure to check the Course Overlap section under Faculty Degree Requirements in the Arts or Science section of the Calendar.

• MGSC 372 Advanced Business Statistics (3 credits)

  Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty of Management)

  Overview

  Management Science : A practical managerial approach to advanced simple and multiple regression analysis, with application in finance, economics and business, including a review of probability theory, an introduction to methods of least squares and maximum likelihood estimation, autoregressive forecasting models and analysis of variance.

  Terms: Fall 2021, Winter 2022

  Instructors: Smith, Brian E; Nasiry, Javad (Fall) Smith, Brian E; Talla, Malleswara (Winter)

  • Prerequisite: MGCR 271

Complementary Courses (18 credits)

Selected from other 200-, 300-, and 400-level courses in Economics (ECON), excluding courses with numbers below 210. At least 6 of these 18 credits should be taken from courses with 400-level numbers. No more than 6 of the 18 credits may be taken at the 200 level.