Business Administration with Co-op

Curriculum

In-Class | Distance | Combined
Duration: 12 months
Hours: 1002 Hrs. including 668 Hrs (Instructional) 334 (Co-op)

1. Social Responsibility, Ethics, And Sustainability
Duration: 48 Hrs.
Prerequisites: None

• Explore the concepts of ethics, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and environmental sustainability
• Learn the impact of moral philosophies on human lives.
• Discuss various sustainability issues and solution proposals.
• Explore how corporate social responsibility (CSR) evolved and encompasses economic, legal, ethical, and philanthropic components.

2. Professional Relationship Selling
Duration: 48 Hrs.
Prerequisites: None

• Provide an introduction on the sales profession.
• Learn social, ethical, and legal decisions in sales.
• Understand consumers’ buying decisions and sales process.
• Create effective sales presentations

3. Introduction To Marketing
Duration: 48 Hrs.
Prerequisites: None

• Understand the role and importance of marketing.
• Explain the role of ethics and CSR in marketing.
• Learn analytical and research methods for marketing strategy.
• Analyze marketing mix, strategy, and consumer behavior.
• Develop effective plans and campaigns and evaluate their results.

4. Organizational Behavior
Duration: 48 Hrs.
Prerequisites: None

• Explain organizational behavior.
• Learn organizational behavior’s concepts and trends.
• Develop critical insight around predictive theories of reality to help understand how organizations can better control events effectively.

5. Introduction To Business Management
Duration: 48 Hrs.
Prerequisites: None

• Introduction on Canadian business environment
• Understand important ethical issues in business decisions.
• Examine the social, economic, technological, and political/legal elements of the business environment.
• Application of theories to analyze Canadian business trends and concepts.

6. Lab 101: Industry Audit Partnership Project
Duration: 60 Hrs.
Prerequisites: None

• Collaborate with local organizations with a specific business interest.
• Perform audits and assessments.
• Provide analysis and proposals for the business
• Join a BC Business Networking Organization and analyze its value.

7. Presentations And Public Speaking
Duration: 30 Hrs.
Prerequisites: None

• Determine a speech goal and strategies that meet the audience’s needs.
• Organize and develop material for presentations.
• Develop visual aids and practice speech wording and delivery.

8. Business Etiquette Lab 101: Learning Essentials
Duration: 30 Hrs.
Prerequisites: None

• Develop personal and professional etiquette for career advancement.
• Understand the importance of business environment etiquette.

9. English Composition
Duration: 48 Hrs.
Prerequisites: None

• Understand various types of essays.
• Develop skills important to research and writing academic essays.
• Learn writing disciplines.
• Detect common grammatical mistakes in their writing and in editing exercises.
• Cite source material according to APA standards.

10. College English
Duration: 48 Hrs.
Prerequisites: None

• Develop superior English proficiency, which is essential in business settings
• Demonstrate knowledge and appropriate use of formal versus informal English.
• Write an effective business memo, email, and letter.
• Practice writing effectively under time constraints.
• Write coherent and cohesive paragraphs.

11. Principles Of Economics
Duration: 48 Hrs.
Prerequisites: None

• Relate economic terms based on the theory presented,
• Solve business problems using the “Supply and Demand” theory,
• Apply economic theories to personal lives from domestic and global perspectives.

12. Introduction To Computers
Duration: 48 Hrs.
Prerequisites: None

• Operate word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet software applications, and business tools.
• Learn to research effectively and accurately.
• Learn to utilize Windows Operating System procedures.
• Understand household and business computer hardware and networks.

13. Introduction To Accounting
Duration: 48 Hrs.
Prerequisites: None

• Learn to solve business-related problems that involve simple algebra.
• Describe the objectives of financial reporting.
• Explain the accounting cycle, from journaling up to financial statement preparation.
• Use accounting information systems.
  
• Analyze financial information for business decisions.

14. Business Math
Duration: 48 Hrs.
Prerequisites: None

• Solve budget problems using break-even and merchandising concepts.
• Identify, graph, and interpret linear relationships.
• Calculate and compare interest on various forms of credit or investments.
• Create and use amortization tables for various debt instruments.