Program overview聽
You鈥檒l learn聽from聽accomplished researchers, lecturers, and industry professionals who聽foster excellence and innovation.
You鈥檒l graduate with聽a聽foundation of key management principles that you can apply in any career:
- leadership
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- marketing
- organizational behaviour聽聽
- innovation
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Degree timeline
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Year 1: Discover
In your 1st year, you鈥檒l:
- Take core courses designed to help you manage in public, private, and non-profit environments.聽
- 罢补办别听补苍听别濒别肠迟颈惫别 to start exploring your interests.
- Meet the cohort of students you鈥檒l study with throughout your degree.
Skills and learning outcomes
- Core courses emphasize聽creativity, leadership, and problem-solving.
- Learn how technology and artificial intelligence are changing organizations and how we do business.
- Learn foundational management issues of planning, organizing, leading and controlling in response to internal and external pressures, with an emphasis on creativity, leadership and innovation.
- Understand how businesses, governments, societies, and technologies interact in a world with limited resources.
- Learn key principles and skills for managing money & people.
Top experiences
- Join a student society in your first term to meet students and professionals outside the classroom.
- Case competitions for 1st year students help you put your learning to the test in an environment designed for beginners.
- Attend the Business Networking Night in September to learn what employers are looking for.聽
Unique courses:
- Interdisciplinary Management I & II聽are team-taught by a group of professors from different backgrounds,聽emphasizing聽creativity, leadership, and problem-solving from many perspectives.
- Management Software and Technology聽ensures that from the beginning of your first year, you鈥檙e thinking about how technology and AI are impacting businesses and society.
View a complete list of required courses in the academic calendar or refer to the course planning worksheet (linked above).
You'll find it helpful to:
- Meet with your academic advis辞谤听in the Undergraduate Advising Office聽with setting and developing strategies for your聽academic,聽career, and personal goals.
- Visit the Student Resource Centre for help with your assignments.
- Explore career coaching through Management Career Services. You have access to resume feedback, interview practice, industry expertise, networking events and more, regardless of whether you plan to do a work term.
- Attend a Learn and Connect session to meet advisors and student leaders.
Year 2: Grow
This is the year you'll:
- Continue with your core courses.
- Take 3 electives to explore your interests.聽聽
- Decide whether you want to specialize by choosing a major, minor or certificate; or customize with electives of your choice. You can declare a major, minor or certificate at any time. We recommend declaring a major by the Winter term of year 2 and talking to an academic advisor to understand your options.聽
- Apply to do the聽optional 聽8-month paid work term 颈蹿听测辞耻'谤别听颈苍迟别谤别蝉迟别诲.
Skills and learning outcomes
- How you can use data to gain and keep a competitive edge.
- Why people work and participate in organizations: individual motivation, personality, perception, attitudes, cultural values, and ethics in organizations.
- How organizations manage work: communication, team performance and leadership, power and politics, organizational cultures, the process of change, and managing employee performance.
- How to define and reach a market, including asking and answering good questions about your market, understanding consumer behavior, discovering opportunities, and building product, price, distribution and communication strategies for a target market.
- How organizations not oriented to profit (like NGOs and governments) use marketing and consumer behavior to achieve their objectives.
- The organizing principles and structures of governments in Canada, including federal, provincial, municipal and territorial governments, and the role of a permanent public service.
- How to apply ethical reasoning to the workplace, navigating complex and controversial case studies with critical thinking.
Top experiences
- Participate in student societies to have opportunities to travel, compete in case competitions, meet students in other programs, and get involved in community service.
- Compete in Rumble in the Rowe, a second-year in-house case competition.
- Test your skills compared to other teams in your class鈥檚 marketing simulation.
- Build a spoof marketing campaign critiquing / mocking a real campaign.
- Get hands-on with real data to make business decisions about a realistic case.
Popular courses:
Intro to Indigenous Governance
Managing Change, Information & Innovation
- Tourism Management
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Business
Unique courses:听
- Marketing Applications in the Not-for-Profit Sectors: Learn how marketing is used for non-profit causes and social change.
View a complete list of required courses in the academic calendar or refer to the course planning worksheet (linked above).
You'll find it helpful to:
- Meet with your academic advis辞谤听in the Undergraduate Advising Office to understand your options for majors, minors and certificates.
- Visit the Student Resource Centre for help with your assignments.
- Meet with a career coach in聽Management Career Services聽to find out if the internship program is right for you and get started on your application.
Year 3: Specialize
This year you'll,
- Have space to explore with 6 electives.
- Start your 8-month work term in the Summer, if you choose to do one.
Skills and learning outcomes
- Third year is when you鈥檒l get a chance to start exploring your interests in earnest. You might take a major, minor or certificate,聽or you might build a list of courses that is customized to聽you鈥攊ncluding courses in other faculties like Arts and Science.聽
Top experiences
- Networking events, employer information sessions and application preparation assistance will help you be successful in your job search.
Popular courses:
- Beyond Google
Unique courses:
Public Policy toward Business: Learn how government and business can collaborate.聽
View a complete list of required courses in the academic calendar or refer to the course planning worksheet (linked above).
If you choose to do an 8-month work term, starting it in the Summer term of year聽3 ensures you can graduate within聽4聽years.聽
You鈥檒l聽start your job search聽early in the Winter term to take advantage of postings from our employer partners.聽
After four months聽on the job, a聽career聽coach聽will meet with you and your supervisor to discuss your progress on your goals and projects.
You'll find it helpful to:
- Meet with your academic advis辞谤听in the Undergraduate Advising Office聽for help聽with setting and developing strategies for your聽academic,聽career聽and personal goals.
- Meet with聽a career coach in聽Management Career Services聽to kickstart your search for your 8-month work term.
- Visit Management's聽Student Resource Centre for help with your assignments.
Year 4: Apply
This year, you'll:听
Bring your learning together with capstone courses.
Take eight electives to聽complete the聽requirements f辞谤听your major or minor.
Complete your optional 8-month work term in the Fall term.
Skills and learning outcomes
- Two capstone courses bring your learning together to prepare you to solve complex organizational problems.
Top experiences
Your last chance to make memories that last a lifetime. If you haven鈥檛 already, your fourth year is a chance to run for a student society position, help organize a聽fundraiser,聽conference聽or case competition,聽and attend year-end celebrations.聽
Graduation! We can鈥檛 wait to celebrate with you and your supporters.聽
Unique courses:
- Doing Business in Emerging Markets: A field course where聽you鈥檒l聽travel internationally to learn about expanding Canadian business.
- Critical Approaches to Knowledge and Data Justice:听Learn how to understand power dynamics, bias and injustice in order to become an informed advocate for positive change.
View a complete list of required courses in the academic calendar or refer to the course planning worksheet (linked above).
You'll find it helpful to:
- Meet with your academic advis辞谤听in the Undergraduate Advising Office聽if you have questions about聽meeting聽your graduation requirements or continuing your studies with a聽Master鈥檚聽degree.
Meet with a career coach in聽Management Career Services聽to prepare for your post-graduation job search.
Visit Management's聽Student Resource Centre for help with your assignments.
