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Program Requirements

The Minor Management consists of 18 credits of Management courses and is currently offered to non-Management students in the following Faculties: Arts, Engineering, Science, Agricultural & Environmental Sciences, Music, Religious Studies, and Kinesiology.

This Minor is designed to provide non-management students with the opportunity to obtain basic knowledge in various aspects of management.

Complementary Courses (18 credits)

Selected from categories A, B, and C:

Category A

3 credits selected from:

• 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 2022, Winter 2023, Summer 2023

  Instructors: Zhang, Jingjing; Oh, Seunghwan; Roh, Yongoh (Fall) Lee, Dongyoung (Winter) Duan, Ken (Summer)

  • 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 2022, Winter 2023, Summer 2023

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

  • Corequisite: MGCR 271 or equivalent

  • Restriction: Not open to U0 students.

Category B

9 credits selected from:

• 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 2022, Winter 2023, Summer 2023

  Instructors: Gauvin, Tatiana; Westgate, Chantal; Blanchette, Simon; Jacob, Florence; Gounden Rock, Alyson; Abbott, Michael (Fall) Galperin, Roman; Dakhlallah, Diana; Ody-Brasier, Amandine (Winter) Westgate, Chantal (Summer)

  • Restriction: Not open to U0 students.

• 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 2022, Winter 2023, Summer 2023

  Instructors: Lima, Eduardo; Miao, Sentao; Frieden, Gabriel (Fall) Frieden, Gabriel (Winter) Matte, Jean-Sébastien (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.

• MGCR 293 Managerial Economics (3 credits) ***

  Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty of Management)

  Overview

  Management Core : The course focuses on the application of economic theory to management problems and the economic foundations of marketing, finance, and production. Attention is given to the following topics: price and cost analysis; demand and supply analysis, conditions of competition.

  Terms: Fall 2022, Winter 2023

  Instructors: Sidthidet, Taweewan; NIZAMI, TARIQ (Fall) Sidthidet, Taweewan (Winter)

  • Restriction: Not open to U0 students. Not open to students who have taken or are taking ECON 208, ECON 230D1/D2, or ECON 250D1/D2.

• 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 2022, Winter 2023

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

  • 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 2022, Winter 2023, Summer 2023

  Instructors: Han, DaHee; Sarigollu, Emine; Cyrius, Fabienne; Forget, Marie-Elyse (Fall) Doré, Bruce; Zhao, Clarice; Cyrius, Fabienne (Winter) Shi, Tianfeng (Summer)

  • Restrictions: Open to U1, U2, 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 2022, Winter 2023

  Instructors: Melville, Donald; Lee, Jared (Fall) Melville, Donald; Lee, Jared (Winter)

  • Restriction: Not open to U0 students.

• 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 2022, Winter 2023, Summer 2023

  Instructors: Ding, Yichuan Daniel; Bekci, Recep Yusuf (Fall) Hariss, Rim; Cohen, Maxime; Glew, Rob (Winter) Önen Öz, Sena (Summer)

  • Prerequisite: MGCR 271 or equivalent

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

Category C

6 credits selected from:

3-6 credits from any 300- or 400-level Management courses for which prerequisites have been met.

0-3 credits may be from a specifically designated course by the student's home faculty.

* Prerequisite: MGCR 271, Business Statistics, or another equivalent Statistics course approved by the Program Adviser.

** 3 credits of statistics: Students who have taken an equivalent Statistics course in another faculty may not count those credits towards the Minor; an additional 3-credit complementary course must be chosen from the course list above.

*** Students who have taken an equivalent Economics course in another faculty may not count those credits toward the Minor; an additional 3-credit complementary course must be chosen from the course list above.

Note: Students should select their Statistics course only after consulting the "Course Overlap" section in the Faculty of Arts, the "Course Overlap" section in the Faculty of Science, and the "Course Overlap" section in the Desautels Faculty of Management to avoid overlapping Statistics courses.