This course explores the fundamental concepts of cloud-based suite of applications for working and collaborating online. Students learn to confidently navigate a virtual workspace in their browser. This course focuses on tools necessary to communicate via chats and video conferencing, collaborate in shared environments, prepare documents, create presentations, utilize online spreadsheet, maintain a calendar, and operate a virtual drive.

This course focuses on the essential IT skills and knowledge needed to perform tasks commonly performed by end-users and entry-level IT professionals. Students will learn to use the features and functions of common operating systems and establishing network connectivity. The course will explore common software applications and their purpose, security and web browsing best practices. By the end of this course, students will have gained foundational knowledge in IT concepts and terminology, IT infrastructure, applications, and software development, database fundamentals and security.

Business Essentials provides an overview of business management today, including forms of ownership and the ways managers carry out their basic management functions in a skillful and inventive way. Subjects covered include, setting up a business in Canada, history of business in Canada, types of business organizations, managing the business enterprise, setting business goals, formulating strategy, management process, planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, types and areas of managers, management skills, motivating and leading employees, job satisfaction, motivation, data communication networks, transaction processing systems, and management information systems.
 

This course aims to build upon the student’s fundamental knowledge of business in general with a particular focus on management. Students will explore the management skills that are essential in today’s business environments. Students will explore the role of management in areas of planning, organizing, leading and controlling processes. The course will explore topics in management in small, medium and large enterprises, planning and strategic management, operations management, human resources management, leadership, motivating employees, working with groups and teams and managing innovation and change.  
 

This course investigates the dynamics of human behavior within the context of organizations. Three levels of analysis are focused upon: individual, group and organization. The goal is to develop analytical skill to decrease the number of unintended consequences occurring because of the interface between human nature and organization rules and structures.

This course explores the fundamental concepts of modern business analytics. Students will gain an understanding of how data analysis works in today’s business organizations. This course provide the foundations needed to understand business analytics and show students how to manipulate data and develop simple data models. The course will explore the fundamental tools and methods of data analysis and statistics with a focus on visual representations of data, descriptive statistical measures, probability distributions and data modeling, sampling and estimation, and statistical inference.

This course explores the fundamental concepts of systems analysis and design. The course will explore the different analysis and design approaches and methodologies. Students will learn how to gather requirements and information, model the needs, and create the various diagrams. The focus of the course will on the object-oriented approach with the use of the Unified Modeling Language. Students will learn the common UML vocabulary, object oriented terms and diagramming techniques allowing them to model any systems development project from analysis through implementation.

This course explores the processes of business process
management and its interrelationship with organizational
management, culture, and leadership. The course will explore
the major business process management frameworks, including
LEAN and Six Sigma and how these add impactful and
measurable value to an organization. The course will explore
content on sustainable processes in BPM, including processes
in automation and new technologies, including AI

In this course, students will gain a strong understanding of IT
project management. Students will learn the latest
developments and skills in project management. The course will
explore the fundamentals of project management before
integrating the information technology concepts. The course
makes use of case studies and scenarios to explore the various
concepts of project management including project integration
management, project scope management, schedule
management, cost management, quality management,
resource management, communications management, and risk
management within the context of information technology
project management.

Students will also be introduced to generative AI tools and how
they can be applied at each stage of the project management
lifecycle to enhance planning, communication, decision-making,
and overall project efficiency

This course provides extensive coverage of IS across a variety
of business environments. Using a variety of real world case
studies, this course will explore how well-known organizations
leverage IT to solve common problems and meet performance
targets. Students will learn the broad roles of information
systems in the global business landscape while reviewing the
various types of information systems that are used in businesses
today. The course covers three main areas: management of a
networked enterprise, information technology infrastructures,
and key systems applications for the digital age.

Students will also be introduced to generative AI concepts such
as prompt engineering and large language models (LLMs) and
will apply comparison and visualization tasks to analyze system
outputs. The course includes hands-on activities in customer
journey mapping enhanced by AI.
 

This course explores the legal, ethical, and societal impacts of
information technology. Students will learn about the common
issues related to cybersecurity, cyber attacks, risk assessment,
privacy and confidentiality, electronic surveillance and freedom
of expression and their resulting ethical issues. The course will
review Internet censorship, protection of intellectual property,
social networking, ethical decision making and the ethical
decisions in software systems and their impact on the general
ethics of businesses and society as a whole.

The course also includes case studies and hands-on activities
focused on the ethical use of generative AI, exploring themes
such as privacy, fairness, and regulation. Students will examine
AI governance and risk frameworks, and assess the implications
of AI in content creation, decision-making, and future workforce
dynamics.
 

Change is not always an easy thing to embrace. The impact of
change can be far reaching in any organization affecting people,
productivity, performance, and many other aspects of a
business. This course focuses on the management of change in
an organization. Students will be introduced to the fundamentals
of organizational change with a focus on the techniques and
practical aspects of change management leading to the most
important success factors. In addition to the fundamentals of
change management, the course will cover the triggers of
corporate change, barriers to change, and success models of
change management in areas of leadership, vision, and
communication, participation of stakeholders, integration,
consultation, and evolution of change.

In addition, students will be introduced to AI tools to analyze
organizational data and feedback, enhancing decision-making
through predictive and sentiment analysis. They will learn to
work more efficiently with AI tools that support group work,
communication planning, and report writing.

This course explores what makes an effective leadership in
organizations. Students will learn the major theories and
research on leadership and managerial effectiveness in
organizations. The course will cover the various approaches to
leadership and management styles, including the nature of
leadership, behaviours, adaptive leadership, decision-making,
and empowerment.

Students will explore the processes for
leading change and innovation, power and influence tactics, and
leader traits and skills. Finally, students will learn the importance
of ethical leadership, leadership in teams and decision groups,
cross cultural leadership and diversity, and strategies for
developing leadership skills.

In this course, students will learn the key principles of risk
management and how to deal with the different types of risk
organizations face. The course will explore the frameworks of
business continuity planning, enterprise risk management, and
project risk management. The course provides an analysis of
changes in contemporary risk areas including ERM, digital risk
management, risk culture and appetite, supply chain and
statutory risk reporting. The course will explore the broad areas
of enterprise risk management, risk assessment and analysis,
risk response, corporate governance and risk management,
assurance and reporting.

The course also covers the AI-driven data lifecycle, regulatory
audits, and the ethical dimensions of privacy, fairness, and
compliance in modern risk management systems.

This course builds on the skills learned in the Student Success Strategies course or its equivalent. It provides information on how to use the communication skills learned in order to make a successful presentation to a prospective employer. Students also learn how to uncover the hidden job market and identifyemployment opportunities. Self-assessment during this course allows students to identify their personal skills that are transferable to the work place and to describe these skills to a prospective employer. Students may be videotaped during a mock interview and will participate in the analysis of their performance in the “interview”.

This field placement will prepare students for their transition to 
the workforce. The practicum will be completed in a business 
environment working under the supervision of experienced 
personnel. Students are provided with a description of duties 
they will perform on the job. At the end of the placement, the 
practicum host will provide an evaluation on the student and the 
student will provide the college with an evaluation on the 
placement.

This is the capstone project component of the Business
Technology Management program. It provides students with
the opportunity to apply their knowledge and skills from the
classroom portion of the program to practical situations
typically encountered in a business environment. The tasks
performed as part of the capstone project reflect the
experience of working in a professional environment and real
life situations.