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.

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.  
 

Project management has become essential in all areas of modern organizations. This course will develop the core set of technical and managerial skills needed to successfully perform all the steps needed in managing a project. The objective of this course is to explore both the technical and social components of project management. The first half of the course introduces students to the fundamentals of project management, while the latter half provides an opportunity to apply these fundamentals in the analysis of case examples and in-depth exploration of project management issues. As such, the course provides an equal blend of lecture-based and experiential learning opportunities.

To understand sustainability, one must first understand how everything we do impacts our environment. This course introduces the fundamental concepts of the science behind environmental issues using sustainability as a backdrop. The course will describe what environmental science is and how it is used to provide insight into the interactions between humans and the planet's ecosystems, resources, and natural processes. 

The course will explore topics in human populations, biodiversity, ecosystems, land usage, water consumption, climate change, energy resources, and the production and distribution of food and consumer goods.

This course explores the most recent developments in the field of sustainability. Students will learn about environmental sustainability issues like water, food, and energy, social sustainability themes such as environmental justice and transportation, and economic sustainability topics like green businesses and economic development. Finally, the course will examine corporate and organizational sustainability management and its attempts at balancing sustainability and profit.

This course explores the integration of sustainable business strategies and policies into core business functions and processes. Students will learn how leadership, finance, accounting, risk management, marketing, supply chain management, and operations can be adapted to meet sustainability goals of the 21st century. 

Looking at sustainable business from a managerial perspective, the course provides insight into how and why business is evolving due to increased consumer and regulatory pressure for sustainable performance.

This course provides a detailed overview of marketing concepts through the lens of sustainability. Students will gain an understanding of sustainable marketing, sustainability-based strategic planning, market analysis branding, and labeling. Using the consumer's pursuit of value as a focal point, the course explores value through sustainable product and pricing strategies, sustainable supply chain strategies, and sustainable innovation. Students will also learn about sustainable services marketing concepts and the reporting of value to stakeholders.

This course explores the core ethical questions shaping contemporary environmental debates.

In the first part of the course, students will examine current issues and controversies in environmental ethics.

The second part of the course will address current debates on topics such as climate change, biodiversity loss, wilderness preservation, responsibilities to future generations, population growth, overconsumption, food ethics, and ecological activism.

This course presents a broad introduction to the field of operations management while keeping sustainability at the forefront of decision making. Using several well-known organizations as examples, it explores various operational functions and how they're impacted by sustainable processes and strategies.

Students will learn about the major areas of global strategies, project management, and productivity, ethics, forecasting, goods and services, manufacturing, supply chains, inventory management, and how sustainability affects all areas of operations.

The most important factor between sustainable development and sustainability challenges is the relationship between Innovation and sustainability. This course explores that relationship by explaining how organizations can accommodate sustainability and innovation to achieve value capturing for all stakeholders involved, including the firm's clients and society overall. The course examines various business ecosystems and provides insight into the meshing of sustainability and innovation.

Solving our current environmental and sustainability challenges requires more than expertise and technology. This course explores approaches to leadership that empower professionals at all levels to tackle difficult problems and work towards sustainability.

Students will learn effective strategies and skills necessary for promoting creative and collaborative solutions. The course provides insight into blending systems thinking approaches with leadership techniques that build on the foundation of three main skills: connecting, collaborating, and adapting. it will start with an overview of the challenges facing society and the tools needed to address those challenges, including practical leadership techniques.

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 to transition into the workforce. The practicum is completed in a business environment while working under the supervision of experienced personnel, and students are provided with a description of duties to perform on the job.

At the end of the placement, the practicum host will evaluate the student, and the student will provide the college with an evaluation of the placement.

This is the Capstone project component of the sustainable business management program, which 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.

A variety of tasks performed as part of the capstone project are aligned with a typical working environment and real life situations.