Program Curriculum

The Commerce curriculum provides a solid foundation of management fundamentals across all aspects of business, and the opportunity to specialize in your particular area or areas of interest. Additionally, each year you will have the opportunity to choose electives from the Faculty of Arts & Science, which will broaden your perspective beyond business. You may choose courses that suit your individual interests and strengths.

In Years 1 and 2, most of your course load will be comprised of required Commerce courses, which lay the foundation for Commerce electives in Years 3 and 4. The following table shows course and credit requirements by year.

A total of 123.0 units, with a minimum of 27.0 and a maximum of 39.0 Arts & Science units. Learn more »

Year one Year two

Required Commerce Courses:

  • Business Management and Communication
  • Introduction to Financial Accounting
  • Introduction to Management Accounting
  • Introduction to Marketing
  • Organizational Behaviour
  • Managerial Statistics
  • Principles of Economics
  • Introduction to Mathematical Analysis for Management

Arts & Science Elective Courses:
Typically 1-2 courses

Required Commerce Courses:

  • Introduction to Finance
  • Finance II
  • Marketing II
  • Business Decision Models
  • Managerial Economics
  • Introduction to Human Resources
  • Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
  • The Development of Information Systems

Arts & Science Elective Courses:
Typically 2-3 courses
Year three Year four

Required Commerce Course:
Operations Management

Commerce Elective Courses:
Typically 7-8 courses

Arts & Science Elective Courses:
Typically 2-3 courses

* The vast majority of students choose to do their international exchange for one term in third year.

Required Commerce Course:
Business Policy

Commerce Elective Courses:
Typically 6-7 courses

Arts & Science Elective Courses:
Typically 2-3 courses

 
Please see the Commerce Academic Calendar for complete course descriptions.