Freshman Program

120-credit Program, Freshman Course Distribution 

Students must complete all U0 requirements (30 credits) during the Freshman year which include the following components: 

U0 Required Freshman Courses (12 credits)

• MATH 122 Calculus for Management 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Review of functions, exponents and radicals, exponential and logorithm. Examples of functions in business applications. Limits, continuity and derivatives. Differentiation of elementary functions. Antiderivatives. The definite integral. Techniques of Integration. Applications of differentiation and integration including differential equations. Trigonometric functions are not discussed in this course.

  Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics

  • 3 hours lecture, 1 hour tutorial
  • Prerequisite: A course in functions.
  • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 130, MATH 131, MATH 139, MATH 140, MATH 150. MATH 139, MATH 140, MATH 141, MATH 150 and MATH 151 are not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 122, except by special permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Open to Faculty of Management students only. Offered by the Faculty of Science. Students intending to pursue one of the major or minor concentrations in Mathematics and Statistics in the Faculty of Management should take MATH 140 [or MATH 139] and MATH 141 instead.

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Sidney Trudeau
    • Jeremy D Macdonald
• MATH 123 Linear Algebra and Probability 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Geometric vectors in low dimensions. Lines and planes. Dot and cross product. Linear equations and matrices. Matrix operations, properties and rank. Linear dependence and independence. Inverses and determinants. Linear programming and tableaux. Sample space, probability, combination of events. Conditional probability and Bayes Law. Random sampling. Random variables and common distributions.

  Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics

  • 3 hours lecture, 1 hour tutorial.
  • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 223, or MATH 133 or CEGEP objective 00UQ or equivalent. Open to Faculty of Management students only. Offered by the Faculty of Science. Students intending to pursue one of the major or minor concentrations in Mathematics and Statistics in the Faculty of Management should take MATH 133 instead.

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018 academic year
• BUSA 100 Introduction to Management 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Business Admin: To introduce freshman students to the field of management and integrate them into the Desautels Faculty of Management.

  Offered by: Management

  • Restriction: Restricted to U0 students.

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
  • Instructors
    • Morty Yalovsky
• BUSA 250 Expressive Analysis for Mgmt 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Business Admin: To develop skills with respect to analysis, writing and presentation.

  Offered by: Management

  • Restriction: Restricted to U0 Bcom students.

  • Terms
    • Fall 2018
    • Winter 2019
  • Instructors
    • Lindsay Holmgren
  • A minimum grade of C is needed for all Required Freshman courses.
  • Students with at least 3 credits of Advanced Standing credits may opt to take one of the following Management core course selected in conjunction with a BCom academic adviser: 
    • MGCR 211 Intro to Financial Accounting 3 Credits

      Offered in the:
      • Fall
      • Winter
      • Summer

      
      

      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.

      Offered by: Management

      • Continuing Studies: requirement for CMA, CGA, the EA of AACI, and the Institute of Internal Auditors

      • Terms
        • Fall 2018
        • Winter 2019
      • Instructors
        • Ralph Cecere, Hongping Tan, Seunghwan Oh, Philippe Levy, Kevin Paul Parent
        • Kevin Paul Parent, Dongyoung Lee
    • MGCR 222 Intro to Org Behaviour 3 Credits

      Offered in the:
      • Fall
      • Winter
      • Summer

      
      

      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.

      Offered by: Management

      • Continuing Studies: requirement for CMA, CGA, the EA of AACI, and the Institute of Internal Auditors

      • Terms
        • Fall 2018
        • Winter 2019
      • Instructors
        • Chantal Westgate, Alfred M Jaeger
        • Chantal Westgate, Mallika Banerjee
    • MGCR 293 Managerial Economics 3 Credits

      Offered in the:
      • Fall
      • Winter
      • Summer

      
      

      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.

      Offered by: Management

      • Restrictions: Not for credit for students who have taken or are taking any of the following: ECON 208, ECON 230D1/D2 and ECON 250D1/D2.
      • Continuing Studies: requirement for CMA, CGA, the EA of AACI, and the CRA

      • Terms
        • Fall 2018
        • Winter 2019
      • Instructors
        • Taweewan Sidthidet, K Sheikholeslami Salmasi, Tariq A Nizami, Reuven Brenner
        • K Sheikholeslami Salmasi
    • MGCR 352 Principles of Marketing 3 Credits

      Offered in the:
      • Fall
      • Winter
      • Summer

      
      

      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.

      Offered by: Management

      • Continuing Studies: requirement for the Institute of Internal Auditors, and the Canadian Institute of Management

      • Terms
        • Fall 2018
        • Winter 2019
      • Instructors
        • Hee Ryung Kim, Mary S Dellar, Hamid Etemad, Thomas Dotzel
        • Nathan Yang, DaHee Han, Yi Lu, Thomas Dotzel, Emine Sarigollu
    • MGCR 382 International Business 3 Credits

      Offered in the:
      • Fall
      • Winter
      • Summer

      
      

      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.

      Offered by: Management

      • Terms
        • Fall 2018
        • Winter 2019
      • Instructors
        • Donald Melville, Jan J Jorgensen
        • Donald Melville
      
       

U0 Elective Courses (18 credits) 

• 18 credits (6 courses) of Non-Management Electives (see a non-mgmt_electives-1.pdf)

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Freshman sample schedule

Students considering the following programs:

Major or Minor in Mathematics or Statistics, Honours or Joint Honours program in Economics must replace: 

Math Placement Test:

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