Spring 2025
Final CoursesExamines the complex relationship between technology and social change throughout human history, from prehistoric tools to 21st-century advancements and their societal impacts.
Winter 2025
Advanced Finance SpecializationComprehensive overview of international financial environment examining unique functions and challenges faced by multinational corporations in global money and capital markets.
Focuses on financial aspects of starting, funding, and growing new ventures including valuation of startups, financing strategies, capitalization tables, and exit strategies.
Advanced exploration of finance and technology intersection covering blockchain, AI/ML in finance, algorithmic trading, peer-to-peer lending, and disruptive business models.
Introduction to formal decision theory from philosophical perspective, covering modeling preferences and utilities, understanding probabilities, and analyzing decision-making under uncertainty.
Explores high-growth technology-based entrepreneurial ventures, covering innovation ecosystems, opportunity identification, team building, and critical resource acquisition.
Fall 2024
Designed for non-accounting majors requiring strong understanding of financial reporting, providing depth in balance sheet valuation, income measurement, and cash flow analysis.
Advanced course focusing on utilizing financial reports to assess intrinsic values of debt and equity securities, covering valuation models and financial statement evaluation.
Explores biology, diversity, ecology, and behavior of arthropods, examining insects' roles in ecological processes, pest management principles, and conservation within human society.
Covers selected advanced topics at research frontiers, exploring intersections of finance with economics, history, political science, and psychology including behavioral finance.
Provides practical data science skills for implementing financial concepts, covering data wrangling, visualization, web scraping, machine learning algorithms, and natural language processing.
Summer 2024
Introductory course in symbolic logic covering sentential and predicate logic, formal reasoning, logical syntax and semantics, and construction of formal proofs.
Introduction to systematic study of politics, encompassing ideas, institutions, and interests of modern government, covering political concepts, methods, and contemporary issues.
Spring 2024
Focuses on financial risk management with emphasis on derivative securities, examining options and futures markets, valuation models, and hedging strategies.
In-depth exploration of ethical, environmental, social, and economic issues surrounding Alberta oil sands development through philosophical and Christian perspectives.
Winter 2024
Understanding critical interaction between organizational decision-making and IT, covering information systems' strategic role, database management, and ethical implications.
Application of economic theory to complex business decision-making, linking economic models to management functions including resource allocation and competitive advantage.
Advanced corporate finance focusing on long-term investment decisions, comprehensive coverage of capital budgeting techniques, cost of capital determination, and risk analysis.
Introduction to political philosophy examining liberalism traditions including social contract theory, classical liberalism, libertarianism, and critiques from various perspectives.
Fall 2023
Declared Finance Major & Philosophy MinorPrepares and uses accounting information for internal management decision-making covering corporate goals, cost behavior analysis, budgeting, and performance measurement systems.
Synoptic overview of Canadian legal system emphasizing social policy considerations, examining law sources, legal philosophies, and analyzing tort and contract law.
Core finance course examining securities and markets, covering risk-return relationships, efficient markets, diversification principles, and portfolio construction methods.
Survey of early modern philosophy focusing on rationalist and empiricist philosophers, concentrating on metaphysical and epistemological theories during the Scientific Revolution.
Winter 2023
Examines nature of science and religion challenging conflict myths, exploring complementary relationships through philosophical aspects and historical case studies.
Introduces fundamental finance concepts covering securities valuation, capital budgeting basics, market efficiency, risk measures, and corporate financing policy choices.
Problem-solving oriented course introducing deterministic and stochastic models for operations planning, focusing on process analysis and competitive advantage creation.
Interdisciplinary course covering managerial decision-making dynamics including HR fundamentals, business ethics, corporate social responsibility, and organizational dynamics.
Fall 2022
Entered Bachelor of Commerce ProgramFocuses on preparing and interpreting financial statements for external decision-makers, covering GAAP principles, balance sheet valuation, and cash flow analysis.
Introduction to Canadian business environment providing foundational knowledge, covering case analysis, entrepreneurial thinking, and leadership development skills.
Introduces core marketing concepts and strategic role, covering marketing mix (4 Ps), segmentation/targeting/positioning, and consumer behavior.
Builds on introductory statistics focusing on statistical model building and multiple regression analysis with practical application using software.
Winter 2022
Introduces critical analysis methods through close reading of diverse English literature, developing interpretation, analysis, and effective writing skills.
Explores research methodologies informing literature understanding, covering research question identification, source evaluation, and situating arguments within scholarship.
Introduction to human individuality, personality, and social behavior covering psychological/biological/social factors interaction and personality theories.
Fall 2021
Entered Faculty of ArtsFocuses on aggregate-level economic analysis with Canadian emphasis, covering national income accounting, monetary/fiscal policies, and international trade theory.
Introduces calculus with business/economics applications, covering derivatives as rate of change, differentiation techniques, and optimization methods.
Introduction to scientific study of behavior and mental processes, exploring research methods, genetics/evolution influence, and core psychological processes.
Winter 2021
Successful Academic PivotIntroduces microeconomic analysis principles focusing on economic problems/policies, covering consumer/firm roles, supply/demand theory, and market equilibrium.
Introduction to metaphysics and epistemology classical problems, examining reality/appearance distinction, mind-body problem, and knowledge nature through philosophical texts.
Introduces statistical methods for business/economics applications covering data collection, descriptive statistics, probability distributions, and simple linear regression.
Fall 2020
Engineering (All Withdrawn)Introductory chemistry for engineering covering atomic structure, chemical bonding, molecular geometry, stoichiometry, and states of matter (withdrawn).
Fundamentals of computer programming for engineering problem-solving, covering program structure, data types, and debugging techniques (withdrawn).
Introduction to Faculty of Engineering and profession, covering study skills, time management, ethics, and engineering's societal role (withdrawn).
Principles of statics focusing on equilibrium of planar systems, truss/frame analysis, friction, centroids, and forces/moments in beams (withdrawn).
Calculus for engineering covering limits, continuity, derivatives and applications, logarithmic/exponential functions, and integration (withdrawn).
Classical physics covering geometrical optics, oscillations, wave phenomena, sound physics, and diffraction principles for engineering applications (withdrawn).