Teaching & Courses

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

BUS 2090– INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS IN ORGANIZATIONS
This course takes a critical, strategic and integrative approach to thinking about the connection between OB theories and sustainability issues... More

BUS 3020 - CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (TO BE OFFERED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FALL 2010)
The environment of business is becoming increasingly turbulent and complex and there are growing expectations for organizational responsiveness to pressures for social and environmental responsibility in the management of organizations... More

BUS 3030 – OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY
Occupational health and safety is an essential part of an organization's success and an important element of an organization's social responsibility toward its' internal and external stakeholders... More

BUS 4250 – BUSINESS POLICY
This is the capstone course for the B.Comm program. Issues related to corporate governance, corporate social responsibility and ethics are incorporated in the case discussions... More

BUS 4550/4560 – APPLIED BUSINESS PROJECT I AND II - CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Students interested in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) or Sustainability have the opportunity to work with an organization (either on-campus or in the local community)... More

MCS 2850 – SERVICE LEARNING IN HOUSING
The intent of this course is to provide an introduction to ethics and social capital as they apply to the housing and real estate industries.. More

MCS 4050/6350 – THE EVOLUTION OF CAPITALISM:
A CANADIAN PERSPECTIVE
This course is intended for graduate students who have not taken MCS*4050 (MCS*6350) and for undergraduate students (MCS* 4050) in their final semesters of study. The course is designed to... More

MCS 4950 – CONSUMER STUDIES PRACTICUM – NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
The Consumer Studies Practicum offered each Winter by the Department of Marketing and Consumer Studies is a course that provides senior business students with “real world” experience in... More

ECON 2650 – INTRODUCTORY DEVELOPMENT ECON
This course introduces students to the economic experience of developing countries, the ways in which economists try to understand it, and the implications for policy. The basic tools of ... More

ECON 3300 – ECONOMICS OF HEALTH AND THE WORKPLACE
This course will introduce students to concepts of health economics with particular relevance to workplace issues. Topics to be covered include the determinants of health, the demand for and supply of health care... More

ECON 4930 – ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
An advanced treatment of the interrelationship between economic activities and the state of the natural environment from the economists' point of view.

GRADUATE COURSES

AGBU 6700 / BUS 6600 - SUSTAINABLE VALUE CREATION
(NEW COURSE)
This course incorporates insights from management theory and practice in order to understand the macro context of CSR/Sustainability and the implications for organizations. The key objectives are... More

LEAD 6350 - THE ROLE OF THE LEADER AS REFLECTIVE PRACTITIONER (MA LEADERSHIP)
This course is intended to enable participants to enhance their leadership capabilities as reflective practitioners by developing the thinking skills required to navigate complexity and to make decisions that... More

HTM 6140 – FOUNDATIONS OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (MBA)
The increasingly turbulent and complex external environment and the changing expectations of organizational stakeholders call for a strategic and socially responsible approach to human resource management... More

BUS 6130 / HTM 6170 – STRATEGY, ECONOMICS AND POLICY
This MBA course is required for both E/MBA streams. CSR topics are embedded in the assessment of strategy, economics and public policy frameworks that are applied in the course.

MCS - READING COURSE – NON-PROFIT MARKETING
This is a reading course in nonprofit marketing. This Winter 2009 there are students working on papers related to cause marketing, volunteerism, and donor commitment.

ECON 6800 – ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
A topics course concerning the interrelationships between economic activities and the state of the natural environment. Topics may include: pollution and economic growth; energy use and environmental quality; international trade and pollution; policies for controlling pollution; techniques for assessing the benefits of environmental improvement.

ECON 6810 – ECONOMICS OF NON-RENEWABLE RESOURCES
This course examines economic models of the use of non-renewable resources to analyze issues such as resource conservation, sustainable development, taxation of resource rents, and price determination in resource markets.

ECON 6650 – ECONOMICS OF SOCIAL WELFARE
This course deals with the analysis of social welfare programs, concentrating on national health insurance. It covers their structure, incentives and distribution effects, and includes empirical analysis of existing programs.