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Please note: not all courses are offered each year. This list is intended as a general guide and tracker of possible course offerings.
1000 Level Courses
2000 Level Courses
3000 Level Courses
4000 Level Courses
Leadership Courses
1000 Level Courses
2000 Level Courses
A multidisciplinary approach to the study of human behavior in organizations from the individual, group and organizational levels of explanation.
Antirequisite(s): MOS 2180
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours
In this academic internship, students explore the principles of aviation, including air law, navigation, radio aids, meteorology, and general knowledge about aeronautics. This "ground school" is a co-requisite to flight training toward the private pilot's license.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours
This course is an integrated introduction to accounting principles and practices. It is designed to help students begin to understand accounting information, along with its uses and limitations. This course is to provide students with an integrated framework for preparing, analyzing and interpreting the financial statements.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 2257.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Note: Students interested in pursuing an HBA Degree at the Richard Ivey School of Business should not take this course in second year as Ivey does not recognize this course as part of the HBA degree. Instead, students should take Business Administration 2257 as required by Ivey.
This course is an integrated introduction to accounting principles and practices. It is designed to help students begin to understand accounting information, along with its uses and limitations. This course is to provide students with an integrated framework for preparing, analyzing and interpreting the financial statements.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 2257. Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Note: Students interested in pursuing an HBA Degree at the Richard Ivey School of Business should not take this course in second year as Ivey does not recognize this course as part of the HBA degree. Instead, students should take Business Administration 2257 as required by Ivey.
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to quantitative decision-making skills, with an emphasis on analysis techniques used in management. Topics include: descriptive statistics, probability, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, correlation and regression, time series forecasting, and survey techniques.
Antirequisite(s): Biology 2244A/B, Economics 2122A/B, Economics 2222A/B, Geography and Environment 2210A/B, Health Sciences 3801A/B, Psychology 2811A/B, the former Psychology 2810, the former Psychology 2820E, Psychology 2830A/B, Psychology 2850A/B, Psychology 2851A/B, the former Social Work 2207A/B, Sociology 2205A/B, Statistical Sciences 2035, Statistical Sciences 2141A/B, Statistical Sciences 2143A/B, Statistical Sciences 2244A/B, Statistical Sciences 2858A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
An introduction to Canadian business law, including: tort law, contracts, property, employment, partnerships, corporations, debtor and creditor, bankruptcy and insolvency, sale of goods and consumer protection. Cases and current events are used to illustrate legal issues and to solve legal problems.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4450A/B, Law 5510A/B, Law 5210A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
This course is designed to give students the tools necessary to manage their own finances over their lifetime. It would be of interest to anyone who plans to have a job, buy a car, buy a house, have a family, and retire to a comfortable life.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
This course offers a practical and applied introduction to financial management and corporate finance, focusing on essential concepts and skills for decision-making. Students will gain a foundational understanding of financial statements, time value of money, risk management, capital budgeting, and other key topics in financial management.
Antirequisite(s): Financial Modelling 2555A/B, MOS 2310A/B, MOS 3310A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
This course provides overview of issues in financial management and corporate finance. Students will learn how financial managers make investment, financing and other decisions and the tools they use to make such decisions. Topics covered include time value of money, risk, valuation, capital structure, dividend policy and other selected issues.
Antirequisite(s) at Main campus: Financial Modelling 2555A/B, and MOS 3310A/B. Antirequisite(s) at Huron campus: Financial Modelling 2555A/B, MOS 3310A/B, the former Actuarial Science 2555A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
An introduction to the role of marketing in the organization including information systems, corporate strategy, opportunities assessment, product differentiation, pricing strategies, distribution, communication and advertising.
Antirequisite(s): MOS 3320A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
This course introduces students to how system and organization design affect management decisions by examining a range of current issues drawn from the aviation industry. The course examines decision making challenges faced by management in areas such as organizational resilience, labour relations, technology modernization, and sustainability among others.
Antirequisite(s): MOS 2296A/B if taken in 2021-22 or 2022-23.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
3000 Level Courses
In this academic internship, students explore the principles of aviation, including air law, navigation, radio aids, meteorology, and general knowledge about aeronautics. This "ground school" is a co-requisite to flight training toward the commercial pilot's license.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
This course develops research skills for students of HRM. This course links introductory concepts and research techniques from organizational behaviour and HRM to applied problems facing organizations today. Students will learn how to apply research techniques in order to understand HRM phenomena.
Antirequisite(s): MOS 3420F/G, MOS 3470F/G.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Psychology and physiology as they relate to human performance in a complex operating environment. Topics include pilot decision-making and crew resource management, interpersonal relations, effects of noise and vibration, pressure change, balance, motion sickness, jet lag, human factors in aircraft accidents.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
The fundamentals of aviation law emphasizing factors guiding operational decision-making by aviation managers and professional pilots. Topics will include the regulation of aviation traffic and commercial and public airports, personnel licensing and training, general operating and flight rules, air transport regulators and associations.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
This course introduces students to an in-depth analysis of financial planning and management with emphasis on capital structure and dividend payout policies, cost of capital and capital budgeting, and working capital management. The course serves as a framework for understanding a broad range of corporate financial decisions. Cases and directed readings will be used to enhance learning.
Antirequisite(s): MOS 4310A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
The objective of this course is to prepare students for successful interaction with financial markets and institutions. Focus will be placed on the behavior of major financial institutions and their role in the intermediation process as suppliers of funds as well as the form and function of specific financial markets.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
This course examines the major theories of investment finance and the pricing of bonds, stocks and options. Portfolio construction using both passive and active management strategies is also discussed.
Antirequisite(s): Economics 2121A/B, Economics 3346A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
This course focuses on understanding and predicting consumer behavior by integrating theories from psychology, sociology, anthropology and economics. Emphasis will be on how behavior is shaped by internal and external influences.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
This course focuses on the theories, concepts, and applications of integrated marketing communications, covering the elements of advertising, sales promotion, public relations, publicity, personal selling, direct marketing, and interactive marketing. The goal is to understand how marketing communications reaches and serves customers, and how it helps to shape consumer behavior.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
An analysis of the principles, theories and practices critical to managing an organization. Overview of analytical models and approaches to improving operating systems. Attention is paid to both service and manufacturing operations.
Antirequisite(s) at Main campus: Business Administration 3304K.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
An introduction to a systematic framework for identifying and designing compensation systems that add value to organizations. Topics include compensation system components, strategic and behavioral compensation frameworks, technical processes for compensation, and the implementation, management and evaluation of individual and group pay systems.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
This course provides an understanding of the role of training and the various forms training can take. Students develop a theoretical and applied understanding of training practices in Canadian workplaces as well as a practical knowledge of instructional design.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
An examination of managerial issues surrounding occupational health and safety practices and processes in Canada, with emphasis on the Province of Ontario. Technical, legislative, political and personal dimensions of the subject are examined, including managing a safety program.
Antirequisite(s) at Main campus: Health Sciences 3030A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
This course examines the economic, social, legal and political relationships among labour, management and the state with emphasis on organized labour and unionized workplaces in Canada.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Theory and concepts of financial accounting with particular emphasis on financial statements, revenue recognition, and current and long-term assets.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4417A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Theory and concepts of financial accounting particularly in the areas of current and long-term liabilities and shareholders' equity.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
An introduction to the Income Tax Act (Canada) and its effect on taxation for individuals and corporations. Examines the determination of income, deductions and tax credits for both personal and corporate taxpayers.
Antirequisite(s) at Main campus: Business Administration 4479A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
An introduction to auditing concepts and procedures. Students will learn to recognize statement assertions and the risks associated with them. Topics include audit methodology, ethics, judgment, and emphasizing assessment of the internal control system and its impact on audit risk.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4497A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
This course is designed to provide students with an exposure to fraud awareness, prevention and detection issues. This exploration of commercial crime and fraud topics in business will benefit students studying to become professionals in accounting, finance, human resources, management, and marketing.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
What does it cost? This question is asked in every organization. The determination of cost is a key accounting process that supports decision making. This course will cover management accounting techniques related to cost: behaviour, allocation, determination, and strategic cost management.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 3307K.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours
An introduction to human resources planning processes in organizations. Topics include: supply and demand forecasting, succession management, job analyses, downsizing and restructuring, mergers and acquisitions.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
An introduction to the theory and scientific methods of psychological assessment for the purposes of personnel selection, with an emphasis on the most current and valid selection procedures. Related topics include job analysis and competency modeling, recruitment, decision-making, legal and ethical issues.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
An introduction to human resources management (HRM) processes in organizations. Topics include: history of HRM, role of HRM departments in organizations, basics in job design, staffing analysis, recruitment and selection.
Antirequisite(s): MOS 4485F/G.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Examination of selected topics in Management and Organizational Studies. Topic and course outline available at the beginning of each term.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
This course integrates the various research tools used within the social sciences and applies them to practical marketing research settings. The focus is on how to develop research designs, instruments, and methodologies to answer specific applied research questions and theories.
Antirequisite(s): MOS 3280F/G, MOS 3470F/G.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
This course provides a general overview of the law of contracts in Canada. In addition to considering the substantive rules of the law of contracts, students will be encouraged to think about the law theoretically and critically.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
4000 Level Courses
In this academic internship, students explore the principles of aviation, including air law, instrumentation, navigation, radio aids, meteorology, and general knowledge about aeronautics. This "ground school" is a co-requisite to flight training toward the instrument rating.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
This course provides students with a framework for understanding the design and valuation of derivative securities. It familiarizes them with the instruments and institutions of financial markets, focusing particularly on "derivatives" markets (futures, options, etc.). Students learn with a series of simulation exercises in excel spreadsheet using real data.
Antirequisite(s): MOS 3312A/B.
Extra Information: 4 lecture hours.
This course provides a general overview of the law of employment in Canada. In addition to considering the substantive rules of the law of employment, students will be encouraged to think about the law theoretically and critically.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
This course focuses on theory, methodology, and implications of EDI-D research in the workplace. Students will learn how to apply theories and research techniques to understand practical problems in EDI-D in the workplace.
Antirequisite(s): MOS 3396A/B if taken in 2023-24.
Extra information: 3 lecture hours.
A study of airport planning and successful airport operation. Topics include the duties and responsibilities of the airport manager, regulations governing the operation of commercial and public airports in Canada and internationally, fiscal management of airports, forecasting methods, environmental issues and requirements, terminal building concepts, current and emerging public airport issues.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
A study of the organization and function of airlines and general aviation business. Topics include airline operational techniques, market research and passenger trends, route feasibility studies, scheduling, pricing and fleet selection strategies, operation and management of corporate flight departments, air cargo operations, and maintenance factors affecting profitability.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
This course focuses on the science of pilot performance, aviation safety, risk management and aviation security. Information will be drawn from human physiology, basic learning theory, accident statistics, security threats, and pilot training. A focal point will be on understanding the nature and causation of accidents.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Identification and analysis of problems and strengths in the organizational environment, using models from the social sciences. Strategies designed to deal with organizational challenges will be explored.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
This course focuses on theory, methodology, and implications of consumer research. Students will learn how to apply theories and research techniques, in order to understand consumer phenomena.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
An extension of the Introduction to Canadian Taxation course, with a focus on planning and analysis. Emphasis on the application of Canadian tax principles to complex situations for individuals, corporations and other entities.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
This course is an extension of Intermediate Accounting I and Intermediate Accounting II focusing on advanced financial accounting topics.
Antirequisite(s): Business Administration 4427A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Enterprise Risk Management is a strategic risk management process designed to identify potential events that could negatively impact the organization and minimize their effects. It is applied across an enterprise and has the goal of measuring an organization’s achievement of its strategic, operational, financial reporting and compliance objectives.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
An integrated study of the nature of control systems, the management control environment and the management control process. Management Control is a critical function of management that increases the probability of organization success. A detailed review of Management Control Systems to achieve organization goals, objectives and strategies.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
This course focuses on the strategic context of the flow of accounting information from a systems perspective, specifically, the needs and responsibilities of accountants as users of technology. The impact of new technologies and emerging issues in accounting will be integrated throughout the course.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
The course will familiarize students with ethical issues in businesses and help them make socially responsible decisions. The course will provide students with the knowledge and tools necessary to identify, critically analyze and resolve ethical issues that they are likely to encounter as organizational members.
Antirequisite(s): MOS 4467A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
This course considers both managerial choice and the influence of context on strategies for managing people and how human resource management (HRM) policies and practices such as reward, performance management, training and employee voice might be used to different effect and effectiveness in various organizations.
Extra Information: This is a blended course with 2 hours of content comprised of recorded lectures and additional reading plus one hour of in-person discussion per week
Students in the Honours Specialization in Consumer Behavior or Human Resource Management who wish to pursue an Honours Thesis (MOS 4999E) must submit the required information by July 31.
Enrolment is limited and based on:
- A minimum 80% average in the last 5.0 courses completed
- Alignment of research interests with a DAN Department of Management & Organizational Studies faculty member
- Supervisor availability
Applications will be reviewed, and selected students may be contacted to discuss potential supervision. Enrolment decisions will be communicated by August 15.
As spaces are limited and dependent on faculty availability, students should register in a full course load during course registration. Students admitted to MOS 4999E can subsequently drop course(s) of equivalent value.
Leadership Studies Courses
This course considers the conditions, techniques, and activities which facilitate the development of leaders and leadership. The course emphasizes that leadership development includes not only the nurturing of individual skills but also competencies relating to interactions with other persons in the immediate environment and the larger organization.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
This course synthesizes key concepts and theories of systems change, social movements, feminist activism, anti-racism, and systems leadership to address intractable societal issues in equity, diversity, and inclusion. An experiential component of the course requires leading an actionable change process.
Extra Information: 3 hours.