Minors in Business Administration

UCFV offers six minors in Business Administration. These include:

• General Business

• Accounting*

• Finance*

• Marketing

• Management Science/Information Systems

These are currently available to UCFV Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, and Bachelor of Kinesiology students. BCIS students may also complete a Business minor.

Requirements and procedures

Students wishing to take a minor in business must have declared and be enrolled in a major program of study (other than Business). Once enrolled in a major program of study in a degree program which permits Business minors, students may apply to the Business Administration programs for one of the business minors offered (students seeking more than one minor must fulfill each minor’s program requirements). Acceptance to a minor in business will require the development of a program plan of study in consultation with the Business Administration program chair or program assistant.

Note: The number of students accepted to business minors may be limited due to seat availability.

The minors each require 30 credits, including ECON 100 and four lower-level business courses and five upper-level courses (numbered 300 and above). Courses taken in these minors can contain business-related courses from other disciplines to a maximum of two non-Business (BUS) courses.

Note: Depending on the courses selected, some additional prerequisite courses may be required.

Note: Students should consult the Business Administration department and course prerequisite information in the calendar, as additional courses outside of the minor requirements are needed for many upper-level electives, depending on the minor and courses selected.

Time required for program completion

Completion of a business minor would be done concurrently with completion of the bachelor’s degree in the chosen major field of study. Courses needed to fulfill prerequisite requirements can be taken without additional time for degree completion provided the student declares his/her major and minor early enough to plan for the prerequisite requirements of upper-level courses.

Minor in General Business

Students seeking business courses for a general business minor can select from a number of courses that have few or no prerequisites and would not require Math 12. In addition to ECON 100, these currently consist of five lower-level courses: BUS 100, BUS 120, BUS 160, BUS 203*, and BUS 261, and six upper-level courses: BUS 304*, BUS 400, BUS 407*, BUS 410, BUS 420, BUS 440. Collectively these would be sufficient for a general minor in business.

Note: Students should consult the Business Administration department and course prerequisite information in the calendar, as additional courses outside of the Minor requirements are needed for many upper-level electives.

* Please refer to prerequisite requirements in the Business Administration course descriptions section.

Lower-level requirements

• ECON 100
Plus:

• Four lower-level business courses

Upper-level requirements

Students are required to take a minimum of five courses for at least 15 credits from the BBA core or elective courses at the 300- or 400-level. Please note the restrictions on non-Business (BUS) courses. For complete listings and details on these courses see the Business Administration Course descriptions.

Minor in Accounting

Note: Principles of Math 12 with a C+ or better or the equivalent is a prerequisite for most of these courses.

Lower-level requirements

Course Title Credits

BUS 145* Accelerated Financial Accounting 3

BUS 160* Computerized Business Applications 3

BUS 247* Management Accounting I 3

ECON 100 Principles of Microeconomics 3

Plus one other lower-level BUS or ECON course 3

Total 15

Upper-level requirements

Course Title Credits

Five courses from:

BUS 338* Accounting Information Systems 3

BUS 343** Intermediate Accounting I 3

BUS 344* Intermediate Accounting II 3

BUS 345* Income Tax I 3

BUS 346* Income Tax II 3

BUS 347* Auditing Principles 3

BUS 348* Management Accounting II 3

BUS 439* Advanced Financial Accounting 3

Total 15

Note: BUS 343/344 and BUS 345/346 are sequential pairs and both “halves” are recommended.

* Please refer to prerequisite requirements in calendar course descriptions.

** Prerequisites: Acceptance to Bachelor of Business Administration degree or Accounting certificate program; C+ or better in Principles of Math 12 provincially examined; or MATH 110 (C+ or better); BUS 144 or 145 with C+ or better. Corequisites: BUS 160 or CIS 110

Minor in Financial Management

Note: Principles of Math 12 with a C+ or better or the equivalent is a prerequisite for most of these courses.

Lower-level requirements

Course Title Credits

BUS 145* Accelerated Financial Accounting 3

BUS 160 Computerized Business Applications 3

BUS 247* Managerial Accounting 3

ECON 100 Principles of Microeconomics 3

Elective Economics or business 3

Total 15

Upper-level requirements

Students are required to take a minimum of 15 credits from the following courses:

Course Title Credits

BUS 349* Financial Management I 3

BUS 433* Investments 3

BUS 434* Risk Management and
Financial Engineering 3

BUS 435** International Finance 3

BUS 449* Financial Management II 3

ECON 398* Business and Government II
— Topics in Macroeconomics 3

ECON 410* Economics of Financial Markets 4

Total 15

* Please refer to prerequisite requirements in calendar course descriptions.

** Prerequisites: Acceptance to Bachelor of Business Administration degree, and BUS 349.

Minor in Human Resources/
Organization Studies

Lower-level requirements

Course Title Credits

BUS 100 Introduction to Business 3
or BUS 102 Introduction to Business 3

BUS 201* Human Resource Management 3

BUS 203* Organizational Behaviour 3

ECON 100 Principles of Microeconomics 3

Elective Economics or business 3

Total 15

Upper-level requirements

Course Title Credits

Five courses from:

BUS 304* Organizational Theory and Application 3

BUS 305* Industrial Relations 3

BUS 307* Selected Topics in Organizational
Behaviour 3

BUS 308* Selected Topics in Applied Organization
Theory 3

BUS 309 Selected Topics in
Human Resources Management 3

BUS 400 Business and Society 3

BUS 407* Gender and Diversity Issues 3

BUS 408* Teamwork in Organizations 3

BUS 410 Government and Enterprise 3

CRIM 417* Leadership in Groups
and Organizations 3

Total 15

* Please refer to prerequisite requirements in the calendar course descriptions.

Minor in Marketing

Lower-level requirements

Course Title Credits

BUS 120 Essentials of Marketing 3

BUS 203* Organizational Behaviour 3

ECON 100 Principles of Microeconomics 3

Plus two courses from:

BUS 221* Professional Selling 3

BUS 222* Sales Management 3

BUS 223* Advertising 3

BUS 224* Retail Management 3

Total 15

Upper-level requirements

Course Title Credits

Five courses from:

BUS 301* Economic and Business Statistics 4

BUS 320** Business Research Methods 3

BUS 321* Business-to-Business Marketing 3

BUS 323* Promotion Management 3

BUS 327* Consumer Behaviour 3

BUS 421* International Marketing 3

BUS 423* Services Marketing 3

BUS 425* Marketing Strategy 3

ECON 341 International Economics 4

Total 15–17

* Please refer to prerequisite requirements in calendar course descriptions.

** Prerequisite: Acceptance to Bachelor of Business Administration degree. Corequisite: BUS 301 (may be taken as a prerequisite).

Minor in Operations Management/
Information Systems

Note: Principles of Math 12 with a C+ or better or equivalent is required.

Lower-level requirements

Course Title Credits

BUS 145* Accelerated Financial Accounting 3

BUS 160* Computerized Business Applications 3

ECON 100 Principles of Microeconomics 3

Plus two other lower-level BUS or ECON courses 6

Total 15

Upper-level requirements

Course Title Credits

Five courses from:

BUS 338* Accounting Information Systems 3

BUS 350* Operations Management 3

BUS 404* Management Science 3

BUS 440* Management Information Systems 3

BUS 450* Probabilistic Models in
Operations Analysis 3

BUS 451* Computer Simulation Models
in Business 3

BUS 452* Computer Applications in Operations 3

BUS 453* Decision Theory in Business 3

Total 15

Course listings

For complete details on courses see the calendar course descriptions.

Professor emeriti

Janet Falk, BA (Hons), BBA (York), CMA

Blake Wight, BComm (Alberta), Dip. Urban Land Econ. (UBC), RI (BC)

Full-time Faculty

D.J. Sandhu, BBA, MBA (SFU), Program Chair

Gillian Bubb, BSc (LaTrobe), MComm-Acctg. (Canberra),
Grad Teaching diploma (S. Queensland), CPA

Cyrus Chaichian, MSc (Columbia)

Brian H. Coulter, BA (Hons)(UAC), MA (Calgary)

Vladimir Dvoracek, BA (Waterloo), MA (Queen’s), PhD (SFU)

Larry Howe, BSc (Calgary), BEd (Alberta), CA

Edwin Li, BS, MS (Oklahoma), MBA (Ottawa)

Lorne A. Mackenzie, BSc, MBA (UBC)

Fiona McQuarrie, BBA, MBA, Cert. Lib. Arts (SFU), PhD (Alberta),

Gerald Palmer, BA (SFU), LLB (Toronto)

Lachlan Whatley, BBA (Queensland), MComm (New South Wales), CPA, CGA

Ron Zitron, BSc, MBA (Cape Town)

Part-time Faculty

Norah Andrew, Dip. OB (London), MA (Royal Roads), CGA

Barry Bompas, BA BComm (Sask)

Kurt Bausenhous, BA, BComm, (UBC), CA,

Suzan Beattie, BA (SFU), LLB (UBC)

Jocelyn Choy, BS, MBA (Woodbury University, Burbank)

Karen Evans, BAdmin (Athabasca), MIR (Queen’s)

Kevin Friesen, BA (Trinity Western), CA

Madeleine Hardin, BA, MA, (SFU)

Randall A. Hay, BComm (Alberta), MBA (UBC), CA

Cathy Heyland, BBA, MEd (SFU)

David Kells, BComm, MBA (Sask), CIM, FCSI

Peter Ronda, CGA

Ron Shay, BBA, MBA (SFU)

Richard M. R. Simon, BPE (UBC), MEd (WWU), Prof. Teach. Cert. (UBC)

Don Tunstall, BA, MA, MEd (UBC), PhD (Alberta)

Blake Wight, BComm (Alberta), Dip. Urban Land Econ. (UBC), RI (BC)

George Zhe Zhang, BSc, MA (Nankai), MBA (York), PhD (Waterloo)

Staff

Grace Gould, Program Advisor

Advisory committee

Ross Brown, Air North

Dan Buckle, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Stacey Corriveau, Community Futures South Fraser

Tony Edgar, National Research Council

Rod Ewert, Envision Financial

Amanda Finnerty, UCFV Student Representative

Susan Francis, UCFV

Kim Kavanaugh, RBC Royal Bank

Betty Poettcker, UCFV

Lloyd Riekman, Farm Credit Corporation

Gerard Roddis, KPMG

Dr. Bertram Schoner, SFU Business Professor

Lorna Thomassen, Cascade Aerospace

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