Global Business Management – Loyalist College in Toronto

Courses

• First Year - Semester One
• MATH1047 Business Analytics & Data Strategy
• This course introduces data-driven business decision making skills that better inform practices in the workplace. Through the use of statistical tools, students will prepare and interpret visual representation of data.
• BUSI1019 Capture Planning
• In this course, students will demonstrate the principles and processes of creating an expanded project capture plan (based on the ISO Charter) to be used by companies and organizations to generate new business or solve complicated integrated tasks. The objective is to make students understand how this type of plan is used in the international business environment and to create realistic plans in preparation for life after College.
• GBMG1000 Culturally Inclusive Communication
• This course focuses on cultural values and norms and how they impact the workplace. By examining cultural domains, students will develop strategies to strengthen their approach to intercultural sensitivity.
• GBMG1004 Global Accounting
• This course introduces students to the fundamentals of accounting, as well as management accounting concepts and practices. There is a focus on how management uses accounting information for decision making, planning, controlling and performance measurement. Topics include cost allocation, cost-volume-profit analysis, relevant costs and budgeting.
• BUSI1038 Global Business Environment
• The global business environment introduces students to environments in different countries with exogenous factors related to the home environment. These factors influence decision making on how to allocate resources. The global business environment provides context to students examining the external and internal environments.
• PROF1018 Professional Development
• This course is intended to familiarize students with the program, link up with a business mentor and to jump-start a successful pathway for students.
• BUSI3005 Supply Chain and Logistic Management (EDI)
• This course encompassess activities and techniques utilized in supply chain and logistics management including customer service, distribution planning, transportation planning, transportation forecasting, logistics documentation, purchasing and third party chain management.

• First Year - Semester Two
• MRKT1011 Consumer Behaviour & Market
• This course provides a critical view into why and how people make purchases. Pulling from fields of economics, psychology and sociology, students will examine key concepts in quantitative and qualitative market research methodologies to better understand their customers and how behaviours are influenced by different products and services.
• GBMG1003 International Business Law
• This course introduces the global tenets of the legal system. By reviewing legal cases, students will learn more about the effects different legal systems have on conducting business globally.
• GBMG1002 International Finance
• This course provides a critical view into international banking and financial systems and structures. By understanding the implications of global regulatory practices, students will evaluate risks and opportunities to better ground decisions.
• GBMG1001 Leadership & Emotional Intelligence
• This course will enable students to increase their personal leadership styles through self-assessment. Students will employ emotional intelligence frameworks to increase self-awareness and identify patterns of thinking.
• GBMG1005 Project Management
• Through this course students acquire foundational project management knowledge in the areas of project planning, defining scope and priorities, work breakdown structure, creating scheduling estimates for timing and project costs, developing project networks, communicating project information, identifying compliance and risk issues, assigning resources, identifying potential efficiencies, and managing progress. This course engages students with a hands-on approach using a variety of project management tools.
• SUST1002 Sustainability & CSR
• This course examines how global organizations are integrating the three pillars of sustainability (economic, social and environmental) throughout the functional areas (e.g. human resources, marketing, operations, accounting, finance) of business to remain competitive in the long-term. Students will explore the historical context, the business case, internationally recognized frameworks and respective principles, the role and significance of multiple stakeholders, sustainability assurance, greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. Students will participate in cases and investigate sustainability practices of global entities.

• Second Year - Semester Three
• GBMG2001 Advanced International Finance
• This course will further expand on relevant topics in international finance. By familiarizing analytical techniques needed to evaluate empirical performance models, students will learn more about financial liberalization and banking system stability.
• GBMG2000 Geopolitics
• This course introduces tensions and issues of non-state actors across the globe. By identifying conflicts, disinformation and geostrategic rivalries, students will analyze factors impacting contemporary international relations.
• GBMG2004 Global Entrepreneurship
• This course engages students to learn what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur in a global context. Students will consider new business projects, ambitions, and discover resources available to assist in creating a successful business model.
• GBMG2002 Global Mergers and Acquisitions
• This course examines merger and acquisition strategies. By reviewing best practices and tools, students will analyze and interrelate elements to appreciate the effects that value-creating mergers and acquisitions can have on businesses.
• GBMG2003 Negotiation, Conflict & Risk Management
• This course introduces the major schools of thought in social psychology, law and business. Conflict resolution strategies are examined from theoretical and practical perspectives to develop a deeper self-awareness.
• BUSI3024 Principles of Buying
• This course provides a critical view into the purchasing elements in the world of Supply Chain Management. Topical focus will relate to supply organizations, quality, supplier relations, sourcing, price and cost management and the role of transportation. The scope of this course will include the private and public business sectors.

• BUSI1035 Service Learning 1
• The Building the Applied Project course takes a holistic and practical view of project management as your team applies various tools and techniques to effectively run and manage project tasks and to deal with various project issues – just as you would daily, as a project manager. This course focuses on your role as a project team member and as a project manager. Not only will you will get a better understanding of your role and responsibility as a project team member, but also how to delegate and accept responsibilities in any project as a manager. This course provides a practical opportunity to apply what you are learning to a multifaceted project. Thereby, you will experience the entire project workflow, with emphasis on the planning, executing, monitoring and controlling phases.

• Second Year - Semester Four
• GBMG2005 Design Thinking & Innovation
• This course will provide tools to think more creatively in our changing business landscape. By reviewing cases, students will develop compelling solutions to nurture superior innovation practices.
• GBMG2007 Inform. Systems Proj. & Prct
• This course introduces students to the design and development of information systems to support strategic decision making. Students explore different types of decision support systems and database systems that enhance an organization's ability to identify and solve problems and make decisions.
• BUSI1022 Project Risk Management
• In this course, the processes and activities necessary to manage risk throughout a project lifecycle will be identified and applied. Students will be exposed to practical exercises, tools and techniques for both qualitative and quantitative analysis for handling project risks. There will be an introduction to a comprehensive project risk management process/matrix that extends from initiation through to project completion and from risk symptoms to risk event impact. Critical to risk management success is the business risk to project risk alignment and mitigation strategies beyond the basic financial contingency approach.
• BUSI1036 Service Learning 2
• The Applied Project is an enriched, practical and hands-on learning experience. This course is structured and designed to tie in all your courses and build on the knowledge and lessons learned from the “Building the Applied Project” course. This course encourages the exchange of ideas on how to solve issues in project management as your team experiences them moving through the five (5) process groups and ten (10) knowledge areas in a semester-long project. 360-degree feedback plays an important role in the Applied Project course.
• BUSI2019 Strategic Business Management
• You will examine the principles and processes of creating strategy to be reflected in a strategic plan. Case studies will be used to promote an understanding of problems, issues and opportunities being faced by companies striving to remain competitive. You will develop integrated and realistic plans in preparation for your entry into the business environment.

*Courses subject to change.