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The Business program offers a broad array of courses covering all areas of business. These courses mirror the courses taught in most business schools. In addition, we bring a biblical, Christian focus to each of these courses, integrating faith principles and issues into all the course material. As a result, these courses are often more demanding than those taught at a university or community college. The large majority of these courses transfer easily to other universities and colleges.
Except where noted, courses are worth 3 credit hours each.
If a discrepancy exists between this listing and the Providence College Calendar, the Calendar is definitive.
471.11 – BUS: Introduction to Management
This course introduces students to the processes of management and the role of managers and organizations in the context of Canadian society. Along with its companion course—471.13 Introduction to Business—this course provides foundation on which the other business courses are built. An investigation of the roles of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling will be used as a foundation to further investigate topics that include people skills, change management, diversity, teamwork, leading an ethical workplace, and globalization. The topic of the responsibilities of Christians in those roles will be addressed throughout.
471.12 – BUS: Business Communications
The course is designed to give students a broad overview of communication as it relates to the business environment. Fundamentals of both written and oral communications form the foundation of this course. It is designed to develop techniques and practical methods for presenting ideas clearly and persuasively that will lead to sound decision making and effective teamwork.
Corequisites: 471.11 – BUS Introduction to Management, and 233.12 – SCI Computer Usage I
471.13 – BUS: Introduction to Business
This introductory course is designed to give students an understanding of business activity in Canada. Along with its companion course (471.11 – BUS Introduction to Management), this course provides the foundation on which the other business courses are built. Topics covered include business environments, ownership and management structures, marketing, managing operations and information, and accounting and financial activities.
472.12 – BUS: Organizational Behaviour
The primary purpose of this course is to equip students with skills and knowledge related to individual and group behavior that help organizations in general—and businesses in particular—work effectively, efficiently, and ethically. The course also examines the factors that effect the satisfaction and happiness of people working in those organizations. Topics include perception, values, attitude, personality, motivation, communication, teamwork, power, politics, conflict, negotiation, leadership, decision-making, ethics, organizational structure, and culture.
Prerequisite: 471.11 – BUS Introduction to Management.
473.11 – BUS: Economics I: Micro
This course is an overview of microeconomics, the study of the relationship between individual economic units with respect to price, output, and resource allocation.
Corequisite: 471.13 – BUS Introduction to Business
Cross-credited to Social Sciences for Business Majors
473.12 – BUS: Economics II: Macro
This course is an overview of macroeconomics, the study of the economy in aggregate. Topics include fiscal and monetary policies, unemployment, inflation, the financial system, and national accounts.
Corequisite: 471.13 – BUS Introduction to Business
Cross-credited to Social Sciences for Business Majors
471.21 – BUS: Fundamentals of Marketing
The course provides students with the tools necessary for a basic analysis of the domestic and international marketing of goods and services. It explores the nature of marketing activities and marketing institutions. The course also introduces students to the functions and responsibilities of an effective marketing system, and to the roles assumed and skills required of an effective marketing manager.
Prerequisites: 471.11– BUS Introduction to Management, and 471.13 – BUS Introduction to Business
471.23 – BUS: Business/Government Relations
This course develops the ability of students to analyze the interaction between business firms and government. The history, purposes, and nature of those interactions in the Canadian context will be examined. Areas covered will include the creation, modification, and implementation of government policies that affect business, as well as the ways business influences government decision-making.
Prerequisites: 471.11– BUS Introduction to Management, and 471.13 – BUS Introduction to Business.
472.21 – BUS: Introduction to Management Science
The course provides students with a fundamental understanding of the techniques used to provide both mathematical and visual models to solve business problems. Topics include linear programming and its various applications, solutions to shipping, assignment and network problems, queuing, inventory, project management, decision-making, and forecasting.
Prerequisite: 233.12 – SCI: Computer Usage I, or 233.13 – SCI: Computer Usage II, and 471.13 -- BUS: Introduction to Business.
472.22 – BUS: Business Administration Co-op Placement
This course is designed to enable students majoring in Business to use their summer employment to determine whether they are suited to a career in business, and begin to apply the ideas they have been exposed to in their business courses to a real-world situation.
Typically, students intending to go into the Co-op Option should use their summer employment between their first and second year of studies as a Co-op Placement.
Prerequisites: Have an AGPA of 2.5, and have completed at least 30 hours of a Business Major. This includes 471.11-- BUS: Introduction to Management, 471.13 -- BUS: Introduction to Business, and at least two other Business Administration courses.
472.24 – BUS: Human Resource Management
The purpose of this course is to provide students with a fundamental understanding of human resource management. Topics include job analysis and design, recruiting, selection, orientation, training, performance appraisal, benefits, occupational health and safety, work options, and the union-management framework.
Prerequisites: 471.11 – BUS Introduction to Management and 472.12 – BUS Organizational Behaviour.
473.23 – BUS: Introductory Financial Accounting
This course helps students understand the basic concepts of financial accounting information. The principles of financial accounting, more commonly known as generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), determine the guidelines that financial statement reporting must follow.
473.24 – BUS: Introductory Managerial Accounting
The overall objective of this course is for the student to learn basic concepts about the development and use of accounting information for managerial decisions in an increasingly complex and changing environment.
Prerequisite: 473.23 – BUS: Introductory Financial Accounting.
471.34 – BUS: Commercial Law
The course will give an overview of the law and the structure of the Canadian legal system, as they impact business and business transactions. Topics include legal concepts and problems relating to business organization, contracts, principal and agent, negotiable instruments, common torts, and bankruptcy proceedings. This course will include an analysis of the law from a Christian perspective.
Prerequisites: 471.11 – BUS Introduction to Management, and 471.13 – BUS Introduction to Business.
472.32 – BUS: Advanced Business Administration Co-op Placement
This course builds on its pre-requisite, 472.22 (Business Co-op Placement). It is designed to enable students majoring in business administration to use their summer employment to exercise the skills and abilities suited to a career in business administration, and to apply the knowledge, skills, and abilities they have learnt in their business courses to a real-world situation.
Typically, students in the Co-op Option are expected to use their summer employment between their 2nd and 3rd year of studies as an Advanced Co-op Placement.
Prerequisites: 472.22 – BUS: Business Co-op Placement, have an AGPA of 3.0 in the previous 30 hours, and have completed at least 60 hours of a Business major. This includes 471.11 -- BUS: Introduction to Management, 471.13 -- BUS: Introduction to Business, 472.22 -- BUS: Business Co-op Placement, and at least three other Business Administration courses.
473.32 – BUS: Corporate Finance
This course is a comprehensive introduction to the finance function of business organizations and how it impacts the other decision-making areas in the firm. The concepts of value, risk, capital budgeting, and financial planning are explored. The course addresses the concepts and techniques for planning and allocation of financial resources from the standpoint of internal management.
Prerequisite: 473.23 – BUS: Introductory Financial Accounting.
471.41 – BUS: Business Consultation
The primary activity of the course is providing a consulting service to a real-world firm. The firm will be recruited and selected, and a consulting contract will be negotiated jointly between the student and the instructor.
This provision of consulting services is supported and processed through intensive seminar discussions with other students, faculty and business professionals, and through careful and systematic reading and analysis of a variety of consulting materials.
471.42 – BUS: Professional Certification
A number of business professions have an initial certification process. The student will be required to choose, apply to, and pass one of these certification processes. Which certification is pursued is based on the career the student intends to enter. The choice of certification must be approved by the student’s Faculty Advisor prior to beginning the certification process. This is done through the completion of the Application for Letter of Permission form and a review with the Faculty Advisor.
472.41 – BUS: Business Plan
The focus of this course is the creation and presentation of a business plan to either a panel of business people or a recognized business plan competition.
The plan must be for a viable start-up business, which could be implemented. For the plan to meet this criterion, the student will have to master research skills as they apply to business, entrepreneurial planning skills, the soliciting and integrating of advice from business professionals, and professional-level writing and presentation skills.
472.42 – BUS: Strategic Management & Policy
This course is the final classroom course of the business program. It takes students to the core of business decision-making, integrating the skills taught in all the business courses that precede it. Because this is the capstone course of the program, students should expect to put more time into this course than any other they have taken.
May be taken only by students in their 3rd or 4th year.
472.43 – BUS: Business Administration Academic Paper
The primary activity in this course will be the preparation of a formal acade,oc paper on a business topic. The subject of paper must be some aspect of business practice that, in the judgment of the student and their Faculty Advisor, will probably be relevant to their future career.
472.44 – BUS: Business Administration Internship
12 credit hours
This Internship is the capstone course of the 4-year Co-op Option of the BA in Business Administration. The Internship should be as close as possible to the actual experience of an employee hired into an entry-level management position.
As much as possible, the expectations of the Internship should be identical to those of student with a business administration degree hired into a position leading to a career in business management.
Prerequisites: All courses required for a 3-year Business Co-op, including both 472.22 – BUS: Business Co-op Placement and 472.32 – BUS: Advanced Business Co-op Placement, an AGPA of 2.5, and a GPA of 3.0 or higher in the previous year (30 hours) of courses.
213.32 – PHIL: Ethics in the Marketplace
This is a course in applied ethics taught by Business faculty. The purpose of the course is to equip students to make effective, Christian decisions in business. It does so by students as they wrestle with common business dilemmas, primarily through case studies, and apply biblical principles to those situations. Students will acquire knowledge of the ethical approaches commonly found in modern business, as well as their origins, strengths and shortcomings, primarily through readings, lectures and discussion.
Prerequisite: 213.22 – PHIL: Ethics.
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