Course Descriptions

This course is designed to enable students to develop practical skills with Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word and PowerPoint). It includes business‐related projects to practice the skills. Students will use Excel to create best visualization summary for a dataset, Word to create a consistent professional document, and use PowerPoint to make an interactive presentation.

The course introduces the student to Adobe Dreamweaver, and Photoshop Website design software. The student will be able to create basic websites as applied to small and medium size businesses. Instruction on how to create and optimize images suitable for internet and website development software as applied in business communications.

This intermediate spreadsheet course teaches students the art of data analysis and visualization. Leveraging generative AI to dive deep into large-scale data sets, develop techniques to organize, analyze, and present business insights. Develop proficiency in advanced functions, macros, and pivot tables, and discover how to create dynamic and visually compelling dashboards. Ideal for business students seeking to support their data-driven decision-making skills.

Information Systems (IS) are vital to the operations and management of all enterprises. The successful manager must know how to deploy and use these systems to effectively and efficiently optimize business processes and increase productivity. This course addresses three key inter-related themes that highlight the value of IS to run, grow and transform the business. These are: how IS can be used to achieve an advantage over the competition; how IS contributes to reshaping enterprise and consumer behaviours in an on-demand economy; and, IS strategies that managers must have for business agility, performance improvement, enhanced growth and sustainability.

It is essential that a business leader understand the fundamental principles of effective planning for information security and disaster recovery considering the present and future global environment. The goal of this course is to cover business managerial aspects of security and disaster recovery by presenting methods to identify vulnerabilities and implement appropriate countermeasures to prevent and mitigate failure risks for the business enterprise.

This course provides an overview of the advanced skills necessary to design effective interactive Web sites.

This course emphasizes hands-on, experiential learning. It presents a range of concepts, skills, tools, techniques and methodologies so students can become effective business systems analysts who can collaborate with information technology workers to create robust information systems for business. Students will learn the framework of the systems development life cycle (SDLC) model as it is used for identification and development of business requirements, business processes, analysis and design, as used in the construction, deployment and ongoing maintenance of complex information systems. The course will also investigate alternatives to acquiring software used to satisfy business goals, objectives and needs.

This course presents a deep view of management analytics, which includes advanced data visualization, data mining and information dissemination approaches, skills, tools and techniques. Students will incorporate the concepts and theories learned in other School of Business courses, to solve integrated business problems. Students’ understanding of advanced business analytics toolkits, will be strengthened as they learn how to acquire, mine, analyze, disseminate and apply voluminous data sets (big data/social media data), to decision making in today’s on-demand economy.

This course presents a deep view of information ethics, privacy, security and sustainability in business. Students will be introduced to concepts and frameworks surrounding the definitions, core topics and issues of ethics in such areas as information technology, big data and artificial Intelligence (AI). Students will learn about the business systems that are most at risk regarding security, privacy and sustainability issues, as well as the importance of an organization-wide approach to these issues. Students will also learn the standards that business managers must follow to balance environmental, social and economic responsibilities, with their obligations to constituents.