Business - Finance

This dynamic career course offers a comprehensive exploration of essential skills and strategies required for career success. Students will learn to navigate the labour market effectively, conducting research to identify employment opportunities and potential employers that align with their career goals. They will also attain skills in writing professional self marketing documents, tailored to specific job opportunities. With a focus on interview preparation, students will participate in a range of simulated scenarios, learning to respond confidently and competently to various interview questions, enhancing their employability and interview performance. By the end of the course, students will emerge equipped with the skills and strategies needed to thrive in today's competitive job market.

• Hours: 28
• Credits: 2
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: $10.55

Students will learn basic principles that are essential to an understanding of contemporary economic issues facing Canadian society. It will include both microeconomic issues and macroeconomic issues. Topics of study include principles of economics, market demand and supply, firm production and cost, and business behaviour and decision making in a market; macroeconomic indicators - gross domestic product, unemployment, and inflation - aggregate demand and aggregate supply, international trade, exchange rates, and the impact of domestic and international influences, and of government policies.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

• Hours: 56
• Credits: 4
• Pre-Requisites:
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: $97.00

This course will provide necessary insights and skills to deliver inclusive banking services to culturally diverse group of individuals, entrepreneurs and especially women entrepreneurs. This course includes inclusive banking policies, delivery tools and techniques of inclusive banking services, Digital financial services, Consumer empowerment, SME banking risk management.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: Not available at this time.

The concept of risk, and how insurance is a mechanism to transfer risk and benefit society. The key insurance industry functions of selling/distributing insurance, underwriting insurance policies, adjusting losses, and reinsuring risk. The elements needed to form an insurance contract. The regulation of insurance in Canada, including regulation of policy wordings, licensing of insurance professionals, ethical/professionalism considerations for insurance professionals, and the role of insurance industry organizations. A full day field trip is spent at a local brokerage where students will experience hands on training and exposure to the daily life of a brokerage.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: $260.00

Market and industry research are an integrated part of identifying the gap between demand and supply. This fundamental course will enable students to learn necessary tools, techniques, and processes to conduct thorough analyses of the banking industry. Topics of the course will include purpose and goal of market research, data collection and analysis, interpreting results of analysis, ethics in market research etc.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: Not available at this time.