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Business Faculty\r\n<\/strong><\/p>\r\nTarek Mady, Associate Professor, Dean\r\nGary Evans, Professor\r\nBlake Jelley, Professor\r\nJ\u00fcrgen Krause, Professor\r\nTimothy E. Carroll, Associate Professor\r\nAndrew Carrothers, Associate Professor\r\nMelissa James, Associate Professor\r\nTina Saksida, Associate Professor\r\nDonald M. Wagner, Associate Professor\r\nScott Cassidy, Assistant Professor\r\nReuben Domike, Associate Professor\r\nAniket Naik, Assistant Professor\r\nXiao Chen, Assistant Professor\r\nSusan Graham, Assistant Professor\r\nSam Kolahgar, Assistant Professor\r\nLena Jingen Liang, Assistant Professor\r\nAmy MacFarlane, Assistant Professor\r\nSuzanne Rath, Assistant Professor\r\nWilliam Waterman, Assistant Professor\r\nLuifang Yao, Assistant Professor\r\n

The Faculty of Business is committed to providing students with a high quality, integrated business education in a personalized learning environment. It is structured to provide the broad-based, cross-functional business education required for leaders of business, government, and not-for-profit organizations. The Faculty\u2019s personalized learning environment provides opportunities for extensive interaction between students, faculty and practitioners.<\/p>\r\n

The Faculty of Business holds a unique position within the province\u2019s education system. It is committed to intellectual leadership, and to excellence in developing new knowledge and conveying that knowledge to its students and to the public. In order to attract, develop and retain students, faculty and staff, the Faculty recognizes that it must sustain an intellectually stimulating environment.<\/p>\r\n

The Faculty views its students not as customers, but rather as partners in the development of a high quality business education. Graduates are expected to have developed competency in integrating the core functional business disciplines; ethical, social, historical and global awareness; critical thinking and problem solving; quantitative analysis; communication skills and leadership; team work as well as personal initiative; technological application in business; and using business research to support evidence-informed practice.<\/p>\r\n

The degree program in the Faculty of Business is designed to fulfill this mission and to provide the educational breadth and depth needed by business leaders.<\/p>\r\n

ACCOUNTING AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

The Faculty of Business maintains a close liaison with the Chartered Professional Accountants of Prince Edward Island, and students who satisfactorily complete designated university courses are given broad exemptions by this professional organization. Students interested in pursuing a professional accounting designation should contact the Dean\u2019s office prior to enrolling in their third year. These students should not enrol in Business electives other than those that are designated as accounting exemptions. Students not pursuing a Bachelor of Business Administration degree may register for the Certificate in Accounting.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Bachelor of Business Administration\r\n<\/strong><\/h1>\r\n

The Bachelor of Business Administration degree (BBA) is a four-year degree consisting of 120 semester hours. (NOTE: As per Academic Regulation #1 h), all undergraduate degree programs require successful completion of IKE-1040, one of UPEI-1010, 1020 or 1030, and a Writing Intensive Course.)\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/strong><\/p>\r\n

REQUIRED COURSES<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

1000-Level Courses:\r\n<\/strong>Accounting 1010 (Introduction to Financial Accounting)\r\nBusiness 1410 (Marketing)\r\nBusiness 1710 (Organizational Behaviour)\r\nEconomics 1010 (Introductory Microeconomics)\r\nEconomics 1020 (Introductory Macroeconomics)\r\nMath 1110 (Finite Mathematics)\r\nUPEI 1010 (Writing Studies) (see note 3)\r\nIKE 1040 (Indigenous Teaching)<\/p>\r\n

20<\/strong>0<\/strong>0-Level Courses:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Accounting 2210 (Managerial Accounting)\r\nBusiness 2120 (Business Presentations and Communications)\r\nBusiness 2310 (Corporate Finance)\r\nBusiness 2410 (Management Information Systems)\r\nBusiness 2510 (Introduction to Management Science)\r\nBusiness 2720 (Human Resource Management)\r\nBusiness 2880 (Research and Evidence-Based Management)<\/p>\r\n

30<\/strong>0<\/strong>0-Level Courses:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Business 3010 (Business Law \u2013 Part I)\r\nBusiness 3330 (Integrated Cases in Corporate Finance) OR Business 3340 (Personal Finance)\r\nBusiness 3430 (Integrated Cases in Marketing)\r\nBusiness 3510 (Operations Management)\r\nBusiness 3710 (Entrepreneurship and New Ventures)\r\nBusiness 3910 (Strategic Management)<\/p>\r\n

40<\/strong>0<\/strong>0-Level Courses:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Business 4850 (Developing Management Skills)\r\nBusiness 4950 (Business Research I)<\/p>\r\n

ELECTIVE COURSES<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

In addition to the 23 required courses, students must take 17 elective courses. At least three electives must be business courses and at least eight electives must be non-business courses. The other six electives (\u201cfree electives\u201d) may be either business or non-business courses.<\/p>\r\n

For students pursuing one of the seven specializations, the courses prescribed for the particular specialization will fulfill electives on the degree.<\/p>\r\n

Students must obtain at least 60% in at least 14 of the 18 required business courses in order to qualify for the degree of Bachelor of Business Administration.<\/p>\r\n

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