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Focuses on making aspiring managers aware of how their approach to and performance in management impacts the bottom line. To that end, managers need to be aware of how costs are classified and how accountants look at costs. Knowing how the numbers add up and are how they are connected to their day-to-day performance helps managers reflect on and up their game in an organizational context.

Focuses on helping students understand the economic and societal implications of the day’s business headlines and encouraging them to reflect on the choices individual governments and societies make. Attention is paid to how economists from around the world grapple with these issues and how various economic questions affect all of us in daily life. Students will learn how a grasp of economics is essential to their managerial performance in an organizational context.

Offering a comprehensive overview of digital marketing strategies, this course covers essential topics like digital marketing research, website optimization, and analytics. It equips students with practical skills in SEO, paid search, and content marketing.

This course focuses on the strategic use of social media platforms for digital marketing. It teaches students about audience engagement, content optimization, and the use of analytics for campaign optimization on various social media platforms.

This course offers essential skills in business communication and career development, including interpersonal communication, emotional intelligence, and effective business messaging. It also covers job interview strategies and professional social media use.

Focuses on the knowledge, and skills relevant to working in the Canadian hotel industry, with an emphasis on the understanding reservation and check-in systems, concierge functions as well as advice on handling a wide range of customer inquiries. Students will learn about the challenges, systems and key industry terms through interactive classroom lectures and activities.

Whether a student is currently employed in the customer service industry in Canada, looking for work, or interested in upgrading their job, this course provides a variety of skill development and practical advice in job and career pursuits. In this course, students create a formal resume and cover letter, and practice a formal and graded interview, complete with feedback, coaching, and advice for success.

Learning what one needs to know and practicing the skills required to succeed in an entry-level customer service position within the tourism industry is the focus of this course. This course gives students the language, information and skills to get started by listening to tourism industry personnel talk about their work, learning key interpersonal skills for customer relations, as well as working on tourism projects and doing internet research. This course also incorporates a field trip to the Vancouver Tourist office and a variety of tourist sites, with Vancouver itself serving as part of students’ classroom research.