Course Schedule

HyFlex: The class will be delivered on campus, but will also be live-streamed synchronously for anyone who wishes
to join the class remotely.

RLDS: Remote delivery.

Web: Online delivery. See the course outline for more information.

GBUS Courses Timetable

Section	Day	Start	Time	Exam Date	Delivery
2024 Spring/Summer 2024 Fall 2025 Winter
GBUS 815 - Strategic Management
The course focuses on the identification, evaluation and formulation of organizational strategy in an international context. Special emphasis is placed on inherent tensions faced by global organizations in developing and implementing strategy through the use of lectures, discussion, student analysis, and case studies of various kinds of organizations. *Prerequisite: Must complete any two courses from the Levene MBA with Specializations program*
001	R	2025-JAN-06	7:00pm - 9:45pm	2025-APR-17	HYFLX
GBUS 817 - Managing People in Organizations
This course is designed to develop students’ management skills through an exploration of the theory and practice involved in managing people. The emphasis is on understanding individual, team, and organizational factors and the processes through which they influence behaviour and performance, with a view to improving managerial effectiveness.
001	R	2025-JAN-06	7:00pm - 9:45pm	2025-APR-18	HYFLX
GBUS 830 - Business, Government and Society
This course examines ethical and social issues relevant to business management. It includes a multidisciplinary application of knowledge and concepts to contemporary issues challenging business executives, and the role of consultation with local communities and governments, sustainable business practices and evolving global standards of corporate social responsibility and ethics.
001		2025-JAN-06	-	2025-APR-14	ONLNE
GBUS 832 - Accounting for Managers
This course is designed to facilitate the understanding of accounting information with an emphasis on making decisions. Students will be provided an opportunity to enhance their communication, teamwork and decision making skills. Note: Levene MBA students cannot receive credit for this course as part of their program requirements.
001	T	2025-JAN-06	7:00pm - 9:45pm	2025-APR-15	HYFLX
GBUS 843 - Strategic Human Resource Management
This course examines human resources functions from a strategic and institutional perspective. The topics include human resource planning, recruitment and selection, performance measurement and assessment, training and development, and the design of reward systems.
001		2025-JAN-06	-	2025-APR-16	ONLNE
GBUS 846AH - Program Evaluation
An analysis of the theories and approaches to program evaluation, and their application in organizations. Topics explored will include the origins and current trends, ethical and philosophical issues in evaluation, politics and planning, evaluation criteria, data collection, analysis, interpretation, and strategies for reporting and communicating evaluation results. *Note: Students who have completed EAHR 811 will not be eligible to register in GBUS 846AH.
001	W	2025-JAN-06	7:00pm - 9:45pm	2025-APR-24	HYFLX
GBUS 851AA - Indigenous Business and Leadership
This course considers historical and contemporary topics relating to Indigenous business and leadership of relevance to both Indigenous and non-indigenous leaders and organizations. A broad range of topics, issues, and contexts may be considered, such as Indigenous leadership styles, issues, and responsibilities, Indigenous rights, governance, economic development, civic activism, and decolonization.
001	W	2025-JAN-06	7:00pm - 9:45pm	2025-APR-23	HYFLX
GBUS 862 - Evaluation of Human Resources Practices and Systems
This course focuses on methods that can be employed by HR practitioners to assess the effectiveness of HR practices and of overall HRM systems. Students develop skills in identifying and employing valid, evidence-based decision criteria to assess HR practice and enhance their ability to evaluate information and conduct research. * Prerequisite: GBUS 838 *
001	M	2025-JAN-06	7:00pm - 9:45pm	2025-APR-21	HYFLX
GBUS 863 - Staffing Organizations
The course introduces and develops concepts used in the staffing of organizations. The course will cover general staffing models, basic labour markets, laws and regulations affecting staffing, introduction to measurement theory, recruitment techniques, selection techniques and tools, decision making for selection, and formalizing the job offer.
001	S	2025-JAN-06	10:00am - 12:45pm	2025-APR-19	HYFLX
GBUS 865 - Project Management
This course will introduce students to Project Management principles, intended to address the many phases of a project's life cycle. Students will learn to manage projects more effectively using Project Management techniques, through monitoring and maintaining control of scope, time, and costs within a project.
001	T	2025-JAN-06	7:00pm - 9:45pm	2025-APR-22	HYFLX
GBUS 871 - Group Dynamics in Organizations
The course will study roles that exist in organizations and the dynamics of the interactions between these roles. In particular, focus will be on the interplay between the leadership role and decision making, creative problem solving and conflict resolution with group members.
001	W	2025-JAN-06	7:00pm - 9:45pm	2025-APR-25	HYFLX
GBUS 873 - Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
This course will introduce students to the theory and practice of negotiation and conflict resolution, including alternative dispute resolution.
001	T	2025-JAN-06	7:00pm - 9:45pm		HYFLX
GBUS 874 - Cases in Leadership
This course examines leadership issues in both for-profit and non-profit organizations. A major project for the course will involve researching and writing an original case study that examines leadership issues within a real organization.
001	TWRFS	2025-FEB-18	08:30am - 4:20pm		HYFLX
GBUS 900 - Research Project in Business Administration
Under the guidance of a supervisor, a student analyzes a significant organizational problem with a view to recommending a feasible solution. Problems may be either specific or general, requiring either a particular disciplinary background or a multidisciplinary approach. Students are required to register in a minimum of 6 credit hours of project research. The course will be graded on a credit/no credit (C/N) basis.
001		2024-SEP-04	-
GBUS 901 - Thesis Research
Thesis research.
001		2025-JAN-06	-

MBA Courses Timetable

Section	Day	Start	Time	Exam Date	Delivery
2024 Spring/Summer 2024 Fall 2025 Winter
MBA 701 - Foundations of Organizational Behaviour
This course examines the individual and group behaviour and their impact on organizational effectiveness and organizations in general. Relevant concepts from the behavioural sciences include personality, motivation, attitudes, group processes, power and leadership. Students will develop a basic understanding of antecedents and consequences of individual and group action.
001		2025-JAN-06	-	2025-APR-14	ONLNE
MBA 702 - Foundations of Accounting
This course is designed to facilitate the understanding of accounting information with an emphasis on making decisions. Students will be provided an opportunity to enhance their communication and decision making skills.
001		2025-JAN-06	-	2025-APR-16	ONLNE
MBA 703 - Financial Statement Analysis
This course introduces students to the analysis, interpretation and evaluation of an organization's financial statements and related information. It also covers the recognition and measurement of accounting events and the preparation of financial statements.
001		2025-JAN-06	-	2025-APR-19	ONLNE
MBA 704 - Foundations of Marketing
This course will assist the students in developing foundational knowledge of marketing concepts and theory. Tactical applications of the marketing mix are also addressed – product, price, place and promotion. Ethical and legal issues are also discussed.
001		2025-JAN-06	-	2025-APR-21	ONLNE
MBA 705 - Foundations of Entrepreneurship
This course explores the foundations of entrepreneurship including entrepreneurial motivations, start-up process, idea generation, venture capital, gender considerations, and various forms of entrepreneurship, such as accelerators, corporate venturing and social enterprise. The course also explores entrepreneurs’ alignment with other disciplines, including agile testing, lean analysis and business modeling.
001		2025-JAN-06	-	2025-APR-22	ONLNE
MBA 706 - Foundations of Indigenous Business
This course covers theories, motivations, forms and objectives of Indigenous venturing and its role in the decolonization process. It will help students identify and understand the various and complex aspects of Indigenous business that are relevant to both Indigenous and non-indigenous organizations.
001		2025-JAN-06	-	2025-APR-24	ONLNE
MBA 815 - Strategic Management
The course focuses on the identification, evaluation and formulation of organizational strategy in an international context. Special emphasis is placed on inherent tensions faced by global organizations in developing and implementing strategy, such as the effects of cultural, economic and political differences on standardization versus adaptation and the identification of global niches, through the use of lectures, discussion, student analysis, and case studies of various kinds of organizations. *Prerequisite: Must complete any two courses from the Levene MBA with specializations program*
001	R	2025-JAN-06	7:00pm - 9:45pm	2025-APR-17	HYFLX
MBA 830 - Business, Government and Society
This course examines ethical and social issues relevant to business management. It includes a multidisciplinary application of knowledge and concepts to contemporary issues challenging business executives, and the role of consultation with local communities and governments, sustainable business practices and evolving global standards of corporate social responsibility and ethics.
001		2025-JAN-06	-	2025-APR-14	ONLNE
MBA 848AA - Study Tour - Mexico
The course includes a study tour of Mexico. This is an international business course that examines the concepts and current practice related to doing business in Mexico. The course will develop an understanding of the people, culture and history of Mexico, Mexican business, finance, politics, NAFTA and Mexican business culture.
001	M	2025-JAN-06	5:00pm - 8:00pm		RMTE
MBA 865 - Project Management
This course will introduce students to the many phases of a project's life cycle and how to address them through knowledge and understanding of Project Management principles and how to manage them effectively using Project Management techniques by monitoring and maintaining control of scope, time, and costs within a project.
001	T	2025-JAN-06	7:00pm - 9:45pm	2025-APR-22	HYFLX