Advance your career and prepare to take on the challenges of management through experiential, real-world learning activities taught by leading business experts.

What you will learn

In the full-time Post-Graduate Certificate in Business Administration, you’ll examine advanced concepts across business, including project management, business strategy, and human resource management. This program will allow you to:

• Develop cross-functional skills like emotional intelligence, critical thinking, and advanced communication
• Stay up to date with economic, social and environmental business trends
• Examine financial statements used in decision-making
• Apply your cumulative knowledge through a hands-on capstone project

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Program Benefits

• Curriculum that emphasizes experiential learning with minimal reliance on traditional testing
• Case studies and industry-minded projects
• Course content that is evaluated and updated every time the program is offered
• Cohort learning model, allowing you to work with the same group of students and build a network of professional contacts after your graduate
• Accelerated study—graduate in only 8 months

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Webinars

• Business Administration Programs Information Webinar [00:55:10] [Watch now]
  Learn more about our Certificates in Business Administration, including information on courses, instructors, and how to enrol.
  *From 00:22:18 – Instructor Faisal Yousuf speaks about how to break into the world of business, benefits of taking this certificate program, and strategies to help students move forward in their careers.

Contact

Format: Full-time
Delivery: In-class
Term Starts: Fall, Winter, Summer
Program Length: 8 months

CSBA1020 Business Communications

Develop transferable skills that can be applied to a variety of roles in business. Develop key business/management skills that are required of business professionals and prepare for the business and professional environment in Canada through theoretical instruction, practical case analyses, interactive and team-based exercises, as well as oral and written assignments. Develop strong critical thinking skills, business acumen, oral and written communication skills (including presentation skills), negotiation and influencing skills, and data and numeracy skills, and much more.

13 Classes

39 Hours

CSBA1010 Business Fundamentals

Examine the functional areas of business through a critical discourse about management, its sub-disciplines, and the current issues and future challenges it faces. Compare classic management articles with writings from alternative or contradictory perspectives. Examine current news stories to illustrate and assess the practical relevance of each of the management ideas presented. Develop, articulate, and support your own thinking in relation to contemporary business issues.

13 Classes

39 Hours

CSBA2600 Human Resources Management

This course introduces you to the basic principles and concepts of human resources management, and provides a context for the challenges facing HR managers in contemporary Canadian organizations. You are given opportunities to identify organizational problems, and to prescribe and implement corrective actions.

13 Classes

39 Hours

CSBA1000 Business Strategy

Examine the external context of business and the challenges of managing in the Canadian business environment. Explore the external context of business considering economic, competitive, labour, technological, societal, global, and political issues. Gain insight into current challenges and opportunities that play a dramatic role in the business landscape and affect business strategy.

13 Classes

39 Hours

CSBA1500 Accounting - Analysis & The Use of Financial Information

Explore basic concepts in financial accounting, managerial accounting and their interrelationships to duties and responsibilities of a manager. Gain a critical overview of the accounting process and a broad, conceptual understanding of the role of accounting in modern society. You will study financial statements prepared for external audiences and how those statements contribute to financial decisions and capital markets; and, internal reports that affect managers’ day-to-day decisions.

13 Classes

39 Hours

CSBA2200 Marketing Fundamentals

Examine fundamentals of marketing theory, concepts and management as applied to marketing’s strategic role in meeting customer needs, including product (goods and services), price, promotion, distribution, consumer, segmentation, positioning, ethics, and research to prepare to create a marketing plan.

13 Classes

39 Hours

CSBA3353 Project Management

Examine the theory and practice of project management with a problem-solving approach to planning, budgeting, implementing and completing small and large-scale projects. Gain a strong working knowledge of project management fundamentals and be able to use this knowledge to positively impact workplace projects.

13 Classes

39 Hours

CSBA1030 Applied Capstone

The purpose of the capstone course is to create an opportunity for you to make connections between the various topics in the program; to analyze, synthesize, and apply the knowledge gained throughout the program to real-world business cases.

10 Classes

30 Hours