3.4. Otras limitantes
3.4.1. Factores limitantes según expertos locales
Non-Core Program Level Learning Outcomes Courses or course segments that contribute to achievement of outcome
Definition of non-core courses: Breadth courses at Humber are those that contribute to knowledge in fields unrelated to the main field(s) of study. All breadth courses are designed to provide
graduates with the skills, knowledge and awareness that they will need for their future roles as professionals, citizens, and members of a global community.
Demonstrate creative and critical thinking, qualitative and quantitative reasoning, problem solving, research, written and oral communication skills
All non-core courses
Demonstrate more than an introductory knowledge in the humanities, sciences, social sciences, global cultures and/or mathematics
Upper level non-core courses
Demonstrate the values and skills associated with being responsible, reflective individuals in a range of economic, social, political, cultural and personal environments.
All non-core courses
Critically analyze and evaluate the distinctive assumptions and modes of analysis of a discipline outside the core field of study.
All non-core courses
Engage in productive and informed dialogues that reflect current knowledge in a discipline outside the core field of study.
D4 Course Descriptions
D4.1 Core Course Descriptions
Year and
Semester Course Title Calendar Course Description
YEAR 1
Semester 1 Introductory Financial Accounting
Accounting systems are the universal language for business worldwide. This introductory course covers the complete accounting cycle, from the recording of transactions in journals to the preparation of common types of financial statements used by businesses in Canada. Students examine how to record and summarize transactions into financial statements used by external stakeholders, prospective investors and businesses to manage internal operations. Semester 1 Microeconomics Students are introduced to the concepts and
analytical tools of microeconomics to examine how society and individuals use limited resources to meet their needs. Students develop an
understanding of current events in the context of microeconomic theories including supply,
demand, prices, incomes, markets, competition and market structures. Students examine the concepts of market failure and market power and the need for government intervention to achieve social and political goals.
Semester 1 Marketing This course provides an overview of all aspects of marketing as practiced by Canadian
organizations today, both domestically and internationally. Students examine product, price, promotion and distribution frameworks as
separate and integrated subsets of the marketing mix. These are explored as strategies to satisfy consumer wants and needs and to achieve organizational objectives. The course focuses on developing competencies in understanding the business environment and applying the tools and techniques of marketing research and analysis to develop effective marketing strategies. Legal, social, cultural and other elements of the marketing environment are considered in case studies requiring research of current materials and practical application of concepts.
Semester 1 Business Law Students are introduced to the complex legal system in which businesses and consumers
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operate. The Canadian Constitution, as well as statutory and common law relevant to business and consumer transactions are covered.
Students are introduced to the laws of contracts and torts that form the basis of business
relationships. Topics include sale of goods and consumer protection legislation, debtor-creditor relations, competition law, employment law, manufacturer’s product liability and intellectual property rights.
Semester 1 Non-core Elective Students select from a wide variety of courses outside their discipline drawn from the Arts & Humanities, Society, Culture and Communication or Science and Technology fields. See
descriptions for non-core electives.
Semester 2 Macroeconomics Students examine the operation of the Canadian economy as a whole. The course provides the theoretical constructs for understanding aggregate Canadian production, spending, saving,
unemployment, and trade. Students examine how governments conduct monetary and fiscal policies to stabilize the economy and achieve economic goals. They also consider interest rates, inflation, the exchange rate of the Canadian dollar, growth, and the open economy.
Semester 2 Statistics for Business This is an introductory course in statistics for business students. Emphasis is on the application of statistical methods to business problems. Topics include descriptive statistics, probability and probability distributions,
estimation and hypothesis testing, correlation and regression, chi-squared tests and analysis of variance.
Semester 2 Organizational Behaviour Students examine individual and group behaviour in the workplace and the implications for effective management and leadership of people. They consider individual work behaviours based on values and attitudes, as well as social behaviours and organizational processes. The course
provides an opportunity to view the total
organization from a structural and organizational change perspective. Students are challenged to enrich their own individual careers through application of organizational behaviour theory and behavioural skills.
Year and
Semester Course Title Calendar Course Description
Semester 2 Business
Communications
Effectively presenting oneself is essential in contemporary business where people must negotiate in increasingly complex and diverse workplaces. Students explore and practice methods of creating clear written, oral and interpersonal communication for proposals and presentations in business. They study
communication theories, types of communication, and methods and vehicles that have an impact on their performance. Students enhance their ability to organize information based on purpose and audience; express ideas clearly, precisely and effectively; and use up-to-date technology for presentations.
Semester 2 Non-core Elective Students select from a wide variety of courses outside their discipline drawn from the Arts & Humanities, Society, Culture and Communication or Science and Technology fields. See
descriptions for non-core electives. YEAR 2
Semester 3 Human Resources Management
Students explore the essential elements of human resources (HR) management and how it contributes to organizational goals. They examine the relationship between effective HR
management, employee satisfaction and business strategy. Students receive an
introduction to functional areas of HR including job analysis, selection and recruitment,
orientation, training and career development, performance appraisals, compensation and benefits, labour legislation, health and safety requirements, human resource planning and workplace applications. Emphasis throughout the course is placed on the strategic role of HR in today’s business environment.
Semester 3 Business Information Systems
This course provides students with an overview of information technology and its use in the achievement of organizational goals and strategic objectives. Students examine the role of
information technology in managing operations, achieving a competitive advantage, and on organizational structure and employees. They also study the dynamics of information
technology systems specific to various industry sectors.
Year and
Semester Course Title Calendar Course Description
Semester 3 Business Elective Students choose one of four business elective courses.
Ethics and Values
Quantitative Methods for Business e-Commerce
Customer Service
See descriptions of business electives following this section.
Semester 3 Non-core Elective (x 2) Students select from a wide variety of courses outside their discipline drawn from the Arts & Humanities, Society, Culture and Communication or Science and Technology fields. See
descriptions for non-core electives.
Semester 4 Financial Management Students examine the basic theoretical concepts of finance that are required for effective decision- making in a variety of business environments. Topics include financial ratio analysis, budgeting, forecasting, evaluation of intangibles, short or long term financing, equity or non-equity
financing arrangements, venture capital, capital budgeting as well as cost and risk factors associated with capital budgeting.
Semester 4 Operations Management This course focuses on the decision-making role of the operations manager in transforming organizational inputs into desired outputs. The main areas of operations management - purchasing/supply chain, inventory, quality management and production - constitute on average 80 percent of the costs of a business. Therefore, they have a major impact on its competitiveness and profitability. The major issues and problems of designing, scheduling, operating and controlling the operation system (goods and services) are also examined. Semester 4 Healthcare Management:
Policy Formulation, Implementation and Evaluation 1
This course introduces students to the
formulation, implementation, and evaluation of health policy. The course will develop a structured approach for the analysis and appraisal of health policy. In assignments and class discussions, students will learn to apply the structure to discuss contemporary health policy issues from political, social, and economic
perspectives. Topics covered include the Canada Health Act and the federal and
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Semester Course Title Calendar Course Description
health care, health care institutions, financing of health services, health inequalities and social disparities, quality measures for health systems and organizations, payment schemes,
stakeholders and interest groups, and the concept of value in health care.
Semester 4 Business Elective Students choose one of four business elective courses.
Ethics and Values
Quantitative Methods for Business e-Commerce
Customer Service
See descriptions of business electives following this section.
Semester 4 Non-core Elective Students select from a wide variety of courses outside their discipline drawn from the Arts & Humanities, Society, Culture and Communication or Science and Technology fields. See
descriptions for non-core electives. YEAR 3
Semester 5 Introductory Management Accounting
This is an introductory course in managerial accounting. This course introduces students to key concepts and practices of management accounting. It is designed to acquaint students with how accounting data is used internally by the various levels of management. Students will also learn how to accumulate product costs in a manufacturing environment and will be able to segregate costs by behaviour. Some of the topics covered in this course are: management
accounting fundamentals, job-costing, process costing and activity-based costing, cost allocation and prediction using regression analysis, cost- volume-profit analysis, relevant costing, budgeting and control, inventory costing, and information for management control and decision analysis.
Semester 5 Business Research Methods
This course covers contemporary research methods used to investigate business issues. Students are introduced to research practices, processes and tools that assist in business decision-making. Students also develop research objectives that are compatible with international business objectives and select the most suitable
Year and
Semester Course Title Calendar Course Description
methods of data acquisition. They structure an information system that is accessible, current and useful. Information technology and software are used extensively in the gathering, analysis and reporting of data.
Semester 5 Healthcare Management: Data and Analysis
Collecting, analysing and interpreting data are fundamental to health care management. This course first reviews the relevant statistical and quantitative concepts learned in previous courses and recasts them from the perspective of
healthcare. An overview of types of healthcare data-such as hospital, physician, census, vital statistics and surveys is provided with an
emphasis on how these data are used in practice. Much of the course will focus on the most
common types of analysis encountered in
epidemiology and the health care industry. Topic includes needs analysis, outcome evaluation, forecasting and decision support. Statistical software will include excel and the open source language R.
Semester 5 Healthcare Management: Population Health
This course examines the factors that affect the health of population groups and the methods used to assess health differences between populations. Beginning with the socioeconomic determinants of health, those non-medical
conditions that affect a person's opportunity to be healthy and their risk of illness, we examine factors of population health that can be affected by health and social policy. We will also identify the behavioral and lifestyle factors that affect health and risk of illness. Through application, students with learn the main data sources and methods for measuring health disparities and community health needs. Students will learn how governments, agencies, and communities aim to reduce health disparities between populations through health promotion programs. Students will undertake a research project to apply the course material to a contemporary health problem.
Semester 5 Non-core Elective Students select from a wide variety of courses outside their discipline drawn from the Arts & Humanities, Society, Culture and Communication or Science and Technology fields. See
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Semester 6 Health Economics This course studies how economics can be used to understand and improve health and
healthcare. The course first consolidates relevant material learned in previous courses, including microeconomics, statistics, operations
improvement and financial management. These skills are developed through the course as we study topics including economic determinants of health, demand for health services, measurement of health, supply and cost of service provision, manpower planning, cost benefit analysis and efficiency and distributional aspects of health policy.
Semester 6 Healthcare Financial Management
This course is an introduction to the practice of healthcare financial management. Building on the introductory business accounting and finance, it develops the requisite concepts for healthcare finance. The course will focus on healthcare financial data, definitions and concepts, financial reporting structure of healthcare institutions, and functions of the healthcare manager. Topics will include: healthcare revenue sources, capital budgeting, risk management, healthcare financial statement analysis, financial forecasting, working capital management, funding methods and patient level costing.
Semester 6 Business elective - open Students select a course of interest from any of the available business courses for which they have the pre-requisite.
Semester 6 Non-core Elective (x2) Students select from a wide variety of courses outside their discipline drawn from the Arts & Humanities, Society, Culture and Communication or Science and Technology fields. See
descriptions for non-core electives. YEAR 4
Semester 7 Strategic Management This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the process of strategy formulation and implementation. The course is case oriented and integrates concepts from other business courses. Students will learn how to combine concepts in marketing, human
resources, accounting, finance and information technology courses, and how to apply a holistic approach to an organization’s strategic planning
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Semester Course Title Calendar Course Description
process. Students will explore the life cycles of organizations, products and services and strategies appropriate for each cycle, while incorporating into their solutions practical realities and emerging issues and practices. Through casework and teamwork, students will learn concepts and skills to help them contribute to the strategic planning process of the organizations Semester 7 Health Informatics Health informatics integrates concepts in
information science, computing and healthcare. Skills in using devices, software, algorithms, clinical guidelines, and medical ontology to improve healthcare are much in demand. This foundational survey of health informatics equips students to become conversant in the concepts they are most likely to encounter in practice. Semester 7 Healthcare Strategy:
Markets and Information
This course covers marketing tools and strategy relevant to stakeholders including pharmaceutical and technology firms, health service providers, Health Integration Networks, insurers, public health agencies and Ministries of Health. Considerable emphasis will be placed on customizing products and targeting healthcare interventions to specific health consumer
segments. The role of market analysis, research and assessment in the design of wellness programs, copayments, and accountable health care organizations will be described. Methods for engaging increasingly educated healthcare consumers will be critically evaluated and new approaches explored. Cases studies covering diverse situations will provide practice in applying, managing and evaluating market strategy.
Semester 7 Business Elective - open Students select a course of interest from any of the available business courses for which they have the pre-requisite.
Semester 7 Non-core Elective Students select from a wide variety of courses outside their discipline drawn from the Arts & Humanities, Society, Culture and Communication or Science and Technology fields. See
descriptions for non-core electives. Semester 8 Healthcare Management:
Senior-Level Business
In this capstone course, students apply the knowledge and skills developed throughout the
Year and
Semester Course Title Calendar Course Description
Project entire degree program by developing a
comprehensive proposal for dealing with an issue in healthcare management. The project will involve original, independent, self-directed research on an actual business problem or policy issue. Students will be required to find an industry sponsor for their project. Students have the option of working individually or in small groups Semester 8 Healthcare Strategy:
Organizations
This course trains students in the practical aspects of strategy important to managers, service providers, policy makers and payors. The importance of institutions, strategic thinking, consensus building, strategic planning and multidisciplinary perspectives are emphasized. Beginning with the fundamental concept of organizational vision, the course equips students with foundational tools to increase healthcare value through strategy. Numerous case studies and interaction with strategic managers from different parts of the healthcare system ensure the concepts learned in the course can be usefully contextualized and applied. Semester 8 Healthcare Management:
Organization Design and Behaviour
This course introduces students to the study and practical applications of organizational behaviour and theory in healthcare. Organizational
behaviour is focused on understanding and improving the performance, effectiveness, and satisfaction of people and teams in organizations. Organizational behaviour topics covered in this course include communication, management and leadership, reward systems, sources and
distribution of power and authority, and conflict management and negotiations. Organizational theory focuses on the environmental and contextual factors that affect how organizations are structured and how they perform.
Organizational theory topics covered in the course include the types and settings of health care, structural designs for health service organizations, mergers and acquisitions, environmental factors that influence structural design, and measuring and benchmarking the performance of health services organizations. Semester 8 Healthcare Management:
Policy Formulation, Implementation and
This is the second part of a full year course that introduces students to the formulation,
Year and
Semester Course Title Calendar Course Description
Evaluation 2 The course will develop a structured approach for the analysis and appraisal of health policy. In assignments and class discussions, students will learn to apply the structure to discuss
contemporary health policy issues from political, social, and economic perspectives. Topics covered include the Canada Health Act and the
federal and provincial/territorial division of responsibilities for health care, health care institutions, financing of health services, health inequalities and social disparities, quality
measures for health systems and organizations, payment schemes, stakeholders and interest groups, and the concept of value in health care. Semester 8 Non-core Elective Students select from a wide variety of courses
outside their discipline drawn from the Arts & Humanities, Society, Culture and Communication or Science and Technology fields. See
descriptions for non-core electives.
Business Electives
Ethics and Values Students examine the ethical and evaluative issues in business and professional activities. They explore the role of ethics in a variety of business contexts and functions. Topics include the nature of values and ethical systems, duties and rights, private and public good, the consumer movement, social marketing, corporate
governance, corporate social accounting, private rights, and professional ethics and
responsibilities. Quantitative Methods for