喬治亞學院

Students are provided a degree-level education in business with a special focus on management and leadership. Students explore current issues, trends and technologies preparing them to adopt innovative approaches to evolving management and leadership issues. Entrepreneurship is a Georgian College signature learning experience, and a number of core and optional courses focused on entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship are offered. Interactive curriculum delivery in this program promotes critical thinking and problem solving. A strategically sequential co-op structure serves to maximize the link between theory and practice.

Program Learning Outcomes

The graduate has reliably demonstrated the ability to:

• analyze, evaluate and solve organizational problems by applying appropriate business and economic models, integrating knowledge about marketing, law, accounting and finance, operations and human resources management functions, in both domestic and international contexts;
• design, implement and monitor initiatives aimed at improving the quality, effectiveness and efficiency of employees, processes, and functions of an organization, recognizing that uncertainty, ambiguity and the limits of knowledge will affect the success of these initiatives, and require their continuous monitoring and adjustment;
• apply current theory and practice about leadership in a variety of settings;
• employ effective and professional communication skills and techniques to interact, negotiate, collaborate, lead and manage people;
• formulate appropriate management and leadership strategies and develop plans to achieve organizational goals, based on assessment of costs, benefits, risks and opportunities in both domestic and international settings;
• interpret and use financial reports to assess the overall financial performance of an organization;
• evaluate marketing strategies and assess their impact on achievement of organizational goals;
• assess the effectiveness of management information systems in managing an organization’s activities and achieving organization goals;
• judge and adjust human resources strategies to respond to current and future labour market conditions;
• differentiate and practice appropriate professional behaviour related to ethical and legal codes of conduct;
• apply self-awareness, self-management and self-direction in the use of leadership theory to achieve personal and organization-related goals;
• exhibit an appreciation of the need for managers and leaders to engage in life-long learning and the usefulness of developing a broad range of interests.

Practical Experience

All co-operative education programs at Georgian contain mandatory work term experiences aligned with program learning outcomes. Co-op work terms are designed to integrate academic learning with work experience, supporting the development of industry specific competencies and employability skills.

Career opportunities

Graduates are expected to accept leadership responsibility at a high level, think critically and innovatively, synthesize their learning to solve complex management problems, and apply these attributes to their professional development as dynamic managers and leaders who excel in a wide range of business settings. Graduates will emerge with competency in generating and interpreting numerical or statistical information; skills in analyzing, synthesizing and evaluating complex material; problem solving and critical thinking processes; and negotiation, leadership, and management skills.

Duration:

8 Semesters, plus 2 work terms (4 Years) - Full-time

Work Integrated Learning: 2 Co-op Work Terms