BComm Business Analytics & Economics 4th Year
FALL 2022
Business Technology Management 333 Enterprise Analysis
The focus is on enterprise analysis and high-level design of IT-enabled solutions to business problems. Emphasis is placed on problem identification, requirements determination, system development methodologies, modelling the enterprise architecture (business, information, application, and technology), building the IT business case, IT project management, and change management.
Business Technology Management 431 Gathering, Wrangling, and Analyzing Data in R
Introduction to software tools, including R, to clean/organize/analyze data for graphical analyses, reports, and presentations. Topics include working with APIs, advanced data scraping tools, dynamic and interactive visualizations, and implementations of statistical methods in data analytics. Skills are applied to typical business data sources and case studies with presentations.
Management Studies 451 Corporate Governance and Ethical Decision-Making
Develop an increased awareness of the importance of corporate governance systems and strong financial decision-making systems in developing effective business enterprises. Specific emphasis is placed on the resolution of agency problems, the role of the board of directors, compensation systems, and financial modelling.
Strategy and Global Management 591 Strategic Management
Analysis of competitive situations from the general management point of view, including fit between key environmental forces and the firm's resources and changes in these over time. Formulating and implementing a strategy based on that analysis. Developing and leveraging a firm's core competencies to gain long-term sustainable advantage.
WINTER 2023
Geology 307 Geological History of Life
The history of life from the earliest records to the present. Fossils, geological time, extinction, basic paleontology. The rise and development of various animals and plants, including dinosaurs, mammals and humans.
Geophysics 375 Natural Disasters and Critical Earth Phenomena
Causes of disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, mudflows, landslides, avalanches, flooding, tornadoes and hurricanes, and other critical phenomena such as sinkholes, ozone depletion and radiation, carbon dioxide and global warming, El Nino, toxic natural materials and pollution, and extraterrestrial impacts. Surveys of historic disasters and their effects on life on Earth. Methods of predicting and preventing catastrophes and precautions for mitigating their impact.
Operations Management 401 Production and Materials Management
An in-depth treatment of inventory and production within an organization. Topics covered include inventory control, sales and operations planning, materials requirements planning, and lean processes. Recent advances in manufacturing may also be discussed.
Operations Management 419 Predictive Models in Business Analytics
Decision-making with big data and predictive analytics methods. Students learn to describe and visualize business data and make predictions and classifications with data. Methods include regression models, regression trees, association rules and cluster analysis.
REFERENCE:
https://www.ucalgary.ca/pubs/calendar/archives/2023/course-desc-main.html#gsc.tab=0
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