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BUSN 298: Corporate Finance and Capital Markets

This is an introductory finance course covering the concepts and analytical tools required to solve financial problems. Topics include corporate finance, time value of money, bond and stock valuation, capital budgeting, risk and return, diversification,

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CHEM 121: General Chemistry I

This course is the first semester of first year general chemistry, dealing with the fundamental principles of chemistry. The topics covered include gases, atomic structure and the periodic table, chemical bonding, liquids, solids, solutions and

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CHEM 123: General Chemistry II

Note: For students planning to transfer to university Math, Physics, Chemistry, Computing Science and Engineering, it is advisable to enroll in MATH 113 and then MATH 114.  This course is the second semester of first

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CHEM 210: Organic Chemistry I

This is a course on the fundamental principles of organic chemistry. Topics include a review of bonding and molecular structure, acids and bases, nomenclature, conformational analysis, stereochemistry, reactivity, reaction mechanism and synthesis of the principal

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CHEM 220: Organic Chemistry II

This course is a continuation of Chemistry 210, dealing with the fundamentals of organic synthesis and the chemistry of carbonyl-containing compounds. Topics include alcohols, ethers, epoxides, conjugation, resonance, Diels-Alder Reactions, amines, substituted aromatics, amino acids,

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CMNS 199: Visual Communication

With an emphasis on both theoretical and practical approaches, this course introduces students to analytic and creative tools for engaging with the world of visual culture. This course offers an introduction to key theoretical perspectives

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CMNS 210: Social History of the Media

The course explores, from prehistory to the present, the relationship between social change and systems of human communication. We examine the origins of symbolic representation and appraise the consequences of the adoption of symbolizing technologies

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CMNS 220: Understanding Television

What is “TV”? Does it still exist? For billions of people worldwide, Netflix, YouTube, and other streaming video platforms have come to dominate our experience of “television”. But where do these televisual fixtures of the

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CMNS 223: Advertising as Social Communication

CMNS 223 is part theoretical and part practical. Advertising as Social Communication presents an exciting selection of ads through the investigative lenses of social communication, consumerism, and representational strategies. As advertising is becoming more and

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CMNS 230: Cultural Industries in Canada

Much of our everyday information and entertainment is industrially produced and distributed by firms operating in the cultural sector of the economy. This course examines such “cultural industries” (e.g., print, film, music, broadcasting, and the

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