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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,
CHEM 100: Chemistry and the World Around Us
A liberal arts chemistry course for non-science majors beginning with an introduction to the basic principles of chemistry. The relevance of chemistry will then be applied to the world around us, with the focus being
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
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
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
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,
CMNS 110: Introduction to Communication Theory
From viral Instagram images and YouTube channels, to waiting at an airport for the next flight, we barely realize the immense amount of information that surrounds us on a daily basis. How do we make
CMNS 130: Communication & Social Change
How do popular music, cinema, news, and other forms of entertainment media get made? What makes an internet meme successful? How does “fake news” get generated and disseminated around the world? What role do digital
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
CMNS 205: Introduction to Intercultural Communication
An exploration of communication behavior focusing primarily on the nonverbal dimension of interpersonal communication and emphasizing its cultural implications and its deployment in mass mediated communications. Topics include the relationship of spoken language to nonverbal
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
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
CMNS 221: Media, Ideology, and Popular Cultures
This course considers the social and cultural dimensions of the mass media, with a particular focus on intersections between media, audiences, and power. The course will explore the role of culture and discourse in perpetuating relationships of
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
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
CMNS 253: Introduction to Information Technology: The New Media
This course provide an introduction to the study of technology and society using new media as its focus. A number of approaches (i.e., theories and methods) to the study of new media and information technology