Lecture demonstrations supplemented by hands-on laboratory computer exercises provide students an understanding of computer terminology, hardware components, Windows XP and Windows 7 and the most popular office software used in business. Students learn advanced MS Office 2010 including practical spreadsheet and charting exercises (Microsoft Excel 2010), word processing (Microsoft Word 2010), and presentations and graphics (Microsoft PowerPoint 2010) as well as the increasingly popular Web-based productivity tools (e.g. Google Docs). They also get a solid, introduction to social media (e.g. WordPress, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube) and hands-on application of the tools through a career e-portfolio assignment.

COMM 1100 is designed to give students basic listening, writing and speaking skills that will allow them to prepare written and oral reports for BCIT courses and to proceed to more advanced communication courses.

This course investigates economic analysis, focusing on fundamentals of markets, supply and demand, consumer and producer behaviour, and monopoly and competition. Optional areas of business application may explore labour markets, government intervention and environmental regulation. Prepares students to identify and evaluate the economic considerations they will undoubtedly encounter in business.

This course covers the full accounting cycle for individuals with little or no accounting background. Topics include accounting as an information system; introduction to accounting theory; income measure; traditional record keeping; the accounting cycle; special journals; cash and financial statements.

Designed to provide the student with an overview of the marketing concept and how it can be applied to any type of organization or service. Includes the controllable and uncontrollable elements of marketing, strategic planning, market characteristics, marketing research techniques, market segmentation, and target market selection.

Reviews basic mathematics applicable to business and industry. Topics include consumer and commercial credit, simple and compound interest, financial instruments and discounting, annuities, mortgages, loans, sinking funds, leases, depreciation methods, capitalized costs, cash flow analysis, NPV and IRR. Emphasis is on maximum use of pre-programmed calculator and practical applications from the field of Financial Management. As of September 2007, this course replaces OPMT 1102 for Part-Time Studies Certificates.

Presents the study of factors that either influence or are influenced by people at work. The course will focus on macro factors such as organizational structure, technology and environment; group factors such as group dynamics, leadership, conflict, change and decision making; and micro or individual factors such as personality, attitudes, perception and motivation.

Builds on the 1000 course by expanding on the managerial approach developed in that course. This course will concentrate on more complex spreadsheet management tasks using a popular spreadsheet package. Prerequisites: BSYS 1000

A study of the basic concepts of the management process: planning, organizing, staffing, leading and controlling. Integrated with the concurrent first-term courses and using the case-study method, it creates opportunities for the students to develop analytical, problem-solving, teamwork and communications skills, by analysing and presenting solutions to typical business problems. Topics covered include: structuring organizations, decision making and an introduction to production, human resources, controlling and strategic and tactical planning. Prerequisites: ORGB 1100

This course provides further instruction and practice in the principles taught in COMM 1100. It concentrates on more sophisticated forms of written communication: the job application package, indirect correspondence, and reports. The course might also include modules on graphics, questionnaires, telephone techniques, and organizing and running meetings. Prerequisites: COMM 1100

Presents a challenging overview of the workings of an economy. Stresses measurement and determination of national economic activity, the role of monetary and fiscal policy, and the understanding of inflation, unemployment and growth in an international environment. Prepares students to weigh political and economic issues as they relate to their business ventures.

This course is the second of two designed to provide first year students with a general understanding of the nature, purpose and general procedures of accounting. The course examines notes and accounts receivables; capital assets; liabilities; partnerships; corporations and consolidations; international transactions; financial statement analysis; cash flow statements; manufacturing and job costing; and a review of the budget process and responsibility accounting. Prerequisites: FMGT 1100 or FMGT 1105

Presents an overview of promotional strategies: advertising, sales promotion, direct marketing, event marketing, publicity, trade shows, and public relations. Intended for those pursuing a concentrated marketing program. Examines those areas of promotion on the basis of where each fits in the promotional mix and when you should best use them. Prerequisites: MKTG 1102 and COMM 1100

Examines the fundamental skills and processes of professional selling. The focus is "needs based" selling in a business-to-business environment and also prepares the student for a range of life skills such as interviewing for jobs or "selling" ideas within a firm. The course concentration reflects the role of the sales person within any firm and the importance of customer interface as a primary method of providing customers with needed products or services as solutions to business problems and opportunities. Course activities include role-play and working in terms to develop, deliver and critique business-to-business presentations. This course forms a foundation for advanced study in working in teams to develop, deliver and critique business-to-business presentations. This course forms a foundation for advanced study in Relationship Sales. Negotiation and Sales Management courses. Prerequisites: MKTG 1102 and COMM 1100

Includes descriptive statistics, including numerical and graphical presentation of data, measures of central tendency and dispersion, elementary probability, index numbers and time series. Introduction to inferential statistics through selected topics such as sampling, confidence limits of the mean, hypotheses testing and simple linear regression. Spreadsheets are used for calculations.

This marketing research course will explore research tools and techniques needed to execute various marketing research projects. Emphasis will be on how marketing research fits into the strategic planning process; conducting situation analyses and exploratory research; identifying and locating sources of secondary data including Internet and other online resources; evaluating and selecting appropriate methods for conducting primary research; designing data gathering tools; conducting effective survey fieldwork; and tabulating, analyzing and reporting of primary research findings. You will be required to complete a major multi-method marketing research project. Prerequisites: MKTG 1102 and BSYS 2070

In combination with courses MKTG 3313, 4414, and 4330, this course will prepare you to successfully challenge the Real Estate Trading Services, the Rental Property Management, Strata Management, and Broker?s provincial licensing examinations, as required by the Real Estate Council of British Columbia. Focused on the British Columbia real estate industry model, this course includes the following general topics: fundamentals of law, British Columbia regulatory requirements, professional liability, BC tenancy law, strata corporation law, basic real estate financial statements, professional ethics, law of contract, agency law, mortgaging law, local government law, real property taxes, real property appraisal, and the Statements of Adjustment for a binding real estate contract. Prerequisite: Successful completion of Terms 1 & 2.

This course builds on knowledge gained in the study of both macroeconomics and microeconomics in Levels 1 and 2. The focus concentrates on the relationship between basic economic principles and the identification and analysis of real estate market land development opportunities. You will become proficient in identifying and interpreting macro [P.E.E.S.T.] influences relevant to the ever-changing nature of real estate market opportunities. Drilling-down to the real property site, you will examine the approach to identifying, analyzing, and assessing the viability of building-out a real property site. Prerequisites: ECON 2100 and ECON 2200

This course provides an introduction to the basics of financial analysis and its applications in real estate investment and mortgage financing. It will also provide a preview of the practical role that mortgages play in the real estate market. Concepts are introduced, applications demonstrated, then you are assigned sequential real-life, market-driven opportunities from which you can apply lending industry core standards of practice. With a specific focus on real property applications, the components covered will be:MS EXCEL to the introductory level and its application to the real estate finance calculations and the visual expression of those calculations;Time Value of Money calculations; How to approach a financial problem; Anticipating and managing cash flow problems; Mortgage yields, bonuses, and discounts; Mortgage financing in relation to return, investment and property pricing; Analysis of investment and re-investment; Introduction to Project financing; Introduction to MS Project. Prerequisites: OPMT 1110

Business today is globally competitive and moves at a relentlessly accelerating pace. The real estate industry is no exception. Indeed, real estate markets change in moments, and are trending to function independently based on product, location, and age of product. Accordingly, to build a sustainable profit model, business leaders must simultaneously embrace teamwork understanding the benefits of collaboration at all levels, while operating decisively as individuals. Understanding both the base elements of business, the Business Case and the Business Plan with the linkage to Marketing Strategy is vital to every real estate professional today. Combined with the understanding of the concepts and application of the foregoing is the need of every successful real estate industry professional to be able to successfully implement of such tools. Marketing 3333, Building a Sustainable Real Estate Business shapes your learning through a focus on application of 7 core business concepts: High Performance Work Teams, Business Case, Business Strategy, and Marketing Communication Strategy, Real Estate and the Internet, Real Estate Customer Service Strategy, and Leadership. Prerequisites: MKTG 1102

Builds on the basic selling skills acquired previously and develops analytical, negotiating and conflict resolution skills that are required in complex selling situations. All aspects of professional, ethical conduct leading to successful seller/client contractual relationships are addressed through lecture and role playing activities. Students will be exposed to the use of industry standard tools and techniques. Prerequisites: MKTG 2243 or MKTG 1219

Covers the case law and legislation relevant to real property, a contract, tort liability, interests in BC land registration system, agency, mortgages, tenancies, condominiums, professional organizations, and professional ethics. Prerequisites: BLAW 3100

This course moves the student into the arena of current practice in the most active segments of the real estate brokerage industry in British Columbia. The student is expected to demonstrate a sound base understanding of those segments. This course regularly drives the student into the active marketplace to reinforce application of concepts learned in class. Progressing logically from a strategic to tactical approach, students will be introduced to an effective array of practical skills proven in the current market. An emphasis on sound, ethical, profitable business practice drives this course. Prerequisites: MKTG 3311

This course includes: law, taxation on real property, appraisal, and construction. Additionally, the characteristics of urban real estate and the market, city growth and development, location factors influencing the determination of land use and ownership, institutional lenders, the mortgage market and the functions of the real estate agency, salesperson and appraiser are examined. This course, a continuation of MKTG 3311, will prepare you to successfully challenge the Real Estate Trading Services licensing examinations, as required by the Real Estate Council of British Columbia. Prerequisites: MKTG 3311

This course includes an in-depth study of the most common real property evaluation methodology, then moves into the deeper consideration of the analysis of income-producing real property from the investor?s perspective. Prerequisites: MKTG 3312 and MKTG 3313

This course builds on the fundamentals gained in MKTG 3313, and enables you to achieve greater competence with the skills involved in advanced mortgage finance and investment cashflow techniques. The economic environment of the mortgage market and the practical administration of mortgage loans are also examined in this course. Topics include: (1) Capital Markets, (2) Residential and Commercial Mortgage Underwriting, (3) Mortgage Administration, (4) Refinancing, (5) Appraisal, and (6) Development Lending. Prerequisites: MKTG 3313

Focuses on the unique characteristics of the specialty of real estate property management. Whether a multi-unit residential property, an office building, or an industrial park, competent asset management skills are increasingly in demand in the real estate market place. This course introduces you to the core concepts and skills necessary to deliver professional real property asset management to the consumer. Upon graduation from the Professional Real Estate program, you will be ready to challenge the Rental Property Management Licensing examination required by the Real Estate Services Act. Prerequisites: MKTG 3311 and MKTG 3312 and MKTG 3313

Students will work off-campus one day a week on a major project related to their marketing field of study. This project typically relates to a specific client company and is carried out under the guidance of assigned faculty members. Prerequisites: MKTG 2309 and MKTG 3301