Business Administration: Diploma

Description

The two-year diploma in Business Administration will provide graduates with foundational business and professional skills, a solid grounding in economics, and a foundation in calculus appropriate for advanced studies and/or research in economics, finance and operations. The program is designed to give graduates a developed portfolio of job-ready skills and a wide range of business principles and concepts to expand the graduate's career options.

Admission Requirements

The Faculty's Admission Requirements, which consist of KPU's undergraduate English Proficiency Requirement, apply to this program.

Declaration Requirements

Students intending to graduate with this School of Business diploma must declare the credential. At the time of declaration, the student must satisfy all of the following requirements:

In good academic standing with the University
Completion of a minimum of 15 credits of undergraduate coursework.

Curricular Requirements

Students must complete a minimum of 60 credits that include the following:

Business Foundation Courses

All of:
	BUSI 1215	Organizational Behaviour	3 credits
	BUSI 2390	Business Law	3 credits
	BUSI 2405	Operations Management	3 credits
	BUSI 2425	Enterprise Development and Business Planning	3 credits
	MRKT 1199	Introduction to Marketing	3 credits
All of Group A or all of Group B:
	Group A
	ACCT 2293	Accelerated Introductory Financial Accounting	3 credits
	Group B
	ACCT 1110	Introductory Financial Accounting I	3 credits
	ACCT 1210	Introductory Financial Accounting II	3 credits
	Note: Students who choose Group B may allocate the 3 credits earned from ACCT 1210 to the general elective credit requirement, and they should be aware that these 6 credits might only transfer as 3 credits. Students wishing to transfer should consult the BC Transfer Guide.
One of:
	ACCT 3320	Introductory Management Accounting	3 credits
	BUQU 3230	Applied Decision Analysis	3 credits
	FNSR 3350	Securities Analysis	3 credits
	Notes: 1. Students wishing to transfer should take ACCT 3320 or consult the BC Transfer Guide to determine which course to complete. 2. Students wishing to enrol in a KPU BBA in Accounting should take ACCT 3320. 3 Students wishing to enrol in a KPU BBA in ENTR, HRMT or MRKT should take one of BUQU 3230 or FSNR 3350. FSNR 3350 is recommended for students pursuing a career in the financial industry.

Breadth Education Courses

All of:
	CBSY 2205	Management Information Systems	3 credits
	CMNS 1140	Introduction to Professional Communications	3 credits
	ECON 1150	Principles of Microeconomics	3 credits
	ECON 1250	Principles of Macroeconomics	3 credits
	ECON 2350	Intermediate Microeconomics	3 credits
	ENGL 1100	Introduction to University Writing	3 credits
	MATH 1140*	Calculus I (Business Applications)	3 credits
	Note: *MATH 1140 may be replaced with MATH 1120 or MATH 1130, though MATH 1140 is strongly recommended. Students wishing to transfer should consult the BC Transfer Guide.
One of:
	ECON 2210	Money and Banking	3 credits
	ECON 2260	Environmental Economics	3 credits
	ECON 2280	Labour Economics	3 credits
	ECON 2255	Globalization in an Economic Framework	3 credits
One of:
	ENGL1202	Reading and Writing about Selected Topics: An Introduction to Literature	3 credits
	ENGL1204	Reading and Writing about Genre: An Introduction to Literature	3 credits
	PHIL 1100	Introduction to Philosophy	3 credits
	PHIL 1110	Confronting Moral Issues: Ethics	3 credits
	PHIL 1145	Critical Thinking	3 credits
One of:
	BUQU 1230	Business Statistics	3 credits
	CRIM 2103	Quantitative Data Analysis I	3 credits
	MATH 1115	Statistics 1	3 credits
	MATH 2341	Introduction to Statistics for Business	4 credits
	PSYC 2300	Applied Statistics	3 credits
	SOCI 2365	Introduction to Social Research Statistics	3 credits
Two Breadth Electives:
	Chosen from Courses numbered 1100 or higher in any area of study except ACCT, BUSI, ENTR, HRMT or MRKT.		6 credits
One General Elective:
	Chosen from Courses numbered 1100 or higher in any area of study.		3 credits