Effective date of this calendar, unless otherwise indicated, is Sept. 1, 2001 to Aug. 31, 2002.
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Accounting
Description
Offered at Langley, Surrey (ENTR and LBED elective courses only are also offered at Richmond)
Full-time and Part-time start for 3rd and 4th year students, three times per year.
Description
The Bachelor of Business Administration Program provides full-time and part-time intensive study for students wishing to earn a business degree from Kwantlen University College.
This degree is an appropriate goal for students who want to study beyond a diploma and their initial two-year equivalent post secondary education. Students enter the program after successfully completing an accounting diploma from a recognized college, institute or university with a minimum of 60 credits and a cumulative GPA of 2.7 or higher. This program then offers the third and fourth years of the degree program.
The BBA degree program provides advanced accounting, business and leadership training and is the next step for many students in their life-long learning process. It integrates skills and concepts learned in different functional areas of business.
Students acquire:
- Technical business skills through their subject specific studies;
- General success skills through their employability skills studies; and
- Better understanding of human society and how to contribute to it through liberal education studies.
- Degree classes are scheduled for days, evenings and weekends to allow students to either further their education while maintaining current employment or as a full-time student.
Some unique features of this program are:
- Graduates who have applied and practiced employability skills. Examples of how this will be achieved include practicums, learning partnerships with business, applied projects and assignments and ongoing work experience;
- Prior learning assessment allowing individuals with appropriate work experience to further their education in their own community. These will mainly be mid-career individuals looking to enhance professional qualifications;
- Full block transfer of credits from recognized college and university programs;
- Student exit/re-entry flexibility. A student can complete the program at their own pace.
- Professional development for individuals seeking higher level training.
Options: Regular and Co-op Mode
Students may graduate from either the regular Bachelor of Business Administration degree mode or the optional Co-operative Education mode. Students applying for Co-op must complete all prescribed courses with a cumulative GPA of a least 3.0.
In order to receive a Co-operative Education designation, the following criteria must be met in addition to the 120 credit hours of course work:
Please contact the Chair of the Accounting Programs for more information on the Co-op option.
Career Opportunities
In Canada, a degree is now a mandatory prerequisite to the awarding of an accounting designation. Similar requirements are being implemented in other countries that have professional governing bodies.
In the past few years BC has experienced an employment growth rate of over 40% for auditors, accountants and investment professionals. By 2005 industry analysts project in excess of 9500 job opportunities in the accounting and finance areas. Similar trends are evident throughout Canada and the United States.
Admission Requirements
Students enter the program in the third year, upon completion of two years of study. The admission requirements are met by one of the following:
- Completed an accounting diploma from a recognized college, institute or university, with a minimum of 60 credits and cumulative GPA of 2.7 or higher, or;
- Awarded a professional designation from the CGA, CMA or CA. Applicants in this category will qualify for advanced standing in the degree program through a combination of transfer credit and Prior Learning Assessment. Please contact the Chair of Accounting Programs for more information, or;
- Completed some, or all, of the education requirements of the CGA, CMA or CA leading to a professional accounting designation. Applicants in this latter category may qualify for advance standing in the degree program through a combination of transfer credit and Prior Learning Assessment. You may be required to first complete a Kwantlen Accounting Diploma depending on the level of completion of your professional studies. Please contact the Chair of Accounting Program for more information.
Content
The degree program will require a minimum of 120 credit hours of post-secondary courses. This includes the initial two years of post-secondary education equal to 60 credit hours.
The courses in 3rd and 4th year are rigorous and demanding. Prior to registering, you should carefully consider the time requirements of part-time versus full-time study based on your individual work and personal situation.
Years 1 and 2
Successful completion of a two year Accounting Diploma. this requirement must be satisfied prior to your acceptance to the BBA program. Students may complete this at Kwantlen or another recognized post-secondary institution.
Years 3 and 4
You are able to exit and enter the final two years of the program as yours needs change.
Degree studies in years three and four are based on the following minimum number of courses in the accounting, entrepreneurial leadership and liberal education areas:
What Courses Will I Take?
You must complete all the required courses to graduate, but you are not required to do them in the stated order. You may take longer than a year at each level if you prefer to study part-time. (The course prefixes represent the general focus of the course with ACCT indicating accounting courses and ENTR meaning a concentration in entrepreneurial skills. Liberal education courses are designated by LBED. All courses are three credit hours unless otherwise stated.)
Year 3
ACCT 3455 * Advanced Financial Accounting
ACCT 3360 *Advanced Microcomputer Applications for Financial Managers
ACCT 3650 Not-for-Profit Management and Accounting
ACCT 3355 Tax 2
ACCT 3455 Audit 2
ENTR 3130 Production and Operations Management
ENTR 3140 Entrepreneurial Marketing
ENTR 3150 Business Economics
ENTR 3160 * Information Technology for Business
ENTR 3500 * Professional Business Communications
LBED 3110 Work, Technology and Society
LBED 3310 * Power Relationships I
LBED 3120 Study of Cultures
LBED 3311 * Power Relationships II
LBED 3130 Philosophy of Critical Thinking, Logic and Scientific Reasoning
Year 4
ACCT 4120 *Financial Statement Presentation and Analysis
ACCT 4720 * Advanced Managerial Accounting and Decision Making
ACCT 4780 * Advanced Managerial Finance
ACCT 4150 International Financial Management
ACCT 4180 Forensic and Investigative Accounting
ACCT 4199 Accounting Theory
ENTR 4110 Business Leadership
ENTR 4120 Human Resource Management
ENTR 4200 * Business Strategy
ENTR 4300 Entrepreneurial Management for Service Companies
LBED 4210 Ethics, Morality and Social Issues for Business
LBED 4810 Innovation and Creativity
LBED 4900 * Community Involvement and
ContributionGraduation
Upon successful completion of this program, students are awarded a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA).
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Entrepreneurial Leadership
Offered at Richmond, Surrey and Langley
Description
The Bachelor of Business Administration Program provides full-time and part-time intensive study for students wishing to earn a business degree Kwantlen University College.
This degree is an appropriate goal for students who want to study beyond a diploma or their initial two years of post secondary education. Students enter the program after either successfully completing a college business diploma or two years of study at a post-secondary institution. This program then offers the third and fourth years of the degree program.
The BBA degree program provides advanced business / entrepreneurial / leadership training and is the next step for many students in their life-long learning process. It integrates business skills and concepts learned in different functional areas of business.
Students acquire:
- technical business skills through their subject specific studies;
- general success skills through their employability skills studies; and
- a better understanding of human society and how to contribute to it through liberal education studies.
Degree classes are scheduled for evenings and weekends to allow students to further their education while maintaining current employment.
Some unique features of this program are:
- Graduates who have applied and practiced employability skills. Examples of how this will be achieved include practicums, learning partnerships with business, applied projects and assignments and ongoing work experience;
- Prior learning assessment allowing individuals with appropriate work experience to further their education in their own community. These will mainly be mid-career individuals looking to enhance professional qualifications;
- Full block transfer of credits from recognized college and university programs;
- Focus on management of small to medium sized businesses, entrepreneurial management and management of service sector enterprises;
- Student exit / re-entry flexibility, where a student can complete the program at their own pace. This allows for a student's changing outside-of-school time requirements and does not lock them into a rigid program structure and timeframe;
- Professional development for individuals seeking higher level training.
Options: Regular and Co-op Mode
Students may graduate from either the regular Bachelor of Business Administration degree mode or the optional Co-operative Education mode. Students applying for Co-op must complete all prescribed courses with a cumulative GPA of at least 2.7.
In order to receive a Co-operative Education designation, the following criteria must be met:
Career Opportunities
The degree design is based on extensive consultations with business leaders. They told us there is a requirement for managers and entrepreneurs who can take Business leadership roles or start their own businesses.
Graduates will be engaged in enterprise development, management and leadership in small and medium sized businesses. Based on Labour Market Trends in British Columbia (1994) which identify a shift of employment from the goods manufacturing section to the services sector, the program will focus more on services than manufacturing.
Admission Requirements
Students enter the program in the third year, upon completion of two years of study. The admission requirements are met by one of the following:
- Completion of a business-related diploma from a recognized college or university, with a minimum of 60 credits, a cumulative GPA of 2.7 or higher, and a C+ or higher in accounting and statistics; or,
- Completion of 60 university transferable credits from any recognized college, including the six bridging courses, or transferable equivalents, with a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.7 and with a C+ in Accounting and Statistics. Applicants, without 60 credits of formal education, but with significant experience or non-formal learning, may be able to obtain academic credits through Prior Learning Assessment. This assessment should be initiated at least six months in advance; or,
- Students with either a business diploma or 60 university transferable credits, including the six bridging courses, but who do not meet the GPA requirements or the C+ in Statistics and Accounting, may apply as a special entrant. These applicants must submit two business and/or personal references and resume. A short presentation may be required.
Content
The degree program will require 120 credit hours of post-secondary courses. This includes the initial two years of post-secondary education equal to 60 credit hours.
Year 1 and 2
Successful completion of two years' post-secondary studies.
1 . A business-related diploma such as Kwantlen's Accounting Diploma, Business Administration Diploma, Business Management Diploma, Commerce Diploma, Computer Information Systems Diploma, General Business Studies Diploma or, Marketing Management Diploma.
2 . A Non-Business Diploma, Associate Degrees or equivalents including the following bridging courses.
Bridging Program Courses
Students who do not have a two-year business related diploma from a recognized post-secondary institution are required to complete six "bridging" courses. Students do not have to repeat any courses they have already taken, including equivalent courses from other institutions. All of these courses are widely offered at Kwantlen.
BUSI 1210 Essentials of Management
BUSI 1215 Organizational Behaviour
ACCT 1293 Introductory Financial Accounting
MRKT 1199 Introduction to Marketing
CBSY 1105 Introductory Microcomputer Applications
ACCT 1230 Business Statistics
ECON 1150 Principles of Microeconomics
Years 3 and 4
Students are able to enter and exit the final two years of the program as their needs change. The course prefixes represents the general focus of the course, with ENTR meaning a concentration on entrepreneurial skills and LBED showing liberal education courses. Each course will also have employability skill development as part of the curriculum. All courses are three credit hours unless otherwise noted.
What Courses Will I Take
Year 3
ENTR 3110 Applied Organizational Behaviour
ENTR 3120 Managerial Accounting
ENTR 3130 Production and Operations Management
ENTR 3140 Entrepreneurial Marketing
ENTR 3150 Business Economics
ENTR 3160 Information Technology for Business
ENTR 3170 Entrepreneurial Finance
ENTR 3500 Professional Business Communications
LBED 3310 Power Relationships I
LBED 3311 Power Relationships II
Year 4
ENTR 4110 Business Leadership
ENTR 4120 Human Resource Management
ENTR 4140 Entrepreneurial Sales and Customer Service
ENTR 4200 Business Strategy
ENTR 4150 Entrepreneurial Leadership Practicum
ENTR 4300 Entrepreneurial Management for Service
LBED 4900bution
For the two additional liberal education elective required, you may select from liberal education courses which include:
LBED 3110 Work, Technology and Society: Structures and Processes
LBED 3120 Study of Cultures
LBED 3130 The Philosophy of Critical Thinking, Logic and Scientific Reasoning
LBED 4210 Ethics, Morality and Social Issues for Business
LBED 4810 Innovation and Creativity
ENTR 3033 Business Ethics
Graduation
Upon successful completion of this program, students are awarded a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA).
Bachelor of Business Administration - Open University (OU)
Transfer program to Open University
Description
Kwantlen business diploma graduates have the option of pursuing the Open University's Bachelor of Business Administration. Kwantlen students who complete a business diploma in Accounting, Business Administration, Business Management, Commerce, General Business Studies, or Marketing Management are eligible for a block transfer of up to 60 credits toward the OU degree. Students who complete a business diploma in Computer Information Systems are eligible for a block transfer of up to 45 credits.
Content
To be eligible for the full block transfer of 60 credits toward the Bachelor of Business Administration Degree Program, graduates must meet the following requirements:
- an appropriate Kwantlen University College Business diploma
- a minimum GPA of 2.67 (70%)
- a minimum grade of 60% for courses in introductory economics and statistics
- completion of specific course requirements within the diploma program
- completion of the diploma program within the last seven years.
Who to Contact
(at Open Learning -OU)Contact the Open Learning Agency's Educational Access Services at (604) 431-3300 or 1-800-663-9711.
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