Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA)

Bachelor of Business Administration

Graduation Requirements:

In addition to the program requirements listed below, students must also satisfy the Bachelor of Business Administration degree requirements, which include regulations on first year and subject maximum and breadth requirements. Please refer to the Degree Requirement section for further information.

Program Requirements:

Students completing the BBA (Honours) must achieve a minimum average of 70% in the program, and must also include an additional six credits at the 4000 level in Business.

Students completing the BBA (four-year) must achieve a minimum average of 60% in the program.

To graduate with a Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours) or a Bachelor of Business Administration (four-year), students must complete 120 credits, including 60 credits of core requirements as outlined below.

ACCT 1107	Introductory Financial Accounting II	3 cr.
ADMN 1607	Business Mathematics	3 cr.
ECON 1006	Introduction to Microeconomics	3 cr.
ECON 1007	Introduction to Macroeconomics	3 cr.
MKTG 1126	Marketing Concepts	3 cr.
ORGS 1136	Introduction to Organizational Behaviour	3 cr.
ORGS 1137	Management of Human Resources	3 cr.
TMGT 1107	Introduction to Innovation, Technology and Sustainability	3 cr.
ACCT 2146	Management Accounting and Control I	3 cr.
ADMN 2136	Research in Management	3 cr.
ADMN 2306	Business Ethics	3 cr.
ADMN 2606	Business Statistics	3 cr.
MKTG 2127	Marketing for Managers	3 cr.
ADMN 3046	Operations Management	3 cr.
ADMN 3056	Economic and Management Decision Making	3 cr.
FINC 3116	Financial Management I	3 cr.
FINC 3117	Financial Management II	3 cr.
TMGT 3856	Information Systems	3 cr.
ADMN 4606	Business Strategy and Policy I	3 cr.
ADMN 4607	Business Strategy and Policy II	3 cr.
ACCT, ADMN, ECON, FINC, MKTG, ORGS, TMGT (For the Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours), these six credits must be at the 4000 level.)		6 cr.

Breadth Requirements:

Humanities		6 cr.
Science		6 cr.

Note:

Students without any prior background in accounting will be required to take ACCT 1106 Introductory Financial Accounting I in preparation for ACCT 1107 Introductory Financial Accounting II.

Students are limited to no more than 39 credits of advanced standing from the Canadian Securities Institute/Institute of Canadian Bankers courses.

It is recommended that students include ACAD 1601 in their first 30 Nipissing credits. ACAD 1601 will count towards three credits of the Humanities requirements.

Accounting Stream

In addition to the 12 credits of accounting in the core, students must complete 18 credits during their second, third and fourth years of study, as follows:

ACCT 2106	Intermediate Accounting I	3 cr.
ACCT 2107	Intermediate Accounting II	3 cr.
ACCT 2147	Management Accounting and Control II	3 cr.
Nine credits from the following:
ACCT 3127	Accounting Information Systems	3 cr.
ACCT 4816	Personal Taxation	3 cr.
ACCT 4817	Corporate Taxation	3 cr.
ACCT 4827	Auditing	3 cr.
ACCT 4836	Advanced Accounting Topics I	3 cr.
ACCT 4837	Advanced Accounting Topics II	3 cr.
ACCT 4887	Advanced Management Accounting	3 cr.
ACCT 4866	Advanced Cost Accounting Topics I	3 cr.
ACCT 4926	Information Systems Auditing and Assurance	3 cr.
ACCT 4927	Advanced Auditing	3 cr.

Students intending to pursue an accounting designation are strongly advised to take ACCT 2106, ACCT 2107 and ACCT 2147 in their second year. Students should consult with the faculty co-ordinator regarding courses. If students are pursuing a professional accounting designation, they should ensure they are meeting the entrance requirements for the specific designation as those may be more demanding than the accounting stream requirements.

Economics Stream

In addition to the nine credits of economics in the core, students must complete 15 credits during their second, third and fourth years of study, as follows:

ECON 2007	Labour Economics	3 cr.
ECON 2016	Intermediate Macroeconomics	3 cr.
ECON 2017	Money, Banking and the Canadian Financial System	3 cr.
Six credits from the following:
ECON 3066	Principles and Concepts of Economic Development	3 cr.
ECON 3067	Problems and Policies of Economic Development	3 cr.
ECON 3086	The Economics of Income and Wealth	3 cr.
ECON 3087	Selected Canadian Economic Policy Issues	3 cr.
ECON 3127	International Finance	3 cr.
ECON 3226	International Economics	3 cr.
ECON 4005	Research Project in Economics	6 cr.
ECON 4126	Special Topics in Economics I	3 cr.
ECON 4127	Special Topics in Economics II	3 cr.

Finance Stream

In addition to the six credits of finance in the BBA core, students must complete 18 credits during their second, third and fourth years of study, as follows:

FINC 2406	Principles of Finance with Excel	3 cr.
Students must also complete List A OR List B:
List A
ACCT 2147	Managerial Accounting and Control II	3 cr.
ADMN 3306	Small Business Administration	3 cr.
FINC 4917	Entrepreneurial Finance	3 cr.
OR
List B
MKTG 2417	Communications: Selling and Sales Management	3 cr.
FINC 3316	Investments	3 cr.
FINC 4706	Financial Portfolio and Wealth Management	3 cr.
In addition, students must also complete six credits from the following (not already used to satisfy the above):		6 cr.
ACCT 2106	Intermediate Financial Accounting I
ACCT 2147	Managerial Accounting and Control II
ADMN 3306	Introduction to Small Business Administration
ADMN 4336	Directed Studies (iLEAD)
ECON 2017	Money, Banking and the Canadian Financial System
ECON 3127	International Financial Management
FINC 2116	Management of Financial Institutions
FINC 3316	Investments
FINC 3907	Insurance and Risk Management
FINC 4116	Fundamentals of Financial Derivatives
FINC 4706	Financial Portfolio and Wealth Management
FINC 4917	Entrepreneurial Finance
MATH 3286	Mathematics of Finance
MKTG 2417	Communications: Selling and Sales Management
ORGS 3146	Compensation and Rewards

Marketing Stream

In addition to the six credits of marketing in the core, students must complete 18 credits during their second, third and fourth years of study, as follows:

MKTG 3126	Consumer Behaviour	3 cr.
MKTG 3416	Communications: Advertising and Promotion	3 cr.
MKTG 4406	Applied Marketing Management	3 cr.
Nine credits from the following:
MKTG 2417	Communications: Selling and Sales Management	3 cr.
MKTG 3206	Sports Marketing	3 cr.
MKTG 3316	Communications: Public Relations	3 cr.
MKTG 3417	International Marketing	3 cr.
MKTG 3436	Social Marketing	3 cr.
MKTG 3437	Product and Brand Management	3 cr.
MKTG 4426	Services Marketing Management	3 cr.
MKTG 4427	Business-to-Business Marketing	3 cr.
MKTG 4436	Innovative Approaches in Marketing	3 cr.

Organizational Studies Stream

In addition to the six credits of organizational studies in the BBA core, students must complete 24 credits from the following:

ADMN 2706	Introduction to Intercultural Management	3 cr.
ADMN 4206	International Management	3 cr.
ORGS 2006	Recruitment and Selection	3 cr.
ORGS 2007	Business and Government Relations in Canada	3 cr.
ORGS 2117	Industrial Relations	3 cr.
ORGS 3006	Management Practices for Sustainable Business	3 cr.
ORGS 3007	Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility	3 cr.
ORGS 3016	The Evolution of Business: A Comparative Perspective	3 cr.
ORGS 3146	Compensation and Rewards	3 cr.
ORGS 3147	Occupational Health and Safety	3 cr.
ORGS 3246	Human Resources Research and Information Systems	3 cr.
ORGS 3247	Human Resources Planning	3 cr.
ORGS 3307	Gender and Diversity in Organizations	3 cr.
ORGS 3836	Training and Development	3 cr.
ORGS 4706	Organizational Structure and Design	3 cr.
ORGS 4837	Organizational Development and Change	3 cr.

Technology Management Stream

In addition to the six credits of technology management in the core, students must complete 18 credits during their second, third, and fourth years of study, as follows:

TMGT 2106	Systems Analysis and Design	3 cr.
TMGT 3807	Project Management	3 cr.
TMGT 4006	Management of Innovation and Technology	3 cr.
Nine credits from the following:
ACCT 3127	Accounting Information Systems	3 cr.
ACCT 4926	Information Systems Auditing and Assurance	3 cr.
BIOL 2557	Genetics	3 cr.
BIOL 3557	Genetics and Society	3 cr.
CHEM 1006	General Chemistry I	3 cr.
CHEM 1007	General Chemistry II	3 cr.
COSC 1557	Introduction to Computer Science	3 cr.
COSC 1567	Programming in C++	3 cr.
COSC 2767	Object Oriented Programming	3 cr.
ENSC 1005	Introduction to Environmental Science	6 cr.
MATH 1056	Discrete Mathematics I	3 cr.
ORGS 4837	Organizational Development and Change	3 cr.
PHIL 2505	Reasoning and Logical Argument	6 cr.
PHYS 1006	General Physics I: Mechanics	3 cr.
PHYS 1007	General Physics II: Mechanical Wave, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics	3 cr.
PSYC 2605	Behavioural Neuroscience	6 cr.
TMGT 3017	Programming for Business	3 cr.