This is an ARCHIVED version of the Kwantlen University College Calendar for 2000-2001 and is provided for historical reference only. See the current version of the Calendar for updated information.
Offered at Richmond, Surrey and Langley
Entrepreneurial Leadership
Intake: Full-time and Part-time start for 3rd and 4th year students.
Graduation
Upon successful completion of this program, students are awarded a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA).
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.
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 birding 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.
e.g. 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. A Non-Business Diploma, Associate Degrees or equivalents including the following bridging courses.
Bridging Program Courses
(or equivalents)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 exit and enter 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.
Year 3 (typical sequencing for full-time)
Fall
ENTR 3120 Managerial Accounting
ENTR 3140 Entrepreneurial Marketing
ENTR 3500 Professional Business Communication
LBED 3310 Power Relationships I
Spring
ENTR 3170 Entrepreneurial Finance
ENTR 3110 Applied Organizational Behaviour
ENTR 3160 Information Technology for Business
LBED 3311 Power Relationships II
Summer
ENTR 3150 Business Economics
ENTR 3130 Production and Operations Management
Year 4
Fall
ENTR 4140 Entrepreneurial Sales and Customer Service
ENTR 4200 Business Strategy
ENTR 4300 Entrepreneurial Management for Service Companies
One Liberal Education Elective *
Spring
ENTR 4110 Business Leadership
ENTR 4120 Human Resource Management
ENTR 4250 Entrepreneurial Leadership Practicum (6 credit hours) (first half)
LBED 4900 Community Involvement and Contribution
Summer
Continuation of:
ENTR 4250 Entrepreneurial Leadership Practicum
(second half)
*One Liberal Education Elective
*For the two liberal education electives offered, students will select from the following group of liberal education courses:
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 4215 Ethics, Morality and Social Issues for Business
LBED 4810 Innovation and Creativity
LBED 4820 Creativity Development
Bachelor of Business Administration-OU
Transfer program to Open University
Description
Kwantlen business diploma graduates now 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.
The block transfer is available to recent graduates. Students who graduated prior to 1987 will have their programs individually reviewed and may need to take additional courses to make up for any deficiencies in the block transfer. Students may also have to make up some courses if they received exemptions in the Kwantlen University College program.
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.
OU Contact
Contact the Open Learning Agency's Educational Access Services at (604) 431-3300 or 1-800-663-9711.
Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology, see Information Technology
Business Management (Certificate), see Business Management Certificate
Business Management (Diploma), see Business Management Diploma
Commerce Diploma (UBC Transfer), see Commerce Diploma
General Business Studies (Certificate), see General Business Studies
Transfer program to Simon Fraser University.
Description
This Diploma Program prepares students for the third year of the Business Administration Program at Simon Fraser University (SFU). It should be noted that the completion of a Kwantlen diploma does not guarantee admission to SFU. Admission requirements are set and administered by SFU. As university GPA and admission requirements are reviewed annually, students are advised to stay current by consulting with SFU advisors.
Admission Requirements
- General Admission requirements apply
- BC English 12 with a B grade or better, or equivalent
- Math 12 with a C grade of better
Content
The diploma is governed by the following criteria:
1. Required Courses
ACCT 1293 Introductory Financial Accounting
ACCT 1110 Principles of Accounting I
ACCT 1210 Principles of Accounting II)
ACCT 2320 Introductory Management Accounting
BUSI 1215 Organizational Behaviour I
CBSY 1205 Computers and Information Processing
ECON 1150 Principles of Microeconomics
ECON 1250 Principles of Macroeconomics
ECON 2350 Intermediate Microeconomics
MATH 1140 Calculus I (Business Applications)*
MATH 2340 Economic and Business Statistics I
ECON 2208 History of Economic Thought
ECON 2210 Money and Banking
ECON 2211 Economic History of Canada
ECON 2260 Environmental Economics
ECON 2280 Labour Economics
ENGL 1100 Writing, Reading, & Thinking: an Intro.
ENGL 1205 Drama and the Short Story
ENGL 1206 Poems and Novels
PHIL 1100 Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL 1110 Confronting Moral Issues: Ethics
PHIL 1145 Critical Thinking
*MATH 1120 can be substituted for MATH 1140
Note: The combination of ACCT 1110 and ACCT 1210 transfers to SFU as three credits only. Students who choose this option should be aware that although they will have completed the requirements for a diploma in Business Administration, they will have only 57 SFU credits.
2. Dedicated Electives
All courses chosen must be SFU transferable (refer to transfer guide).
To fulfill SFU's Group Requirements, students must complete:
Two additional courses from: English Fine Arts History Humanities Languages and/or Philosophy.
No more than three courses (including courses listed under "Required Courses") from any one discipline may be applied toward this requirement.
One course from:
· Anthropology · Canadian Studies · Criminology · Geography (excluding Physical Geography) · Political Science · Psychology · Sociology
One additional course from:
· Biology · Chemistry · Computer Science · Mathematics · Physical Geography · Physics
3. Suggested Electives
Four additional electives chosen from all available SFU transferable courses for a total of sixty (60) credits to complete the diploma. Please check the transfer guide.
When making your choice, consider that the following courses are prerequisites or beneficial introductions for some of the required courses within this diploma (and may be taken for credit):
BUSI 1110 Fundamentals of Business in Canada
CBSY 1105 Introductory Microcomputer Applications
*ECON 1101 Canadian Economic Issues
MATH 1112 College Mathematics
*Not recommended after taking ECON 1150 and/or ECON 1250.
Other business-oriented courses that provide a good foundation for more advanced courses (and may be taken for credit) are:
CMNS 1140 Business and Technical Communications - Theory and Application
MRKT 1235 Small Business Essentials
MATH 1240 Calculus II (Business Applications)
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