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Globalization has been a reality for Canadian businesses large and small for some time now.  In order to survive, even small companies often have to compete directly with large international organizations.  Most organizations are much more diverse than they were even a year or two ago.  Many of our graduates will no doubt experience rewarding international placements and foreign travel as their careers develop.  It will be unusual to work in firms without employees and clients who originate from different corners of the world.  In order to develop synergy in this new business environment, it will be necessary to learn to work together, to communicate effectively, and to manage as a unit people coming from very different experiences, cultures, values, and expectations.

If managers wish to remain competitive, they must learn to adapt psychologically, to communicate effectively, and interact socially with other cultures.  International managers are expected to speak more than one foreign language.  The Bachelor of Commerce in Global Business Management offers the opportunity to study the skills essential for a successful international career.

The Bachelor of Commerce is a well-established, foundational degree and requires the requirements listed below alongside general graduation requirements.

Major in Global Business Management

Note: Students are advised that possession of the minimum qualifications does not guarantee admission to a particular academic program.  Limits to the number of students who can be in a particular program at any one time exist and depend very much on the number of faculty members available in a particular academic unit.

Note:  In addition to all other requirements for the major, a minimum GPA of 2.2 out of 4.3 is required in:

Course List

Code	Title	Credit Hours
ACCT 3357	International Accounting	3
MKTG 3375	International Marketing	3
FINA 4476	International Financial Management	3
MGMT 4488	International Business Management	3
Geographic and cognate electives completed in fulfillment of this major

Plan of Study Grid

Third Year		Credit Hours
ACCT 3332	Planning and Control (See Note (3))	3
ACCT 3357	International Accounting 1	3
FINA 2360	Business Finance I	3
FINA 3361	Business Finance II	3
MKTG 3375	International Marketing 1	3
MGMT 3480	Ethical Responsibilities of Organizations	3
Select six credit hours of language electives 2		6
Select six credit hours of geographic electives 1, 3		6
	Credit Hours	30
Fourth Year
FINA 4476	International Financial Management 1	3
MGMT 4488	International Business Management 1	3
MGMT 4489	Strategic Management	3
Select six credits of language electives 4		6
Select six credits of geographic electives 1, 3		6
Select six credits of cognate electives 1, 5		6
Select three credits of free electives		3
	Credit Hours	30
	Total Credit Hours	60

1	Courses included in the GPA calculation.
2	Same language as Year 4 elective.
3	Geographic electives must be selected from the approved lists below for any of the following regions unless another has been approved by the Program Director: Africa Americas Asia Europe
4	Same language as Year 3 elective.
5	Cognate electives must be selected from the approved lists below unless, on an individual basis, they have been approved by the Program Director.

Notes:

1. If Development Economics (ECON 3310), History of Economic Thought (ECON 3312), Comparative Economic Systems (ECON 3315), Canadian Economic Issues (ECON 3322), The Atlantic Canadian Economy (ECON 3324), Atlantic Canadian Economy Seminar (ECON 3325), Asia Pacific Economies (ECON 3327), International Economic issues (ECON 3365), Canadian Economic History in an International Context ECON 4406, Issues in Economic Development (ECON 4410), History of Modern Economic Thought ECON 4412, International Macroeconomics and Finance (ECON 4413) or International Trade (ECON 4414) was used to satisfy the Economics elective(s) in Year 2, the number of free electives is increased by three (3) credit hours.
2. In cases where a student is fluent in two languages, other courses relevant to the major may be substituted for the language credits with the approval of the Program Director.
3. Notwithstanding the course substitutions possible in footnotes (3) and (5), all students must complete at least twenty-four (24) credit hours of non-commerce electives.
4. Students cannot receive credit for both Planning and Control (ACCT 3332) and Cost Mgt: Measurement Sys (ACCT 3333) or Intermediate Managerial Accounting (ACCT 3335).

Approved Electives Offered at Saint Mary’s University

Please be advised that not all courses may be offered each year.

Geographic Electives

Course List

Code	Title	Credit Hours
Africa
HIST 2317	Africa in the 20th Century: Colonialism and Independence	3
IDST 4462	Sub-Saharan Africa: Contemporary Development Issues	3
POLI 3314	Politics of the Developing Areas	3
RELS 2323	The Islamic Religious Tradition	3
Americas
ANTH 2316	Indigenous Peoples of Canada	3
ACST 1000	Making Sense of Atlantic Canada	3
ACST 2311	Inheriting Atlantic Canada: The Cultural Past	3
ACST 2400	Health and Social Policy in Atlantic Canada	3
ACST 3311	Fisheries in Atlantic Canada	3
ACST 3312	Living in Atlantic Canada	3
ACST 3325	The Irish and Atlantic Canada	3
ACST 3470	The British Black Atlantic	3
ECON 3322	Canadian Economic Issues	3
ECON 3324	The Atlantic Canadian Economy	3
ECON 3325	Atlantic Canadian Economy Seminar	3
FREN 3312	Introduction to Quebec Culture	3
GEOG 2310	Geography of Canada	3
GEOG 3320	Geography of the North	3
GEOG 3340	Geography of Nova Scotia	3
GEOG 3454	Bay of Fundy: Environments and Issues	3
GEOL 1203	Earth History: Atlantic Canada Perspective	3
GEOL 1208	Environmental Geology: Atlantic Canada Perspective	3
HIST 1252	Canada to Confederation	3
HIST 1253	Canada: Confederation to the Present	3
HIST 1255	The US since 1865	3
HIST 1260	History of the Americas	3
HIST 2318	The United States and the World since 1865	3,6
HIST 2401	Canadian Political History	3
HIST 2402	History of Cuba	3
HIST 2403	History of Canadian Culture(s)	3
HIST 3100	History of Gender, Feminism and Sexuality in Canada	3
HIST 3352	Race and Racism in the United States	3
HIST 3403	The Invention of Canada	3
HIST 3480	Afro-Brazilian History	3
HIST 4401	Crime in Canada	3
HIST 4431	International History since World War II	3
HIST 4519	Seminar in Modern European History	3,6
HIST 4520	Nazi Germany, Occupied Europe and the Holocaust	3,6
HIST 4530	Forced and Free Migration in Latin America	3
HIST 4567	British Colonization	3
POLI 2304	Canadian Politics in the 21st Century	3,6
POLI 2307	Provincial Government and Politics	3
POLI 3312	American Government	3
POLI 3314	Politics of the Developing Areas	3
POLI 3315	Canadian Foreign Policy	3
POLI 3440	Canadian-American Relations	3
POLI 3447	Canadian Political Parties	3
POLI 3450	Women and Canadian Politics	3
POLI 3454	Issues in Canadian Defence	3
RELS 1252	Religious Diversity in Canada	3
SPAN 1000	Introduction to Latin American Studies	3
SPAN 3310	Latin America Culture	3
SPAN 3330	Diablos and Fiestas in Latin American Folklore	3
Asia
ANTH 2311	Ethnology: Melanesia	3
ANTH 2326	Contemporary East Asia	3
ANTH 2327	Japanese Society	3
ASNT 1105	Introduction to Chinese Culture	3
ASNT 1106	Introduction to Japanese Culture	3
ASNT 1107	Introduction to Korean Culture	3
ASNT 2210	Indigenous Voices in Modern Asia	3
ASNT 2303	Contemporary Japan: Institutions and Culture	3
ASNT 2305	Contemporary China: Institutions and Culture	3
ASNT 3300	Multidisciplinary Study Asia	3
ASNT 3302	Japanese Film and Literature	3
ASNT 3310	Chinese Film and Literature	3
ASNT 4400	Seminar in Asian Studies	3
ECON 3327	Asia Pacific Economies	3
HIST 1222	Introduction to East Asian History	3
HIST 2354	Japan before 1800	3
HIST 2355	Late Tokugawa and Imperial Japan: 1800-1945	3
HIST 2356	Japan since 1945	3
HIST 2381	China Before 1800	3
HIST 2382	China in Revolution:1800-1949	3
HIST 2383	China Since 1949	3
HIST 2393	History of Vietnam	3
HIST 2394	History of Korea	3
HIST 3371	The Chinese Cultural Revolution in History and Memory	3
HIST 3416	Love and Family in China	3
HIST 4572	Memories of WW II in East Asia	3
HIST 4573	The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire	3
IDST 4461	South East Asia: Contemporary Development Issues	3
POLI 3314	Politics of the Developing Areas	3
POLI 3318	Politics of The Middle East	3
RELS 2323	The Islamic Religious Tradition	3
RELS 2327	The Buddhist Religious Tradition	3
RELS 3010	Vietnamese Religious Tradition	3
RELS 3337	South Asian Religions and the Arts	3
Europe
CLAS 1001	Ancient Civilizations of the Near East and Egypt	3
CLAS 1002	The Ancient Civilizations of Greece and Rome	3
CLAS/HIST 2451	Greek History I: From Minos to the Medes	3
CLAS/HIST 2452	Greek History II: The Golden Age of Greece	3
CLAS 3317	Greek Sanctuaries	3
FREN 2260	Francophone Cultures Through Film	3
FREN 3310	Introduction to French Culture	3
GRMN 3306	German Culture and Civilization	3
GRMN 3307	Introduction to German Literature	3
GRMN 3308	Modern German Literature	3
GRMN 3309	Contemporary German Culture	3
HIST/IRST 1215	Ireland: An Introduction	3
HIST 2303	Tudor and Stuart Britain	3-6
HIST 2336	Revolution, Reform and Respectability: Britain 1688 - 1870	3
HIST 2397	The Lingering Death of Imperial Britain, 1870-Present	3
HIST 3301	Crime and Punishment in England Before 1800	3
HIST 3303	Law and Society in Britain 1500-1800	3
HIST 3405	Society and Culture in Early Modern Europe	3
HIST 3460	Issues in Modern Irish History	3
HIST 3465	Scotland's Histories	3
HIST 4200	Women’s Rights in Britain 1500-1925	3
IRST 1215	Ireland: An Introduction	3
IRST 1216	Ireland: Culture and Society	3
IRST/LING 2346	A Sociolinguistic History of Ireland	3
IRST 3787	Ireland in an Age of Globalization	3
IRST 4566	Irish Migration	3
PHIL 2345	Greek Philosophy: The Presocratics and Plato	3
PHIL 2346	Greek Philosophy: Aristotle and The Hellenists	3
POLI 3316	Politics in the European Union	3
Cognate Electives
ANTH 1290	Introducing Language and Society	3
ANTH 2301	Anthropology of Childhood	3
ANTH 3302	Social Organization	3
ANTH 3309	Peasants	3
ANTH 3334	Warfare	3
CRIM 4420	Genocide	3
ECON 3310	Development Economics	3
ECON 3315	Comparative Economic Systems	3
ECON 3365	International Economic issues	3
ECON 4410	Issues in Economic Development	3
ECON 4413	International Macroeconomics and Finance	3
ECON 4414	International Trade	3
GEOG 1100	Global Perspectives on Land and Life	3
GEOG 1200	People, Place and Environment	3
GEOG 3321	Spatial Processes of Economic Globalization	3
HIST 1201	Civilization in the West	3,6
IDST 4470	Environment and Development	3
PHIL 2305	Environmental Ethics	3
PHIL 2312	Contemporary Political Philosophy	3
PHIL 2325	PHIL Issues in IDST	3
POLI 1250	Politics and Globalization	3
POLI 3321	International Organizations	3
POLI 3322	Global Political Economy	3
POLI 3456	Issues in International Securi	3
POLI 4402	Model United Nations	3
POLI/WMST 4451	Gender and International Relations	3
RELS 1251	Religion in Contemporary Culture	3
RELS 2330	Spirituality and Work	3
RELS 2347	Ecology and Religion	3
SOCI 3386	Soc of Developing Societies	3
WMST 3387	Women and Development	3
WMST 4422	Gender and Dev: Theory & Meth	3
WMST 4423	Gender and Dev: Policy & Pract	3

Other on-campus courses may meet these requirements.  In order to do so they must be approved by the coordinator of the program and this can be done only with the submission of appropriate course outlines.

Courses may be taken at other institutions subject to the approval of the Program Director and the Dean of Sobey School of Business.