Non-Management electives may be chosen from various faculties and departments, except for overlapping courses in Statistics, Computer, and Economics courses, and the restrictions listed below.
Note 1: Quantitative Methods, and Research courses offered by any department must be approved by a BCom Academic Advisor prior to registration in the course. Failure to obtain the necessary approval will result in the course being excluded (E) from the credit count.
Note 2: A maximum of 6 credits can be taken in English for Academic Purposes and/or English as a Second Language: the relevant subject codes are WCOM and EDEC.
Faculty Constraints
Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
The following courses are not approved and may not be taken for credit within the B.Com. program:
Course List
Course
Title
Credits
AEMA 101
Calculus 1 with Precalculus.
4
Calculus 1 with Precalculus.
Terms offered: Fall 2025
A review of precalculus: functions, graphs,polynomials and rational functions, exponentialand logarithmic functions, and trigonometry.Limits, continuity, and derivatives. Differentiationof elementary functions. Anti-differentiation. Applications.
Integration, the indefinite and definite integral. Trapezoidal and Simpson's Rule approximations for the integral. Applications to areas between curves, distance, volume, length of a curve, work, area of a surface of revolution, average values, moments, etc. Improper integrals and infinite series.
Measures of central tendency and dispersion; binomial and Poisson distributions; normal, chi-square, Student's t and Fisher-Snedecor F distributions; estimation and hypothesis testing; simple linear regression and correlation; analysis of variance for simple experimental designs.
The field of economics as it relates to the activities of individual consumers, firms and organizations. Emphasis is on the application of economic principles and concepts to everyday decision making and to the analysis of current economic issues.
The overall economic system, how it works, and the instruments used to solve social problems. Emphasis will be on decision-making involving the entire economic system and segments of it.
An intermediate theory course in agricultural economics, dealing with economic concepts as applied to agricultural production and cost functions. Includes theory and application of linear programming as related to production decisions.
Nature and organization of agricultural and food markets as economic institutions, including the application of economic theory to problems within the agri-food marketing chain. Spatial and temporal price relationships, and the role of market structure.
Strategic management of agricultural and food businesses. Analysis of internal and external factors and competitive forces affecting agribusinesses. Formulation of business strategy and solutions to strategic problems. Case-based course designed to enhance students' problemsolving and decisionmaking skills. Integration of knowledge and tools from various economics and business disciplines.
Systems of linear equations, matrices, inverses, determinants, geometric vectors in three dimensions, dot and cross product, lines and planes; introduction to vector spaces, linear (in)dependence, bases. lntroduction to computer-based mathematical tools.
All courses are approved, subject to Course Overlap and the above notes, with a maximum of 6 credits approved in WCOM or SWRK (advisor's approval only).
ECON 208 Microeconomic Analysis and Applications., ECON 209 Macroeconomic Analysis and Applications., and ECON 227 Economic Statistics.may not be taken for credit within the BCom program.
Education
A maximum of 6 credits are approved from the following subject codes (combined): EDEA, EDEC, EDEE, EDEM, EDES, EDKP, and EDPT.
No courses are approved from subject codes EDET, EDFC, EDFE, or EDSL.
Engineering
Most courses in subject codes ARCH, CHEE, CIVE, ECSE, MECH, MIME, URBP with approval of an advisor.
No courses are approved from subject codes FACC or MPMC.
The following courses are not approved:
Course List
Course
Title
Credits
CHEE 291
Instrumentation and Measurement 1.
4
Instrumentation and Measurement 1.
Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.
Introductions to safe laboratory practices, technical report-writing, electrically-based measurements and modern methods for instrumentation and control. Goals are that students can safely perform accurate measurements of physical variables without detailed theoretical knowledge. Common software for report writing and instrumentation are introduced and used extensively.
The construction and use of modern survey instruments; transit, level, etc.; linear and angular measurements and errors; horizontal and vertical curves; error analysis, significance of figures; use of computers and software; recent developments.
Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.
A technical paper, on a suitable topic, is to be prepared in accordance with detailed instructions which are provided by the Department. This paper will normally be written in the U3 year and may be submitted in September or January.
Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.
MECH 201
Introduction to Mechanical Engineering.
2
Introduction to Mechanical Engineering.
Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.
The practice of Mechanical Engineering: its scope and context. The role of Design. Introduction to the Design process. The role of engineering analysis and socio-economic factors in Design. Introduction to the individual mechanical engineering subjects and their role in Design. Case studies.
Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.
MECH 262
Statistics and Measurement Laboratory.
3
Statistics and Measurement Laboratory.
Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.
Introduction to probability: conditional probability, binomial and Poisson distributions, random variables, laws of large numbers. Statistical analysis associated with measurements; regression and correlation. Basic experimental laboratory techniques, including the measurement of strain, pressure, force, position, and temperature.
Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.
The design process, including free-hand sketching; from geometry construction to engineering construction; the technology and standards of engineering graphic communication; designing with CAD software. The role of visualization in the production of engineering designs.
A four-month work period in the mineral industry, to expose the student to an industrial environment. Candidates will receive basic industrial training. A complete report must be submitted at the end of the term.
A four-month industrial work period in a mining company, research laboratory or government agency. The student will receive formal industrial training in a technical position. A complete report must be submitted at the end of the term.
A four-month industrial work period in a mining company, research laboratory or government agency. Based on the experience gained during the first two work periods, the student may be asked to undertake more challenging technical tasks. A complete report must be submitted at the end of the term.
All courses are approved in subject codes MUGT, MUHL, MUMT, MUPD, MUPP, MUSR, MUTH, and MUAR (taught by Arts).
A maximum of 6 credits is approved from the following (combined): MUCO, MUCT, MUEN, MUIN, MUIT, MUJZ, MUPG, and MUSP.
Science
All courses are approved, subject to Course Overlap and the above Note 1, except MATH 111 Mathematics for Education Students., MATH 112 , MATH 150 Calculus A., MATH 151 Calculus B., MATH 203 Principles of Statistics 1., MATH 204 Principles of Statistics 2., and BIOL 373 Biometry.
Subject to the requirements and restrictions for non-Management electives as outlined above, all remaining elective credits may be taken in any faculty, Management or otherwise.
