Information Technology Management Major (B.Com.) (72 credits)
Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty of Management)
Degree: Bachelor of Commerce
Program credit weight: 72
Program Description
This BCom.; Major Information Technology Management focuses on a blend of theoretical concepts, hands-on tools, and actual case studies to identify business problems and opportunities, analyze business processes, and develop and implement information systems to support them. The Program covers a variety of topics including strategic planning and investment in information technologies, analysis, design, and deployment of information systems, understanding the opportunities and challenges of web-based businesses, and managing resistance to IT-initiated changes in organization.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Required Courses (63 credits)
Management Core
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| MGCR 211 | Introduction to Financial Accounting. | 3 |
Introduction to Financial Accounting. Terms offered: Summer 2025 The role of financial accounting in the reporting of the financial performance of a business. The principles, components and uses of financial accounting and reporting from a user's perspective, including the recording of accounting transactions and events, the examination of the elements of financial statements, the preparation of financial statements and the analysis of financial results. | ||
| MGCR 222 | Introduction to Organizational Behaviour. | 3 |
Introduction to Organizational Behaviour. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Individual motivation and communication style; group dynamics as related to problem solving and decision making, leadership style, work structuring and the larger environment. Interdependence of individual, group and organization task and structure. | ||
| MGCR 233 | Data Programming for Business. | 3 |
Data Programming for Business. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Introduction to data programming for management students. | ||
| MGCR 250 | Expressive Analysis for Management. | 3 |
Expressive Analysis for Management. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Focusing on skills with respect to analysis, writing and presentation in management. | ||
| MGCR 271 | Business Statistics. | 3 |
Business Statistics. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Statistical concepts and methodology, their application to managerial decision-making, real-life data, problem-solving and spreadsheet modeling. Topics include: descriptive statistics; normal distributions, sampling distributions and estimation, hypothesis testing for one and two populations, goodness of fit, analysis of variance, simple and multiple regression. | ||
| MGCR 293 | Managerial Economics. | 3 |
Managerial Economics. Terms offered: Summer 2025 The course focuses on the application of economic theory to management problems and the economic foundations of marketing, finance, and production. Attention is given to the following topics: price and cost analysis; demand and supply analysis, conditions of competition. | ||
| MGCR 294 | The Firm in the Macroeconomy. | 3 |
The Firm in the Macroeconomy. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Topics and tools of macroeconomics such as national accounting, the IS-LM model, the drivers of output and business cycles, and the basics of monetary policy and inflation. Emphasis on financial markets, the role of expectations, and the reasons for possible deviations from full information market efficiency. | ||
| MGCR 331 | Information Technology Management . | 3 |
Information Technology Management . Terms offered: Summer 2025 Introduction to principles and concepts of information systems in organizations. Topics include information technology, transaction processing systems, decision support systems, database and systems development. Students are required to have background preparation on basic micro computer skills including spreadsheet and word-processing. | ||
| MGCR 341 | Introduction to Finance. | 3 |
Introduction to Finance. Terms offered: Summer 2025 An introduction to the principles, issues, and institutions of Finance. Topics include valuation, risk, capital investment, financial structure, cost of capital, working capital management, financial markets, and securities. | ||
| MGCR 352 | Principles of Marketing. | 3 |
Principles of Marketing. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Introduction to marketing principles, focusing on problem solving and decision making. Topics include: the marketing concept; marketing strategies; buyer behaviour; Canadian demographics; internal and external constraints; product; promotion; distribution; price. Lectures, text material and case studies. | ||
| MGCR 372 | Operations Management. | 3 |
Operations Management. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Design, planning, establishment, control, and improvement of the activities/processes that create a firm's final products and/or services. The interaction of operations with other business areas will also be discussed. Topics include forecasting, product and process design, waiting lines, capacity planning, inventory management and total quality management. | ||
| MGCR 382 | International Business. | 3 |
International Business. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to the world of international business. Economic foundations of international trade and investment. The international trade, finance, and regulatory frameworks. Relations between international companies and nation-states, including costs and benefits of foreign investment and alternative controls and responses. Effects of local environmental characteristics on the operations of multi-national enterprises. | ||
| MGCR 423 | Strategic Management. | 3 |
Strategic Management. Terms offered: Summer 2025 An integrative and interdisciplinary introduction to strategy formation and execution. Concepts, tools, and practical application to understand how firms leverage resources and capabilities to gain competitive advantage in dynamic, contemporary industries. Strategic positioning, organizational design, and managerial action for the long-term success of businesses and positive social and ecological outcomes. | ||
| MGCR 460 | Social Context of Business. | 3 |
Social Context of Business. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Examination of how business interacts with the larger society. Exploration of the development of modern capitalist society, and the dilemmas that organizations face in acting in a socially responsible manner. Examination of these issues with reference to sustainable development, business ethics, globalization and developing countries, and political activity. | ||
Major
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| INSY 331 | Managing and Organizing Digital Technology. | 3 |
Managing and Organizing Digital Technology. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Tools and concepts necessary to manage information systems in an organization: hardware/software/telecom administration, knowledge discovery/management, web-technologies, and computer security. Focuses on both mechanical aspects of IT and conceptual understanding with regard to impact on business organizations. | ||
| INSY 333 | Systems Analysis and Modeling. | 3 |
Systems Analysis and Modeling. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. First two phases of the software development life cycle. Techniques used to conduct system requirement analysis, practical application of the analyst role in identifying operational problems, defining information system requirements, working with technical and non-technical staff, and making recommendations for system improvement. | ||
| INSY 334 | Design Thinking for User Experience. | 3 |
Design Thinking for User Experience. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Design of user interfaces for web and mobile applications, design thinking process, principles of good design to produce technology-enabled solutions. Topics include user research methods, problem definition, ideation, prototyping and testing of user interfaces. | ||
| INSY 341 | Developing Business Applications. | 3 |
Developing Business Applications. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Fundamental programming techniques, concepts, and data structures. Discusses modularization and maintainability. Emphasis on facilitating communication and understanding between systems analysts and programmers to support decision-making. | ||
| INSY 431 | IT Implementation Management. | 3 |
IT Implementation Management. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Exposure to a variety of real-life strategic and operational issues that arise when implementing IT. It may involve the selection process of an information technology, its introduction, implementation, management and/or improvement. | ||
| INSY 437 | Managing Data and Databases. | 3 |
Managing Data and Databases. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Management of organizational data, implementation of database management systems, and the roles and responsibilities of data management personnel. Explores different models of data representation with an emphasis on the relational model; simple and complex SQL queries. | ||
| INSY 450 | Information Systems Project Management. | 3 |
Information Systems Project Management. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Practical principles of project management essential to successful IS development projects or other complex undertakings within an organization; includes methods for defining, planning, and scheduling activities and resources. Discusses managerial and behavioural issues. | ||
Complementary Courses (9 credits)
3-9 credits selected from:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| INSY 339 | Digital Consulting. | 3 |
Digital Consulting. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Developing a digital technology consulting practice by exploring the right sequence of phases: entry and scoping of technology, contracting, diagnosis and data collection, managing resistance and feedback, effective technology implementation. Case studies on big data analytics, user experience and e-commerce. | ||
| INSY 432 | Digital Business Models. | 3 |
Digital Business Models. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Discusses the role of the information systems in enabling new digital business models within and across organizations. Focuses on platforms and models of the sharing economy in different industries as well as new forms of business activities enabled by technologies. Discusses economic, strategic and organizational issues of these models. | ||
| INSY 434 | Topics in Information Systems 1. | 3 |
Topics in Information Systems 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Current topics in the area of information systems. | ||
| INSY 440 | E-Business. | 3 |
E-Business. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Build the knowledge base and skills needed to face today's electronic business challenges, opportunities, and issues. Explore important concepts, models, tools and applications related to e-business. | ||
| INSY 442 | Data Analysis and Visualization. | 3 |
Data Analysis and Visualization. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Overview of methods and tools for analyzing business data to improve business decision-making, focusing on data visualization using hands-on learning. | ||
| INSY 444 | 3 | |
Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. | ||
| INSY 455 | Technology and Innovation for Sustainability. | 3 |
Technology and Innovation for Sustainability. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The role of information and other technologies in the size and nature of an organization’s environmental ‘footprint’. Achieving sustainability through strategic innovation, such as digitization, recycling, reuse of materials, sustainable design, LEED certifications, smart grids and energy metrics. Analyzing the environmental benefits and hidden costs of novel technologies. | ||
0-6 credits selected from:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| INSY 336 | Data Handling and Coding for Analytics. | 3 |
Data Handling and Coding for Analytics. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Preparation and analysis of data for business analytics. Topics include: data acquisition, data manipulation and computer programming for statistical analysis. | ||
| INSY 446 | Data Mining for Business Analytics. | 3 |
Data Mining for Business Analytics. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Practical methods and techniques for data mining and predictive analytics to solve business problems. Use of statistical tools for hands-on learning. Topics covered include supervised learning, unsupervised learning, and text mining. | ||
| INSY 448 | Text and Social Media Analytics. | 3 |
Text and Social Media Analytics. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The unlimited opportunities that exist today to leverage the power of user generated content analytics, focusing on questions ranging from strategic to operational matters pertaining to a firm’s social media initiatives, metrics to capture relevant outcomes, and predictive analysis to link social media chatter to business performance. | ||
| INSY 463 | Deep Learning for Business Analytics. | 3 |
Deep Learning for Business Analytics. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Theory of Neural Networks and its applications for business analytics, including how to build and train Neural Networks to derive insights from unstructured text and image data in business contexts. Introduction to the ecosystem of software packages needed in Python, including: NumPy, Pandas, Sklearn. The theory and implementation of Neural Networks and Deep Learning. How to apply various deep learning models to real-world problems and demonstration of their power in the new data-abundant business world. | ||