* For those who hold a Certificate of Eligibility to English-language education
** For those who do not hold a Certificate of Eligibility to English-language education

Student will take one course or another depending on their eligibility status.

* For those who hold a Certificate of Eligibility to English-language education
** For those who do not hold a Certificate of Eligibility to English-language education

Student will take one course or another depending on their eligibility status.

• 300-QA2-DW: Quantitative Analysis for Commerce
  Quantitative Analysis (QA) for Commerce is one of four methodology courses and is taken in either the student’s second or third term of the program. This course teaches students in the Commerce Profile to interpret human realities by applying quantitative analysis in the social sciences. The course focuses on the analysis of quantitative data as part of the scientific approach. Areas examined are identification of variables, presentation of data, analysis of data using various forms of measurement, determining the nature and link between variables, and estimating the parameters of a given population based on the corresponding statistics obtained from a sample.
  
  

• COM-001-03: Complementary 1

* For those who hold a Certificate of Eligibility to English-language education
** For those who do not hold a Certificate of Eligibility to English-language education

Student will take one course or another depending on their eligibility status.

Choose one course from the list of options below:

• 383-A03-DW: Microeconomics
  The course introduces students to the major concepts, theories, and models used to analyze the behaviour of individuals and firms in different markets. The assumptions of each theory presented in the course will be clearly stated, and its weaknesses pointed out. Topics covered in the course include market structures, supply and demand, consumer behaviour, behaviour of the firm, production and costs, and determination of equilibrium price and output in different markets. The course presents a theory that explains the determination of incomes such as wages, rent, interest, and profits. The course enables students to analyze contemporary microeconomic issues and problems. Using the relevant concepts, theories, and models, students will analyze how individuals and companies react to changes in government policy such as subsidies, minimum wages, price controls, carbon taxes, and other policies.
  
  
• 401-A03-DW: Applications in Marketing
  This analysis course presents fundamental elements of Marketing in a Business context. Topics covered include how products and services are created, how prices are determined, how products are distributed in stores, online and by other means, how products are promoted to consumers, and how consumers make purchasing decisions. The topics are contextualized in today’s economic, political, socio-demographic, technological, and competitive business environments. The course uses cases and situational problems to advance students’ analytical abilities.
  
  

Choose one course from the list of options below:

• 320-1N1-DW: Introduction to Geography
  This course introduces students to the foundations of geographical knowledge. It examines some of the main features, processes, and systems that characterize and shape places on earth at different scales, from local to global, with a focus on the interplay and overlap between humanity and nature. Students will explore geographical perspectives on key social and environmental issues, such as gentrification, global inequality, and climate justice. The course will emphasize that while geography is sometimes about knowledge of locations and asking ‘what’s where?’, it is also about critical thinking, considering different explanations and perspectives, and asking ‘why there?’
  
  
• 332-1N1-DW: Introduction to Classics
  This course provides an overview of the major events and achievements of the Classical period and introduces students to the techniques used by scholars in piecing together a picture of the ancient past. Students will learn how the study of material remains through the science of archaeology is combined with the study of written records to provide an overall picture of Greco-Roman civilization, stressing the debt the contemporary world owes to this era. This would include topics such as democracy, philosophy, literature, gender, class, and religion. Students must pass this course before taking an Analysis Classics course.
  
  
• 340-1N1-DW: Introduction to Philosophy
  This course will survey central philosophical questions and how influential philosophers have attempted to answer them. Major topics such as the nature of reality, truth, knowledge, justice, personal identity, freedom, responsibility, and meaning will be covered. In a broad sense, this course explores the human condition, and the ways we humans have tried to understand and define ourselves, our world and our possibilities. As this is an introductory course, students will also learn and practice the philosophical fundamentals of sound argumentation. By the end of the course, students will have an understanding of the basic problems of philosophy and their development. They will also have a sense of philosophy’s relevance and importance for the social sciences, the natural sciences, and contemporary issues.
  
  
• 370-1N1-DW: Introduction to Religious Studies
  This course introduces students to the major elements of religion. It maps religious diversity by surveying the places and spaces that at least two major religious traditions of the world regard as sacred. It investigates prominent aspects of both personal spirituality and the relationship between religion and society by analyzing selected ritual practices, symbolic representations (in art and decoration), texts, beliefs, and social structures. This course will also introduce students to some major theorists of religion and some methods for analyzing selected religious phenomena.
  
  
• 381-1N1-DW: Introduction to Anthropology
  This course is designed to introduce the student to the social science of anthropology. There are 4 fields of anthropology which help to explain the behaviour of peoples all over the world. The study of these fields will allow the student to learn about the origins and development of human beings in the context of their physical and cultural environments. Students will explore contemporary issues through an anthropological lens. The course will provide the student with the necessary knowledge to pursue more specific or advanced courses in anthropology at either the CEGEP or university level.
  
  
• 385-1N1-DW: Introduction to Political Science
  This course will introduce students to political science as the study of power and governance. Students will learn key political concepts used to explain how decisions are made by and for groups of people. Students will be introduced to the basic institutions of democratic and non-democratic states, to political ideologies, and to governmental and non-governmental actors. Finally, they will reflect critically on a current local and/or global political issue.
  
  
• 387-1N1-DW: Introduction to Sociology
  This course introduces students to the basic ideas and perspectives of sociological investigation and interpretation. Students will learn how individuals are shaped and social groups are formed through processes of culture, socialization, interpersonal interaction, and organizational life. Students are introduced to the major areas of sociological research that will enable them to interpret events, patterns, and issues from a sociological perspective in the context of a socially, economically, and culturally diverse society.
  
  

• COM-002-03: Complementary 2