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Regular Studies

Management of Facilities and Support Services

This online course focuses on the equipment used in food production and service, laundry and housekeeping service areas, and the design of these areas. The course includes a group project that provides teams of students with the opportunity to apply their knowledge of the design of a foodservice...

Continuing Studies

Marketing Skills for Managers

Understand the role of marketing from a management perspective. Learn to identify and evaluate marketing opportunities necessary to succeed in today's competitive environment. Discover how to develop a strategic marketing plan, identify target markets, understand market research, as well as...

Continuing Studies

Human Resources Management

Explore the theory and practice of managing human resources as you learn about the fundamental functions and competencies needed by HR practitioners and supervisors today. Discover the employee life cycle, from job design, recruitment, and orientation to training and career development, and...

Continuing Studies

Business Communications

This course introduces the fundamentals of interpersonal and group interaction including written, verbal, and non-verbal communication. We look at options in presentation preparation and delivery techniques, awareness of tone, consideration of audience, and selection of indirect and direct message...

Continuing Studies

Financial Skills for Managers

Learn accounting concepts, tools, and methods in concise and understandable terms. Students will learn basic skills such as reading financial statements, analyzing financial reports, developing and modifying revenue and expense forecasts, and identifying and monitoring critical measures of business...

Regular Studies

Geographic Field Techniques

How can geography help you understand the world? Through geographic field techniques! Geographic field techniques enable geographers to interpret the environments and landscapes around us using a combination of methods from both human and physical geography. In this experiential course, students...

Regular Studies

Introduction to Human Geography

This course will introduce students to the discipline of human geography. Students will be exposed to the major research traditions in human geography including: population, cultural, political, economic, urban and regional geography, amongst other topics. Throughout the course Vancouver resources...

Regular Studies

Introduction to Physical Geography: Planet Earth

Have you ever wondered why the weather, climate, and landscape where you live differs from other places in the world? This course introduces Earth's atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere, and investigates the relationships and connections between them. Students explore tectonic...

Regular Studies

Regional Geography of Canada

The regional geography of Canada explores the similarities and differences among the regions of our country. Students will gain an understanding of the landscape, the environment and the economy as we survey Canada from Long Beach to Labrador and from Baffin Island to Burlington. Students will...

Regular Studies

Urban Geography

A survey of the evolution of the city from the Greco-Roman period to the present. The course topics include the internal structure of the city; industrial, commercial, and residential land use; transportation and the planning of the urban environment. An application of the concepts to Vancouver and...