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WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY
HONOURS BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM
PROGRAM OUTLINE (for students starting BBA in September 2015 and after)
Year of
Required Business Courses
Required Non-Business Courses
Program
Electives
Notes
(0.5 credit or
equivalent)
BU111 Understanding the Business
Environment
FIRST YEAR
BU121 Functional Areas of the Organization
BU127 Intro to Financial Accounting
Progression
EC120 Intro to Microeconomics
EC140 Intro to Macroeconomics
MA129 Calculus for Students in Business &
Economics (recommended) OR
MA103 Calculus I
Non-BU/Non-ENTR
Electives:
1. _________________
2. _________________
3. _________________
4. _________________
Requires completion of all 5.0 required and elective credits of Year 1 with a minimum cumulative GPA of 7.00 (B-) in all Business courses and a minimum cumulative GPA
of 5.00 (C) in all non-business courses. Course and GPA requirements for Business and non-Business courses must be achieved by August 31. Total course repeats may
not exceed a maximum of 1.0 credit exclusively during Year 1. All credits taken during Year 1 will be included in the GPA requirements for progression into Year 2.
BU231 Business Law
EC255 Managerial Statistics
Non-BU/Non-ENTR
BU247 Managerial Accounting
EC250 Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis for
Electives:
SECOND
BU275 Business Decision Models
Management OR
1. _________________
YEAR
BU283 Financial Management I
EC260 Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis for
2. _________________
BU288 Organizational Behaviour I
Management
3. _________________
Progression
BU354 Human Resources Management
Electives:
Students are required to
1. _________________
take a total of eleven half-
2. _________________
credit electives (or
3. _________________
equivalent) during Third
Services and Brands
None
BU375 Operations Management
and Fourth Years of the
Requires completion of all 5.0 required and elective credits of Year 3 with a minimum cumulative GPA of 7.00
in all Business and a minimum cumulative GPA of 5.00 in all non-business. Regular stream students must
achieve the course and GPA requirements by August 31 and co-op stream students by December 31. Course
repeats may not exceed a maximum of 2.0 credits for the duration of the program, including repeats from
Year 1. Total credits completed to progress must be 15.0.
BU481 Business Policy I
YEAR
BU486 Accounting Information Systems,
BU or ENTR Electives:
program. Of the eleven, a
1. _________________
minimum of three must be
2. _________________
non-business and a
3. _________________
minimum of five must be
4. _________________
business. The remaining
5. _________________
three may be business or
non-business (open). The
BU491 Business Policy II
None
Control, Audit OR
BU415 Intro to Management Info Systems
Graduation
elective.
Non-BU/Non-ENTR
BU398 Organizational Behaviour II
FOURTH
used as a non-business
BU352 Intro to Marketing Management
BU393 Financial Management II
Progression
are taken, one may be
Requires completion of all 5.0 required and elective credits of Year 2 with a minimum cumulative GPA of 7.00 in all Business and a minimum cumulative GPA of 5.00 in all
non-business. These course and GPA requirements must be achieved by August 31. Course repeats may not exceed a maximum of 2.0 credits for the duration of the
program, including repeats from Year 1. Total credits completed to progress must be 10.0 (cannot include any ENTR courses).
BU362 Building and Managing Products,
THIRD YEAR
If both EC250 and EC260
Requires completion of all 5.0 required and elective courses of Year 4 with a minimum cumulative GPA of
7.00 in all Business and a minimum cumulative GPA of 5.00 in all non-business. Graduation requires
completion of a minimum of 20.0 credits.
Open Electives:
above only applies if the
1. _________________
student has not worked
2. _________________
ahead on electives.
3. _________________