Communications
CMM125

Sessions: Indep; Hours: 45
This course helps students in all programs to develop their ability to communicate effectively. Students are required to meet first-year benchmarks for generic skills in researching, organizing, reframing, analyzing, and presenting information. Applies to several postsecondary diplomas.
Computer requirements (for online delivery only): Word and PowerPoint. Microphone required.
CRN# 21009

Writing Grammatically
MAS115

Sessions: Indep; Hours: 48
This course explains the rules of English grammar in a comprehensive, easy-to-follow manner. Beginning with a review of parts of speech, the course provides an in-depth explanation of sentence structuring and culminates in a practical review of paragraphing.
CRN# 21495

Leadership in a Team Environment
MAS120

Sessions: Indep; Hours: 45
Teams have become the fundamental building blocks of organizational structure. This course will examine the skills and abilities needed to lead a team-based organization. Learn how to mobilize participation, build consensus, and enable individuals to maximize their team’s ability to achieve results.
CRN# 21496

Critical Thinking
MAS130

Sessions: Indep; Hours: 45
This course gives you the opportunity to sharpen your critical thinking skills. It will help you to recognize how your own hidden assumptions, values, and biases affect your decision making. You will have an opportunity to construct and evaluate your own arguments using critical and creative thinking strategies. Prerequisite: MAS105 English I.
CRN# 21497

Principles of Ethical Reasoning
MAS135

Sessions: Indep; Hours: 45
This course focuses on ethical issues faced by individuals as citizens and professionals. It will help students to clarify their values and establish a framework for ethical decision making. Ethical issues that relate to a wide variety of concerns will be examined. Students will also examine a variety of professional ethical codes and apply ethical decision-making models to dilemmas in their personal and professional lives.
CRN# 21498

Developing Leadership Capacity
MAS150

Sessions: Indep; Hours: 45
This course introduces the latest concepts and approaches to leadership. Through learning assignments, activities, readings, lesson notes, assessments and group work, students will assess where their strengths and opportunities for improvements are regarding their own personal leadership behaviour, the quality of their interpersonal relationships, their organizational awareness and their awareness of the larger environmental context. In order to maximally benefit from this course, students need to have experience with working in an organization because many of the course assignments require this context.
Note: This course has mandatory group work.
CRN# 21409

Introduction to Computers
MAS145

Sessions: Indep; Hours: 45
This innovative website course will familiarize the student with fundamental computer concepts, bringing the student with no or minimal computer skills to a level of comfort with concepts, jargon and most-used applications. Upon successful completion, participants will be able to execute fundamental commands in MS-DOS and to use the most common functions of either MS Word or WordPerfect, and MS Excel or Lotus. Participants must have an Internet account and a computer with a word processing and a spreadsheet package.
CRN# 21500

Operations Planning Process
MAS210

Sessions: Indep; Hours: 45
Planning is indispensable to achieving a desirable outcome in the conduct of military operations. Combining elements from business management and the social sciences, this course introduces students to an iterative logical framework process that guides, informs and shapes analysis of a given situation, to the identification of constraints and restraints, to the selection of a best course of action, and ultimately to the development of a comprehensive operations plan.
CRN# 21501

Introduction to Project Management
MAS220

Sessions: Indep; Hours: 48
This course provides students with an overview of project management and an introduction to leadership and ethics. Students learn the fundamental principles of project management, including project initiation, project definition, creating the Work Breakdown Structure, estimating effort, budgeting, scheduling using Gantt charts and network diagrams, risk management, controlling resources, quality assurance, auditing, and closing. The techniques are based on a study of the typical project lifecycle.
CRN# 21502

Dispute Resolution
MAS225

Sessions: Indep; Hours: 42
This course examines alternative resolution mechanisms such as mediation, arbitration and conciliation. Continuing and increasing emphasis on settlement mechanisms makes this an essential component of the program.
CRN# 21503

Political Geography
MAS245

Sessions: Indep; Hours: 42
Starting with the geo-political situation of Canada, we examine the different elements that determine the power, influence and stability of nations - size, population, political system, resources, boundaries, and ethnic composition. Though a consideration of international political hotspots, we further explore the reasons for the wealth and poverty of nations, including economic systems, trade, debt, and exploitation - domestic and foreign. We examine the roles of global actors including the United Nations and NGOs.
CRN# 21876