Leadership

In first year, you go through a leadership assessment that will serve as a foundation for your leadership development. Throughout the four years of the program, you will receive coaching and participate in leadership workshops. In fourth year, you reflect on your leadership journey and think about the role leadership will have on your career path.

Community Engagement

You will complete field studies on a topic you are passionate about while interacting with businesses from the local community. Through a combination of experiential learning and research, you will gain an understanding of issues at the intersection of business and community.

Global Mindedness

A background in Humanities provides you with the skills and knowledge to recognize, understand, and constructively engage with complex social needs and diverse perspectives. With your background in Business, you will develop ways to solve those problems. In Global Business Experience, you will work with students in South Africa, assisting a local social entrepreneur.

Social Enterprise

You are introduced to and further explore the concept of social enterprise in your first and second year. In third and fourth year, you will take courses on social entrepreneurship, strategic management for for-profit and non-profit organizations, and a capstone on social enterprise.

DeGroote works with many local and national companies to provide our students with the best paid internship opportunities possible. Some of the companies that hire our students include:

Internships are typically done after your 3rd year of study and are typically 12 months in length.

What You’ll Take:

• Financial Accounting (IBH 1AA3)
• Perspectives on Canadian Business (IBH 1AB3)
• Introduction to Language and Society (IBH 1AC3)
• IBH in the Community (IBH 1AD3)
• Organizational Behaviour (IBH 1BA3)
• Leadership and Development (IBH 1LD0)
• Insight and Inquiry: Questions to Change the World (IBH 1BB3)
• Fundamentals of Ethics (IBH 1BC3)
• Introduction to Peace Studies for IBH (IBH 1BD3)
• Introductory to Microeconomics (ECON 1B03)
• Introductory to Macroecomonimcs (ECON 1BB3)

Learn more about your IBH I program requirements.

Year 2

• Leadership Development – Leadership Emergence
• Introduction to Marketing
• Information Systems in Management
• Talent Management
• Statistical Data Analysis
• Critical Thinking
• Global Business Experience
• Managerial Accounting
• Introduction to Finance
• Moral Issues
• History of Capitalism
• If pursuing IBH with internship, Career Development Course – COMMERCE 2IN0 is required

Year 3

• Leadership Development – Leadership Effectiveness
• Relationship Management
• Applied Marketing Management
• Corporate Finance
• Cross-Cultural Communication
• Understanding Entrepreneurship and Social Entrepreneurship from a Historical and Theoretical Lens
• Organizational Strategy
• Poverty, Privilege and Protest in Canadian History
• Interpersonal Communication
• Operations Management
• One open elective (Commerce or non-Commerce)

Year 4

• Leadership Development – Leadership Capstone
• Critical Seeing
• Social Entrepreneurship Capstone
• Community Engaged Capstone
• Six open electives (Commerce or non-Commerce)

For detailed course lists beyond your first year, visit your academic calendar here.

For a full list of courses that can be available in this program, please consult the academic calendar.