Camosun College

What you'll study

Business Administration - Chinook Option

The first year is designed to prepare you for business studies, and includes courses in math, computer training and communication skills development.

In the second and third years you'll continue to study math, economics, communications, accounting, additional business topics, and First Nations studies. In addition, you'll take an integrative Chinook Program course as a visiting student at the University of British Columbia.

Year 1 Credits
ACCT 110 Financial Accounting 1 3.0
BUS 140 Business Info. Technology 3.0
BUS 141 Business Information Systems 3.0
BUS 150 Introduction to Management 3.0
ENGL 151*** Academic Writing Strategies 3.0
FIN 110 Fundamentals of Finance 3.0
MARK 110 Introduction to Marketing 3.0
Total credits 24.0
One (1) elective 3.0
COMM 184* Chinook 1 at UBC n/a
Year 2 Credits
ACCT 207
or ACCT 220**
Managerial Accounting
Management Cost Accounting 1
3.0
BUS 130 Business Communications 3.0
BUS 276 Business Law 3.0
ECON 102
or ECON 103**
Canadian Economy
Principles of Microeconomics
3.0
One (1) BUS 200 level elective
or ACCT 111** Financial Accounting 2
3.0
One (1) BUS 200 level elective
or  BUS 230** Elementary Statistics
3.0
Total credits 21.0
One (1) elective  
COMM 184* Chinook 1 at UBC (cont'd) n/a
Work Placement  
COMM 284* Chinook Work Placement (UBC)  

Year 3 Credits
One (1) BUS 200 level elective
or BUS 313** Employee and Labour Relations
3.0
One (1) BUS 200 level elective
or BUS 220** Organizational Behaviour
3.0
One (1) BUS 200 level elective
or ECON 104** Principles of Macroeconomics
3.0
One (1) BUS 200 level elective
or ECON 205** Managerial Economics
3.0
Total credits 12.0
COMM 285 Chinook 2 at UBC n/a

Required electives:

*Chinook 1 and Chinook Work placement will likely occur during the summer semester. Chinook 1 could continue through the Winter semester of Year 2.

**These courses, plus the Chinook courses, are required if you intend to transfer to UBC to complete the Bachelor of Commerce Degree (Chinook Major). You must also complete Applied Calculus (MATH 108) and Management Accounting 2 (ACCT 320) before you can be admitted into the UBC BCOM program.

*** Students may use ENGL 150, 160, 161 or 163 in lieu of ENGL 151 toward program completion.

We recommended you choose these courses as electives for transfer to UBC: ENGL 164 Indigenous Literature, CRIM 236 Indigenous People and Justice, SOC 104 Indigenous People and Canada 1, SOC 106 Indigenous People and Canada 2

Last updated: 30-Mar-2012 12:10 pm