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2008-2009 UNDERGRADUATE CALENDAR

Business and Society - Arts


Note: With the establishment of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies on July 1, 2009, degrees and programs in the Faculty of Arts will be moved to the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies as of the Fall/Winter 2009-2010 Session. Grandparenting provisions have been developed for students continuing in degrees and programs currently offered in the Faculty of Arts. Details are available on the York University Current Students Web site (http://www.yorku.ca/yorkweb/cs.htm).

Note: For purposes of meeting program requirements, all foundations courses will count as six credits towards the major.

Honours BA Program

  • The program core;
  • 18 credits from each of two of the streams;
  • AS/SOSC 4040 6.00;
  • 12 additional credits at the 4000 level including at least six credits at the 4000 level in each of the two streams.

Note: Faculty of Arts legislation requires that, in order to obtain an Honours BA (120 credits), students must take a total of at least 18 credits at the 4000 level.

Note: With permission of the program coordinator, students can replace AS/SOSC 4040 6.00 with AS/SOSC 4041 6.00, AS/SOSC 4042 6.00, AS/SOSC 4043 6.00 or AS/SOSC 4044 6.00.

BA Program

  • The program core;
  • 18 credits from each of the two streams including at least six credits at the 3000 level in each of the two streams.

Note: Faculty of Arts legislation requires that in order to obtain a BA (90 credits degree), students must take a total of at least 18 credits at the 3000 level.

Note: The Faculty of Arts residence requirement will be met by successfully completing at least 50 per cent of the major requirements of each of the two streams (with the exception of The Environment) in the Faculty of Arts.

Program Core

All business and society majors must complete the program core, as follows:

Statistics Requirement

All business and society majors must complete at least three credits in an approved statistics course. Students normally complete the approved statistics course as part of their stream requirement. However, not all of the streams require or include as a course option an approved statistics course. Students who combine two streams which do not include an approved statistics course must complete at least three credits in an approved statistics cousre in addition to their stream requirements.

Note: Statistics courses are offered in many of the streams and many of these courses have course credit exclusions. Check course descriptions carefully for course exclusions to avoid duplicating course work.

Business and Society Streams

Students must choose two of the streams listed below.

Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

For the Honours program: students must include at least six credits chosen from:

The Environment

For the Honours program: students must include at least six credits chosen from:

The Firm

Note: Prerequisites for courses must be met. Check course descriptions carefully for prerequisite requirements.

Students must choose from either Option A or Option B listed below.

Option A - Microeconomic Analysis

For the Honours program: students must include at least six credits chosen from:

Note: Students may not combine The Firm (Option A - Microeconomic Analysis) with The Macroeconomy (Option A - Macroeconomic Analysis).

Option B - Organizational Analysis

For the Honours program: students must include at least six credits chosen from:

Note: If AS/ECON 2500 3.00 and/or AS/ECON 3210 3.00 are taken as part of The Macroeconomy, they must be replaced in The Firm (Option B - Organizational Analysis) with courses chosen from the listed course options at the 3000 level.

The Global Economy

For the Honours program: students must include at least six credits chosen from:

Labour

For the Honours program: students must include at least six credits chosen from:

Law and Governance

For the Honours program:

The Macroeconomy

Note: Prerequisites for courses must be met. Check course descriptions carefully for prerequisite requirements.

Students must choose from either Option A or Option B listed below.

Option A - Macroeconomic Analysis

For the Honours program: students must include at least six credits chosen from:

Note: Students may not combine The Macroeconomy (Option A - Macroeconomic Analysis) with The Firm (Option A - Microeconomic Analysis).

Note: If AS/ECON 2500 3.00 and/or AS/ECON 3210 3.00 are taken as part of The Firm, they must be replaced in The Macroeconomy (Option A - Macroeconomic Analysis) with courses chosen from the listed course options at the 2000 or 3000 level.

Option B - Public Policy Analysis

For the Honours program: students must include at least six credits chosen from:

Note: If AS/ECON 2500 3.00 and AS/ECON 3210 3.00 are taken as part of The Firm, they must be replaced in The Macroeconomy (Option B - Public Policy Analysis) with AS/POLS 2910 6.00.

The Media and Communication

For the Honours program: students must include at least six credits chosen from:

Professions, Occupations and Social Change

For the Honours program: students must include at least six credits chosen from:

The Social Economy

For the Honours program: students must include at least six credits chosen from:

 

July 4, 2008