Certificate in Business Fundamentals - Liberal Arts and Professional Studies

For purposes of meeting certificate requirements, all nine-credit general education (foundation) courses will count as six credits.

York University students may earn a Certificate in Business Fundamentals concurrent with fulfillment of the requirements for an Honours undergraduate BA degree. This certificate is open to students in all undergraduate Faculties except for students enrolled in the Schulich School of Business Bachelor of Business Administration program or the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies Bachelor of Administrative Studies program. Students may not earn both a Certificate in Business Fundamentals and a Certificate in Non-Profit Management.

To qualify for possible admission to the Certificate in Business Fundamentals, students must complete 30 credits from a list of approved courses, and the cumulative grade point average in these 30 credits must be 5.00 (C+). There are a limited number of spaces available in the Certificate in Business Fundamentals, and therefore meeting the minimum requirements for application will not guarantee admission to the certificate program. In order to be granted the Certificate in Business Fundamentals upon graduation, students must be qualified to graduate with an Honours BA (120 credits) and must therefore maintain an overall grade point average of 5.00 (C+) on all courses completed.

Application to the Certificate in Business Fundamentals may be made only after successfully completing at least 54 credits and the successful completion of the following requirements with a minimum overall grade point average of 5.00 (C+). Refer to the Academic Standards section for details of the undergraduate certificate minimum standards.

Course requirements and application/admission requirements for the Certificate in Business Fundamentals are as follows:

• AP/ECON 1000 3.00;
• AP/ECON 1010 3.00;
• at least three credits chosen from: SC/MATH 1300 3.00 or AP/ECON 1530 3.00 (cross-listed to: SC/MATH 1530 3.00) or SC/MATH 1550 6.00;
• at least three credits chosen from: SC/MATH 2560 3.00 or AP/ECON 2500 3.00 or AP/POLS 3300 6.00 (cross-listed to: AP/PPAS 3300 6.00, AP/SOCI 3030 6.00) or HH/PSYC 2020 6.00 or HH/PSYC 2021 3.00;
• at least six credits chosen from: AP/POLS 2910 6.00 (cross-listed to: AP/PPAS 2910 6.00) or AP/ECON 2300 3.00 or AP/ECON 2350 3.00 or AP/ECON 2400 3.00 or AP/ECON 2450 3.00 or SC/MATH 2580 6.00 or AP/PHIL 2070 3.00 or AP/PHIL 2075 3.00 or AP/SOSC 2210 9.00 or AP/SOSC 2340 9.00.

Note: students may take courses through Glendon College, subject to course credit exclusion(s) and residency requirements.

Students in an Honours BA program who have successfully completed at least 54 credits with an overall grade point average of 5.00 (C+), and who will also have successfully completed the requirements listed above by June 1 may apply to the Certificate in Business Fundamentals by March 30 of the year these requirements will be completed. The minimum acceptable overall grade point average for application and possible admission is 5.00 (C+). Since there are a limited number of spaces available, successful admission will be based primarily on the applicant's overall grade point average.

If admitted, students must successfully complete the following courses offered by the Schulich School of Business in the following sequence and over two academic sessions:

• SB/BFND 3100 3.00;
• SB/BFND 3200 3.00;
• SB/BFND 4100 3.00;
• and SB/BFND 4200 3.00.

In order to be granted the Certificate in Business Fundamentals upon graduation, students must be qualified to graduate with an Honours BA (120 credits) and must therefore maintain an overall grade point average of 5.00 (C+) on all courses completed.

Further information about the Certificate in Business Fundamentals is available from the coordinator of the Business and Society program.

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