Examines key leadership related challenges facing health leaders working in health systems and explores considerations for health systems renewal and transformation in practice. In this course, students with leadership experience and a health professions background explore health systems challenges they are currently experiencing through different perspectives and orientations to identify possibilities for health systems renewal, transformation, or change. Throughout the course, health systems leaders engage with students to share their perspectives and insights about critical facets of health systems renewal and transformation and engage in meaningful dialogue.
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LEAD537: Anti-Racism and Cultural Safety in Health Care
Students with leadership experience and a health professions background, explore and address widespread racism and discrimination towards Indigenous and racialized People in healthcare and the direct link to health disparities and outcomes. The course begins by establishing a baseline of knowledge and skills around systemic racism, colonization, and discrimination and creates a supportive container for learning. Draws connection between yourself, your identities, and the land, and considers how you interact with systems. Finally, considers what it means to have an ‘anti-racist or equity stance’ and what attitudes, behaviours, and skills demonstrate both awareness and action.
LRNT524: Innovation, Design and Learning Environments
Explores a variety of design models and approaches in creating exemplar learning environments. Analyzes and gains an appreciation of student and stakeholder needs. Investigates effective and ineffective designs. Explores the role of innovation in re-imagining learning environments. Applies a design mindset to solve real-world problems.
MGMT584: Derivatives and Risk Management
This course covers two main topics in finance: financial derivatives and risk management. The course provides an overview of the derivatives markets. It covers arbitrage, hedging, speculating, and other trading strategies. The course also teaches students how to price forward contracts, call and put options using discrete time and continuous time models for options. In particular, the course covers the binomial option pricing model and the Black-Scholes option pricing model. In addition to financial derivatives, the course also provides a comprehensive treatment of the theoretical concepts and modeling techniques of modern risk management. The course covers methods for market, credit, and operational risk modeling. Although the course draws on methods and techniques from financial economics and statistics, the focus is mainly practical. The objective is to equip students with relevant techniques to measure and manage risk in practice. (Prerequisite is either MGMT560 or BUSA523.)
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MGMT583: Finance Theory and Investments
This course is an introduction to finance theory. Students are expected to bring the background of an introductory course in statistics, linear algebra, and optimization. The course covers in depth the fundamental equilibrium models of price formation in finance; namely, Markowitz’s mean-variance portfolio theory, capital asset pricing model, arbitrage pricing theory, and factors models. Other topics include models of bond prices, yields, and managing portfolio bonds. In addition to mastering the theoretical foundations, the course adopts a hands-on practical approach that matches the theory with practical applications that are routinely performed in the finance profession. In particular, students will learn how the portfolio management process (PMP) is performed in practice. In addition to using real data on financial assets (from Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, and other sources), students will also learn how to analyze financial statements, perform fundamental and technical analysis, and how to construct financial portfolios. (Prerequisite is either MGMT560 or BUSA523.)
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PCOM650: Special Topics in Communication
Responds to current and emerging issues or trends in the professional field of communication and communication studies. Offered by local and visiting scholar practitioners with expertise in the relevant topic. Course topics may include: science communication, crisis communication, ‘new’ new media (the second wave of new media that extends beyond websites and email), journalistic shifts, and political discourse.
Past offering: Communication for Decolonization
This course was designed to enhance skills and capacities by exploring advanced concepts in decolonization—both environmental and human—through the lens of communication. By engaging with diverse perspectives and collaborating with others within and beyond this class, you will not only find inspiration but also deepen your self-awareness and understanding of your place in the world.
- Colonization as a Continuing Threat: Colonization continues to impact societies in multiple ways, with far-reaching consequences for both the environment and humanity.
- Decolonization Begins with the Self: The process of decolonization starts with personal and professional reflection.
- Integrating Multiple Ways of Knowing: Different worldviews and ways of knowing can inform how we communicate and relate to the Earth and its Indigenous peoples.
- Environmental, Indigenous, and Arts-Based Approaches: These approaches, either individually or combined, provide powerful tools for improving relationships through communication.
Coursework includes:
- Creative and Reflective Assignments: A variety of assignments that include writing, creative expression, reflection, and sharing within the class community.
- Readings and Engagement: Students will engage with works by leading scholars and thinkers in environmental, Indigenous, and arts-based methodologies.
- Weekly Discussions: Participation in both synchronous and asynchronous discussions to deepen understanding and share insights.
VBLD510: Values-Based Leadership: Being Best for the World
Emphasizes the development of leadership strength for dealing with unpredictable challenges through values-based approach to decisions and actions. Fosters exploration, in theory and in practice, of key constructs of values-based leadership and its relationship to adaptability, resilience, authenticity, responsibility, emergent learning, reflective practice, and wisdom. Enhances ‘values fluency’ in articulation of core values, and alignment of behavior and values in complex contexts. Promotes awareness of the relationship between leadership practice and the realization of others’ potential and creation of organizational environments.
VBLD512: Values-Based Collaboration and Partnerships
Develops leadership knowledge and the ability to evolve a common understanding of purpose and shared values for creative and sustainable collaboration in teams and partnerships. Examines, in theory and practice, values-based leadership as a foundation for creating trust, fostering reflective dialogue, leveraging difference and diversity, and generating innovation in and through relationships. Develops an understanding of conflict in relation to motivation and as a source of innovation.