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Management (BMgmt)

Learn the key business and management skills that you’ll need in any career, with the flexibility to discover new interests and explore what inspires you.

Your guide to studying with us

“I was drawn to the tangible, real-life skills.â€Â Â â€” Abby Sigel, BMgmt ‘24

Program overview Degree timeline Student experience and support
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Program overview 

You’ll learn from accomplished researchers, lecturers, and industry professionals who foster excellence and innovation.

You’ll graduate with a foundation of key management principles that you can apply in any career:

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  • marketing
  • organizational behaviour  
  • innovation
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Find the path that fits your goals

Studying Management at Dal means you can choose the academic journey that matches your interests and helps you pursue your education and career goals.

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Degree timeline

Follow this sample 4-year timeline to see what your Management degree could look like*

* Note that not all courses are offered each semester or year. Your course requirements depend on the type of degree you are earning (major, double major, minor, honours, etc.), and your program year depends on the number of credit hours you have completed. For more detailed planning, we suggest:

Jump to:

Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4

Year 1: Discover

In your 1st year, you’ll:

  • Take core courses designed to help you manage in public, private, and non-profit environments. 
  • °Õ²¹°ì±ðÌý²¹²ÔÌý±ð±ô±ð³¦³Ù¾±±¹±ð to start exploring your interests.
  • Meet the cohort of students you’ll study with throughout your degree.

Skills and learning outcomes

  • Core courses emphasize creativity, leadership, and problem-solving.
  • Learn how technology and artificial intelligence are changing organizations and how we do business.
  • Learn foundational management issues of planning, organizing, leading and controlling in response to internal and external pressures, with an emphasis on creativity, leadership and innovation.
  • Understand how businesses, governments, societies, and technologies interact in a world with limited resources.
  • Learn key principles and skills for managing money & people.

Top experiences

  • Join a student society in your first term to meet students and professionals outside the classroom.
  • Case competitions for 1st year students help you put your learning to the test in an environment designed for beginners.
  • Attend the Business Networking Night in September to learn what employers are looking for. 

Unique courses:

  • Interdisciplinary Management I & II are team-taught by a group of professors from different backgrounds, emphasizing creativity, leadership, and problem-solving from many perspectives.
  • Management Software and Technology ensures that from the beginning of your first year, you’re thinking about how technology and AI are impacting businesses and society.

View a complete list of required courses in the academic calendar or refer to the course planning worksheet (linked above).

You'll find it helpful to:

  • Meet with your academic advis´Ç°ùÌýin the Undergraduate Advising Office with setting and developing strategies for your academic, career, and personal goals.
  • Visit the Student Resource Centre for help with your assignments.
  • Explore career coaching through Management Career Services. You have access to resume feedback, interview practice, industry expertise, networking events and more, regardless of whether you plan to do a work term.
  • Attend a Learn and Connect session to meet advisors and student leaders.

Year 2: Grow

This is the year you'll:

  • Continue with your core courses.
  • Take 3 electives to explore your interests.  
  • Decide whether you want to specialize by choosing a major, minor or certificate; or customize with electives of your choice. You can declare a major, minor or certificate at any time. We recommend declaring a major by the Winter term of year 2 and talking to an academic advisor to understand your options. 
  • Apply to do the optional  8-month paid work term ¾±´ÚÌý²â´Ç³Ü'°ù±ðÌý¾±²Ô³Ù±ð°ù±ð²õ³Ù±ð»å.

Skills and learning outcomes

  • How you can use data to gain and keep a competitive edge.
  • Why people work and participate in organizations: individual motivation, personality, perception, attitudes, cultural values, and ethics in organizations.
  • How organizations manage work: communication, team performance and leadership, power and politics, organizational cultures, the process of change, and managing employee performance.
  • How to define and reach a market, including asking and answering good questions about your market, understanding consumer behavior, discovering opportunities, and building product, price, distribution and communication strategies for a target market.
  • How organizations not oriented to profit (like NGOs and governments) use marketing and consumer behavior to achieve their objectives.
  • The organizing principles and structures of governments in Canada, including federal, provincial, municipal and territorial governments, and the role of a permanent public service.
  • How to apply ethical reasoning to the workplace, navigating complex and controversial case studies with critical thinking.

Top experiences

  • Participate in student societies to have opportunities to travel, compete in case competitions, meet students in other programs, and get involved in community service.
  • Compete in Rumble in the Rowe, a second-year in-house case competition.
  • Test your skills compared to other teams in your class’s marketing simulation.
  • Build a spoof marketing campaign critiquing / mocking a real campaign.
  • Get hands-on with real data to make business decisions about a realistic case.

Popular courses:

  • Intro to Indigenous Governance

  • Managing Change, Information & Innovation

  • Tourism Management
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Business

Unique courses:Ìý

  • Marketing Applications in the Not-for-Profit Sectors: Learn how marketing is used for non-profit causes and social change.

View a complete list of required courses in the academic calendar or refer to the course planning worksheet (linked above).

You'll find it helpful to:

Year 3: Specialize

This year you'll,

  • Have space to explore with 6 electives.
  • Start your 8-month work term in the Summer, if you choose to do one.

Skills and learning outcomes

  • Third year is when you’ll get a chance to start exploring your interests in earnest. You might take a major, minor or certificate, or you might build a list of courses that is customized to you—including courses in other faculties like Arts and Science. 

Top experiences

  • Networking events, employer information sessions and application preparation assistance will help you be successful in your job search.

Popular courses:

  • Beyond Google

Unique courses:

  • Public Policy toward Business: Learn how government and business can collaborate. 

View a complete list of required courses in the academic calendar or refer to the course planning worksheet (linked above).

If you choose to do an 8-month work term, starting it in the Summer term of year 3 ensures you can graduate within 4 years. 

You’ll start your job search early in the Winter term to take advantage of postings from our employer partners. 

After four months on the job, a career coach will meet with you and your supervisor to discuss your progress on your goals and projects.

You'll find it helpful to:

Year 4: Apply

This year, you'll:Ìý

  • Bring your learning together with capstone courses.

  • Take eight electives to complete the requirements f´Ç°ùÌýyour major or minor.

  • Complete your optional 8-month work term in the Fall term.

Skills and learning outcomes

  • Two capstone courses bring your learning together to prepare you to solve complex organizational problems.

Top experiences

  • Your last chance to make memories that last a lifetime. If you haven’t already, your fourth year is a chance to run for a student society position, help organize a fundraiser, conference or case competition, and attend year-end celebrations. 

  • Graduation! We can’t wait to celebrate with you and your supporters. 

Unique courses:

  • Doing Business in Emerging Markets: A field course where you’ll travel internationally to learn about expanding Canadian business.
  • Critical Approaches to Knowledge and Data Justice:ÌýLearn how to understand power dynamics, bias and injustice in order to become an informed advocate for positive change.

View a complete list of required courses in the academic calendar or refer to the course planning worksheet (linked above).

You'll find it helpful to:

  • Meet with your academic advis´Ç°ùÌýin the Undergraduate Advising Office if you have questions about meeting your graduation requirements or continuing your studies with a Master’s degree.

  • Meet with a career coach in Management Career Services to prepare for your post-graduation job search.

  • Visit Management's Student Resource Centre for help with your assignments.

Wondering if this program is the right fit for you?

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