Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Commerce
Designed for graduates of recognized baccalaureate degrees in business, the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Commerce program allows you to build on your undergraduate degree by specializing in a specific area of business, thereby expanding your employment potential.
Graduation from this program may help you to meet the entrance requirements for the Master of Business Administration.
Program requirements
Admission requirements
A recognized baccalaureate degree in business
Residency requirements
A minimum of six TRU credits (distance or on-campus)
Certificate requirements
Coursework from a previous credential cannot be used to meet any of the 15 credits required for this program's credential.
Fifteen credits of business study, with a GPA of 2.33 (a grade of C+) or higher in each course required to complete one of the following six concentration requirements:
Concentration requirements
Accounting concentration
- ACCT 3201, Intermediate Financial Accounting 1 (3)
- ACCT 3211, Intermediate Financial Accounting 2 (3)
- ACCT3221, Income Taxation 1 (3)
- ACCT 3251, Intermediate Management Accounting (3)
One of the following:
Finance concentration
- FNCE 3151, Portfolio and Equity Analysis (3)
- FNCE 3171, Fixed Income and Alternative Investments (3)
Either FNCE 3180, Derivative Securities (3) (TRU on-campus) or FNCE 403, Risk Management (3) (Athabasca University)
Two of the following:
- ACCT 3221, Income Taxation 1 (3)
- MKTG 3451, Professional Selling (3)
- Either FNCE 4130, Advanced Financial Management (3) (TRU on-campus) or ADMN 3117, Financial Management II (3) (Nipissing University)
- Either FNCE 4160, Portfolio Management (3) (TRU on-campus) or FNCE 470, Portfolio Management (3) (Athabasca University)
- Either FNCE 4180, International Financial Management (3) (TRU on-campus) or ECON 3127, International Financial Management (3) (Nipissing University)
- Either FNCE 4190, Financial Institutions Management (3) (TRU on-campus) or ADMN 2116, Management of Financial Institutions (3) (Nipissing University)
Human resources concentration
- HRMN 2821, Human Resource Management (3)
- HRMN 3661, Strategic Human Resource Management (3)
- HRMN 3841, Employee and Labour Relations (3) (in development)
Six credits of approved 4000-level business courses from the following:
Leadership concentration
- MNGT 3731, Leadership (3)
- BBUS 3671, Contemporary Leadership (3)
- BBUS 4833, Effective Leadership (3)
Six credits of approved 4000-level business courses from the following:
Marketing concentration
- MKTG 3481, Marketing Research (3)
Four of the following:
- MKTG 3451, Professional Selling (3)
- MKTG3471, Consumer Behaviour (3)
- IBUS 3511, International Business (3)
- MKTG 4411, Services Marketing (3)
- MKTG 4431, Retail Marketing (3)
- MKTG 4471, International Marketing (3)
- MKTG 4481, Integrated Marketing Communications (3)
- MKTG 4491, Business-to-Business Marketing (3)