Admission Requirements

College Eligibility

• Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) or equivalent; OR
• Academic and Career Entrance (ACE) Certificate; OR
• General Educational Development (GED); OR
• Mature Student status (19 years of age or older and without a high school diploma at the start of the program).

Courses

Semester 1
Basic Study Skills
Office Applications
Interpersonal Communication
Accounting Concepts and Procedures
Financial Accounting I
Financial Accounting II
Management Basics

Semester 2
Communications in First Nations Governments
Business Planning
Organizational Behaviour
Lands, Resources and Economic Development
Human Resource Management in First Nations Organizations
Advertising and Marketing Communications
Project Management and Organizational Effectiveness

Semester 3
Financial Management in First Nations Governments
Social and Community Development
Employment and Professional Relationships
Strategic Planning and Implementation
Leadership in Aboriginal Communities and Government
Intergovernmental Relations

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Course Descriptions

Semester 1
Basic Study Skills
This course will enable students to assess their current study skills and plan for improvement. Students will practice time-management techniques for successful studying. Students will learn to develop powerful reading skills and practice memory techniques to enhance ability to learn and improve test performance. This course will also help students to develop specific study skills for mathematics and related subjects and implement an action plan to improve them.

Office Applications
Stuents will learn the skills needed to take full advantage of Microsoft Office applications and features. Students will learn how to manage data in spreadsheets, compose error-free documents, organize email, build engaging presentations, and much more with Microsoft Office.

Interpersonal Communication
This course explores human communication. The focus is for students to become aware of their present ways of communicating and to build on the communication skills they have already established. The goal is to enable students to become more successful in communicating with others by examining the cognitive activities that shape communication, exploring the elements and process of communication, becoming aware of the dynamics of relational communication and practicing the skills of effective communication.

Accounting Concepts and Procedures
The course begins with an introduction to accounting and the organizational forms of business: sole proprietorships, partnerships, corporations, and limited liability corporations. Topics include: assets, liabilities, and equities defined and explained through examples and the accounting equation. Students will learn the steps necessary to prepare a balance sheet. This course discusses the income statement, the statement of owner’s equity, and the balance sheet.

Financial Accounting I
This is part one of a two-part introductory financial accounting course. Topics covered include credits and debits, analyzing and recording business transactions, banking procedures and control of cash, calculating pay and recording payroll taxes, purchases and cash payments, and preparing and completing a worksheet for a merchandise company.

Financial Accounting II
This is part two of the introductory financial accounting course. Topics covered include accounting for bad debts, accounting for property, plant, equipment, and intangible assets, corporations and bonds payable, analyzing financial statements, departmental accounting and manufacturing accounting.

Management Basics
In this course students will learn the four primary functions of management and the roles that correspond to each function. This course also introduces students to the two contrasting viewpoints on defining “effective” management: Mainstream and Multistream. The role of the manager and the skills and techniques required to achieve organizational outcomes through the management of people, money and time are also examined. This course also provides students with the managerial concepts and ownership principles required for a successful career in the management or ownership of a small- to medium-sized enterprise.

Semester 2
Communications in First Nations Governments
Provides practice to improve academic and workplace writing for documents such as correspondence, reports, proposals, briefing notes, policy papers, newsletters and internet publications. Written assignments improve the students’ ability to communicate clearly, organize and edit material and present arguments with a focus on good grammar, prose style and plain language. Students analyze, interpret and summarize complex written material. Topics include internal and external strategic communication, speaking skills, and oral traditions and cultural practices.

Business Planning
This course outlines the four steps of the planning process: setting a mission/vision, setting strategic goals/plans, setting operational goals/plans, and implementation.

Organizational Management
This course discusses organizational design and explains why some organizations organize the work that is to be done. Just like people, different organizations organize their activities in very different ways to accomplish their goals. Managers must carefully engage in organization design to ensure that they create an organizational type that fits the structure and the environment, strategy, and technology of the organization. Students will learn the process of organization design, including organization structure and organizational type. Topics also include: human resources management and organizational change.

Lands, Resources and Economic Development
Explores the principles related to traditional governance of lands and resources; community needs and interests; and forecasting future needs/challenges. Topics include jurisdictions and rights on and off reserve and legislative, policy, and negotiation options. Resource issues such as economic development, land use planning and environmental and ecosystem health are reviewed. Consultation and accommodation requirements for negotiating comprehensive claims and self-government agreements are studied to demonstrate how to build effective partnerships. Includes conflict resolution methods.

Human Resource Management in First Nations Organizations
Learning based on contemporary human resource management theory and practice and traditional Aboriginal practice and values. Topics include: developing a human resources plan and robust human resources policies and practices; managing people and tasks; interpersonal workplace communications and relations; selection; retention; and development of employees. Improving workplaces will be examined through team building, motivating self and others, providing feedback, conflict management and dispute resolution, workplace safety, well-being, and self awareness and self care.

Advertising and Marketing Communications
This course addresses the theoretical and practical aspects of modern marketing communications. Graduates will be able to perform advertising/communications functions using a variety of media techniques. Topics covered include marketing and sales, marketing with social media, basic internet marketing, marketing for small businesses, basic internet marketing, marketing with social media, telemarketing: using the telephone as a sales tool, project management and public speaking.

Project Management and Organizational Effectiveness
Students produce a final capstone community/workplace project. Project includes: development of detailed project proposal/business plan taking into account: participation and resource requirements; linkages between power, authority, roles and responsibilities; tasks, critical path; milestones; managing performance and costs; monitoring and control; managing information; communications and consultation requirements; accountability and reporting and review mechanisms.

Semester 3
Financial Management in First Nations Governments
Provides financial management frameworks, policies and procedures. Reviews the roles and responsibilities of administrators and ethics of money management. Through the development and management of revenue streams, learners will effectively manage income and expenditures through skills in: budgeting, record keeping, preparing financial statements and reports following accounting standards and practices. Topics include cost management and control, capital costs and infrastructure investment, meeting accountability requirements, forecasting costs, planning new projects, and using contractors and consultants.

Social and Community Development
Examines how social and cultural factors influence community development and well-being. Analyzes and assesses needs for social and community activities and services, now and in the future. Identifies resourcing and jurisdictional issues in the development and implementation of community initiatives. Identifies community characteristics and their potential role/impact on proposed initiatives. Addresses issues of sustainability and development of effective partnerships and leading change agendas. Prepares students for their capstone project.

Employment and Professional Relationships
Students will be introduced to the basic elements of the employment relationship and learn the ways in which the law affects recruitment practices. Students will examine the content of a typical employment contract and discuss the legal issues relating to the terms and conditions of employment. This course examines how the employment relationship ends and the differences among dismissals for just cause, dismissals with notice, constructive dismissals, and wrongful dismissals. Students will examine the issues that arise from a wrongful dismissal suit the components of a termination settlement. This course will also examine how business uses the services of professionals, the legal responsibilities of professionals to their clients and others who rely on their work and the role of professional bodies.

Strategic Planning and Implementation
Examines elements of strategic planning and how to implement plans through policy and practice. Topics include: strategic vision; mission statements; conducting environmental scans, needs analyses, and forecasts; planning; setting goals; and policy development. Review of program implementation: authorities; mandates; frameworks for decision-making; and portfolio management. Demonstrates horizontal and vertical integration of policies and programs between different portfolios. Implementation topics include: change management; monitoring; evaluation; reporting; information management protocols and rules.

Leadership in Aboriginal Communities and Government
Develops capacities to understand, appreciate, and develop students’ own leadership and that of others. Drawing on both Western theory and practice and First Nations values and leadership practices, students will develop an understanding of different leadership styles, team dynamics, motivation and management of people and projects within diverse communities facing both internal and external challenges. Povides experiential learning, development of self-knowledge, and acquisition of practical leadership skills and strategies for the workplace.

Intergovernmental Relations
Topics include how and why it is necessary to develop and maintain successful relationships with communities; organizations; and other governments, including other First Nations, municipal, provincial/territorial, or federal. Administrators learn how authorities, rights, laws/regulations, and interests shape outcomes, whether negotiating treaties, exercising rights in areas with overlapping jurisdictions, or developing partnerships for economic development or service delivery. Examines Aboriginal and treaty rights, application of the Indian Act, treaty negotiations, alternative partnerships, lands and resources issues.

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Fees Apply for this Academic Year.

• Registration: $100.00
• Textbooks: $1025.00
• Shipping: $61.00
• Tuition: $4,414.00

Total Tuition & Fees: $5,600.00