Courses

This course provides students with an understanding of the legal environment in which Canadian businesses operate. The course focuses on key areas of the legal environment that particularly impact business decision-making including the legal system and risk management, contractual principles and issues, corporate formation and governance, partnerships, agency, employment and human rights issues, intellectual property considerations, and business torts.

This course examines go-to-market (GTM) and sales strategy decisions required to translate innovation into sustainable revenue growth in new or evolving markets. The course explores how organizations design and implement integrated GTM approaches, including target market selection, customer segmentation, positioning, pricing, channels, partnerships, sales strategy, and customer retention. Emphasis is placed on early-stage and growth-stage execution, including market entry decisions, sales pipeline development, and the economic drivers of customer acquisition and retention. The course focuses on evaluating and adapting GTM and sales strategies in dynamic and uncertain market environments.

This course explores the interaction between ever-accelerating technology, innovation, and the law. The course provides students with an understanding of the essential elements of the Canadian legal system with a particular focus on the evolving legal environment surrounding data analytics and artificial intelligence. The course focuses on regulatory compliance and legal risks that particularly impact strategic technological implementation. This will include an understanding of: data privacy frameworks, intellectual property rights, AI regulation, algorithmic liability and bias, cybersecurity governance, and technology related contracts. Students will develop an understanding of how a Christian worldview impacts these challenging and changing areas of law.

This course examines leadership approaches to innovation and organizational change in environments shaped by artificial intelligence (AI) and rapid technological transformation. The course explores how innovation systems are designed and sustained through strategy, structure, culture, and governance, and how AI adoption reshapes organizational capabilities, work practices, and leadership responsibilities. Emphasis is placed on innovation portfolio management, enterprise-level AI adoption, workforce impact, resistance to change, and ethical leadership. The course also considers stewardship, human dignity, and the application of a Christian worldview in aligning innovation and AI strategies with effective organizational change and long-term performance.

This course is designed to develop a critical managerial perspective on key financial management issues confronting firms operating in a global environment. Through developing an understanding of financial markets, systems, and institutions, students will address a wide range of topics including equity, debt, foreign exchange, and credit instruments, as well as the principal derivative products. In a step-by-step fashion, making extensive use of real-world cases and examples, students will engage in such topics as: money markets, foreign exchange, bond markets, cash equity markets, equity valuation techniques, swaps, forwards, futures, credit derivatives, options, option risk management and convertible bonds.

The course focuses on competitive strategy at the corporate and business unit level. Strategy development is highly complex and this course helps students develop skills that identify and properly address issues. The format of the class is designed for thought and practice on the part of each student. Key topics include: learning curve, relative market share, value chain; Porter's 5 Forces, BCG, GE, PIMS, EVA, and other such concepts; mission statement, competitive positioning, SWOT and other aspects of analyzing one's own organization; forecasting ' sources of information, trends, and analysis; critically analyzing situations and persuasively presenting solutions to various audiences; ethics and corporate responsibilities; and implementation strategies.

Engages students in a supervised practicum designed to foster ministerial identity and vocational formation through guided field experience. The course integrates mentored ministry practice, theological reflection, and reflective writing within an approved ministry context.

Guides students through the development of a proposal for the Master of Arts in Christian Ministries graduating project requirement. Students prepare a proposal for either an integrative research paper or an applied project, demonstrating focused topic selection, appropriate methodology, and alignment with program learning outcomes in preparation for MCM 810.

Capstone course designed to integrate biblical, theological, spiritual formation, leadership, and ministry studies completed in the Master of Arts in Christian Ministries. Students complete either an integrative research paper or an applied ministry project that demonstrates synthesis of program learning outcomes and capacity for reflective Christian ministry practice. The course emphasizes theological integration, critical analysis, and contextual application appropriate to the student’s vocational ministry setting.