Sessional Faculty

**NOTICE OF POSTING** For Sessional Faculty Applications to be directed to: Dr. Stephanie Springgay, Director Course Name(s)/Number(s)**:THTRFLM 2BB3 - Designing as Devising** Term: Winter Number of Section(s) Available: 1 Number of Units per Section: 3 Location: CNH 103 Projected Enrollment: 40 Projected TA Support: NA Wage Rate:...

**NOTICE OF POSTING** For Sessional Faculty Applications to be directed to: Dr. Stephanie Springgay, Director Course Name(s)/Number(s)**:ART 4AR3 - Advanced Research and Presentation Strategies** Term: Fall Number of Section(s) Available: 1 Number of Units per Section: 3 Location: TSH 114 Projected Enrollment: 25 Projected TA Support: NA Wage Rate:...

**NOTICE OF POSTING** For Sessional Faculty Applications to be directed to: Dr. Stephanie Springgay, Director Course Name(s)/Number(s)**:THTRFLM 2DP3 - Devising Processes** Term: Fall Number of Section(s) Available: 1 Number of Units per Section: 3 Location: TSH B106 Projected Enrollment: 24 Projected TA Support: NA Wage Rate: $7,630.55 Schedule:...

**NOTICE OF POSTING** For Sessional Faculty Applications to be directed to: Dr. Stephanie Springgay, Director Course Name(s)/Number(s)**:ARTHIST 3BB3/**INDIGST 3F03 **- Indigenous Art and Visual Culture in Canada, 1960 to the Present** Term: Winter Number of Section(s) Available: 1 Number of Units per Section: 3 Location: LRW 5012 Projected...

Area Chair: Mandeep Malik Course Name/Number: M650, Strategic Marketing Management Course Description: Number of Sections Available: 1 Number of Units per Section: 3 Location: RJC, Burlington Campus Projected Enrollment: 30 Projected TA Support: 32.5 hours C01 Monday & Friday 8:30am - 10:30am **Preferred Qualifications**: **Required...

Chair: Dr. Kai Huang Course Name/Number: 701, Modelling and Prescriptive Analytics Number of Sections Available: 1 Number of Units per Section: 3 Location (on/off campus): RJC Projected Enrollment: 65 Projected TA Support: 97.5 hours C01 Thursday 19:00 - 21:50 Wage Rate*: The DeGroote School of Business offers a pay rate commensurate with qualifications...

Chair: Dr. Kai Huang Course Name/Number: O650, Managing People in Organizations This course is focused on fostering greater awareness of and capability in managing the dynamics of human behaviour and performance in organizations. Potential topics include employee motivation and engagement, cognition and decision-making, power and conflict, and managing...

Area Chair: Dr. Ron Balvers Course Name/Number: 4FN3 - Financial Risk Management This course provides a systematic and advanced treatment of financial risk management. It focuses on interest rate risk, market risk, liquidity risk, credit risk and operational risk. It is designed for students pursuing careers in operations management as well as finance and...

Area Chair: Mandeep Malik Course Name/Number: 1MA3, Introduction to Marketing This foundation course introduces the basic principles and frameworks of marketing emphasizing the importance of a focus on the customer. Number of Sections Available: 1 Number of Units per Section: 3 Location: Central Campus Projected Enrollment: 165 Projected TA Support: 162.5...

Dept. Chair: Dr. Ron Balvers 3FB3, Securities Analysis This course is concerned with the analysis of marketable securities, especially common stocks. Topics include: the institutional characteristics and operation of financial markets, securities analysis and valuation, investment characteristics and strategies to increase return. Number of Sections...

Chair: Dr. Ron Balvers Course Name/Number: IBH3AC3, Corporate Finance This course examines various aspects of the financial management of the firm including the sources and methods of financing, capital structure, dividend policy, leasing, mergers and acquisitions, working capital management, effects of taxation on financial decisions and international...

**1LDO**: As the first course in leadership development, each student will undergo a battery of leadership self-awareness assessments, receive individualized feedback on the assessments, submit a reflection on assessment outcome, and submit a personalized leadership development plan. Prerequisite(s): Registration in Level I of the Integrated Business and...

Dept. Chair: Dr. Ron Balvers Course Name/Number: 3FI3, Market Trading with Options and Futures This experiential course develops practical skills in trading financial securities - money market instruments, bonds, equities, indices, ETFs, currencies, commodities, and their corresponding derivatives options focusing on trading strategies that minimize market...

Chair: Dr. Nick Bontis Course Name/Number: 4SM3, Sports Management As part of McMaster’s Commerce program, this course is designed to introduce students to the sport industry and expand on your learning experience at the School of Business. It will further develop your strategic thinking skills while exposing you to an exciting and dynamic industry. The...

Chair: Dr. Ron Balvers Course Name/Number: BL713, Entrepreneurial and Small Business Finance The course aims to develop the requisite financial skills for starting a new venture, working on financing one or managing the finances of a small enterprise. The focus will be on those financial issues and decisions of particular concern to sole proprietors,...

Chair: Dr. Nick Bontis Course Name/Number: 1E03, Business Environment and Organization This course will examine the relationship between business organizations, their functional areas and the environments - social, political, legal, regulatory and technological - that affect them. Number of Sections Available: 6 Number of Units per Section: 3 Location...

The Faculty of Social Sciences consists of 13 academic Departments/Schools/Programs, specialized research units and three support units, has an annual operating budget of approximately $37 million, and employs about 130 faculty, more than 60 staff (both operating - and research-funded) and over 220 full-time equivalent graduate teaching assistants, as well...

Chair: Dr. Kai Huang Course Name/Number: 2DA3, Decision Making with Analytics This course on decision-making with analytics will focus on five widely used management science tools (managerial problem modeling, linear optimization, decision analysis, simulation, and waiting lines). A number of business problems would be introduced and analyzed, including...

Chair: Dr. Ron Balvers Course Name/Number: 4FY3, Introduction to FinTech The course provides a broad overview of the financial technology (FinTech) industry. Specifically, it will cover; how financial services have evolved key players and their roles; existing products, how FinTech has evolved key players and their innovations; technologies underpinning...

Chair: Dr. Kai Huang Course Name/Number: O712, Data Analytics with Python, This course aims to cover various techniques and concepts used in different phases of a successful data analytics model development. The course will provide hands-on experience in data manipulation and wrangling, advanced visualization and statistical inference for univariate and...