3.5 Course Overviews: "F"
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FINANCE (FNCE)
FNCE 249
Personal Investing 
3—Applied Studies
Delivery Mode: *Individualized study or grouped study.
*Note: This course may be offered online or online-enhanced. Confirm status before registering.
Prerequisite: None.
This course is a general introduction to investing in securities from a personal investor's point of view. The purpose of the course is to help students understand the investment process and the basic tools of investing, and to provide practical experience in establishing and monitoring an investment portfolio. The main topics include the Canadian securities system, bonds, debentures and money markets, stocks, options, mutual funds, the investment processs, and financial planning.
FNCE 322
Personal Finance
3—Applied Studies
Delivery Mode: *Individualized study or grouped study.
*Note: This course may be offered online or online-enhanced. Confirm status before registering.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: FNCE 322 is temporarily closed. Students interested in taking FNCE 322 may register in the new personal investing course FNCE 249.
Personal Finance provides a general framework for personal financial decision
making that will help the student prepare an integrated, potentially
comprehensive "personal financial profile." It was designed to provide an
overview of financial management from a personal perspective and focuses on an
individual's financial and cultural environments. The course concentrates on the
strategic and planning side of financial management. It is not a course on
investment techniques, tax techniques, retirement techniques, or estate
distribution techniques.
This course requires the student to investigate his or her personal
characteristics and values as well as his or her personal finances in
considerable depth. Students are expected to submit this information for marking
via the TMEs. The TMEs will be returned to the student.
FNCE 370
Overview of Corporate Finance
3—Applied Studies
Delivery Mode: *Individualized study; grouped study; or e-Class®.
*Note: This course may be offered online or online-enhanced. Confirm status before registering.
Prerequisite: MATH 215 or MGSC 301 and either ACCT 250 or ACCT 253.
This course is a comprehensive introduction to financial tools and their
applications from the perspective of corporate financial management. The
emphasis is to develop both a basic understanding of important financial
theories and an ability to analyse a variety of basic corporate financial
situations that require an application of these theories. Major topics covered
include the time value of money, financial analysis, stock and bond valuation
models, capital budgeting, the capital asset pricing model, leverage and
dividend policies, options, cash and short-term financial management, mergers
and acquisitions, and leasing.
FNCE 401
Investments
3—Applied Studies
Delivery Mode: *Individualized study or grouped study.
*Note: This course may be offered online or online-enhanced. Confirm status before registering.
Prerequisite: FNCE 370 or equivalent.
Precluded course: FNCE 401 may not be taken for credit if credit has already been obtained for FNCE 349.
This course is a comprehensive examination of the theories, methods, and strategies required for successful financial investments. The emphasis is to develop an understanding of the principles of investment analysis and the relationships of financial investment decision variables, and to acquire an ability to make sound investment decisions. Major topics include financial instruments, portfolio theory, capital asset pricing, market efficiency, financial security analysis, fixed income securities, derivative securities, and active portfolio management. Students must fulfill assignments and examinations requirements and submit a project that demonstrates a good command of the main principle investments and current affairs in financial markets, in order to complete the course successfully.
FRENCH (FREN)
Students who have not taken French courses for two or more years and who have
not kept up their language skills, are strongly advised to contact the course
professor even though they may satisfy course prerequisites.
FREN 100
French for Beginners I: French in Action
3—Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study with video component.
Prerequisite: This course is demanding for those with no knowledge of French. A
good knowledge of English grammar is essential.
Precluded course: FREN 100 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been
obtained for FREN 103.
This course introduces the student to the basic elements of the French language.
Both oral and written expressions are emphasized in the study of vocabulary,
grammar, and idiomatic expressions. Pronunciation, oral comprehension, and
reading and writing skills are also emphasized. The course, together with its
complement FREN 101, will enable a student to speak and write in simple French
in a range of everyday situations.
Note: This course may be taken for credit towards a degree program. It cannot be
applied toward the major in French. Students are strongly advised not to take
FREN 100 and FREN 101 simultaneously.
FREN 101
French for Beginners II
3—Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study with video component.
Prerequisite: FREN 100 or recent completion of French 20 (or two years of senior
high school French or equivalent). A good knowledge of English grammar is
essential.
Precluded course: FREN 101 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been
obtained for FREN 103.
This course continues the study of the basic elements of the French language
that started in FREN 100. Both oral and written expressions are emphasized in
the study of vocabulary, grammar, and idiomatic expressions. Pronunciation, oral
comprehension, and reading and writing skills are also emphasized. The course
enables a student to speak and write in simple French in a range of everyday
situations. This course may be taken for credit towards a degree program. It
cannot be applied toward the major
in French.
FREN 200
First Year University French I
3—Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study with audio component.
Prerequisite: FREN 101 or equivalent.
Precluded course: FREN 200 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been
obtained for FREN 242.
French 200: First Year University French I, continues the study
of FREN 100 and 101. The course leads students through a major
review of French grammar and develops the students' ability to read,
understand, and write short passages in French. It teaches the students
to express themselves in French in social situations, to talk about
themselves, to express opinions, and speak about their experiences.
Regular contact with the course tutor is essential because of the oral
components of the course.
Note: Students are strongly advised not to take FREN 200
and FREN 201 simultaneously.
FREN 201
First Year University French II
3—Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study with audio component.
Prerequisite: FREN 200 or equivalent.
Precluded course: FREN 201 may not be taken for credit if credit has already
been obtained for FREN 242.
This course further develops the ability to speak and write French, enabling
students to use French in social situations and to talk about themselves, their
opinions, and their experiences. In addition, the course leads the student
through a major review of grammar and develops the student's ability to
understand and compose short passages. Because of its oral components, regular contact with the course tutor is
essential.
FREN 362
Second Year University French
6—Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prerequisite: FREN 201 or equivalent.
Precluded course: FREN 362 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been
obtained for FREN 361.
This course is designed to follow FREN 201 or a full first-year university
French course. It continues the study of French grammar, expansion of vocabulary,
and the study of a variety of literary texts in French. The student will
improve both written and spoken French through practice in conversation,
comprehension, grammar, and composition.
FREN 363
Le roman français du XXe siècle
3—Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study with audio component.
Prérequis: FREN 362 ou déclaration d'admissibilité par le/la professeur/e du
cours. Notez bien qu' il est nécessaire d'avoir à sa disposition un
magnétophone à cassettes afin d'écouter les vingt-trois leçons du cours.
Etude de cinq romans du XXe siècle illustrant l'évolution du roman moderne et
de la vie intellectuelle en France. Grands thèmes: le roman traditionnel, la
crise du roman et du récit,
l'existentialisme, et le nouveau roman. André Gide: L'Immoraliste; Marcel Proust:
Combray; Albert Camus:
L' Etranger; Jean-Paul Sartre: La Nausée; Marguerite Duras: Moderato Cantabile.
FREN 374
Introduction à la littérature canadienne-française
6—Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prérequis: FREN 362 et déclaration d'admissibilité par le/la professeur/e du
cours.
Ce cours a été conçu afin de permettre à l'étudiant(e) de prendre connaissance
de la littérature canadienne-française. L'approche que nous avons adoptée est
celle de l'étude d'oeuvres choisies, présentées à l'intérieur d'un cadre
historique; et pour ce, nous vous proposons une anthologie qui comprend un
éventail de textes à caractère historique et poétique, entre autres. Pour
accompagner cette toile de fond, nous avons sélectionné quelques romans et
pièces de théàtre qui seront représentatives de l'évolution de l'oeuvre
littéraire canadienne-française de ses débuts à nos jours. L'objectif principal
de ce cours est de créer une atmosphère favorable à une découverte littéraire
personnelle et stimulante.
FREN 375
Vocabulary Expansion
6—Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study with audio component
Prérequis: FREN 362. Notez bien qu'il est essentiel que l'étudiant(e) ait à sa
disposition un magnétophone à cassettes.
Ce cours, misant sur l'apprentissage et l'enrichissement du vocabulaire, porte
sur l'aspect lexique plutôt que sur la grammaire française. L'étudiant(e) sera
progressivement amené(e) à augmenter ses connaissances du vocabulaire, à
maîtriser les expressions courantes et usuelles et à apprendre à les retenir. Le
cours incorpore l'expression orale et écrite et offre une composante littéraire
afin de garder l'équilibre entre l'écrit et l'oral.
FREN 383
Pratique orale thématique
3—Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prérequis: FREN 362 et autorisation du professeur.
Ce cours mise uniquement sur l'expression orale à partir de thèmes reliés au
quotidien.
Il vise la communication selon deux modes: interaction dialogue
tuteur/étudiant(e), et monologue sur cassette. En suivant une approche aussi
bien fonctionnelle que communicative, l'étudiant(e) sera progressivement amené(e)
à maîtriser des expressions usuelles et nécessaires pour exprimer ses intentions
de paroles (donner son avis, préciser sa pensée, protester, conclure. . . ).
Parallèlement et dans un ordre croissant de difficulté l' étudiant(e) sera
confronté(e) à divers styles de communication: la description, la narration, la
discussion, le débat, et enfin l'improvisation.
FREN 387
Français langue des affaires
3—Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prérequis: FREN 362.
Français langue des affaires a pour but d'offrir une formation en communication
écrite et orale en français telle qu'elle se pratique dans le monde des affaires
au Canada: la psychologie des communications d'affaires; l'appel téléphonique;
la correction des anglicismes; les expressions propres à la langue des affaires;
la numération, la majuscule, les abréviations, et la ponctuation; le style dans
la correspondance d' affaires; les parties de la lettre; le courrier d'affaires;
rédaction de lettres d'usage courant; une lettre pour chaque occasion; analyse
de lettres d'affaires; le courrier interne et les communications diverses; la
mise en page d'un rapport; à la recherche d'un emploi; l'entrevue; la
bureautique.
FREN 401
Composition française
3—Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prérequis: FREN 362.
Ce cours poursuit l'apprentissage de systèmes syntactiques et l'enrichissement
du lexique. Il a pour but le perfectionnement de l'art de la composition.
FREN 402
Pensée et structure de l'anglais et du français
Reading—3—Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prérequis: FREN 401.
Ce cours permettra à l'étudiant(e) de faire une étude comparative du français et
de l'anglais. L'étudiant(e) fera l'étude des moyens dont on dispose pour passer
d'une langue à l'autre, en particulier d'une pensée anglaise à une expression
bien française.
FREN 403
Stylistique comparée
Reading—3—Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prérequis: FREN 402.
Par le biais de principes théoriques et d'exercices d'application ce cours
permettra à l'étudiant(e) de faire l'étude des méthodes et des lois de la
stylistique qui gouvernent le passage d'une langue à l'autre, de l'anglais au
français surtout.
FREN 412
Français pour tous, français pour tout
3—Humanities
Delivery Mode: Individualized study.
Prérequis: FREN 362.
Particularité: Cours non accessible aux étudiant(e)s ayant suivi le cours FREN
312.
Ce cours mise sur un enrichissement de l'expression écrite et orale en traitant
les unités suivantes. Socio-historique de la langue: notions générales utiles à
la compréhension du phénomène linguistique dans sa perspective historique et
sociale. Outils de référence: pratique de la consultation des principaux
instruments de travail (dictionnaires, encyclopédies, grammaires, etc.).
Orthographe: pratique de
l'orthographe pour ceux qui connaissent des difficultés dans ce domaine. Les
formes et phrases: acquisition graduée des pratiques les plus courantes de la
phrase simple et de la phrase complexe.
Lexique: développement du vocabulaire général et des lexiques spécialisés.
Expression orale: pratique du développement de l'expression orale faisant appel
aux pratiques acquises dans les unités précédentes. Langue et environnement:
interventions sur la langue de
l'environnement (affichage, publicité, media, etc.).
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