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This course focuses on strategic thinking, analysis, and management in a global business context. Topic include: industry analysis; competitive advantage; strategic change; global strategies; mergers, acquisitions and alliances; management of international portfolios; and intellectual property strategies. 08-01-2024-22-04-2024 Lecture Monday 09:00AM - 11:50AM, McDougall Hall, Room 329

This course introduces students to British literature from the onset of the Industrial Revolution in the 1780s to the multicultural, high-tech, globalized twenty-first century. The course investigates how Romantic, Victorian, Modern, and Contemporary writers responded to the profound social, psychological, economic, and political upheavals of their times in poems, short stories, novels, plays, and manifestos, which themselves revolutionized human experience. This is a course in reading, appreciation, and critical analysis within an historical framework. 09-01-2024-25-04-2024 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 10:00AM - 11:15AM, SDU Main Bldg, Room 320

This course provides an overview on how to start and sustain a technology-oriented company. Topics discussed will include the role of technology in society, intellectual property, business feasibility studies, financial planning, sources of capital, business structure, marketing, operational and human resource management. The focus will be on students as engineers-entrepreneurs with involvement from real life entrepreneurs as motivators and facilitators. This course will use problem-based and experiential learning strategies to develop new ventures. Students who produce a well-developed business idea from this course may be considered for approval to use this as the basis for their final year engineering design project. (Cross-listed with Computer Science 3840) Three lecture hours per week. 08-01-2024-22-04-2024 Lecture Monday 02:30PM - 05:20PM, Faculty Sustainable Design Eng, Room 128A

This elective laboratory course provides an introduction to the psychomotor skills for basic anesthetic and surgical techniques commonly performed in horses. Five-week module with three hours of laboratory per week. Enrolment is limited. Restriction: Student must have third year standing in the DVM program. 05-02-2024-05-03-2024 Lab Tuesday 01:30PM - 04:30PM, Atlantic Vet College, Room 1140N (more)...

This course examines the emergence of an Atlantic world through the European "discovery," conquest, and colonization of the Americas. The interaction of West African, Western European and Aboriginal American peoples, and the societies and institutions they developed, is the focus of the course. Spanish, English, French and Portuguese activity in the Atlantic and the Americas is surveyed, with particular attention given to topics such as labour systems, religious patterns, agriculture, and the nature of colonial societies before 1700. Lecture: Three hours a week. Restriction: Student must have second year standing or above OR have permission of the instructor. 09-01-2024-25-04-2024 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 02:30PM - 03:45PM, SDU Main Bldg, Room 420

This course introduces students to some of the key theories and debates within current Western historiography (the study of historical writing). History is fundamentally concerned with the analysis of evidence, yet historians often disagree over the interpretation of that evidence and what is considered causally significant. This course will consider major "schools" and concepts of historical analysis that shape how history is interpreted. Topics may include the role of ideas and individuals versus broad economic and social forces; class, gender, race, post-colonialism, post-modernism, race and history, public history, and digital history.

This elective course provides an in-depth discussion of equine internal medicine with an emphasis on neonatology and the respiratory, gastrointestinal and central nervous systems. It also covers topics such as metabolic diseases, emerging infectious diseases, cardiology and dermatology. Five-week module with three two hours tutorials per week. Restriction: Student must have third year standing in the DVM program. 11-03-2024-26-03-2024 Tutorial Monday, Tuesday 01:30PM - 03:20PM, Atlantic Vet College, Room 287N (more)...

This is a course for students who seek a well-supported, strongly integrated adjustment to life and learning within the university environment. This course is designed to create a cohesive learning community for students, connecting them to each other and to their instructors in the classroom and beyond. The curriculum focuses on helping students to develop the attitudes, study strategies, and broad communication and research skills they will need to thrive throughout their post-secondary experience. Note: Credit will only be granted for one (1) of the UPEI First Year Experience courses (UPEI-1010/ENG-1010, UPEI-1020 OR UPEI-1030). In exceptional circumstances, permission to receive credit for more than one of these courses may be permitted by the Dean. Three hours a week. 08-01-2024-24-04-2024 Lecture Monday, Wednesday, Friday 11:30AM - 12:20PM, SDU Main Bldg, Room 211

This is a course for students who seek a well-supported, strongly integrated adjustment to life and learning within the university environment. This course is designed to create a cohesive learning community for students, connecting them to each other and to their instructors in the classroom and beyond. The curriculum focuses on helping students to develop the attitudes, study strategies, and broad communication and research skills they will need to thrive throughout their post-secondary experience. Note: Credit will only be granted for one (1) of the UPEI First Year Experience courses (UPEI-1010/ENG-1010, UPEI-1020 OR UPEI-1030). In exceptional circumstances, permission to receive credit for more than one of these courses may be permitted by the Dean. Three hours a week. 08-01-2024-24-04-2024 Lecture Monday, Wednesday 11:30AM - 12:45PM, Robertson Library, Room 208