McGill University

This course examines negotiation theory and practice, equipping students with the tools to effectively negotiate in diverse situations. Through an experiential learning approach, students will engage with negotiation strategies across a broad range of themes, including conflict resolution, salary negotiation, cross-cultural negotiations, and the psychological aspects of persuasion. 

This course examines insights into developing profitable branding strategies that can be implemented by managers. The purpose of this course is to get students to think (and act) like an effective brand manager.

This course is a comprehensive introduction to basic vocabulary, grammatical structures and speech patterns of written and oral French for students with no previous knowledge of French. 

This course examines what is a sonnet, what does it do with language, what does it do to and for us? It starts with Shakespeare’s Sonnets, with how they took life from their Italian precursors, especially Petrarch, and from a number of English innovators, and how they grew larger in a kind of dialogue with sonnet- writers such as Edmund Spenser and Philip Sidney. The early modern literary field is foundational (including Donne and Milton for example), but it is not by any means the end. 

This course examines how firms can gain competitive advantage from their operations. Typically, this requires the firm to achieve, at a minimum cost and high quality: responsiveness and adaptability to customer needs and desires, rapid time to market, process efficiency, and sufficient/responsive capacity. A problem solving framework is developed that enables students to undertake managerial and technical analysis that aims to result in the desired competitive advantage. Both service and manufacturing case examples are covered in order to illustrate some of the main concepts.

This course examines the history of Montreal from its beginnings to the present day. It covers Montreal's economic, social, cultural and political role within the French and British empires, North America, Canada, and Quebec and the city's linguistic and ethnic diversity. 

This course examines the politics of Southeast Asia. Topics covered include: colonialism, nationalism, democracy, authoritarianism, war, economic development, social development, overseas Chinese, ethnicity, religion, populism, and international relations, as they apply to Southeast Asian politics.

This course examines examples of statistical data and the use of graphical means to summarize the data. It covers basic distributions arising in the natural and behavioral sciences; the logical meaning of a test of significance and a confidence interval; and tests of significance and confidence intervals in the one and two sample setting (means, variances and proportions).

This course examines distinctive forms of innovation as an experimental process, a recombinant search process, human-centric process and data-driven process. It also explores innovation at different levels of analysis from the team level to the firm level, all the way to the regional and global levels. It also covers what managers need to better understand and manage innovative businesses successfully and strategically.

This course examines the constitution and mutual entanglements of selected religions and cultures originating and thriving in varied regional contexts. It focuses on highlighting the symbolic (visual, aural) expressivity of religions via ritual, myth, and rational speculation and its impact on high and popular cultures.