Business Research Seminar and Thesis

Undergraduate

321 Winter 2027 Undergraduate Calendar In this cumulative 2-term course, the students will work closely with an individual faculty supervisor and receive training in the methods and skills of research in one of accounting, management, labour studies, finance, management science, information systems, marketing, strategy, and entrepreneurship. In the first term of this course, the students will identify a research topic, perform a review of the relevant scholarly literature, develop a research plan, write a research proposal, and make an oral presentation in an open research seminar. In the second term of this course, the students will implement the research plan, write the thesis, and revise the thesis according to the comments of the instructor and a faculty reader assigned by the Undergraduate Program Director. The reader will attend seminars, give comments and suggestions, and give opinions on the final grade on seminars in the first term and read the first revision and the final version of the thesis, give comments and suggestions, and give opinions on the final grade on thesis in the second term. (Prerequisite: At least Semester 6 standing, 75% cumulative average, 78% major average, 85% average in BUSR-4950 offered by the instructor, and permission of the instructor and the Undergraduate Program Director.)