Arts Academic Programs

Students in the Arts and Business Co-op and Regular academic plans integrate a number of business-oriented and related courses that comprise the Arts and Business course component and a concentration of courses specific to their Honours Arts Major. The select group of Arts and Business courses, along with the concentrated area of study offered through the Honours Arts Major, provides students with an enriched academic background essential to a wide range of rewarding careers. Students are required to declare an Honours Arts Major prior to the class enrollment period for Year Two.

Continuation in the Arts and Business academic plan requires a minimum cumulative average of 60%, a minimum cumulative average of 70% in Arts & Business courses, and an (Honours) Major average of 75% at the end of each academic term.

Eligibility for graduation in the Honours Arts and Business Co-op or Regular academic plan with an Honours Arts Major academic plan includes successful fulfilment of the following requirements:

1. Appropriate BA Program-level requirements. See "BA Degree Requirements."
2. Arts and Business Plan-level requirements:
   • seven Arts and Business academic course units (14 courses) with a minimum cumulative average of at least 70%, including:
     • ARBUS 101 Introduction to Business in North America
     • ARBUS 102 Accounting Information for Managers
     • ARBUS 201 The Principles of Entrepreneurship
     • ARBUS 202 Professional and Business Ethics
     • ARBUS 301 International Business
     • ARBUS 302 Marketing: Principles of Marketing and Consumer Economics
     • ARTS 280 Statistics for Arts Students (or a statistics course from the Arts major)
     • Computer Science (one course)
     • ECON 101 Introduction to Microeconomics
     • ENGL 210F Genres of Business Communication 
     • one of
       1. HIST 113 Canadian Business History: Innovators and Entrepreneurs
       2. PSCI 231 Government and Business in Canada
     • Second Language (first half - Fall)
     • Second Language (second half of same language taken in Fall - Winter)
     • SPCOM 223 Public Speaking
3. Appropriate Plan-level requirements for the student's (Honours) Major. See the specific Honours Major, Arts and Business Co-op and Regular, section of the Calendar.

Recommended Course of Study. Students should register in a minimum of five courses per term.

Notes for Arts and Business Co-op and Regular Academic Plans

1. Students must normally have an overall average of 70% in their Honours Arts and Business courses at the end of the first term of Year One (1A) to remain in the Honours Arts and Business Co-op academic plan.
2. Students must normally have an overall average of 70% in their Honours Arts and Business courses at the end of Year One to remain in the Honours Arts and Business Regular academic plan.
3. Cultural Management, Digital Arts Communication, and International Trade Specializations are available for qualified applicants in the Honours Arts and Business Co-op academic plan. Details are available in HH 146.
4. Human Resources Management Specialization is available for qualified applicants in the Honours Arts and Business Co-op and Regular academic plans in Year Two. See below for details.
5. Double-counting courses in Honours Arts and Business, and a minor or option, is allowed to a maximum of three of the total number of courses required for that minor or option.
6. Students in the Honours Arts and Business Regular academic plan may not pursue departmental co-op; however, they may apply for admission to the Honours Arts and Business Co-op academic plan.
7. Upon successful completion of the minimum of 20 academic course units required in Honours Arts and Business Co-op and a minimum of four successful work terms, a student is granted an Honours degree in the Arts Major discipline with an Honours Arts and Business Co-op designation.
8. Following successful completion of all Arts and Business Regular curriculum requirements, a student is awarded an Honours degree in the Arts Major discipline with an Honours Arts and Business Regular designation.
9. Students wishing to take a different course in the ENGL 210 series should consult with their Honours Arts and Business advisor.
10. Students planning to pursue the Cultural Management Specialization should take ENGL 210F in their 2A term.

Honours Arts and Business Co-op

Students pursuing the Honours Arts and Business Co-op academic plan may be registered in Arts and Business Spring Co-op or Arts and Business Winter Co-op. In Arts and Business Spring Co-op, the first of six co-op work terms is in the Spring term of the first year of study. In Arts and Business Winter Co-op, the first of five co-op work terms is in the Winter term of the second year of study.

Study/Work Sequence for Honours Arts and Business Co-op

Specialization Within Arts and Business Co-op

Cultural Management Specialization

The Faculty of Arts offers students the opportunity for academic and practical training in Cultural Management as an integral part of their Honours Arts and Business Co-op academic plan. The Cultural Management Specialization provides students with the possibility of a broadly-based education in the liberal arts, combined with courses in cultural management, economics, accounting, communications, and computing. Students in Cultural Management complete four (of six) work terms in performing and visual arts organizations throughout Canada, working in the areas of management, fundraising, and marketing.

Honours Arts and Business Co-op students apply for admission to the Cultural Management Specialization during their 2A academic term (following completion of 1A and 1B, having declared an Honours Major and normally having completed their first Arts and Business Co-op work term).

Cultural Management Specialization students complete the required courses for the Honours Arts and Business Co-op academic plan (Year 1A, 1B, and 2A), the Honours Arts Major academic plan, and the required courses for the Cultural Management Specialization.

It should be stressed that only students in Honours Arts and Business Co-op are eligible for the Cultural Management Specialization.

Requirements

(Students should check for course prerequisites)

1. Required courses:
   ARBUS 302 Marketing: Principles of Marketing and Consumer Economics
   DRAMA 348 Cultural Management 1
   DRAMA 349 Cultural Management 2
   DRAMA 350 Cultural Management 3
   HRM 200 Human Resources Management
   SPCOM 223 Public Speaking
2. Arts and Business courses:
   ARBUS 101 Introduction to Business in North America
   ARBUS 102 Accounting Information for Managers
   ARBUS 201 The Principles of Entrepreneurship
   Computer Science course
   ECON 101 Introduction to Microeconomics
   ENGL 210F Genres of Business Communication
   Second Language (first & second half)

For further information, please contact the Cultural Management Specialization Director.

Digital Arts Communication Specialization

Within the Faculty of Arts, the Honours Arts and Business Co-op academic plan offers a specialization in Digital Arts Communication. This specialization is available to students who wish to study the design of digital communication using hypertext, image, sound, and video. The specialization emphasizes the design of digital communication, and especially its role in meeting the needs of different audiences, rather than computer programming or the use of particular software applications.

It should be stressed that only students in the Arts and Business Co-op academic plan can apply for the Digital Arts Communication Specialization. To be considered for admission to this specialization, students must have completed DAC 201 Designing Digital Images and Hypertext, or DAC 202 Designing Digital Sound and Video, with a grade of 75% or better and be in satisfactory standing in the Honours Major and Arts and Business Co-op academic plans. Due to limitations of resources, fulfilment of these minimum entrance requirements does not guarantee admission to the Digital Arts Communication Specialization.

In February of Year Two, Arts and Business Co-op students can apply for the specialization. A committee will make the final selection of candidates being accepted to the specialization after assessing the student's digital portfolio.

Requirements

In addition to the Honours Arts Major and the Arts and Business Co-op requirements, students must complete three academic course units (six courses) with a minimum cumulative average of 75%, including:

1. Required courses:
   DAC 201 Designing Digital Images and Hypertext
   DAC 202 Designing Digital Sound and Video
2. Two courses from the following:
   DAC 300 Special Topics in Digital Design
   DAC 303 Designing Learning Activities with Interactive Multimedia
   DAC 304 Designing Computer Simulations and Games for Learning
   DAC 400 Digital Design Research Project
3. Two courses from the following:
   DAC 329 Digital Presentations
   DAC 403 Special Topics in Speech Communication and Technology 
   ENGL 320 History and Theory of Media 2
   ENGL 392A Information Design
   ENGL 392B The Rhetoric of Text and Image
   FINE 228 Electronic Imaging A or FINE 229 Electronic Imaging B
   MUSIC 275 Music and Technology

For further information, please contact the Digital Communication Specialization Director or the Arts and Business Co-op Academic Assistant.

International Trade Specialization

The globalization of the world economy, arising from the much accelerated process of economic integration, implies that Canada will increasingly demand people with education and skills in areas related to international trade. As an integral part of the Honours Arts and Business Co-op academic plan in the Faculty of Arts, the International Trade Specialization provides students with a broadly-based education in the liberal arts combined with courses targeted to international trade.

Enrolment in the specialization is limited. Honours Arts and Business Co-op students apply for admission to the International Trade Specialization during their 2A academic term through a process of a formal written application and a personal interview.

Requirements

In addition to the Honours Arts Major and the Arts and Business Co-op requirements, students must successfully complete four academic course units (8 courses) divided between required and elective courses, and the seminar milestone with a minimum cumulative average of 70%, including:

1. Required courses:
   ECON 102 Introduction to Macroeconomics
   ECON 231 Introduction to International Economics
   INTTS 301 Institutions of International Trade and Finance (Cross-listed as ECON 334)
2. Milestone:
   INTTS 400 International Trade Seminar (Fall term only)
3. Five elective courses:
   (must complete at least two courses from each of the two categories):
   A: Cultures, Peoples, Geography and History
   ANTH 102 Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology
   ANTH 202 Principles of Social and Cultural Anthropology
   EASIA 201R East Asian Culture
   ENGL 208L Race and English Literature
   ENGL 322 Postcolonial Literature of the Americas
   ENGL 463 Postcolonial Literatures
   FR 292 French Civilization 2
   GER 272 German Thought and Culture
   GEOG 101 Geography and Human Habitat
   GEOG 202 Location of Economic Activity
   GEOG 305 Patterns and Processes of Biogeography
   GEOG 306 Gender and Environments
   GEOG 353 Retail Location 
   HIST 130 The Modern World in Historical Perspective
   HIST 239 History of Modern China, 1911 to the Present
   HIST 389 Canada in World Affairs
   ITALST 292 Italian Culture and Civilization 2
   PSYCH 253 Social Psychology
   PSYCH 338 Organizational Psychology
   PSYCH 354 Interpersonal Relations
   SPAN 218 Latin American Civilization 2
   REES 272 Russian Thought and Culture
   B: Economics and Political Science
   ECON 201 Microeconomic Theory 1
   ECON 202 Macroeconomic Theory 1
   ECON 304 Monetary Economics
   ECON 332 International Finance
   ECON 436 International Trade
   PACS 311 Doing Development: Issues of Justice and Peace
   PACS 324 Human Rights in the Marketplace
   PSCI 231 Government and Business in Canada
   PSCI 255 The Politics of Advanced Industrial Nations
   PSCI 281 World Politics
   PSCI 282 Foreign Policy
   PSCI 350A Political Economy of Development
   PSCI 350B The Politics of the Developing Areas
   PSCI 355 Politics in the Soviet Successor States
   PSCI 381 Foreign Policies of South Asian States
   PSCI 382 Politics of Canadian Foreign Policy
   PSCI 434 Comparative Public Administration
   PSCI 485 Selected Topics in International Political Economy
4. Students are expected to arrange to spend two terms working or studying abroad.

Notes

1. Up to three courses can be double-counted towards the completion of the specialization as long they are required by the two academic plans.
2. No triple counting is allowed (i.e., between Arts and Business, International Trade, and the Major).

For further information, please contact the International Trade Specialization Director or the Arts and Business Co-op Academic Assistant.

Specialization Within Arts and Business Co-op and Regular

Human Resources Management Specialization

Human Resources Management is a set of interrelated organizational functions and processes, including staffing the organization, designing jobs and teams, training and developing skilled employees, assessing and rewarding employee performance, and maintaining and retaining employees. Students enrolled in the Honours Arts and Business academic plan who are not Psychology majors (Psychology majors see the Psychology academic plan section for your requirements) and who are interested in employment in this field may want to pursue the Human Resources Management (HRM) Specialization, as well as the Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP) designation offered by the Canadian Council of Human Resources Associations upon graduation. Several courses in the HRM Specialization provide exemption from required courses for that designation.

Admission to the HRM plan requires that the student has successfully completed HRM 200, has a minimum HRM plan average of 70%, and is in satisfactory standing in their other academic plans. Those interested in enrolling in the HRM Specialization should consult the HRM website (www.psychology.uwaterloo.ca/hrm/index.html) for application procedures.

In addition to the Honours Arts Major and the Arts and Business requirements, the HRM Specialization requires successful completion of four academic course units (eight courses) with a minimum cumulative average of 70%, including:

Required courses (eight):

• AFM 123/ARBUS 102 or both of AFM 101 and 102
• HRM 200
• at least two of:
  • HRM 301
  • PSYCH 338
  • PSYCH 339
  • PSYCH 340
• CS 100 or 200
• ENGL 210F
• PHIL 215/ARBUS 202
• Statistics course

Other courses of interest to HRM Specialization students as unspecified electives:

• ECON 351
• MSCI 311
• PACS 202
• one of SOC 241, 243
• Note: Additional topics courses may be available through Wilfrid Laurier University. All cross-registration requests are subject to the approval of the HRM advisor and space availability.

Notes

1. Students in academic plans in Management Studies are precluded from taking HRM plans.
2. Please check the prerequisites for the courses listed above.  
3. For further information, refer to the HRM website: www.psychology.uwaterloo.ca/hrm/index.html
4. Students are encouraged to complete HRM 200 before enrolling in PSYCH 339 or PSYCH 340. Note that second year students are given priority enrolment in HRM 200.
5. Students who have completed an HRM Diploma or the course requirements for the CHRP designation, or who have graduated from a college or university HR or Business program are precluded from enrolling in the HRM Minor, Option, or Specialization.
6. Students are advised to review the CHRP requirements before finalizing their HRM course selections.