International
Alberta BCom – connected to the Global community
The Alberta BCom offers 17 majors of study including East Asian Studies, European Studies, International Business, and Latin American Studies. Combined enrolment in these four majors was 142 students. There were 1,115 enrolments in international business courses and 278 in language courses.
Students also have the opportunity to participate in 19 student clubs as well as national and international case competitions. In 2007/08, first-time international case competitions included competitions in Texas and Hong Kong.
International opportunities also include exchanges with leading universities across the globe. New student-exchange opportunities have recently been signed with business schools in Spain, Turkey, India, Germany, and China. In 2007/08, we had 62 students on outgoing exchanges, 74 on incoming exchanges, and six on international internships in China.
Through our Business Career Services office, the Alberta School also placed nine students on international co-op assignments. These were located in Auckland, Melbourne, London, Beijing, and Hong Kong. New this year for undergraduate students was a two-week international study trip to China with 18 participants.
Students Anna Marie Beatch and Yuliya Wawrykowica were both recipients of a $3,000 Export Development Canada International Business Scholarship.
Students on the Streets
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U of A BCom student Joel Elford (right)
demonstrated typing skills at Streetlight,
an organization to help street children in the Philippines.
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Five BCom students connected with Streetlight, a charitable organization in the Phillipines, to help impoverished street children this past summer. The students raised the funds, delivered eight computers, and then spent part of their summer tutoring staff and children on typing skills and school lessons in addition to helping renovate the school gym. In the early hours of the morning, they would deliver food to children and the elderly in need.
Kieren Ryan, Business Economics and Law, and founder of the new student run Business Exchange Association (BEA) volunteered last year and came back with a passion to return. Kieren was joined by fellow BEA member and an executive with the U of A Marketing club, Elyce Burek. Elyce is a Marketing major with a minor in International Business and is looking forward to a exchange in Northern Ireland next year.
Lindsay Hornland is a Business Economics major with a minor in Human Resources. Lindsay is planning a student exchange in Melbourne and helping host the largest undergraduate competition in Canada at the U of A next year, JDC West.
Joel Elford, a Finance major and Marney Beliveau, an Accounting major, who both helped co-chair the new Energize Career Conference last fall, as well as serving on the Business Students’ Association, rounded out the group.
Joel ended his year with an exchange at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand; Marney stopped to help Streetlight enroute back from her exchange in Thailand.