Department of Consumer Studies, College of Family and Consumer Studies

The Housing and Real Estate Management major in the B.Comm program offers a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of housing, focusing on the delivery of housing services, the management of housing and real estate and on the economic and social policy context.

The major shares a common core with other majors in the B.Comm program. The focus of the major is on the development of conceptual analytical and management skills required for professional careers in the field of housing and real estate management.

Students in the major study housing and real estate in the context of an assemblage of physical, financial, legal, political and social elements, making linkages between and among elements and then use this knowledge to apply to the management and analysis of housing services systems, and the appraisal of housing policy.

Students graduate with a degree leading to a variety of professional positions in the public and private sectors or to continued graduate work in business, planning or the social sciences.

Students in the Housing and Real Estate Management major are required to take the courses listed below. In addition, some may wish to make use of groupings of elective courses in order to pursue individual interests or develop additional focus. A list of suggested electives follows the description of required courses.

Major

26-100 Marketing

26-180 Housing and Community Planning

36-120 Introductory Microeconomics

80-120 Dynamics of Behaviour

One elective.

26-140 Introduction to Design

36-110 Introductory Macroeconomics

63-100 Introductory Calculus I

85-250 Management in Organizations

One elective.

02-222 Financial Accounting

26-281 Social Aspects of Housing

36-231 Intermediate Microeconomics

89-208 Introductory Applied Statistics I

One elective.

02-223 Management Accounting

26-202 Information Management

26-282 Housing Finance

89-209 Introductory Applied Statistics II

One elective.

26-303 Research Methods

26-484 Housing and Real Estate Law

26-485 Housing Policies

36-241 Intermediate Macroeconomics

36-350 Urban Economics

26-486 Housing Industry Structure and Process

36-356 Theory of Finance

78-225 Public Administration

78-230 Canadian Government

One elective.

26-482 Real Estate Appraisal

36-351 Money, Credit and the Financial System

59-282 Urban and Regional Planning

Two electives.

26-389 Property Management

26-481 Housing Services Systems

78-327 Municipal Government and Politics in Canada

Two electives.

26-210 Personal and Family Finance

26-230 Technology and the Consumer

26-387 Topics in Housing

26-402 Research in Consumer Studies

45-120 People, Places and Spatial Organization

45-223 Economic Geography

49-214 Building the Modern City

59-241 Site Engineering

1996-97 Undergraduate Calendar X--Degree Programs Bachelor of Commerce-- B.Comm

Last revised: August 28, 1996. Contact: ccrenna@registrar.uoguelph.ca.