Goal
This program offers training to enable you to analyze and systematically informed of issues such as changes in economic conditions, the impact of government budget choices on unemployment, inflation and well-being, the relative effectiveness of different environmental policies, the implications of demographic changes ahead, analysis of aid to developing countries, the impact of various natural resource management policies, the effects of different family policies and support income, etc.
Ability
Show interest for economic, political and social. Loving advise people and participate in their decisions. Take pleasure to analyze, compare and quantify data and draw conclusions. Loving organize and systematize information. Have talent for social sciences and mathematics. Being a good communicator. Being critical and pragmatic. Being comfortable with abstract ideas and deduction.
Opportunity
The opportunity of an economist employment prospects are excellent and varied. You can work in different areas such as public and parapublic service, financial institutions, municipalities, national and international organizations and educational institutions. You will be asked to analyze, among other things, environmental policy, regulation of industries, pricing of public services, changes in commodity prices or exchange rates, investment strategies, production and prices businesses as well as fiscal and monetary policies.
The excellent reputation of the economic bachelor allows several graduates to master’s and doctoral studies at prestigious institutions around the world.
Professions
Development officer or project
Agent search and socio-economic planning
Analyst Economic Policy
Economic adviser
Economist
Specialized Economist (Economist of international trade, labor economist, environmental economist, etc.)
Teacher
Researcher
Employers
Insurance companies
Multinational companies
Educational Institutions
Consulting firms
Financial institutions
Ministries and public and parapublic organizations
Unions
International Organizations
Towns and municipalities
OPENING TO GRADUATE STUDIES
The Bachelor of Economics opens the door to graduate studies, including economics, policy and analysis of international studies. Several funding sources are available for students wishing to pursue master’s and doctorate in economics.
PROGRAM STRUCTURE
GRADE
Bachelor (Licence) in Economics (B.A.)
*This page presents the official version of the program. The University G.O.C. reserves the right to change the content without notice.
AGC – Agricultural Economics
AGC1001 Applied Microeconomics
AGC1010 Methodology in Agricultural Economics
AGC2001 Economics of Natural Resources and Environment
AGC3910 Upgrade in Agricultural Economics
AGC7010 Special Topics (Agricultural Economics)
AGC7012 Introduction to experimental economics
AGC7017 Research Methodology (Agricultural Economics and Consumer Sciences)
ANT – Anthropology
ANT2101 From potlatch on the stock exchange: anthropological decoding of the economy
ANT7006 Aboriginal, meaning issues of power and economy
ARL – Archaeology
ARL2100 Paléoéconomie: economic analysis methods in archeology
ASR – Insurance
ASR6000 Principles and insurance economy
CNS – Consumption
CNS3004 Consumer economics
COM – Communications
COM4001 Communication Economy
COM701 8 Économie communication
OF – Graphic Design
DES2708 product design Economics
DRT – Right
DRT6063 intellectual property of the company and new economy
DRT7063 intellectual property of the company and new economy
DVE – Economic Development
DVE6001 The economy and its evolution
ECN – Economic
ECN0100 Economy in a North American context
ECN1000 Principles of Microeconomics
ECN1010 Principles of Macroeconomics
ECN1100 Health Economics
ECN1110 Development Economics
ECN1120 Quebec Economy
ECN1150 Environmental Economics
ECN1160 Crime and economy
ECN1900 Microeconomics for actuaries
ECN1901 Macroeconomics for actuaries
ECN2070 Public Economics
ECN2100 Economy regulation
ECN3130 Information Economy and contracts
ECN3140 Experimental Economics
ECN3150 Natural Resource Economics
ECN3170 Advanced Microeconomics
ECN6030 Role of the State in the economy
ECN6600 Public Economics I
ECN6953 Health Economics
ECN6954 political economy of public decisions
ECN6956 International Economics and multinational firms
ECN7040 Economy behavior
ECN7130 Public Economics
ECN7140 Natural Resource Economics
ECN7150 Labour economics
ECN7190 Economy demographic changes
ECN7210 Monetary and Financial Economics
ECN7370 Theory of international economics
ECN7530 Seminar Public Economics
ECN7540 Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Seminar
ECN7550 labor economics seminar
TRACKING PROGRAM (90 credits)
ECONOMICS (48 CREDITS)
ECN-1000: Principles of Microeconomics (3 credits)
Description
Scarcity, choice and opportunity cost. What to produce, how to produce and for whom to produce. Factors determining the demand function and supply for a product. Price and equilibrium quantity. The laws of supply and demand. Concept of elasticity. Government intervention. Consumer choices: preferences and budgetary constraints. The choice of companies: profit and production function. Cost functions. Price competitive markets and monopoly markets.
ECN-1010: Principles of Macroeconomics (3 credits)
Description
The macroeconomic objectives: full employment, price stability, balance of the balance of payments. National Accounts. P.I.B. balance and full employment. Roles of the currency and financial institutions. The State and aggregate demand. Macroeconomic objectives and internal policies. The constraints posed by the opening of the economy. Keynesians and monetarists. The difficult art of macroeconomic policy. Looking for a consensus on the desirability and means of state intervention.
LP-1008: Statistical Methods for Social Science (3 credits)
Description
Introduction to descriptive statistics and probability theory and inductive statistics, tailored to the needs of customers wishing to deepen their statistical knowledge. The following concepts will be studied: frequency and percentages, contingency tables, measures of central tendency and dispersion, normal distribution, correlation, hypothesis testing, parametric tests, bivariate and multivariate analysis of numeric variables.
MQT-1900: Quantitative methods for economists (3 credits)
Description
The course objective is to familiarize the student with the mathematical concepts used in economics. It will cover the basic elements of matrix algebra, calculation and optimization.
ECN-1030: Financial Institutions and Markets (3 credits)
Description
The key function of financial systems is to make the link between economic agents who save and economic agents in need of financing and credit. This course analyzes the different aspects of this relationship in Haiti: the wide variety of monetary and credit instruments; how the rate of return on these instruments are determined; the development and organization of Haitian financial institutions (banks, near banks, etc.); the regulation of this sector and its challenges; Bank of the Republic of Haiti and the relationship between monetary policy and financial markets.
ECN-1040: Measurement of economic variables (3 credits)
Description
Data sources frequently used in economics. How these data are constructed and limitations. Simple analysis of the technical economic data.
ECN-2000: Price Theory I (3 credits)
Description
The focus is on the determination of prices of final goods and services in the economy and on the allocation of resources in the production of these. The course revolves around the concepts of supply and demand in the goods market, which allows grouping of consistent and analytically different economic variables at play.
ECN-2040: Optimization elements in economic theory (3 credits)
Description
This course aims to consolidate the results of basic microeconomic theory, to ensure a better understanding of mathematical tools needed to bypass the results and learn to formulate, solve and interpret some problems of economic theory.
ECN-2010: Macroeconomic Theory I (3 credits)
Description
Determination of national income, employment, prices, interest rates and the exchange rate in an aggregate context; Explicit model with four markets: goods and services, money, work, foreign currencies. North American macroeconomic policy; importance of the external sector of the Haitian economy. Macroeconomic analysis using models. National Accounts.
ECN-2020: Price Theory II (3 credits)
Description
Pricing and employment of factors of production in the economy. Variables that influence the demand and supply of factors of production in the company, the industry and the economy. Releasing the hypothesis of perfect competition: monopoly, monopolistic competition, oligopoly. Edgeworth box, Pareto optimal. Demonstration of two fundamental theorems of welfare theory.
ECN-3000: Introduction to Econometrics (3 credits)
Description
The formulation of hypotheses from theories about socioeconomic phenomena and the use of econometrics to verify these hypotheses. The focus is on the significance and practical significance of econometric results rather than their formal mathematical proofs.
ECN-2030: Macroeconomic Theory II (3 credits)
Description
Key determinants of consumption, investment, government spending, imports, exports. Supply and demand for money. Short term production function. Economic developments compared wages and profits. Sources of inflation and unemployment. Theory of economic growth. Factors of instability and state intervention in the economy modes.
ECN-2050: International economic relations (3 credits)
Description
Interdependence between national economies, or integration of the international economy. The course is essentially analytical, although references to historical developments and contemporary issues are common. Special subjects: international specialization, protection, economic community, monetary relations in classical optics and that of Keynesian macroeconomics.
ECN-2060: History of Economic Thought (3 credits)
Description
This course aims to trace the origin and development of economic ideas currently underway. It shows the emergence of fundamental theoretical proposals in the eighteenth century, their development during the so-called classical period of Malthus and Ricardo Stuart Mill and Marx, and the period from 1870 to contemporary contributions.
ECN-2070: Public Economics (3 credits)
Description
Public sector nature and characteristics that distinguish it from the private sector. Criteria for allocating resources. Income redistribution function. Special problems in the federal system of government. Political and administrative process of developing economic and financial policies. Microeconomic effects of public spending, taxation and borrowing.
ECN-3010: end of Bachelor Seminar (3 credits)
Description
In this seminar, students will be encouraged to define and achieve a substantial research project on a topic of their choice in economics. The teacher will supervise students in the project definition in the literature search (textual and empirical) and in the conduct of the project.
REQUIREMENTS SPECIFIC PROGRAM (42 credits)
RULE 1-12 AMONG CREDITS
ECN-1020: Haitian Economic Development (3 credits)
Description
Geographical study, historical and institutional Haitian economy since colonial times to the contemporary period. Periodization is established in relation to main activities and growth rates.
ECN-1100: Health Economics (3 credits)
Description
This course introduces the student to the economic analysis of health services: characteristics of demand and supply of services, cost trends, program effectiveness, methods of financing, labor market issues and industry pharmaceuticals. Applications favor the Haitian situation. This course no prior request.
ECN-1110: Development Economics (3 credits)
Description
Introductory course in development economics. Topics include: poverty, inequality of resources, the rural economy, the functioning of markets in this sector (particularly the credit market), the role of economic growth, international trade and institutions in the development. Thinking about the mechanisms underlying development problems.
ECN-1120: Haiti Economy (3 credits)
Description
This course is more analytical and applied economics to questions about the Haitian economy: Regional adjustment and geotechnical factors of development, comparative advantages, industrial structure, resource rents, factor mobility and unemployment, language attributes, government policies , nationalism.
ECN-1130: Haiti-Dominicanie Economic Relations (3 credits)
Description
Analysis of economic relations between Haiti and the Dominican Republic to better understand their influence in the development of economic policies. Critical study of sectoral issues, guidelines and trade disputes between the two countries. Features of the evolution of trade flows and Haitian-Dominicans agreements.
ECN-1140: energy and international economic issues (3 credits)
Description
Analysis of the evolution of the international oil market. Behavior and strategy of the key players dominating this market: OPEC, the United States multinationals. Review of national energy policies. Study of the effects of oil shocks on the economic environment and international politics: the North-South dialogue, the petro-dollar debt of developing countries, etc.
ECN-1150: Environmental Economics (3 credits)
Description
Economic analysis, theoretical and practical aspects of environmental problems and solutions that may be proposed: pollutant emissions control policies (taxation of pollutant emissions, tradable pollution rights, regulations currently in use, etc.); proposals economists on monetary valuation of benefits and costs related to environmental protection; current issues, such as the greenhouse effect.
ECN-1160: Crime and Economy (3 credits)
Description
This course focuses on several aspects of economic crime and crime in general. Specifically, issues such as tax evasion, smuggling of alcohol and cigarettes, illegal employment and prostitution can be addressed. The course also examines the deterrent effects of the penal system and the effects of various policies of combating crime.
RULE 2-15 AMONG CREDITS
ECN-2080: Introduction to Scientific Programming for Economist (3 credits)
Description
The objective of the course is to give students the necessary foundation for the use of programming languages so that it can solve math problems and calculations become autonomous in the use of IT as a scientific working tool economy.
ECN-2100: Economy of the regulation (3 credits)
Description
The costs of monopoly and regulation. The marginal cost pricing. The role of increasing returns to scale and indivisibilities. Tiered pricing according to peak and off-peak hours. The optimum rate depending Ramsey and Lame. Pricing in two parts. The average cost pricing.
ECN-2120: Project Analysis (3 credits)
Description
The main purpose of this course is to compare the costs and benefits of economic decision. Study of economic principles that guide the evaluation: the reference price, the discount rate, the efficiency and redistribution criteria, etc. The successive stages of the evaluation process of a project, the financial aspect to the various economic aspects.
ECN-2130: Contemporary Economic Issues (3 credits)
Description
Analysis of major contemporary economic problems. Border pollution, job insecurity, globalization of markets, growing income gaps, etc. The course will review the status of these issues through analysis of relevant empirical literature and present the different economic theories proposed for analysis.
ECN-2500: Internship (3 credits)
Description
Ability to perform research outside the Department or pursue job training courses or as part of a public body. The course runs under the supervision of a professor of the Department.
ECN-3100: Economic analysis of the labor market (3 credits)
Description
The economic analysis of the labor market economists provides tools to better understand the level of employment, wage formation and wage inequalities. In this course, the different roles of workers, businesses and government in the labor market are explained by theoretical economic models and concrete empirical examples.
ECN-3110: Industrial Organization (3 credits)
Description
The goal is to analyze the structure, conduct and performance of Haitian industries. Other topics are: vertical integration relationship between prices and market structure, Haitian industrial strategy, competitive policy and Haitian government regulation of businesses.
ECN-3120: Growth and Fluctuations (3 credits)
Description
This course examines the models developed in macroeconomic theory I and II, more formally and deeper. This allows the rigorous analysis of the movements of macroeconomic aggregates and the effects of fiscal and monetary policy for closed and open economies. In addition, it examines some recent controversies such as public debt, the effectiveness of government policy, the intertemporal inconsistency of optimal policy and the existence of multiple equilibria.
ECN-3130: Information Economy and contracts (3 credits)
Description
Economic analysis of contract formation mechanisms of imperfect information situation. Incentives determinants. Applications to supply contracts, auctions, franchises, etc.
ECN-3140: Experimental Economics (3 credits)
Description
This course provides an introduction to experimental methodology which consists in the economy recovery, mainly in the laboratory, a simplified economic context as all the relevant variables in this context are controlled by the experimenter. It allows among others to validate economic theories to find regularities in the behavior of economic agents and to guide the development of new theories.
ECN-3150: Natural Resource Economics (3 credits)
Description
Economic Theory of renewable and non-renewable natural resources applicable to water, forest and mining. Taxation, regulation, production.
ECN-3160: Applied Econometrics (3 credits)
Description
This course aims to empower students in the practice of econometrics. The course analyzes several areas where economics econometrics is used. For each area, changes in the classical linear regression model are made to account for the characteristics of each problem and of modeling the data generation process. The course also discusses different approaches to use to format a database for estimation purposes.
ECN-3170: Advanced Microeconomics (3 credits)
Description
The course aims to familiarize students with the modern techniques of microeconomic modeling the study of classical problems, especially related to decision theory, the core concepts and the Shapley value and haggling to Nash. The course is for students who wish to develop technical skills to read and analyze the mathematical economics literature.
ECN-4100: Econometrics (3 credits)
Description
Multiple regression matrix writing emphasizing the model assumptions. Special problems of multicollinearity, non-spherical errors and autocorrelation. Generalized method of least squares, the use of instrumental variables, the lag model and the identification problem in the simultaneous equation models.
LP-3611: Internship in the Haitian public service (3 credits)
Description
Paid training to acquire practical work experience in the Haitian public service, in an area closely related to bachelor's degrees in the Faculty of Social Sciences. This course, lasting about 225 hours, must be approved by the program director at registration. The assessment is made by the internship supervisor and environment on the basis of a placement report.
REQUIREMENTS 3-3 AMONG CREDITS
To graduate, students must reach level Advanced English I (TOEIC: 750). The student who demonstrates that he has acquired this level during the test administered by the School of Languages must choose a higher level English courses or in another modern language.
REQUIREMENTS 4-6 In 12 AMONG CREDITS
DDU-1000: Sustainable Development: Foundations for Sustainable Development (3 credits)
Description
This introductory course to sustainable development is for all undergraduate student. It is to provide an introduction to the concept of different sizes and the implementation of sustainable development tools. It allows the student to acquire the basic elements of a general reflection on sustainable development, which takes into account its many ambiguities and difficulties in its operationalization. In addition, this course encourages thinking about the tools necessary for his apprehension as social project. This interdisciplinary course is delivered remotely to autumn sessions, winter and summer. This course is mandatory sustainability profile.
BTC-1000: Sciences administration: General Accounting (3 credits)
Description
This course aims to develop the student’s ability to understand the functioning of an accounting system for the registration of an operation in the accounting records until the preparation of a complete set of financial statements. Thereafter, he will be able to read, understand, interpret, and broadly analyze financial statements. He will discover the limitations and constraints of financial accounting and will include accounting policy choices that are needed. Finally, learn how accounting information can respond to the needs and concerns of the main users.
CTB-2050: Tax I (3 credits)
Description
This course aims to familiarize students with the income tax of individuals and to raise the tax consequences of various transactions and business decisions. Upon completion of this course the student will be able to calculate the tax liability of an individual, to understand the foundations of economic decision making to maximize the wealth tax after taking into account the ethical dimensions, recommend certain tax strategies that align with the objectives pursued by the taxpayer to incorporate some tax concepts to the analysis of investment and financing projects, discuss the effect of the tax rules on the choice of form and mode employee compensation, executives and the shareholder executive.
GSF-1000: Finance (3 credits)
Description
It focuses strictly on finance course allows the student to grasp the basic principles and the whole of this scope. It outlines the basic concepts, introduces the student to the decision-making in financial management and shows the different ways to take a financial decision. It presents the foundations of the financial management of companies: financial mathematics, the concepts of financial analysis, investment decisions and risk-return relationship. In practical activities in the trading rooms, the student works on real cases simulated.
GSF-2101: Portfolio Management (3 credits)
Description
This course focuses on the modern theory concerning the management of securities portfolios and functioning of financial markets. It seeks to gradually introduce students to the field, combining theory and practice. The basic concepts and practices supplements are discussed primarily in the context of variable income securities investments and, to a lesser extent, in the context of fixed-income securities investments.
GSF-2102: Corporate Finance (3 credits)
Description
The objective of this course is to familiarize students with the principles of corporate finance. The course enables students to acquire the basic concepts on which the practice of modern corporate finance relies. Topics include: the decision on capital structure, dividend policy, risk management, evaluation of the company, mergers and acquisitions, securities issues and corporate governance.
GSF-2104: International Financial Management (3 credits)
Description
The course aims to make students aware of the importance of the international dimension in daily financial management and financial strategy of companies. The aim is to develop the student’s ability to understand and analyze the major problems of financial decision in an international context. Specifically, the course covers the following aspects: the functioning of international financial markets, motives and risks of direct investment abroad, the choice of investments in an international context and financing of international operations.
GSF-3100: Capital market (3 credits)
Description
The objective of this course is to analyze the financial markets and their main financial instruments and their role in intermediating funds and risk. First we proceed to the description and on examining the role played in these markets, financial institutions and regulators, especially in the Canadian context. We analyze, subsequently, the term structure of interest rates and volatility in fixed income securities. We then examine the government bond markets, corporate and international. In the second part of the course, we study fixed income securities with option clauses, then we proceed with the review of major risk financial intermediation markets classified by instruments that are traded there, or the securities markets backed by debts, futures, options and swaps.
GSF-3101: Introduction to derivatives (3 credits)
Description
This course aims to familiarize students with derivatives such as options, futures contracts (forwards and futures), swaps and others. It allows students specializing in finance at the undergraduate level, to acquire the basic concepts on which modern practice of finance relies.
GSO-1000: Operations and Logistics (3 credits)
Description
This course introduces the logistics function of a manufacturing organization. The content focuses on the different types of production systems, inventory management, aggregate production planning, materials planning requirements, project management, scheduling, quality management, maintenance, planning, transportation management, site selection.
MNG-1000: The company and its management (3 credits)
Description
This course aims to introduce students to the main activities of management in the operation of a business. Following the development of a systemic framework situating the role of managers and the decisions they make are successively discusses the purpose and business strategies, planning, organization, management, control and sharing. Readings and exercises are performed, as well as teamwork. The preferred self-learning formula is supported in class by greater supervision of teacher.
MRK-1000: Marketing (3 credits)
Description
This course focuses on key marketing decisions. Most of the course consists of a presentation of the variables of the “marketing mix” (product, communication, distribution and price) in a management perspective. Then, integrating all the strategic planning activity is carried out by the students, using the method of case analysis, and that, in specific application areas: services marketing, international marketing, industrial marketing, marketing innovation and public and social marketing.
SIO-1000: Systems and Information Technology (3 credits)
Description
This course is designed to prepare general managers of organizations to face the information technology and management information systems in their industries, to give them the essential tools to contribute to their development and control by providing appropriate references frames. It generally affects all aspects of information systems and infrastructure of information technology. Particular attention is paid to contemporary trends in the area of systems and information technology including: Internet use in business, the development of digital business and e-commerce, setting up systems strategic information, business systems implementation (ERP), deploying mechanisms ensuring information security, knowledge management and the use of decision support tools. The focus is, however, on business opportunities, successes and possible failures. This brings the student to cope with contemporary trends, thus preparing it to profit.
LP-2004: Haiti Economic Policy (3 credits)
Description
The objective is to achieve an overview of the broad public policies towards the private sector. Analysis of normative reasons of government interventions with businesses and behavioral interventions and incentives that these generate. Analysis of interactions between the state and the private sector from case studies on competition policy, regulation and deregulation, public enterprises and privatization. Studies of the great challenges that Haiti has to face today: end of the welfare state, free trade, sovereignty.
POL-1003: Political Systems and companies worldwide (3 credits)
Description
By integrating historical, economic and sociological, this course introduces the student to the different types of regimes and political systems, their operation and the problems they face in their relationships with their environment.
POL-1005: Introduction to International Relations (3 credits)
Description
Study of the international system; historical formation and ideological foundations; types of systems and transformations; Contemporary system; conflict process; Cooperation Process; transnational forces; major topics of current international debates; diplomacy and foreign policy.
POL-1006: Introduction to Public Administration (3 credits)
Description
Public administrations are at the heart of contemporary transformations of public action and prerogatives of States. By comparing several systems of public administration and particularly in the case of developing general government, this course analyzes the major recent developments in Western bureaucracies. Also discussed the main concepts and theories that structure this research field.
POL-2202: Haitian Public Administration (3 credits)
Description
This course aims to familiarize students to the operation of Haitian governments. The classic themes of public administration are discussed in order to present the practical operation: administrative organization, public service, decision making, administrative cycle, the budget process, and finally, control administration. Still in a concrete perspective, the course also introduces current topics such as the new public management and privatization.
Oral and written communication
ENG-1113: Principles of writing (3 credits)
Description
The course is for students who wish to improve the linguistic quality of their written work. Content items: proofreading techniques and self-correcting, traps written French, descriptive discourse, narrative and argumentative, textual coherence. Note – This course aims to consolidate the general knowledge of French and knowledge of university-level French.
Law
DRT-1712: Law of general government (3 credits)
Description
The administrative organization: notions of centralization and decentralization, the central administrative authorities, decentralized administrative, hierarchical control and supervisory control. The powers of the administrative authorities: notion of discretion, supervision of discretion, modes of exercise of discretion, a class of discretionary acts (regulatory acts, the delegation of powers of the administrative authorities). Administrative legality: the principle of administrative law, the contents of the administrative law, the implementation of the administrative legality (interpretation of the law). Study of the general rules of interpretation of laws and regulations.
DRT-1907: Business Law and Governance (3 credits)
Description
This course reviews key concepts and the main legal rules in the context of the business, from training until the end of business: introduction to Canadian and Quebec law, company formation, financing of the company, management and the company staff, the company and its market, the end of the business.
REQUIREMENT 5-0 AMONG CREDITS TO 6
The courses ACTs acronyms, AGC, ANT, COM, CTB, DDU, DRT, GSF, HST, IFT, JOU, MAT, MNG, IHP, POL, SOC, STT and second language courses (except English courses below ANL-2020).
Any other course selection must be approved by the program director.
The student admitted to profile sustainable development must choose courses provided therein.
PROFILE POSSIBILITY OF CHOICE
International profile
EHE-1ECN: Studies - International profile - Bachelor of Economic (12 to 18Credits)
Description
Activities carried out in a university abroad, under international profile, which will be equivalencies student record upon presentation of the official transcript of the activities.
Sustainability Profile
The appropriations in this profile will be accumulated in the rules of the section titled "Additional Requirements".
DDU-1000: Foundations for Sustainable Development (3 credits)
Description
This introductory course to sustainable development is for all undergraduate student. It is to provide an introduction to the concept of different sizes and the implementation of sustainable development tools. It allows the student to acquire the basic elements of a general reflection on sustainable development, which takes into account its many ambiguities and difficulties in its operationalization. In addition, this course encourages thinking about the tools necessary for his apprehension as social project. This interdisciplinary course is delivered remotely to autumn sessions, winter and summer. This course is mandatory sustainability profile.
ECN-1150: Environmental Economics (3 credits)
Description
Economic analysis, theoretical and practical aspects of environmental problems and solutions that may be proposed: pollutant emissions control policies (taxation of pollutant emissions, tradable pollution rights, regulations currently in use, etc.); proposals economists on monetary valuation of benefits and costs related to environmental protection; current issues, such as the greenhouse effect.
DRT-1721: Introduction to Environmental Law and Sustainable Development (3 credits)
Description
Introduction to environmental law in the context of current and future environmental challenges. Overview of the main legal instruments in Haiti to fight against environmental pollution and climate change, preserving biodiversity and implement sustainable development. Study of administrative appeals, civil and criminal. Study of authorization schemes, procedures of public review of the impacts and administrative appeals, civil and criminal to the public and to public administration.
ECN-1140: energy and international economic issues (3 credits)
Description
Analysis of the evolution of the international oil market. Behavior and strategy of the key players dominating this market: OPEC, the United States multinationals. Review of national energy policies. Study of the effects of oil shocks on the economic environment and international politics: the North-South dialogue, the petro-dollar debt of developing countries, etc.
ECN-2500: Internship (3 credits)
Description
Ability to perform research outside the Department or pursue job training courses or as part of a public body. The course runs under the supervision of a professor of the Department.
GCI-3001: Environmental Impacts (3 credits)
Description
This course helps to learn the impact studies and develop methodological tools for such studies. It includes a review of federal and provincial impact assessment and their regulatory process; the review of available methods, types case studies of recent projects; the identification and management of conflicts of environmental impacts. Notions of environmental auditing.
LP-3611: Internship in the Haitian public service (3 credits)
Description
Paid training to acquire practical work experience in the Haitian public service, in an area closely related to bachelor’s degrees in the Faculty of Social Sciences. This course, lasting about 225 hours, must be approved by the program director at registration. The assessment is made by the internship supervisor and environment on the basis of a placement report.
MNG 2110: Sustainable development and management organizations (3 credits)
Description
This course’s main objective is to provide conceptual and practical tools to understand and efficiently integrate the concept of sustainable development in organizations. The foundations and practical applications of this concept will be apprehended using various examples and an interdisciplinary perspective.
POL-2207: Environmental Policies (3 credits)
Description
The course objective is to introduce students to environmental issues from the perspective of policy analysis and public administration. The evolution of ecological thinking. The appearance of the main environmental issues and problems in contemporary societies. The instruments and management mechanisms at national and international level. The role of social forces. Haitian dimension of environmental policies. Foreign experiences.
SOC-2114: Environment and Society (3 credits)
Description
Study of the relationship between nature and societies. Representations of nature. Genesis of the ecological thought. Environmental issues: water, forests, air, ocean energy. Science and politics of global environmental problems: climate change, biodiversity. The environmental movement: origin, diversification, actions and impacts. Environmental policies and sustainable development.
With the agreement of the program director, students may choose another course in sustainable development. He can choose one course from ECN-2500 and LP-3611.
