E-Commerce

Expand your undergraduate expertise with this certificate teaching a variety of topics, including areas from marketing, such as advertising and retail marketing, and covering specifics of website best practices, customer relations, and social networking. 

Courses 

A minimum cumulative average of 60% is required to graduate with a postgraduate certificate. The certificate program consists of the following 5.0 credits: 

1.5 ADMN credits consisting of:  

• ADMN 2080H: Managerial and Market Research 
• ADMN 2100H: Introduction to Marketing 
• ADMN 3150H: Advertising 

3.5 COIS credits consisting of: 

• COIS-MDST 1010H: The Digital World 
• COIS 1020H: Programming for Computer Science 
• COIS-ADMN 1620H: Introduction to Information Systems 
• COIS 2240H: Software Design and Modelling 
• COIS 2430H: Web Development I: Front-End 
• ADMN-COIS 2620H: Systems Analysis and Design 
• ADMN-COIS 3750H: Principles of Online Marketing 

Admission Requirements 

The Postgraduate Certificate in e-Commerce is available to students who hold an undergraduate degree from any accredited university. 

If you have any questions about Trent's Postgraduate Certificates, please contact discovertrent@trentu.ca.

For students who have accepted their offer of admission and have questions about registering in their courses or life at Trent, please email ptbocerts@trentu.ca for Peterborough programs and durcerts@trentu.ca for Durham GTA programs.

International Student Information 

This postgraduate certificate program delivers education and training related to Canadian labour market needs and meets a field of study requirement set by Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada.  

The program belongs to the CIP code 52.0208 so students completing this certificate are eligible for a postgraduate work permit. 

Graduating from Trent this year? 

As a Trent grad, you qualify for direct admission to our Business Certificate program. To apply and register, just send a confirmation email to admissions@trentu.ca from your Trent University account. We will waive the application fee.  

Students who hold an undergraduate degree from Trent University may have a maximum of 1.0 credit (two 0.5-credit courses) from their degree applied to their postgraduate certificate program. Students entering additional postgraduate certificate programs may count a maximum of 1.0 credit (two 0.5-credit courses) toward the additional postgraduate certificate program.