艾尔伯塔商学院通过其国际商务研究中心（CIBS），与现代语言文化研究系艺术学院合作，开发出这一创新独特的专业。它旨在培养具有现代商界所需所有功能性技巧的商业毕业生，并与欧洲一种或多种语言的语言专业知识和欧洲政治、历史、经济和文化知识相结合。欧盟对加拿大的国际贸易和投资机会的重要性是众所周知的。东欧新兴机遇与西欧已有的模式相结合，为商学生提供一个新的，富饶的学习领域。该专业的学生可以选择专门从事以下方向之一：法语，德语，意大利语，波兰语，俄语，斯堪的纳维亚语（丹麦语/挪威语/瑞典语），西班牙语或乌克兰语。
The Alberta School of Business, through its Centre for International Business Studies (CIBS), and in cooperation with the Faculty of Arts, Department of Modern Languages & Cultural Studies, has developed this innovative and unique program. It is designed to produce Business graduates with all the functional skills required by the modern business world and couple that with language expertise in one or more of the languages of Europe and knowledge of the politics, history, economics and culture of Europe. The importance of the European Union to Canada for both international trade and investment opportunities is well known. Emerging opportunities in Eastern Europe combine with established patterns in Western Europe to provide a new and fertile area of study for the business student. Students in this major can choose to specialize in one of the following streams: French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Scandinavian (Danish/Norwegian/Swedish), Spanish or Ukrainian.