Learning Outcomes

At the completion of the undergraduate business major, all students will have the following skills:

• Analytic skills, including decision making and problem solving in business settings, in addition to the theortical comprehension of basic business, economics and financial concepts
• Asessing organization performance in terms of operations and financial measures
• Written, oral, and public business communication skills.
• Computer skills involving financial, presentation, statistically, and writing software.
• Information literacy
• Interpersonal skills, especially in business settings
• Leadership skills:  setting direction, creating vision and motivation
• Developing and/or honing a professional identity:  understanding the role of ethics in business, and professional roles
• Understanding or team dynamics and organizational behavior
• Quantitative reasoning
• Basic understanding of business skills and knowledge: finance, accounting, law, marketing, etc.
• In addition, each chosen major has its own stated outcomes.
• Accounting undergraduate majors have the following discipline specific outcomes:
• preparing financial statements
• preparing business budgets
• financial reporting and analysis
• cost analysis, tax returns, case law
• Marketing majors have the following specific outcomes:
• preparing marketing and marketing research plans
• designing strategic marketing plans
• analyzing and critiquing marketing plans
• identifying global marketing issues and identifying relevant cultural and ethnic issues
• designing and conducting focus groups
• International business majors have the following specific outcomes:
• developing international business strategies; identifying global business issues, and understanding the role of governments in international business
• understanding cultural effect on business behavior
• Economics majors have the following specific outcomes:
• understand how economic models are constructed and gain theoretical building blocks useful for advanced economic electives
• identify and discuss economic concepts in published material