School of Business

Below, click on the academic program and learn about what students will know, be able to do or be able to demonstrate after completing the program.

Accounting and Business Law Department

Accounting BS

After completing our program, students will:

  • be aware of the ethical responsibilities of accounting professionals.
  • write effective and concise professional reports that are technically correct.
  • demonstrate knowledge and practical use of technology employed by accounting professionals.
  • possess the technical functional knowledge demanded of accounting professionals.
  • demonstrate proficiency in the core business disciplines of accounting, finance, marketing, management, economics and quantitative management.
  • possess the technical functional knowledge demanded of accounting professionals as related to Cost Accounting.

Economics Department

Economics BS/Minor

After completing our program, students will:

  •  demonstrate understanding of the major economic problems facing society and the policy alternatives which may be utilized to contend with these problems.
  • demonstrate the ability to draw insights about economic behavior from the application of mathematical tools.
  • demonstrate the ability to access existing knowledge by retrieving, assembling, and organizing information on particular topics and issues in economics.
  • demonstrate the ability to clearly communicate the analysis of an economic issue.

Finance Department

(SLOs)
  • Finance BS/Minor

    After completing our program, students will:

    • demonstrate, through the use of modeling and emerging technologies, quantitative fluency ability and computational skills to solve financial problems.
    • demonstrate proficiency in both written and verbal presentation skills. 
    • integrate knowledge from supporting disciplines of statistics, economics, accounting, management, and math, adding to their knowledge bases and skill sets to holistically analyze financial issues.
  • Commercial Real Estate Finance BS/Minor

    After completing our program, students will:

    • demonstrate their ability to effectively use technology to analyze data in REAL 490 on their projects.
    • demonstrate their quantitative fluency.
    • demonstrate their ability to effectively synthesize material from across their  REAL 490 Real Estate Feasibility in their final Excel project and one final exam question.  We will also examine some of the ETS results.

Hospitality and Tourism Department

Hospitality and Tourism Management BS/Minor

After completing our program, students will:

  • demonstrate effective writing and establish decisive verbal and non-verbal ability through the development and defense of hospitality/tourism scenarios via allied cases, documentation and business plans. 
  • document real-world business computational and analysis expertise (i.e. balance sheet and sources and uses of funds, income and cash-flow statements).
  • articulate and respond to social, ethical, environmental and economic challenges at local, national and international levels through participation in an ethics case study with follow up exercises that highlights why ethical people often engage in unethical behavior in a business setting.
  • weigh changing environmental trends, unsolved problems and gaps for relevance in the marketplace.
  • efficiently synthesize principles of hospitality/ tourism, finance, management, marketing, primary and secondary research, economics and accounting.

Management and Marketing Department

(SLOs)
  • Business Administration BS/Minor

    After completing our program, students will:

    • demonstrate the ability, via both written and spoken word, to effectively present, critique, and defend ideas in a cogent, persuasive manner.
    • have the ability to use technologies to communicate and evaluate information and create content. 
    • integrate knowledge from multiple disciplines incorporating learning from both classroom and non-classroom settings in the completion of complex and comprehensive tasks.
    • demonstrate discipline specific knowledge across general business courses.
  • Business Applications of Weather and Climate Minor

    After completing our program, students will:

    •  TBD
  • Entrepreneurship Minor

    After completing our program, students will:

    • understand knowledge of the context, concepts, and process of entrepreneurship.
    • demonstrate an understanding of the customer development / lean startup process as a method of searching for product-market fit.
    • demonstrate effective communication skills through elevator pitches and feedback on other teams' pitches.
  • Healthcare and Medical Services Management

    After completing our program, students will:

    •  understand legal and ethical issues governing healthcare at local, state and federal levels
  • International Business BS

    After completing our program, students will:

    • achieve a basic understanding of ethics and corporate social responsibility as it relates to international business.
    • demonstrate proficiency in both oral and written communication through the preparation and presentation of international business projects
    • demonstrate proficiency in the core business disciplines of accounting, finance, marketing, management, economics and quantitative management
  • Leadership for Sustainability Minor

    After completing our program, students will:

    • recall leadership theory.
    • apply leadership theory to influence stakeholders.
    • identify barriers and catalysts to sustainability in organizations.
  • Management BS/Minor

    After completing our program, students will:

    • demonstrate proficiency in the core business disciplines of accounting, marketing, management, economics, and quantitative methods.
    • develop an understanding of how to sustain a competitive advantage through management and leadership.
    • will apply management concepts to organizational situations.
  • Marketing BS

    After completing our program, students will:

    • develop an understanding of how to evaluate a firm's operative environment and how to sustain a competitive advantage through marketing activities.
    • develop an understanding of how to generate superior value for customers and other stakeholders by designing the optimum configuration of the marketing mix.
    • demonstrate proficiency in the core business disciplines of accounting, marketing, management, economics and quantitative methods.
    • demonstrate proficiency in both oral and written communication through the preparation and presentation of marketing projects.
    • demonstrate competency in logical reasoning and data analysis skills.
  • Project Management Minor/Certificate

    After completing our program, students will:

    • understand the tools and processes used to manage projects
  • Bachelor of Professional Studies

    After completing our program, students will:

    • be able to apply various approaches to creative and innovative idea generations and demonstrate knowledge of strategies to leverage ideas for community and organizational change.
    • learn and apply critical thinking and structured problem solving within personal, business, community and global contexts.
    • be able to work within a team and contribute meaningfully to team development.
    • understand the principles of multi-level organizational coaching approaches.
    • understand legal and ethical issues governing healthcare at local, state and federal levels.
    • understand the tools and processes used to manage projects.

Supply Chain and Information Management Department

(SLOs)
  • Information Management Minor

    After completing our program, students will:

    • demonstrate the ability to leverage current technology-based tools, quantitative models, and complex information to solve business-related problems.
    • demonstrate the ability to leverage current technology-based tools to acquire, store, retrieve, and analyze organizational information.
    • demonstrate proficiency in both oral and written communication through the preparation and presentation of technology-driven information management projects.
  • Supply Chain Management BS

    After completing our program, students will:

    • use quantitative models in solving business-related problems in the field of supply chain management.
    • demonstrate proficiency in the core areas of the supply chain management discipline within a global context.
    • use current technology-based tools to acquire, store, retrieve, and analyze supply chain related information.
    • demonstrate proficiency in both oral and written communication through the preparation and presentation of supply chain related projects.