BUSN - Business Major
Program Description
Major effective prior to 2011
Modifications Made to Curriculum: Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2021, Fall 2023
The program is a liberal arts program that takes an integrated, multifaceted, interdisciplinary, and critical approach to the study and practice of business. The major is based on a set of introductory courses that provide foundational skills, a set of more advanced courses that extend those skills, and electives that span the wide range of disciplines, perspectives, and applications. The program emphasizes teamwork, critical analysis, oral, and written communication skills. Drew Business majors graduate prepared to work in diverse contexts from for profit business to non-profit, government and non-government organizations in both domestic and international settings with others from different cultures and disciplinary perspectives.
Requisites
Requirements for the Major (52 credits)
I. Introductory (16 credits)
course - Fundamentals of Business
course - Economic Principles: Microeconomics
course - Economic Principles: Macroeconomics
course - Introduction to Statistics
II. Core (20 credits)
Complete all of the following:
course - Fundamentals of Financial Accounting
course - Business Law
course - Management (WRMJ)
course - Principles of Finance OR course Principles of Marketing
course/course - Business Ethics OR course - Organizational Ethics
III. Electives (16 credits)
Elective courses are designed to further a student’s understanding of business administration in a specific context. Students are required to complete a total of 16 elective credits. A student may declare a single concentration in any of six areas: Management, International Business, Organizational Behavior, Non Profit Management, Sports Management, or Information Technology, in which case 12 of the 16 elective credits are required within that concentration. Alternatively, a student may elect not to declare a specific concentration and may instead complete 16 credits from any of the courses listed below. Other courses may count as electives by advisor petition.
WITH OPTIONAL CONCENTRATION:
A. Management (12 credits)
course - Managerial Accounting
course - Strategic Decision Making
course - Advanced Topics in Business, when topic is appropriate
B. International Business (12 credits)
course - Global Accounting
course - Cultures, Economies, and Globalization
course - Global Economy
course - International Business
course - International Business in French
course - Italian for Business
course - Global Marketing
course Chinese Politics
course - Comparative Political Economy
course - Doing Business in the Hispanic World
C. Organizational Behavior (12 credits)
course - The Future of Work
course - Anthropology of Business
course - Topics in Psychology, when topic is appropriate
course - Aviation Psychology and Management
course - Seminar in Industrial and Organizational Psychology
course - Organizational Psychology & Leadership
course - The Sociology of Management
course - Sociology of Work
D. Non-Profit Management (12 credits)
course - The Non-Profit Sector
course - Leadership in Practice
course - Political Economy of Race, Class, and Gender
course - Applied Analysis of Social Entrepreneurship
course - Social Entrepreneurship: Theorizing Global Trends
course - Performing Arts Administration
E. Sports Management (12 credits)
course - Topics in Business, when topic is appropriate
course - Sports Marketing
BST 365 - Sports Finance
course - Sports Statistics
F. Information Technology (12 credits)
course - Data & Society: The Social Impact of Data and Digital Technology
course - Business and Technology Perfect Together
course - Introduction to Computer Science in Python
course - Principles of Cybersecurity
course - Databases & Information Management
course - Computer Networks & Security
course - Applied Data Analysis
course - Business Analytics