Core Curriculum

The curriculum for the Business Administration track builds a solid foundation covering all the functional areas of business such as accounting, management, marketing, and finance. This program provides all the standard prerequisites for continuation into the MBA program, while simultaneously providing students with a curriculum to prepare them for entry and promotion into a rapidly changing business and professional environment

LNG 242 Cross Cultural Communication 4 semester credits
An exploration of the ways in which cultural factors including rituals, attitudes, values, beliefs, behavior, and cultural assumptions affect communication. Topics include models of cultural effect, relationship of dominant and non-dominant cultures, religions, traditions, para-language, non-verbal communication, chronemics, and proxemics.

BUS 201 Management Development Portfolio 2 semester credits
A focus on personal development and learning. The student will complete several self-assessment instruments and an instrument focusing on assessing management competencies. Students will explore models related to principle-based time management and executive development. Students will subsequently craft an individual detailed development plan intended to connect their career goals, academic program, and co-curricular involvements.

COM 303 Organizational Communication 4 semester credits
Communication theory in organizational contexts is studied with emphasis on classical structural theory, transitional theories and contemporary theories. Organizational communication perspectives on topics such as organizational climate, information flow, decision making and power are stressed.

THL 113 Basic Christian Beliefs 4 semester credits
A study of the essential truths of Christianity from the perspective of the Roman Catholic tradition: revelation, Trinity, grace, salvation, sacraments, and eschatology.

MTH 140 Introduction to Statistics 4 semester credits
An introduction to the basic concepts and computations used in statistical analysis. Topics include the description of data graphically and numerically, the collection of data via samples and experiments, and the process of drawing inferences or conclusions from data.

ECN 201 Economics for Managers 4 semester credits
A study of microeconomics and its relevance to managerial decisions in for-profit and not-for-profit enterprises. Topics covered include demand and supply analysis, production and cost analysis, market structure and firm behavior, profit analysis, pricing practices, economic analysis of capital projects, and the legal and regulatory environment of business.

AIS 210 Accounting for Financial Decision Making 4 semester credits
A study of basic concepts and fundamentals underlying the measurement, valuation, analysis, and communication of financial accounting to external users for decision making and problem solving.

AIS 220 Accounting for Managerial Decision Making 4 semester credits
A study of basic concepts and fundamentals underlying the planning, controlling, and communicating of managerial accounting information to internal users for decision making and problem solving.

HUM 210 Liberal Studies II 4 semester credits
This course deals with the great works from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries with special emphasis on the Dominican intellectual tradition and its contributions to the pursuit of truth.

BUS 221 International Marketing 4 semester credits
This course focuses on theory and practice of marketing across international borders with an emphasis on the development of appropriate marketing strategies applicable to foreign socioeconomic and cultural environments.

BUS 325 Managerial Finance 4 semester credits
A study of the forms of business organization, the financial organization of business activities, and financial decision theory.

FIN 310 Investments 4 semester credits
Providing a solid foundation for success in the field of investments, this course focuses on the useful and practical implications of financial theory. The usefulness of financial theory lies in the framework it provides for characterizing and predicting tock and bond returns. The major focus of the course is on stocks, bonds, and financial derivatives, such as options, futures, and futures options.

BUS 355 Organizational Behavior and Group Dynamics 4 semester credits
Managerial effectiveness is significantly related to the capacity to understand and act on factors related to individual, structural, and group dynamics in an organization. This course focuses on the impact that individuals, groups, and structure have on behavior within an organization. Furthermore, it explores the relationship between these factors and individual and organizational performance. While generally focusing on foundations of individual and group behavior, specific topics include motivation, job satisfaction, perception, decision making, power and politics, communication, culture, and organizational structure.

BUS/PHL 348G Thematic Studies - Business Ethics 4 semester credits
A study of ethical theory and principles applied to contemporary problems in business. Special emphasis is on the intersection of business, ethics, law, and public policy.

BUS 498 Organizational Strategies 4 semester credits
A capstone experience that offers the integration of all courses taken in business administration, economics, finance, and accounting. This course focuses extensively on business policy and strategy decisions.

ENG 348C Thematic Studies: Biographic Arts 4 semester credits
The study of life writings from antiquity to the present with attention to the contribution each individual has made as an artist and historian. The course explores the interplay between fiction adn non-fiction writing.

For those who have started the BUS 201 course, you will take Cross Cultural Communication course at the end of the sequence.