(Choose one) 15 credits

Finance

The finance concentration can help you obtain employment as a financial analyst, cost engineer, securities analyst, and commercial or investment banking officer in business, financial institutions, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations. Coursework covers global financial markets and banking, financial management of domestic and foreign corporations, financial risk evaluation, and securities and portfolio analysis.

• Advanced Financial Management or Advanced Corporate Finance
• Financial Markets and Institutions or Money and Banking
• Securities Analysis and Investments or Portfolio Management
• Cost Accounting
• And additional courses such as:
  • International Finance
  • Principles of Insurance
  • Risk Control
  • Risk Management Concepts and Applications

General Accounting

The accounting concentration covers managerial and public accounting methods. Learn to develop financial systems that help plan and control business activities, and prepare to work independently or with auditing firms to establish the credibility of financial reports and provide expertise in taxation policies and regulations. Career fields include controllership, corporate or managerial accounting, public accounting, internal auditing, and consulting.

• Intermediate Accounting I
• Intermediate Accounting II
• Cost Accounting
• Individual and Corporate Taxation (United States Taxation)
• Auditing

General Business

If you don’t want to earn a finance, accounting, human resource management, or logistics management concentration, you can instead select five business electives.

Logistics Management

Study the strategic and analytic processes involved with procurement, inventory control, management, coordination, maintenance, transportation, and distribution of goods and services. Focus on supply chain and project management concepts, risk management, quality control, warehousing, and distribution, and learn to prioritize cost reduction, risk, and maximized profits for logistics operations. Prepare for jobs in production planning, inventory management, manufacturing management, global distribution, and logistics management, and employment in any organization whose success depends on global fulfillment.

• Business Supply Chain Management
• Lean Logistics
• Transportation, Warehousing, and Distribution
• Two of the following courses:
  • Purchasing
  • Inventory Management
  • Operations Management
  • Quality Control
  • Project Management

Management of Human Resources

Learn to manage individuals and groups in corporations, government agencies, and nonprofits and create a work environment in which employees and the organization achieve their performance goals. Employment opportunities in this area fall in fields such as human resource management, labor and industrial relations, and personnel administration.

• Managing Human Resources
• Managing Diversity in the Workplace
• Three of the following courses:
  • International Human Resource Management
  • Labor Relations
  • Women in Business
  • Business Leadership
  • Recruitment and Selection
  • Human Resource Technology

Marketing

Learn the activities and strategies that shift products and services from vendors to consumers and how to use research to forecast trends and analyze markets. Gain insight into and evaluate consumer behavior and promotional policy and determine any ethical implications. This concentration prepares you for the marketing manager role, working at tactical and strategic levels within organizations.

• Consumer Behavior
• Marketing Management
• Market Research
• Additional credit from such courses as adverting, distribution channels management, international marketing, retail/wholesale management, sales management, and other related courses with approval.