Business

The Business Department's mission is to enable students to gain an excellent education that will equip them with the competencies defined as the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values that are crucial to understanding and operating in the changing international and technological world of business.  Students receive individual advising and have the opportunity to engage in group projects, internships, independent study, and study abroad.  It is the intention of the business faculty that our graduates will be life-long learners who will go on to lead productive and fulfilling lives.  

By successfully completing a major or minor in business, a student will be able to understand themselves and the environment in which they work and live. Specifically, they will be able to apply their competencies in organizations or as entrepreneurs in the global business environment. Graduates will be able to:

• Think and reason independently, creatively and analytically, applying these abilities to a range of business situations and relationships.
• Apply the developing technologies and analytical techniques required to be successful in modern business.
• Understand the disciplines that underlie the practice of business such as economics, law, mathematics, psychology, sociology and statistics.
• Understand and be able to apply the basic business disciplines such as accounting, finance, human resource management, operations management and marketing.
• Understand ethical and socially responsible decision-making.
• Develop and apply interpersonal skills for effective and productive individual and team relationships, internally in organizations and externally in business relationships.
• Understand what organizations are seeking in future managerial and professional personnel and the skills and strategies that can be used to meet those requirements.