Undergraduate
ACCOUNTING (Associate & Bachelor level)
The Accounting major is designed to prepare students to pursue careers in public accounting, corporate accounting, non-profit accounting, and other financial careers. The Accounting program objectives are to provide accounting graduates with a basic understanding of accounting principles (Financial, Managerial, Taxation, and Auditing) such that they are able to prepare, analyze, and communicate accounting information. (The Associate degree in Accounting takes three years to complete.)
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (Associate & Bachelor level)
The Business Administration major provides students with a firm understanding of the differing skills (accounting, finance, marketing, and management) required to be successful in today’s competitive business environment. The Business Administration program is designed to provide students with the flexibility to pursue personal interests while acquiring the skill sets necessary to pursue a career in business.
SPORTS MANAGEMENT (Bachelor level)
The Sports Management major is designed to provide students with the skills to pursue careers in the management of profit and not-for-profit sport enterprises. The Sports Management program provides graduates with the skills to effectively plan, coordinate, and develop strategic plans to effectively manage the physical and human resources to conduct an effective profit or not-for profit sporting activity.
ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP (ACCEL)
The Bachelor of Arts Degree in Organizational Leadership, a program designed specifically for adult learners, was created for experienced individuals as a catalyst for career advancement. This unique curriculum contains 14 modules that are scheduled sequentially over a period of three semesters and have a combined value of 42 semester hours. The term modules signifies the integrated nature of this curriculum; it is not a collection of independent courses. Each module is taken with a group of students who remain together throughout the 18 months of the program. The program’s learning outcomes are designed to enhance communication, understanding of management principles and processes, decision-making and problem-solving skills and lifelong learning.
MINOR IN ACCOUNTING
The Accounting minor provides students with a basic understanding of accounting principles.
MINOR IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
The Business Administration minor provides non-business majors with a basic understanding of the art of decision-making and organizational leadership.
MINOR IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP
The Entrepreneurship minor provides non-business majors with the specialized background necessary to market the knowledge acquired in other disciplines in a business or commercial environment; it also provides the non-major with a basic understanding of major subject fields in business, thereby facilitating their transition into the world of business.
MINOR IN MARKETING
The Marketing minor provides students with a basic understanding of the “4-P’s” (product, price, promotion, and place) of marketing.
Internship
The Division of Business encourages students to participate in one or more internship experiences. The internship experience provides students with an excellent opportunity to synthesize the theories and methodologies comprising their academic experience with the contemporary trends of the marketplace. The internship is a three- or six-credit experience that can be applied to the electives within each Business major, with the exception of Resort and Recreation Management where nine credits of internship are required. The Division encourages all of its students to participate in an internship provided they meet the following standards of performance:
- Cumulative average of 2.0 or higher in Business courses;
- Junior/Senior standing; and
- Completed a majority of the requirements for the major.
