The Business and Markets specialization is focused on those pursuing leadership opportunities in the business world, as well as issues pertaining to domestic and international economic development.
Course Options
- ACCAD 5100: Concept Development for Time-Based Media
- ARTSSCI 2400: Conversations on Morality, Politics, and Society
- COMM 2110: Principles of Effective Public Speaking
- COMM 2131: Business and Professional Speaking
- COMM 2331: Strategic Communication Principles
- COMM 2367: Persuasive Communication
- COMM 3325: Introduction to Organizational Communication
- COMM 3333: Crisis Communication
- COMM 3620: Introduction to Interpersonal Communication
- COMM 4635: Communication Dynamics in Groups
- DESIGN 3105: Exploring Design Thinking
- DESIGN 3505: Presentation as Thinking
- ENGLISH 2276: Arts of Persuasion
- ENGLISH 3304: Business and Professional Writing
- ENGLISH 3395: Literature and Leadership
- ESHESA 2570: Team and Organizational Leadership
- ESHESA 2575: Student Organization Leadership Training
- FRIT 3054: The 21st-Century Skill: Intercultural Competence for Global Citizenship
- POLITSC 3785: Data Science for the Social and Behavioral Sciences
- PSYCH 2311: Psychology of Motivation
- PSYCH 2376: Interpersonal Relationships
- PSYCH 2500: Applied Psychology: Human Behavior in the Wild
- PSYCH 3325: Introduction to Social Psychology
- PSYCH 3530: Theories of Personality
- ARTSSCI 3192: Leadership Experiential Learning
- COMM 3444: Advertising and Society
- COMM 4556: Information Technology and Organizational Communication
- ECON 2001.01: Principles of Microeconomics
- ECON 4001: Intermediate Microeconomic Theory
- ECON 4130: World Economic Development in Historical Perspective
- ECON 4140: Economic History of the Americas
- ECON 4400: Elementary Econometrics
- ECON 4700: Government and Business
- GEOG 2400.01: Economic and Social Geography
- GEOG 2400.02: Economic and Social Geography: Research-Focused
- HISTORY 2010: History of American Capitalism
- HISTORY 2040: History of Agriculture and Rural America
- HISTORY 2701: History of Technology
- HISTORY 2702: Food in World History
- HISTORY 2710: History of the Car
- HISTORY 3041: American Labor History
- HISTORY 3706: Coca-Cola Globalization: The History of American Business and Global Environmental Change, 1800-Today
- INTSTDS 2500: Introduction to Development Studies
- INTSTDS 3850: Introduction to Globalization
- MATH 3618: Theory of Interest
- PHILOS 2540: Introduction to the Philosophy of Rational Choice
- POLITSC 3280: Politics of Markets
- POLITSC 3380: Political Analysis of International Economic Relations
- POLITSC 4282: The Politics of Income Inequality
- POLITSC 4285: The Comparative Politics of the Welfare State
- POLITSC 4332: Politics of Globalization
- POLITSC 4381: Comparative International Political Economy
- PSYCH 3522: Organizational Psychology
- SPANISH 3005: Career Exploration & Development with Spanish
- WGSST 4525: Feminist Critiques of Markets - Profiting from Inequality
Sample Curriculum
Core
- HISTORY 3676: Leadership in History
- PHILOS 2390: Ethics and Leadership in A Diverse World
- WGSS 4403: Gender, Race, and Leadership
- PSYCH 3522: Organizational Psychology
Skills
- COMM 2110: Principles of Effective Public Speaking
- COMM 4635: Communication Dynamics in Groups
- PSYCH 2311: Psychology of Motivation
Content
- ECON 2001.01/2001.03H: Principles of Microeconomics
- HISTORY 2010: History of American Capitalism
- INT STUDIES 3850: Introduction to Globalization
Capstone
- ASC 4676: Leadership Major Capstone