Business and Markets
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
- WGSS 3303: 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