Business and Markets

Market graph on a monitor


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