Not a business major? You can add value to your degree with business fundamentals.
Please see your academic advisor for placement of Terry coursework within your program of study.
Accounting
- Understand basic financial statement reports, concepts and principles
- Understand basic managerial accounting systems, concepts, and principles
- Recognize accounting’s critical role in today’s economic environment
Economics
- Discover how choices affect national and global economies
- Understand economy-wide problems such as inflation and unemployment
- Study the consequences of government involvement in the economy
- Discuss choices made by people and firms in response to constraints and incentives
- Learn how scarce resources and price affect individual, firm, and market behavior
- Identify the costs and benefits managers should consider when deciding to hire, train, promote or terminate employees
- Analyze workers’ decisions to invest in human capital
- Identify the factors firms should consider in determining organizational structure and compensation schemes
Entrepreneurship
- Evaluate the advantages and risks of franchising as a growth opportunity
- Examine components of a successful franchise venture, including accounting, finance, development, and marketing methods
- Examine case studies of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial ventures
- Learn new business structures, fundraising methods, and ways to define markets
- Identify key tasks involved in creating a successful business plan and explore different ways to accomplish each task
- Develop a feasibility analysis and business plan for a prospective new venture
Finance
- Introduction to the economic concept of capitalism
- Study capitalism and other alternative societal mechanisms for resource allocation, including socialism and a mixed economy
- Readings of both critical and supportive of capitalism as an economic system, including moral, efficiency, and ethical views
Leadership
- Identify individual opportunities to build skills, knowledge and insights useful in leadership roles
- Recognize qualities associated with effective leadership
- Learn techniques for motivating employees
ILAD 5160s: Inclusive Leadership
- Learn how to successfully manage diverse groups of people, working toward a common goal.
- Understand the importance of fostering an inclusive climate within your organization
Music Business
- Obtain the skills necessary to begin and maintain a career in the music industry
- Know the fundamental concepts of business practices in the music industry
- Learn practical applications of classroom knowledge to the music business environment
- Gain the business fundamentals you need to navigate the music industry
- Learn how business concepts apply to the various fields in the music industry
- Understand fundamental approaches to business issues
Real Estate
- Learn and apply basic business principles including finance, economics, and law
- Examine the role of real estate within the economy and its importance to firms and individuals
Risk Management and Insurance
- Know how to identify and evaluate risk management principles critical to any business professional
- Recognize risk management’s important role in the growing concern over catastrophe and financial risks
- Explore career opportunities in the field of risk management and insurance