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