Academic Bulletin 2024-2025 
    
    Dec 06, 2024  
Academic Bulletin 2024-2025

Business Major


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Faculty: Nonnenmacher (Chair) Allison, Bianco, A. Finaret, C. Finaret, Lv, Navarro-Sanchez, Onyeiwu, Ormiston, Sun, Waugh, Yusuf

The Business major is a program in the Social and Behavioral Science Area of Study. Business majors may not double major or minor in Economics.

Business Major Learning Outcomes

Students who successfully complete a Business major will:

  •  Demonstrate the business fundamentals needed to understand the economic environment, the internal functioning, and the ethical management of business.
  • Communicate business and economic arguments clearly and persuasively using both technical and non-technical language.
  • Analyze qualitative and quantitative data to describe, interpret, and predict patterns in business behavior and performance.
  • Evaluate complex business problems using business and economic theory, tools, and reasoning.

The Business Major

The Business major, consisting of 52 credits in Business, leads to the Bachelor of Arts degree. At graduation, Business majors must have a GPA of at least 2.0 in the major. All major courses taken for a letter grade at Allegheny are included in the calculation, with the exception of repeated courses. Only the most recent grade is considered for courses that have been repeated. All courses required for the major must be taken for a letter grade except one of the introductory courses (ECON 100  or ECON 101 ).   A maximum of 12 transfer credits may be counted toward the major; exceptions must be approved by the department chair.. 

Requirements


One Course in Applied Quantitative Techniques


Sustainability and Business


Take two courses from the following themes, one from each category. Students are also expected to complete a department-approved experiential learning activity.

Experiential Learning


Through advising, students will be guided to select an appropriate experiential learning activity to satisfy this expectation. Students are required to obtain the approval of their advisors before embarking on any of the experiential learning activities to be counted under this expectation.

Seminar


  • (ECON 570-ECON 589). Typically taken in the first semester of the senior year.

The Senior Project


Note:


Students intending to major in Business are advised that ECON 200 , ECON 201 ECON 202  and ECON 440  are calculus-based, and have MATH 140  or MATH 151  as prerequisites.

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