Business and Economics

Business Learning Outcomes

Students who successfully complete a Business major will:

• Gain a deep knowledge of the managerial and business concepts typically used by the business and nonprofit world.

• Acquire the tools, skills, and competencies needed to solve practical problems faced by business organizations and nonprofit institutions.

• Understand some of the mechanisms and conduits through which business can contribute to social welfare, including business ethics, public policy corporate responsibility, corporate citizenship, and environmental sustainability.

• Gain the ability to read, evaluate and interpret financial statements.

• Significantly improve their ability to communicate business information, as well as write business reports that are intelligible to a lay audience.

• Through experiential learning programs, recognize the relationship between business and society by learning about contentious issues in society and the global economy.

Business majors are required to have a GPA of at least 2.0 in the major. Only courses taken at Allegheny on a letter grade basis are included in the GPA calculation. For repeated courses, only the most recent grade is included. All courses required for the major must be taken on a letter grade basis except one of the introductory courses (ECON 100 or ECON 101). Students may present a total of 12 semester hours of transfer credit toward the major; exceptions must be approved by the department chair.

The major in Business leads to the Bachelor of Arts degree and requires successful completion of at least 52 semester credit hours of coursework, distributed as follows, and a department-approved experiential learning activity.