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  • 1.  Intro to Business class?

    Posted 10-15-2012 19:49

    I'm reviewing some of the requirements in our undergraduate business degree program, and trying to find any AACSB accredited programs which require an intro to business course.  If you are teaching in a program with such a requirement, would you please let me know?  I'm curious to know what kind of faculty discussion might have precipitated including such a requirement, and/or whether you find this course to be helpful to your students.  I know that many community colleges offer such an intro course and encourage those students interested in pursuing a business degree at a four year institution to take it.  But I'm not familiar with four year institutions that require it.

     

    Conversely, if you are teaching in a program which has actively decided against including an introduction to business course as part of the curriculum, I'd love to hear from you as well.  Do you know the rationale for such a decision? 

     

    Feel free to respond to me offline.  I'm happy to compile responses and share them with the list.

     

    Thanks,

    Denise

     

    Denise Daniels, Ph.D.
    Associate Dean

    School of Business & Economics
    Seattle Pacific University
    Phone: (206) 281-2243

     



  • 2.  Intro to Business class?

    Posted 10-16-2012 19:30
    We have an intro to business course. The decision was taken by a committee.  The reasoning was that students as freshmen knew little or nothing about business so they would not know how to relate any courses they took to a business situation.  Second, when they started taking business courses, they would have a better chance of understanding the value of that material in the course (e.g., accounting, finance, operations and so on).

    Mark Fichman
    On 10/15/2012 7:48 PM, Daniels, Denise wrote:
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    I'm reviewing some of the requirements in our undergraduate business degree program, and trying to find any AACSB accredited programs which require an intro to business course.  If you are teaching in a program with such a requirement, would you please let me know?  I'm curious to know what kind of faculty discussion might have precipitated including such a requirement, and/or whether you find this course to be helpful to your students.  I know that many community colleges offer such an intro course and encourage those students interested in pursuing a business degree at a four year institution to take it.  But I'm not familiar with four year institutions that require it.

     

    Conversely, if you are teaching in a program which has actively decided against including an introduction to business course as part of the curriculum, I'd love to hear from you as well.  Do you know the rationale for such a decision? 

     

    Feel free to respond to me offline.  I'm happy to compile responses and share them with the list.

     

    Thanks,

    Denise

     

    Denise Daniels, Ph.D.
    Associate Dean

    School of Business & Economics
    Seattle Pacific University
    Phone: (206) 281-2243

     


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  • 3.  Intro to Business class?

    Posted 10-17-2012 03:50
    Mark,
     
    In response to this discussion, is it possible to share your syllabus and also any textbook(s) that you are using?   I am rewriting the course at Concordia University in Portland and I am intereted in what the curriculum design is at other universities.

    peace,

     

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    On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Mark Fichman <mf4f@cmu.edu> wrote:
    We have an intro to business course. The decision was taken by a committee.  The reasoning was that students as freshmen knew little or nothing about business so they would not know how to relate any courses they took to a business situation.  Second, when they started taking business courses, they would have a better chance of understanding the value of that material in the course (e.g., accounting, finance, operations and so on).

    Mark Fichman
    On 10/15/2012 7:48 PM, Daniels, Denise wrote:

    I'm reviewing some of the requirements in our undergraduate business degree program, and trying to find any AACSB accredited programs which require an intro to business course.  If you are teaching in a program with such a requirement, would you please let me know?  I'm curious to know what kind of faculty discussion might have precipitated including such a requirement, and/or whether you find this course to be helpful to your students.  I know that many community colleges offer such an intro course and encourage those students interested in pursuing a business degree at a four year institution to take it.  But I'm not familiar with four year institutions that require it.

     

    Conversely, if you are teaching in a program which has actively decided against including an introduction to business course as part of the curriculum, I'd love to hear from you as well.  Do you know the rationale for such a decision? 

     

    Feel free to respond to me offline.  I'm happy to compile responses and share them with the list.

     

    Thanks,

    Denise

     

    Denise Daniels, Ph.D.
    Associate Dean

    School of Business & Economics
    Seattle Pacific University
    Phone: (206) 281-2243

     


    --  Mark Fichman     325 Tepper School of Business    Carnegie-Mellon University    Pittsburgh PA 15213-3815     mf4f@cmu.edu    412-268-3699 (office)    412-874-2893 (mobile)      Home page URL: http://www.gsia.cmu.edu/andrew/mf4f/home.html