International Trade
Examines the bases of trading among nations with emphasis on resources, foreign exchange, balance of payments, investments, tariffs, import quotas, export controls, nationalism, free trade, protectionism, and the institutions aiding in world trade.
Introduction To Entrepreneurship
Students will begin to identify and study the key characteristics and approaches of people who embrace an entrepreneurial way of living and working. Our key learning focus is to understand what is required to create and grow successful enterprises. We will also discuss how entrepreneurship dynamics affect the entrepreneur’s family and businesses.
Financial Management
Study of the theoretical and conceptual framework that the financial manager uses to reach decisions. Particular emphasis is given to the finance function and its relevance to the management of an enterprise. Analysis, problem-solving techniques and decision-making tools are emphasized.
Introduction to Art
A survey of visual media, past and present, with particular emphasis on expressionism and realism and how they mirror society. Technique as well as theory is discussed.
European Literature/ Honors Seminar
A survey of the European Literature of the 20th Century, mainly through the interpretation of short stories by the most significant European authors. Literary criticism will be applied to various European literary movements (expressionism, existentialism, post-modernism...)
Business Law
Basic principles of law applicable to the business world, emphasizing contracts and sales, as well as period after sales, bailments, negotiable instruments, agency, partnerships, corporations, insurance, and real estate.
International Management
This course focuses on the management challenges associated with developing strategies and managing operations of enterprises whose activities stretch across national boundaries. It examines the international firm with special emphasis on the accounting/financial function and the management of resources and production.
Strategic Planning
Explores a broad range of managerial decisions and actions, which bear on the total business enterprise. The center of attention is the organization as a whole - the environment in which it operates, the direction in which it is headed, how it plans to get there and the full scope of its internal activities.
Statistics I
This course provides an introduction to business statistics. Topics include displaying data in tables and graphs, describing data with numerical measures, concepts of probability related to discrete and continuous probability distributions, sampling distributions and confidence interval estimates.
Statistics II
This course is a continuation of and builds upon the concepts covered in statistics I. It includes hypothesis testing of proportions, means and variances of one and two populations, including matched pairs. Correlation and regression, chi-square tests, and analysis of variance are also covered. Appropriate technology and/or software will be required.
Philosophy of Enterprise
This course deals with advanced philosophical topics relating to the role of values, freedom, property rights, enterprise, trade and finance, in the evolution of enterprise. Special attention is given to the results of the interactions of all factors.
