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Degrees
There are many pathways to a career in business, economics, or entrepreneurship.
Upcoming Courses:
Interdisciplinary courses are being developed specifically for the business curriculum. Topics include an exploration of the culture and narratives of industrialism, an evaluation of the impact of modernization, and applying the ideas from The Art of War to today’s corporations.
School of Business
The School of Business combines an interdisciplinary business curriculum with personalized career services to set you apart in the labor market and prepare you to enter the world of business or to launch startups.
Majors
The business management major is designed for students who want to understand how economic organizations function and who want to run economic organizations: for-profit firms, not-for-profit firms, and governmental organizations. The major has the analytical core of microeconomics and macroeconomics.
Graduates will be equipped to participate in the operation of all forms of economic organizations, to work in the financial services sector, to pursue professional programs, and/or to start their own businesses.
- Ten departmental units (6 of which must be Beloit College units):
Recommended courses for all Business Management majors: PRAX 202, Interdisciplinary Studies 313, Sociology 285, Philosophy 100, Mathematics 110.
The quantitative economics major enables students to use elements of mathematics to model scenarios in microeconomics and macroeconomics. It teaches students empirical techniques that enable them to test hypotheses emerging from the underlying micro and macro theory by using data drawn from individual firms and entire economies around the world. Through their course choices, students can observe quantitative comparisons between benefits and costs in a variety of contexts that range from the environment to health, gender, labor, and systems for organizing economic activity.
- Ten departmental units (6 of which must be Beloit College units):
- Economics 199, 211, 212, 251, 303, 305 or 306, 380.
- One from Economics 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 209, 210, 220, and 271 (if the subject of this topics course is pertinent).
- Two elective units from Economics 235, 245, 301, 302, and any of the courses not used to satisfy the preceding requirement [Economics 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 209, 210, 220, 271 (if the subject of this topics course is pertinent), 304, 305, 306].
- Supporting courses (3 units):
- Three units from Mathematics 110 or 113, 115, 205, 275, 290, 300, and 310.
Minors
- One unit of Economics 199.
- One unit of Economics 251.
- One unit of Business 301.
- One unit of Anthropology 100.
- One unit of Anthropology 208.
- One unit of Business 302.
Students may not count more than 2 units from the above listed minor requirements for their major.
- Introductory economics: Economics 199.
- Business courses: Business 220 and 230.
- Statistics course: One unit of an introductory statistics course such as Mathematics 106, Biology 247, Economics 251, Sociology 205, Psychology 161, Health and Society/Political Science 201, or another statistics course by permission of instructor.
- Two units from Media Studies 150, Art 125, 280 (when topic is UX Design), 325, Museum Studies 285.
Students may count up to 3 units from the above listed minor requirements for their major.
- Disciplinary perspective, either
- Business courses: Business 216 and 220.
- Sports management and leadership courses: Business 255 and 260.
Students may count up to 3 units from the above listed minor requirements for their major.