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advanced methods and apply them to a topic approved by the instructor. The group project is presented orally in stages with group discussion; the individual project culminates in a written report and a brief oral presentation. Credits depend on the extent to which economic or business research methods are used in the individual project: if only business methods, 4 credits; if only economic methods, 2 credits; if a mixture of methods, 3 credits. Students concurrently enrolled in ECO 500, with which this class may meet, complete extra individual projects in economics. Prerequisites: senior standing and completion of or concurrent enrollment in all other courses required for the major.
Finance Requirements for a major in finance: ECO 211, 212 and 500; BSA 231 and 322; ECO/BSA 241 (or courses in calculus and probability approved by the major advisor), ECO/BSA 313 and 412; MTH 120; PHL 202, 241 or 245 or BSA 223 or 227; one elective course with substantial finance content, as approved by the major advisor; and one elective focused on management and strategy, as approved by the major advisor. Combinations of majors and minors: In the following combinations of majors and minors, choices of elective courses must satisfy these additional conditions: • No economics major elective course may count toward the business management major. • No more than one economics major elective course may count toward the finance major. • No course numbered 300 or above may count toward both the economic minor and a major in either business management or finance, but another economics course numbered 300 or above may be substituted for ECO 350 or 352 in the minor. • No elective course may count toward both: a business management minor and an economics major; a social enterprise or entrepreneurship minor and a finance major; minors in economics and business management; or minors in social enterprise and entrepreneurship. The following combinations of majors and minors are not permitted: • majors in both business management and finance; • a minor in business management and a major in finance; and • a major or minor in business management and a minor in either entrepreneurship or social enterprise.
Educational Studies Associate Professors Matthew D. Knoester (Chair), T. Hervé Somé; Assistant Professor Nicholas J. Eastman; Director of Teacher Education Jean M. Rigden; Cooperating Teachers in Area School Districts Departmental Mission Statement: The Department of Educational Studies promotes the disciplined study of education as a social institution that serves both