Coursework
Spring 2022
Honors Business Communications
Business Communications is a writing–intensive, workplace–oriented course designed to help students develop and refine the oral, written, and analytical skills necessary to communicate effectively in professional settings.
Data and Analytics
Data and Analytics provides a foundation for designing database systems and analyzing business data to enhance firm competitiveness. Concepts introduced in this course aim to develop an understanding of the different types of business data, various analytical approaches, and application of these approaches to solve business problems. Students will have hands-on experience with current, cutting-edge tools such as MySQL, MongoDB and Python.
Honors Introduction to Risk Management
This course aims to equip students with an understanding of the principles which will aid in their understanding of the evolving nature of risk management and insurance and how these concepts will continue to impact firms and the individuals.
Introduction to Marketing Management
In this course, students are introduced to the fundamentals of Marketing. The class challenges students to explore the business implications of marketing and to apply their understanding to real–world situations.
Web Application Development
This hands-on programming course uses open source software to provide students with an understanding of programming fundamentals. This class is designed to develop individual proficiency and reward individual achievement as students develop the skills necessary to create solutions that interact with web APIs.
Fall 2021
Exploring Music
In this course, students will learn how to listen to music on deeper and more nuanced levels and explore its roles within the wider contexts of historical and contemporary societies.
Financial Accounting
Financial Accounting is the first course in the introductory accounting sequence. It is an overview of accounting for use by the firm and by users outside of the firm. Students cover the basics of double entry accounting.
Honors Intellectual Heritage
The Intellectual Heritage seminars are designed to encourage students to discover and to debate fundamental questions of human experience, to face different values and viewpoints fairly, and to examine the present in relation to the past.
Honors Legal Environment of Business
This course will introduce students to the essential aspects of law with an emphasis on the legal environment of business. Students learn the basics of contract, tort, property, and administrative law as well as international law.
Professional Development Strategies
Professional Development Strategies seeks to prepare students to enter the internship and permanent job marketplace. Emphasis on career planning, interview preparation (including behavioral event interviewing), expected behaviors and legal issues.
Honors Statistical Business Analytics
Statistical Business Analytics (STAT 2103/2903) is a required Business Quantitative Core course designed to introduce students to contemporary elementary applied quantitative methods.
Spring 2021
Honors Digital Systems
Students will explore the systems which organizations use to create their digital products, including the platforms which these systems are built upon and the API ecosystem by which systems extend their reach and capability. Students will discuss cyber-security including the risks and responses that surround our digital products. Finally, in this Age of Software, students will be introduced to the creation of software by learning the basics of programming in JavaScript.
Doing Justice
This course is a General Education course that explores the pressures faced on Justice Agencies. Students explore these pressures by focusing on certain historical and current events, most of which occurred in Philadelphia from 1925-2020.
Honors Microeconomic Principles
This course presents an introduction to microeconomics. A basic understanding of the ideas presented in this class will be useful in understanding what is happening in the economy and provide a basis for further study in economics.
Quantitative Methods for Business II
The overarching theme of this class is to prepare students to be proficient in areas of quantitative analysis, and to use those skills to solve relevant business applications. Excel will be used to reinforce topics and present solutions
Representing Race
This course will examine a wide range of representations of African people and cultures in film, literature, scientific and legal writings, popular culture and artistic expression.
Fall 2020
Analytical Reading and Writing
Analytical Reading and Writing is a foundational course in the General Education program. The goal of this course is to introduce students to the challenges and pleasures of college writing.
Leadership and Organizational Management
Leadership and Organizational Management is an introductory level Human Resources Management course that is designed to introduce students to basic management tactics.
Macroeconomic Principles
The main goal of this is to learn as much as possible about how the economy works, how people talk about it, and some of the language and ideas of those discussions.
Quantitative Methods for Business I
The overarching theme of this class is to solidify foundational quantitative and excel skills and use those skills to solve relevant business applications.
Technological Horizons
In this course, students discuss the global impact of technology on people and how people can similarly impact the development of future technologies. To do this, the course introduces the critical and computational thinking that goes into evaluating and solving a problem and then implementing the solution using computer technology.