Undergraduate Studies

Accounting

The purpose of the major is to prepare students for careers in accounting and to provide exceptionally strong preparation for the CPA and CMA exams

Management

St. Scholastica's management major (often referred to as a business major) helps develop these skills through a unique design that emphasizes liberal learning along with practical business skills. Each student completes a liberal arts core as well as a management core that covers areas such as marketing, finance, accounting, human resource management, economics, ethics and strategic planning.

Marketing

The Marketing major helps students develop the knowledge and skills needed to construct marketing strategies and activities that can be applied in large corporations, small businesses, or a retail environment.

Marketing students will study topics including product design, customer relations, advertising, market research, marketing of services, marketing on the Internet, and creating strategic marketing plans.

The Marketing major offers students new and dynamic career choices and prepares them to work for either an independent marketing agency, an advertising agency, or within a corporate marketing department. Additional coursework is available in personal selling, retailing, or small business marketing. An advisor will help students tailor course selections to particular needs and interests.

Organizational Behavior

The Organizational Behavior major combines theory and practice from multiple disciplines to help students develop skills useful in working with people in organizations to achieve goals and solve problems. Students will learn theories of human groups and their functions and how to apply this knowledge within a variety of organizational structures. Individuals who want to work effectively with others, become proficient in understanding and maximizing the benefits in change, and seek to improve their decision -making and interpersonal communication skills will benefit from this major.

This major offers students the opportunity to specialize in two different disciplines, including management or psychology.

Computer Information Systems

The core CIS curriculum includes courses in microcomputer applications, programming languages, hardware/software systems, database applications, and systems analysis, design, and development. We also offer courses in emerging technologies to provide students with preparation in the latest industry trends. Our current emerging technology electives have focused on Internet application development.

The systems development courses cover the analysis, design, and development of new computer systems. In most large development projects, more time is spent designing a system than in programming it. Since systems developers must remain conscious of the abilities and needs of the users of new systems, this sequence is designed to emphasize the needs of computer users. These courses make use of state-of-the-art software and methodologies used in the computer industry.