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The mission of the Department of Business and Communications is to provide experienced, skilled and supportive faculty who offer relevant curricula that will help prepare students to thrive in and face the challenges of an ever-changing world. More specifically, the department strives:

• to prepare students for ethically and socially responsible roles in business, not-for-profit organizations and society in general;
• to develop in students the ability to recognize, analyze, and solve problems;
• to prepare students to speak and present in front of various audiences in an articulate and compelling manner;
• to help students achieve their personal and career goals; and
• to prepare students for entry-level positions in either the private or public sector and/or to prepare students for coursework at the graduate level.

The Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration is designed to work together with the University's liberal arts core curriculum to achieve the following  goals:

• to facilitate students' acquisition of  basic business knowledge in the functional areas of business including, but not limited to, accounting, business law, economics, finance, management, and marketing;
• to facilitate students' acquisition of technical skills and competencies in  quantitative techniques;
• to provide students with the opportunity to focus their business studies by selecting  one of six concentrations: Management, Marketing, Economics, International Business, Sustainable Entrepreneurship or Health Sector Management.
• to provide experiential opportunities, including at least one credit-bearing internship, to hone students' skills and facilitate their career exploration and professional job search;
• to facilitate students' ability to integrate their knowledge of the functional areas of business with their technical skills and competencies and their professional experiences and to apply that knowledge and those skills.

1. Business majors must earn a minimum of a 2.0 GPA ("C") in all Business Core required courses and all business elective courses.
2. Business minors must earn a minimum of a 2.0 GPA ("C") in all four required courses and the two business elective