Pharmaceutical & Healthcare Business Major

Goal 1: Leadership

Outcome 1.1: Students will demonstrate the ability to lead in team situations, that is, to motivate, inspire and direct a team to achieving its goals.

Goal 2: Knowledge of functional area

Outcome 2.1: Students will know core concepts within each business discipline of accounting, finance, management, marketing, and information technology.

Goal 3: Critical thinking and problem solving

Outcome 3.1: Students will be able to analyze business scenarios in an integrative way and make constructive and actionable recommendations for problem solving.

Goal 4: Interpersonal/communication skills

Outcome 4.1: Students will demonstrate competency in written and verbal communication aimed at facilitating, and reporting the results of, collaborative problem solving and decision making processes.  

Goal 5: Ignatian Values

Outcome 5.1: Students will be able to generate scholarship that embodies free, open inquiry, and provokes imaginative thinking and reflection on values. An appreciation for and ability to apply the Ignatian values of: a commitment to rigorous education and lifelong learning; an insistence upon ethical decision making; a desire for social justice; and a care and concern for others.

Goal 6: Global/Diversity

Outcome 6.1: Students will understand the challenges businesses face in a global economy, and the cultural issues firms must address to succeed in this environment. A fuller understanding of and respect for diversity in the population and in organizations related to differences across cultures, ethnic groups, socioeconomic groups, gender and sexual orientation.

Goal 7: Strategic Thinking

Outcome 7.1: Students will exhibit strategic approaches to the complex business related problems in the pharmaceutical industry and provide alternative strategies evaluating the pros and cons of those approaches.

The traditional undergraduate programs includes a minimum of 120 credits distributed across three components: A General Education component divided into Signature Courses, Variable Courses, and an Integrative Learning requirement; a Major and Divisional component; and Free Electives. In addition to course requirements as specified in each area, students must complete one certified course in each of the following overlay areas¹:

1. Diversity, Globalization or Non-western Area Studies,
2. Ethics Intensive
3. Writing Intensive, and
4. Diversity

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Overlay requirements are part of the 120 credit requirements

General Education Signature Courses

See this page about Signature courses. 

General Education Variable Courses

See this page about Variable courses. Six to Nine courses

General Education Overlays

See this page about Overlays.

General Education Integrative Learning Component

See this page about Integrative Learning Component. Three courses:

Business Foundation 

Ten courses, including:

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Accounting Majors can choose between ACC 423 and BUS BUS 495

Major Requirements: