Business Management (B.A.)

Foundations of Business at Gordon College

The Department of Economics and Business offers four distinct majors in the business field: accounting, business management, finance, and marketing. Students majoring in business management may also elect to complete a concentration in entrepreneurship and small business, human resource management, or sport management; students may choose only one concentration.

Double majors within the Economics and Business Department are allowed, but triple majors are not allowed.

Students must continuously maintain a 2.0 GPA within the major.

All students majoring in a business field (accounting, business management, finance, or marketing) are required to take the following courses (22 credits total):

• ECB 105 - Introduction to Business (2)
• ECB 110 - Personal Financial Analysis (2)
• ECB 115 - The Economy (4)
• ECB 117 - Principles of Financial Accounting (4)
• ECB 118 - Principles of Managerial Accounting (4)
• ECB 205 - Vocation and Business Careers (2)
• ECB 211 - Statistics in Business and Economics (4)

•   The ECB 211 requirement can alternatively be satisfied through completion of MAT 220 - Biostatistics ; or MAT 318 - Probability  and MAT 319 - Statistics ; or PSY 256 - Research Methods I  and PSY 257 - Research Methods II ; or AP Statistics by permission.

Business Management Requirements

• ECB 245 - Principles of Management (4)
• ECB 247 - Financial Management (4)
• ECB 277 - Principles of Marketing (4)
• ECB 315 - Operations Management (4)
• ECB 333 - Strategic Management (4)
• ECB 492 - Senior Seminar: Management, Strategy and Ethics (4)

Business Management Concentrations

Students majoring in business management may also elect to complete one concentration from those listed below; more than one concentration in the major is not allowed. Upper level ECB courses will count towards the electives requirement in the major, unless indicated otherwise. Sport Management concentration students will fulfill the Business Management major elective requirement (8 credits) with ECB 383 - Facility and Event Management and their Sport Management elective course.