Students in all majors increasingly need to demonstrate professionalism in order to obtain jobs. The Business Professionalism Certificate is open to all Converse students who have declared any major at Converse.
Certificate requirements:
Students who have declared any major at Converse may enroll in the program. In addition to an internship and coursework, students complete a portfolio of activities, and after completion of all the requirements to satisfactory standards is verified, they will receive a certificate.
Certificate requirements:
Internship
Requirements
- Submission of Professional E-Portfolio
Coursework Selection
Choose courses (for a total of 6 hours credit) from the following:
- Other courses may be added with the approval of the chair of the Economics, Accounting and Business department, or their designated representative.
- Some courses may require pre-requisites.
This study of the basic techniques of financial accounting emphasizes the processes of recording, classifying, summarizing, and interpreting business transactions. Topics covered include balance sheet and income statement preparation with an emphasis on the asset side of the balance sheet and related income statement accounts.
This course will provide students with the practical skills required for the successful leadership of arts organizations. Areas covered will include budgeting, marketing/publicity, fundraising, audience development, analysis of financial statements, contracts, board governance, and issues associated with the founding of a non- profit organization.
The objective of this course is to acquaint students with the job of the manager as well as the techniques of planning, organizing, motivating, leading, communicating, staffing, controlling and evaluating. The course also explores the evolution of management theory from the early classical theories to management by objectives.
This course introduces the student to basic marketing concepts and applications and provides an overview of marketing. Topics include the role of marketing within the firm, marketing research, consumer behavior, product development, pricing, channels and distribution and promotional strategy.
This course is an introductory study of market structures, products, and factors of production.
Business statistics will cover a brief introduction with motivation, visualizing basic statistics, descriptive statistics, t-tests, ANOVA, and chi-square tests. Time permitting, linear regression, probability, and other topics will also be covered.
ECN 300 was removed and replaced with MTH 300 beginning Fall 2024.