Department of Economics, Accounting, and Business

This course is designed to aid students in developing and applying a global mindset. International business is a force that impacts everybody’s daily lives, and having the ability to notice and understand the forces that impact international business is an attractive and crucial skill that young business professionals need to employ. In this course, students will be guided through a variety of modules that will teach them about the actors and the forces that influence aspects of trade and investment. While the focus of this class will be placed on multinational enterprises (MNE’s), attention will be given to other important actors with governments, managers and employees, and the communities that MNEs are situated and operate in.

This course examines current attitudes to pets and pet ownership in contemporary American society, and how the development and change of such attitudes affects the marketing of products, both pet-related and unrelated products.  We will occasionally discuss other types of pets, but the main focus will be on dogs and cats as they constitute the largest group of pets and account for most pet related spending; we will also sometimes discuss other countries’ and cultures’ treatment of pets, but our primary focus will be on the USA. 

The purpose of this course is to allow students to examine social developments in current American culture, follow news coverage, market research, scholarship and popular culture expressions of this trend, and understand how such developments influence business and marketing decisions.  

Prerequisite:  BAD 330 Management or BAD 340 Marketing Principles or permission of instructor 

This course is designed to introduce students to contemporary topics within the field of international business. International business governs a variety of aspects in our everyday lives, and global phenomena causes IB dynamics to change constantly. While there are a lot of factors that remain constant, because of shifting global interests there are certain aspects that have been receiving more attention than usual. Students taking this course will be exposed to a variety of “contemporary” topics that have dominated talk within the academic and professional spheres of international business.