From your first semester to your last, you will be immersed in experiential learning courses. With the cornerstone-to-capstone model, you will complete real-world consulting projects for corporate partners. These course-embedded projects challenge you to learn by doing. 

As a student, you will achieve these key goals:

  • Sharpen collaboration skills
  • Improve systems-thinking skills to integrate knowledge from all business areas
  • Expand decision-making models to consider ethical, global, and sustainability aspects of business challenges
  • Develop an entrepreneurial mindset to explore creative possibilities and develop original solutions
  • Communicate, influence, and defend business decisions

With this model, you will understand the complex and evolving business world鈥攂efore starting your first job.

Hear From Our Students

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First-Year Innovation Experience is a great opportunity for new students to get acclimated to teamwork, begin building a professional network, and explore different areas within business.鈥�

Nicole Lamberson, B'28 2024 First Place Team Member

Cornerstone and Capstone Courses

 
First-Year Innovation Experience

First-Year Innovation Experience Cornerstone

First-Year Innovation Experience sets the stage for your academic journey. The course introduces you to business areas, critical thinking and problem-solving, and entrepreneurial skills. During the Innovation Challenge, you will work in teams to develop a solution to a real-world business problem for a corporate partner.

    Strategic Management Winning Team

    Strategic Management Capstone

    At the end of your academic journey, you will take the Strategic Management Capstone course. This course applies the business knowledge and frameworks learned throughout the Business Core curriculum. The course includes a consulting project competition with a corporate partner. In teams, you will develop and present solutions to a business challenge.

      Students in the Economics capstone course.

      Major Capstones

      All majors have capstone courses except for Marketing, which has track-specific capstone courses. See course list below.

        Major Capstones

        • Accounting - Corporate and Partnership Tax
        • Business Analytics Co-Major - Business Analytics Capstone
        • Economics - Advanced Econometrics Capstone
        • Entrepreneurship - Entrepreneurship Capstone
        • Finance  - Cases in Finance
        • Financial Planning - Financial Planning Capstone
        • Information Systems & Technology - Information Systems Capstone
        • Management - Strategic Project Management
        • Supply Chain Management - Strategic Supply Chain Management

        Marketing Track Capstones

        • Digital Marketing & Analytics - Data-Driven Marketing
        • Professional Selling & Marketing - Sales Management
        • Sports Marketing - Strategic Sports Projects