Are you looking for a valuable upper-division elective course for next year? Check out the following courses that the School of Business will be offering:
BUSN 303 – Personal Finance (Fall ’13 & Spring ’14)
This course is designed to prepare students to think critically about their relationship with money, develop their own personal financial philosophy and implement practical application of personal financial management. Topics include relationship with money, biblical financial foundations, budgets, loans, spending, housing, insurance, investments and taxes.
Prerequisites: none; taught by Ryan Halley, finance professor, George Fox
MKTG 485 — Consumer Engagement and Social Networking (Fall ’13)
Marketing is all about connecting … connecting with your customer, connecting with management, connecting with money (budget), and connecting with retail. What is our business? Who are our customers? What does the customer value? Consumer engagement is not a single source of contact but an ongoing “conversation” – developing brand positioning, leveraging user-generated content, and creating a word-of-mouth social audience, all resulting in customer loyalty and influencing behavior. The questions haven’t changed BUT how we tell the story has.
Prerequisites: MKTG 260 (Principles of Marketing); taught by Laurie Koehler, Consumer Campaigns Manager, Intel
ECON 485 — Environmental Economics (Spring ’14)
Students will explore the relationship between the economy and the environment. The efficient management of natural resources, impacts of pollution, and sustainability issues will all be considered. To account for economic growth concerns the scope of analysis includes both the developed and developing world. The primary objective of the course is to increase students’ understanding of policy-relevant, incentive-based solutions to environmental issues.
Prerequisites: Either Econ 201 Microeconomics Principles or ECON 202 Macroeconomics Principles, or permission of the instructor; taught by Nate Peach, economics professor, George Fox
Questions? Contact Ryan Halley at halleyr@georgefox.edu.
