McKenna School Business Education majors will
- develop the requisite intellectual curiosity and critical thinking skills allowing them to ethically address complex real-world challenges and opportunities ;
- achieve superior high school teaching skills;
- learn to write persuasively and with creativity;
- develop excellent presentation skills;
- satisfy the requirements of the PA Department of Education, the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs, and the Liberal Arts core of Saint Vincent College.
See the Education Department section of the Bulletin and your advisor for the Education minor and teaching certification requirements. Students receive Business Education Information Technology Certification—K-12.
Business Core (40 credits)
BA 100* Financial Accounting I (freshman year) - 3 credits
BA 104* Introduction to Management (freshman year) - 3 credits
BA 220 Principles of Marketing (sophomore year) - 3 credits
BA 265 Management Information Systems (sophomore year) - 3 credits
BA 305 Business Ethics (junior year preferred) - 3 credits
BA 320 Corporate Finance I (sophomore year) - 3 credits
BA 340 Business Law (junior year) - 3 credits
BA 350/ MA 208 Statistics I (sophomore year) - 3 credits
BA 495 Business Policy and Strategy (senior year) - 3 credits
EC 101* Principles of Microeconomics (freshman year) - 3 credits
EC 102 Principles of Macroeconomics (freshman year) - 3 credits
PS 100* Principles of American Politics - 3 credits
MA 109/111* Calculus I (freshman year) - 4 credits
Business Education Major (21 credits):
BA 150 Managerial Accounting (freshman year) - 3 credits
BA 230 Introduction to Entrepreneurship - 3 credits
BA 250 Global Management or BA 251 International Business - 3 credits
BA 310 Taxes I - 3 credits
BA --- Business Elective (300 level or above) - 3 credits
CS 110 Computing and Information Science I - 3 credits
EL 109* Business Communications - 3 credits
Education Requirements (see education advisor) (44-45 credits)
PY 115 Educational Psychology - 3 credits
PY 214 Adolescent Development - 3 credits
PY 290 Psychology/Education of the Exceptional Student - 3 credits
PY 381 Educational Psychology - 3 credits
ED 100 Foundations of Education - 3 credits
ED 103 Field Experience I or ED 207 Practicum in Education - 1 credit
ED 205 Strategies and Techniques of Instruction - 2 credits
ED 206 Field Experience II (Can be taken simultaneously with ED 205) - 1 credit
ED 208 Classroom Partnerships and Inclusion - 3 credits
ED 220 Academic Intervention and Differentiation in the Content Areas - 2 credits
ED 306 Teaching of BCIT - 3 credits
ED 322 Field Experience III: K-12 & Secondary Instruction and Theory - 1 credit
ED 390 Teaching Nonnative and Culturally Diverse Students - 3 credits
ED 400 Field Experience IV: Pre-Student Teaching - 2 credits
ED 410 Field Experience V: Student Teaching 8 to 9
ED 411 Professional Seminar - 3 credits
College Core (45 credits)
TH 119 First Theology (freshman year) - 3 credits
Theology (200 Level) - 3 credits
Theology (300 Level) - 3 credits
History (100 Level) - 3 credits
History (200 Level) - 3 credits
PL 101 1st Philosophy - 3 credits
PL 215 Ethics or PL 216 Ethical Problems* - 3 credits
Natural Science 100 Level with lab - 4 credits
Natural Science 200 Level with lab - 4 credits
EL 102 Language and Rhetoric (freshman year) - 3 credits
English (Literature Course) - 3 credits
CA 235 Introduction to Web design (AR 235--cross listed for BEIT only) - 3 credits
Foreign Language Intermediate Level - 3 credits
Foreign Language Intermediate Level - 3 credits
First-Year Seminar (additional hour) - 1 credit
* College core recommendation: PL 215 Ethics or PL 216 Ethical Problems.
** Total required for the Business Administration Education Information Technology major is 61 credits. After completing major requirements, Education requirements (44-45 credits), and the College Core (45 credits), Business Education Information Technology majors will have completed 150-151 credits at graduation.
Students obtaining a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Education will possess the necessary prerequisite coursework to satisfy the standards of our accrediting agency (The Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs). Students will achieve knowledge in the following areas: management, accounting, marketing, economics, statistics, finance, business ethics, legal environment of a business, business policy and strategy, quantitative skills, global dimensions of business, and information systems.