• The Undergraduate Business Core is comprised of 13 courses that are taken by all business majors. Beginning with four courses in the freshman year and ending with the capstone course in the senior year, these courses are designed to provide business majors with a broad knowledge and understanding of basic business functions such as marketing, accounting, economics, management, information systems, business law and so on.
  
  At Philadelphia University, the School of Business Administration also uses these courses to provide its students with a series of special activities that are designed to help develop their professional skills and enhance their personal growth. These “activities” (the umbrella term we use to cover all these varied experiences) may take the form of watching and discussing a video, locating and downloading information from the Internet, making informal and formal presentations, learning how to conduct themselves in professional settings, or exercises designed to expand students’ global perspectives. The objective of this initiative is to systematically cultivate analytical and communication skills, technological competence and literacy, ethical discernment, global perspectives, and professionalism.
  
  The activities are conducted uniformly in all sections of the business core courses, so regardless of the section of a core course, for example Financial Accounting, all business majors will have the same experience.
  
  We encourage our business students to keep in mind throughout their Philadelphia University experience that both academic knowledge and personal and professional growth are essential parts of their preparation for entry, advancement and success in the business world.

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