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Holy Family

Psychology for Business

Goals

  • To present a sound knowledge base in psychology and business that prepares the student for a career or advanced graduate studies in either discipline
  • To provide Cooperative Education placements to explore various career possibilities in personnel, employee assistance, employee management relations, etc., and to integrate knowledge with practice
  • To develop an understanding of social responsibility that business and industry have toward owners, employees, consumers, and society
  • To help students apply their knowledge in assessing current events and in developing a sense of systematic planning for the future
  • To instill an ethical-moral orientation to examining social-economic issues and problems.

Requirements

Core Curriculum: BA Requirements (credits)

45

Each course in the following common business and concentration requirements must be completed with a minimum grade of C.

Common Business Requirements

ACCT 205

Principles of Financial Accounting

3

ACCT 206

Principles of Managerial Accounting

3

BUSA 101

Mathematical Analysis for Economics and Business I

3

BUSA 102

Mathematical Analysis for Economics and Business II

3

CMIS 103

Computer Applications

3

ECON 203

Economic Theory - Micro

3

ECON 204

Economic Theory - Macro

3

MNMK 305

Principles of Management

3

MNMK 312

Principles of Marketing

3

Concentration

BUSA 435

Senior Seminar in Business Policy

3

MNMK 413

Quantitative Methods for Decision-Making

3

MNMK 439

Senior Seminar in Management and Marketing

3

PSYC 101

General Psychology

3

PSYC 203

Consumer Behavior

3

PSYC 215

Industrial and Organizational Psychology

3

PSYC 311

Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences

3

PSYC 323

Quantitative Research Methods

3

 

or

 

PSYC 324

Qualitative Research Methods

3

PSYC 343

Social Psychology

3

PSYC 344

Group Dynamics

3

PSYC 425

Tests and Measurements

3

PSYC 431

Seminar: Contemporary Issues in Psychology

3

PSYC 433

Advanced Research in Psychology

3

PSYC elective

3

Recommended

PHIL 208

Business Ethics

3

PHIL 301

Ethics

3

Additional courses in CMIS, ECON, MATH, AND PSYC

 

Other Requirements

  • Successful completion of a comprehensive exam in both Psychology and Business.

*NOTE: Pending curriculum changes may alter the required course sequence for students entering in Fall, 2011 or thereafter.